President Obama has made health care reform his top domestic priority, and Rothenberg says it has now become essential for Democrats to get something through Congress before next year's midterm elections.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

At St.Charles High School in St.Louis, delivering his 52nd speech on health care since taking office early last year, the president again took aim at Republican calls to scrap the current legislative effort, and those he said favor giving the insurance industry even more power than it has now.

VOA: standard.2010.03.10

Observers say North Korea is attempting to reconnect with the United States now that it has a new president.

VOA: special.2009.08.08

It has only about fifty students now, but the university says it has received about ninety applications for admission this fall.

VOA: special.2009.05.07

Now, a group of research scientists says it has found evidence of a similar event that happened about 13,000 years ago.

VOA: special.2009.01.20

The only difference now is that the Internet has made it much simpler to steal other people's work.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

It is very thin now. Find a place where the ice has melted, then tie some logs together.

VOA: special.2010.06.26

Joanna Dovan from the mayor's office says it is true that the city now has its lowest population of the past ten years.

VOA: special.2009.07.13

It was discovered in Uganda ten years ago and has spread in Africa and now Asia.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

It has special meaning for service members like Lieutenant Colonel Dan Snowden, now serving in Afghanistan.

VOA: special.2009.11.14

Now,she has another starring role, only this time it is not on the big screen.

VOA: special.2009.10.09

The United States says it has no plans for now to follow Britain's lead.

VOA: special.2009.03.07

The nonprofit group Global Solutions for Infectious Diseases now has rights to it.

VOA: special.2009.09.30

"I think it's hilarious,so far. It has me in tears right now."

VOA: special.2011.06.20