VOA News Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has delayed the beginning of the chamber’s August recess in an attempt to complete work on the Republican bill to overhaul the nation’s health care coverage law and deal with Trump administration nominees. The Republican lawmaker announced the decision Tuesday in a statement that included a criticism of […]readmore
VOA News/Michael Bowman CAPITOL HILL — After a weeklong recess, Senate Republicans returned to Washington on Monday still searching for a legislative formula to repeal and replace former President Barack Obama’s health care law, known as Obamacare. Conservative Republicans want to dramatically pare back the federal government’s role in health care, but moderates worry that […]readmore
VOA News A U.S. Marine Corps plane crashed Monday in the southern state of Mississippi, killing 16 military personnel. Officials said the KC-130 plane, a refueling tanker, went down in a soybean field about 135 kilometers north of Mississippi’s capital city, Jackson. The cause of the crash was not immediately clear. Marine Corps spokeswoman Captain […]readmore
VOA News Peter Heinlein, Ken Bredemeier THE WHITE HOUSE —Donald Trump Jr. has released an email chain setting up a meeting between him and a Russian attorney who promised to provide information that might hurt Hillary Clinton’s campaign for president. The release follows a New York Times report on the matter. The Times said its story […]readmore
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer today released the statement below regarding the administration’s travel ban taking effect tonight: «Nearly six months after the President first proposed a Muslim travel ban under the guise of needing time to evaluate our nation’s security, it’s crystal clear this Administration is more interested in appearing to […]readmore
VOA NEWS HAVANA — Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez called U.S. President Donald Trump’s recent speech on Cuba a “grotesque spectacle” that will only serve to strengthen the revolution, and criticized the Trump administration’s decision to roll back some Obama-era policies toward the island nation. “Cuba will make no concessions on its sovereignty and its independence,” […]readmore
VOA News The parents of Otto Warmbier, the American college student who died Monday after being detained in North Korea for nearly a year and a-half, said in a statement he had «completed his journey home» and was «at peace» shortly before passing away. U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday offered his condolences to the […]readmore
VOA – El presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Turmp, recibió este lunes en la Casa Blanca a su homólogo de Panamá, Juan Carlos Varela. Los líderes de gobierno reafirmaron la “fuerte alianza” entre EE.UU y Panamá, al igual que el compromiso de los dos países para enfrentarse a temas claves de seguridad, como el crimen […]readmore
NUEVA YORK – La Oficina de Investigaciones de Seguridad Nacional (HSI, por sus siglas en inglés) del Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas de Estados Unidos (ICE, por sus siglas en inglés), junto a la Oficina de Detención y Deportación (ERO, por sus siglas en inglés) de ICE, anunciaron su reciente lanzamiento del Operativo […]readmore
VOA News President Donald Trump will host his newly-elected South Korean counterpart Moon Jae-in in Washington later this month, the White House announced Tuesday. The two leaders are expected to discuss strengthening their alliance and advancing cooperation on global and economic issues, as well as coordinating to counter North Korean nuclear and missile threats. North […]readmore