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EPA Website Restores Climate Change Data
Data missing from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s website is back and updated after a four-year absence under the Trump administration.The EPA’s new Climate Change Indicators we...
More Justice After Floyd Case?
Inspired by the verdict in the George Floyd murder case, relatives of other alleged police brutality victims in the U.S. want their cases reopened. It’s not so clear-cut. VOA’s Veronica Balderas I...
Climate Change Data Return to EPA Website
Data missing from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s website is back and updated after a four-year absence under the Trump administration.The EPA’s new Climate Change Indicators we...
CDC Says Vaccinated People Can Go Back to Normal Life
Health officials are recommending lifting most COVID-19 restrictions for people who are fully vaccinated.That means no more masks or social distancing, indoors or outdoors, according to updated guidan...
Homeland Security Chief Cites Progress at US-Mexico Border
The Biden administration is promising a comprehensive response to youth migration now that the immediate crisis of unaccompanied minors overwhelming U.S. Customs and Border Protection stations appears...
US Retains Its Support for Israel, but Fissures Emerge
For decades, a bedrock principle of United States foreign policy has been unwavering American political support for Israel. But as the latest clashes between Palestinian militants and Israeli forces u...
CDC: Fully Vaccinated People Can Largely Ditch Masks Indoors
In a move to send the country back toward pre-pandemic life, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday eased indoor mask-wearing guidance for fully vaccinated people, allowing th...
Judge Postpones Trial for 3 Ex-Cops Charged in George Floyd Death
The trial of three former Minneapolis police officers charged with aiding and abetting in the death of George Floyd will be pushed back to March 2022, a judge ruled Thursday. Thomas Lane, J. Kueng a...
Explainer: How COVID-19 Vaccines Will Work for Kids in US
Children ages 12 and older can now roll up their sleeves for COVID-19 vaccines in the U.S., offering parents and schools a chance to relax their pandemic precautions and bringing the country a step cl...
Chicago Demonstrators March in Opposition to Israel, Gaza Bombing
Hundreds of demonstrators marched through Chicago’s main business district Wednesday in opposition to Israel and demanding an end to Israeli attacks on Palestinians in the Gaza strip that have l...
New Homeland Security Unit to Focus on Domestic Violent Extremism
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced on Wednesday that his department has created a dedicated intelligence unit to focus on domestic violent extremism.The new branch will R...
Afghanistan Hearing Leaves More Questions than Answers
The U.S. military has completed about 10% of its pullout from Afghanistan. But defense officials left members of Congress with more questions than answers Wednesday, as the U.S. inches closer and clos...
Homeland Security Chief Vows Government-wide Response to Colonial Pipeline Cyberattack
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is leading a governmentwide response to the cyberattack that shuttered the largest fuel pipeline in the United States last week, sparking concerns ab...
US Sanctions Chinese Official for Persecuting Falun Gong
Secretary of State Antony Blinken released the State Department’s annual international religious freedom report, singling out Iran, Myanmar, Russia, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia and China as some of th...
Hearing on Jan. 6 US Capitol Violence Exposes Stark Partisan Divisions
Republicans sought to shift the narrative on the violent Jan. 6 insurrection during a congressional hearing Wednesday, with some painting the Trump supporters who stormed the building as patriots who ...
Calls Grow at UN for China to Admit Rights Chief to Xinjiang
Western nations and human rights groups Wednesday called on China to allow the U.N. human rights chief unobstructed access to the Xinjiang region to investigate the situation of ethnic Uyghur Muslim...
US Consumer Prices Surged in April
U.S. consumer prices jumped .8% in April, the fastest increase in inflation in more than a decade, the Labor Department reported Wednesday, as the world’s largest economy recovers from the ravages o...
Why Some Americans Are Moving from California to Texas
The two most populous U.S. states, California and Texas, have long competed to attract companies and talent. The 2020 U.S. Census data shows Texas is drawing more people – including Californi...