Walmart Uses Drones to Fly COVID-19 Tests to American Homes Walmart has begun using drone aircraft to transport COVID-19 tests to private homes in the United States. This week, the company began sending COVID-19 self-collection kits to homes in the N...
The company Johnson Johnson has begun the final part of its trial of a single-treatment, COVID-19 vaccine. The study will be one of the world's largest, testing the injection in 60,000 volunteers in the United States, South Africa, Argentina, Brazil,...
A Kentucky grand jury on Wednesday charged one of three police officers involved in the shooting death of Breonna Taylor. The 26-year-old Black woman was shot by officers inside her home in Louisville last March. The officer, Brett Hankison, was not...
Archaeologists Find 27 Coffins at Egypts Saqqara Pyramid Egyptian archaeologists have discovered 27 coffins inside a large burial ground in an ancient city south of Cairo. The coffins have remained unopened since they were buried more than 2,500 year...
Much has been written about the 102 Europeans who crossed the Atlantic Ocean on the Mayflower ship in 1620. Much less has been written about the Wampanoag Native American community that the Europeans met on the other side. Four centuries later, a new...
Rights Group Urges Social Media to Save Evidence of War Crimes A rights group has called on social media companies to save images and video that could be used as evidence to investigate serious crimes. Companies like Facebook, YouTube and Twitter are...
Health officials around the world are concerned about rising numbers of new coronavirus cases. But another highly infectious virus will soon be returning to Earth's Northern Hemisphere. That virus is influenza, commonly called the flu. The United Sta...
Many schoolteachers in the United States are choosing not to return to the classroom this year because of the coronavirus health crisis. Now, schools around the country are looking to find substitute teachers. In some places, officials are lowering r...
Lightning and Wind: How the West Coast Fires Got So Bad The lightning began in the skies over Northern and Central California one weekend in mid-August. It landed on grassy areas and vineyards. The U.S. National Weather Service warned that the dry li...
The deaths of hundreds of elephants in Botswana earlier this year may have been the result of the animals drinking water containing poisonous blue-green algae. Algae are simple plants with no leaves or stems that grow in or near water. 今年年初博茨...
A high-tech ship is marking the 400th anniversary of the sailing of the Mayflower -- the ship that carried a group of European settlers to North America. The famous trip prepared the way for England's colonization of what Europeans in 1620 called the...
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died Friday night at her home in Washington, D.C. She was 87. Her death is likely to set up a political battle over when to nominate a successor. 美国最高法院大法官露丝巴德金斯伯格周五晚...
Facebook has launched a new service designed to make it easier for college students to connect with others at their school. The service comes as colleges across the United States seek to find new ways to operate during the coronavirus health crisis....
Why Do We 'Pay Through the Nose' for Costly Things? And now, Words and Their Stories from VOA Learning English. On this program we teach common words and expressions in American English. Some things in life are free. Other things cost a little money....
Is India Undercounting Its COVID-19 Dead? Narayan Mitra died on July 16 in India's northeastern Assam state. His death came one day after going to the hospital with a high temperature and breathing difficulties. Test results later showed that Mitra h...
