US Supreme Court Appears Ready to Uphold Health Care Law

VOA — WASHINGTON – A majority of the U.S. Supreme Court signaled Tuesday it is likely to rebuff a Republican effort to strike down the country’s Affordable Care Act health care law... Read more »

Source: Iranian Kurdish Activist Married Couple Defy Summons for Trial Based on Forced Confessions

VOA — WASHINGTON – An Iranian Kurdish husband and wife involved in local activism in western Iran have defied a court summons to face trial for alleged national security offenses for which... Read more »

Iran takes cautious line on Biden’s incoming White House team

RFI — Sworn enemies for over 40 years, Iran and the United States have been in periodic hostile stand-offs since June 2019, with tensions high over the international nuclear agreement reached in... Read more »

Pfizer Says COVID-19 Vaccine 90% Effective in Trials

Pharmaceutical company Pfizer says late-stage testing on its potential COVID-19 vaccine indicates it is more than 90% effective, exceeding expectations and bringing a rare piece of positive news to the fight against the... Read more »

From Refugee to Representative, US Candidates Celebrate Election Victories

VOA — WASHINGTON/MINNESOTA – Oballa Oballa’s trek to Election Day was a long and improbable one. He grew up in the Gambella region of Ethiopia, where he witnessed mass killings that took... Read more »

What It Means to Become President-Elect in the US

VOA — WASHINGTON – In the United States, Democrat Joe Biden is now being called the president-elect. That means Biden, a fixture on the Washington political scene for nearly a half century,... Read more »

US election result: What Biden’s victory means for rest of world

BBC — BBC reporters across the globe, from Beijing to Berlin, explain how news of Mr Biden's victory is being received and what it could mean for key US relationships. Read more »

Biden Pledges to Unify, Not Divide US in Address to Nation

VOA — WASHINGTON - Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, the projected winner of the U.S. presidency, pledged to be “a president who seeks not to divide, but unify” the country during... Read more »

Joe Biden defeats Donald Trump to claim the White House

RFI — Democrat Joe Biden has been elected the 46th President of the United States after clinching the decisive state of Pennsylvania on Saturday – but incumbent Donald Trump is showing no... Read more »

US Cuts Refugee Admissions, Creating Doubt for Tens of Thousands of Applicants

VOA — The United States will admit a maximum of 15,000 refugees for fiscal 2021, an all-time low, according to a notice the Trump administration published Friday in the Federal Register. The... Read more »