For many generations, the homeland of the Uru people was not land at all: It was the salty waters of Lake Poopo. The Uru -people of the water - would build a sort of family island using plants when they married. They would live on what they could tak...
Summer is near in the United States. And with summer comes higher temperatures and strong storms. Americans often discuss the bad and good weather that is taking place by using special kinds of verbs known as linking verbs. In today's Everyday Gramma...
A company in Finland has developed a satellite made of wood that it plans to launch into orbit this year. The small, experimental satellite aims to test the effectiveness of wooden materials used in the extreme conditions of space. The project is a c...
A research center in Louisiana is examining COVID-19 through the use of monkeys. By studying the monkeys and their tissues, researchers hope to learn more about the disease. There are 5,000 monkeys at the Tulane National Research Center. The research...
The U.S. Department of Education said Wednesday that it is cancelling the student loans of thousands of borrowers who attended a big, for-profit college. The loans were taken by students attending an educational organization called ITT Technical Inst...
American President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin met Wednesday in Geneva, Switzerland. 美国总统拜登和俄罗斯总统普京周三在日内瓦会晤。 The leaders agreed to improve diplomatic relations between their two countri...
In the northern Ethiopian region of Tigray, more than 350,000 people are facing starvation. It is not just that people are starving; it is that many are being starved. Farmers, aid workers and local officials confirmed to The Associated Press that fo...
The inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, is selling the first lines of computer code that he used to create it. The code will be part of an NFT sold later this month in an auction by international seller Sotheby's. The digital NFT, or non...
Jerry Ramos spent his final days in a California hospital, connected to an oxygen machine to help him fight COVID-19. But his 3-year-old daughter was in his thoughts. Ramos wrote on Facebook, I have to be here to watch my princess grow up. He did not...
After her three children were vaccinated, Aja Purnell-Mitchell asked them what they wanted to do for the summer. All three agreed: summer school---at school, itself. The family lives in Durham County, North Carolina, where school buildings shut in Ma...
The United States and the European Union have agreed to end their nearly 17-year trade dispute over government aid to Boeing and Airbus. 美国和欧盟已经同意结束近17年涉及政府对波音和空客补贴的贸易争端。 Since 2004, the U...
American vaccine maker Novavax says a large study found its COVID-19 shot is 90 percent effective against the coronavirus and several virus variants. 美国疫苗制造商诺瓦瓦克斯公司表示，一项大型研究发现其新冠肺炎疫苗对新...
From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Lifestyle report. U.S. government health officials have approved the first new drug for Alzheimer's disease in nearly 20 years. However, independent experts say the treatment has not been shown to help sl...
Israel's parliament, known as the Knesset, ended Benjamin Netanyahu's 12-year run as prime minister on Sunday. 以色列议会是周日终结了本雅明内塔尼亚胡12年的总理任期。 By a vote of 60-59, a coalition of eight parties joined to...
Myanmar Puts Suu Kyi on Trial The trial of Myanmar's ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi began on Monday. She faces several corruption-related charges. Many observers say the trial is an attempt by the country's military to remove her as a political force...
