AS IT IS 2014-10-28 US Congressional Candidates Recognize Voters Fears Opinion surveys show feelings of unease among likely American voters as they prepare for congressional, state and local elections next month. The Gallup organization recently aske...
AS IT IS 2014-10-28 Woman Is Guardian for 900 Immigrant Children 一个女人做 900个移民孩子的监护人 Last year, the federal government removed 240,000 people from the United States who had entered the country illegally. Pew Research says t...
AS IT IS 2014-10-27 California Considers Changes to Water System 加州考虑改变水系统 People in California are suffering the effects of the states third year of drought. This water shortage is causing many Californians to urge the state to cha...
AS IT IS 2014-10-27 WWF: Health of Planet Is at Risk 世界自然基金会:地球面临危险 The World Wildlife Fund says more than half of the worlds wildlife population has been lost. The conservation group says this has placed the health of the p...
You Don't Have to Be a Rocket Scientist to Read This 你不需要成为一个火箭专家 I'm Phil Murray with Words and Their Stories, a program in Special English. 这里是美国之音慢速英语词汇典故节目。 You do not need to be a rocke...
AS IT IS 2014-10-26 Gold Mining in Ghana Can Be Dangerous 加纳金矿或许存在危险 The rivers in Ghanas Ashanti area have a sickly brown color. The land has gashes, holes cut by excavators. The air is filled with the sound of mining equipment....
AS IT IS 2014-10-26 Legality of Vietnamese Bloggers Release Questioned This week, the Vietnamese government released one of the countrys best known political bloggers from prison. The government then sent the man, Nguyen Van Hai, to the United States...
AS IT IS 2014-10-26 Control of US Senate Depends on North Carolina 对参议院的控制权取决于北卡罗来纳州 U.S. congressional elections are less than two weeks away. A small number of races will decide if the Democratic party keeps contro...
Tips for Applying to US Colleges 申请美国大学的几点建议 Editor's note: Here at VOA Learning English we get a lot of questions from our audience about higher education in the United States. So we visited several universities and spoke with...
In US, Fear of Ebola Spreads Faster than Virus 对埃博拉的恐惧比病毒传播更快 For Americans, Ebola started out as a disease in a far-away continent. But then a Liberian man, Thomas Eric Duncan, died from Ebola at a hospital in Dallas, Tex...
AS IT IS 2014-10-25 Who Will Be Brazil's Next President? 巴西下一任总统会是谁? Brazilians will choose a president Sunday. Two candidates will be on the ballot -- Dilma Rousseff and Senator Aecio Neves. President Rousseff won the most votes...
AS IT IS 2014-10-25 US Supreme Court Allows Texas Voter ID Law 美国最高法院批准德州选民身份法 The United States Supreme Court says the southwestern state of Texas can keep in place a new voting law. The law says voters must show identi...
Oscar de la Renta Dressed First Ladies and Movie Stars 传奇设计师奥斯卡德拉伦塔去世享年82岁曾为第一夫人和女星设计礼服 Clothing designer Oscar de la Renta died Monday at his home in the American state of Connecticut. He w...
Gunman Identified in Canadian Capital Police in Canada have identified the suspected gunman in yesterdays deadly attack in Ottawa as Michael Zehaf-Bibeau. The 32-year-old man had a criminal record. He had recently converted to Islam. Canadian officia...
US Police Increase Use of Body Cameras 美国警方越来越多地使用身体摄像机 Police officers in Washington, DC, and New York City are wearing cameras on their bodies as part of a test. The goal of the program is to reduce the use of force...
