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As grim as the first years of the COVID-19 pandemic were in the United States, the policy response to the economic disruption caused by the disease had demonstrably positive effects in lowering poverty rates and reducing the number of…

US intelligence agencies do not agree on the FBI's assessment that the pandemic "most likely" stemmed from a "lab incident in Wuhan." Katherine Gypson has reaction from Washington.

A Pennsylvania man faces federal criminal charges after he checked a suitcase with an explosive device hidden in the lining on a flight to Florida, authorities said Wednesday.  Marc Muffley, 40, is charged with possessing an explosive in…

U.S. Navy Secretary Carlos del Toro on Wednesday reaffirmed the United States' commitment to Caribbean nations in their fight against what he called the "existential threat" of climate change. "The United States stands by you, with you,…

NATO is made up of 30 members and each country’s military has its own technical systems on the battlefield. Some work together better than others. At the US Army’s easternmost European headquarters in Poznan, Poland, soldiers are working to…

Elon Musk's rocket company SpaceX launched a four-person crew on a trip to the International Space Station early Thursday, with a Russian cosmonaut and United Arab Emirates astronaut joining two NASA crewmates on the flight. The SpaceX…

Big Tech shed tens of thousands of jobs over the past several months as giants Google, Amazon, Meta and Microsoft have reduced their workforces. But while white-collar jobs are cut, some blue-collar jobs are difficult to fill despite the…

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov talked briefly Thursday at a meeting of top diplomats from the Group of 20 nations in the first high-level meeting in months between the two countries. U.S.…

California has a new poet laureate. And for the first time, that state poet is Asian American. For VOA, Genia Dulot traveled to Fresno, California, to hear from Lee Herrick about his roots and his poetry

Voice of America placed two journalists in its Russian-language service on leave Friday following complaints over their prior employment at Kremlin-backed groups. Staff at the agency flagged concerns to managers in November shortly after…