VOA News/Joyce Huang The Year of the Pig is getting off to a rough start in China as the world’s largest consumer of pork and home to half the world’s pigs struggles to contain the spread of the African swine fever (ASF) virus. Recent incidents, where traces of the virus were found in samples of […]Load more...
VOA News/Esha Sarai & William Gallo WASHINGTON — For much of U.S. history, socialism was a dirty word — more of a political smear than a description of someone’s political ideology. Socialism typically was confused with state ownership of the means of production, communism or even totalitarian governments. Socialist Party candidates struggled to attract popular support. At the height […]Load more...
VOA News/Ken Bredemeier Three new polls in the U.S. show that a majority of Americans oppose President Donald Trump’s declaration of a national emergency to build a wall along the country’s southern border with Mexico without congressional authorization. In the latest survey released Wednesday, a Politico/Morning Consult poll showed Americans were opposed to Trump’s action […]Load more...
VOA News/Reuters WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump plans to nominate Jeffrey Rosen as the next deputy U.S. attorney general, the White House said on Tuesday night, the latest shuffle in the Justice Department at a time when it faces close scrutiny over its Russia investigation. Rosen, currently deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Transportation, would […]Load more...
VOA News President Donald Trump declared a national emergency on Friday after Congress declined to fulfill his request for $5.7 billion to help build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border that was his signature 2016 campaign promise. His move aims to let him spend money appropriated by Congress for other purposes. What’s next? Legal challenges […]Load more...
$10K in scholarships available for high school entrepreneurs PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Today, Lt. Governor Daniel McKee launched Rhode Island’s second annual Lt. Governor’s Entrepreneurship Challenge, a business pitch competition that encourages high school students to compete for $10,000 in post-secondary scholarships. Last year, over 55 students from 18 schools across Rhode Island participated in the Challenge and […]Load more...
A scathing British parliamentary report on Monday branded Facebook «digital gangsters» that knowingly violated data privacy and competition laws. Lawmakers’ 18-month investigation into disinformation and «fake news» also accused Facebook of failing to faithfully fight Russia’s alleged attempts to influence elections. Cultural select committee chair Damian Collins said Facebook «deliberately sought to frustrate our work by giving […]Load more...
VOA News/Masood Farivar For nearly two decades, Vancouver, the epicenter of Canada’s increasingly deadly drug epidemic, has embraced an initiative that was once dismissed as a reckless experiment but has since won over some of its fiercest critics: a walk-in facility where addicts can inject heroin under the watch of medical professionals. Allowed as an […]Load more...
VOA News U.S. President Donald Trump will warn of «the dangers of socialism» in a speech Monday in support of Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido, who is recognized by the United States as the South American nation’s interim president. The White House says Trump will make remarks at Florida International University, as his administration continues […]Load more...
VOA News/Ken Bredemeier U.S. President Donald Trump suggested Monday that key law enforcement officials engaged in «treasonous» activity when they considered invoking a constitutional amendment in 2017 to remove him from office while opening an obstruction of justice investigation against him. Trump, from his oceanfront Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, lashed out at former acting Federal […]Load more...
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