In general, Americans are generous people. So much so that 95 percent of U.S. households donate to charity, contributing an average of $2,974 each year. The United States comes in second (behind Myanmar) in the World Giving Index, with Americans giving more than $358 billion in 2014. Seventy-two percent of that amount came from individual donors. […]Load more...
Julie Taboh January 06, 2016 Will the new year bring peace to the world and more tolerance and goodwill among its citizens? The U.S. Department of Education certainly hopes so. In the wake of extreme acts of violence and the ongoing worldwide refugee crisis, the department is trying to do its share to promote peace […]Load more...
VOA News January 06, 2016 The man accused of supplying guns to the shooters in the California terror attack pleaded not guilty Wednesday to conspiracy and other charges. Enrique Marquez Jr. is the first person arrested over the deadliest terror attack in the U.S. since 9/11. He faces two charges of firearms violations for being […]Load more...
Ken Schwartz January 06, 2016 The Pentagon has announced that two inmates from the Guantanamo Bay military prison in Cuba have been transferred to Ghana. The decision to move the two suspected terrorists from the prison was based on several factors — including security matters — after a comprehensive review of their cases. Ghana’s foreign […]Load more...
Associated Press January 06, 2016 LOS ANGELES—California Gov. Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency Wednesday over a massive natural gas leak that has been spewing fumes into a Los Angeles neighborhood for months. In a statement, Brown said he acted based on the requests of local residents in the community of Porter Ranch and […]Load more...
Molly McKitterick January 06, 2016 Occupied by armed protesters, Malheur National Wildlife Refuge is described as remote and barren. However, it is not a “nameless piece of ground,” said Brent Fenty, executive director of the Oregon Natural Desert Association. “It is critically important to wildlife and enjoyed by millions» of human and avian visitors, he […]Load more...
VOA News January 06, 2016 A U.S. federal court in New York Wednesday charged an American citizen with conspiring to set off a truck bomb outside a U.S. military base in Afghanistan in 2009. Muhanad Mahmoud al-Farekh could spend the rest of his life in prison if convicted. «Farekh, a citizen of the United States, […]Load more...
VOA News January 06, 2016 A college in the midwestern U.S. state of Illinois is taking steps to fire a professor who linked Islam to Christianity in an online posting. The administration at Wheaton College, a Christian evangelical university, has recommended associate professor Larycia Hawkins lose her tenured-track position. In a December 10 posting on […]Load more...
A tearful President Barack Obama said Tuesday that he was taking executive action, bypassing Congress, to implement new «common-sense» measures aimed at reducing gun violence in America. “In Dr. [Martin Luther] King’s words, we need to feel the fierce urgency of now, because people are dying,” a visibly emotional Obama told an audience of mass […]Load more...
VOA News January 06, 2016 7:29 AM A U.S. Marine is appealing his conviction in the death of a transgender Filipino woman, his lawyer said Wednesday. Lance Corporal Joseph Scott Pemberton was found guilty of homicide in December for killing Jennifer Laude after he found out she was a transgender woman. Judge Roline Ginez Jabalde […]Load more...
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