VOA双语新闻：里斯腾森与他的“小丑关怀”项目

Professional clown Michael Christensen doesn't just confine his act to the Big Apple Circus he co-founded. He also brings laughter to a place that is often badly in need of it: pediatric hospitals across the country. 迈克尔克里斯腾森是一位专

VOA双语新闻：克里斯腾森与他的“小丑关怀”项目

Professional clown Michael Christensen doesn't just confine his act to the Big Apple Circus he co-founded. He also brings laughter to a place that is often badly in need of it: pediatric hospitals across the country. 迈克尔克里斯腾森是一位专

VOA双语新闻：美国纪念内战150周年

This month marks the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the U.S. Civil War - a conflict that nearly tore the United States apart. Eleven southern states seceded from the Union and formed the Confederate States of America, vowing to maintain their

VOA双语新闻：美国政府债务面临严峻考验

The political wrangling in Washington about federal budgets is likely to get more intense as the stakes rise from billions of dollars to trillions. Some of the focus is changing from a squabble over government spending for one year, to a bigger battl

VOA双语新闻：老挝与邻国在湄公河水坝争议中互不相让

Countries along the Mekong River have disagreed with Laos on its proposal to build the first hydropower dam on the main stream of the lower river. Laos says the dam will cause no serious problems, while its neighbors say more information is needed ab

VOA双语新闻：美国内战遗留问题及非洲裔美国人

The U.S. Civil War began 150 years ago this week and became the deadliest conflict in U.S. history. More than a century later, people are debating the reasons for the war, slavery versus states' rights. Some historians and civil rights leaders sugges

VOA双语新闻：老年痴呆症症状出现之前的先兆

Memory loss and mental confusion are the first overt signs of Alzheimer's Disease, an incurable and fatal brain ailment. 记忆力丧失和心智混乱，是老年痴呆症最先出现的症状。这是一种无药可治的脑部致命疾病。 But s

VOA双语新闻：日本地震影响对美进出口

Japan is the United States' fourth-largest trading partner, and trade had increased the first two months of this year -- before the earthquake and tsunami. Now the two busiest container ports in the United States are seeing the effects of the disaste

VOA双语新闻：世行和国际货币基金召开春季年会

The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank stressed the need for continued cooperation among world economies, saying the global financial system remains vulnerable to further shocks. The warning comes as the world lending institutions prepare

VOA双语新闻：关注利比亚地雷问题

As the fighting rages in Libya, human rights groups are looking to a longer term consequence of the war - the use of landmines. The hazards of mortar fire and rocket attacks are bad enough, but Libyans must now face the renewed problem of anti-person

VOA双语新闻：记者亲历：班加西市民宁静而紧张的生活

The fighting in Libya has devastated coastal cities in the central part of the country, but life in parts of the rebel-controlled east has settled into some measure of uneasy calm. 利比亚的战火给中部沿海城市造成重创，不过，在反政

VOA双语新闻：切尔诺贝利撤离人员回访旧居

In Ukraine they call them Chernobylites. People affected by the accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in then-Soviet Ukraine. Residents evacuated after the April 26, 1986 disaster lost their homes as well as their health. And the workers sent

VOA双语新闻：一帮一：美国辅导帮助组织

Mentoring is a time-honored relationship, in which someone with more experience helps another with less, for purposes of growth, knowledge and support. Thats the idea behind Mentoring USA, a New York based non-profit organization that matches childre

VOA双语新闻：美国掠影：大号套餐的诱惑

First Lady Michelle Obama has been making the talk-show rounds, plugging an exercise program called Lets Move. Designed to get Americas young people in motion, it is one of a number of efforts to attack the nations obesity epidemic. 美国第一夫人米

VOA双语新闻：美国拉美裔人口显著增长

Recently released data from the 2010 U.S. census shows significant growth in the nation's Hispanic population. And nowhere has that growth been more dramatic than in the southwestern state of Texas, the state with the biggest overall population incre

VOA双语新闻：利比亚叛军声称夺回重要油港布雷加

Libyan rebels are claiming to have captured the strategic oil port town of Brega Saturday as fighting continues against forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi. Popular protests are also continuing across the region, especially in Yemen and Syr

VOA双语新闻：美活动人士绝食抗议政府削减预算

Leading anti-hunger advocates are fasting to protest U.S. budget-cutting proposals that could threaten some of the world's most vulnerable people. 一些主要的反饥锇活动人士最近绝食，抗议美国政府削减预算的建议。他们认为

VOA双语新闻：美国穆斯林继续是主要歧视对象

The Obama administration says Muslim-Americans continue to be prime targets for hate, abuse and discrimination, a situation that requires proactive efforts by authorities to combat. Safeguarding the rights of Muslims in the United States was the focu

VOA双语新闻：美国人物：传承印第安文化的斯内夫

For decades, films and television shows almost always portrayed American Indians as stereotypes. The stories were written and produced by white Americans. In 1977, Native American Public Telecommunications (NAPT) was founded to bring audiences native

VOA双语新闻：美国黑人与白人仍存在巨大差距

A new report by the National Urban League, a leading U.S. civil rights organization, says African-Americans still lag far behind whites when it comes to finding jobs, getting adequate healthcare and being enrolled in college. The annual study, which