2021-09-05 Labor Day: Will American Workers Be Stronger Because of the Pandemic?
Monday, September 6, is Labor Day this year in the United States. The day to celebrate working people became a…
2021-09-05 Salvadorans Concerned about President’s Plan to Use Bitcoin
When El Salvador makes bitcoin a legal currency on September 7, it will become the first nation in the world…
2021-09-04 Video Calls Help Officers Deal with Mental Health Crises
Americans have been calling on police to change how they deal with citizens in crises, especially those with mental health…
2021-09-03 Japan’s Prime Minister Suga to Leave Office
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said Friday he will not run for re-election as head of the ruling Liberal Democratic…
2021-09-03 In Kabul, Some Fear Economic Collapse More Than Taliban Rule
At a pizza restaurant in downtown Kabul, workers and customers are worried about Afghanistan’s new Taliban rulers. Some, however, say…
2021-09-03 Pianists Learn to Play with an Extra Robotic Thumb
British researchers have explored how a robotic finger can affect a person’s ability to play the piano. The experiment involved…
2021-09-02 Afghans Face Hunger Crisis, Other Problems under Taliban
United Nations food supplies in Afghanistan could run out this month, a UN humanitarian official warned Wednesday. The situation threatens…
2021-09-02 Frenchwoman Officially Considered Dead Fights to be ‘Alive’ Again
Declared dead by a French court in 2017, Jeanne Pouchain has spent the past four years trying to prove she…
2021-09-01 UN Agency: Weather Disasters Becoming More Common and Costly
The number of disasters driven by climate change, such as floods and heatwaves, have increased by five times over the…
2021-09-01 American Companies Rent Robots to Small Factories
Better technology and rising wages are leading an increase in sales of robots to big companies all across America. But…
2021-08-31 Afghan Woman with Top Test Score Worries About Future
Salgai Baran recorded the top score out of 180,000 Afghan students on the country’s national university entrance test. However, she…
2021-08-31 Temporary Work Apps Gain Popularity During the Pandemic
Computer apps that permit people to work for short periods at jobs that require little or no training are becoming…
2021-08-30 US Evacuations from Afghanistan Continue in Final Hours
The United States is continuing to fly people out of Afghanistan in the final hours before its planned total withdrawal…
2021-08-30 Some Indonesian Students Return to School, at a Distance
Schools reopened in parts of Jakarta, Indonesia’s capital, for the first time in more than a year on Monday. Schools…
2021-08-27 US Presses on With Evacuations After Airport Attacks
Evacuation flights from Afghanistan continued Friday under increased security. A day earlier, a suicide bombing at Kabul’s airport killed more…