Photo: La escuela pública Agripina Seda se ve parcialmente derruida tras un terremoto en Guánica, Puerto Rico, el 7 de enero de 2020. (AP Foto/Carlos Giusti) VOA News By AP SAN JUAN — La gobernadora de Puerto Rico, Wanda Vázquez, despidió el sábado al comisionado del Negociado para el Manejo de Emergencias y Administración de Desastres […]readmore
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 […]readmore
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 […]readmore
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 […]readmore
VOA News By Dora Mekouar Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare via EmailPrint this page After living in a Washington, D.C., suburb for 20 years, Patrick Harrington had had enough. Fed up with the 25-mile commute to work, the Virginia man, along with his wife, Francine, sold their home and moved into a rental located about a […]readmore
By Associated Press SACRAMENTO, CALIF. – Ride-share company Uber and on-demand meal delivery service Postmates sued Monday to block a broad new California law aimed at giving wage and benefit protections to people who work as independent contractors. The lawsuit filed in U.S. court in Los Angeles argues that the law set to take effect Wednesday […]readmore
By AFP WASHINGTON – A partial new U.S.-China trade agreement will be signed in the middle of next month, U.S. President Donald Trump said Tuesday, announcing that he will also then travel to China for continued talks. «I will be signing our very large and comprehensive Phase One Trade Deal with China on January 15,» Trump […]readmore
By VOA News People across the world are gathering for traditional celebrations to welcome the year 2020. Revelers in New Zealand and other Pacific islands were among the first to celebrate the new year with fireworks displays. Events elsewhere in the world are being overshadowed by other concerns, including in Australia where the fireworks show […]readmore
By VOA News Hundreds of Iraqi protesters stormed the perimeter of the U.S. embassy compound in Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone, setting fire to one of its gates with some reportedly entering the building. Most of those involved in the attack appear to belong to pro-Iranian Shi’ite parties, which are upset about a U.S. airstrike on […]readmore
By Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON – The U.S. Senate voted Tuesday to slap sanctions on companies working on Russia’s Nord Stream pipeline, sending a bill to President Donald Trump that is sure to antagonize European nations counting on the project’s natural gas. The measure, inserted into a huge annual defense spending bill, passed 86 to eight after […]readmore