Hello! This week we answer a question from Maria in Brazil. Question: I am sending some cards to my American friends. I'd like to know what to write on the cards for the new year. Maria, Brazil. Answer: Dear Maria, Thank you for writing to us. In man...
U.S. health officials recently approved the first drug against COVID-19 that Americans can take at home to reduce the effects of the new coronavirus. 美国卫生官员最近批准了第一种针对新冠肺炎的药物，美国人可以在家中自行...
Russia Orders Human Rights Group to Close The Russian Supreme court ruled Tuesday to close down a human rights organization. The group, called Memorial International, recorded historical abuses of the former Soviet Union. It also identified victims o...
Japan Details Plans for Releasing Fukushima Water into Sea Japan's government says it will treat radioactive wastewater from the damaged Fukushima nuclear center and pipe it into the sea. The plan, announced this week, includes guidelines for compens...
Biden Has Made Limited Changes to Immigration Policy As a presidential candidate, Joe Biden criticized the administration of then-president Donald Trump for its immigration policies. Biden also promised to pass reforms to permit more asylum-seekers a...
As 2021 comes to an end, we leave behind a wonderful year of English grammar. This year, we explored many areas adjectives, phrasal verbs, determiners and more. We also explored many areas of popular culture films, songs, and even sports. But one the...
Technology 2021: Facebook Papers, New Robots and Rise of NFTs The past year's top technology news included stories about the release of secret Facebook documents, developments in robotics and the rise of NFTs. Here is a look back at some of those sto...
Indonesia has permitted a boat carrying Rohingya refugees to land off the country's northernmost province of Aceh. 印尼已经允许一艘载有罗兴亚难民的船只在该国最北部的亚齐省登陆。 The wooden boat carrying about 120 passen...
Taliban Fires Guns to Break Up Womens Protest in Kabul VOA spoke to people in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Tuesday who said they saw Taliban security forces fire guns in the air to break up a women's protest. Afghan women marched through the streets to pro...
The United States counted the most deaths ever in 2020. 美国在2020年统计到有史以来最高的死亡人数。 However, statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) predict the number of deaths in 2021 will be even larg...
US Health Officials Ease Preventive Separation Guidelines for People with COVID-19 United States health officials have reduced quarantine restrictions for Americans with the coronavirus who do not show signs of infection. Individuals without signs of...
In the United States, debates over issues like reopening, masks, vaccines and racism played out all over the country in 2021. And it was no different for schools. As vaccines started being distributed to teachers and school officials in January, Amer...
Early data suggests that people infected with the Omicron coronavirus are 50 to 70 percent less likely to be hospitalized than those with the Delta, Britain's public health agency announced Thursday, December 23rd. The new finding on COVID-19 disease...
When corals are mentioned, many people think of rock-life forms in the sea filled with colorful fish. But corals are made up of hundreds of thousands of small organisms which live and feed like any other sea life. For the past five years, researchers...
There was so much to look forward to at the start of 2021. 2021年伊始有过太多期待。 The question was when, and not if, the health crisis would finally end. 当时的问题是这次健康危机什么时候结束，而不是是否会结束。...
