VOA — PORTLAND, ORE. — Oregon’s first-in-the-nation law that decriminalized the possession of small amounts of heroin, cocaine and other illicit drugs in favor of an emphasis on addiction treatment is facing... Read more »
VOA — Advertisers are fleeing social media platform X over concerns about their ads showing up next to pro-Nazi content and hate speech on the site in general, with billionaire owner Elon... Read more »
VOA — NEW YORK — The U.S. flu season is under way, with at least seven states reporting high levels of illnesses and cases rising in other parts of the country, health... Read more »
VOA — BAGHDAD — Iraq’s Kataeb Hezbollah (KH) militia, a powerful armed faction with close ties to Iran, brushed off U.S. sanctions on the group over attacks against U.S. forces in Iraq... Read more »
VOA — WASHINGTON — The United States on Friday imposed sanctions on six people affiliated with the Iranian-backed Iraqi militia Kataeb Hezbollah, which is accused of being behind a spate of recent... Read more »
VOA — PENTAGON — Iranian-backed proxies have attacked U.S. forces in Iraq and Syria at least 150 times since President Joe Biden took office, two U.S. defense officials tell VOA. More than... Read more »
VOA — Advances in childhood cancer are a success story in modern medicine. But in the past decade, those strides have stalled for Black and Hispanic youth, opening a gap in death... Read more »
VOA — Iranian law enforcement on Wednesday freed Nasrin Sotoudeh, an internationally recognized human rights lawyer who was imprisoned for more than two weeks, her husband said. Sotoudeh, 60, was arrested October... Read more »
VOA — VIENNA, AUSTRIA — The United Nations’ nuclear watchdog said Wednesday that Iran’s decision to withdraw the accreditation of several inspectors was “extreme and unjustified” and “directly and seriously affected” the... Read more »
VOA — PENTAGON — The Army has canceled the courts-martial convictions of 110 Black soldiers tried in connection with the World War I-era Houston riot and has recharacterized their military service as... Read more »