Newsletter Archive

VIDEO: Washington is preparing to receive former U.S. President George H.W. Bush, who will lie in state at the U.S. Capitol this week after dying peacefully Friday in his home state of Texas at the age of 94. Tributes and remembrances of America’s 41st president are pouring in from across the country and around the world.

A new report finds that while 63 percent of Americans are perfectly fine with the idea of a woman heading a major corporation, 52 percent are as comfortable with a scenario featuring a female president.

China and the United States have agreed to put tariffs on hold and give negotiations a chance. But the short 90-day period the two have to finish negotiations, which includes major holidays both in Washington and Beijing, will require quick steps, analysts say.

VIDEO: Jack Daniel’s whisky is known around the world, but despite its popularity, the alcoholic beverage is produced in one small town — Lynchburg, Tennessee. VOA went to the Jack Daniel’s distillery to find out how this famous whiskey is made and why it cannot be sold legally in the town where it is produced.

VIDEO: With the help of artificial intelligence and machine learning, doctors may soon have new ways of diagnosing and treating patients in ways that were never humanly possible. Scientists at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles are developing a way of using machine learning to identify specific types of breast cancer tumors, and they say it’s just the beginning of what the computer can do.