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U.S. bank stocks fell on Monday even as President Joe Biden assured Americans that the U.S. banking system was secure and that taxpayers would not bail out investors at two banks that collapsed.      "Americans can have confidence the…

U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday approved the huge Willow oil-drilling project on Alaska's petroleum-rich North Slope, a decision that drew quick condemnation from environmentalists who say it undermines his pledge to move the country…

U.S. bank stocks fell on Monday even as President Joe Biden assured Americans that the U.S. banking system was secure and that taxpayers would not bail out investors at two banks that collapsed.      "Americans can have confidence the…

The number of hate crimes in the United States jumped dramatically in 2021 to set a record high of nearly 11,000 incidents, the FBI said in a supplement to its annual hate crimes report. There were 10,840 reported incidents of hate crime…

U.S. President Joe Biden's administration on Monday announced it would approve a trimmed-down version of ConocoPhillips' Willow oil and gas drilling project in Alaska, triggering angry reactions from climate activists. Here are some…

Boeing structural analysis engineer George Ndayizeye, who grew up in Burundi, has won a 2023 Black Engineer of the Year Legacy Award. He spoke with VOA’s Natasha Mozgovaya outside Seattle.

Fourteen children of injured or fallen Ukrainian war heroes got a chance to spend two weeks of vacation in Denver, Colorado, thanks to local volunteers from this U.S. state. Svitlana Prystynska has the story, narrated by Anna Rice. Camera:…

Journalists in the Las Vegas Review-Journal newsroom in Nevada were grieving when reporter Lizzie Johnson arrived last November. Their colleague — longtime Review-Journal reporter Jeff German — had been found stabbed to death outside his…

Sayfullo Saipov, the man convicted of killing eight people in an attack on a Manhattan bike path in 2017, was spared the death penalty after a federal jury deadlocked on how he should be punished.  The deadlock means Saipov will be…

U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak pledged Monday to increase military funding by 5 billion pounds ($6 billion) over the next two years in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the "epoch-defining challenge" posed by China.  The…