Anita Powell

President Joe Biden’s top Mideast envoy said Wednesday he’s hopeful about negotiations with Hezbollah to bring the conflict along Israel’s northern border to an end, although fighting continues, and an end appears nowhere in sight in Gaza.

No media source currently available President-elect Donald Trump says he intends to nominate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the U.S.

Print President Joe Biden will make his first presidential trip to Africa next week, visiting Angola and making a stop in the island nation of Cabo Verde, a top White House official told VOA.

President Joe Biden, in December, is set to become the first U.S. leader to visit Angola. His trip will be centered around the promotion of a rail corridor that will transport valuable minerals from the heart of Africa to a burgeoning port in the southern African nation. VOA's White House correspondent Anita Powell has more.

By Anita Powell U.S. President Joe Biden received a warm welcome at Angola’s pink-hued Presidential Palace Tuesday as he made his first and almost certainly final visit to the African continent as president.

Print U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday headed to a U.S.-financed African development project that weaves together his personal love of

No media source currently available President Joe Biden was in Angola Wednesday for a tour of Lobito port, the ocean terminal of a U.S.-backed railway redevelopment corridor.

At final Tribal Nations Summit, Biden memorializes painful past of Native people

What is going on in the skies of the eastern United States? In recent weeks, countless drones have been spotted — and everyone from residents to the incoming president has questions. Anita Powell reports from Washington.

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump says the leaders of Ukraine and Russia should be “prepared to make a deal” to end the brutal conflict that has consumed Ukraine since 2022. VOA’s Anita Powell reports. Iuliia Iarmolenko, Kim Lewis and Kateryna Lisunova contributed.