WASHINGTON — El Servicio de Ciudadanía e Inmigración de Estados Unidos (USCIS, por sus siglas en inglés) celebrará el Día de la Constitución y el Día de la Ciudadanía, que se conmemora el día 17 de septiembre, con cerca de 200 ceremonias de naturalización en todo el país, como parte de la Semana de la […]readmore
Estados Unidos anunció que ha realizado con éxito una prueba de su sistema de intercepción de misiles, (THAAD por sus siglas en inglés). La Agencia de Defensa de Misiles de Estados Unidos informó que logró derribar un misil enemigo simulado, lanzado desde un avión de combate sobre el Océano Pacífico al norte de Hawái. El […]readmore
VOA News – Cindy Saine STATE DEPARTMENT — Despite temperatures soaring above 50 Celsius in Kuwait City, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson scored a first tentative victory for cool diplomacy on his push to help find a resolution to the month-long blockade of Qatar by its Persian Gulf neighbors.Standing beside Qatari Foreign Minister Mohammed bin […]readmore
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