It is 10:30 on a warm May night in Washington, D.C. Emily Skeels and a few friends are outside talking and laughing. One friend plays music from a wireless device. Skeels and friends have just finished a bicycle ride around the city on an event calle...
France Offers Malian Migrant Citizenship After Heroic Rescue This is Whats Trending Today He has been called Frances Spiderman by the media. And to French President Emmanuel Macron, he is a hero. His name, though, is Mamoudou Gassama. He is a 22-year...
The newest professional hockey team in the United States is leading the series for the championship of North American hockey. The Vegas Golden Knights of Las Vegas, Nevada, defeated the Washington Capitals of D.C., Monday night in Game One. The score...
Will Trump-Kim Meeting Go Forward The U.S. secretary of state will meet with a top North Korean official later this week to discuss a possible meeting between the leaders of the U.S. and North Korea. The planned visit is the latest in a group of dipl...
ABC Cancels 'Roseanne' Show over Racist Remark The American television network ABC has canceled its top-rated show, Roseanne. The network made its decision shortly after the shows star, Roseanne Barr, published a racist tweet. Early Tuesday, Barr wro...
Pakistan Street Schools Open to Poor Kids, Parents A different kind of school in Pakistan is giving poor children, and sometimes their mothers too, a new chance to get an education. The program is called Street to School. Organizers launched it in th...
The Blue Ridge Parkway: Americas Favorite Drive The United States has over 50 famous, well-traveled national parks. Among them are Grand Canyon, Yosemite, Yellowstone and Acadia. The country also has several roads called National Parkways. These long...
A new superhero has been added to Marvel Comics Champions series. Her name is Amka Aliyak. She is known as Snowguard. Amka Aliyak is an Inuit teenager from northern Canada. She comes from Pangnirtung, a town in the territory of Nunavut. Inuit is the...
Washington D.C. is home to many embassies and diplomatic offices representing the nations of the world. Many ambassadors in Washington live in large, beautiful buildings with rich, interesting histories. One of them is home to Turkeys ambassador, Ser...
You may be surprised to learn that the worlds most trafficked endangered mammal is a strange-looking animal. It is the pangolin, also known as the scaly anteater. An adult pangolin can be almost 100 centimeters in length, although the smallest are on...
From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Lifestyle report. We all need to eat. So, meals could be a chance to stop what were doing and spend time with the people in our lives. But sometimes they are not. It does not matter if a person is married...
Memorial Day: Family of Lost WW II Flier Brings His Story to Life Memorial Day in the United States is a time for remembering the men and women who died while serving in the U.S. armed forces. Families especially want to remember the stories of relat...
US House Passes 1st Major Prison Reform Measure in 8 Years The rate of imprisonment in the United States is the highest in the world. Many lawmakers and policy experts have called the situation a prison epidemic. But, Representative Hakeem Jeffries,...
The Women of Rap: The 'Queen of NY' In the last few decades, hip-hop has risen to become a multi-billion dollar industry. It was a woman who led the production of the first commercially successful rap track. However, the industry remains unquestionab...
What 'Separation Between Church and State' Means One of the things the United States is known for is a separation between church and state. But those exact words do not appear in the U.S. Constitution. Instead, Americans point to a line in the First...
