FILE – 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren speaks to local residents during an organizing event, March 1, 2019, in Dubuque, Iowa. VOA NEWS- Associated Press WASHINGTON — Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren is proposing a new tax on corporate profits that’s designed to prevent business giants from taking advantage of the existing tax code […]readmore
Photo: Democratic U.S. presidential candidate U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) speaks at a news conference to introduce the Medicare for All Act of 2019 on Capitol Hill in Washington, April 10, 2019. Agence France-Presse U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders unveiled his updated «Medicare for all» plan Wednesday with several rival Democratic presidential hopefuls jumping onboard, spotlighting […]readmore
VOA NEWS – Masood Farivar Ihar Tsikhanenka contributed to this report WASHINGTON — Last month, Jeff Schoep, the self-styled commander of one of the largest neo-Nazi groups in the United States, took to VKontakte, Russia’s version of Facebook, to update his followers about a brewing scandal. Schoep’s group, the National Socialist Movement, was outraged over […]readmore
At least 32 babies have died while in the sleeper. Why is it still on the market? A Consumer Reports investigation into the safety of the Fisher-Price Rock ’n Play Sleeper—a product designed and marketed for babies to sleep on an incline—found that it is tied to at least 32 infant deaths. Amid CR’s investigation—and […]readmore
VOA News U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen has resigned after 16 months on the job and immense pressure from the White House and public over the situation along the country’s southern border. «Despite our progress in reforming homeland security for a new age, I have determined that it is the right time […]readmore
VOA NEWS – Jeff Custer U.S. President Donald Trump is scheduled to travel to the U.S. – Mexico border Friday to view a border wall project, one day after backing down on a threat to shut down the southern border unless Mexico takes action to stop illegal migrant and drug traffic into the United States. […]readmore
VOA NEWS- Elizabeth Lee HOOPER, NEBRASKA — Tom Geisler has experienced many ups and downs in his 43 years of farming, as weather sometimes helped and often hurt his livelihood. But he was not prepared for what Mother Nature brought this spring. “Never had anything like this before. Not this kind of a flood,” said Geisler, […]readmore
VOA NEWS – Steve Herman WHITE HOUSE — The U.S. president and the vice premier of China confirmed on Thursday that while significant progress has been made, there is no new trade agreement yet between the world’s two largest economies. «We’re certainly getting a lot closer,» Trump said sitting at his desk in the Oval Office […]readmore
VOA NEWS – Ken Bredemeier U.S. President Donald Trump is meeting Thursday at the White House with Chinese Vice Premier Liu He, a sign that the world’s top two economic powers could be nearing a trade agreement after marathon talks. The two countries had originally hoped to reach an agreement by March 1, but even […]readmore
VOA NEWS – Michael Bowman CAPITOL HILL — U.S. lawmakers of both parties say hurdles remain for approving a new trade pact between the United States, Canada and Mexico, rejecting President Donald Trump’s call for prompt votes on a replacement for the North American Free Trade Agreement, NAFTA. Last year, the administration made good on […]readmore