Around the world, support is growing for electric cars. Automakers are delivering more electric models with longer range and lower prices, such as the Chevrolet Bolt and the Tesla Model 3. China has set aggressive targets for electric vehicle sales to curb pollution; some European countries aim to be all-electric by 2040 or sooner. Those…
read moreU.S. President Donald Trump will call Monday for his chief trade adviser to investigate China’s intellectual property practices, the website Politico reported, citing an unnamed administration official. Trump had been expected to order a so-called Section 301 investigation under the 1974 Trade Act earlier this month, but action had been postponed as the White House…
read morePresident Donald Trump is facing his greatest foreign policy challenge in dealing with a nuclear-potent North Korea. But the test comes in the wake of recent polls that show the president’s political standing at home has weakened because of doubts about Trump’s leadership and his stalled domestic agenda. VOA National correspondent Jim Malone has more…
read moreVice President Mike Pence will leave Sunday on a six-day trip to Colombia, Argentina, Chile and Panama. Pence’s fourth overseas journey comes as many key U.S. diplomatic positions remain unfilled in the Trump administration’s State Department, elevating Pence’s role as one of the country’s key representatives abroad. VOA’s Mike O’Sullivan reports. …
read moreDevelopments in Washington, D.C., on Friday include President Donald Trump continuing the heated rhetoric against North Korea, warning of a possible U.S. military option in Venezuela, as well as a discussion of whether his tweets, and their use of rhetoric, keep the world on edge. Trump Says He Is Considering Military Action in Venezuela —…
read moreU.S. President Donald Trump says a military option against Venezuela is on the table, describing the situation there as a “dangerous mess.” “We have many options for Venezuela, including a possible military option, if necessary,” Trump told reporters at his golf resort in New Jersey. Trump said he’s “not going to rule out” a military…
read moreTHE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary ________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release August 11, 2017 REMARKS BY PRESIDENT TRUMP AFTER MEETING WITH NATIONAL SECURITY OFFICIALS Trump National Golf Club Bedminster, New Jersey 5:59 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Thank you, everybody. We had a very good meeting. …
read moreU.S. stock market indexes posted gains in Friday’s trading, a change in direction after several down days amid tensions between President Donald Trump and North Korea. In New York, the Standard & Poor’s 500 index and the Dow Jones industrial average each advanced about one-tenth of a percentage point, while the Nasdaq composite index rose…
read moreVice President Mike Pence heads to Colombia, Argentina, Chile and Panama on Sunday, meeting with foreign leaders in a role that is becoming familiar for an administration that has left many top diplomatic posts unfilled. Since April, Pence has visited South Korea, Japan, Indonesia and Australia, attended security meetings in Munich and Brussels, and traveled…
read moreRising tensions between the United States and North Korea brought a wave of falling stock prices recently as worried investors moved money out of equities and into the perceived safety of gold, Swiss currency and similar products. At one point, this change of investment strategy cut $1 trillion from the value of global stock markets.…
read moreIsrael has been known as the land of milk and honey since Biblical times – but the land of single malt whiskey? One appropriately named distillery is trying to turn Israel into a whiskey powerhouse. Smooth, honey-brown whiskey is not the first thing that comes to mind when most people think of Israel. However, at…
read moreAt the Chaldean Community Foundation in Sterling Heights, Michigan, more clients than usual are asking for assistance with their immigration cases. “We’re a little overwhelmed with the number of people coming through just because people are very frightened by the [deportation raids],” foundation president Martin Manna said. Advocates say there has been an increase of…
read moreWhat does President Donald Trump’s 2008 sale of a Florida mansion to a Russian billionaire have to do with collusion during the 2016 election? On the surface, not a whole lot. “You know the closest I came to Russia, I bought a house a number of years ago in Palm Beach … for $40 million,…
read moreFour U.S. Senate Republicans from oil-refining states Thursday urged the Trump administration not to block oil shipments from Venezuela as part of U.S. sanctions against the country, saying it could raise costs for U.S. fuel consumers. The United States sanctioned President Nicolas Maduro and other Venezuelan officials after Maduro established a constituent assembly run by…
read moreDevelopments in Washington, D.C., on Thursday include President Donald Trump continuing the heated rhetoric with North Korea over its nuclear program, answering reporters’ questions in a wide-ranging question-and-answer period where he touched on the expulsion of U.S. diplomats from Russia, nuclear weapons, and the FBI raid on former campaign manager Paul Manafort’s home. Trump Stiffens…
read moreArctic fjords that hid Soviet nuclear-powered submarines during the Cold War are now being used as a weapon in the sanctions war with Europe – to rear fish that Russia can no longer import. Three years ago, Russia banned food imports from the West in response to a series of Western sanctions that aimed to…
read moreU.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday thanked Russian President Vladimir Putin for ordering the United States to slash its diplomatic staff in Russia, remarks likely to rekindle criticism of Trump’s kid-gloves handling of Putin. Breaking nearly two weeks of silence on Putin’s July 30 order cutting U.S. embassy and consulate staff by nearly two thirds,…
read moreA U.S. district judge in Austin has rejected an effort by Texas to have a law that would punish so-called sanctuary cities be declared constitutional ahead of the measure’s effective date next month. The Republican-backed law is the first of its kind since Republican Donald Trump became president in January, promising a crackdown on illegal…
read moreVenezuelan homemaker Carmen Rondon lives in the country with the world’s largest oil reserves, but has spent weeks cooking with firewood due to a chronic shortage of home cooking gas – leaving her hoarse from breathing smoke. Finding domestic gas cylinders has become increasingly difficult, a problem that oil industry analysts attribute to slumping oil…
read moreTalks between African and U.S. officials to review the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) free-trade deal ended Thursday with no decision and a feeling on all sides that it has achieved little since it was set up. President Donald Trump’s top trade negotiator, Robert E. Lighthizer, and other U.S. officials have been in the…
read moreDuring the first six months of the Trump presidency, the Environmental Protection Agency has lagged behind three previous administrations in environmental enforcement, collecting 60 percent less in civil penalties from polluters, a report released on Thursday said. During President Donald Trump’s first six months in office, the Justice Department collected $12 million in civil penalties…
read moreCroatia revoked on Thursday its decision to raise import fees on some farm products by 220 percent, avoiding a trade war with its Balkan neighbors who had threatened to hit back with counter-measures. European Union-member Croatia last month raised its fees for phytosanitary controls — agricultural checks for pests and viruses on fruits and vegetables…
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