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President Donald Trump has ordered the U.S. Treasury to stop minting the penny, whose cost to make exceeds its 1-cent value. But despite ongoing efforts to abolish it since the 1990s, the penny has had remarkable staying power. VOA explains.

Britain's Maritime and Coastguard Agency said several lifeboats and a coast guard rescue helicopter were dispatched to the scene in the North Sea, along with a coast guard plane and nearby vessels with firefighting capability. 

In a milestone for adaptive sports in Ukraine, the Titans Cup, an all-Ukrainian wheelchair basketball tournament, was held last month in western Ukraine for the first time in nearly 10 years. Despite the ongoing war, the event brought in teams from across the country. Omelyan Oshchudlyak reports.

The 24-hour walkout, which started at midnight on Sunday, involves public-sector employees at the airports as well as ground and security staff

Artificial intelligence companies train their AI models using the works of writers, artists and creatives who typically aren’t credited or compensated. Instead of fighting AI, some tech companies are encouraging creators to take advantage of it. Tina Trinh reports.

Jack Teixeira was sentenced in federal court to 15 years in prison for leaking highly classified military documents after the most consequential national security breach in years

Not-so-ready Amphibious Ready Groups leave Marine units shipless, unable to deploy

The announcement in a post on X marked one of Rubio's relatively few public comments on what has been a historic shift away from US foreign aid and development

Francis followed the opening of the retreat by videoconference on Sunday

Georgescu submitted his presidential bid on Friday after allegations of Russian interference in his favor prompted Romania's Constitutional Court to cancel the original election in December

Ukraine destroys 130 Russian drones, military says

The 'war on drugs' was the signature campaign policy that swept Duterte to power in 2016 as a maverick who promised to kill thousands of narcotics dealers

The United Nations has said Myanmar is mired in a 'polycrisis' of mutually compounding conflict, poverty and environmental damage

South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the missile firings, North Korea’s fifth missile launch event this year, were detected from the North’s Hwanghae province

The effort is part of a global scientific trial to study how indoor heat impacts health and economic outcomes in developing countries

India had banned exports of 100% broken rice in September 2022 and then imposed curbs on exports of all other rice grades in 2023

Trump was not in Washington at the time of the incident