VOA News Congressional leaders have reached a tentative deal with the Obama administration on a government spending plan that could avoid another contentious budget standoff between the White House and hardline conservative Republicans. The agreement is the result of weeks of negotiations led by House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, the […]Load more...
VOA News October 27, 2015 12:14 PM CIA Director John Brennan said Tuesday he was «outraged» when a hacker broke into his personal email account, but added the attack highlights how everyone’s personal data is vulnerable on the Internet. Brennan told a conference on national security at George Washington University in Washington that he was […]Load more...
VOA News Spencer Stone, one of three Americans who’d overpowered an armed terror suspect on a French train in August, is in stable condition after he was «repeatedly stabbed» Wednesday night in Sacramento, California, a U.S. Air Force official tells VOA. Air Force public affairs officer Rose Richeson says the the Airman 1st Class, stationed […]Load more...
VOA News Three days into his historic first visit to the United States, Pope Francis shifts his attention from the nation’s political capital to its economic heart. His flight Thursday afternoon from Washington’s nearby Joint Base Andrews was expected to land at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport at about 5 p.m. local time […]Load more...
Associated Press LOS ANGELES—Bob Rand bought his Volkswagen Passat last year for its clean emissions and high gas mileage. He liked the car so much he convinced his son and a friend to buy one, too.Now, as Volkswagen comes clean about rigging diesel emissions to pass U.S. tests, Rand is desperately trying to sell the […]Load more...
NEW YORK —Pope Francis is headed to 5th Avenue in Manhattan. There, across from Rockefeller Center and New York City’s famous shopping district, stands St. Patrick’s Cathedral – the largest Neo-Gothic style Roman Catholic cathedral in the United States — where the pontiff will hold an evening prayer, shortly after arriving on September 24.For visitors […]Load more...
CAPITOL HILL—Pope Francis used his address to a deeply divided U.S. Congress to call on the lawmakers to renew “a spirit of fraternity and solidarity, cooperating generously for the common good.” «A political society endures when it seeks, as a vocation, to satisfy common needs by stimulating the growth of all its members, especially those […]Load more...
Reuters, September 16, 2015 The U.S. Federal Reserve will hold fire a bit longer on its first interest rate rise in nearly a decade, according to a little over half of economists in a Reuters poll who only last week narrowly predicted the Fed will pull the trigger on Thursday. The survey of 80 economists based […]Load more...
Authorities in California say an elderly disabled woman has been killed in one of two massive wildfires in the northern part of the state that have overwhelmed firefighters with their speed and intensity. The body of 72-year-old Barbara McWilliams, who suffered from advanced multiple sclerosis, was discovered in the rubble of her home near California’s […]Load more...
VOA News When Pope Francis visits the United States next week on a three-city tour, he will deliver only four of his 18 planned speeches in English. The native of Argentina is most comfortable speaking in Spanish, a spokesman for the Vatican told The Associated Press, although the pontiff also speaks German and Italian fluently. […]Load more...
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