The U.S. Justice Department’s National Security Division, created in response to the September 11, 2001, terror attacks, is increasingly focused on an emergent menace: cyberthreats posed by foreign countries, from Russia to China, the division head said Thursday. «In the past years, [the division’s mission] has come increasingly to include a focus on cyber as […]readmore
VOA News/Steve Herman WHITE HOUSE — The United States is escalating trans-Atlantic and North American trade tensions, imposing a 25 percent tariff on steel imports and a 10 percent tariff on aluminum imports from the European Union, Canada and Mexico beginning on Friday. The U.S. also negotiated quotas or volume limits on other countries, such as […]readmore
Steve Herman WHITE HOUSE — U.S. President Donald Trump has confirmed a top North Korean official is to visit New York for talks related to a planned summit between Trump and North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un. «Kim Young Chol, the Vice Chairman of North Korea, heading now to New York,» Trump wrote Tuesday on […]readmore
VOA News Residents of Ellicott City, in the eastern U.S. state of Maryland, are surveying the damage from flash flooding Sunday that raged down the town’s main street. It’s a deja vu for the historic town as it is the second time in as many years that an intense rainstorm triggered catastrophic flooding in it. […]readmore
VOA News/Ken Bredemeier WASHINGTON —President Donald Trump paid tribute Monday — Memorial Day in the United States — to generations of the country’s fallen warriors. “Theirs was a love more deep and more pure than most will ever know,” Trump said at Arlington National Cemetery outside Washington. “They marched into hell so that Americans […]readmore
Peggy Chang WHITE HOUSE — On the day the world watched as the United States formally moved its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, Fox News Channel got an enthusiastic recommendation from its most powerful fan — President Donald Trump. «U.S. Embassy opening in Jerusalem will be covered live on @FoxNews & @FoxBusiness. Lead up to […]readmore
Ayaz Gul/VOA News ISLAMABAD — A U.S. diplomat has left Pakistan for Afghanistan Monday after Islamabad had earlier barred him from leaving the country for his role in a fatal road accident. U.S. defense attache Joseph Emanuel Hall on Saturday planned to board an American military aircraft at the air force base near Islamabad but was […]readmore
VOA News/AP WASHINGTON — Melania Trump underwent a procedure Monday morning to treat a benign kidney condition and will likely be hospitalized for the rest of the week, the White House said. President Donald Trump was expected to visit his wife at Walter Reed Medical Center just outside Washington later Monday, according to a White House […]readmore
VOA News Officials in Hawaii have called for more evacuations after an 18th fissure spewing lava from the Kilauea volcano was discovered Sunday on the Big Island. «The amount of lava that has erupted from the fissure so far is very, very small,» said scientist Steve Brantley of the U.S. Geological Survey’s Hawaiian Volcano Observatory. […]readmore
VOA News The United States officially moved its Israeli embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem on Monday, even as 37 Palestinians were killed and hundreds wounded in clashes with Israeli forces along the Gaza Strip’s border with the Jewish state. Less than 100 kilometers away from the violent protests, U.S. and Israeli officials gathered in […]readmore