VIDEO: About 50,000 NATO personnel from 31 NATO and partner countries are springing into action Thursday at the start of the alliance’s Trident Juncture exercise, its largest drills since the end of the Cold War .

ON THIS DAY IN AMERICAN HISTORY On October 25, 1994, Susan Smith claims her car with two small children was carjacked by an African-American man in South Carolina. After nine days of intense, national media coverage, her story began to fall apart. Law enforcement determined she made up the story and had purposely driven the car into a nearby lake, killing her two children. She was found guilty on two counts of murder and sentenced to life in prison.

When elections are over , the results are submitted to a meticulous post-mortem: What went wrong? And what went right? Voter turnout is key, complacency is bad, and candidates matter. VOA takes a look at a hotly contested race in Nevada .

VIDEO: The technology used in space missions can be expensive, but it has some practical benefits here on Earth. Case in point: the thousands of high-resolution images taken from the surface of Mars, collected by the two Mars rovers – Spirit and Opportunity. Now, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, are using the same technology to analyze air pollution here on our planet .

VIDEO: A Broadway musical about a woman who may be the last surviving member of Russian royalty is starting its tour around the United States, Europe, Asia and Latin America. Ironically, the country it won’t visit is Russia .

Despite the anti-Islamic State campaign being waged in both Iraq and Syria, the terror group can still attack coalition forces and their local partners in both countries, Col. Sean Ryan, spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition, said.