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
VOA News/By Associated Press BRIDGEWATER, NEW JERSEY — As the nation reeled from two mass shootings in less than a day, President Donald Trump spent the first hours after the tragedies out of sight at his New Jersey golf course, sending out tweets of support awkwardly mixed in with those promoting a celebrity fight and […]readmore
By VOA News U.S. President Donald Trump Monday signed a bipartisan bill to ensure that a Victim Compensation Fund related to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 never runs out of money. «Our nation owes each of you a profound debt that no words or deeds will ever repay. But we can and we will […]readmore
VOA News/ By Ken Bredemeier U.S. President Donald Trump remained focused Monday on his criticism of the eastern U.S. city of Baltimore, Maryland, and one of its top officials, Congressman Elijah Cummings, who has been critical of the Trump administration. «Baltimore, under the leadership of Elijah Cummings, has the worst Crime Statistics in the Nation. […]readmore
Among the victims is a 6-year-old boy, who was identified as Steven Romero by family members. By VOA News Authorities in the western U.S. state of California say a shooter killed at least three people Sunday afternoon at a garlic festival. The attack happened in the city of Gilroy, where police say the shooter was armed […]readmore
VOA News – By Masood Farivar WASHINGTON – “I’ll refer you to the report on that.” “That’s accurate based on what’s in the report.” “I don’t want to wade in those waters.” So it went for more than five hours as former special counsel Robert Mueller appeared before two congressional committees Wednesday to testify about his […]readmore