Are These US Treasures about to be Destroyed? Many old buildings and aging neighborhoods across the United States look like they are ready to be torn down and replaced. But the National Trust for Historic Preservation believes that such areas and str...
Free Books Teach a Love of Reading Joshua Clark is happy as he sits down to read a book to his son, Mason. But Clark remembers not always being happy about reading. I remember my mom almost forcing me to read books doing those summer reports right be...
Many people around the United States are wondering what will happen next, now that a report on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election has been completed. Special Counsel Robert Muller gave the report to U.S. Attorney General William B...
Kenyan Science Educator Receives $1-Million Teacher Prize A Kenyan teacher who gave away most of his monthly earnings to poor people has won a $1-million prize. 肯尼亚一位教师把他每月的大部分收入捐给了穷人，他使他荣获100万美...
UN: Yemen Has Worlds 'Worst Humanitarian Crisis' This week marks the fourth anniversary of the Saudi-led campaign to force Houthi rebels from parts of northern Yemen. The fighting has caused what the United Nations calls the world's worst humanitaria...
Sandhill Cranes Rest on Their Long Voyage Every year in the month of March, one of the world's greatest wildlife migrations stops in central Nebraska. For a short time, sandhill cranes fill the states wide, flat fields. The land provides these long-l...
Precious is 26-years-old and 16 weeks pregnant. She asked VOA to call her by that name to protect her identity. Her best friend is also pregnant by the same man a man Precious once considered her boyfriend. This information led her to the difficult d...
Refugees from Sudan Putting Pressure on Egypt Conflict and political unrest in Africa has forced thousands of people to flee their homelands in the hope of finding better lives. 非洲的冲突和政治动荡迫使数千人逃离家园，希望找到更...
Reiwa Chosen as Name for Rule of New Japanese Emperor Japanese officials have chosen a name for the period of rule of Japans incoming emperor. 日本官员为下一任天皇择定了一个年号。 Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga announced the...
A Malaysian court has withdrawn murder charge against the only suspect still being held for the murder of a member of North Koreas ruling family. The Vietnamese woman had faced a murder charge for the killing of the half-brother of North Koreas leade...
It is often difficult for victims of sexual violence to speak about their experiences. But 3,000 of them recently expressed themselves through art. Each created a single square of cloth that make up a special project called the Monument Quilt. Each s...
Aging Americans Means Shrinking Workforce Americans are getting older, and family size is getting smaller. That means the United States will have less working adults in the future. By 2030, twenty percent of U.S. residents will be 66 years of age or...
Becoming an English Teacher By the year 2020, some two billion people in the world will be using English, or learning to use it. Digital English language learning products and services are worth about $2.5 billion dollars a year. That estimate comes...
The flags hanging outside Anwar Ragauas house near the Indonesian city of Palu have led to warnings from the police. But the 50-year-old fisherman promises he is not taking them down. The police were not there to help when he was the only one in his...
Scorsese Gets Playful with Dylan in 'Rolling Thunder Revue' Film Film director Martin Scorsese has made his second film about singer -- and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature -- Bob Dylan. The film mixes fact and imaginative fiction. Rolling Th...
