And now, Words and Their Stories, from VOA Learning English. On this program we explore words and expressions in the English language. We give examples, notes on usage, and sometimes we even use them in a short story. For this week, we talk about som...
Americans have been calling on police to change how they deal with citizens in crises, especially those with mental health problems. Police are usually the first to arrive at a serious incident and are trained to deal with crime and violent behavior....
The Marvel Cinematic Universe releases its 25th film this week, with a hero new to movies. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings is based on a comic book series first published in 1973. Actor Simu Liu plays the lead character, Shang-Chi. As the m...
Our story today is called Feathertop. It was written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Lawan Davis adapted it for VOA Learning English. Here is Shep O'Neal with the story. The long cold winter was gone at last. At first the cold nights went away slowly. Then s...
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said Friday he will not run for re-election as head of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, or LDP. The announcement effectively ends his run as prime minister just a year after it began. 日本首相菅义伟周五...
At a pizza restaurant in downtown Kabul, workers and customers are worried about Afghanistan's new Taliban rulers. Some, however, say they are more worried about economic collapse than things like being forced to grow long facial hair - a practice fr...
British researchers have explored how a robotic finger can affect a person's ability to play the piano. The experiment involved attaching a robotic finger on the right hand of 12 test subjects. Six of the individuals were piano players. Six were not....
This week on Ask a Teacher, we answer a question from Ichiro in Japan. He writes: Question: Dear VOA, Japanese people don't understand Christian religious terms such as religious leaders clergy and clergymen. What are the differences? -Ichiro, Japan...
South Korea lawmakers approved a law on Tuesday banning app stores from controlling how apps and their services are paid for. South Korea is reportedly the first country in the world to pass such a law. Technology companies Google and Apple operate p...
US Supreme Court Leaves Texas Law Restricting Abortions in Place A divided United States Supreme Court refused to block a Texas law that activists say effectively bans abortions in the nation's second-largest state. An abortion is a medical operation...
United Nations food supplies in Afghanistan could run out this month, a UN humanitarian official warned Wednesday. The situation threatens to add a hunger crisis to the problems facing the country's new Taliban rulers. They are trying to return the c...
Declared dead by a French court in 2017, Jeanne Pouchain has spent the past four years trying to prove she is alive. French officials, however, disagree. 珍妮普香在2017年被法国一家法院宣布死亡，过去4年她一直试图证明自己还...
This report represents the 300th Everyday Grammar program. In celebration of the event, we will explore common phrasal verbs that have to do with the development of Everyday Grammar reports. What you learn will be useful for discussing any kind of pl...
China has put in place a new policy that limits online video game playing for young people to three hours a week. 中国出台了一项新政策，将青少年每周玩网络游戏的时间限制在3小时之内。 The new rules restrict online gamin...
Egypt Discovery Shows How Ancient Whales Moved from Land to Sea Scientists say they have found a 43 million-year-old fossil of a whale ancestor in Egypt. The fossil remains help show how ancestors of modern whales might have moved from living on land...
