VOA News/By Associated Press DES MOINES, IOWA – The chant “2 cents, 2 cents, 2 cents”started in the back of a crowd that packed sidewalks at the Iowa State Fair. Elizabeth Warren, basking in the spontaneous adulation of her proposed wealth tax, prompted roars with her call for the ultra-wealthy to “pitch in 2 cents so […]readmore
VOA News/By Ken Bredemeier WASHINGTON – Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden is the leading Democratic presidential contender among two dozen candidates looking to take on President Donald Trump in the 2020 election, but Biden is proving to be unchallenged at committing verbal gaffes on the campaign trail. Biden, with four decades on the American […]readmore
Justice Secretary Wanda Vazquez is accompanied by her husband Judge Jorge Diaz during her swearing in ceremony as Puerto Rico’s new governor, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019. VOA News/AP Associated Press SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO – In one of her first moves as Puerto Rico’s new governor, Wanda Vazquez announced late […]readmore
VOA News By Sirwan Kajjo VOA’s Jeff Seldin contributed to this report. WASHINGTON — One of the two recent mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, is being treated as a case of domestic terrorism by U.S. federal authorities. The El Paso attack, which has left 22 people dead, has renewed debate over how […]readmore
By Alex Marshall Just before 10 p.m. Tuesday, Celia Keenan-Bolger, who plays Scout Finch in “To Kill a Mockingbird” at the Shubert Theater, was giving her final speech of the night when a nearby motorcycle backfired several times. But just days after mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton, Ohio, left 31 people dead, many people outside the theater feared […]readmore
VOA News/ By Rob Garver WASHINGTON – A pair of mass shootings in Texas and Ohio over the Saturday and Sunday have dragged two of the most divisive issues in American politics — the rise of violent white supremacism and gun control — to the forefront of public conversation as politicians across the ideological spectrum are […]readmore
VOA News/By Associated Press BRIDGEWATER, NEW JERSEY — As the nation reeled from two mass shootings in less than a day, President Donald Trump spent the first hours after the tragedies out of sight at his New Jersey golf course, sending out tweets of support awkwardly mixed in with those promoting a celebrity fight and […]readmore
By VOA News U.S. President Donald Trump Monday signed a bipartisan bill to ensure that a Victim Compensation Fund related to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 never runs out of money. «Our nation owes each of you a profound debt that no words or deeds will ever repay. But we can and we will […]readmore
By Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON — Robert Ballard, the underwater explorer who found the Titanic, has a new quest: searching for the plane of famed aviatrix Amelia Earhart, who disappeared over the Pacific in 1937. National Geographic said Ballard plans to leave from Samoa on Aug. 7 to carry out the hunt with his state-of-the-art research vessel, E/V Nautilus. National Geographic […]readmore
By VOA News A spokesman for Puerto Rico’s embattled governor tamped down rampant media reports that Ricardo Rossello was about to step down after two weeks of massive protests calling for his resignation. «Gov. Ricardo Rossello Nevares has not resigned,» Anthony Maceira said Wednesday. «As he said yesterday, he is in a process of reflection and listening to […]readmore