AS IT IS 2015-08-18 A Candidate's Voice May Affect How We Vote 候选人发言可能会影响我们如何投票 Experience and money for campaigning increase a politician's chances of winning an election. But so may the sound of a candidates voice. N...
From Campaigning to Court: Trump Reports for Jury Duty 从竞选到法院:特朗普履行陪审员职责 NEW YORK Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump arrived Monday at the New York Supreme Court as part of a pool of potential jurors for an...
UN, Camps in Iraq Prepare for New Wave of War Victims IRBIL, IRAQ U.N. and camp officials in Iraq's northern Kurdistan region are already preparing for another wave of Iraqis displaced by war to flood into the area as the conflict against Islamic ext...
AS IT IS 2015-08-17 Group Seeks Adoptive Families for Kenyan Children 收养机构为肯尼亚孩子寻找领养家庭 A 2007 study estimated there were at least 250,000 children living and working in the streets of Kenya. More than 60,000 of them ar...
AS IT IS 2015-08-17 More East Jerusalem Palestinians Seeking Israeli Citizenship 东耶路撒冷巴人寻求以色列国籍者增多 Most Palestinians living in East Jerusalem want the area to become the capital of a future Palestinian state. So, for...
Improve Your English with Latin! 用拉丁语提高你的英语水平 From VOA Learning English, this is Words and Their Stories. Many people say not enough Americans speak a foreign language. A contrario! (On the contrary!) Americans use many Latin...
America's 'Capitals of the World' Have you ever heard that New York City claims to be the financial capital of the world? It claims to be the fashion capital of the world, too. But, London, England also says it owns those titles. And, most any French...
Two Riots, One Cause, a Half-Century Apart 两次骚乱,一个原因,相隔半个世纪 One year ago this week, riots began in Ferguson, Missouri after an unarmed black teenager was killed by a white police officer. Earlier this week, officials decla...
Islamic State Bombs Baghdad Market; 67 Dead ISIS车弹袭巴格达市场67死 Iraqi officials say a bomb explosion killed at least 67 people in a Shi'ite Muslim neighborhood of Baghdad Thursday. Many more were wounded. Officials say the explosives we...
AS IT IS 2015-08-15 Remembering 70th Anniversary of End of World War II 纪念二战结束70周年 World War II ended 70 years ago this week. On August 15, 1945, Japan surrendered to allied forces led by the United States. The war was, and remains, t...
AS IT IS 2015-08-15 Kenyan Factory Making Tea Without Firewood 肯尼亚工厂制茶不使用柴火 There is a change in the air at the Tea Factory in Thika, Kenya. It is free of the dark smoke that rises from the boilers of Kenya's other tea factori...
AS IT IS 2015-08-15 Recording History, One Refugee at a Time 记录历史一个难民 Seventy years have passed since World War Two ended. By the year 1948, many refugees from the war had left Europe and gone to the United States. That summer, Americ...
AS IT IS 2015-08-15 U.S. Flag Flies Over Embassy in Havana, Cuba 美国国旗在古巴哈瓦那大使馆飘扬 U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry took part in a ceremony Friday to raise the U.S. flag at the countrys reopened embassy in Havana, Cuba....
Everyday Grammar: The Sounds of Grammar with Betty Azar Today we have a special guest host. Betty Azar is the most successful writer of grammar textbooks in the world. Generations of English learners will recognize her best-selling book Understanding...
Scientists Aim to Freeze DNA Before Creatures Die Off 科学家旨在在生物灭绝之前冻结其DNA Earth is in the middle of its sixth mass extinction. The last such event took place 66 million years ago, when an asteroid a huge space rock - hit...
