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U.S. efforts to ease tensions with China are complicated by apparent differences of opinion over what commitments each side has made to the other.  Chinese officials and state media insist that U.S. President Joe Biden has made a series…

A dangerous and prolonged heat wave blanketed large parts of the southern United States on Tuesday, buckling highways and forcing people to shelter indoors in what scientists called a climate-change supercharged event.  Excessive heat…

Former President Donald Trump and current Florida Governor Ron DeSantis held dueling events in the early primary state of New Hampshire on Tuesday, as campaigning among the dozen or more Republicans seeking the presidency next year…

Ahead of President Joe Biden's 2024 reelection campaign, the White House is promoting the term "Bidenomics" to make the case that his policies to "grow the economy from the bottom up and the middle out" have succeeded in taming inflation…

Five years after the single worst attack on U.S. media in history, the city of Annapolis in Maryland still honors the lives lost at the Capital Gazette newspaper. VOA’s Cristina Caicedo Smit has the story.

The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security downplayed or ignored "a massive amount of intelligence information" ahead of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S Capitol, according to the chairman of a Senate panel that on Tuesday released…

Politicians from the Five Eyes alliance are meeting in the New Zealand capital, Wellington, where migration and security are top of the agenda. The grouping includes the United States, Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. The…

An audio recording obtained by U.S. news organizations reveals former President Donald Trump discussing secret documents about a plan to attack Iran after leaving office in 2021, undercutting his recent claim that the papers he was looking…

Market researchers have noted that since the COVID-19 pandemic started, Americans have been spending more time on the water. And that has helped keep the recreational boating industry afloat. Liliya Anisimova has the story, narrated by Anna…

UNESCO member states meet later this week on the Biden administration’s bid to rejoin the Paris-based U.N. scientific and cultural body, a move that will inject hundreds of millions of welcome dollars into its coffers and give the United…