Who Are the Wealthy Investors Buying Rural California Land? A group of technology investors recently released its plans to create a new green city between San Francisco and Sacramento in California. The group's name is California Forever. It posted t...
Help for Gamblers as Sports Betting Rise in US 美国要求体育博彩资助戒赌服务 People in the American state of Kentucky will be able to legally bet on sporting events for the first time in September. When they do, they also help to pay for...
Tennis Looks for Solutions to Tennis Ball Waste The sport of tennis has a problem with waste that many players do not even recognize each time they open a new container of game balls. The balls are not recyclable. Almost all of the 330 million balls...
Afghans in US Face Difficulties 阿富汗人在美国陷入困境 The U.S. Department of State says that nearly 90,000 Afghans have come to the United States through a special federal program since 2021. The program is called Operation Allies Welcome...
Australian Vote Could Give 'Voice' to Indigenous Communities Some of Australia's Indigenous communities are hoping a national vote that would change the country's constitution could give native people more of a voice in the government. The vote, know...
India Removes the Poor to Prepare for G20 Gathering 印度赶走穷人迎接20国集团会议 India has changed the look of its capital, New Delhi, substantially in preparation for a meeting of international leaders this week. The two-day meeting of...
US Extends Protection for Migrants from Six Countries The administration of U.S. President Joe Biden recently announced it is extending temporary protection from deportation to migrants from six countries. Nationals of Sudan, Ukraine, El Salvador, Ho...
US City Turns to Science to Help Reduce Gun Violence That's where I got shot, said Rashaad Woods, pointing toward a small store in the city of Knoxville in the state of Tennessee. Nearby are a nightclub where some people were shot and killed and a ch...
UN: Hundreds of Thousands in Southeast Asia Tricked into Online Crime 联合国称东南亚数十万人身陷网络诈骗 The United Nations human rights office says criminal groups have forced hundreds of thousands of people in Southeast Asia into u...
Woodrow Wilson: Idealist VOA Learning English presents America's Presidents. Today we are talking about Woodrow Wilson. He served two terms, from 1913 to 1921, and led the United States through the first World War. Wilson might have seemed an unlikel...
US Cities Answer Some Emergency Calls with Mental Health Teams Clear Creek County in Colorado is one of the latest places to begin using mental health teams to answer some emergency 911 calls. Mental health response teams are not new. Many large citi...
Support Grows for Bioeconomy in Amazon Brazil's Amazon rainforest has long been home to small and mid-sized sustainable businesses. These companies use the area's nuts, fruits and other materials. Now there is a push to increase the number of those b...
Gabon Military Seizes Power In Oil-rich Country Military officers in oil-producing Gabon said they had seized power on Wednesday and had put President Ali Bongo under house arrest. The military seized control minutes after the Central African state's...
Hurricane Idalia Hits Florida with High Winds, Flooding Hurricane Idalia made landfall on the west coast of the American state of Florida on Wednesday. Officials said the dangerous storm brought life-threatening storm surges and flooding to the area....
Son Taken at Birth Reunited with Chilean Mother after 42 Years Forty-two years ago, hospital workers took Maria Angelica Gonzalez' son from her arms right after birth. Documents say they later told her he had died. Now, she was meeting him face-to-fa...