William Randolph Hearst, 1863-1951: He Created What Was Once the Nation's Largest Newspaper Organization. And he created a kind of newspaper reporting known today as "yellow journalism."
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The Hamas-Fatah leadership split in the Palestinian territories raises new questions for the future of an independent Palestine.
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Also: Community gardens in the United States. And music by three British singers popular on this side of the Atlantic: Lily Allen, Corinne Bailey Rae and Amy Winehouse.
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Why borrowers and stock markets worry when bond yields rise as they have recently.
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The troubles of Jimmy Carter's presidency led many Americans to support Ronald Reagan for president. He promised to make the United States strong again.
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We answer a question from a student in China in Part 42 of our series.
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A student at Xinjiang Normal University in China has a question for our Foreign Student Series. Akbar Mamat wants to go overseas after graduation and would like some information about Washington Unive

Record Number of Climbers Reach Top of World's Highest Mountain
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Major US cancer groups have agreed on common symptoms of a deadly disease that often goes unrecognized until it is too late.
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Ovarian cancer is known as a "silent killer" because it is usually discovered too late to save a woman's life. But three cancer groups in the United

She represented the hope of close relations between white people and Native Americans.
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One critic said Wright's ideas were 50 years ahead of his time.
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In August 1974, Richard Nixon became the first US president to resign. In doing so he avoided a trial in Congress on charges