WASHINGTON – Two U.S. lawmakers said Thursday they are “outraged” by the dismissals that Michael Pack, the new chief executive of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, the agency that oversees Voice of America, has ordered. Pack dismissed the heads of the Middle East Broadcasting Networks, Radio Free Asia, Radio Free Europe/Free Liberty, the […]
Protesters gather Monday at the state capitol in the southern U.S. state of Georgia, demanding criminal justice reforms and measures to address election problems. The demonstrations were planned before an Atlanta police officer on Friday shot dead Rayshard Brooks outside a fast food restaurant. Brooks was shot after he apparently grabbed one of the officer’s Tasers […]
The United States has officially gone over the 2 million mark in total cases of novel coronavirus infections. According to figures published Thursday on the website of Johns Hopkins University’s coronavirus resource center, the U.S. now has 2,000,464 confirmed cases of COVID-19, with 112,924 deaths, maintaining its position as the leading country with the […]
A disastrous primary election day in the southeastern U.S. state of Georgia Tuesday overshadowed a handful of key races to choose general election candidates for the November general election. The chaos was a combination of a new set of computerized voting machines that either malfunctioned or failed to arrive on time at polling stations, […]