VIDEO: Meet John Shepherd, a local country musician in Nashville, Tennessee, who can sing almost any country song on command. VOA also learned more about the history of country music in Nashville and how the Grand Ole Opry came known as “country’s most famous stage.”

ON THIS DAY IN AMERICAN HISTORY   On May 14, 1973, America’s first space station is launched into orbit. The 177,000-pound station contained solar observatory, workshop and hundreds of life and physical science experiments. A total of three, three-man missions visited Skylab during its time in space. On July 11, 1979, Skylab fell from orbit with some debris falling to Earth near Perth, Australia.

U.S. President Donald Trump has denied the trade talks with China have collapsed and characterized the trade tension between the world’s two largest economies as “a little squabble.”

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Russian leaders Tuesday that President Donald Trump “is committed to improving” relations between the two superpowers.

VIDEO: A new mass spectroscopy machine is helping forensic scientists who are looking for a much better view of fingerprints on objects used in a crime. The current methods of making a copy of a fingerprint may not be good enough and DNA swabbing can damage evidence.

They occupy only 25 percent of the workforce, less than 12 percent of parliamentary seats, a backseat in many homes dominated by patriarchal voices, but in one significant area Indian women have emerged on par with men: at polling booths. That has made political parties sit up and take notice in a country where a slim margin can make the difference between victory and defeat.