2024-06-13 Brazilian Ranchers: World’s Costliest Cow Is ‘The Best’
The Brazilian ranchers who own the world’s most costly cow call her Viatina-19. The large, white cow is valued at over $4 million. At 1,100 kilograms, she is about two…
2024-06-12 Officials, Scientists Warn of a Hot Summer
The summer has yet to arrive, but temperatures have reached record-high levels in some places, leading to school closings, wildfires and deaths. In China, high temperatures were recorded in the…
2024-06-11 Copper Producers Hope for ‘Urban Mine’
Manufacturers have been reusing and recycling copper for many years. Now they are increasing their efforts because some experts predict that the need for the metal will nearly double by…
2024-06-11 Children Find Dinosaur ‘Teen-Rex’ Fossil in North Dakota
Two brothers, Liam and Jessin Fisher, were hiking in North Dakota with their father and cousin, Kaiden Madsen, during the summer of 2022. They were looking for dinosaur fossils. And…
2024-06-10 Displaced Ukrainians Make Remote-controlled Stretchers
Ukrainian teenager Yelisei Mamonov dreams of attending his country’s top technical university one day. For now, he is gaining valuable experience at a family-run workshop making remote-controlled stretchers. They are…
2024-06-09 UN: One-fourth of World’s Youngest Children Lack Food
A recent report from the U.N. children’s agency UNICEF says that 181 million children younger than 5 live in severe food poverty. That is more than one-fourth of the world’s…
2024-06-08 CEOs Earn 200 Times More Than Their Workers Last Year
The top leaders of the biggest U.S. companies had their pay increase by about 13 percent in 2023. Pay for workers at the same companies rose by only 4.1 percent.…
2024-06-06 Nigeria Cracks Down on Illegal Lithium Mining
Since April, Nigeria’s government has been arresting illegal miners for reportedly stealing lithium. Lithium is a metal that is used to make batteries for electric vehicles and many electronic devices.…
2024-06-05 Special Kind of Fisherman Finds Lost Money
James Kane of New York City is a fisherman. But he does not eat what he catches. Instead of catching fish, he uses powerful magnets attached to long ropes to…
2024-06-05 Biden Places New Restriction on US Southern Border
President Joe Biden announced an executive action Tuesday that temporarily places restrictions on the number of migrants unlawfully entering the United States. The action is called a proclamation. It says…
2024-06-04 US Veteran Returns to France 80 Years after Surviving D-Day
In 1944, Jake Larson was carrying a backpack with 34 kilograms of gear as the boat he was in got closer to Omaha Beach in France. Omaha Beach was the…
2024-06-03 Claudia Sheinbaum Becomes Mexico’s First Female President
Election officials in Mexico say Claudia Sheinbaum will become the country’s first female president. Sheinbaum won a large victory in Sunday’s election after promising to continue the policies of outgoing…
2024-05-31 Trump Found Guilty of 34 Felony Charges
A New York City jury on Thursday found former U.S. president Donald Trump guilty of falsifying business records to influence the outcome of the 2016 election. The jury found Trump…
2024-05-30 World’s Largest Tree Passes Health Check
In the American state of California, researchers recently climbed the world’s largest tree to check on its health. The tree is a giant sequoia named General Sherman. The climbers had…
2024-05-30 The Story of a Hong Kong Democracy Activist
A court in Hong Kong found 14 pro-democracy activists guilty of crimes linked to an unofficial vote in 2020. Some could face life in prison. Hong Kong officials said the…