First story we're explaining today concerns the United States, the nation of Turkey and the group of Kurdish fighters near a Turkish border. 今天我们首先来关注美国、土耳其以及土耳其边境附近的库尔德武装组织。 Here's wh...
That may not be breaking news exactly, but some of that is expected this weekend in the United Kingdom. The country's parliament, its law making body, is set to debate a new deal concerning the Brexit, the British exit from the European Union. The EU...
Our first topic today is a weather event. It's not a classic Nor'easter. It could be a bomb cyclone. Whatever its formal designation will be, it's a system so powerful that it's causing problems all over the U.S. northeast and it came up quickly. Bom...
台风海贝思已致72人死亡 日本派出11万人参与搜救 Today's first report comes from Japan where it could be weeks before some victims of Typhoon Hagibis get back to a normal routine. Last Saturday Hagibis made landfall on the Izu Penins...
Our down the middle coverage of down the middle events begins with a recap of a recent meeting between delegates from the United States and North Korea. Those two countries have been rivals since the Korean War took place in the early 1950s' but U.S....
This spring, we reported on how Indonesia's government was planning to close Komodo Island in 2020. That report came out after several people were arrested in March and accused of smuggling Komodo dragons off the island. As many as 41 of the lizards...
In the Middle East, there have been a series of demonstrations as well for very different reasons. Teachers in Jordan have been on the longest strike in the nation's history. Protesters in Egypt and Lebanon have been calling attention to difficult ec...
And this week Forever 21 announced it was closing the doors of as many of 350 stores worldwide including 178 in the United States. That's about a third of the stores that operates in America. The company has filed for bankruptcy. This doesn't mean th...
Today's show starts with a debate should America's college athletes get paid? This has been a controversy for a while. What's new this time around is that the state of California has just passed a law called the Fair Pay to Play Act. It would allow c...
Officially we are only one week into fall in the Northern Hemisphere. But a winter storm has descended over the Rocky Mountains. North America's longest range stretches roughly 3,000 miles from western Canada all the way down to New Mexico. It's in t...