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Friday, 10 June 2016

It’s not easy being a female fan of Donald Trump Just ask some women who’ve formed a Super PAC to help the presumptive Republican presidential nominee win the White House. They’ve been told they’re a disgrace to their gender and, in some cases, they say they’ve been denied jobs. Meet the women who support Donald Trump.

Bernie Sanders’ final campaign rally took place in a Washington, D.C. parking lot, but rather than mourning the campaign’s end, supporters want to know what Hillary Clinton is going to do to keep their political revolution going.

On This Day in American History
On June 10, 1752, Benjamin Franklin reportedly flies a silk kite, with a key tied to it, during a thunderstorm. When the kite is struck by lightning, electricity travels to the key and the charge is collected in a jar, demonstrating the electrical nature of lightning.

In Cornwall, Britain’s membership in the European Union has meant a big infusion of cash and hope for people living among the ruins of tin mines that were once a symbol of innovation and industry. But when VOA visited, we found that not everyone is happy with the status quo.

QUICK TAKE VIDEO: A regular day at the office for a radio station in Iraqi Kurdistan — which is heard in IS-controlled Mosul — is when an aggravated Islamic State fighter/listener calls in to threaten you.

Beat your wives lightly is what Pakistan’s Council of Islamic Ideology proposes in a law that would sanction domestic violence. That didn’t sit well with photographer Fahhad Rajper, who responded with a photo project called #TryBeatingMeLightly.

VOA was in Cambodia for the trial of a Khmer Rouge prison chief who oversaw the deaths of more than 12,000 people. Kaing Guek Eav claims he was following party orders to exterminate “the whole family of the enemy.”

The Rumble in the Jungle demonstrated that boxing legend Muhammad Ali was more than just good with words. People from the Congo fondly remember how the champ’s decision to fight in a country that many Americans had never heard of, helped put “Africa on the map.”

Virtual reality journalism? We didn’t quite get it at first either, but what virtual reality journalism can do is give you a realistic sense of what it’s like to be in situations that are alien to you, such as living in solitary confinement, becoming a law enforcement officer on the job, or being a person of color who’s approached by a police officer.

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