VOA News AP Una segunda oleada de influenza azota a Estados Unidos convirtiendo a la actual temporada en una de las peores para los niños en una década. La cifra de muertes infantiles y la tasa de hospitalización de niños son las más altas registradas en esta fecha para cualquier temporada desde el severo brote […]Load more...
VOA News Cindy Saine El secretario de Estado Mike Pompeo se encuentra en Senegal, donde sostendrá conversaciones con el presidente Macky Sall, centradas en fortalecer los lazos de seguridad y promover una cooperación económica más profunda. Estados Unidos reconoció oficialmente a Senegal como un estado independiente en 1960, y los dos países han forjado una […]Load more...
VOA News By Associated Press ALT LAKE CITY – The Trump administration is asking Congress for $1.5 billion over 10 years to create a new national stockpile of U.S.-mined uranium, saying that propping up U.S. uranium production in the face of cheaper imports is a matter of vital energy security. But some Democratic lawmakers, and market […]Load more...
VOA News By Ayaz Gul, Carla Babb ISLAMABAD / MUNICH – U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper said Saturday that consultations were still underway on setting a start date for a seven-day trial of reduced violence negotiated with the Taliban in Afghanistan. “That is a moving date because we are still doing consultations, if you will, … […]Load more...
VOA News By Associated Press MUNICH – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy vowed Saturday to end the separatist conflict in the east of his country, where fighting between Russia-backed rebels and Ukrainian troops has killed more than 14,000 people since 2014. Speaking at the Munich Security Conference, Zelenskiy said he hopes to end the conflict by the […]Load more...
New York Prosecutor Says Former Movie Producer Weinstein Abused His
VOA News By Reuters NEW YORK – New York prosecutors told jurors that Harvey Weinstein abused his power and lacked empathy in a closing argument on Friday at the former movie producer’s weeks-long rape trial, a milestone of the #MeToo movement. Setting the stage for the jury to begin deliberating next week, Assistant District Attorney Joan […]Load more...
VOA News By Jim Malone The 2020 battle for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination is off to a fast though uncertain start, with strong showings in the first two contests by Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders and former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg. Buttigieg narrowly won the most delegates in the Iowa caucus voting while Sanders […]Load more...
VOA News By Kane Farabaugh CHICAGO – When Bill Walsh Jr.’s father began selling vehicles in the 1960s, customers visiting his Ottawa, Illinois, dealership preferred four-door sedans by the “big three” U.S. automakers — Ford, General Motors and Chrysler. “Those vehicles were really what everyone talked about,” Walsh said. “They were the main pivot point for the big three, […]Load more...
By VOA News U.S. health officials are preparing for a second wave of the winter flu season, complicated this year by similarities between flu symptoms and those of the coronavirus that has killed more than 1,500 in China and spread fear around the world. A first round of seasonal flu, caused by a strain of influenza […]Load more...
VOA News By Esha Sarai, Saqib Ul Islam ARKLAND, FLORIDA – The week of Valentine’s Day 2020 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School has been quiet. “I like to get out of town this time of year,” Felicia Burgin, an English teacher at the Parkland, Florida, school said. On Friday, students and teachers there will be offered their […]Load more...