Newsletter Archive

Will President Trump’s ‘magnetic field’ attract or repel? A Georgia congressional race that some see as a referendum on Donald Trump is attracting national interest. Democrats hope the April 18 special election in Atlanta’s suburbs will send a message of disapproval to the president. VOA travels to Georgia to explore whether a potential anti-Trump backlash could flip the traditionally Republican district in favor of Democrats.

A zig here. A zag there. Candidate Donald Trump said NATO is ‘obsolete.’ President Trump says it’s not. Candidate Trump denounced China as a currency manipulator. President Trump said it’s not. The president makes no apologies for his shifting views and policy reverses, even as The Washington Post dubs him the ‘king of flip-flops.’ 

VIDEO EXPLAINER:  It’s said to be the United States’ most powerful non-nuclear bomb and it was used for the first time on April 13, when the US military targeted an Islamic State bunker complex in northeastern Afghanistan. Here’s the rundown on the weapon military officials call the ‘mother of all bombs.’

Three years after Boko Haram kidnapped 276 school girls, 19 of the students’ parents have died without seeing their daughters again, while surviving mothers and fathers blast the government for not doing enough.

Three Ugandan engineers say they’ve invented a ‘smart jacket’ that can diagnose pneumonia faster than conventional methods. The lung infection is one of the leading killers of young children in Africa. VOA visits a hospital in Kampala where the invention dubbed ‘Mama’s Hope’ is tested.

Seasonal businesses in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, are scrambling to stay afloat without foreign workers. Most enterprises on the Cape depend upon tourist season to make enough money to sustain them year-round. But changes to the H2B temporary work visa program are keeping out the workers these businesses count on.