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The Los Angeles Unified School District has fired nearly 500 employees for refusing to comply with the district mandate that they receive COVID-19 vaccine shots. The decision by the second-largest school district in the U.S. came in a vote in early December, as Angelina Bagdasaryan reports from Los Angeles in this story narrated by Anna Rice.

Give us 5 minutes, and we'll give you the world. Around the clock, Voice of America keeps you in touch with the latest news. We bring you reports from our correspondents and interviews with newsmakers from across the world.

Give us 5 minutes, and we'll give you the world. Around the clock, Voice of America keeps you in touch with the latest news. We bring you reports from our correspondents and interviews with newsmakers from across the world.

Africa News Tonight is a lively news magazine show featuring VOA correspondent reports, interviews with African officials, opposition leaders, NGOs and human rights activists. News feature stories look at science and technology, environmental issues, humanitarian topics, the African diaspora, business, arts and culture.

Nearly two-years after alarm bells sounded warning of a deadly virus from Wuhan, China, there is a new coronavirus variant that was first identified weeks ago by scientists in Botswana and South Africa, according to the New York Times, that is threatening to extend the pandemic. On this next edition of Our Voices, we’ll look at the impact of the new Omicron variant and the reintroduction of travel restrictions and testing requirements.

On April 28th NASA’s Parker Solar Probe became the first spacecraft in history to enter the Sun’s corona or upper atmosphere.

Host Carol Castiel speaks with the director of the “Governance Lab” and Northeastern University professor, Beth Simone Noveck, about her new book “Solving Public Problems: A Practical Guide to Fix Our Government and Change Our World.” On this encore edition, Noveck tells VOA that citizens and governments can leverage digital technology, data, and the collective wisdom of communities to create solutions to contemporary problems from the Covid-19 pandemic to climate change to social inequa...

John Fortier, resident scholar at The American Enterprise Institute, and Jim Kessler, executive vice president for policy at Third Way, take stock of US President Joe Biden’s first year in office. Despite his major accomplishments, including the Covid-19 relief bill and bipartisan infrastructure legislation, a couple of conservative Democrats in the evenly split Senate have thus far stymied Biden’s hopes for passing voting rights and “Build Back Better” legislation before the end of 2021...