VOA News By Ayaz Gul ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN – The top American commander in Afghanistan revealed Monday the size of U.S. troop force in the country has quietly been reduced by 2,000 over the last year, insisting remaining military personnel are still capable of reaching their stated objectives. The revelation by Gen. Austin Scott Miller, means the […]readmore
VOA News By Steve Herman WHITE HOUSE – U.S. President Donald Trump is lashing out at Democrats and the media after criticism prompted him to cancel his plan to hold a meeting for leaders of major industrialized countries at one of his properties in Florida. «You people with this phony emoluments clause,» Trump said to reporters during […]readmore
VOA News By Katherine Gypson CAPITOL HILL – When the U.S. Congress seeks to condemn the actions of a president, a cabinet member, a lawmaker or a judge, lawmakers can vote on a motion to «censure» the individual. Censure is a formal reprimand less severe than removing an official from their job. It requires a simple […]readmore
VOA News By Jim Malone WASHINGTON – After a thousand days of President Donald Trump in the White House, official Washington found itself consumed by the twin crises of impeachment and Syria this week. Even as the president is trying to fend off congressional Democrats moving toward impeachment, he also faces a fierce backlash from Democrats […]readmore
VOA NEWS By Ken Bredemeier WASHINGTON – The White House admitted Thursday that U.S. President Donald Trump froze $400 million in badly needed military aid to Ukraine to pressure it into investigating Democrats and the 2016 presidential election. The stunning revelation by acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney came after Trump spent weeks denying there was […]readmore
VOA News By Patsy Widakuswara DALLAS, TEXAS – U.S. President Donald Trump was in Texas Thursday, where he held a campaign rally in the city of Dallas to drum up support in a state that until recently could be counted on to vote Republican. In front of an enthusiastic crowd, Trump boasted about the U.S. brokered […]readmore
VOA News By Reuters WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO – Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday defended the social media company’s light regulation of speech and lack of fact checking on political advertising, while citing China’s censorship as a roadblock to operating in the country. Facebook has been under fire in recent years for its lax approach […]readmore
VOA News By Kane Farabaugh CAMERON, ILL. – A sunny and warm October day outside Coleman, Illinois, is a welcome sight for farmer Jared Kunkle, who is eager to begin harvesting corn and soybean crops. Inclement weather has been a problem this growing season, as he explained to a group of farmers from Brazil who recently […]readmore
By VOA News Two unrelated earthquakes have rattled California in a little more than a 12-hour period. A magnitude-4.7 earthquake hit a remote mountainous region in central California, 25 kilometers southeast of Hollister, just after noon on Tuesday. It followed a 4.5 magnitude temblor near Pleasant Hill, northeast of San Francisco, late Monday. Despite having occurred […]readmore
VOA News By AP SAN FRANCISCO – “Desperate Housewives» star Felicity Huffman — aka prisoner No. 77806-112 — reported Tuesday to a federal prison in California to serve a two-week sentence in a college admissions scandal that ensnared dozens of wealthy mothers and fathers trying to get their children into elite schools. Huffman’s husband, actor […]readmore