People across the state will work together on one hundred twenty-five local projects to clean trash, remove invasive plants and improve water areas.

VOA: special.2010.04.21

Alaskans accepted it, and on January third, nineteen fifty-nine, President Eisenhower declared Alaska the forty-ninth state.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

First on the list -- after the vice president -- was the secretary of state.

VOA: special.2010.05.06

The deadliest American tornado on record is the Tri-State Tornado of March eighteenth, nineteen twenty-five.

VOA: special.2010.05.11

The deadliest American tornado on record was the Tri-State Tornado of March eighteenth,nineteen twenty-five.

VOA: special.2011.04.19

Hawaiians accepted it, and on August twenty-first, President Eisenhower declared Hawaii the fiftieth state.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

This is what it said: I,Abraham Lincoln, president of the United States and commander in chief of the Army and Navy, do hereby declare that on the first day of January, eighteen sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state then in rebellion against the United States, shall then become and be forever free.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

Still,Mr.Obama is focused on creating jobs, a central message on his Tuesday visit to the economically-devastated state of Michigan.

VOA: standard.2009.07.14

The massacre - blamed on the paramilitary Bangladesh Rifles - has left the country in a state of shock.

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

The U.S.State Department's on Ethiopia says of the 3.6-million seats contested, the EPRDF and its allied parties won all but three.

VOA: standard.2009.11.01

"And I have asked the secretary of state to report to me on the status of these negotiations in mid-October."

VOA: standard.2009.09.22

Later,Clinton told an audience of Moscow State University students that attacks on journalists and human-rights defenders are a threat to progress.

VOA: standard.2009.10.14

A statement broadcast on Russian state television by Chechnya's Kremlin-backed president, Ramzan Kadyrov, has added to the speculation.

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

A recent U.S.State Department report cites Mexican President Felipe Calderon's crackdown on drug cartels, and several high-profile arrests.

VOA: standard.2010.03.11

"We are seeing a lot of actions to try to help solve the conflict in the Middle East on the basis of two-state solution."

VOA: standard.2009.04.24

Most said they would accept a two-state solution based on borders before the 1967 Arab-Israeli war.

VOA: standard.2010.08.06

This follows a documentary on Russian state-run television alleging that Poland had made agreements with Nazi Germany, which planned an invasion of the Soviet Union.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

(Recording) He says the prospect of a summit depends on progress on the North Korean nuclear issue, as well as the state of inter-Korean relations.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

Local and international journalists are prohibited from speculating about results or voting trends and may report only returns announced by the Interior Ministry on state-run media.

VOA: standard.2009.08.30

The North Korean military notice, carried on state-run media, also said South Korean ships and aircraft will no longer be allowed passage through the North's territorial space.

VOA: standard.2010.05.27

In an announcement on state-run radio, North Korea warned what it calls, "the U.S.imperialist racketeers", that its forces will "shoot them down" if they engage in aerial espionage.

VOA: standard.2009.04.01

A North Korean announcer speaking on state-run media says Pyongyang has informed the International Civil Aviation Organization, the International Maritime Organization and other international organizations of the launch.

VOA: standard.2009.03.12

During the Russian presidential campaign, Dmitri Medvedev, in his capacity then as deputy prime minister, was featured almost daily on state-controlled news programs but opponents were largely excluded.

VOA: standard.2010.02.01

"I believe on the state side there has been underfunding and under-recognition of the importance and need for funding public defense for the indigent for a long time,".

VOA: standard.2009.05.22

On March 1,Warsaw unveiled a new, state-of-the-art Chopin museum.

VOA: standard.2010.03.04