VOA — Ambulances in Kansas speed toward hospitals then suddenly change direction because hospitals are full. Employee shortages in New York City cause delays in trash and subway services and diminish the... Read more »
VOA — The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday heard oral arguments on two of President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine policies, during which it appeared skeptical about the administration’s legal authority to impose... Read more »
VOA — SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA — U.S. military bases in Japan tightened coronavirus prevention measures Thursday, after an explosion of infections in Okinawa, a southern prefecture that hosts dozens of U.S. military... Read more »
VOA — Nearly two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, six former health advisers for U.S. President Joe Biden are urging a different approach to fighting it. Writing Thursday in The Journal of the... Read more »
VOA — MEXICO CITY — The United States on Wednesday began returning migrants to the Mexican city of Tijuana in a restart of a Trump-era program that forces asylum-seekers to wait for... Read more »
DW — The US saw a record-high increase in the number of daily COVID-19 cases as the heavily mutated omicron variant spread at a dizzying pace. President Biden called the current wave... Read more »
VOA — AN FRANCISCO — China’s economy will increasingly rely on state investment, high-tech development and domestic consumption – with less input from its past staple of export manufacturing – as it... Read more »
VOA — A winter storm has brought snow and fierce winds to the U.S mid-Atlantic states and parts of the South, leading to power outages for hundreds of thousands of people and... Read more »
VOA — Negotiations resume Monday in Vienna about restoring the 2015 international agreement that limited Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief, after the parties took a break for the new... Read more »
VOA — TEHRAN — Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said they killed six “armed bandits” in a shootout in the country’s southeast that also left three members of a Guards-linked paramilitary force dead. The... Read more »