Articles by Voice of America

A massive transportation strike has crippled France, as public transportation and other workers took to the streets to protest pension reform plans proposed by the country’s center-right government.

A ride on Hill City’s 1880s train is always like a step back in time. But during the Western Heritage Festival, the entire town seems to be in a “time-warp” mode with cowboys, miners, a horse-drawn wagon rumbling down Main Street, even a robbery at the local bank!

New York City’s metropolitan population of roughly 22 million people is the largest in the United States. Millions of others commute from outlying areas, riding trains into Manhattan each morning, riding them home again each night. In those journeys, some things get lost.