From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Lifestyle report. 这是美国之音英语学习关于健康与生活的报道。 In the future, chemicals from plants found in and around the Mediterranean may be used to help treat people with brain dis...
Marine Le Pen, the far-right nationalist leader, has gained more support in her campaign to become the next president of France. 极右翼政党国民阵线领袖玛丽娜勒庞在法国下届总统竞选中，争取到了更多的支持率。 On Mon...
Vice President Mike Pence says the United States will continue to hold Russia accountable. But he adds that President Donald Trump wants to find new common ground with Russia. Pences comments came Monday in Brussels, Belgium with European Union Counc...
Malaysia's Prime Minister Najib Razak said his government's investigation of the killing Kim Jong Nam will be objective. Kim Jong Nam was the half-brother of the North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un. We have no reason why we want to do something to paint...
Looking at a rainforest from high in the sky, you might think all the trees look about the same. 从天空高处向下看热带雨林，你可能会觉得所有的树木都是一样的。 But they are not. 但它们是不同的。 Take, for example,...
VOA Learning English presents America's Presidents. Today we are talking about George Washington. He was the first president of the United States. He served from 1789 to 1797. But he had many other accomplishments, too. He owned thousands of hectares...
Cindy lives with her three children in a small bedroom in an apartment near a major American city. Two other adults also live in the apartment. Cindy asked VOA to use just her first name for this story. She is not in the United States legally. She wa...
Most college students would love to get an assignment like the one Madeline Ota recently received at Stanford University. She and her classmates were asked to make beer in their dorm rooms. But before you get too excited, you need to know that it was...
Some people say the United States higher education system is the best in the world. But the cost of a college education in the U.S. can be very high -- about 70 percent of students graduate with some debt. In 2014, the total amount of that debt in th...
We present the first of three parts of the short story The Fall of the House of Usher, by Edgar Allan Poe. The story was originally adapted and recorded by the U.S. Department of State. It was a dark and soundless day near the end of the year, and cl...
And now the VOA Learning English program -- Words and Their Stories. On this show, we explore common expressions in American English. Today we talk about expressions related to the biggest contest in the United States the election of the American pre...
Giant Panda Bao Bao Prepares for China Move This is Whats Trending Today. Bao Bao was born in the United States, but she was always destined to go to China. A giant panda named Mei Xiang gave birth to Bao Bao at Washingtons National Zoo in 2013. She...
Flight attendant Sheila Fedrick says she knew something was wrong when she saw a teenage girl with greasy hair sitting on an airplane next to an older man. The girl had bruises, possible evidence that she had been hurt. The man, however, appeared ver...
President Donald Trump went on Twitter Thursday to talk about his continued concern about leaks. He wrote, The spotlight has finally been put on the low-life leakers? They will be caught! The president then said later Thursday that he called the Just...
The United States is accusing a top Venezuelan official of being a major international drug trafficker. The Trump administration has announced sanctions against Vice President Tareck El Aissami for his reported involvement in cocaine shipments from V...
