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Uruguay President Luis Lacalle Pou met with U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday, and the two leaders explored ways to expand bilateral trade and economic ties, the White House said. Lacalle Pou stopped in Washington for the previously…

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his Chinese counterpart Qin Gang spoke by telephone late Tuesday ahead of an expected visit by Blinken to Beijing. Blinken tweeted that the two diplomats talked about “ongoing efforts to maintain…

Pride Month in the United States includes a parade in Los Angeles that is one of the world’s largest LGBTQ+ events. This year’s celebrations come amid protests over school curricula and consumer boycotts of businesses marketing to LGBTQ+…

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is heading to China later this week, a trip that was rescheduled from February after a suspected Chinese spy balloon flew through US airspace. VOA State Department Bureau Chief Nike Ching reports…

After arriving in the U.S., refugees face many challenges. A main one is finding jobs and building new careers. Emma’s Torch, a nonprofit organization in Brooklyn, New York and Washington D.C., is helping refugees, asylees and survivors of…

For generations, Italian food has reigned as America's favorite ethnic cuisine. And while that’s still technically the case overall, younger Americans’ taste buds are threatening to upend Italian dominance of the U.S. ethnic food chain.…

Alleged Illicit vendors of fentanyl precursors are exploiting mainstream online platforms to advertise their products and allegedly smuggle them into the U.S. VOA's Veronica Balderas Iglesias investigated. VOA's Mandarin service contributed…

Australia’s national science agency Tuesday unveiled a new blueprint to ensure the nation’s food supply is secure and resilient. The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization has said the sector faces serious challenges,…

South Korea has charged a former Samsung executive accused of stealing company secrets worth hundreds of millions of dollars to set up a copycat chip factory in China, prosecutors told AFP on Tuesday. Semiconductors have become a…

Consumer prices in the United States cooled last month, rising just 0.1% from April to May and extending the past year's steady easing of inflation. At the same time, some measures of underlying price pressures remained high. Measured…