VIDEO: For years, Facebook said it wanted to be the world’s digital town square. Now, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s CEO, has a more intimate vision, the digital living room, enabling private conversations between people and groups. The company spelled out how it is changing at its annual developer event in San Jose, California.

ON THIS DAY IN AMERICAN HISTORY On May 1, 1941 the landmark movie, Citizen Kane , is released. The movie, starring Orson Welles, who also co-wrote and produced it, chronicles the life of Charles Foster Kane, a character loosely based on newspaper magnates Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst. It was Welles’ first movie. While not a box office success, the movie was nominated for nine Academy Awards, winning for Best Writing (Original Screenplay). The movie was quickly forgotten, but interest in it was reignited in the mid-1950s, and it is now considered one of the greatest movies ever made.

While the U.S. government has announced efforts to prevent or decrease the growing flow of migrants from Central American, another group of immigrants find themselves applying for protection, even though they had not planned to do so.

Critics are voicing opposition to an effort by South Sudan to block the establishment of a special court aimed at investigating and prosecuting war crimes there.

VIDEO: The power struggle for control of Venezuela is also playing out at the country’s official mission in Washington, D.C. VOA visited the embassy where supporters of Nicolas Maduro are occupying the building, keeping it out of the hands of opposition leaders.

VIDEO: The poppy harvest season is underway in Afghanistan, and children in southern Kandahar province are harvesting them to make a living. During the process of collecting raw opium in the fields, many of these children become drug addicts. Afghan officials told VOA the government is committed to respecting international laws prohibiting child labor and that measures would be taken to address the problem.