On Sesame Street, Elmo Gets a Dog The children's television series Sesame Street is welcoming a new lovable character for its 52nd season. The new character is a white-and-brown puppy. The young dog is named Tango. She gets adopted by the young red M...
Zaila Avant-garde is her name. Murraya is the word. The 14-year-old girl from Harvey, Louisiana, twirled and jumped after correctly spelling m-u-r-r-a-y-a to become the first African American winner in the 96-year history of the Scripps National Spel...
There are 13 graduates this year from Isleboro Central, a small high school on an island near the U.S. state of Maine. Most of them live on Isleboro, which has a year-round population of about 700. The school's graduating class usually takes a trip t...
This week on Ask a Teacher, we answer a question from Jane in Taiwan(China) about two similar prepositions. Here is the question: Question: Dear VOA, I'm writing to ask a question about the differences between at the corner and on the corner. Thanks...
American President Joe Biden said Thursday the U.S. military mission in Afghanistan will end on August 31. 美国总统乔拜登周四表示，美国在阿富汗的军事任务将于8月31日结束。 Speaking from the White House, the president said...
4 Suspects in Assassination of Haiti's President Moise Die in Shootout The head of Haiti's national police said four suspects in the assassination of President Jovenel Moise were killed in a shootout with police. Police Chief Lon Charles told reporte...
The search continues for victims of the collapsed Champlain Towers South condominium building in Surfside, Florida. And the process of seeking answers about why it fell and who is to blame has already started in the state legal system. Officials have...
Fans Banned at Olympics, Tokyo Under State of Emergency Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike said Thursday that spectators are banned from the Tokyo Olympics set to open in two weeks. The ban came hours after a state of emergency declared by Japanese prime mi...
Simplify Your Language to Sound Smarter It has happened to all of us. We open an instruction book for a new machine or read a publication and find their language is more complex than it needs to be. The result is often difficulty in understanding. Bu...
The U.S. Navy is halting development of a high-tech weapon designed to fire projectiles at up to seven times the speed of sound. The Navy spent more than 10 years developing the weapon, called an electromagnetic railgun. The cannon-like railgun uses...
Some 130 countries have agreed on a worldwide minimum tax, an idea backed by President Joe Biden. The minimum tax is part of an international effort to keep multinational companies from avoiding taxes by moving their profits to countries with low rat...
Famous Indian Actor Dilip Kumar Dies at 98 Dilip Kumar, one of Bollywood's most famous actors has died. The Indian actor died Wednesday in a hospital in Mumbai after a long illness. He was 98. Kumar was known as the Tragedy King. He played many serio...
Haitian President Jovenel Moise was assassinated during an attack by gunmen inside his home early Wednesday. The killing was confirmed by the country's interim prime minister, Claude Joseph, who said the president's wife was wounded in the attack. A...
Nikole Hannah-Jones, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, decided on Tuesday she would not accept a position at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) but, rather, would continue her career by accepting a position at Howard University...
What Is Critical Race Theory? Over the past few months in the United States, the expression critical race theory, or CRT, has appeared in statehouses and political gatherings from almost nowhere. CRT has become an important cause for conservatives. M...
