Ken Bredemeier WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday said the separation of children from their parents trying to enter the United States illegally is «so sad,» but showed no signs of changing the policy. «A country without borders is not a country at all,» Trump said. «We want safety and security for our country […]Load more...
VOA News/Ken Bredemeier WASHINGTON — One of U.S. President Donald Trump’s lawyers said Sunday he is advising him to not pardon anyone linked to the year-long investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election because it would «just cloud» the perception that there was wrong-doing. Rudy Giuliani, a former New York mayor and part of Trump’s […]Load more...
VOA News/Jim Malone WASHINGTON — Outside the White House Friday, a media frenzy. And at the center of it all, President Donald Trump. “Can we do one question at a time? Wait! One question at a time,» the president scolded reporters. Trump launched a new attack on the Russia probe in the wake of a critical […]Load more...
VOA News WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort was sent to jail on Friday after a federal grand jury indicted him on charges of tampering with potential witnesses while free on bail. Manafort, 69, the first former Trump associate to go to prison, was indicted last week on two new counts […]Load more...
VOA News/Ken Bredemeier WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump said Thursday he did not fire Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey because of the Russia investigation, contradicting previous statements that the probe was the reason for his dismissal. «Not that it matters but I never fired James Comey because of Russia!,» Trump said in a […]Load more...
PENTAGON — China’s militarization of man-made islands in the South China Sea will not scare off the United States, which is promising to continue carrying out so-called freedom-of-navigation exercises despite the rising threat. “I would just say that the United States military’s had a lot of experience in the Western Pacific taking down small islands,” Marine […]Load more...
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 […]Load more...
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 […]Load more...
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 […]Load more...
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. […]Load more...