VOA News By Steve Baragona Does fighting climate change mean wrecking the economy? That’s the question my editor posed to me about a year ago. It has been the focus of my reporting ever since. The rhetoric from climate change skeptics suggests it would. President Donald Trump has made canceling Obama-era greenhouse gas regulations a central […]readmore
By VOA News Thousands of women began marching Saturday in cities across the United States for the fourth annual Women’s March to advocate for a host of issues, including gender equality and women’s human rights. Rallies got underway in dozens of cities, including Washington, where the first Women’s March in 2017 drew hundreds of thousands of […]readmore
VOA News By Associated Press NEW YORK – Federal authorities are turning to a new tactic in the escalating conflict over New York City’s so-called sanctuary policies, issuing four «immigration subpoenas» to the city for information about inmates wanted for deportation. «This is not a request — it’s a demand,» Henry Lucero, a senior U.S. Immigration […]readmore
Las grandes potencias buscan un acuerdo que impida que la guerra civil se enquiste en el país como ha ocurrido en Siria. La canciller alemana, Angela Merkel, reúne este domingo (19.01.2020) en Berlín a las partes implicadas en el conflicto libio, en una conferencia bajo el paraguas de la ONU enmarcada en un clima de […]readmore
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VOA News By Ken Bredemeier WASHINGTON – U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday dismissed as irrelevant questions about how imminent a threat Iranian Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani posed to American interests in the Middle East when Trump ordered a drone strike that killed him. Trump offered no evidence supporting his claim that Soleimani was about […]readmore
By Associated Press SACRAMENTO, CALIF. – Ride-share company Uber and on-demand meal delivery service Postmates sued Monday to block a broad new California law aimed at giving wage and benefit protections to people who work as independent contractors. The lawsuit filed in U.S. court in Los Angeles argues that the law set to take effect Wednesday […]readmore
By Reuters PRAGUE – A Slovak court handed a 15-year prison sentence to a man charged with facilitating the murder of investigative journalist Jan Kuciak in 2018 in a plea deal on Monday, a spokeswoman said. The killing of Kuciak and his fiancee, both 27, at their home outside Bratislava in February 2018 sparked mass protests […]readmore
By AFP WASHINGTON – A partial new U.S.-China trade agreement will be signed in the middle of next month, U.S. President Donald Trump said Tuesday, announcing that he will also then travel to China for continued talks. «I will be signing our very large and comprehensive Phase One Trade Deal with China on January 15,» Trump […]readmore
By VOA News People across the world are gathering for traditional celebrations to welcome the year 2020. Revelers in New Zealand and other Pacific islands were among the first to celebrate the new year with fireworks displays. Events elsewhere in the world are being overshadowed by other concerns, including in Australia where the fireworks show […]readmore