VOA News By Associated Press LONDON – Goodbye, your royal highnesses. Hello, life as — almost — ordinary civilians. Prince Harry and wife Meghan will no longer use the titles “royal highness” or receive public funds for their work under a deal that lets the couple step aside as working royals, Buckingham Palace announced Saturday. Releasing […]Load more...
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 […]Load more...
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 […]Load more...
VOA News By Michelle Quinn SAN FRANCISCO – U.S. health officials began screening at three airports — here, Los Angeles and New York — of passengers traveling from Wuhan, a city in central China, where a viral pneumonia has spread. As of Saturday, the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission said four more people were diagnosed with the virus. […]Load more...
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 […]Load more...
VOA News by Reuters WASHINGTON – The U.S. National Archives, home to foundational documents such as the Bill of Rights, apologized Saturday for altering images critical of President Donald Trump at an exhibit on women’s fight for voting rights and said it had removed the display. The entrance to the Washington exhibit had featured interlaced photographs of a 1913 women’s suffrage […]Load more...
By VOA News A major gun rights rally is scheduled for Monday in the capital of the U.S. southeastern state of Virginia. Thousands of pro-gun activists, included armed militia members, are expected to gather in Richmond at a time when Democrats have full control of the state legislature for the first time in a generation. Democratic […]Load more...
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 […]Load more...
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Trump Dismisses Dispute Over Whether Possible Soleimani Attack Was Imminent
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 […]Load more...