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
El gobierno de Venezuela confirmó este jueves la muerte del cónsul de Grecia en Caracas, Aggelos Haritos, quien según un parte de la policía falleció de un infarto en un hotel de la capital. En un comunicado, la administración del presidente Nicolás Maduro expresó sus «más sentidas palabras de condolencia» al gobierno griego por el […]readmore
Clare Foran, Phil Mattingly, CNN Washington (CNN) – La 116ª generación del Congreso rompió las barreras antes de que sus miembros pusieran un pie en Washington. Hay un número récord de mujeres que prestaron juramento el jueves. Mujeres musulmanas llegarán al Congreso por primera vez, al igual que las nativas americanas. El estado de Texas envió al Congreso […]readmore
VOA News/Michael Bowman CAPITOL HILL — At the start of a new U.S. Congress, Republicans expand their Senate majority to 53 members, while Democrats number 47, including two independents who caucus with them. The 2018 midterm elections featured 33 Senate contests for six-year terms in the 100-member chamber. Up for grabs were 23 seats held by […]readmore
VOA News The new Democrat-led U.S. House of Representatives is expected to approve bills Thursday to end a partial government shutdown. The Republican leader of the Senate says he will not bring the measures to a vote. President Donald Trump expressed his willingness to keep the shutdown going “as long as it takes” to get […]readmore
VOA News/Henry Ridgwell LONDON — China is meeting a growing demand for armed drones in the Middle East, adding new military capabilities to an already tense security situation, according to a new report from the London-based Royal United Services Institute. Report author Justin Bronk says Beijing asks few questions when selling the technology overseas. “Because the […]readmore
Agence France-Presse CHICAGO — Patricia Gallagher Marchant was first abused by a priest who befriended her family when she was seven or eight years old. More than five decades later, the 61-year-old stood Wednesday in front of a throng of news cameras outside the downtown Chicago headquarters of the Catholic archdiocese in this sprawling American city, […]readmore