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US authorities want to try Assange on espionage charges that carry a maximum sentence of 175 years in prison over the 2010 publication of hundreds of thousands of secret military documents and diplomatic cables

The basketball superstar and his 13-year-old daughter will be honored in a public memorial at the arena where Bryant played for the Los Angeles Lakers

A recently planned redesign of the twenty dollar bill would have put the image of famous abolitionist Harriet Tubman on the front, but that was shelved by the Trump Administration. So New York Illustrator Dena Cooper has decided to go ahead and start putting Tubman on as many 20's as she could find. Nina Vishneva has the story, narrated by Anna Rice.

The US leader joined Prime Minister Narendra Modi for a rally in Ahmedabad

Ambassador Richard Grenell is Trump's acting director of national intelligence

Cuomo went to the Albany center after police evacuated about 100 people, searched the building with dogs and declared it safe

But Robert O'Brien acknowledges he has not sought out intelligence reports claiming Moscow interference

Some opponents doubt the democratic socialist's chances against Trump, but Sanders has won the popular vote in all three early party nominating contests

Bernie Sanders has decisively won the Nevada Democratic caucuses, solidifying his lead for his party’s presidential nomination.

Both countries have announced that cooperation on cross-border crime has led to US grand jury indictment of American teacher accused of traveling to Southeast Asian nation to have sex with minors

The 34-year-old Russian forward one-timed a slap shot from the right circle that went in off the left post 4:50 into the third period, tying the game at 2

Hispanics in particular - who account for nearly one-third of Nevada's population - loomed large in his victory as he claimed support from more than half of the Latinos attending Saturday's caucuses

A study by the Nielsen ratings service says African Americans are among the nation's top consumers of social media especially about presidential politics. A U.S. Intelligence report says that made them a target of a Russian disinformation campaign to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election, an effort Moscow is widely expected to repeat. VOA’s Chris Simkins reports from South Carolina where African Americans say they’re on the lookout for false content on social media.

Strong social media engagement made the minority group the target of a Russian disinformation campaign in 2016

Local Tibetans said the exhibit was Chinese government propaganda that misrepresented the situation in Tibet