By Jim Fry Washington 26 October 2007 All this year, three well-known presidential candidates have led in public opinion polls among likely voters in the Democratic Party. Yet there is a tradition in the U.S. of a so-called dark horse candidate emerg...
By Trish Anderton Jakarta 08 August 2007 Polls have closed in a historic election today in Jakarta, in which voters were able to choose their own governor for the first time. But analysts predicted only a third of eligible voters might show up, due t...
From NPR news, this is all things considered. I'm Janifer Ladon. 42 governors gathered in Washington this weekend for a conference on high school education. There is widespread concern that a high school diploma doesn't mean much these days. And too...
By Barry Wood San Francisco, CA 03 May 2007 Today we present the first of a new weekly series of reports called Searching for Solutions. The series explores how governments, communities and individuals are trying innovative approaches to address long...
By Sarah Simpson Lagos 13 April 2007 Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation, is preparing to go to the polls for the first in a series of crucial elections. First up are elections on Saturday for state governors. In the commercial capital of Lagos ca...
By Carol Pearson Washington, D.C. 10 January 2007 watch Health Reform report The United States is widely acknowledged to have one of the best medical care systems in the world. But many Americans cannot afford it. The U.S. Census Bureau says that so...
By Noel King Khartoum 09 January 2007 The governor of the U.S. state of New Mexico, Bill Richardson, visited Sudan's Darfur region on Tuesday in an attempt to get holdout Darfur rebel groups to agree to a 60-day ceasefire with the Sudanese governmen...
By Noel King Khartoum 08 January 2007 The governor of the U.S. state of New Mexico, Bill Richardson, met in Khartoum with Sudan's president to press him to allow deployment of U.N. peacekeepers in Sudan's western Darfur region. Noel King in Khartoum...
By Jim Malone Washington 30 November 2006 Iowa's Democratic governor, Tom Vilsack, officially became the first presidential candidate for 2008 on Thursday. Several other potential candidates have either taken themselves out of the running for the Wh...
By Mike O'Sullivan Los Angeles 19 April 2006 Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius A U.S. governor who has forged a coalition between Republicans and Democrats says it is time to end the partisan bickerin...