Tropical Storm Forms Off Mexico's Pacific Coast
contact@hellonews.website MEXICO CITY — Agatha, the first tropical storm of the 2022 hurricane season in the Pacific, formed Saturday off Mexico’s southern coast. The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Agatha is…
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A Show of Black Art and History at L.A.’s SoFi Stadium Corrects the “Myth of Absence”
The process of creating art, much like the Black experience in America, relies on an innate ability to see beyond the limits of circumstance and a belief that something beautiful…
Pandemic Has Lingering Toll on Smaller National Spelling Bee
Dev Shah’s dream of returning to the Scripps National Spelling Bee ended in a soccer stadium, of all places. On a cool, windy February day with occasional rain showers, Dev…
David Harbour, Winona Ryder on Being Inspired By ‘Stranger Things’ Kids Cast and Hopper’s Darker Turn in Season 4
The return of Stranger Things marks eight years since the hit Netflix drama first debuted on the streamer, and the kids are all grown up. Ahead of the premiere of…
Native Americans Confront Racism in South Dakota
WASHINGTON — “No wonder those four great Americans seem so sad as they look down from Mount Rushmore,” Denver Post columnist Roscoe Fleming wrote in 1962. “For they see incongruous…
Cardinal Angelo Sodano, Vatican Power Broker for Decades, Dies at 94
VATICAN CITY — Cardinal Angelo Sodano, a controversial Vatican power broker for more than a quarter of a century who was accused of covering up one of the Catholic Church’s…
US Issues Sanctions Targeting North Korean Weapons of Mass Destruction Program
The United States on Friday imposed sanctions on two Russian banks, a North Korean company and a person it accused of supporting North Korea’s weapons of mass destruction program, increasing…
US Talking with Ukraine about Delivering More Powerful Rocket Launchers
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in this nightly video address Friday that Ukraine will defend “as much as our current defense resources allow.” He sounded a defiant note against Russia’s…
Fleeing the Russians: Evacuations are Slow, Arduous, Fraught
BAKHMUT, UKRAINE — To a threatening soundtrack of air raid sirens and booming artillery, civilians are fleeing towns and cities in eastern Ukraine as Russian forces advance. Negotiating narrow apartment…
Ukrainian Negotiator Says Any Agreement With Russia 'Isn't Worth a Broken Penny'
KYIV, UKRAINE — Ukrainian presidential adviser and peace talks negotiator Mykhailo Podolyak said on Saturday that any agreement with Russia cannot be trusted and Moscow can only be stopped in…
Putin’s Invasion of Ukraine Unites Europe, US Ambassador Says
In early May, VOA Eastern Europe bureau chief Myroslava Gongadze spoke with Mark Brzezinski, the U.S. ambassador to Poland. This interview has been edited for clarity and brevity. VOA: So,…
NRA, After Uvalde School Massacre, Says No to New Gun Laws
Separated from the massacre of 19 elementary school students and two of their teachers by just three days and 500 kilometers, the most powerful gun rights organization in the U.S.…
Envoy Talks About Ukraine, the War and its Postwar Future
In mid-May, VOA Eastern Europe bureau chief Myroslava Gongadze spoke with Alexandra Vasylenko, special envoy on coordination of humanitarian assistance to the minister for foreign affairs of Ukraine. This interview…
Turkey Shows Off Drones at Azerbaijan Air Show
BAKU, AZERBAIJAN — Looping in the air at lightning speed, Turkish drones like those used against Russian forces in Ukraine draw cheers from the crowd at an air show in…
Lithuanians Join Together to Buy Drone for Ukraine
VILNIUS, LITHUANIA — Hundreds of Lithuanians are clubbing together to buy an advanced military drone for Ukraine in its war against Russia, in a show of solidarity with a fellow…