PLENTY OF PEOPLE IN THE UNITED STATES THREATENED TO LEAVE THE COUNTRY IF DONALD TRUMP WON A SECOND PRESIDENCY. WELL, HE HAS – AND HOW ONE ITALIAN VILLAGE IS INVITING AMERICANS TO PUT THEIR MONEY WHERE THEIR MOUTH IS… EVEN IF IT’S NOT MUCH. THE RURAL VILLAGE OF OLLOLI (OH-lo-LIE) ON THE ISLAND OF SARDINIA…
Some U.S. weapons deliveries to Ukraine may take place after President Joe Biden’s term ends in January, Pentagon officials tell VOA, noting it will take time for certain capabilities to arrive in Ukraine. “As you know, some equipment and some systems can get to Ukraine very quickly, and you’ve seen that happen within days or…
Kaylee May Law’s grandfather Fat Law moved to the United States from Hong Kong in the 1960s. Kaylee remembered seeing all the “I voted” stickers that her grandfather had placed proudly on the refrigerator in his Baldwin Park home. Fat Law passed away at 92 in October, just weeks before his granddaughter’s name appeared on…
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday named Matt Whitaker, a former acting attorney general from his first presidency, as the U.S. ambassador to NATO, the cornerstone Western military alliance whose member countries Trump has criticized for not spending enough money on defense. In a statement, Trump described Whitaker, 55, as “a strong warrior and loyal…
The Ashland public library, a ballot drop-off station in Ashland. (Photo credit to Bob Palermini and Friends of Ashland Library) The City of Ashland and the United States held a historic set of elections on Tuesday, November 5th, with enormous implications for the country and world over the next four years. The first Presidential election…
Many Ukrainians welcome the U.S. decision to let Ukraine use U.S.-supplied missiles to strike deep into Russian territory. But on the streets of Ukraine’s capital, many also say they feel the decision, coming 1,000 days into the war, is too little too late. For VOA, Anna Chernikova reports from Kyiv. VOA footage by Vladyslav Smilianets.…
Kent Nishimura/Getty Images What would you do if you just lost a presidential election? If your answer is “take a relaxing Hawaiian vacation,” be prepared for some serious backlash online. It’s been two weeks since Election Day, and many of us are still recovering from the tense election season and the events that followed. It’s…
Good news: the Senate Judiciary Committee has dropped one of the two terrible patent bills it was considering, the patent-troll-enabling Patent Eligibility Restoration Act (PERA). Bad news: the committee is still pushing the PREVAIL Act, a bill that would hamstring the U.S.’s most effective system for invalidating bad patents. PREVAIL is a windfall for patent…
athens, georgia — A Venezuelan man has been convicted of murder in the killing of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley, a case that fueled the national debate over immigration during this year’s presidential race. Jose Ibarra was charged with murder and other crimes in Riley’s February death, and the guilty verdict was reached Wednesday by…
NEW YORK — Distant, ancient galaxies are giving scientists more hints that a mysterious force called dark energy may not be what they thought. Astronomers know that the universe is being pushed apart at an accelerating rate and they have puzzled for decades over what could possibly be speeding everything up. They theorize that a…