VIDEO: About 2 million immigrants who live in the United States come from Eastern Europe, and as with other immigrant groups, adjusting to their new lives can be a challenge. In Portland, Oregon, a Slavic Advisory Council has been set up to help police officers and Eastern European immigrants to better understand each other.

ON THIS DAY IN AMERICAN HISTORY On Feb. 4, 1789, George Washington is elected first president of the United States. John Adams was elected vice president. Washington was the commander of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War earning him the title “father of his country.” Washington served two terms as president and retired from public life in 1797.

VIDEO: The growing use of mobile phones, computers and televisions in Africa has left the continent with huge amounts of electronic waste. According to the United Nations Environment Program, 40 percent of the world’s electronic dumpsites are found in Africa. To reduce the growing problem, a group in Kenya is helping manage e-waste through local and exported recycling.

VIDEO: Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó, who last month was recognized by the U.S. as the acting president of Venezuela, talked to VOA’s Spanish Service on Feb. 1. Guaidó told VOA Noticias he is reaching out to military leaders in Venezuela, as well as nations such as Russia and China who support Nicolás Maduro, whom Guaidó called a dictator.

VIDEO: Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, a Democrat, is under pressure to resign after a conservative website published a photo from his medical school yearbook showing an unidentified person in blackface and an unidentified person in a Ku Klux Klan hood and robe on Northam’s page. Northam has denied being either of the people in the photo but has acknowledged darkening his face for a Michael Jackson dance contest in 1984.

VIDEO: In December 2018, Apple announced its plans to build a new campus in Austin. Texas is rapidly becoming more and more attractive for tech companies and is often called a second Silicon Valley, thanks to affordable housing, low taxes, highly qualified workers and the abundance of universities that train IT professionals.