When she emerged from obscurity in the rock formations of South Dakota in the early 1990s, the world’s largest Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton was only beginning a long legal and physical journey. Known as Sue, named for the paleontologist Sue Hendrickson who discovered her, she eventually arrived as the star attraction …
your ad hereChina’s January Exports, Imports Surge; US Trade Deficit Grows
China’s export growth accelerated in January amid mounting trade tension with Washington while imports surged as factories stocked up ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday. Exports rose 11.1 percent compared with a year earlier to $200.5 billion, up from December’s 10.9 percent growth, trade data showed Thursday. Imports surged …
your ad hereElder Care Nurses Needed as Boomers Age
In the years after World War II, the United States’ birth rate skyrocketed. This generation of Americans became known as baby boomers. They’re a huge population segment in the U.S., and as they age, they are changing the health care industry. VOA’s Kevin Enochs reports. …
your ad hereEgyptian Start-Up Tackles Social Issues with Video Games
An Egyptian startup is designing video games in which the object is not just to win, but to become aware of social issues. Faith Lapidus reports. …
your ad hereDutch Bank to Pay $369 Million in Drug Cartel Money-Laundering
Dutch lender Rabobank’s California unit agreed Wednesday to pay $369 million to settle allegations that it lied to regulators investigating allegations of laundering money from Mexican drug sales and organized crime through branches in small towns on the Mexico border. The subsidiary, Rabobank National Association, said it doesn’t dispute that …
your ad hereChild With Down Syndrome Chosen as Gerber Spokesbaby
Since 1931, the Gerber baby food baby has been one of the world’s most familiar and ubiquitous trademarks. This year’s Gerber spokesbaby is extra-special, he is 18-month-old Lucas Warren from Dalton, Georgia, and he has Down syndrome. Lucas was chosen from 140,000 entries from across the country, all happy and …
your ad hereInternational Aid Group, Intel to Launch Job Training Program for Refugees in Germany
The International Rescue Committee has announced Project Core — a $1 million job training program for refugees in Germany. The IRC is collaborating with computer giant Intel to to equip at least 1,000 migrants with “critical skills in information and communications technology and other in-demand sectors of the German economy.” …
your ad hereAid Group Launches Job Training Program for Refugees in Germany
The International Rescue Committee on Wednesday announced the creation of Project Core, a $1 million job training program for refugees in Germany. The IRC said it would collaborate with computer giant Intel to equip at least 1,000 migrants with “critical skills in information and communications technology and other in-demand sectors of …
your ad hereSpaceX Successfully Launches Largest Rocket Yet
The private space company SpaceX has launched its largest rocket yet Tuesday, sending a cherry red Tesla Roadster into an elliptical Earth-Mars orbit. The Falcon Heavy rocket lifted off from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center on the same launch pad from which NASA’s Apollo 11 lifted off in 1969 on the …
your ad hereReport: Social Media Surveillance Unfairly Targeted Muslims
A social media monitoring tool used by the Boston Police Department to identify potential threats swept up the posts of people using the hashtag #MuslimLivesMatter and a lawmaker’s Facebook update about racial inequality, according to a report released Wednesday by the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts. The ACLU says …
your ad here500-Year-Old Skeletons Sought by 3 Native American Tribes
Somewhere in Boise, the 500-year-old skeletons of two Native Americans found last year when a badger apparently unearthed them from their resting place in Idaho’s high desert sagebrush steppe are being stored as three tribes seek to claim them as their own and anthropologists who study Native Americans lament what …
your ad hereSPECIAL REPORT: Why ‘Higher Risk’ Human Targets Get Shocked With Tasers
The maker of the Taser says the electroshock weapon is the safest tool on a police officer’s belt – with a few caveats. In pages of warnings, Axon Enterprise Inc advises police to beware that some people are at higher risk of death or serious injury from the weapons. Pregnant …
your ad hereWHO to Set Up Health Reserve Army to Tackle Emergencies
The director general of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said he is establishing what he calls a health reserve army to tackle emergencies and newly emerging diseases. Ghebreyesus said he has been spending the past seven months working on a strategic plan to reform and improve the World …
your ad hereSpaceX Sports Car Now Flying Toward Asteroid Belt Beyond Mars
The world’s first space sports car is cruising toward the asteroid belt, well beyond Mars. SpaceX chief Elon Musk confirmed the new, more distant route for his rocketing Tesla Roadster, which was launched aboard the company’s Falcon Heavy from Florida. The Heavy became the most powerful rocket flying today with …
your ad hereBollywood’s ‘Period’ Drama Boosts Menstrual-solution Entrepreneurs
Bollywood’s first film on menstrual hygiene, due for release on Friday, has boosted business for entrepreneurs providing affordable sanitary pads to women in India, manufacturers said. Even the trailer for “Padman” – which depicts one of Hindi cinema’s most popular action heroes, Akshay Kumar, wearing a sanitary pad – has …
your ad hereRussian Hackers Hunt Hi-Tech Secrets, Exploiting US Weakness
Russian cyberspies pursuing the secrets of military drones and other sensitive U.S. defense technology tricked key contract workers into exposing their email to theft, an Associated Press investigation has found. What ultimately may have been stolen is uncertain, but the hackers clearly exploited a national vulnerability in cybersecurity: poorly protected …
your ad hereDNA Suggests 10,000-Year-Old Brit Had Dark Skin, Blue Eyes
Researchers say DNA from a 10,000-year-old skeleton found in an English cave suggests he had dark skin and blue eyes. Scientists from Britain’s Natural History Museum and University College London have analyzed the genome of “Cheddar Man,” who was found in Cheddar Gorge in southwest England in 1903. It is …
your ad herePapua Health Crisis Prompts International Scrutiny, Internal Review
Twin crises of measles and malnutrition have recently afflicted Indonesia’s easternmost province, Papua, inciting foreign and media scrutiny as well as internal review from the Indonesian government. Papua is an impoverished but mineral-rich province with a history of separatist struggle, which has been quashed for decades by the Indonesian military. …
your ad hereFemale Songwriters in Nashville Say "Time’s Up"
Female musicians in Nashville have long complained about the lack of representation on country radio, but now a collective of female songwriters are singing “Time’s Up.” The Song Suffragettes were formed in 2014 in response to a growing concern that women were being excluded by labels and radio and spurred …
your ad hereFemale Songwriters in Nashville Say ‘Time’s Up’
Female musicians in Nashville have long complained about the lack of representation on country radio, but now a collective of female songwriters are singing “Time’s Up.” The Song Suffragettes were formed in 2014 in response to a growing concern that women were being excluded by labels and radio and spurred …
your ad hereNew Dinosaur Species Discovered in Egyptian Desert
Just days after the announcement that the 4,400 year old tomb of a high-ranking priestess had been found in Egypt, comes word of an even older discovery in the country, from about 100 million years ago. Faith Lapidus tells us about the new species of dinosaur found in the western …
your ad hereFemale Circumcision Continues in 30 Countries, Mostly in Africa
Female circumcision is a common but brutal practice in some cultures, where it affects millions of women in 30 countries, mostly in Africa. That is why the U.N. has designated Feb. 6 as the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation. In Ethiopia alone, three quarters of women …
your ad hereWall Street Rollercoaster Continues
The rollercoaster ride continued in financial markets Tuesday, with sharp swings rocking major indexes from Asia, Europe and North America. The volatility intensified just a day after the steepest drop on Wall Street on Monday, after the Dow Jones Industrial index plunged nearly 1,200 points. But if the sharp sell-off came …
your ad hereCasino Mogul Wynn Resigns After Sexual Misconduct Allegations
Billionaire casino mogul Steve Wynn has resigned as head of Wynn Resorts, less than two weeks after the Wall Street Journal published a report about decades of allegations of sexual misconduct. The Journal article detailed several incidents in which Wynn allegedly pressured staff to perform sex acts. The allegations include …
your ad here‘Star Wars’ Films on Way from TV’s ‘Game of Thrones’ Creators
Disney on Tuesday announced it was expanding its “Star Wars” universe, hiring the creators behind HBO’s massive TV hit “Game of Thrones” to write a new series of films set in the galaxy far, far away. The Walt Disney Co. said in a statement that David Benioff and D.B. Weiss …
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