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Driving While Black, a documentary by Ric Burns, chronicles the discrimination and violence African-Americans have often encountered while driving. 里克·伯恩斯执导的纪录片《黑人驾驶》记录了非裔美国人在驾车时经常遭遇的歧视和暴力。 In order to understand what's happening today, I felt strongly, we felt strongly that you had to go all the way back to slavery because that's the point where freedom is...

They could be the hottest accessory of an even hotter summer. As temperature records were smashed across Europe and other parts of the world, portable electric fans could be seen in the hands of millions of people. Estimates claim that up to 8 million of these devices were sold in the UK alone. The breeze that they provide will have been welcome to many, but could there be a downside to this popul...

Israelis have mourned a family that was a symbol of the trauma their country suffered in the Hamas-led October 7, 2023 terror attack. 以色列人哀悼了一个家庭，这个家庭是他们的国家在2023年10月7日哈马斯领导的恐怖袭击中遭受创伤的象征。 Reuters correspondent Zachary Goelman reports. Israelis on Wednesday mourned three members of the Bibas family. 路透社记者Zachary Goelman报道。以色列人周三哀悼了Bibas家...

Top officials from the U.S. and several other member states skipped a group of 20 major economies' finance ministers meeting in South Africa this week, raising questions about the group's continued relevance. 美国和其他几个成员国的高级官员缺席了本周在南非举行的二十国集团财长会议，人们开始质疑该集团是否继续具有重要意义。 Kate Bartlett reports from Johannesburg. The two-day meeting in Cape Town ende...

The future of the cease-fire between Israel and Hamas is in doubt after Israel stopped all aid from entering the Gaza Strip. Linda Gradstein reports from Jerusalem. 在以色列阻止所有援助进入加沙地带后，以色列和哈马斯之间的停火前景令人怀疑。琳达·格拉德斯坦（Linda Gradstein）在耶路撒冷报道。 Israel's announcement that it is blocking humanitarian aid from entering Gaza through its checkpoints has caus...

At one time polio paralyzed hundreds of thousands of children every year. 曾经，小儿麻痹症每年都会使数十万儿童瘫痪。 In Africa alone, it afflicted 75,000 children annually. That's no longer the case. 仅在非洲，每年就有7.5万名儿童受此折磨。现在情况已经不一样了。 We have just achieved a major milestone in global polio eradication, with the certification of the African region as well polio virus free...

This ad posted to Youtube was part of an unprecedented 200-million-dollar initiative in California by Lyft, Uber and other firms to convince voters that workers who use their apps to find work should be classified as independent contractors, overturning 2019 state legislation that defined them as employees. 发布到油管上的这则广告是来福车、优步等公司在加利福尼亚州发起的一项史无前例的2亿美元倡议活动...

The sea off the coast of East Greenland used to be covered in ice year-round. Now, as it warms and melts completely in the summer, the waters have opened up to new visitors – some of the world's largest whales and the fish that they feed on. 东格陵兰沿岸海域过去全年都被海冰覆盖。现在，随着海水变暖，海冰会在夏季完全融化，这片水域也因此迎来新的 “访客”，包括世界上一些体型最大的鲸类及其捕食的鱼类。 Th...

Do you know anyone who is more confident in their own abilities than their actual performance suggests they should be? Perhaps they think they are an incredible singer, but they're actually tone-deaf . Most people believe that they are more intelligent and skilful than the average person, according to a 2020 meta-analysis by Zell and colleagues. Obviously, this cannot be the case. Overconfidence h...

Reuters correspondent Zachary Goelman reports. Pursuing what he has called a, quote "America First" agenda, Trump ordered a 90-day pause on all foreign aid in his first day back in office. 路透社记者扎卡里·戈尔曼（Zachary Goelman）报道。特朗普在上任第一天就下令暂停所有外国援助90天，以推行他所谓的“美国优先”议程。 That order and ensuing stop-work orders halting U.S. Agency for International Developm...

A senior Trump administration official said Thursday that Ukraine was given a fair warning by the White House before U.S. President Donald Trump this week ordered a pause on American military assistance and intelligence sharing with Kyiv. 特朗普政府一名高级官员周四表示，在美国总统唐纳德·特朗普本周下令暂停美国与基辅的军事援助和情报共享之前，白宫已经向乌克兰发出了警告。 AP correspondent Sagar Meghan...

Ryan Coogler's 2018 superhero film Black Panther about a powerful African kingdom and its king was one of the highest grossing films of all time raking in 1.3 billion dollars internationally. 瑞恩·库格勒2018年执导的超级英雄电影《黑豹》，讲述了一个强大的非洲王国及其国王的故事，是史上票房最高的电影之一，全球票房收入达13亿美元。 The mega blockbuster with a predominantly black cast has prompted Hollyw...

In the very heart of Manhattan, in the formerly hectic Times Square, New York city gave the best spot in town to plastic. 在曼哈顿的正中心，在昔日熙熙攘攘的时代广场，纽约市将城中最优越的位置让给了塑料。 There's tens of thousands of disposable plastic items in the grocery store that I spent a couple years collecting from various trash cans around New York city. 杂货店有成千上万件一次性塑料制品，这...

Beloved by generations of visitors and steeped in history, Margam Park was already known to have an Iron Age hill fort, the remains of a Norman abbey and a Victorian castle, which looks out today over Port Talbot steelworks. Now, though, it can add a Roman villa to that list. 马格姆公园深受几代访客喜爱，且历史底蕴深厚。这里原本就因拥有一座铁器时代的山丘堡垒、一处诺曼时期修道院遗址，以及一座俯瞰塔...

Rollercoasters have been making stomachs flip for centuries. The earliest versions appeared in 17th-century Russia, where brave riders slid down giant ice-covered ramps. Modern steel rollercoasters transformed theme parks into thrill-seeking playgrounds. Today, they're bigger, faster and taller than ever. Millions of people queue for hours just to experience a few minutes of screaming, laughing an...

In 2014, California's King Fire blackened 400 square kilometers of forest, massive erosion followed. 2014年，加州国王大火烧毁了400平方公里的森林， 随后发生了大规模的水土流失。 One of Placer County's two reservoirs filled with sediment and had to be dredged, says county water chief Andy Fecko. 普莱瑟县主管安迪·费科表示，该县两座水库中有一座因泥沙淤积而不得不进行疏浚。 Every time we do that, it's a...

It's what they do when they don't want something to happen, filibuster, an effort to prevent a vote in the USSenateby extending debate. 这就是他们不想让某事发生时会采取的手段——冗长辩论，这是一种通过延长辩论来阻止美国参议院投票表决的做法。 TheSenateprides itself on being a deliberative body where debate is vital to decision making. 参议院以自己是一个审议机构而自豪，在那里辩论对决策至关重要。 Senate...

A moment that is filled with both happiness and worry for future parents. 对准父母来说，这是一个既充满幸福又夹杂着担忧的时刻。 It's like we're having a baby. Social networks are filled with such videos. 我们要迎来一个新生命了。社交网络中充斥着这样的视频。 However, it's pretty hard to find stories from the other end of the spectrum: families talking about miscarriages. 然而，要找到另一个极端的故事...

Researchers from universities in Edinburgh and Mexico spent seven years studying the behaviour of black-handed spider monkeys in the Yucatan Peninsula. They observed that the large groups the primates live in split into smaller subgroups when searching for food. Different combinations of monkeys would split off each time, meaning the same subgroup might never forage together twice. 来自爱丁堡和墨...

Less than a centimetre in size, these tiny snails had been pushed to thebrinkof extinction. 这些体长不足一厘米的小型蜗牛一度濒临灭绝。 Their home on the Madeira Archipelago had been grazed bare by invasive goats and rabbits, while mice saw the molluscs as a water source. 它们在马德拉群岛上的栖息地被入侵的山羊和兔子啃食殆尽，而老鼠则将这些软体动物当作水分的来源。 But after conservation work, includ...

We have four seasons in the UK. I like to think that spring gets its name from the flowers springing up to bloom. Next is my personal favourite – summer. I love the long, balmy evenings. Autumn, as some call fall, comes after. It's characterised by the orange and red leaves. Winter rolls around, and most of the vegetation is either decomposing or already dead, and the days are short and gloomy. 英...

Doctors said Pope Francis is no longer in imminent danger of death as a result of pneumonia, but have decided to keep him hospitalized for several more days to receive treatment. 医生表示，教皇方济各不再因肺炎而面临死亡危险，但决定让他住院几天接受治疗。 Francis on Monday followed the Vatican's week-long spiritual retreat via video conference. AP correspondent Charles De Ledesma reports. 周一，方济...

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亚历克西斯·斯特罗普（Alexis Strope），为您带来全球新闻。 Israel says it will send a delegation to Qatar on Monday in an effort to advance the negotiations around the cease-fire in Gaza. 以色列表示，将于周一派遣代表团前往卡塔尔，推动加沙停火谈判。 Hamas reports positive signals in talks with Egyptian and Qatari...

The International Criminal Court said former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte was taken into custody by the ICC on Wednesday following his arrest in Manila on murder charges linked to his war on drugs. 国际刑事法院表示，菲律宾前总统罗德里戈·杜特尔特周三在马尼拉因与禁毒战争有关的谋杀指控被捕，随后被国际刑事法院拘留。 Reuters correspondent Olivia Zollino reports. The 79-year-old arrived at Rotte...

The Glover Park Community Garden Association started around 1939 and then it slowly grew to become a victory garden in 1942 when the US was at war. 格洛弗公园社区花园协会大约在1939年成立，随后在1942年美国二战时期，它逐渐发展成为一个“胜利花园”。 It became essential for the folks that lived in the area here to grow their own vegetables as they were not able to purchase these things in the grocery st...