Esha Sarai Twenty thousand people have been rescued from unprecedented flooding in the southern state of Louisiana’s capital, the governor said Tuesday. Most of those rescues were made by the National Guard and state authorities, but city residents with boats, trucks and kayaks have taken it upon themselves to help out. «A tremendous response by […]readmore
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Lead levels in the water are dropping in Flint, Michigan, marking «the beginning of the end of the public health disaster,» according to the Virginia Tech University researchers who exposed the lead problem in that troubled northern U.S. city a year ago. But residents still should continue to drink only filtered tap water or bottled […]readmore
Chris Hannas, Wayne Lee VOA News WASHINGTON—The U.S. Department of Justice says the police department in the eastern city of Baltimore, Maryland, violated the Constitution and federal anti-discrimination laws by systemically engaging in a pattern of illegal stops, searches, arrests and use of excessive force, particularly against the city’s African-American population.»Public trust is critical to effective […]readmore
VOA News A few hundred people gathered for a moment of silence on Tuesday at the spot in the central U.S. city of Ferguson, Missouri, where Michael Brown was killed by a police officer two years ago. Later Tuesday, a few dozen people marched in protest, sometimes blocking traffic and chanting «no justice, no peace.» […]readmore
VOA News Officials in Texas say a baby whose mother traveled to El Salvador while pregnant has died shortly after birth, in a case attributed to the Zika virus. Dr. Umair Shah, executive director of Harris County Public Health, announced Tuesday that the infant, who died a few weeks ago, had microcephaly, a medical condition […]readmore
VOA News U.S. Vice President Joe Biden will travel next week to Serbia and Kosovo, where the government recently named a highway after one of the vice president’s sons. Beau Biden, who died May 30, 2015, of brain cancer at age 46, served a stint in 2001 as an interim legal adviser in post-war Kosovo. […]readmore
Nike Chang VOA NEWS STATE DEPARTMENT—The United States summoned the envoy of its close Asian ally, the Philippines, on Monday to clarify insulting and «inappropriate comments» made by President Rodrigo Duterte about U.S. Ambassador Philip Goldberg, according to the State Department. «We have asked the Philippine chargé to come into the State Department to clarify […]readmore
Lawsuit Seeks to Defend Rights of African-Americans, Latinos and Other Minorities Who Represent Half of County’s Population but Have Never Been Elected to Key Positions in County’s History Washington, D.C., August 8, 2016 – The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law (Lawyers’ Committee), along with the Washington, D.C. office of Crowell and Moring LLP […]readmore
LOS ANGELES— South Los Angeles is home to nearly a quarter of all residents of the second most populous U.S. city. It’s a group of mostly low-income neighborhoods covering more than 130 square kilometers, and has been the scene of violent gang activity many times. When there is a shooting involving a Los Angeles police […]readmore