FILE – Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis. (L), Representative-elect Karen Handel, R-Ga.(R), and her husband Steve Handel participate in a ceremonial swearing-in on Capitol Hill in Washington, June 26, 2017. VOA News-Associated Press Top Republicans are hunting district-by-district for just the right candidates — women and minorities in many cases — to help […]readmore
FILE – Containers of Roundup are displayed on a store shelf in San Francisco, Feb. 24, 2019. VOA News For the third time in less than a year, a jury has ruled the main ingredient in a popular weed killer caused cancer in its users. A San Francisco jury Monday awarded more than $2 billion […]readmore
FILE – U.S. President Donald Trump, right, chats with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing, China. VOA News-Ken Bredemeier Capitol Hill correspondent Michael Bowman and reporter Ira Mellman contributed to this report President Donald Trump said the United States «can make a deal with China tomorrow» to resolve the trade dispute between the world’s two […]readmore
VOA News NEW YORK — U.S. communications regulators are rejecting a Chinese telecom company’s application to provide service in the U.S. due to national-security risks amid an escalation in tensions between the two countries. The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday voted unanimously, 5-0 across party lines, to reject China Mobile International USA Inc.’s long-ago filed […]readmore
VOA News – Michael Bowman WASHINGTON — A U.S. official on Wednesday said the nation would «lose control» of its border with Mexico unless a massive and protracted surge of undocumented immigrants and asylum-seekers, primarily from Central America, is contained and reversed. U.S. Border Patrol Chief Carla Provost issued the warning to a Senate panel […]readmore
FILE – Attorney General William Barr is sworn in to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, May 1, 2019, on the Mueller Report. VOA News VOA’s Patsy Widakuswara and Masood Farivar contributed to this report. CAPITOL HILL — The U.S. House Judiciary Committee has voted to hold Attorney General […]readmore
Police and others are seen outside a recreation center where students are reunited with their parents, in the Denver suburb of Highlands Ranch, Colo., after a shooting at STEM School Highlands Ranch, May 8, 2019. VOA News – Associated Press HIGHLANDS RANCH, COLO — Two high school students shot and killed a classmate and injured eight […]readmore
FILE – Developer Donald Trump poses for photos outside the New York Stock Exchange after the listing of his stock in New York, June 7, 1995. VOA News Between 1985 and 1994, Donald Trump’s businesses lost more than $1 billion, allowing the future president to avoid paying federal taxes for eight of those 10 years, The […]readmore
VOA News – Associated Press WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has made it official: The administration won’t be turning President Donald Trump’s tax returns over to the Democratic-controlled House. Mnuchin told Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal, Democrat-Massachusetts, in a Monday letter that the panel’s request “lacks a legitimate legislative purpose” as Supreme […]readmore
VOA News – Ken Bredemeier WASHINGTON — U.S. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell says it is time for lawmakers to move on from the lengthy investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election, despite House Democrats’ expansive efforts to investigate President Donald Trump and his administration. «Case closed,» McConnell said on the Senate floor. […]readmore