VOA News/Ken Bredemeier & Chris Hannas U.S. President Donald Trump says he is addressing the nation Tuesday about the «humanitarian and national security crisis» on the country’s U.S.-Mexican border before traveling there Thursday for a firsthand look at efforts to thwart illegal immigration. Trump announced the prime-time nationally televised address Monday shortly after news […]readmore
VOA News U.S. military officials have confirmed that a U.S. airstrike last week killed one of the alleged masterminds of the USS Cole bombing which killed 17 sailors in 2000. «Our GREAT MILITARY has delivered justice for the heroes lost and wounded in the cowardly attack on the USS Cole. We have just killed the […]readmore
VOA News U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton is due to hold talks Monday in Turkey as the Trump administration seeks assurances that Turkish forces will not target Kurdish fighters allied with American forces. The visit to Turkey comes a day after Bolton said protection for the Kurdish fighters who have helped battle Islamic State […]readmore
VOA News WASHINGTON — White House officials and congressional aides will meet again Sunday to continue discussions about how to end the partial government shutdown that has affected hundreds of thousands of federal workers and caused delays and inconvenience for Americans. The shutdown has entered its third week. The crux of the discussions is border security. […]readmore
VOA News A U.S. trade delegation has arrived in Beijing. The group is in China to hold two days of talks, beginning Monday, focusing on how best to carry out an agreement reached by U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping to postpone new tariff hikes. On December 1, the two leaders agreed […]readmore
VOA News Mexico has formally asked the United States for an «an exhaustive investigation» into a Jan. 1 incident in which U.S. agents fired non-lethal weapons into Mexico to stop migrants from breaching the border. In a statement released Thursday, the Mexican Foreign Ministry said it lamented any violent acts along its border and repeated […]readmore
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