(THEME) VOICE ONE: This is Nicole Nichols. VOICE TWO: And this is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program EXPLORATIONS. Today we tell about discoveries of the past on the island of Saint John, in the United States Virgin Islands. Saint John...
American Indian Charter School Wins Approval in Oklahoma Last month, Oklahoma education officials approved plans to open a charter school to serve American Indian students. A charter school is established by a legal agreement, is operated by parents...
More International College Students Staying to Work in US The United States has long been considered to be among the best places in the world for higher education. For several years now, the number of international students attending U.S. colleges an...
Gates Foundation Announces $92 Million Assistance to Schools The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is providing $92 million in assistance in a new effort to help minority and low-income students succeed. 比尔及梅琳达盖茨基金会将为一项新...
Russian government television has a new weekly current affairs program about President Vladimir Putin. The hour-long show, Moscow. Kremlin. Putin, launched September 2 on Rossiya 1 television. Radio and television reporter Vladimir Solovyov is the ho...
Deep inside an industrial neighborhood in New York City is an ordinary building containing an extraordinary treasure. It is the home of The Neustadt Tiffany Glass Archive. It holds the worlds largest collection of Tiffany glass, with almost 250,000 p...
This is Whats Trending Today American tennis player Serena Williams is looking to make history by winning a record 24th Grand Slam title at the U.S. Open on Saturday. Across the net will be 20-year-old Naomi Osaka. She has already made history of her...
Welcome to Ask a Teacher ? a new program where readers ask questions and teachers answer them. Have you noticed that English is full of words that have similar meanings? In todays Ask a Teacher, Mika from Japan asks how to decide among three verbs th...
Our story today is, The Devil and Tom Walker. It was written by Washington Irving. Here is Shep O'Neal with our story. Before we begin our story, let us go back 300 years to the late 1600s. In those years, one of the most famous men in the world was...
Top Trump administration officials say they are not the writer of a New York Times opinion piece sharply critical of President Donald Trump. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo spoke on the issue during his visit to India. He called the opinion piece sad....
A South Korean official says North Koreas leader commented that he is committed to denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. National security advisor Chung Eui-yong also said that the leaders of North and South Korea are to meet in the capital of No...
Fear is growing in financial markets around the world. First, it was Argentina. Then came Turkey, South Africa and Indonesia Investors and policy-making officials are worried about the falling value of currencies of several emerging markets. Most of...
For VOA Learning English, this is Everyday Grammar. Today we have a special guest host. Betty Azar is the most successful writer of grammar textbooks in the world. Generations of English learners will recognize her best-selling book Understanding and...
This is Whats Trending Today. A business deal between Nike and former American football star Colin Kaepernick is creating a flood of debate online. Kaepernick became famous for starting a wave of protests among National Football League players of pol...
Is Blood Thicker Than Water? Now, the VOA Learning English program Words and Their Stories. On this program we explore expressions often heard in American English. And sometimes we get it wrong -- very wrong! But to be fair, there are simply some exp...
