President Obama said the government will make it easier for workers at small businesses to automatically enroll in retirement savings plans.

VOA: standard.2009.09.05

As young players prepare to begin their professional careers in the sport, one important person in American football announced his retirement.

VOA: special.2009.05.01

After his retirement from the NAACP in 1992, Hooks continued to press the cause of civil rights and education.

VOA: standard.2010.04.16

Despite advancing age and regular hospitalization, he remained strongly involved in the IOC after his retirement in 2001.

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

Victoria Switzer and her husband, are building what they hoped would be their retirement home in the rural hamlet of Dimock,Pennsylvania, in the eastern U.S.

VOA: standard.2010.01.02

In his 2,200-word retirement request General Sarath Fonseka says he was misled about his promotion this year to chief of defense staff, finding that he had "basically no authority."

VOA: standard.2009.11.14

Garth Brooks,on the other hand, emerged from retirement in December.

VOA: standard.2009.12.22

The abortion issue is likely to remain in the spotlight as President Obama seeks to fill a vacancy on the Supreme Court left by the retirement this summer of Justice David Souter.

VOA: standard.2009.05.17

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

She was one of Imperial Records' best-selling artists, but when sales began to wane in the late-1960s, compounded by the devastating effects of Hurricane Camille on many of the clubs in New Orleans where she worked, she announced her semi-retirement from music.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25