A new report shows the number of babies born prematurely has been increasing in the United States since 2014. The report by the National Center for Health Statistics says preterm births have increased by 2 percent in 2016 and 1.6 percent in 2015 afte...
The United States has denied visas to a team of Gambian students to attend a major international robotics competition. The event takes place in Washington, D.C. later this month. Mucktarr M.Y. Darboe is the Gambian team's leader and a government offi...
This is Whats Trending Today. Every July 4th, Americans celebrate the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776. The document expressed the desire of the American colonies to separate from Great Britain. It contains about 1,300 words. On the...
A company in Mountain View, California, helps fund and advises new, or startup, technology companies. It is called Y Combinator, and it has helped launch many well-known companies like Dropbox, Airbnb and Reddit. To expand its business, Y Combinator...
The United States has called for the world to act after North Koreas leader celebrated the test of an intercontinental ballistic missile, or ICBM. North Korea launched a long-range missile, known as the Hwasong-14, on Tuesday. The missile travelled 9...
This is Whats Trending Today. Chris Christie is the governor of the state of New Jersey. He has held the position since 2010. He is a well-known politician, and was one of several candidates who ran for the Republican Party nomination for the preside...
America's population is becoming older and increasingly diverse - made up of people who are different from each other. Nowhere are those differences more apparent than in Houston, Texas. The city has seen an increase in the number of minority communi...
From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Lifestyle report. American English has many expressions related to clothes. Two of the more common ones are: Dress for the job you want, not for the job you have; and, simply, Dress for success. A profess...
The day will be the most memorable in the history of America, wrote John Adams in 1776. People will honor it with parades, fireworks and celebrations, he added. 这一天将是美国历史上最难忘的一天，约翰亚当斯在1776年这样写道。...
Faith Rotich always thought she would stay in Kenya to seek a university education. Rotich is from Eldoret, a town of about 290,000 people in the western part of the country. After she completed high school in 2012, the University of Nairobi accepted...
President Donald Trump says the United States can no longer be patient with North Korea. 川普总统表示，美国不能再继续忍耐朝鲜了。 Trump spoke after meeting with South Korean President Moon Jae-in at the White House Friday. Their t...
Cristoph Kramer is a football player from Germany. Just weeks after playing his first match for the national team, he was added to the list of players for international footballs 2014 World Cup. In the United States, the sport is called soccer. Chris...
When the musical Miss Saigon first opened in New York City in 1991, critics questioned the choice of Jonathan Pryce to play a French-Vietnamese engineer. Miss Saigon is a love story between a Vietnamese woman and an American soldier. Pryce, a white a...
Physicist Stephen Hawking said people should return to the Moon and go to Mars because leaving Earth may be the only way to save humanity. Hawking said that as Earth faces climate change and pressure on natural resources, human beings need to reach b...
