VOA — WASHINGTON – U.S. hate crime incidents increased 2.7% last year, rising to their highest level in more than a decade, the FBI says in a new report. There were 7,314... Read more »

BBC — Four astronauts - three from the US and one from Japan - have launched from Florida on a mission to the International Space Station (ISS). Read more »

VOA — WASHINGTON – Al-Qaida’s second-in-command, accused of helping to mastermind the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa, was killed in Iran in August by Israeli operatives acting at the... Read more »

VOA — Iran risks being suspended from international chess tournaments beginning next month unless it publicly approves of Iranian players facing competitors from Tehran’s regional foe, Israel, according to a senior member... Read more »

VOA — Election security officials have no evidence that ballots were deleted or lost by voting systems in this month’s U.S. election, two security groups said in a statement released Thursday by... Read more »

VOA — VIENNA – Iran continues to increase its stockpile of low-enriched uranium far beyond the limits set in a landmark nuclear deal with world powers and to enrich it to a... Read more »

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 »

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 »

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 »