VOA — LOS ANGELES – On the day U.S. President Joe Biden took office, he began dismantling former President Donald Trump’s policies at the southern U.S.-Mexico border. Biden rescinded Trump’s declaration... Read more »
VOA — Peering out into the void of online learning, both teachers and students often face a virtual classroom of black squares and static photos of classmates. Two Cornell University instructors... Read more »
If regulators give the go-ahead as expected in the next few days, there will be three vaccines available in the United States to prevent COVID-19. A fourth is in widespread use in... Read more »
2021 marks the hundredth year of the administration of the first dose of the BCG vaccine. The vaccine, which was invented by Albert Calmette and Camille Guérin at the Institut Pasteur de... Read more »
WASHINGTON – Sometime before dawn on May 27, 1637, English militia from Massachusetts and Connecticut, backed by several hundred Narragansett and Mohegan allies, launched a surprise attack on the fortified Pequot village... Read more »
VOA — WASHINGTON – The congressional joint session to count electoral votes is generally a routine, ceremonial affair. But President Donald Trump’s repeated efforts to challenge Democrat Joe Biden’s victory will bring... Read more »
BBC — The year 2020 has been like no other. The coronavirus infected more than 67 million people, impacted 80% of jobs, and placed billions in lockdown. Read more »
VOA — On the penultimate day of 2019, health authorities in Wuhan, China, issued an urgent notice. Hospitals in the city had seen several patients with a “pneumonia of unknown cause.” Medical... Read more »
BBC — If we were to create a time capsule of objects that captured life in 2020, what might we choose? Read more »
Over the past 232 years, most U.S. presidents have been white, male, and Protestant. Here is a look at how President-elect Joe Biden, who takes office January 20, would stack up to... Read more »