VOA News/By Ken Bredemeier, Steve Herman The White House on Thursday abandoned its fight with Congress over whether to fund $4 billion in foreign aid and will allow the money to be spent. U.S. President Donald Trump had considered cutting the spending on the ground that it was wasteful and unnecessary, but he retreated when it […]readmore
VOA News/By Associated Press DES MOINES, IOWA – The chant “2 cents, 2 cents, 2 cents”started in the back of a crowd that packed sidewalks at the Iowa State Fair. Elizabeth Warren, basking in the spontaneous adulation of her proposed wealth tax, prompted roars with her call for the ultra-wealthy to “pitch in 2 cents so […]readmore
VOA News/By Ken Bredemeier WASHINGTON -The acting U.S. Homeland Security chief on Sunday defended raids last week on food processing plants in Mississippi searching for hundreds of undocumented migrants, but acknowledged «the timing was unfortunate,» just days after a gunman targeted and killed 22 Hispanics in a mass shooting in El Paso, Texas. Kevin McAleenan […]readmore
By VOA News Democratic presidential candidates on Sunday blasted President Donald Trump for retweeting an unsubstantiated conspiracy theory regarding U.S. financier Jeffrey Epstein’s death by apparent suicide in a federal prison. Late Saturday, Trump took to Twitter to promote conspiracy theories about Epstein’s death, including retweeting an unfounded claim that former President Bill Clinton was […]readmore
VOA News/By Ken Bredemeier WASHINGTON – Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden is the leading Democratic presidential contender among two dozen candidates looking to take on President Donald Trump in the 2020 election, but Biden is proving to be unchallenged at committing verbal gaffes on the campaign trail. Biden, with four decades on the American […]readmore
Justice Secretary Wanda Vazquez is accompanied by her husband Judge Jorge Diaz during her swearing in ceremony as Puerto Rico’s new governor, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019. VOA News/AP Associated Press SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO – In one of her first moves as Puerto Rico’s new governor, Wanda Vazquez announced late […]readmore
Los Juegos Panamericanos de Lima 2019 contaron con la mayor participación de deportistas de la historia. by DW Los Juegos Panamericanos tocaron su fin este domingo (11.08.2019), con un Estados Unidos que se llevó a manos llenas el oro que había en Lima 2019, mientras que Brasil se despidió con el segundo mayor cargamento. Los […]readmore
By Jessica Camerato, reporter/editor for MLB.com based in Boston BOSTON — 1,495 feet. That’s the combined distance J.D. Martinez covered with his two home runs and two doubles in the Red Sox’s dominating 16-4 win over the Angels on Friday night at Fenway Park. The designated hitter recorded the 14th multi-home run game of his career, and […]readmore
Integrantes del equipo femenino de fútbol de EE.UU. incluyendo Megan Rapinoe, (al fondo a la izquierda), y Alex Morgan, (en el fondo a la derecha) se desplazan en una carroza durante un desfile en la ciudad de Nueva York el miércoles, 10 de julio de 2019. Voz de América El equipo nacional de fútbol femenino […]readmore
El Comité Olímpico Internacional (COI) envió una carta al Comité Olímpico Nacional Italiano (CONI) para alertarle sobre un proyecto de ley que pondría en tela de juicio la independencia del CONI del gobierno italiano. En una carta desvelada el martes por el diario Corriere della Sera, el COI expresa «serias preocupaciones» sobre el proyecto de […]readmore