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Chicago nonprofit helps undocumented migrants afraid to leave home

Amid nationwide immigration raids, a community organization in Chicago is helping undocumented migrants who say they are afraid to leave their homes for fear ...

New York City mayor to allow ICE agents at Rikers jail

NEW YORK —  New York City Mayor Eric Adams says he will allow federal immigration officials to operate at the city’s Rikers Island jail ...

HHS to lose thousands of workers under probationary job cuts

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services officials expect most of the agency’s roughly 5,200 probationary employees to be fired Friday under the Trump ...

Up to 2,000 workers laid off at US Department of Energy, sources say

WASHINGTON —  The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has laid off about 1,200 to 2,000 workers at the Department of Energy, including employees ...

Why US regulators are banning Red Dye Number 3 from American food

U.S. health officials have banned Red Dye No. 3 from American foods, decades after the synthetic coloring was banned in Europe. As VOA’s Dora ...

Russian- and Soviet-born coaches still shaping US figure skating’s future

The tragic deaths of Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov in a plane crash late last month in Washington have shone a spotlight on the ...

At Munich Conference, US VP Vance warns European allies of ‘threat from within’

Vice President JD Vance warned European allies attending the security conference in Munich, Germany, against “the threat from within,” arguing that European governments are ...

Taiwan pledges chip talks and investment in bid to ease Trump’s concerns

TAIPEI —  Taiwan President Lai Ching-te pledged on Friday to talk with the United States about President Donald Trump’s concerns over the chip industry ...

Alligators In US City’s Sewer System Moving Like ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’: Study

A new study has revealed that alligators in the US state of Florida have been using the sewer systems to safely traverse different regions, ...

Trump hosts India’s leader, inks US defense, energy sales

US President Donald Trump on Thursday made a range of energy and defense agreements with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his first visit ...

Trump administration lays off probationary employees, plans ‘large-scale’ cuts

washington —  The Trump administration on Thursday intensified its sweeping efforts to shrink the size of the federal workforce, the nation’s largest employer, by ...

Russian Vinnik back in Moscow after prisoner swap, news agency says

Alexander Vinnik, a Russian national convicted of cybercrime and released by U.S. authorities as part of a prisoner swap, arrived in Moscow on Thursday ...