This is Whats Trending Today. Summer does not officially begin in the United States and other countries in Earths Northern Hemisphere for more than a week. Yet you have probably heard the song of the summer of 2017. That is Luis Fonsis Despacito. Fon...
United States officials have accused 33 people of criminal activity, including stealing 4,500 kilograms of chocolate and a murder for hire plot. Murder for hire is when someone offers to pay an individual to kill another person. Federal law enforceme...
People living in the American territory of Puerto Rico have voted to become a U.S. state. However, the vote does not have the force of law. Only 23 percent of Puerto Rican voters took part in the referendum. Of those who did vote, about 500,000 chose...
President Donald Trumps wife Melania and their 11-year-old son Barron have officially moved into the White House. She and the boy had been living at the familys home at Trump Tower in New York so Barron could finish out the year at his current school...
Saffron is one of the costliest spices in the world. It is sometimes considered as valuable as money, and has been used as such in history. Saffron comes from a flower that grows mostly in parts of Europe, Iran and India. Now, a company in the United...
Many American states, cities and businesses say they will work to meet the goals of the Paris climate agreement. This comes after President Donald Trump announced he was pulling the U.S. out of the international agreement. More than a dozen governors...
The first fraternity at an American university started in 1776 at the University of William and Mary in Virginia. Fraternities, which have all male members, and sororities, all female members, are often described on college websites this way: places...
Now, the VOA Learning English program, Words and Their Stories. 这里是美国之音英语学习计划的单词故事节目。 In the English language, some animals have come to represent human characteristics.Lions are brave.Foxes are tricky.And el...
VOA Learning English presents Americas Presidents. Today we are continuing our story about Abraham Lincoln. He led the United States during the Civil War, which lasted from 1861-1865. In that conflict, the Southern Confederacy battled the Union the s...
Editor's Note: This story is part of a continuing series about international student life at colleges and universities across the United States. Please join us over the next several weeks as we bring you stories about international students and the A...
Peru became only the second country in the world to make their fishing boat data available to the public. The information will appear on the website of Global Fishing Watch, a non-profit organization. 秘鲁只是世界上第二个向公众提供渔船...
We present the third of four parts of the short story Love of Life, by Jack London. The story was originally adapted and recorded by the U.S. Department of State. The man had brought his gun half the distance to his shoulder before he realized what h...
The first album of music from Chuck Berry in thirty-eight years is released this week, three months after his death. The album, called Chuck, has 10 songs, including eight written by Berry. A family affair The album has new songs that he had been wri...
Hope Nibert has a huge smile on her face. The 18-year-old from Arlington, Virginia has a lot of reasons to be happy. Her high school graduation is just days away. She goes to Guatemala in the summer to work there with her church. Then, in the fall, s...
One in eight people in the world do not get enough to eat. 世界上八分之一的人口没有足够的食物。 One in three are lacking in what health experts call essential nutrients. These are the vitamins, minerals, fatty acids and other nutrie...
