Violence Against Jews Rose Last Year in US, Germany

VOA — WASHINGTON – The number of violent attacks against Jews in the U.S. and Germany rose last year even while anti-Jewish violent incidents decreased elsewhere around the world amid the coronavirus... Read more »

US, Iran See Indirect Nuclear Talks as Constructive

VOA — U.S. and Iranian officials are calling talks in Vienna productive as the two sides and the other signatories of a 2015 agreement on Iran’s nuclear program work to revive the... Read more »

US Senate Democrats Seek Change in Trump Tax Reforms to Create US Jobs

VOA — Top Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee on Monday proposed major shifts in former President Donald Trump’s 2017 tax reforms to eliminate what they say are incentives for companies to... Read more »

Efforts continue to get US back to Iran nuclear negotiating table

RFI — Efforts to bring the United States back into the 2015 deal on Iran’s nuclear programme stepped up a gear on Tuesday after Iran and the five world powers remaining in... Read more »

Biden Looks to Raise US Corporate Taxes, with Dozens of Companies Now Paying Nothing

VOA — WASHINGTON – U.S. President Joe Biden is looking to raise corporate income tax rates to help pay for his proposed $2.3 trillion infrastructure spending plan, but dozens of the country’s... Read more »

US Expects ‘Difficult’ Iran Talks, Sees No Quick Breakthrough

VOA — The United States expects indirect talks with Iran that begin Tuesday about both sides resuming compliance with the 2015 Iran nuclear deal to be difficult and does not foresee any... Read more »

Vitamin D: The truth about an alleged Covid ‘cover-up’

BBC — As Covid-19 swept the world, so did misinformation about how to treat it. But sometimes misinformation can develop even around ideas that have some truth to them – and that... Read more »

US Puts J&J In Charge of Plant that Botched COVID Vaccine, Removes AstraZeneca

VOA — The United States has put Johnson and Johnson in charge of a plant that ruined 15 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine and has stopped British drugmaker AstraZeneca Plc from... Read more »

Iranians at Home, in Diaspora See Growing Need for Referendum but Disagree on Details

VOA — WASHINGTON – As Iran marks the 42nd anniversary of a referendum that helped to solidify its 1979 Islamic Revolution, there is growing talk inside and outside the country of a... Read more »

Iraq Judge Who Presided Over Saddam’s Trial Dies of COVID-19

VOA — BAGHDAD – A retired Iraqi judge who presided over the trial of Iraq’s late dictator Saddam Hussein has died after battling COVID-19, the country’s top judicial body said Friday. According... Read more »