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Dennis Williams, the former president of the United Auto Workers, is sentenced to 21 months in prison for corruption (May 11)

California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday proposed $12 billion in new funding to get more people experiencing homelessness in the state into housing and to "functionally end family homelessness" within five years. (May 11)

Bangladesh is seeing a rise in the number of female journalists being harassed by fundamentalist groups, raising security concerns for reporters out on assignment. VOA's Sanjana Feroz has more.

US federal agents on Tuesday launched an investigation into a Hindu temple in New Jersey after workers alleged they were lured and forced to work more than 12 hours per day at slave wages to help build the temple. (May 11)

Somalia received 300,000 doses of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine in March, but health officials say less than half the doses have been used. Authorities attribute the slow uptake to fasting during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan and misinformation about the vaccine itself.

New York officials are trying a mix of mandates and incentives to overcome vaccine hesitancy. Gov. Andrew Cuomo says anyone who gets vaccinated at one of six New York City subway stations from Wednesday through Sunday can get a week of free rides (May 11)

Among the many stories of World War Two, Nazi Germany's Siege of Leningrad – the Soviet city now known as Russia's Saint Petersburg – stands among the most harrowing. It also helped shape the world we live in today, as Charles Maynes reports for VOA, from St.

The State Department is calling on Israel and the Palestinians to de-escalate the tensions that have currently turned violent and deadly between both sides. (May 11)

A senior official from China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region says he expects foreign media can avoid biases, prejudices and negative preconceptions when reporting on the autonomous region, adding that Xinjiang welcomes all international visitors to come.

Last fall, World Health Organization leaders said they had no specifics of sexual exploitation claims against aid workers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. But an Associated Press Investigation shows that was not true. (May 11)

A Columbus, Ohio, police officer shot and killed a Black teenage girl after she allegedly attempted to cut two females with a knife, according to officials and body camera footage. The bodycam footage has been put in slow motion and blurred by the Columbus Division of Police.

The U.S. is expanding use of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine to children as young as 12. Jane Ellen Norman says she's looking forward to a little more freedom in her life and a possible return to summer camp after getting her first dose in Atlanta.