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Drug overdose deaths in the U.S. went up slightly last year after two big leaps during the pandemic.  Officials with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say the numbers plateaued for most of last year. Experts aren't sure…

More than two weeks after Jordan Neely, a 30-year-old mentally ill and homeless Black man was choked to death on the New York City subway by a former Marine, reaction to the killing has broken down along familiar political fault lines.…

Analysts say U.S. President Joe Biden’s decision to postpone a trip to Australia is a major blow to Canberra. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will still make the trip to Australia next week, even though the Quad leaders' summit at the…

Deutsche Bank has agreed to pay $75 million to settle a lawsuit claiming that the German lender should have seen evidence of sex trafficking by Jeffrey Epstein when he was a client, according to lawyers for women who say they were abused by…

U.S. President Joe Biden, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and other top congressional leaders appeared no closer Tuesday to a deal aimed at reaching agreement on raising the country’s debt ceiling so the government can borrow more to pay its…

Zimbabwe's central bank on May 8 launched a gold-backed digital currency it hopes will reduce the demand for US dollars and the devaluation of the Zimbabwe dollar.  But analysts say the government-controlled foreign-exchange market is…

As President Joe Biden heads into his second debt ceiling talks with congressional leaders on Tuesday, the White House said the U.S. leader is considering cutting short his three-country foreign trip later this week to continue talks and…

History reveals decades of strained diplomatic ties between the world's two largest economies. VOA looks back at more than 50 years of on-again, off-again relations.

The head of the artificial intelligence company that makes ChatGPT told U.S. Congress on Tuesday that government intervention "will be critical to mitigate the risks of increasingly powerful" AI systems. "As this technology advances, we…

U.S. President Joe Biden, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and other top congressional leaders are meeting Tuesday at the White House in a new effort to reach agreement on raising the country's debt ceiling so the government can borrow more to…