"They are small,round doughnuts, they're served in a Chinese take-out box and they're coated in a cinnamon and five-spice sugar.

VOA: special.2010.04.12

In California,a federal judge is studying the evidence in a trial over a ban against same-sex marriage in that state.

VOA: special.2010.02.06

Or you can steam them in a small amount of water or stir fry them in a small amount of oil.

VOA: special.2010.03.09

In a decision in eighteen seventy-six, the Supreme Court said states had a legal right to control costs of railroad transportation.

VOA: special.2010.04.15

So you feel like you are a guest in a home instead of a visitor in a huge, impersonal museum.

VOA: special.2009.01.11

In a different case, a ruling last week in New York has renewed debate about who can "own" genetic information.

VOA: special.2010.04.09

(Music: "God Bless The Child") Eartha Kitt lived on the streets and worked in a factory as a young teenager.

VOA: special.2009.06.07

It stands in a grassy area along a busy road at the edge of Arlington National Cemetery, in Virginia.

VOA: special.2011.05.30

She is shown singing in a barroom in both the movie and nineteen sixty Broadway musical "The Unsinkable Molly Brown."

VOA: special.2010.03.08

Lincoln never joined a church, but he believed in a supreme being who created every person with a purpose in life.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

You may win a lot of money in a lottery, then spend it all in a few days.

VOA: special.2009.06.07

To test the liquid, he placed a drop in the soil of a dying flower growing in a pot in the room.

VOA: special.2009.09.26

The Union army there had just been defeated in a battle along a little river called the Chickamauga.

VOA: special.2009.11.26

He noted in a V-O-A broadcast in Nineteen-Ninety that blacks are singing in opera houses all over America.

VOA: special.2010.03.07