This is the first time there has been a separate category for Americana music.

VOA: standard.2010.01.24

The musical ride has been a Canadian tradition since 1887, but this is the first year that there are more women on the team than men.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

Reagan says almost from the time his father first learned he was ill, he has been part of a national campaign to raise public awareness about this devastating and heartbreaking illness.

VOA: standard.2009.12.04

This is the first time the alliance of more than a dozen militant groups with links to al-Qaida has claimed responsibility since its former leader Baitullah Mehsud was reportedly killed in a U.S.missile strike.

VOA: standard.2009.09.26

In the first 51 days of this president, the administration has passed a series of really dramatic moves: the biggest financial rescue package that we have seen in decades, the largest stimulus in the history of the country, the biggest home foreclosure prevention and mortgage assistance program since the Depression."

VOA: standard.2009.03.15