More Women Lead Atlantic City Gambling Operations For many years, women have served alcohol to gamblers in casinos, but they rarely supervised the whole operation. Women now run four of Atlantic City's nine casinos. Some industry officials say that c...
English Professor in Panama City Helps Families, Schools Every Friday afternoon, Joel Alvarez gets his disco lights and music ready. When he turns on the Zoom camera at 6 o'clock, he is surrounded by blue lighting, or lights of some other color. Some...
An Afghan woman received the highest score last week out of 170,000 students on the national university entrance examination. Her path has not been easy. Two years ago, an Islamic State militant suicide bombing in west Kabul killed many classmates at...
Is taking African artwork from a European museum a political act, or a criminal one? That is the question a French court is considering this week at the trial of a Congolese activist who wants his country's art returned. It belongs to us! shouted a B...
And now, Words and Their Stories from VOA Learning English. Each week on this program, we explain expressions often used in American English. We give you lots of examples. This way, you can learn how to use the expressions when you speak English. Tod...
Experts Study Writing in Ancient Mexican City Many mysteries surround the ancient Mexican city of Teotihuacan. One mystery is especially difficult to solve. What is the meaning of the symbols that are on its paintings and statues? Earlier this month,...
United States President Donald Trump has mild symptoms of COVID-19 after announcing Friday that tests showed that he and his wife Melania have the coronavirus. 美国总统川普周五宣布，经过检测他和妻子梅拉尼娅感染了新冠病毒，...
Sales of used clothing are part of fast fashion, but the industry is breaking down because of COVID-19 restrictions. Fast fashion is a term for the manufacture and marketing of clothing that often looks like popular fashion creations. But fast fashio...
Our story today is called A Municipal Report. It was written by O. Henry and first published in 1904. Here is Shep O'Neal with the story. It was raining as I got off the train in Nashville, Tennessee -- a slow, gray rain. I was tired so I went straig...
This week, we received the same question from a fan in Italy and another in Brazil. But, we are sure the question is shared by even more English learners-so let's answer it! Question: Could I know the different meanings of take and get? Thanks Bruna,...
