French President Emmanuel Macron ordered a highly unpopular bill Thursday to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64. 法国总统埃马纽埃尔马克龙星期四颁布了一项极不受欢迎的法案，将退休年龄从62岁提高到64岁。 Macro...
Rising Sea Levels Mean Daily Water Struggle on India Shore Changing sea levels are affecting freshwater in places like Chellanam, India. In Chellanam, saltwater is moving inland into small bodies of fresh water, like ponds and wells, which the villag...
Andrew Jackson: Loved/Hated VOA Learning English presents America's Presidents. Andrew Jackson, the seventh president, was unlike the earlier U.S. presidents. His family was poor, he had little education, and he lived on what was then the western par...
A new study suggests that horses were present in the American West by the early 1600s. That is earlier than most written histories have estimated. The new finding came from examinations of horse bones gathered from museums across the central Great Pl...
An organization is using human genetic material to learn about the African roots of 36 American slaves who lived in the late 1700s. The 36 bodies were discovered in 2013 during a construction project in Charleston, South Carolina. The DNA material wa...
New Images Show How Damaged Fukushima Nuclear Reactors Are A robot captured images inside one of the three severely damaged reactors at Japan's Fukushima nuclear power center. The Fukushima center was damaged by a powerful earthquake and tsunami that...
If you like riding electric scooters in Paris, be sure to plan a trip before September. People who live in the French capital voted recently to ban the vehicles. 如果你喜欢在巴黎骑电动滑板车，一定要在9月前计划好旅行。法国首...
Former US President Trump to Face Criminal Charges for First Time Former U.S. President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to charges of reporting false business records. The charges came after an investigation into payments to an adult movie...
A migrant who survived a recent fire at a detention center in Mexico says his cries for help went ignored as officials kept his cell door locked. 墨西哥一家拘留中心最近发生了火灾，一名移民幸免于难，他说，官员锁上了他的...
A Short History of US Presidential Legal Problems 美国总统法律问题简史 Former American President Donald Trump is expected to appear Tuesday before a New York State judge to answer his indictment. A grand jury voted last week to indict, or c...
89-year-old Japanese Man Has No Plans to Stop Surfing In the early part of his life, Seiichi Sano was a busy business owner. Later in life, he took on other difficult activities. At the age of 80, he climbed Mount Fuji, Japan's highest mountain. Soon...
Many Depend on Radio Broadcasts across Africa In much of Africa, traditional radio sets are widely used. Radios are more popular than smartphones and computers because internet service is not always available in many places in Africa. The United Nati...
John Quincy Adams: Independent VOA Learning English presents America's Presidents. Today we are talking about John Quincy Adams. Does his name sound familiar? John Quincy Adams, the sixth president, was the son of John Adams, the second president. Li...
Russia Detains American Reporter on Allegation of Spying A court in Russia ruled that an American reporter for the Wall Street Journal newspaper should be detained for nearly two months. The reporter was accused of spying for the United States. It is...
Tensions Rise at Ukraines Historic Religious Center The Russian invasion of Ukraine has created a struggle for control of a religious complex called the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra. The Lavra is commonly called the Monastery of the Caves. It contains religio...
