U.S. President Barack Obama and Congress are engaged in an intense rush to settle on a plan to raise the countrys borrowing limit beyond the current total of more than $14 trillion. It is an effort aimed at averting a possible default on the countrys...
The Obama administration has confirmed that it will delay sending free trade agreements with Colombia, Panama and South Korea to Congress until lawmakers return from a scheduled August recess. The White House and Republicans disagree over a program d...
LOS ANGELES, July 19 (Xinhua) -- Obesity prevalence was 30 percent or higher in 12 states of the United States last year, compared to nine states in 2009, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Tuesday. In 2000, no states in the...
US Offers Full US Support for Greek Economic Recovery Plan Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says the United States unequivocally supports the economic recovery plan of Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou. Clinton held talks with top Greek offici...
IN THE NEWS - US, Japan Meet in Women's World Cup; in Los Angeles, 'Carmageddon' 新闻报道 - 美国日本会师女足世界杯决赛 This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. 这里是美国之音慢速英语新闻报道。 Two of the world's fa...
US Bridge Loses Main Claim to Fame Several years ago, the U.S. automobile-rental company Avis came up with an imaginative, if not exactly boastful, advertising slogan. We're Number Two! in number of rentals, it went. We Try Harder. The folks in south...
LOS ANGELES, July 7 (Xinhua) -- Obesity rates in the United States climbed over the past year in 16 states, and not a single state reported a decline in the proportion of excessively overweight residents, according to a report released on Thursday. T...
听歌学英语:葛瑞盖斯的Anyone Of Us 葛瑞盖斯于1984年7月12日出生在英国布莱佛市，一个曾经患有口吃的男孩，却拥有天使般的嗓音，通过音乐重新找回了自我。2002年2月9日他成为英国当红电视选...
Cicadas Swarm Wide Portions of US The cicadas are back. Over the past few weeks, across a wide swath of the eastern United States, the notoriously noisy bugs have emerged by the billions from their long, underground adolescence. On a muggy afternoon...
Technology Report - US Seeks Shadow Internet, Mobile Networks in Repressive Countries 科技报道 - 美国呼吁全世界网络自由 This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. 这里是美国之音慢速英语科技报道。 We reported las...
