VOA News/AP WASHINGTON — Melania Trump underwent a procedure Monday morning to treat a benign kidney condition and will likely be hospitalized for the rest of the week, the White House said. President Donald Trump was expected to visit his wife at Walter Reed Medical Center just outside Washington later Monday, according to a White House […]readmore
VOA News Officials in Hawaii have called for more evacuations after an 18th fissure spewing lava from the Kilauea volcano was discovered Sunday on the Big Island. «The amount of lava that has erupted from the fissure so far is very, very small,» said scientist Steve Brantley of the U.S. Geological Survey’s Hawaiian Volcano Observatory. […]readmore
VOA News WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump says he is looking for a way to let a Chinese technology firm «get back into business fast» after a U.S. trade ruling severely crippled the company. «Too many jobs in China lost,» Trump tweeted Sunday, days after ZTE announced it had ceased «major operating activities.» The U.S. had […]readmore
Brian Padden/VOA News SEOUL — The U.S. has indicated it is prepared to open the North Korean economy to significant private investment, if a nuclear deal can be reached. But even if economic restrictions were lifted, the restrictive and repressive state would likely still present a challenging environment for foreign investment.U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo […]readmore
VOA News The United States officially moved its Israeli embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem on Monday, even as 37 Palestinians were killed and hundreds wounded in clashes with Israeli forces along the Gaza Strip’s border with the Jewish state. Less than 100 kilometers away from the violent protests, U.S. and Israeli officials gathered in […]readmore
Carolyn Presutti/VOA INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA — Kavitha Kamalbabu needed a break. She had raised her two children and the youngest was now in kindergarten. It was time to turn attention to her career. The 36-year-old wanted to code. The mecca of high tech — Silicon Valley — wasn’t an option because she needed to stay close to […]readmore
VOA News/Ken Bredemeier U.S. Vice President Mike Pence said Thursday he thinks it’s time for special counsel Robert Mueller to conclude his criminal investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election and whether President Donald Trump obstructed justice by trying to thwart the probe. Pence told NBC News, «In the interests of the […]readmore
William Gallo/VOA News WASHINGTON — North Korea’s release of three U.S. citizens may help pave the way for talks between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un, but questions remain as to whether those talks will succeed. At the White House on Wednesday, Trump continued to speak cautiously about the coming summit, even while praising the […]readmore
Steve Herman/VOA News JOINT BASE ANDREWS, MARYLAND — U.S. President Donald Trump personally welcomed three freed Americans returning home from North Korea early Thursday morning, declaring “we’re starting off on a new footing” with Pyongyang. During the event at Joint Base Andrews, in the state of Maryland, 25 kilometers from the White House, the president, accompanied […]readmore
Ken Bredemeier WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump launched a new attack on the country’s national news media Wednesday, suggesting that maybe their credentials should be taken away, while also admitting that when he talks about «fake news,» he means stories about him he doesn’t like. «The Fake News is working overtime,» Trump said in a […]readmore