VOA News 8563 posts 0 comments

More than 43,000 migrants have arrived in New York City in recent months, and Mayor Eric Adams has warned that services to help new arrivals in America’s most populous city are at a “breaking point.” Evgeny Maslov reports on the…

The United States said Thursday that the Chinese balloon shot down by the U.S. military over the weekend was capable of collecting intelligence signals and was part of a Chinese military surveillance program around the globe. “The…

U.S. President Joe Biden will welcome Brazil’s newly installed leftist president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, to the White House on Friday, seeking to strengthen relations with the South Amercian nation, which had cooled somewhat under da…

A year after Russia invaded Ukraine, millions of civilians remain displaced by the fighting. Some are still in Europe, but some are in the United States. For VOA, Svitlana Prystynska visits with a young Ukrainian refugee family in the…

San Jose, part of California's Silicon Valley technology hub, is the U.S. city where immigrants thrive the most, according to a report that looked at factors such as income, education levels and housing costs. Michelle Quinn has our story.…

Deteriorating relations between Washington and Beijing have done little to disrupt a multimillion-dollar lobbying and influence campaign in the United States by one of China’s biggest companies, Alibaba Group, according to figures provided…

Anger and disgust over China’s decision to violate the sovereign airspace of dozens of countries and scour the globe with a fleet of surveillance balloons is giving way in Washington to larger concerns about Beijing’s behavior — behavior…

Second gentleman Doug Emhoff urged the international community Thursday to speak out against antisemitism and called out those who do not, saying silence is not an option. “This moment requires bold collective action and urgency, not just…

The United States is considering its first contribution to a multilateral fund aimed at fighting Amazon deforestation, with a possible announcement during President Joe Biden's meeting with Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva at…

US lawmakers demanded answers Thursday from top US military officials, asking why a Chinese balloon surveilling the United States last week was not brought down sooner. VOA’s Congressional Correspondent Katherine Gypson has more from…