Elizabeth Lee VOA News LOS ANGELES — Farid Khanlou owns Jordan Market in an area of Los Angeles called Persian Square. It’s packed with Persian businesses, many of which fly the country’s flag from before the 1979 Iranian revolution. In this heart of the Iranian-American community, the largest group of Iranians abroad, there are many who […]Load more...
BOSTON, MA – Four new polls released today by Emerson College show a tightening of the presidential race, and for the first time, Hillary Clinton has taken the lead in Arizona, by a margin of 44% to 42%. Donald Trump leads 45% to 44% in the battleground state of Florida, and the two are even […]Load more...
WASHINGTON, DC – Seeking to protect military families and active duty military personnel whose consumer rights may have been violated by Wells Fargo, a group of eleven U.S. Senators led by Jack Reed (D-RI), the Ranking Member of the Armed Services Committee, Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), the Ranking Member of the Veterans’ Affairs Committee, and Sherrod […]Load more...
For months in the U.S. presidential campaign, Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson has drawn a modest amount of support, but after a string of foreign policy blunders, even he admits that his chances of winning the White House are all but nil. In mid-August, Johnson, the former two-term governor of the southwestern state of New Mexico, […]Load more...
VOA News Carolyn Presutti CLEVELAND, OHIO — As a union carpenter, Dustin Wolf used to walk on stilts to work on grid ceilings. Now he works for the local chapter of his union, Interior Systems Local 373 of the Regional Council of Carpenters, which represents 35,000 carpenters across Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky. A fourth generation union […]Load more...
BOSTON —Democrat Hillary Clinton (44 percent) leads Republican Donald Trump (42 percent) in a Suffolk University/Boston Globe poll of New Hampshire voters. The 2-point margin represents a toss-up, as the results are within the poll’s statistical margin of error. “There are just two sets of persuadable voters remaining in New Hampshire’s presidential contest: undecided voters […]Load more...
PROVIDENCE, RI – Secretary of State Nellie M. Gorbea is reminding Rhode Islanders that they have until Sunday, October 9 to register to vote for the November 8 general election. “The easiest way to register or update your registration is to go to vote.ri.gov and use our online portal,” Secretary Gorbea said. “I want to […]Load more...
Chris Hannas VOA NEWS WASHINGTON — When Republican Mike Pence and Democrat Tim Kaine sat across from each other Tuesday night, voters in the U.S. got their first actual debate about the policies Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton would pursue if elected the next country’s next president. It was the first and only time the two […]Load more...
Ken Bredemeier VOA News Now it’s back to the main contenders in the U.S. presidential campaign, with Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump set for their second face-to-face debate on Sunday. Their running mates, Virginia Democratic Senator Tim Kaine and Indiana Republican Governor Mike Pence, sparred for 90 minutes late Tuesday, trading barbs against […]Load more...
Cranston, RI – Speaker Nicholas Mattiello will be holding a press conference to unveil his legislative priorities for 2017. This press conference is being called during campaign season, after a robo-poll was conducted within the district, and after publication of a Sunday Providence Journal story where Mattiello indicated he should not be held responsible for […]Load more...