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 – 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...
By Associated Press SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO – Puerto Rico’s governor on Wednesday asked federal officials to ban all flights from U.S. cities with a high number of coronavirus cases to help prevent the spread of COVID-19 in the U.S. territory. The petition by Gov. Wanda Vázquez to the Federal Aviation Administration came after officials accused […]Load more...
New drive-through testing site at Twin River will offer on-the-spot results State’s testing capacity doubled thanks to partnership with CVS Health PROVIDENCE, R.I.– Governor Gina M. Raimondo announced today that Rhode Island has formed a partnership with CVS Health to make free, rapid COVID-19 tests available to all Rhode Islanders. Tests using the new Abbott […]Load more...
“Meetings are huge for me,” says Mike S., a 52-year-old web content specialist who has been sober since 2012. When his community began practicing social distancing, some of his usual meetings began offering the option of attending online. Mike went in person as long as he could, but things already felt different. With some regulars […]Load more...
VOA News Roughly 25 percent of the world’s 1.2 million COVID-19 cases have been reported in the United States, according to Johns Hopkins figures Sunday morning. New York is the U.S. state hardest hit by the coronavirus, where it has claimed more than 3,500 lives. Public health experts say the situation is about to get […]Load more...
VOA News By Julie Taboh TAKOMA PARK, MARYLAND – Classical music drifts on the breeze through a quiet neighborhood in Takoma Park, Maryland. On a side porch at a nearby house, a group of musicians perform as a clutch of people lean against trees and sit on stoops, a comfortable distance from each other. The music, […]Load more...
VOA News By Cecily Hilleary WASHINGTON – Fred Willie doesn’t like to call himself a healer or a medicine man — “I’m just Fred Willie. Most people just call me ‘Uncle Fred.’” A member of the Navajo Nation, he frequently travels to other reservations to perform healing ceremonies and hold sweat lodges. He was visiting the […]Load more...
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