BBC — President-elect Joe Biden will nominate a Native American to serve as his interior secretary, leading the agency governing public lands, US media say. If confirmed, Congresswoman Deb Haaland will be... Read more »

BBC — Working in Paris and India at the turn of the last century, Waldemar Mordecai Haffkine created the world's first vaccines for cholera and plague. Then an accidental mass poisoning derailed... Read more »

VOA — WILMINGTON, DELAWARE – On the day she was introduced by President-elect Joe Biden as his nominee to be the United States trade representative, Katherine Tai recalled the time she and... Read more »

BBC — He was a psychological profiler for the CIA, examining the minds of world leaders such as Saddam Hussein and Kim Jong-il. But in his later years turned his attention closer... Read more »

VOA — WASHINGTON – U.S. legal permanent residents on the path to naturalization will now be required to take a longer and more complex citizenship test.  The new civics test is drawn from 128... Read more »

VOA — The Pilgrims celebrated their first successful harvest in the fall of 1621 by firing guns and cannons in Plymouth, Massachusetts. The noise alarmed ancestors of the contemporary Wampanoag Nation who... Read more »

VOA — Through the mid-19th century and early 20th centuries, women from all backgrounds in the United States pushed for social reforms that affected their lives. Read more »

VOA — WASHINGTON – One year after Iranians began anti -government protests that drew the deadliest crackdown by security forces in decades, families of some slain protesters have lost hope for justice... Read more »

Tehran seems to think that the departure of its archenemy, Donald Trump, could give it more diplomatic scope for its regional ambitions. But this could prove to be very much mistaken. Read more »