Thanks to her two girls, Kim Zachman spent a lot of time making popular American foods like peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, chicken fingers, hot dogs, and pizza. Her girls are adults now, but when they were young, Zachman also learned a lot about...
Hamas, a Palestinian militant group, fired rockets into Israel on Monday. The group fired the rockets after hundreds of Palestinians were hurt in clashes with Israeli police in Jerusalem earlier Monday. The Israeli military answered Hamas's rocket fi...
U.S. health officials say the nation's birth rate in 2020 fell to its lowest level in more than 40 years. 美国卫生官员表示，该国2020年出生率降至40多年来的最低水平。 The rate fell 4 percent in 2020 to about 3.6 million babies...
American space agency NASA says it has expanded its Mars helicopter mission after the experimental aircraft successfully completed several test flights. The helicopter, named Ingenuity, made history last month by becoming the first aircraft to perfor...
For 14 months, a French wine aged in space. Now, it has returned to Earth to be sold. A single bottle from a case of space-aged Bordeaux is being put up for sale by the auction house Christie's. It may cost up to $1 million. The wine is a 2000 vintag...
White abalone are at risk of dying out. But scientists in California have developed a special way to help the sea snail population reproduce. Kristin Aquilino is lead scientist for the White Abalone Captive Breeding Program, based at the University o...
Farmer Ta Thi Thanh Thuy worked hard for years to grow rice on her small piece of land near the mouth of the Mekong River in Vietnam. But now Thuy has started farming shrimp. Many of her neighbors over the last 10 years have done the same. In the pas...
Sotero Cirilo sleeps in a small plastic shelter under a train bridge in Elmhurst, Queens, in New York City. The 55-year-old immigrant from Mexico once made $800 per week at two New York restaurants. But they closed when the COVID-19 pandemic started....
And now, Words and Their Stories from VOA Learning English. Mothers have been celebrated around the world since the days of ancient Greeks and Romans. In the United States, Mother's Day became a national holiday after an effort by Anna Jarvis as a wa...
A Catholic priest is winning new fans in Costa Rica with a COVID-19 song set to the music of salsa. Sergio Valverde is best known for his aid to the poor in the Central American country. For the last few Sundays, Valverde has performed his song with...
The ancient Roman Colosseum is once again going to have a floor - a new, high-tech floor at the cost of $22 million. Italy's Culture Minister Dario Franceschini described the new project this week as extraordinary, meaning extremely good or impressiv...
Four former police officers involved in the arrest of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota last year are to face a federal civil rights trial. 去年在明尼苏达州明尼阿波利斯市逮捕乔治弗洛伊德的4名前警察将面临一场联邦民...
New York state and city leaders have given permission to reopen Broadway theaters this fall at full capacity. Many Broadway productions are rushing to sell tickets in the coming days to welcome back theater-goers. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo says...
This week on Ask a Teacher, we answer a question from Felippe in Brazil. He says: Question: Hi! I'm from Barra do Pira, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and I have a little question: What is the difference between a magazine and a journal? Thanks! - Felippe,...
Famous Cookies Delivered by Unusual Method The Girl Scouts organization, founded in 1912, is well known for teaching important life and survival skills to girls. Part of their goal, as stated on their website, is to improve their corner of the world....
