VOA News The court-ordered deadline has passed for U.S. officials to reunite all eligible children who were separated from their parents after entering the country. U.S. officials said they expected to reunite all eligible children who had been separated from their parents after entering the country illegally by Thursday’s court-ordered deadline (0700 UTC Friday). It […]readmore
VOA News Mexico’s President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador sent a letter to U.S. President Donald Trump, seeking to initiate «a new stage in the relationship» of the two countries and to make progress in the areas of «trade, migration, development and security.» Lopez Obrador handed the seven-page letter to a U.S. delegation that visited the […]readmore
VOA News U.S. President Donald Trump has warned Iranian President Hassan Rouhani to «never threaten the United States,» in a Twitter comment that came shortly after U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo gave a speech critical of Iran’s leaders. «To Iranian President Rouhani: NEVER, EVER THREATEN THE UNITED STATES AGAIN OR YOU WILL SUFFER CONSEQUENCES […]readmore
VOA News/Nike Ching STATE DEPARTMENT — The U.S. has no intention of allowing Russia to question Michael McFaul, Washington’s former ambassador to Moscow and a fierce critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told VOA on Thursday. «It’s not going to happen,» the top U.S. diplomat said in an interview at the […]readmore
VOA News President Donald Trump, via Twitter, extended his “deepest sympathies to the families and friends of those involved in the terrible boat accident which just took place in Missouri.” At least 13 people, including children, were killed when a tourist boat capsized and sank in a lake during a storm late Thursday in the […]readmore
VOA News/Ken Bredemeier WASHINGTON — The White House said Wednesday it believes Russia is continuing to target the United States with cyberattacks related to the upcoming November congressional elections. «We believe that the threat still exists,» President Donald Trump’s spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters. Her statement came hours after the U.S. leader appeared to contradict […]readmore
VOA News British authorities said private Facebook information, which was gathered by data-mining company Cambridge Analytica without the consent or knowledge of the social media platform’s users, was accessed from computers based in Russia and other former Soviet states. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), a British government investigative office investigating the scandal, said in a […]readmore
VOA News WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump are mourning a Secret Service agent, who died in Scotland this past week during their recent trip to Europe. The president and first lady Wednesday headed to Joint Base Andrews on Wednesday to pay their respects to 42-year-old Nole Remagen. The agent’s body […]readmore
VOA News/Jamie Dettmer LONDON — Europeans have reacted with a mixture of alarm and relief to Monday’s summit between President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin. They are relieved the U.S. leader did not give away any aces but they remain queasy about Trump’s apparent eagerness to get on with the Russian leader while displaying […]readmore
VOA News/Masood Farivar WASHINGTON — A self-styled Russian gun rights advocate who cultivated close ties with the National Rifle Association on behalf of Russia was charged on Monday with conspiracy to infiltrate U.S. political organizations as part of Moscow’s influence operations in the United States. Maria Butina, 29, whose Twitter account describes her as the founder […]readmore