Ex-Pentagon Intelligence Analyst Who Spied for Cuba Freed
contact@hellonews.website FORT WORTH, TEXAS — A former U.S. defense intelligence analyst who was convicted of spying for Cuba more than 20 years ago has been released from a federal prison in…
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Christmas in a Bomb Shelter for Orthodox Ukrainians
Chasiv Yar, Ukraine — As artillery boomed outside and fighter jets flew overhead, Orthodox Christians in a battered eastern Ukrainian town held a Christmas service in a basement shelter Saturday,…
Meet the Clerk Who Kept Order While the House Chose Its Leader
washington — Standing up to nominate Rep. Byron Donalds for House speaker, Republican Rep. Chip Roy addressed the woman presiding over the chamber as “Madam speaker.” The third-term congressman quickly…
Snow is a No-Show as Europe Feels the Winter Heat
RAMSAU, Austria — Mild weather has left many regions of Europe that would normally be blanketed in snow at this time of year bare, and winter sports resorts are fearing…
‘Can’t Go Forward, Can’t Go Back’: Migrants Fear US Immigration Rules
EL PASO, TEXAS — Several hundred people marched through the streets of El Paso on Saturday afternoon, and when they arrived at a group of migrants huddling outside a church,…
Charlie Hebdo Attack Victims Honored as Iran Rages Over New Cartoons
PARIS — French politicians paid tribute Saturday to Charlie Hebdo magazine staff and other victims of the January 2015 Islamist attacks, days after the satirical weekly’s latest edition sparked outrage…
NASA Satellite Falling From the Sky Soon
cape canaveral, florida — A 38-year-old retired NASA satellite is about to fall from the sky. NASA said Friday the chance of wreckage falling on anybody is “very low.” Most…
Bakhmut in Russia's Crosshairs on Orthodox Christmas Day
Shelling rocked the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut on Saturday, despite Russian President Vladimir Putin’s declaration of a 36-hour cease-fire from midday Friday to midnight Saturday to observe eastern Orthodox…
Christian Bale on Earning Producer Credits on ‘Amsterdam’ and ‘Pale Blue Eye’: “I Was There Right From the Inception”
Christian Bale is charting a new career path: producer. After receiving his first such credit in the fall, on David O. Russell’s Amsterdam, he snagged another one on his new…
‘Babylon’ Star Diego Calva’s “Bizarre Kind of Summer Camp” Experience on Damien Chazelle’s Film
Diego Calva knows that his experience on Babylon was not traditional. First of all, to get the role of Manny Torres, a wide-eyed striver who moves up the ranks of…
Atlanta’s Home Prices Jumped 10 Percent in One Year As Production Boom Fuels Home Market
In the past decade, Atlanta has earned the moniker Hollywood of the South. The city boasts a population of around 500,000 in Atlanta proper and roughly 6 million in the…
UN Calls On Belarus to Drop Charges Against Nobel Peace Laureate
GENEVA — The U.N. human rights office has called on the government of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko to drop criminal charges against Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Ales Bialiatski and to…
US Appeals Court Strikes Down Ban on Bump Stocks
A U.S. appeals court Friday struck down a rule the Trump administration had adopted following a 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting that banned “bump stocks,” devices that allow people to…
US Boy, 6, Shot His Teacher, Police Say
A 6-year-old boy shot his teacher Friday in the classroom in the southern U.S. state of Virginia, police said. The first grader was taken into custody after the shooting at…
US to Send Armored Fighting Vehicles to Ukraine
The United States is sending 50 Bradley Fighting Vehicles to Ukraine, with President Joe Biden saying that right now, Ukraine’s war with Russia is at a critical point. VOA Senior…