Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. This week in our series, we look back at Bill Clinton's second term as president. For four years now, to realize our vision, we have pursued a simple but prof...
Amazon Continues to Burn in 2020, Even after Promises to Save It One year ago, Brazilian officials discovered a fire burning in the forest around the town of Novo Progresso. It was the first big blaze in the Amazon's dry season. 一年前，巴西官员...
People have long dreamt of a car that flies through the sky. 人们一直梦想拥有一辆空中飞车。 Japan's SkyDrive has carried out a successful, but modest test flight of such a vehicle carrying a person. It is just one of the many flying ca...
Soon after they left the shop on the Vatican Garden in Rome, Mrs. Angle opened the box and showed her husband the costly stone she had bought. I love them, I just love them! She said. She dropped the stones back into the box as she and her husband be...
The World Health Organization (WHO) says COVID-19 has interfered with necessary health services in almost every country. It says low- and middle-income nations are affected the most by the crisis. 世界卫生组织称，几乎每个国家必要的卫生...
A new study has found that safety equipment could prevent more than 40 percent of crashes in which tractor-trailers rear-end other vehicles. 一项新的调查发现，安全设备可以防止40%的拖挂卡车追尾其它车辆的事故。 The surve...
Black holes are becoming stranger even to scientists who study planets and other objects in outer space. Astronomers recently reported the discovery of the signal from a violent collision of two black holes. The event, which took place long ago, crea...
Groups Face Difficulty in Registering Young Voters During Pandemic 05 September 2020 Chase Gaines wishes he could get more young people in North Carolina to open their doors when he stops at their houses. He wants to give them information from the Re...
And now, Words and Their Stories, from VOA Learning English. On this program we teach common English expressions and how to use them. Many English expressions come from weather. We have talked about many in past shows. Recently we talked about lightn...
Novichok is a deadly nerve agent that left Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny in a coma. It also nearly killed a former Russian spy and his daughter in 2018. Novichok was the creation of a very secretive chemical weapons program when Russia...
Modified common cold viruses are being used to create COVID-19 vaccine candidates in China and Russia. Such viruses have been studied for over 30 years, but are still not widely used. They are now driving the vaccine research from Russia's Gamaleya I...
'Benito Cereno,' by Herman Melville, Part Three We present the last of three parts of the short story Benito Cereno. It was written by Herman Melville. As we told you in earlier parts of our story, rebel slaves seized the ship San Dominick off the co...
U.S. law enforcement officers shot and killed a man suspected of being the gunman who killed another man in Portland, Oregon last week, the U.S. Marshal Service said Friday. 美国法警署周五表示，美国执法人员击毙了一名男子，这名...
Humanitarian Aid Work Hurt by Coronavirus Humanitarian aid work is difficult. Workers helping people without food, water, shelter, or healthcare must often face natural disasters, slow governments, and even war. Now they have another enemy to conside...
Each week we answer questions about American English from readers from outside the United States. But today we answer a question from the American state of Alabama. Khan writes: Question: Could you tell me what else I can use instead of heads up? Tha...
