US Gulf Coast Preps for Another Dangerous Hurricane Season
contact@hellonews.website New Orleans — “Typically, I feel prepared,” Susan Morley-Zender, a New Orleans, Louisiana, resident told VOA when asked about the upcoming start of hurricane season, “but this year I’m much…
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Baby Formula Shortage Highlights US Racial Disparities
COLUMBIA, Maryland — Capri Isidoro broke down in tears in the office of a lactation consultant. The mother of two had been struggling to breastfeed her 1-month-old daughter ever since…
Chinatowns More Vibrant After Pandemic, Anti-Asian Violence
The last week of April was a whirlwind for San Francisco’s Chinatown. The storied neighborhood debuted the AAPI Community Heroes Mural, a mostly black and white depiction of 12 mostly…
Timeline: Texas Elementary School Shooting, Minute by Minute
In the hours and days following the fatal shooting of 19 children and their two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday, authorities gave shifting and at…
Critical Fire Condition Warnings Issued Across US Southwest
Warnings of critical fire conditions blanketed much of the U.S. Southwest on Saturday, as crews in northern New Mexico worked to stop the growth of the nation’s largest active wildfire.…
Uvalde Mourns as Texas Police Face Scrutiny for Delayed Shooting Response
Dozens of people gathered Saturday in Uvalde, in the southwestern U.S. state of Texas, to mourn and pay homage to the 21 people who were killed earlier this week at…
Air Travelers Face Cancellations Over Memorial Day Weekend
NEW YORK — Airline travelers are not only facing sticker shock this Memorial Day weekend, the kickoff to the summer travel season. They’re also dealing with a pileup of flight…
Tropical Storm Forms Off Mexico's Pacific Coast
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
US Gun Lobby Meets in Texas Following Elementary School Shooting
America’s largest gun lobby opened its annual convention Friday in Texas, less than 500 kilometers from an elementary school where 19 children and two adults were killed by a teenage…
Churches, Neighbors, NGOs Comfort Uvalde Residents
People in the Texas town of Uvalde are coping with the aftermath of Tuesday’s mass shooting that claimed the lives of 19 children and two adults. Mike O’Sullivan reports that…