VOA双语新闻：美国越来越多的人有偿照顾自家老人

Millions of Americans are looking after an older family member. A survey a few years ago put the value of family care-giving at $375 billion a year. And while care-giving has traditionally been something family members do for their elders, a growing

VOA双语新闻：动荡后的巴林经济前景不明

Fragile stability appears to be returning to Bahrain following anti-government protests that recently brought the Persian Gulf kingdom to a standstill. However, analysts say economic uncertainty is likely to linger on. 近期发生的反政府抗议活

VOA双语新闻：美国采取措施加强食品安全

More steps are being taken to improve U.S. food safety. The Agriculture Department unveiled new regulations April 5 that would force meat and poultry companies to delay shipments to consumers until government inspectors get results of products they h

VOA双语新闻：日本数千民众上街抗议核电站

Thousands of Japanese took to the streets of Tokyo to protest the country's nuclear-power plants. The rally occured as engineers continue to work on bringing the Fukushima Daiichi plant under control, after it was smashed by last month's earthquake a

VOA双语新闻：虚构人物神探陈查理及其原型

The fictional Chinese-American detective Charlie Chan was the subject of popular books and movies for many decades. In recent years, however, the character has been criticized as a stereotyped caricature of Asian-Americans. 几十年来，一位虚构的

VOA双语新闻：世行-IMF春季会议在华盛顿举行

Conflict, unsustainable government debt and the need for new ways to tackle global challenges in a post-crisis era are among the key issues as the World Bank and International Monetary Fund gear up for the groups' Spring meeting in Washington next we

VOA双语新闻：美国中央情报局在利比亚的工作

Published reports say CIA officers are at work inside Libya. But just what they are doing is not clear and, in keeping with practice, the CIA would not comment on the reports. The Obama administration has said it has not yet decided whether to arm th

VOA双语新闻：手工制作马鞍，巾帼不让须眉

Nancy Martiny has made it in a man's world. She started making western saddles as a hobby but there's now a three-year waiting list of people lined up to buy her designs. 南西马蒂尼开始制作马鞍时，只是为了兴趣。而现在，要买她

VOA双语新闻：美政府补贴玉米乙醇产业遭批评

Ninety organizations are calling for an end to the $6 billion-dollar-a-year subsidy that encourages the production of ethanol biofuel from maize in the United States. 批评者要求停止对玉米提炼乙醇产业每年60亿美元的鼓励性津贴。

VOA双语新闻：美国失物招领 阿肯色州寻宝行动

Each year in the United States, hundreds of millions of dollars worth of unclaimed property - especially stock certificates, jewelry left in safe-deposit boxes, and seemingly forgotten money in checking accounts - are turned over to state governments

VOA双语新闻：美批苏丹巴希尔有关阿卜耶伊言论

The United States on Thursday criticized an assertion by Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir that Khartoum will not recognize South Sudan as independent, if it claims the disputed Abyei region. South Sudan is set to become fully independent in July. 美国

VOA双语新闻：通货膨胀正对美国消费者造成严重打击

Inflation is hitting U.S. consumers hard. The last era of severe inflation was in the 1970s, when prices and wages spiraled upward. This time, while the official inflation rate is still relatively moderate, wages are stagnating and prices for essenti

VOA双语新闻：导致德州独立的圣哈辛托战役

One of the most consequential battles in North American history occurred 175 years ago on a field just east of current-day Houston, Texas. In the battle of San Jacinto, on April 21, 1836, a ragtag Texas rebel army of about 900 men defeated some 1,500

VOA双语新闻：美政府新计划解决滥用处方药问题

Government health officials say the abuse of prescribed medications causes more accidental deaths in the United States than anything else except automobile crashes, which kill more than 30,000 Americans every year. Representatives of five federal age

VOA双语新闻：美国富二代帮助埃及孤儿 球星助筹款

After growing up in a wealthy New York City suburb, Mira Riad, 32, could be leading a life of privileged leisure. Instead, the Egyptian-American attorney uses her good fortune to help the neediest Egyptians - orphans and street children. 米拉丽雅德

VOA双语新闻：奥巴马总统之妹写书介绍母亲

During his run for the presidency, Barack Obama often talked about his mother, Ann Dunham, and the lessons she taught him through her work with poor rural communities around the world. Dunham died of cancer in 1995, before any of her grandchildren we

VOA双语新闻：德州大学生建造廉价棚屋

A refugee camp built by students and volunteers spreads over Southern Methodist University's expanse of green lawns and live oaks. The affordable shelters are designed to be used by the poor as well as survivors of war and natural disasters. 从4月1

VOA双语新闻：美国会将讨论提高国债上限问题

Sometime during the next several weeks, the U.S. Congress will take up the issue of raising the nation's debt ceiling so that the United States can continue to borrow money to cover a national debt that will soon soar past $14 trillion. The debate ov