A massive search is under way for a new FBI director, after U.S. President Donald Trump fired James Comey last week. The administration has interviewed at least eight candidates for the job, and Trump has said a decision could come before he leaves Friday on his first overseas trip as president. “I think the…
read moreThe search is underway for a new FBI director, after President Donald Trump fired James Comey last week. VOA’s Michael Bowman reports, intrigue continues to mount after the White House offered conflicting rationales for Comey’s dismissal and the president hinted recordings may exist of his conversations with the man who, until last week, oversaw a…
read moreU.S. President Donald Trump said Saturday that a new FBI director could be named in the next week. “We can make a fast decision,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One before flying to Lynchburg, Virginia, to deliver a commencement address at Liberty University. The president’s remarks came four days after his controversial firing of…
read moreU.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Saturday after meeting with officials from the world’s other industrialized democracies that he thought they were more at ease with Donald Trump’s economic policies. “People are more comfortable today, now that they’ve had the opportunity to spend time with me and listen to the president and hear our economic…
read moreDevelopments Friday concerning President Donald Trump, his early morning tweets threatening to end White House press briefings and an escalation of a feud with former FBI Director James Comey, a look at 11 possible candidates to fill Comey’s position, and former first lady Michelle Obama speaking out about the president’s new school lunch directives: White…
read moreThe White House remained on the defensive Friday as President Donald Trump escalated his criticism of James Comey, the man he fired as FBI director earlier in the week. On Twitter, Trump accused Democrats of fabricating the allegation that his presidential campaign colluded with Russia, which remains under investigation by the FBI and the Congress.…
read moreA global cyber attack on Friday affected British hospitals, government agencies and companies in 99 countries, with Russia, Ukraine and Taiwan the top targets, security software maker Avast said. Hacking tools widely believed by researchers to have been developed by the U.S. National Security Agency that were leaked online last month appear to have been…
read moreAmong the first executive actions at the White House this year, President Donald Trump reinstated a law that bans any U.S. aid to international organizations that support the practice of abortion. Trump’s memorandum on the “Mexico City policy” reversed one aspect of U.S. foreign aid policy that had been in effect under former President Barack…
read moreThe committee that raised public and private money to put on last summer’s Democratic National Convention used surplus funds to hand out nearly $1 million in bonuses for staff members, as well as grants to help Philadelphia schools and nonprofits. That rankled some state lawmakers who ponied up $10 million in tax dollars for the…
read moreA unit of the U.S. Treasury Department that fights money laundering will provide financial records to an investigation by the Senate into possible ties between Russia and President Donald Trump and his associates, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. The Senate Intelligence Committee asked for the records from…
read moreFrom the United States and Canada to small islands in Europe and the Caribbean, Chinese are spending billions on new passports and visas to move their families away from their homeland. China’s middle and upper classes are demanding better schools, cleaner air and a more secure life for their children. And as China gets wealthier,…
read moreIn a move that is likely to give a boost to China’s Belt and Road Forum, the United States has announced that it will participate in meetings on the initiative beginning this weekend in Beijing. The decision to attend is part of a 100-day plan and new deal between Washington and Beijing that was initially…
read moreLike thousands of other small-business entrepreneurs in India, Charanjit Yadav saw his sales of generator sets and batteries plummet in the weeks after the government’s surprising move to scrap 86 percent of the country’s currency last November. Six months on, as business booms, Yadav only recalls the currency ban when he looks at the crisp…
read moreApple says it will give $200 million to Corning Inc. so it can invest in a Kentucky plant that makes glass screens for iPhones and iPads. The California-based company says the money will come from its Advanced Manufacturing Fund. It has pledged to spend $1 billion on US-based companies to create “innovative production and highly…
read moreStrolling through campus at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV), you will notice a vivid black-and-yellow sign: “Drive slowly. Ocelots.” Don’t be fooled. You are unlikely to see an ocelot anywhere on campus or anywhere else in the country. While the striped-and-spotted wild cat was a former school mascot, it is also a…
read moreA report in a major U.S. newspaper late Thursday said President Donald Trump summoned Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey to the White House in January where the president asked Comey to “pledge his loyalty to him.” Comey was fired by Trump Tuesday, creating a political firestorm and raising concerns in some circles about…
read moreThe price tag for the wall U.S. President Donald Trump wants to build on the border between the U.S. and Mexico has been much debated. But in the Rio Grande Valley region of Texas, a “high priority” for a wall, there is another potential cost — on wildlife, some of it endangered. Ramon Taylor reports.…
read moreIn an interview with The Economist, President Donald Trump whiffed on a batch of economic facts. He got the Canada-U.S. trade balance wrong, misplaced the U.S. in the world ranks of tax burdens and claimed to have coined an economic phrase that’s been familiar to economists for some 80 years. A look at some of…
read moreIf you’ve been missing your daily dose of White House press secretary Sean Spicer, it’s because President Donald Trump’s chief spokesman has been serving the country in another way: He’s been on Navy Reserve duty. Spicer’s commitment for monthly service occasionally pulls him away from his high-profile job as the public face of the Trump…
read moreA sweeping trade agreement, ranging from banking to beef, has been reached between Washington and Beijing, the U.S. Commerce Department announced on Thursday. “It was pretty much a Herculean accomplishment to get this done,” said U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross. “This is more than has been done in the whole history of U.S.-China relations on…
read moreKongkaew Vonusak smiles when he recalls the arrival of Chinese investors in his tranquil village in northern Laos in 2014. With them came easy money, he said. The Chinese offered villagers up to $720 per hectare to rent their land, much of it fallow for years, said Kongkaew, 59, the village chief. They wanted to…
read moreIdeas were flying at a brainstorming session to create a slogan for a group of North Carolina Democrats when Catherine Cloud blurted out a phrase that made a colleague’s eyes light up: “Because this is America.” The words were quickly scrawled on a notepad, and the New Hanover County Democratic Party in Wilmington began its…
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