Alaska Natives Use Ancient Traditions to Fight Mental Health Problems For thousands of years, the Yup'ik people of Alaska have depended on cultural traditions for their way of life. From one generation to the next, Yupik community leaders passed on t...
Trump Considering Action to Answer Suspected Chemical Attack in Syria President Donald Trump has condemned the most recent suspected chemical weapons attack in Syria. Trump said he would make major decisions within 24 to 48 hours about how the United...
Facebook says it will begin informing users as to whether their personal data may have been wrongly shared with a British research company. Beginning Monday, Facebook said users who may have had private data shared with Cambridge Analytica will recei...
Cooking Classes Aim to Restore Health After Addiction At Boston Medical Center, patients recovering from drug dependencies are getting healthier one meal at a time. For years, the hospital has offered cooking classes for patients with medical conditi...
The Health Benefits of Gardening From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Lifestyle Report. As spring comes to half the world, many people can enjoy the new growth that comes with warmer weather. This is a great time to get outside and get dirty...
Abused Chimpanzees Find Home in Sierra Leone Wildlife Refuge For more than 20 years, the Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary has cared for abused chimpanzees and chimps whose mothers have died. Victims of the illegal wildlife trade, the animals often arriv...
Robots Could Take Jobs from Africans, Researchers Warn It could soon cost less to operate a factory of robots in the United States than to employ a human worker in Africa. That is the finding of a report from a London-based research organization. The...
Some US Cities, States Start Efforts to Prevent Deportations In the United States, the federal government is working to detain undocumented immigrants and get them removed from the country. Yet some U.S. city and state governments have started progra...
US Space Agency Expands Search for Distant Planets Able to Support Life The search for worlds orbiting distant stars will intensify in the coming weeks when the American space agency NASA launches a spacecraft. Scientists hope the spacecraft will enl...
Texas continues to be Americas fastest-growing state, the U.S. government Census Bureau says. 美国政府人口普查局表示，德州仍是美国人口增长最快的州。 Six of the nations top 10 largest-gaining counties between July 1, 2016 an...
Argentinas Farmers, Economy Hit Hard by Drought Jorge Josifovich is a farmer and agricultural engineer in Argentina. He is concerned because his crop is suffering from a severe lack of rain. The drought began in November and has caused big financial...
Mtabi Ebeula speaks softly as he remembers fleeing the Democratic Republic of the Congo with his family to escape the rebels. They were killing people, he says. I left because of them. Ebeula is a small, 57-year-old man who lives with his wife and ni...
Aid Groups Send North Korea a Message, Aid in a Bottle Some humanitarian groups in South Korea are using unusual ways to send food aid and information to people in North Korea. Their efforts come as officials from the North and the South prepare for...
Laos Fights to Protect Endangered Asiatic Black Bears The capture and trafficking of endangered Asiatic black bears continues to be a problem in Laos, although the government is trying to reduce it. The bears often are sold so their parts can be used...
Hollywood Thriller Unsane Filmed Totally on iPhone For many people, smartphones have replaced cameras as the main way to capture personal pictures and video. The quality of the devices has greatly improved. Even some Hollywood filmmakers have decided...
