Virus, Technology, Unrest Make a Stressful Year for US Teachers Ana Saul Romero has seen many changes in teaching methods, testing, and technology during her forty years as a teacher. But this year, she said, has given her a lifetime's worth of chang...
Usually in school or in clubs, children are told not to horse around horsing around means to act badly. But in south London, there is a club that loves it when students horse around. The Ebony Horse Club is a riding school for children from poor fami...
Longleaf Pine Trees Give Us More than Just Wood The longleaf pine tree has deep connections with the history and life of the eastern part of America. Forests of these trees once covered two-thirds of the southeastern United States. About 95 percent o...
At least 23 people died and 79 were injured Monday when part of the Mexico City metro system collapsed onto a roadway. Train cars fell about five meters onto the busy street below. 周一，墨西哥城部分地铁系统坍塌坠落至地面，造成至...
Vietnamese Carmaker to Enter US Electric Car Market The automobile division of Vietnam's largest business group, Vingroup, wants to get involved in the U.S. market. The group hopes its VinFast cars will be enough to take car buyers away from market l...
The United States Department of Homeland Security said Monday it is working to reunite children who were separated from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border in recent years. Alejandro Mayorkas is the head of the Department of Homeland Security. H...
Sultana Karimi works in Ms. Sadat's Beauty Store in Afghanistan's capital. She found bravery and her love for beauty in the store. She and the other young women working or training in the store never experienced the rule of the Taliban over Afghanist...
India has recorded the world's sharpest increase in coronavirus infections in recent weeks. The crisis has put great pressure on the country's health system, causing hospitals in major cities to run out of beds, oxygen and medicines. 最近几周，印...
A new study suggests icy clouds above early Mars could have provided the warmth to permit flowing water on the Red Planet. American researchers used a computer model to predict that icy clouds in the Mars atmosphere may have created a greenhouse effe...
Study: Good News About Sumatran Rhinos A genetic study of Sumatran rhinoceroses is providing what scientists call good news for the critically endangered animal. Experts say fewer than 100 of them remain in existence. Researchers report that the two...
US Banks Use Artificial Intelligence to Watch Workers, Public Several American banks have started using surveillance software and computer vision to watch people using their services. Computer vision is a part of artificial intelligence that uses com...
After a 3,000-kilometer trip, 16-year-old Jose Luis Boyeduana arrived in the United States. At the end of 2020, he decided to travel from his home in Ecuador to reunite with his parents living in the U.S. It had been 13 years since he had seen them....
And now Words and Their Stories from VOA Learning English. In many places in the world, spring brings a lot of rain. And this can lead to a lot of mud. So today, let's talk about a mud expression! What do you think a stick in the mud is? Well, I'm su...
The year-long pandemic has led to an overall decrease of students going to colleges. The drop, however, is sharper among community colleges in the United States. In its latest report, the National Student Clearinghouse says that college enrollment dr...
American health officials are again promising to seek a ban on menthol cigarettes. This time, they are under pressure from African American groups to remove the menthol taste popular among Black smokers. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ha...
