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USAID workers abroad are scrambling to pack up households after the Trump administration abruptly pulled almost all agency staffers off the job and out of the field. AP correspondent Donna Warder reports. 特朗普政府突然将几乎所有美国国际开发署工作人员从工作岗位上撤离后，海外工作人员正忙着收拾家当。美联社记者唐娜·沃德（Donna Warder）报道。 One USAID contractor working in an often violent region in...

Some South African organizations that assist people with HIV are in limbo after the United States put a 90-day freeze on most foreign aid. 在美国对大部分外援实施为期90天的冻结后，一些帮助艾滋病毒感染者的南非组织陷入了困境。 U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said he wants to bring the agency's activities in line with the new government's "America First" agenda. Kate Bartlett reports from Joha...

Hi, I'm VOA's Alexis Strope with your worldwide news update. 大家好，我是美国之音新闻记者Alexis Strope，为您带来全球新闻更新。 President Donald Trump has signed an executive order formalizing his announcement earlier this week that he'll freeze assistance to South Africa for a law aiming to address some of the wrongs of South Africa's racist apartheid era. 本周早些时候，唐纳德·特朗普总统签署了一项...

When news spread late last year that the Fermilab National AcceleratorLaboratoryin suburban Chicago was part of a project achieving quantum teleportation, it conjured up scenes from the classic science fiction franchise Star Trek in which the show's characters could beam from one location to another. 去年年底，当有消息传出芝加哥郊外的费米国家加速器实验室参与了一个实现量子隐形传态的项目时，这不禁让...

What if you could control your car, turn on your oven, or sign your name by touching an invisible screen? 要是你能通过触摸一块看不见的屏幕操控汽车、打开烤箱、或是签名，会怎么样？ Ultraleap, a British and California firm, uses ultrasound waves to create the sensation of touch mid-air. A camera tracks hand motions. 英国与美国加州合资的公司Ultraleap利用超声波在空中制造触感。摄像头追踪手部动作。 You c...

January 28th, 1986, before a television audience, seven passengers aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger took flight from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. 1986年1月28日，在电视观众面前，挑战者号航天飞机上的七名乘客从佛罗里达州的肯尼迪航天中心起飞。 Among them was Christa McAuliffe, who was selected in a nationwide search for a teacher to be NASA's first citizen passenger in space. 其中一位是克里...

Scientists say the developing El Niño is already the strongest ever recorded, with sea temperatures in a key region of the Pacific more than three degrees above average, and this event is not expected to peak until later this year. 科学家表示，目前正在形成的厄尔尼诺现象已达到有记录以来最强水平，太平洋一个关键海域的海水温度比平均水平高出三度以上，而此次厄尔尼诺预计要到今年晚些时候才会达到峰值。 El...

The Sun has set, and you're headed to a train station in Stockholm with your overnight bag. You board the sleeper train, change into your comfortable clothes, enjoy the scenery through the window for a while before laying your head down to rest. Snoring from the other passengers in your shared cabin delays your bedtime, but the gentle motion and white noise eventually send you to sleep. The next m...

Protesters continue to gather outside the U.S. Agency for International Development on Monday after Elon Musk and President Trump made moves to dismantle the agency charged with delivering humanitarian assistance overseas. 周一，在埃隆·马斯克和特朗普总统采取行动解散负责向海外提供人道主义援助的美国国际开发署后，抗议者继续聚集在美国国际开发署外。 AP correspondent Haya Panjwani reports. William Whela...

Trump's ultimatum to Hamas received a mixed reaction from Israelis for whom the release of the hostages remains top priority. VOA's Jeff Caster reports. 特朗普向哈马斯发出的最后通牒在以色列人中引起了褒贬不一的反应，以色列人认为释放人质仍然是当务之急。美国之音记者杰夫·卡斯特（Jeff Caster）报道。 Hamas's spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said Tuesday Trump needs to remember there is an agreement which must b...

Tulsi Gabbard, a former U.S. representative with little intelligence experience, was sworn on Wednesday as the top U.S. spy. Reuters correspondent Freddie Joyner reports. 美国前众议员图尔西·加巴德在情报方面经验不多，周三宣誓就任美国最高间谍。路透社记者弗雷迪·乔伊纳（Freddie Joyner）报道。 Gabbard now will oversee the 18-agency intelligence community, including the CIA, and act as President Donald...

For many people, social media is a normal part of everyday life. It's used to keep in touch, entertain and follow what's happening in the world. But numbers from DataReportal indicate that the average use of social media is around two hours 21 minutes a day. That's nearly 15 hours per week or about 32 days a year! The same report also mentions that people are using social media more passively. Thi...

French President Emmanuel Macron will host European leaders Monday for an emergency summit on the Ukraine war after U.S. officials suggested Europe would have no role in any talks on ending the conflict. 在美国官员暗示欧洲没份参与结束冲突的任何谈判后，法国总统埃马纽埃尔·马克龙将于周一召集欧洲领导人就乌克兰战争举行紧急峰会。 Reuters correspondent Emma Jehle reports. Leaders from Germany, Poland, It...

Israel's military says its forces will remain in five strategic locations in southern Lebanon after Tuesday's deadline for their withdrawal under a cease-fire with the Hezbollah militant group. 以色列军方表示，根据与真主党武装组织达成的停火协议，在周二的撤军期限之后，其军队将留在黎巴嫩南部的五个战略要地。 Lebanon's government has expressed frustration over another delay. A separate cease-fire in G...

Top U.S. and Russian officials met on Tuesday for landmark talks aimed in part at ending the Ukraine war. AP correspondent Sagar Meghani reports. 美俄高级官员周二举行了具有里程碑意义的会谈，旨在结束乌克兰战争。美联社记者萨加尔·梅加尼（Sagar Meghani）报道。 It was the most extensive contact since before Moscow's invasion nearly three years ago, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, his Russian count...

I first heard about Tulsa Remote, I felt like it was kismet. I was thinking about leaving the Bay area where I was living in San Francisco. 我第一次听说塔尔萨远程搬家计划时，觉得这简直是天意。我当时正考虑离开我居住的旧金山湾区。 And so, I was searching around for, you know, different locations like researching where, you know, what's the cost of living like? What is the quality of life like in dif...

When it comes to magic, there's no logical solution why did that coin vanish from your hand? Then, the next things is, do it again or do something else miraculous. 魔术是无法用逻辑来解释的，比如为什么那枚硬币会从你手里凭空消失？接下来要做的就是，要么再变一次，要么表演点别的神奇的魔术。 Is magic real or is magic an illusion? I'd like to show you what comes to mind just as an example. And we're just...

We were at the Union at the university. That's basically a place where people come and relax and you check your emails and your class schedules. 我们是在大学学生会认识的。 那基本上是个大家来放松的地方，还能查收邮件，查看课程表。 And I just happened to see this head of curly hair and I had to get closer to her. 我突然看到了一名卷发靓女，就想走近去看看。 And the closer I got, the better she looked....

People collect all sorts of things. I collect fridge magnets, so my fridge has slowly become a colourful map of everywhere I've been. I also have fond memories of collecting rocks and shells from the beach with my mum when we’d visit the coast in summer. It’s true that some people collect natural objects such as fossils and interesting stones, while others bring home souvenirs from their travels....

While mice with partly-human brains might sound a Kafkaesque experiment, the scientists say that these are not mice that think like humans, rather they're animals that are altered so that some of their brain tissue is human. 虽然拥有部分人类脑组织的小鼠听起来像是一场 “卡夫卡式” 的实验，但科学家表示，这些小鼠并不会像人类一样思考。更准确地说，它们只是经过改造的动物，其部分脑组织来源于人类。 The rese...

For 14 years, we do it every Friday around this time. We come out and we feed people, right? 14年来，我们每周五差不多这个时候都会做这件事。我们出来给人们分发食物，对吧？ We feed them first the spiritual word of God, we call it and then, we give them physical food. 我们先给他们“精神食粮”，然后再给他们提供物质食物。 We let them know that "Hey, you don't have to come to listen to the word of God in o...

The Oxford University team behind the study says any drink at or above 65C is "very hot" and poses a potential risk. Compared with people who drank "warm" beverages, those who consumed "very hot" ones had around a three times higher risk of squamouscell oesophageal cancer. 开展这项研究的牛津大学团队表示，任何温度达到或超过 65 摄氏度的饮品都 “非常烫”，可能带来潜在风险。与饮用 “温热” 饮品的人相比，...

Dolphins are what we call charismatic megafauna, which means that people view them as charismatic. 海豚被我们称作是魅力大型动物，因为它们真的很有魅力。 People get excited about some animals more than they get excited about others. 人们有时候更偏爱某一类动物。 But that's okay, because then we can use that to get them to conserve in general. 但没关系，因为我们可以利用人们的偏爱去保护更多动物。 So, i...

Ricochet was trained as a service dog but she was not placed because she likes to chase little animals, critters, squirrels. 跳跳曾被训练为服务犬，但她还没有正式上岗，因为她喜欢追逐小动物，例如小松鼠。 She would not make it as a service dog, but she also surfs. So, she surfs with people who have disabilities. So now I call her 'a surface dog'. 她无法成为服务犬，但她会冲浪。她会与残疾人士一同冲浪。...

Over two thirds of Brits agree that being able to laugh at yourself, or what we call 'self-deprecating humour', is a defining part of British culture, according to a recent survey by the charity Comic Relief. British comedian Sir Lenny Henry says it's not about putting yourself down, it's about bringing people together. After years of doing stand-up comedy, Lenny says that laughing at yourself is...