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Thursday, 18 July 2019

Yunan Yang never intended to open a restaurant when she first arrived in the United States from China 10 years ago. Her plan was to study cancer. Her inspiration for opening a restaurant came during a trip to a conference in California, where she saw an hour-long line of hungry patrons waiting to get into a Chinese restaurant.

On This Day in American History
On July 18, 1940, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt is nominated for an unprecedented third term during the Democratic Party convention in Chicago. The 32nd president was first nominated in 1932 and beat incumbent Republican, Herbert Hoover. He was nominated and won the 1936 election in a landslide, defeating Alf Landon. In the 1940 election, Roosevelt defeated Republican Wendell Willkie and became the only American president to be elected three times. But he wasn’t done. He was nominated and won the 1944 election, dispatching Republican Thomas E. Dewey, clinching a fourth presidency despite his declining health. Roosevelt would only serve a partial term, as his illnesses finally caught up to him. He died on March 29, 1945, at the age of 63. FDR’s four terms led to a constitutional amendment preventing a president from serving more than two terms.

VIDEO: This week on Plugged In, VOA contributor Greta Van Susteren focuses on the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing, an event that briefly united the country and the world.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo departed for Latin America Thursday to meet  leaders there. The trip comes amid difficult negotiations with Mexico and Central American countries over how to best stem the flow of migrants to the southern U.S. border.

VIDEO: In the United States, summer camps are popular for children. But recently a five-day summer camp took place for adults with a unique twist — it was just for nerds. Mocked for decades in popular culture, nerds are sometimes described as overly studious, socially awkward, and passionate about the arcane.

Is Britain becoming a lawless country? While Brexit is seen by most as being the number one political issue that needs resolving — one way or another — crime is now seen as the second most important problem facing the country, Britons are telling pollsters.

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