BBC — Florida is fast becoming America’s latest Covid-19 epicentre. The surge in the Sunshine State has been linked in part to younger Americans – but that doesn’t mean there’s no cause... Read more »

VOA — A retired Iranian British engineer detained in Iran since 2017 on spying charges that he denies has decided to speak up for the first time about alleged human rights abuses... Read more »

Native Americans are expressing outrage over President Donald Trump’s planned fireworks display Friday at Mount Rushmore in South Dakota ... Read more »

DW — US plaintiffs are pursuing the German giant over claims its glyphosate-based weedkillers cause cancer. Talks have been ongoing for more than a year. German chemical and pharmaceutical giant Bayer announced... Read more »

DW — Blacks make up a much greater proportion of the US prison population than whites. This is down to more than a century of systemic legal injustices — racist policing practices... Read more »

VOA — A decades-old Pentagon program that donates surplus military-grade weapons and vehicles to local police departments is drawing fresh scrutiny amid the weeks-long protests over the death of African American George... Read more »

VOA — WASHINGTON – As the U.S. and Iran welcome the latest freeing of each other’s citizens and call for more such releases, the next deal between the longtime foes could be... Read more »

VOA — NASA and the Kennedy Space Center in Florida have welcomed the two astronauts who, next Wednesday, are scheduled to head to space, becoming the first humans to do so from... Read more »

Iran has sentenced French-Iranian academic Fariba Adelkhah to six years in prison on national security and propaganda charges, her lawyer told AFP on Saturday.   Fariba Adelkhah was “sentenced to five years for... Read more »