Montgomery County Council member Will Jawando announced his bid for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by longtime Maryland Senator Ben Cardin in 2024.
A California woman has been sentenced to four years in prison for crimes related to a failed plot to kidnap VOA Persian host Masih Alinejad. A federal court on Friday handed down the sentence to Niloufar Bahadorifar, a U.S. citizen of Iranian descent, for helping fund an attempt to kidnap Iran critic and journalist Alinejad,…