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 […]Load more...
Katherine Gypson VOA News FLORIDA — Quiet Dunedin, Florida, by the Gulf of Mexico, has the look and feel of a small town. But in the weeks before Election Day, the voters living here may have some of the most important voices in the entire country. Dunedin’s Pinellas County and the rest of central Florida are […]Load more...
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 […]Load more...
The Providence Police Department’s Annual Commendation Awards Ceremony Awards presented were the Mayor’s, Commissioner’s, and Chief’s Awards, the Citizen’s, Outside Agency, Fraternal Order of Police (F.O.P), Community Service Awards. The prestigious Rhea Archambault Award was also presented. This award represents the best overall performance by an individual police officer or officers for a particular calendar […]Load more...
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 […]Load more...
VOA News Ken Bredemeier WASHINGTON — Democrat Hillary Clinton is outspending Republican Donald Trump by more than a 2-to-1 margin in their long run to the U.S. presidency. But Trump said Wednesday he’s willing to pump even more of his own money into the campaign in the last two weeks before the November 8 election. Reports […]Load more...
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 […]Load more...
Jeff Seldin VOA News Fears that the Islamic State is beginning to mass in its self-proclaimed Syrian capital of Raqqa and the possibility that the terror group may launch attacks from there are prompting the United States and its Western allies to put Raqqa in their crosshairs in the coming weeks. U.S. and Western officials […]Load more...
An independent United Nations expert is bitterly condemning the world body for refusing to accept legal responsibility for a cholera outbreak in Haiti that has killed more than 9,300 and sickened 800,000. A U.N. expert on extreme poverty and human rights, Philip Alston, calls the U.N. stance a disgrace and a debacle. «If the United […]Load more...
Jessica Berman VOA News WASHINGTON — An international coalition of governments and philanthropic organizations has donated $18 million to fight Zika and other mosquito-borne illnesses. The money will target the illnesses in Colombia and Brazil with a unique mosquito-control program. The funds from the U.S. Agency for International Development and the British government, as well as […]Load more...
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