By VOA News Severe storms that moved across the southeastern United States on Sunday into Monday killed at least 18 people. The storms brought heavy rain and strong winds, with 34 reported tornadoes in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Georgia and Tennessee leaving hundreds of homes ripped to shreds and at least 860,000 people without electricity. Dozens […]Load more...
VOA News Two U.S. astronauts say it’s hard to comprehend the changes on Earth that have occurred due to the coronavirus pandemic, as they prepare to return from the International Space Station. The astronauts, Andrew Morgan and Jessica Meir, have been in space for more than half a year, having left Earth before anyone had […]Load more...
VOA News By Eunjung Cho WASHINGTON – In less than a month, more than 5,000 Americans have joined a class-action lawsuit in Florida seeking reparations from the Chinese government for COVID-19 damages. The plaintiffs claim to have suffered huge losses due to Beijing’s negligence in containing the virus. Similar class-action lawsuits also were filed in Nevada […]Load more...
VOA News By Katherine Gypson WASHINGTON – The U.S. Senate failed Thursday to pass additional funding to help struggling American workers dealing with the impact of the coronavirus. The attempt came less than two weeks after U.S. lawmakers passed the largest economic relief package in the country’s history. The measure advanced by Senate Republicans would […]Load more...
VOA News By Ken Bredemeier WASHINGTON – Another 6.6 million U.S. workers filed for unemployment compensation last week as the coronavirus pandemic continues to wreak havoc on the American economy, the U.S. Labor Department reported Thursday. The new figure pushed the three-week total to more than 16 million workers looking for financial assistance, with millions more laid-off […]Load more...
VOA News By Kane Farabaugh WALNUT, ILLINOIS – In mid-March, Illinois high school math teacher David Lind wasn’t feeling well and knew he needed a medical opinion. An eventual diagnosis began with a few mouse clicks. “I was sleeping a lot; my wife could tell that I was really run down,” he told VOA by phone, […]Load more...
VOA News By Reuters Tom Brady and wife Gisele Bundchen donated funds to provide 750,000 meals to those in need in their new community of Tampa, Fla. Feeding Tampa Bay announced the donation via Twitter on Tuesday. «We welcome @TomBrady, @giseleofficial and their family to our community and thank them as they #StandwithFTB by providing 750,000 […]Load more...
VOA News By Carla Babb PENTAGON – The head of the Army Corps of Engineers is warning that his team is “beginning to run out of time” to build new temporary hospitals to expand capacity to combat the coronavirus across the country. Army Corps of Engineers Lt. Gen. Todd Semonite told reporters Wednesday that the military needed to start construction of temporary hospital […]Load more...
VOA News By Ken Bredemeier WASHINGTON – U.S. President Donald Trump is waging a new political fight against the adoption of mail-in voting rights throughout the U.S., claiming it is rife with possible fraud and would significantly benefit opposition Democrats. Trump himself recently requested an absentee ballot to vote in the Republican presidential primary in Florida, […]Load more...
VOA News By Ken Bredemeier WASHINGTON – November’s U.S. national presidential election is now set: President Donald Trump against former Vice President Joe Biden. The sudden certainty emerged Wednesday as Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist, suspended his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination. He faced dwindling odds against Biden, who is making his […]Load more...
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