VOA News The U.S. Supreme Court will take up bathroom rules for transgender students, the first time the high court has agreed to hear a case involving transgender rights. The case involves Gavin Grimm, 17, who was born a female but identifies as a male and is suing to win the right to use his […]readmore
VOA News U.S. authorities said Friday that the unexplained death last year of a Russian media executive in a Washington hotel was accidental and caused partly by alcohol poisoning after days of heavy drinking. Following a yearlong investigation by city police along with assistance from the FBI, District of Columbia authorities said the death of […]readmore
VOA News An American Airlines passenger jet caught fire Friday at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, forcing an emergency evacuation of passengers and resulting in nine injuries. American Airlines said the Boeing 767 plane was already on the runway, about to depart for Miami, when it experienced an «engine-related mechanical issue» that caused the pilot to […]readmore
News Press Conference Governor Gina M. Raimondo Peter T. Gaynor Director of RIEMA Peter Woodberry, Ph.D. Dean of Business, Science & Technology CCRI PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Governor Gina M. Raimondo and the Rhode Island Emergency Management Agency (RIEMA), in partnership with the Community College of Rhode Island (CCRI), the Rhode Island State Police (RISP), the […]readmore
VOA News WASHINGTON — Federal regulators have given approval for U.S. clinical trials of a Cuban-developed lung cancer vaccine. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced the Food and Drug Administration’s decision Wednesday at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo. Lung cancer is the second most commonly diagnosed cancer in both men and women, according to […]readmore
Voz de América Un reporte establece que 85 banqueros han sido acusados de algún delito y 36 han sido enviados a prisión, pero rara vez se trata de banqueros de importancia. Un cuerpo de vigilancia gubernamental en Estados Unidos propuso una nueva forma de hacer que los banqueros respondan por los delitos y fraudes cometidos […]readmore
VOA/AP PORTLAND, MAINE — The government says the average American ate nearly a pound more seafood in 2015 than he or she did the previous year. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released the statistic Wednesday along with its annual Fisheries of the United States report. It says per capita consumption of seafood grew to 7 […]readmore
VOA News Wildlife populations across the globe have dropped nearly 60 percent since 1970 and human activity is to blame, according to a report released by conservation groups. The joint report produced by the World Wildlife Fund and the Zoological Society of London warned that if the current trends continue, the decline in world populations […]readmore
VOA News A U.S. government oversight body is proposing a way to hold banking and investment executives more accountable for criminal activity and fraud committed by staffers against their customers. An inspector general is suggesting that top Wall Street executives be required to sign an annual statement promising that criminal or civil fraudulent activity did […]readmore
Carla Babb PENTAGON — U.S. Army women hit a milestone Wednesday, as the first women graduated from the military branch’s Infantry Basic Officer Leader’s Course. Ten women received their Infantry blue chord at Fort Benning in the southern U.S. state of Georgia, officially making them infantry officers and giving them the ability to lead an Army […]readmore