Bolivia is the scene of today's first story. The South American country is in the middle of a political crisis following a resignation of its president early this week. And leaders around South America are trying to help Bolivia chart a path toward n...
德国纪念柏林墙倒塌30周年 Which of these events occurred 30 years ago? Soviet troops left Afghanistan, Hubble telescope was launched, Gulf War began, or the Berlin Wall fell? The only one of these events from the year 1989 was the fall of t...
New South Wales is where you'll find Sydney, the Australian capital and largest city in the country. It's also where dozens of bushfires are burning up land and homes. A New South Wales Rural Fire Service said yesterday that 70 fires were burning and...
You don't have to look hard on social media to find opinions concerning politics. But the political ads you see could be changing in some way or another as the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election approaches. Targeted political advertisements are controve...
Which of these animals hibernates in winter? Tree squirrel, mosquito, monarch butterfly or silverfish. Mosquitoes are the only animals on this list that enter diapause, a hibernation-like period of shutting down for the cold winter months. So that ex...
We've done some reporting lately on the destructive wildfires in California. The state's still in the midst of its fire season when blazes are more likely to flare up, but the major wildfires we've told you about have been contained for the most part...
印度新德里雾霾严重 车辆限行工地停工 Of the 30 most polluted urban areas on the planet, 22 of them are in India, the world's second most populated country. In fact, the nation's capital New Delhi is ranked as the world's most polluted...
The Bureau of Labor Statistics releases its employment situation summary on the first Friday of every month. It's also called the Jobs Report, which is easier to say, and it gives a snapshot of how the U.S. economy did the month before. So the latest...
We're getting started with a look at a recent vote in the U.S. House of Representatives concerning President Donald Trump and the issue of impeachment. Late last week, the House voted 232 to 196 to formalize its impeachment inquiry of the president....
First story out of California. Hurricane force is a term to describe wind speeds that blow at or faster than 74 miles per hour and some of the winds buffeting wildfires near Los Angeles are at hurricane force. These are the Santa Ana winds hot, dry,...
It's been a year and a day since a passenger jet crashed shortly after takeoff in the island nation of Indonesia. The flight was operated by Lion Air, a low cost airline, and the plane was built by Boeing, an American company. That's part of the reas...
In the U.S. state of California, students at Mount Saint Mary's University and NBA star LeBron James have a couple of things in common. One, they live near Los Angeles. Two, they've evacuated because of wildfires. The one threatening the L.A. area br...
Who is the current U.S. Treasury secretary? Jack Lew, Kathleen Sebelius, Wilbur Ross, or Steven Mnuchin? The role is currently filled by Steven Mnuchin, the nation's 77th secretary of the treasury. One role of Secretary Mnuchin's department is to man...
First story in our lineup today is the death of the leader of an infamous terrorist group. Since 2014, news organizations around the world have done a lot of reporting on ISIS. It's an acronym for Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. And that's what it w...
First story takes us to the largest country in South America, where a mystery is washing up along Brazil's coast. Crude oil hundreds of tons of it has appeared on Brazil's northeast beaches. This has been going on since early September. Roughly 1,200...
