VOA News President Barack Obama is hosting Senate Republican leaders Tuesday to discuss his planned appointment to the Supreme Court. The nine-member court has an opening following the death of Justice Antonin Scalia last month. But Republicans have said Obama should not make an appointment to the lifetime position in his final year in office, […]Load more...
VOA News All those selfies may turn out to be useful after all. Credit card company MasterCard says its customers could soon use selfie photos (and a fingerprint) instead of passwords to make payments online. The company thinks a biometric system that could read a photo of your face would be more secure and could […]Load more...
Associated Press WASHINGTON—The Obama administration is moving ahead with a major project to learn how to better tailor treatments and preventive care to people’s genes, environment and lifestyle. As part of the Precision Medicine Initiative, the National Institutes of Health plans to be gathering data from at least 1 million volunteers by 2019, work that […]Load more...
Ken Bredemeier The White House is vetting Republican Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval for the Supreme Court vacancy created by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, sources familiar with the process said Wednesday. Sandoval met with Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid on Monday while the governor was in Washington for the National Governors Association meeting. A […]Load more...
VOA News For the past 84 years, an exemption in U.S. law allowed the import of goods produced by slaves and others forced into labor, including children, as long as demand exceeded supply. In two weeks, that will be illegal. President Barack Obama signed a trade bill Wednesday that includes a provision closing a loophole […]Load more...
Smita Nordwall Apple says the FBI has asked it to unlock more than a dozen iPhones in the last five months, reinforcing the tech giant’s argument that the FBI’s request in the San Bernardino massacre case will lead to further demands. In recently unsealed court documents, Apple’s lawyers revealed the company has received demands to […]Load more...
Voz de América Un mortal sistema de tormentas y tornados azotó la noche del martes la costa estadounidense del Golfo de México, afectando estados como Alabama, Louisiana, el norte de Florida y Mississippi, y avanza ahora hacia las Carolinas. El fenómeno que afectó la zona dejó al menos tres muertos luego que, según informaron las […]Load more...
El presidente Barack Obama recibe este miércoles en la Casa Blanca al rey de Jordania, Abdullah II, para conversar sobre la lucha contra el grupo Estado islámico y las consecuencias humanitarias de la guerra en Siria. Jordania ha sido parte de la coalición liderada por Estados Unidos que ha estado bombardeando blancos de ISIS tanto […]Load more...
Voz de América El fundador de Microsoft, Bill Gates, dice que los titulares de que él apoyó al FBI en su batalla legal con Apple «fueron demasiado lejos». Gates ha adoptado sin dudas una visión matizada sobre el asunto, a diferencia de muchos otros en la industria tecnológica estadounidense. Mientras muchos ejecutivos tecnológicos han expresado […]Load more...
Jeff Seldin Even as U.S. officials highlight military gains against the Islamic State terror group in Iraq and Syria, there is a growing sense of unease among former officials and analysts that the current strategies are not enough. Their fear is that while the U.S. and its coalition partners are degrading Islamic State’s abilities on […]Load more...
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