Historic Ferry Keeps Giving Passengers Enjoyable Rides WASHINGTON Ferries once were a vital means of transportation across rivers. On the Potomac River, which runs through the Washington region into the Chesapeake Bay on the U.S. East Coast, there on...
NOAA Bets Forecasting Success on Supercomputers NOAA投注超级计算机预测成功 COLLEGE PARK, MARYLAND Early fall, as hurricane season begins, is the time when many Americans start to closely follow weather reports. Because predicting the stren...
Analysts Discuss Impact on Assad From Syria Strike 分析家们讨论了从叙利亚打击阿萨德的影响 STATE DEPARTMENT As U.S. officials took to the U.S. airwaves, insisting that the Assad government was responsible for last week's chemical at...
Poll: Americans Wary of Possible Syria Strike 民调显示美国人厌倦对叙利亚动武 WASHINGTON With Americans weary over more than a decade of war, and strong memories of the faulty intelligence that led to the invasion of Iraq, skepticism ap...
Amnesty: Sexual Violence Endemic in Somalia 索马里性暴力泛滥 Amnesty International said two decades of conflict have allowed sexual violence to become endemic in Somalia. The human rights group says most victims dont report the attacks to aut...
How Would US Attack on Syria Affect Washington's Asia Pivot? 美国打击叙利亚可能带来的影响 STATE DEPARTMENT What does a possible U.S. attack on Syria mean for the Obama administration's pivot to Asia, which Washington is presenting as pa...
Sand Sculptors Celebrate Transient Art 沙雕塑家庆祝短暂的艺术 LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA Sculptures made of sand are transient, here today and gone tomorrow, subject to the whims of wind and waves. Yet each year, artists spend hours creating e...
Child Gold Miners Work in Hazardous Conditions in Tanzania 坦桑尼亚儿童黄金矿工工作条件危险 The international human rights organization, Human Rights Watch, HRW, warned children as young as eight years old are working in small-scale g...
US Fast-Food Workers Strike for Higher Wages 美国快餐工人罢工要求提高工资 WASHINGTON Leading up to the Labor Day holiday celebrating the contribution of American workers to society, thousands of low-wage workers at fast-food restaurants...
People Remember Historic 1963 March on Washington WASHINGTON Fifty years ago, civil rights leader Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led a march that changed the lives of all Americans. On August 28, 1963, King delivered his famous I Have a Dream speech to...
Did Morsi Ouster Save or Destroy Egypts Democracy? 穆尔西下台是保存还是摧毁埃及的民主？ CAIRO While the West frets over the Egyptian militarys seizure of power and condemns the violent suppression of protesters, the response within...
Violence Displacing Bangui Residents 暴力流血事件致使班吉居民流离失所 Ongoing violence in the Central African Republic capital Bangui caused thousands of civilians to seek safety at the international airport Wednesday. The U.N. refuge...
Iran Walking Fine Line on Syria 伊朗在叙利亚的路线 Iran is wording responses to Syria's alleged use of chemical weapons very carefully, although its rhetoric towards the international community remains tough. And, as the West mulls military...
World Disagrees on Possible US Intervention in Syria 全世界对美国干预叙利亚意见不一 The Obama administration is preparing a legal argument for undertaking a military response to the use of chemical weapons against civilians in Syria. P...
Arabs Brace for Possible US Strike on Syria 阿拉伯人支持美国可能对叙利亚的打击 CAIRO The threat of a U.S. military strike on Syria in response to an alleged chemical weapon attack by the Assad government has set an already tense Midd...
