VOA NEWS – Henry Ridgwell LONDON — U.S. President Donald Trump said Thursday he has no knowledge of the website WikiLeaks, after the whistleblowing site’s founder, Julian Assange, was arrested in Britain. The 47-year-old Australian national had been living in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London since 2012, but was ejected Thursday and taken into custody […]Load more...
VOA NEWS – Ramon Taylor ELLIS ISLAND, NEW YORK — It may surprise no one to see names like «The Russo Family» from Sicily, Italy, or Anton Ivanovich Malygin from St. Petersburg, Russia, inscribed on Ellis Island’s American Immigrant Wall of Honor — a manifestation of common migration patterns to the United States from Europe more than a […]Load more...
VOA NEW – Associated Press Six months after hurricanes devastated the Southeast, infighting among Washington’s tribes has shelved a widely backed disaster aid package that’s desperately being sought by President Donald Trump’s allies in Florida and Georgia. Trump’s opposition to aid to Puerto Rico — slammed by back-to-back hurricanes in 2017 — has sparked a […]Load more...
VOA NEWS-Faiza Elmasry WASHINGTON — After a long day at school, 10-year-old Andrea Nichelson likes to play tennis. She’s been doing this for five years now, and she loves it. “What I like most about tennis is the game. It really gets my attention than anything I do. It brings up the fire in me,” she […]Load more...
PHOTO: President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, before boarding Marine One helicopter, April 10, 2019. VOA NEWS – Michael Bowman & Ken Bredemeier U.S. President Donald Trump contended Wednesday that investigators who started an initial probe into his 2016 campaign were attempting […]Load more...
PHOTO:U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, center, addresses a meeting on Venezuela in the United Nations Security Council at U.N. headquarters, April 10, 2019. VOA NEWS – Margaret Besheer UNITED NATIONS — U.S. Vice President Mike Pence called on the United Nations on Wednesday to «stand up for democracy» and recognize Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido as […]Load more...
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 […]Load more...
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 […]Load more...
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 […]Load more...
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 […]Load more...