Earlier this month, Michelle Obama and twenty-three schoolchildren helped prepare the ground for an organic vegetable garden on the South Lawn of the White House.

VOA: special.2009.03.31

It's the story of the three little pigs and the big bad wolf that blew down a house made of straw and one made of sticks.

VOA: special.2009.10.05

In eighteen seventy-six, the electoral votes of three states -- Florida,Louisiana and South Carolina -- were enough to give the White House to one candidate or the other.

VOA: special.2010.03.04

So far,three House committees have approved versions of health care reform, which would be melded together into a single bill.

VOA: standard.2009.09.10

Three-hundred-thirty lawmakers from some of the most liberal members of the House to the most conservative signed on to the letter.

VOA: standard.2010.04.14

But not a single Republican voted for the package in the House of Representatives and only three voted for it in the Senate.

VOA: standard.2009.03.17

In Kabul,police say a father, mother and one of their three sleeping children died late Sunday when their house was hit by a rocket.

VOA: standard.2009.09.07

Thomas Cargill from the Britain-based research group Chatham House says Zimbabwe will be one of the topics discussed during President Zuma's three-day visit to Britain.

VOA: standard.2010.03.03

President Obama and 18 members of his national security team spent about three hours in the White House Situation Room Wednesday, assessing their Afghanistan policy.

VOA: standard.2009.10.01

For five years, the three women have shared a house and their lives while serving in one of the most prominent and fast-paced careers in Washington.

VOA: standard.2010.08.07

The Democrats met just three blocks from the White House, but with half a meter of snow on the ground from a winter storm, the trip became dangerous.

VOA: standard.2010.02.06

Congress recently passed Mr.Obama's $787 billion dollar economic recovery plan without a single Republican vote in the House of Representatives and with only three opposition-party votes in the Senate.

VOA: standard.2009.03.20

The Russian lower house of parliament is now considering legislation that would require protesters using automobiles to inform the authorities about their planned actions three working days in advance.

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

A woman named Liseth, who has just arrived at the house carrying her two-year-old daughter, is one of a group of three women who say they crossed Guatemala from their native Honduras.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

In a statement, the Democratic chairmen of three key House committees said while there are clear differences between House and Senate bills, both will bring fundamental health care coverage to millions who are currently uninsured.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

Baucus has spent months negotiating with Republicans and skeptical Democrats on the panel to gain support for a bipartisan version of reform legislation one of two measures to emerge in the Senate, along with three in the House of Representatives.

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

The president signed the legislation at a ceremony in the White House Rose Garden surrounded by members of Congress and representatives of health advocacy groups including three children from an organization called "The Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids."

VOA: standard.2009.06.22

Representative Donald Payne, who chairs the House Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health, said further violence can be avoided only if Somalis from all three regions of the country come together: "As we gather today many Somalis continue to be displaced, maimed and killed.

VOA: standard.2009.06.26