VOA News A Brazilian judge ordered Wednesday that American swimmers Ryan Lochte and James Feigen not leave the country, stating that they gave conflicting testimonies regarding a robbery earlier this week. Ryan Lochte and three other American swimmers said they were robbed at gunpoint early Sunday by thieves posing as police officers who stopped their […]readmore
Ramon Taylor VOA News NEW YORK — Oscar Morel, accused in the execution-style murders of two Muslim men over the weekend, was arraigned Tuesday in the New York City borough of Queens. Morel, a 35-year-old Hispanic man, was formally charged with one count of first-degree murder, two counts of second-degree murder and two counts of criminal […]readmore
Steve Baragona VOA News As recently as 2014, you could drive into the parking lot at certain Virginia polling places, connect to the voting machines inside by wifi and have your way with the vote tallies. That gaping hole in election security has been plugged. Virginia dropped these machines last year. But with Republican presidential […]readmore
Jill Craig NAIROBI — South Sudanese troops gang-raped, beat, and robbed aid workers, specifically targeting Americans, at a hotel compound in Juba on July 11, according to an Associated Press report published Monday. Witnesses interviewed by the news agency said soldiers carried out mock executions and forced the foreigners to watch as they killed a local […]readmore
GENEVA — The United Nations is condemning an attack Monday by the Saudi-led coalition on a hospital in Yemen that local health officials report has left 18 people dead and another 18 wounded. The rural hospital in northwestern Yemen was supported by the charity, Doctors Without Borders. The attack on the Abs Hospital in Hajjah governorate […]readmore
Sharon Behn VOA News IRBIL, IRAQ — Up to a million people are trapped in the Islamic State-controlled city of Mosul. As Iraqi, Kurdish and tribal forces close in, men, women and children are expected to come flooding out. Protecting them will be one of the largest, most complex humanitarian operations in the world. Kurdish forces […]readmore
Wayne Lee Opponents of the Islamic State group outnumber the extremists’ supporters on Twitter, although those who are pro-IS are more active on the social media channel, a Rand Corporation study said. The nonprofit research organization’s study found that IS opponents outnumber supporters 6-to-1 on Twitter, even though the extremist group reputedly has found Twitter […]readmore
VOA News The FBI has sent Congress documents related to its investigation of Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server during her tenure as secretary of state. The House Oversight Committee said Tuesday it had received the documents, marked «secret,» which include notes on FBI interviews with Clinton and other witnesses during the investigation. […]readmore
Esha Sarai Twenty thousand people have been rescued from unprecedented flooding in the southern state of Louisiana’s capital, the governor said Tuesday. Most of those rescues were made by the National Guard and state authorities, but city residents with boats, trucks and kayaks have taken it upon themselves to help out. «A tremendous response by […]readmore
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI), the Ranking Member of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing, and Urban Development (THUD) today issued the following statement regarding a $2.45 billion Railroad Rehabilitation and Improvement Financing (RRIF) loan for Amtrak from the Federal Railroad Administration. «This RRIF loan from the Federal Railroad Administration will help […]readmore