By VOA News WASHINGTON – U.S. President Donald Trump announced new sanctions against Iran’s national bank Friday, further escalating economic pressure on the Islamic Republic. «I think the sanctions work,» Trump said during a joint White House news conference with Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison. Trump also said «the military would work, but that is a […]readmore
VOA News By Jeff Seldin WASHINGTON – Security officials these days are anything but shy when they describe the dangers facing the United States in cyberspace. “We’re in the midst, I think we all know, of a global cyber pandemic,” the National Security Agency’s top lawyer warned at a conference last week. And NSA General Counsel […]readmore
By VOA News Why do Americans celebrate Labor Day? Labor Day is a national holiday, created to honor U.S. workers and their contribution to the economy. Many Americans use the day to celebrate the end of summer and would be surprised to know the day has its roots in the labor movement of the late […]readmore
VOA News – By Ken Bredemeier, Chris Hannas Hurricane Dorian battered Grand Bahama Island on Monday as the monster storm virtually stalled, toppling and damaging thousands of homes and sending a «life-threatening storm surge» barreling across low-lying coastal lands. Forecasters called the storm «catastrophic» and «devastating.» They predicted Dorian would continue to pound the island throughout much […]readmore
By VOA News Residentes de Florida buscaron abastecerse de alimentos y agua potable mientras están a la espera del potente huracán Dorian, cuando aún no es claro por dónde tocará tierra durante el fin de semana del Día del Trabajo. El presidente Donald Trump ha dicho que podría ser un «absoluto monstruo», en un video […]readmore
By VOA News Hurricane Dorian is expected to strengthen into «a major hurricane later today,» the National Hurricane Center said Friday. «Dorian is likely to remain an extremely dangerous hurricane while it moves near the northwestern Bahamas and approaches the Florida peninsula through the weekend,» the center said. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has declared a state […]readmore
VOA News/By Ken Bredemeier WASHINGTON -The acting U.S. Homeland Security chief on Sunday defended raids last week on food processing plants in Mississippi searching for hundreds of undocumented migrants, but acknowledged «the timing was unfortunate,» just days after a gunman targeted and killed 22 Hispanics in a mass shooting in El Paso, Texas. Kevin McAleenan […]readmore
VOA News By Sirwan Kajjo VOA’s Jeff Seldin contributed to this report. WASHINGTON — One of the two recent mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, is being treated as a case of domestic terrorism by U.S. federal authorities. The El Paso attack, which has left 22 people dead, has renewed debate over how […]readmore
By Alex Marshall Just before 10 p.m. Tuesday, Celia Keenan-Bolger, who plays Scout Finch in “To Kill a Mockingbird” at the Shubert Theater, was giving her final speech of the night when a nearby motorcycle backfired several times. But just days after mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton, Ohio, left 31 people dead, many people outside the theater feared […]readmore
VOA News/ By Rob Garver WASHINGTON – A pair of mass shootings in Texas and Ohio over the Saturday and Sunday have dragged two of the most divisive issues in American politics — the rise of violent white supremacism and gun control — to the forefront of public conversation as politicians across the ideological spectrum are […]readmore