Activists: Protests Over Chicago Schools Continue King's Work CHICAGO, ILLINOIS Dr. Martin Luther King spent time in the midwest U.S. city of Chicago in the mid 1960s to promote open housing and equality in public schools. Five decades after his inte...
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...