Google has agreed to make changes to its online advertising business in a settlement with the French government. 谷歌与法国政府达成和解，同意对其线上广告业务作出改革。 The agreement, announced Monday, requires Google to pay...
Increase in US Eating Disorders During Pandemic From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Lifestyle report. In the United States, restrictions are loosening and COVID-19 cases are decreasing. However, eating disorder cases are on the rise, report...
A professor from a Barcelona art school held a protest recently at a museum dedicated to Pablo Picasso. She told Reuters news agency that she wants to show the Spanish painter's sometimes hurtful behavior towards women. Maria Llopis and seven of her...
Why Is It Difficult to Stop Ransomware Attacks? In recent weeks, computer-based criminals have stopped the operations of U.S. schools and hospitals, published secret files and caused fuel shortages. They also have threatened global food supply networ...
Top finance officials from the G7 industrialized nations agreed on Saturday to the idea of a worldwide minimum tax for international corporations. Observers say the agreement signals coming changes to laws for taxing businesses across borders in the...
NASA to Return to Venus with Two New Missions The U.S. space agency NASA has announced plans to launch two new missions to the planet Venus. The missions will mark a return to U.S. exploration of Venus after many years. Two new robotic spacecraft are...
Australian scientists are leading an international project to build an extremely powerful ground-based telescope. The scientists say the machine will provide a deeper and clearer look into space than the Hubble Space Telescope. 澳大利亚科学家正...
Jordan Janz used to take 40 to 60 pills every day to treat a rare genetic disease. But a side effect of the medicine made the 22-year-old smell bad. Janz is now taking an experimental gene treatment. He thought the treatment might be worth it when he...
Park rangers who watch North America's highest mountain say inexperienced and overconfident climbers are taking more risks and endangering themselves and other climbers. The rangers suggest many climbers are trying to move up the mountain too fast af...
An illegal building project is threatening one of North America's greatest treasures: the ancient pyramids in central Mexico. The project may harm the remains of temples and about 24 other ancient buildings. 一个非法建筑项目正在威胁北美最...
Dozens of Romanian children had their eyes examined for the first time in a rural area of the southern Carpathian Mountains in Romania. Casa Buna, or good house, is a humanitarian organization. It planned the eye exams in Nucsoara, an area with many...
And now, welcome to Words and Their Stories, a program that explores words and expressions in the English language. On this program, we give examples and notes on usage. And when available, we sometimes explain where they come from. On today's progra...
When Samantha Maltais arrives at Harvard this autumn, she will be the first member of the Aquinnah Wampanoag tribe to attend its law school. In some ways, she will be joining an ancestor. More than 350 years ago, an Aquinnah Wampanoag man named Caleb...
In many places around the world, the coronavirus pandemic is still affecting people's lives. With lockdowns still in place, friends are still not able to gather as they once did. However, in other places, especially where vaccination numbers are high...
Question: Jahanzib Khan writes: What is the difference between will and would? How and when should we use these? Answer: Dear Jahanzib, Thank you for your question. It centers on modal auxiliaries words that come before, and change the meaning of, th...
