CEOs Earn 200 Times More Than Their Workers Last Year The top leaders of the biggest U.S. companies had their pay increase by about 13 percent in 2023. Pay for workers at the same companies rose by only 4.1 percent. Those numbers come from the Associ...
Biden Places New Restriction on US Southern Border President Joe Biden announced an executive action Tuesday that temporarily places restrictions on the number of migrants unlawfully entering the United States. The action is called a proclamation. It...
Special Kind of Fisherman Finds Lost Money James Kane of New York City is a fisherman. But he does not eat what he catches. Instead of catching fish, he uses powerful magnets attached to long ropes to fish for junk in the citys lakes, rivers and pond...
US Veteran Returns to France 80 Years after Surviving D-Day In 1944, Jake Larson was carrying a backpack with 34 kilograms of gear as the boat he was in got closer to Omaha Beach in France. Omaha Beach was the name given to one of the five landing pl...
Claudia Sheinbaum Becomes Mexicos First Female President Election officials in Mexico say Claudia Sheinbaum will become the country's first female president. Sheinbaum won a large victory in Sundays election after promising to continue the policies o...
Trump Found Guilty of 34 Felony Charges A New York City jury on Thursday found former U.S. president Donald Trump guilty of falsifying business records to influence the outcome of the 2016 election. The jury found Trump guilty on all 34 felony charge...
Worlds Largest Tree Passes Health Check In the American state of California, researchers recently climbed the worlds largest tree to check on its health. The tree is a giant sequoia named General Sherman. The climbers had good news to report when the...
North Korea Flies Trash Balloons over South North Korea has flown hundreds of balloons carrying trash and manure toward South Korea. The strange action led the Souths military to organize chemical and explosive response teams to recover objects in di...
Climbers Will Have to Pay to Climb Mount Fuji The local officials protecting Mount Fuji are making changes to protect its natural beauty and the safety of people climbing it. Those who want to hike one of the most popular paths, or trails, on Japan's...
Rescue Efforts in New Guinea Delayed by Dangerous Conditions Officials in Papua New Guinea (PNG) have ordered people in parts of Enga Province to leave their homes because of the continuing danger of landslides. 由于山体滑坡的危险持续存在，...
Melinda French Gates to Donate $1 Billion for Womens Rights Melinda French Gates announced this week that she plans to give $1 billion over the next two years to support women and families around the world. French Gates is the former wife of Microsof...
Locals Report Monkey Deaths During Heat Wave in Mexico An environmental group is warning that the hot weather in Mexico is among the causes of many deaths of howler monkeys. Howler monkeys are big primates known for the loud sound they make. The Asso...
A Japanese town hopes to keep out crowds of visitors by building a large barrier to block views of the country's tallest mountain, Mount Fuji. 日本一座小镇希望通过建造一个巨大的屏障来挡住该国最高的山峰富士山的景色，以...
What Causes Severe Rainfall in Kenya? Heavy rains and severe flooding have been hitting Kenya since March. They are among the most disastrous rainstorms to hit the East African country in recent years. At least 169 people have died from the heavy rai...
Taliban Aiming to Bring Visitors to Afghanistan A school for tourism and hotel management has opened its doors to students in Kabul, Afghanistan. The students are of different ages and their levels of education and professional experience are not the...
