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There’s a new media voice in Washington, DC and it’s Russian. The Kremlin-funded Sputnik Radio hopes to reach more Americans with what it calls ‘alternative news.’ Sputnik says it supports an anti-establishment agenda, while critics say it’s a Kremlin propaganda machine that’s out to undermine Western institutions.

A former Guantanamo prosecutor is among the first Afghan-American Muslims to run for Congress. Omar Qudrat hopes to unseat Rep. Scott Peters, a California Democrat. Qudrat tells VOA’s Bosnian Service he plans to focus on issues that are close to home, and explains why he’s running as a Republican.

Silicon Valley leaders credit immigrants with a lot of the region’s success, but the Trump administration made a move this week that will most likely kill an Obama-era plan to allow more foreign entrepreneurs to come to the US. The startup visa program was supposed to go into effect this month, but will likely be scrapped at a time tech leaders say the valley needs a boost to maintain its position as the top global tech draw.

VIDEO EXPLAINER: To control the threat of terrorism presented by Islamic State, the United States formed a coalition in 2014 with 72 partners from around the world. Here’s what the 72 countries are doing to try to keep terrorism from spreading.

A majority of older Republican voters say colleges hurt America, according to a new poll. However, younger Republican-learning voters believe colleges are good for the country. VOA checks in with a professor who sees distrust in his own classroom among students from largely Republican and conservative communities in Iowa.

What is ‘collusion’ exactly? That term has been thrown around a lot lately, especially as we’ve learned more about Donald Trump, Jr.’s meeting during the campaign with a Russian lawyer who claimed to have damaging information about Hillary Clinton. But does Donald Junior’s eagerness to collect dirt on his father’s political rival amount to collusion?

This isn’t the best time to be a social media star in China, where the government is trying to rein in the massive influence of internet celebrities. Beijing has good reason to be worried, according to observers, because some of China’s internet stars have up to 90 million online followers — a number so massive that even the biggest Western media icons like Oprah Winfrey don’t even come close.