VOA News A U.S. trade delegation has arrived in Beijing. The group is in China to hold two days of talks, beginning Monday, focusing on how best to carry out an agreement reached by U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping to postpone new tariff hikes. On December 1, the two leaders agreed […]readmore
VOA News/Teresa Krug DES MOINES, IOWA — The race to challenge U.S. President Donald Trump in November 2020 kicked off in earnest Saturday, when the first major Democratic Party hopeful to announce her candidacy visited with voters across Iowa. Bounding onto stage in a packed building in Des Moines’s trendy East Village, Senator Elizabeth Warren of […]readmore
VOA News Mexico has formally asked the United States for an «an exhaustive investigation» into a Jan. 1 incident in which U.S. agents fired non-lethal weapons into Mexico to stop migrants from breaching the border. In a statement released Thursday, the Mexican Foreign Ministry said it lamented any violent acts along its border and repeated […]readmore
VOA News WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump and congressional leaders are scheduled to meet late Friday morning at the White House to discuss how to end the government shutdown that has entered its third week.The meeting comes a day after a new group of lawmakers was sworn into office in what is now a Democratically […]readmore
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL), Jack Reed (D-RI), Angus King (I-ME), and Susan Collins (R-ME) today re-introduced the bipartisan Extreme Risk Protection Order and Violence Prevention Act, which will dedicate Department of Justice funds to incentivize states to give law enforcement the authority to prevent individuals who pose a threat to themselves or […]readmore
Rhode Island Congressman applauds enactment of new ethics requirements and LGBT protections, as Democrats hit ground running on Day One WASHINGTON – Democratic Policy and Communications Committee (DPCC) Chair David N. Cicilline (RI-01) passed three proposals through the U.S. House today as Democrats made good on their campaign promises to restore honesty and integrity in government. […]readmore
VOA News U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, who made a strong run for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, is apologizing to women who worked on his campaign after several of them said they had endured sexual harassment and were not paid as much as their male counterparts. The allegations surfaced this week in news accounts as […]readmore
VOA NEWS/Ken Bredemeier The partial U.S. government shutdown is in its 13th day, with no end in sight after President Donald Trump and congressional leaders failed to reach agreement on how to reopen shuttered agencies. «The Shutdown is only because of the 2020 Presidential Election,» Trump claimed Thursday in a Twitter comment. «The Democrats know they can’t […]readmore
VOA News/Katherine Gypson CAPITOL HILL — Nancy Pelosi swore the oath securing her status as the most powerful woman in U.S. political history Thursday, beginning a new era of divided government in the United States and setting up a formidable political rivalry with President Donald Trump. Pelosi’s historic second turn leading a Democratic majority as the […]readmore
El Louvre batió un nuevo récord de frecuentación, con más de 10 millones de visitas en 2018, gracias a un aumento del turismo en París y a la publicidad generada por el clip de Beyoncé «Apeshit» filmado entre las obras maestras del museo, declaró este jueves el director. «Por primera vez en su historia y […]readmore