VOA News/Ken Bredemeier WASHINGTON — One of U.S. President Donald Trump’s lawyers said Sunday he is advising him to not pardon anyone linked to the year-long investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election because it would «just cloud» the perception that there was wrong-doing. Rudy Giuliani, a former New York mayor and part of Trump’s […]Load more...
VOA News/Anna Matteo In the United States on the third Sunday of June we celebrate Father’s Day! So, today we celebrate fathers with some expressions that use the word “father” and “dad.” Let’s begin with a great father idiom! Success has many fathers but failure is an orphan. An orphan is a child whose parents […]Load more...
VOA News Growing up, Timothy “Twix” Ward, a member of the San Carlos Apache Tribe in Arizona, thought he was “normal.” But his family recognized there was something “special” about him. “It wasn’t until I got older that I knew who I was, that I was different from everyone else,” he said. Ward identifies not […]Load more...
VOA News/Jim Malone WASHINGTON — Outside the White House Friday, a media frenzy. And at the center of it all, President Donald Trump. “Can we do one question at a time? Wait! One question at a time,» the president scolded reporters. Trump launched a new attack on the Russia probe in the wake of a critical […]Load more...
VOA News U.S. astronaut Peggy Whitson, who has spent more time in space than any other American, retired Friday. During her career, Whitson logged 665 days in space over three missions, the equivalent of about one year and 10 months outside the Earth’s atmosphere. Whitson was also the first woman to command the International Space […]Load more...
VOA News WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort was sent to jail on Friday after a federal grand jury indicted him on charges of tampering with potential witnesses while free on bail. Manafort, 69, the first former Trump associate to go to prison, was indicted last week on two new counts […]Load more...
VOA News U.S. President Donald Trump continues to try to blame Democrats, his political rivals, for actions that separate children from parents when families are caught illegally crossing the border with Mexico. Taking to Twitter Friday, he blamed family breakups on the Democrats’ «cruel legislative agenda.» Republicans hold the majorities in both the House of […]Load more...
VOA News FALLS CHURCH, VA. — Attorney General Jeff Sessions has moved to deny asylum to victims of domestic abuse and gang violence, narrowing the definition of asylum and potentially barring tens of thousands of people from getting it.Sessions Monday ruled in the case of one Salvadoran woman, known only by the initials on her immigration […]Load more...
VOA News/Ken Bredemeier WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump said Thursday he did not fire Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey because of the Russia investigation, contradicting previous statements that the probe was the reason for his dismissal. «Not that it matters but I never fired James Comey because of Russia!,» Trump said in a […]Load more...
VOA News/Agencies WHISTLER, BRITISH COLUMBIA — The United States’ allies in the G-7 vowed Thursday to push back against Washington’s decision to impose tariffs on their steel and aluminum exports, saying as they gathered for a meeting that the move threatens global growth. The escalating trade conflict between the United States and many key allies will […]Load more...