After a one-year delay, the Tokyo Olympics officially began Friday. The Games began with the opening ceremony, which looked different than usual because of COVID-19 restrictions. Fewer than 1,000 people were permitted to attend the ceremony, which in...
The average life expectancy for people in the United States fell by one year and a half in 2020. The decrease marks the largest one-year drop since World War II, public health officials said. 公共卫生官员表示，2020年美国人的平均预期寿...
Books are a great way to escape everyday life. We get to experience new places, people, and situations outside of our own lives. Some readers escape with fantasy stories. Some like love stories. And some readers like murder mysteries ... but not viol...
Grace Luczak had left competitive rowing and taken a job. But a move toward gender equity at the Tokyo Olympic Games brought her back into the boat. This year, a woman's rowing event was added to make sure that there is an equal number of men's and w...
Reporters writing news stories must be careful not to say someone is guilty before a trial in a court of law gives a decision. The expressions we use to talk about crime and punishment use combinations of prepositions and verbs. Today we will look at...
Space Tourism Companies Bring Excitement to Small American Towns As the race to launch space tourism flights continues in the United States, two small American towns have entered the action. On Tuesday, American billionaire Jeff Bezos flew to the edg...
Greeks Celebrate Milwaukee Teams NBA Championship As the Milwaukee Bucks were about to win the NBA basketball championship Tuesday, people in Greece were watching closely. With less than a minute left in the game, Yiannis Tzikas was getting ready to...
At least 25 people have died from heavy rains in China's central province of Henan. Twelve of them died in a flooded underground train in Henan's capital, Zhengzhou. 至少已经有25人在中国中部省份河南的暴雨中遇难。其中12人在河南...
Cuba Has Highest Rate of COVID Cases in Americas Cuba largely kept coronavirus infections low last year. But now, the Caribbean nation has the highest infection rate per person in Latin America. That is threatening the country's health care system an...
The government of Greenland has decided to suspend all oil exploration off the Arctic island's coast. Officials say it is a natural step because the government takes the climate crisis seriously. No oil has been found yet around Greenland, which is a...
The black-and-white photographs had stayed hidden for years. The images showed Native American students who were part of the first group to attend a boarding school in New Mexico. A boarding school is a school where students live during the school te...
When the COVID-19 pandemic closed their sons' school, Bolivian parents Angela Poma and Lorenzo Gutierrez made some big changes. They wanted to give their boys Willy, who is 9, and Carlos, who is 11, the ability to take online classes. The move to onl...
New research suggests that the actual number of COVID-19 deaths in India could be as much as 10 times the official count. An independent, non-government report released Tuesday estimates the number of deaths at between 3 to 4.7 million, from January...
The world needs to see that Japan can hold the Summer Olympic Games safely, the country's prime minister told sports officials Tuesday. 日本首相周二对体育官员表示，世界需要看到日本能够安全地举办这届夏季奥运会。 Th...
Students from New Zealand have developed sustainable materials made from the leaves of a tree local to New Zealand, the cabbage tree, and a plant whose seeds are often eaten, flax. Sustainable materials are products that are made that limit their har...
