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The Girl Scouts of the United States of America has filed a lawsuit against the Boy Scouts of America for dropping the word “boy” from its flagship program in an effort to attract girls. In the complaint filed Monday in Manhattan federal court, the Girls Scouts claim the name change erodes “its core brand identity” …

Dr. Anna Perez is a tribal member of the Tigua Nation–one of three federally recognized Native American tribes in Texas and a resident of the federally-recognized tribal nation, Ysleta del Sur Pueblo, located in El Paso, Texas.  The view from the backyard of the adobe house she designed herself? Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.  “The beauty” of …

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will meet with a senior North Korean official Thursday in New York City.  The State Department issued a statement Monday saying Pompeo and Kim Yong Chol, a senior advisor to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, will discuss “making progress on all four pillars of the Singapore Summit joint …

A sharply divided U.S. electorate is voting Tuesday to elect a new Congress and to render a midterm verdict on President Donald Trump.  The results could shift the balance of power in Washington and alter the next two years of Trump’s presidency. All 435 seats in the House of Representatives are at stake Tuesday, plus …

NBC and Fox News Channel both said Monday that they will stop airing President Donald Trump’s campaign advertisement that featured an immigrant convicted of murder.   CNN had rejected the same ad, declaring it racist.   Fox pulled the ad Sunday “upon further review,” said Marianne Gambelli, president of the network’s ad sales department. Fox …

President Donald Trump implored his supporters to vote on Tuesday, saying the media will treat the midterm results as a referendum on his presidency. “Even though I’m not on the ballot, in a certain way I am on the ballot,” Trump said during a tele-town hall organized by his re-election campaign Monday to encourage Republicans …

Elon Musk has tweeted a new video of a tunnel constructed under a Los Angeles suburb to test a new type of transportation system.   Musk tweeted Saturday that he walked the length of the tunnel and commented that it is “disturbingly long.”   The tunnel runs about 2 miles (3.2 kilometers) under the streets …

Sweeping accusations that the Kremlin tried to sway the 2016 U.S. election haven’t chastened Russian trolls, hackers and spies — and might even have emboldened them. U.S. officials and tech companies say Russians have continued online activity targeted at American voters during the campaign for Tuesday’s election, masquerading as U.S. institutions and creating faux-American social …

A yoga student is being lauded as a hero for wrestling with a gunman who posed as a customer to get into a yoga studio in Florida and started firing. Joshua Quick spoke to ABC’s Good Morning America on Sunday and said he grabbed Scott Paul Beierle’s gun after it jammed, and hit him. Tallahassee …

The big names were on the campaign trail Sunday, two days before a midterm election with control of Congress at stake. Americans vote Tuesday for all 435 members of the House of Representatives and 35 of 100 Senate seats, as well as for numerous state governors, local offices and ballot questions. President Donald Trump led …

In its humanitarian mission, the USNS Comfort naval ship provides medical help and treatment for the most vulnerable communities in Latin America. During its first stop in Esmeraldas, Ecuador, thousands of patients were able to get treatment that they would not be able to afford. Belen Mora has the story. …

A new exhibition in Los Angeles is celebrating the U.S. cult of custom cars and art culture. “Auto-Didactic: The Juxtapoz School” features art, fashion and vehicles that represent the custom culture of the “hot rod” era that began in Southern California in the 1960s. VOA’s Julie Taboh has more. …

A 4,000-strong caravan of Central American migrants traveling through Mexico split into several groups with one spending the night in a town in the coastal state of Veracruz and other migrants continuing toward the country’s capital. The divisions came during a tense day in which tempers flared and some migrants argued with caravan organizers and …

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) says the Central American migration caravan wending its way through Mexico toward the United States is an annual event and poses no threat.   U.S. President Donald Trump calls the migrant caravan moving toward the United States’ southern border an invasion, a view the International Organization for Migration does …

New York City police say two Saudi sisters whose bodies washed ashore on Manhattan’s Hudson River likely committed suicide. Dermot Shea, New York City Police Department chief of detectives, said Tala Farea, 16 and Rotana Farea, 23, were reported to have preferred suicide over returning to Saudi Arabia.   Shea said the young women likely …

The U.S. military in Kabul says a U.S. service member has been killed in an apparent “insider attack” in the capital Kabul. Sgt. 1st Class Debra Richardson, a Resolute Support spokeswoman, said Saturday in a statement that another U.S. service member was wounded in the attack. The statement said the attacker was a member of …

White, working-class voters fueled President Donald Trump’s rise to the White House. If his party loses the House majority on Tuesday, it will be, at least in part, because those same voters abandoned the GOP. While Democrats’ suburban offensive is well-known, an often-overlooked battle is underway across rural and working-class districts in states including Maine, …

The United States says it plans to issue temporary waivers to several countries, allowing them to continue purchasing Iranian oil without being subject to forthcoming U.S. sanctions. Sanctions on Iran are expected to be reinstated Monday, the result of U.S. President Donald Trump’s withdrawal earlier this year from the nuclear agreement between Iran and six …

It’s the week before the general election and poll workers for the Arizona county with 2.2 million of the state’s 3.7 million registered voters gathered to train for their mission: Making sure Maricopa County’s August primary nightmare doesn’t happen again. That’s when dozens of polling stations for the sprawling area that includes Phoenix and its …

Dozens of people who said they were victims of sexual assault by doctors at three major universities urged Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to make campuses accountable for investigating abuse allegations in a letter released Thursday. The Education Department is considering new guidelines that could change the way allegations are investigated under Title IX of federal …

U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry will visit Ukraine, Poland and other eastern European countries next week as the Trump administration seeks to offer them alternatives to buying coal and gas from Russia. Perry will also visit Hungary and the Czech Republic on the trip. He will meet with government officials on topics from nuclear energy …

The White House announced new sanctions Thursday against Venezuela and Cuba, and threatened to do the same against Nicaragua, calling the three nations a “troika of tyranny.” In a Miami speech, National Security Adviser John Bolton said the United States “will no longer appease dictators and despots near our shores in this hemisphere. He likened …

In a sprawling California congressional district that includes some of the nation’s richest farmland and part of one of its poorest cities, a first-time candidate, a Cambodian-American woman, is taking on a well-entrenched Democrat, a white man. Neither reflects the 16th District’s majority, the 58 percent of residents who identify as Hispanic or Latino. Slightly …

U.S. President Donald Trump has not “set in stone” any decisions on escalating tariffs on Chinese goods and may withdraw some duties if there are promising policy discussions with China, White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow said on Wednesday. Kudlow said on CNBC that the meeting agenda between Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping at …

Japan’s central government resumed work at a disputed U.S. military base relocation site on Okinawa Thursday even though residents see the project as an undemocratic imposition on the small southern island. An early stage of landfill work at Henoko on Okinawa’s east coast began Thursday morning, following the central government’s decision this week to reverse …

Clues to America’s past can be found in its ghost towns, once bustling communities that have been abandoned. The deserted communities show us how the Industrial Revolution and two World Wars shaped the history of the United States, according to Geotab, a telematics company (think global positioning and vehicle tracking), which developed an interactive map …