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 […]Load more...
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. […]Load more...
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, […]Load more...
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 […]Load more...
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 […]Load more...
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 […]Load more...
VOA NEWS – Michelle Quinn SAN FRANCISCO — In the U.S. economic battle with China, the Chinese government is often portrayed as a kingmaker, making large investments in research and paving the way for Chinese companies to thrive. China, it turns out, is a good foil for U.S. industries as they ask the U.S. government to […]Load more...
VOA News A U.S. House of Representatives committee has voted to issue subpoenas to Attorney General William Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross seeking documents related to the Trump administration’s decision to add a citizenship question to the country’s 2020 census. Republican Justin Amash of Michigan joined 22 Democrats to approve the motion, 23-14. «The […]Load more...
VOA NEWS – State Department correspondent Cindy Saine and VOA Russian service reporter Valeria Jegisman contributed to this report WHITE HOUSE — North Atlantic Treaty Organization Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg is set to address a joint session of the U.S. Congress Wednesday, ahead of a meeting in Washington of the alliance’s foreign ministers. House Speaker Nancy […]Load more...
VOA NEWS – Associated Press CHICAGO —Chicago Mayor-elect Lori Lightfoot’s resounding victory was a clear call for change at City Hall and a historic repudiation of the old-style, insider politics that have long defined the nation’s third-largest city. Lightfoot, a former federal prosecutor who’d never been elected to public office, defeated Cook County Board President […]Load more...
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