VOA News Last updated on: December 28, 2015 Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel will cut short a family vacation to Cuba after police in the city fatally shot a 19-year-old male student and a 55-year-old mother of five Saturday. Both victims were African American. The shootings have increased tensions in the city after the mayor was forced […]readmore
VOA News December 29, 2015 U.S and Mexican officials say authorities in Mexico have detained an American teenager wanted for violating his probation in connection with a drunk-driving crash that killed four people in 2013. 18-year-old Ethan Couch and his mother were taken into custody in Puerto Vallarta on Mexico’s west coast. The U.S. Department […]readmore
VOA News December 28, 2015 A new poll sponsored by news channel CNN shows more Americans dissatisfied with U.S. anti-terror efforts than any time since September 11, 2001, with 40 percent saying terrorists are winning the war on the United States. Those findings, published Monday, come just weeks after deadly terrorist attacks in Paris and […]readmore
VOA News December 28, 2015 3:24 PM A grand jury in the northern U.S. city of Cleveland, Ohio has voted not to indict two police officers in the November 2014 shooting death of a 12-year-old African American boy carrying what turned out to be a fake gun. Cleveland prosecutor Tim McGinty announced the decision Monday […]readmore
Jim Randle December 28, 2015 A number of economists predict that unemployment will drop to around its lowest practical level in the United States by the end of 2016. But others say employers remain cautious about taking on new workers, and wages are growing at a frustratingly slow pace. The U.S. unemployment rate was 5 […]readmore
Reuters December 28, 2015 WASHINGTON—In September, U.S. State Department officials invited a foreign delegation to the Guantanamo Bay detention center to persuade the group to take detainee Tariq Ba Odah to their country. If they succeeded, the transfer would mark a small step toward realizing President Barack Obama’s goal of closing the prison before he […]readmore
Lou Lorscheider Last updated on: December 28, 2015 Violent weekend weather battered large swaths of the southern and central United States, leaving at least 43 people dead. Tornadoes killed at least 11 people in Texas as other areas of the country braced for potentially crippling winter storms and flash flooding. One of several tornadoes that […]readmore
Por RFI Según The Washington Post, que no precisa sus fuentes, el departamento estadounidense de Seguridad Interior (DHS, en inglés) prepara un importante operativo para expulsar, en las próximas semanas, a gran cantidad de indocumentados centroamericanos mayores y menores de edad. La viceminstra para los salvadoreños en el Exterior lamentó la medida. La información publicada […]readmore
Fuertes tormentas, tornados, lluvias intensas y granizadas impactan el sur y el centro de Estados Unidos en el inicio del período navideño. Voz de América – Redacción Al menos 14 personas murieron en inusuales tormentas y tornados que destruyeron docenas de casas en el sur de Estados Unidos. La peor parte le tocó a Mississippi, […]readmore
El diario Washington Post publicó un reporte, donde cita a fuentes relacionadas con el plan, pero afirman que la medida todavía no ha recibido la aprobación final del departamento de Seguridad Nacional. Voz de América – Redacción El departamento de Seguridad Nacional de Estados Unidos (DHS, por sus siglas en inglés) está planeando una serie […]readmore