It has been nearly four years since 20 children and six educators were gunned down at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. Over the past three years, filmmakers have followed the town and its families as they tried to understand and recover from the massacre. Their new documentary, «Newtown,» opened Wednesday in theaters across […]readmore
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Small Business Administration is reminding businesses, nonprofit organizations, homeowners and renters, that the deadline to submit an SBA disaster loan application for losses caused by Hurricane Sandy is Dec. 1, 2016. On Dec. 2, 2015 following the Recovery Improvements for Small Entities (RISE) After Disaster Act, SBA’s Administrator Maria Contreras-Sweet reopened […]readmore
Top officials of the U.S. central bank voted Wednesday to keep interest rates at the ultra-low level where they have been for nearly a year. The Federal Reserve said the job market was continuing to improve and that household spending was rising, but that business investment was soft and the rate of inflation remained below […]readmore
VOA News U.S. President Barack Obama says he believes the «republic is at risk» if Donald Trump wins next week’s election. Obama campaigned Wednesday for Democrat Hillary Clinton in Chapel Hill, North Carolina — a major battleground state that both candidates consider a must-win if he or she wants to take the White House. Obama […]readmore
VOA News U.S. law enforcement authorities have launched a civil rights investigation after an African American church was burned and spray-painted with the words «Vote Trump» in the southern state of Mississippi. The 111-year-old Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church in Greenville, Mississippi, suffered heavy water and smoke damage in the fire late Tuesday. «We consider it […]readmore
Ken Bredemeier VOA News U.S. President Barack Obama is questioning the judgment of FBI chief James Comey in announcing just ahead of next Tuesday’s presidential election that the agency is taking a new look at more emails linked to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton from her four-year tenure as secretary of state. Comey told congressional […]readmore
WASHINGTON – The shocking news that two Iowa police officers were murdered in what appears to be ambush-style shootings has put an exclamation point on one of the darkest weeks for law enforcement in recent history. Since October 26, 10 law enforcement professionals have died in the line of duty, including five who were shot […]readmore
VOA News The U.S. Supreme Court will take up bathroom rules for transgender students, the first time the high court has agreed to hear a case involving transgender rights. The case involves Gavin Grimm, 17, who was born a female but identifies as a male and is suing to win the right to use his […]readmore
VOA News U.S. authorities said Friday that the unexplained death last year of a Russian media executive in a Washington hotel was accidental and caused partly by alcohol poisoning after days of heavy drinking. Following a yearlong investigation by city police along with assistance from the FBI, District of Columbia authorities said the death of […]readmore
VOA News An American Airlines passenger jet caught fire Friday at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, forcing an emergency evacuation of passengers and resulting in nine injuries. American Airlines said the Boeing 767 plane was already on the runway, about to depart for Miami, when it experienced an «engine-related mechanical issue» that caused the pilot to […]readmore