VOA News WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump and congressional leaders are scheduled to meet late Friday morning at the White House to discuss how to end the government shutdown that has entered its third week.The meeting comes a day after a new group of lawmakers was sworn into office in what is now a Democratically […]readmore
VOA NEWS/Ken Bredemeier The partial U.S. government shutdown is in its 13th day, with no end in sight after President Donald Trump and congressional leaders failed to reach agreement on how to reopen shuttered agencies. «The Shutdown is only because of the 2020 Presidential Election,» Trump claimed Thursday in a Twitter comment. «The Democrats know they can’t […]readmore
VOA News The new Democrat-led U.S. House of Representatives is expected to approve bills Thursday to end a partial government shutdown. The Republican leader of the Senate says he will not bring the measures to a vote. President Donald Trump expressed his willingness to keep the shutdown going “as long as it takes” to get […]readmore
Agence France-Presse CHICAGO — Patricia Gallagher Marchant was first abused by a priest who befriended her family when she was seven or eight years old. More than five decades later, the 61-year-old stood Wednesday in front of a throng of news cameras outside the downtown Chicago headquarters of the Catholic archdiocese in this sprawling American city, […]readmore
VOA News Divided government returns to the United States Thursday with the swearing-in of a new Congress. After two years in which Republicans controlled the White House, Senate and the House of Representatives, Democrats will be the majority in the House. That is the result of the November midterm elections in which Democrats made big […]readmore
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) helped notch a major victory in the effort to combat Alzheimer’s disease and promote brain health, with the signing of the Building Our Largest Dementia (BOLD) Infrastructure for Alzheimer’s Act this week. The BOLD Act authorizes $100 million over five years to develop a public health approach that will […]readmore
WASHINGTON, DC – Tonight, the full U.S. Senate voted to confirm Rhode Island’s Assistant Attorney General Aaron L. Weisman to lead the U.S. Attorney’s office for Rhode Island. The Trump Administration tapped Mr. Weisman for the position in October, and he received backing from Rhode Island’s U.S. Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse. «Mr. Weisman […]readmore
VOA News/Reuters CARTAGENA — The United States is deeply concerned about an increase in coca cultivation in Colombia, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday, but will work with the Andean country to cut production of the raw material for cocaine in half by the end of 2023. Pompeo met with Colombian President Ivan Duque […]readmore
VOA News U.S. Ambassador to Russia Jon Huntsman on Wednesday visited the retired U.S. Marine who has been detained on espionage charges in Russia. He also spoke on the phone with the family of Paul Whelan, 48, according to a State Department statement that did not release any details of the call «due to privacy […]readmore
VOA News/Ken Bredemeier & Chris Hannas WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump pushed again Wednesday for taxpayer funding of a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, even as he claimed without evidence that Mexico is already paying for it through a new trade deal and that much of the barrier has been built. Trump is meeting with […]readmore