Even though there is no state religion in America,there is a large, beautiful religious center in the nation's capital called the Washington National Cathedral.

VOA: special.2009.05.22

Some people say "To Kill a Mockingbird" treats racism in a way that is simplistic, even offensive to blacks, and out of date in today's America.

VOA: special.2010.07.08

"There is even more in Alaska. There is enough oil shale in the Rocky Mountain West alone to power America for the next hundred years.

VOA: standard.2009.05.23

That decision brought applause in the courtroom. Madoff's wide-ranging fraud touched banks,charities, middle class people investing for retirement in North and South America and Europe, and even celebrities - including Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel.

VOA: standard.2009.03.12

"We are finding that this is not only in the backward economy of developing countries, even though most forced labor today is indeed in the informal or the background agricultural sector of Asia, Latin America and then Africa."

VOA: standard.2009.08.21