A survey recently found that Facebook pays its interns $8,000 a month, more than any other American company. The survey was carried out by the website Glassdoor, on which people can post information about job experiences and pay. In second place was...
From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Lifestyle report. If you want to get healthy or stay healthy, there is one easy activity to add to your day walking. Walking is the closest thing we have to a wonder drug, says Thomas Friedman. Friedman i...
More than 30 million people were displaced within their own countries last year. That number comes from a new report by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre and the Norwegian Refugee Council. The two groups blame criminal violence and natural...
Dick Becker is hopeful about his hometown of Lancaster, in Grant County, Wisconsin. He also feels hopeful about the United States under the leadership of Donald Trump. They need to give him a chance! he said. Becker says that most voters in Lancaster...
A new airplane may soon be able to travel into space at more than five times the speed of sound. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, announced last Wednesday that a project by the aerospace company Boeing was making progress. DAR...
Former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega died in a Panama City hospital on Monday. He was 83 years old. Noriega had been in a coma since March. He had been recovering from several operations related to removing cancer from his brain earlier this year....
India has opened its longest bridge in the countrys northeast to strengthen its defenses close to a disputed border with China. The bridge is one of several projects whose construction has been sped up to make it easier for troops and artillery to tr...
Resettled refugees must learn about their new home, culture and language. They also need to find a job. 重新安家后的难民需要适应新的国家,了解不同的文化和语言。当然,他们还需要就业。 For Syrians displaced by fig...
State universities in California are planning to limit admission of undergraduate students from other states and from overseas. 加州的州立大学计划限制美国其它州和海外的本科学生招生数量。 The decision follows release of a...
This is What's Trending Today. 这里是今日热点。 Chris Cornell, the lead singer of Soundgarden, died Wednesday night. He was 52 years old. 周三晚间,声音花园乐队主唱克里斯康奈尔(Chris Cornell)突然离世,享年52岁。...
Brazilian Zarela Mosquera moved to the United States as a teenager. The adjustment to a new place was difficult. Mosquera says she was a bratty teenager, as a result. But it was not just the adjustment that affected her behavior. Mosquera says there...
Scientists say they have discovered a possible cure for all five known Ebola viruses. Antibodies that are used in the cure were discovered in the blood of a survivor. 科学家说,他们已经发现了一种可能治愈所有5种已知埃博拉病毒...
Google announced new technology at its yearly developers conference last week. Many of these announcements involve updates to existing tech, instead of new gadgets. These updates may make life a little easier. Gmail Smart Reply Google is adding a fea...
U.S. President Donald Trump and Pope Francis held a 30-minute meeting at the Vatican on Wednesday. 周三,美国总统唐纳德特朗普(Donald Trump)在梵蒂冈与教皇弗朗西斯进行了30多分钟的会晤。 The two men shook hands at t...
This is Whats Trending Today... Three million years may seem like a long time. But when you consider that planet Earth is more than 4.5 billion years old, it is a pretty short period of time. And it is over that shorter time period that the whales in...