The world's top insect experts say our planet's important insect population is going through a death by a thousand cuts. A new group of studies suggests Earth is losing around 1 to 2 percent of its insects each year. The losses are blamed on climate...
President Biden has quickly moved to change U.S. immigration policy. Biden signed executive orders related to immigration on his first day in office. Among the orders is one that stops work on a U.S.-Mexico border wall. Another ends a travel ban on p...
U.S. President Joe Biden signed 10 executive orders Thursday as part of his plan to fight the coronavirus. 美国总统拜登周四签署了10项行政命令，这是他对抗新冠病毒计划的一部分。 Biden will establish a COVID-19 testing b...
Today, we are going to talk about phrasal verbs. You may remember that a phrasal verb is a verb plus one or two more words called particles. Particles can be prepositions or adverbs. There are several common particles in phrasal verbs, such as the wo...
Like so many other things over the past year, the world's largest consumer electronics show, CES, looked very different in 2021. The popular conference usually takes place in Las Vegas with thousands of people attending. But the physical conference w...
I, Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States... With those words, Joe Biden was sworn in Wednesday as the 46th president of the United States. 我，小约瑟夫罗宾内特...
The fight against the virus that causes COVID-19 has taken a new turn: Reports of mutations are appearing quickly. Many scientists fear that a variant of the new coronavirus may appear that cannot be prevented by a known treatment or vaccine. The gen...
US College Program Accused of Human Trafficking Eleven international students have taken legal action against companies and a small community college in the central United States. A lawsuit by the students accuses the companies and college of human t...
Kamala Harris has become the first female Vice President in American history. The former senator from California took the oath of office Wednesday. President Joe Biden was sworn in minutes later. Harris not only became the first female vice president...
Inauguration Day Is also Moving Day at the White House Moving from one house to another is a difficult process. It is even more difficult for workers at the White House on Inauguration Day. On Wednesday at 12 p.m., Joe Biden will be sworn in as the 4...
Biden Plans Executive Orders in Early Days of Administration President-elect Joe Biden plans to sign many executive orders and to propose legislation to Congress in the early days of his administration. The actions are widely considered an attempt to...
US Push to Reopen Schools as Teachers Get Vaccinated American political leaders are pushing for schools to reopen this winter as teachers started to receive COVID-19 vaccines. But others are concerned that they may not be ready. Last Thursday, Presid...
China's economy picked up speed in the fourth quarter of 2020 to end the year with a growth rate of 2.3 percent. 2020年第4季度中国经济重拾增长速度，最终全年增长了2.3%。 The growth could make China the only major economic power...
The 2020 Australian Open was one of the year's few international sporting events not changed by the coronavirus pandemic. The tournament took place in January 2020, before international travel was shut down. The winners were Novak Djokovic and Sofia...
A new study suggests that identical twins are not exactly the same genetically. Identical twins are two babies that come from the same fertilized egg. Scientists in Iceland examined DNA from 387 pairs of identical twins, their parents, children, husb...
