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Wednesday, 06 June 2018


VIDEO: Thousands of journalists will descend on the tiny city-state of Singapore over the next week ahead of the summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. VOA is already in the nation of 5 million people and explores what makes Singapore an ideal setting for the critical meeting.

On This Day in American History

On June 6, 1944, the Allied powers cross the English Channel and come ashore along a 50-mile stretch of beaches along the coastline at Normandy, France, beginning the liberation of Western Europe from the Nazis. By the end of the day, 155,000 Allied troops, including Americans, British and Canadians, successfully storm Normandy’s beaches, giving the Allies a foot-hold in mainland Europe, which is seen as key to winning World War II. (This June 6, 1944, photo shows Allied troops on a landing craft as it nears Omaha Beach in Normandy, France.)

Deb Haaland is one step closer to becoming the first Native American woman to serve in Congress. Native Americans have been largely absent from the corridors of power in Washington, but Haaland just won the Democratic nomination for New Mexico’s 1st Congressional District, paving the way for her to make history.

Help is on the way for Apple users worried about how much time they and their children spend on their devices. Apple announced new controls that will allow parents to remotely limit the amount of time their offspring spend on iPhones and iPads, while also holding up a mirror to their own online habits.

VIDEO: It’s been 50 years since Robert F. Kennedy died from an assassin’s bullet. The US presidential candidate’s death just two months after Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, left a lingering wound on the nation and changed the US political landscape.

VIDEO: The son of an American soldier and Vietnamese mother, Robert Huynh never imagined he could be targeted for deportation. He came to United States with his mother and siblings in 1984. Now 49 and living in Houston, he can’t envision life in Vietnam, a country that does not welcome the children of US soldiers. But, after being convicted of dealing drugs in 2003, Huynh is now one of 8,600 Vietnamese eligible for deportation at any moment.

Still fuming over President Trump’s decision to impose tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, Canada, Germany, France and England are among the European participants preparing to meet up with the American leader this Friday in Canada for the G-7 summit of leading industrial nations. But behind the united front of disapproval on tariffs, there are deep disagreements among the US allies about how to respond and whether to take retaliatory action.

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