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Today, on the DailyCast: our final episode.  It’s Friday, and you’re listening to the DailyCast from ESLnewscast.com. I’m Cory Renzella, and thank you for listening. “All good things must come to an end.” That’s a famous quote from hundreds of years ago, and it just means that eventually, everything ends, including all good things. For […]

Travelers take planes, trains, and automobiles every day. But one man hopes that sometime in the future, they’ll also be taking something called the Hyperloop. I’ll explain what the Hyperloop is and tell you about the man behind it on today’s DailyCast.  Happy Thursday! You’re listening to the DailyCast from ESLnewscast.com. I’m Cory Renzella, and […]

What do cotton, apples, limes, tomatoes, carrots, nuts, alfalfa, and many other fruits and vegetables have in common? They all rely on, or depend on, honeybees. But right now, something’s happening to honeybees. It’s not good, and it could change the foods that we eat and the way that we live. Today, on the DailyCast: […]

Last week in London, history was made with a hamburger. I’ll explain what happened on today’s DailyCast.  It’s Tuesday, and you’re listening to ESLnewscast.com’s DailyCast. I’m Cory Renzella, and thank you for listening today. One of the world’s worst problems is the food situation. Of the 7 billion people living on earth, about 1.4 billion […]

Today, on the DailyCast: e-cigarettes and the future of smoking.  Happy Monday! Thank you for listening to the DailyCast from ESLnewscast.com. I’m Cory Renzella, and I hope your day is going well. Back in the early 1900s, when smoking cigarettes became really popular, people didn’t know how harmful smoking was. Now, we do know. Smoking […]

At the beginning of April, I told you about a website called Coursera.com. It offers free online classes from some of the best universities in the world. Since that story, Coursera has grown a lot. Over four million people – including me – have used Coursera, and it now offers classes in multiple languages. If […]

Sometimes, it seems as though almost everything in the news is negative. There are so many depressing, or sad, stories on the fronts of newspapers and websites. And some of our stories from this week haven’t been very pleasant, or nice, either. They’ve included stories about terrorism; the problems of Italy’s former leader, Silvio Berlusconi; […]

Next month is the 12-year anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States. A lot has changed since that day, but one thing has remained the same: terrorists are still a threat to the United States.  It’s Thursday, and you’re listening to the DailyCast from ESLnewscast.com. I’m Cory Renzella, and thank […]

Today, on the DailyCast: the strange story of Italy’s Silvio Berlusconi.  It’s Wednesday, and this is the DailyCast from ESLnewscast.com. I’m Cory Renzella, and thank you for listening today. Silvio Berlusconi is one of the richest and most powerful people in Italy. He owns multiple television channels and for parts of the past two decades, […]

Imagine this: you’re locked up in a jail cell, and the guard tells you that he’ll be right back. But he never returns. That might sound like a nightmare, but it actually happened to one man. And I’ll tell you his story after this.  It’s Tuesday, and you’re listening to ESLnewscast.com’s DailyCast. I’m Cory Renzella, […]

Of all the problems in world politics, one of the most difficult ones to solve is how to make peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians. Well now, for the first time in three years, leaders from both sides have finally begun talking to each other. And the hope is that their words will finally […]

This weekend, let’s listen to the music of summer. It’s The Weekend at ESLnewscast.com, and I’m Cory Renzella. I hope your weekend is going well and you’re finding time to relax and enjoy the summer. Today’s August 3, so we’re right in the middle of summer – at least in most parts of the world. […]

It’s Friday, and that means it’s the Week in Review.  The workweek is almost over, and the weekend is almost here. But first, we have to finish Friday. And I hope your Friday is going well. I’m Cory Renzella, and thank you for listening to ESLnewscast.com’s DailyCast. Later on, I’ll preview the Month in Review […]

In 2010, the world learned about a group called “WikiLeaks”. It made public many of the US government’s secrets, and the man who gave those secrets to WikiLeaks is in the news this week. His name is Bradley Manning, and I’ll tell you his story on today’s DailyCast.  It’s Thursday, and this is ESLnewscast.com’s DailyCast. […]

Japan held important elections last week. And the results strengthened, or made stronger, the country’s prime minister, Shinzo Abe. Now, Abe has a lot of power, and he wants to use that power to change Japan.  We’re halfway through the workweek! It’s Wednesday, and you’re listening to the DailyCast from ESLnewscast.com. I’m Cory Renzella, and […]