2022-04-25 Eight Garden Flowers Worth Revisiting
This image provided by Proven Winners shows a sweetly scented heliotrope flower, an old-time garden favorite. (Proven Winners via AP) In Thornton Wilder’s 1938 play Our Town, people gather to…
2022-04-25 US Secretary of State Blinken: Russia’s War Aims ‘Failing’ in Ukraine
In this image from video provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office and posted on Facebook, on Monday, April 25, 2022, from left; U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Ukrainian…
2022-04-25 Some American Colleges Return to COVID-19 Restrictions
FILE – Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. is one school that put pandemic restrictions back in place recently. (Courtesy photo from Phil Humnicky/Georgetown University) Many university students in the United…
2022-04-25 Ukraine’s Forgotten Citizens
An elderly woman stands beside a man in a wheelchair outside a shelter for internally displaced people, in Dnipro, Ukraine, April 16, 2022. (Photo by Ed JONES / AFP) As…
2022-04-25 Scientists Discover a New Kind of Star Explosion
This artist’s impression shows a two-star system, with a white dwarf (in the foreground) and a companion star (in the background), where stellar explosions called micronovae may occur. (Mark Garlick/European…
2022-04-24 NASA Doctor ‘Holoported’ to Space in Technology Experiment
A doctor with the American space agency NASA has made a virtual visit to the International Space Station (ISS) after being “holoported” by technology. Dr. Josef Schmid and several other…
2022-04-24 On Jupiter’s Moon Europa, Earth-like Landforms Suggest Conditions for Life
FILE – A view of Jupiter’s moon Europa created from images taken by NASA’s Galileo spacecraft in the late 1990s. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/SETI Institute/ Handout via REUTERS) Similarities between formations on Europa…
2022-04-24 China’s Travel Industry Hurt by Continued COVID-19 Measures
FILE – Vendors selling swimming accessories walk on Sanya Bay beach in Sanya, Hainan province, China November 26, 2020. (REUTERS/Tingshu Wang/File Photo) The COVID-19 pandemic continues to strongly affect China’s…
2022-04-24 Electric Vehicle Sales Increase Even with High Battery Prices
Machines are seen on a battery tray assembly line during a tour at the opening of a Mercedes-Benz electric vehicle Battery Factory in Woodstock, Alabama, U.S., March 15, 2022. REUTERS/Elijah…
2022-04-24 California Permitting Its Rivers More Space to Flow
The Tuolumne and San Joaquin rivers meet on the edge of the Dos Rios Ranch Preserve in Modesto, California, February. 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli) Between huge almond farms and…
2022-04-23 Singers, Politicians, Doctors among 2022 College Graduation Speakers
FILE – Taylor Swift canceled her tour in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but she will be back in public in May at the NYU graduation. Popular singer Taylor…
2022-04-23 Are You Guilty of ‘Sitting on the Fence?’
A man walks past a fence of a construction site along a street in New Delhi, India, March 9, 2022. And now Words and Their Stories from VOA Learning English.…
2022-04-23 Venediktova: Ukraine’s First Woman Prosecutor
Ukraine’s Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova sits in her office in Lviv, Ukraine on March 22, 2022. (Tom Jennings/FRONTLINE via AP) The messages, reports from across Ukraine, read: One civilian dead.…
2022-04-23 Hong Kong Zero-COVID Policies Create Tons of Plastic Waste
A nearly deserted street during the coronavirus pandemic in Hong Kong’s Causeway Bay area on March 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu) Hong Kong’s strict quarantine policies are intended to stop…