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Tuesday, 31 March 2020

The restaurant industry is being hit particularly hard by the economic fallout of the coronavirus shutdowns, but one New York City restaurateur is helping to feed hospital workers on the front lines.

On This Day in American History

On March 31, 1854, Commodore Matthew Perry and Japanese officials from the Tokugawa Shogunate sign the Treaty of Kanagawa, which opened the door to trade between the two countries. The treaty also established a U.S. consulate in Japan, which had declared itself closed to foreigners in 1683. In 1860, the first Japanese diplomats to visit a foreign country arrived in Washington, D.C., where they stayed for several weeks while the two parties discussed trade.

VIDEO: With tens of millions of Americans restricted to their homes by the coronavirus, charities that give food to the poor are struggling to meet increased demand from people out of work. VOA reports on how one of the nation’s largest food banks is coping with the need.

The United States is willing to lift sanctions against Venezuela in exchange for the formation of a transitional government comprised of allies of President Nicolas Maduro and opposition leader Juan Guaido, according to U.S. officials.


The U.S. Navy hospital ship Comfort sailed into New York Harbor early Monday, bringing hope and relief to the city of 8.6 million, which has become the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic in the United States.

VIDEO: Amid the coronavirus pandemic, federal agents on the U.S. borders, at ports and in postal facilities are not letting down their guard against another dangerous killer–the artificial opioid, fentanyl. As VOA reports, drug-sniffing dogs are about to get some reinforcements on the front lines in the war on drugs.

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