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Politicians and activists are divided on the potential repercussions of a series of U.S. Supreme Court decisions this past week. While some praised the conservative justices, who make up a majority on the nine-member court, others are…

Indiana Jones, and executives at the Walt Disney Co. and Lucasfilm, made a somewhat dispiriting discovery this weekend. Moviegoers didn't rush to the theater in significant numbers to see “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny" and say…

Cole Custer was hanging out in his pit box when he won the NASCAR Xfinity Series race Sunday.  The whole moment was pretty strange.  "It's like how excited can you be, because it didn't feel like we did anything today," he said.…

The federal prosecutor leading the investigation of President Joe Biden's son Hunter is pushing back against claims that he was blocked from pursuing criminal charges in Los Angeles and Washington and denies retaliating against an IRS…

As the nation prepares to celebrate 247 years of the country’s independence, smaller U.S. towns are marking holiday with their own traditions. VOA’s Saqib Ul Islam takes us to one small Virginia town that celebrated ahead of the July Fourth…

Thirty people were shot as a block party was winding down early Sunday in Baltimore, in the eastern U.S. state of Maryland.   Two of the victims — an 18-year-old woman and a 20-year-old man — died.   While some of the remaining 28…

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is due to travel Thursday to China to meet with senior officials in the latest effort to address strained relations between the two countries.  The Treasury Department said in a statement Sunday that…

A survey released Monday found that people in the United States and United Kingdom had the lowest level of confidence in their governments among leading industrial nations. Gallup said in 2022, 31% of adults in the United States had…

HANOI, July 3 (Reuters) - Vietnam has banned Warner Bros' highly anticipated film "Barbie" from domestic distribution over a scene featuring a map that shows China's unilaterally claimed territory in the South China Sea, state media…

The U.S. recommended Americans reconsider traveling to China because of arbitrary law enforcement and exit bans and the risk of wrongful detentions. No specific cases were cited, but the advisory came after a 78-year-old U.S. citizen was…