American Secretary of State Henry Stimson said the United States would not recognize Japanese control in these areas of China.

VOA: special.2011.03.03

His sources for information included the United States Census Bureau, the American Booksellers Association and the Audit Bureau of Circulations.

VOA: special.2009.03.27

Last year,the top news story was the election of Barack Obama as the first African-American president of the United States.

VOA: special.2010.01.02

The war between the United States and Spain in eighteen ninety-eight was one of the shortest in American history.

VOA: special.2010.07.29

Johnny Cash imagines the many historical events the American flag has seen and experienced since the founding of the United States.

VOA: special.2010.07.02

The American Association of Museums says there are about seventeen thousand five hundred museums in the United States.

VOA: special.2010.07.09

Mister Obama has said the United States will remove most American fighting forces from Iraq by the end of two thousand ten.

VOA: special.2009.04.11

Standing in front of the Capitol, Barack Obama became the first African-American president of the United States.

VOA: special.2009.01.24

We hope American Mosaic provides a complete and interesting picture of life in the United States.

VOA: special.2009.01.02

American occupation of the Philippines made the United States a major power in the Far East.

VOA: special.2010.07.29

He wrote about the lives of African American civil rights leader, Reverend Martin Luther King Junior and United States Supreme Court Justice, Thurgood Marshall.

VOA: special.2009.11.01

Roosevelt said the United States would guarantee repayment of loans made to Latin American countries.

VOA: special.2010.08.26

That still leaves Afghanistan. On Wednesday,by a wide majority, the United States House of Representatives rejected a call for a quick withdrawal of American troops.

VOA: special.2010.03.13

"We're a small college, just twelve hundred students. But about fifteen percent of our undergraduates come from homes outside the United States, which is astronomically high for an American college or university."

VOA: special.2009.12.03

CARLOS AMAYA: "Here I am, and the unique thing about the United States and the American way of living is we have rights to own our own businesses and to actually lead by example."

VOA: special.2009.04.10

Many in the United States are also critical of the tire tariff, with some worried it will hurt American consumers.

VOA: standard.2009.09.14

The first African-American president of the United States received an enthusiastic welcome in the Ghanaian capital, where he was embraced as family.

VOA: standard.2009.07.11

Here in the United States, Asian,African-American,Hispanic, and Native American children have higher rates of death and more illness compared to their white children.

VOA: standard.2010.04.07

Hilal Kashan,Professor of Politics at the American University of Beirut, thinks it is unlikely the United States will take Mr.Assad up on his offer.

VOA: standard.2009.03.18

Scores of American banks have failed since the start of the financial crisis that helped plunge the United States into a deep and prolonged recession.

VOA: standard.2009.10.01

In addition, Hondurans living in the United States send home around $2.5 billion in remittances, which represent around one fifth of the Central American nation's total Gross National Product.

VOA: standard.2009.07.03

Mr.Obama said he ran for president to put the American Dream in the United States, within the reach of everyone regardless of their gender,race, faith or station in life.

VOA: standard.2010.03.08

Other issues sure to be addressed during his talks with President Obama include American policy toward Pakistan,and the status of the civilian nuclear agreement the United States and India signed last year.

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

It's that progress that made it possible for me to be here today, for the good people of this country to elect an African-American the 44th President of the United States of America,".

VOA: standard.2010.01.17

Although officials in Tegucigalpa contend that Mr.Zelaya's ouster and replacement with interim President Roberto Micheletti was legal, the United States and other Organization of American States member countries say it was a coup d'etat, and the Obama administration has suspended most aid to Honduras.

VOA: standard.2009.09.22