VOA News/Mike O’Sullivan OTAY MESA, CALIFORNIA —Protests continue over the treatment of migrants detained in Texas for entering the United States illegally, although the Trump administration on Wednesday reversed its controversial practice of separating detained children and parents at the border. Still, thousands of migrants remain in detention awaiting their court cases, and many are […]Load more...
VOA News/Ken Bredemeier WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump called Sunday for immediately deporting illegal immigrants entering the United States with «no Judges or Court Cases.» In a string of Twitter comments, Trump declared, «We cannot allow all of these people to invade our Country…,» contending that «Our system is a mockery to good immigration policy […]Load more...
Ken Bredemeier WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday said the separation of children from their parents trying to enter the United States illegally is «so sad,» but showed no signs of changing the policy. «A country without borders is not a country at all,» Trump said. «We want safety and security for our country […]Load more...
VOA News/Ken Bredemeier WASHINGTON — One of U.S. President Donald Trump’s lawyers said Sunday he is advising him to not pardon anyone linked to the year-long investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election because it would «just cloud» the perception that there was wrong-doing. Rudy Giuliani, a former New York mayor and part of Trump’s […]Load more...
VOA News/Anna Matteo In the United States on the third Sunday of June we celebrate Father’s Day! So, today we celebrate fathers with some expressions that use the word “father” and “dad.” Let’s begin with a great father idiom! Success has many fathers but failure is an orphan. An orphan is a child whose parents […]Load more...
VOA News Growing up, Timothy “Twix” Ward, a member of the San Carlos Apache Tribe in Arizona, thought he was “normal.” But his family recognized there was something “special” about him. “It wasn’t until I got older that I knew who I was, that I was different from everyone else,” he said. Ward identifies not […]Load more...
VOA News/Jim Malone WASHINGTON — Outside the White House Friday, a media frenzy. And at the center of it all, President Donald Trump. “Can we do one question at a time? Wait! One question at a time,» the president scolded reporters. Trump launched a new attack on the Russia probe in the wake of a critical […]Load more...
VOA News U.S. astronaut Peggy Whitson, who has spent more time in space than any other American, retired Friday. During her career, Whitson logged 665 days in space over three missions, the equivalent of about one year and 10 months outside the Earth’s atmosphere. Whitson was also the first woman to command the International Space […]Load more...
VOA News WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort was sent to jail on Friday after a federal grand jury indicted him on charges of tampering with potential witnesses while free on bail. Manafort, 69, the first former Trump associate to go to prison, was indicted last week on two new counts […]Load more...
VOA News/Ken Bredemeier WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump said Thursday he did not fire Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey because of the Russia investigation, contradicting previous statements that the probe was the reason for his dismissal. «Not that it matters but I never fired James Comey because of Russia!,» Trump said in a […]Load more...