Newsletter Archive

The ‘skid row’ of the Plains is a place where Native Americans from a nearby reservation buy alcohol. Next month, Nebraska’s state liquor commission decides the fate the tiny town whose survival depends on selling more than 12,000 cans of beer a day to Native Americans from the Pine Ridge Reservation, where there’s an 80 percent alcoholism rate.

VIDEO: A Jewish man and a Muslim man who met while protesting President Donald Trump’s travel ban in Chicago have become fast friends. A picture of the two men together with their children during the protest made headlines across the country. VOA visited the rabbi and Turkish immigrant in the Chicago suburbs, where they continue to learn more about each other’s culture and religion.

VIDEO: How do U.S. immigrants feel now that President Trump has signed a new, more limited travel ban on six predominantly Muslim countries? The new ban revises the previous executive order the president signed in January which led to legal challenges and protests at the nation’s airports. In the nation’s capital, we checked in with cabbies who came to America from across the world to see what they think.

Social media search: Privacy groups are pushing back on U.S. officials who ask visitors for their social media accounts and passwords at entry borders. President Barack Obama started the U.S. policy of allowing border agents to search electronic devices. Critics argue the requests are illegal and violate a traveler’s privacy.

The ‘Dutch Donald Trump.’ After leading in the polls for months, anti-immigrant, anti-Islam, far-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders has dropped to second place, less than a week before the Dutch national elections. VOA reports from the Netherlands on what the populist Dutch candidate has in common with the American president.

For the second time since Donald Trump became president, the U.S. has deported dozens of Somalis back to their home country. VOA’s Somali Service spoke with one of the deported men.

More than 25 years after a civil war that ended with Somaliland declaring its independence from the rest of Somalia, researchers continue to uncover mass graves around the country. Somaliland officials are teaming up with international forensic investigators to exhume the bodies. VOA is in Berbera, Somaliland, where the experts hope to collect enough evidence to bring the perpetrators of war crimes charges.

South Korean companies in China are feeling the squeeze over Seoul’s decision to deploy a U.S.-made missile defense system at home. The backlash is impacting cosmetics, tourism and other sectors as Chinese authorities try to put pressure on Seoul.