Controversial former Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio, who was pardoned by U.S. President Donald Trump last year, announced Tuesday that he would be running for the U.S. Senate. “I am running for the U.S. Senate from the Great State of Arizona, for one unwavering reason: to support the agenda and policies of President Donald Trump in…
read moreControversial former Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio, who was pardoned by U.S. President Donald Trump last year, announced Tuesday that he would be running for the U.S. Senate. “I am running for the U.S. Senate from the Great State of Arizona, for one unwavering reason: to support the agenda and policies of President Donald Trump in…
read moreU.S. President Donald Trump met Tuesday with key lawmakers on immigration policies, but no breakthrough appeared imminent on how to protect hundreds of thousands of young immigrants from being deported. The immigration talks at the White House are occurring as Trump and Congress face a January 19 deadline to reach agreement on U.S. government spending…
read moreFrench prosecutors have opened an investigation into Apple over revelations it secretly slowed down older versions of its handsets. The Paris prosecutor’s office said Tuesday a probe was opened last week over alleged “deception and planned obsolescence” of some Apple products. It is led by the French body in charge of fraud control, which…
read moreKentucky’s Republican House speaker resigned his leadership post, declaring he did not want the secret sexual harassment settlement he signed to be a distraction from the chamber’s legislative work. But moments into his announcement Monday, he said the state’s Republican governor was spreading lies about him from the “deepest pits of Hell” and vowed…
read moreThe U.S. special counsel investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election has discussed with President Donald Trump’s legal team the prospect of interviewing the president. The two sides met last month, but according to people familiar with the matter no details of a possible interview have yet been worked out. Former Federal Bureau of Investigation…
read moreSpecial counsel Robert Mueller’s team of investigators has expressed interest in speaking with President Donald Trump as part of a probe into potential coordination between Russia and the Trump campaign, a person familiar with the matter said Monday. The prospect of an interview with the president has come up in recent discussions between Mueller’s team…
read more2017 was the costliest year on record for natural disasters in the United States, according to scientists. Sixteen disasters caused an estimated $306 billion in damage. VOA’s Steve Baragona reports. …
read moreEcuador’s comptroller’s office on Monday announced it will open an audit of debt contracted in the last five years of the government of former President Rafael Correa to determine the legality of the operations and the use of the funds. The move follows a report by the comptroller’s office revealing that some documentation relating to…
read moreTwo former employees of Google have accused the tech giant of discriminating against conservative white men, in a class action lawsuit filed Monday. One of the accusers, James Damore, was fired from the company last year after writing a memo defending the gender gap in Silicon Valley tech jobs as possibly a matter of…
read moreDemocrat Tom Steyer, who has spent millions on national ads calling for the impeachment of President Donald Trump, will spend $30 million this year trying to get members of his party elected to the U.S. House of Representatives to win control of the chamber from Republicans, he announced on Monday. Steyer, who also said he…
read moreIn a country not short of problems, a looming pensions crisis that could cripple Afghanistan’s budget in coming years is a new headache for a government dependent on increasingly war-weary foreign donors. Pension liabilities — set to swallow the equivalent of a third of the current $5 billion budget within 15 years unless something is…
read morePrices in Venezuela, which is believed to have the world’s highest inflation, jumped 2,616 percent last year, the country’s opposition-led National Assembly said, as millions suffer from food and medicine shortages during a severe economic crisis. Opposition politicians, whose numbers are broadly in line with analysts’ estimates, on Monday put December’s inflation figure alone at…
read moreRepublican Rep. Ed Royce of California said Monday he will not seek re-election after serving out his 13th term in the House, the latest in a string of committee chairmen who have announced their retirement. Royce is the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. This was to be his final year as chairman…
read moreThree major hurricanes pushed the bill for natural disasters to record levels last year, according to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. A total of 16 disasters caused an estimated $306 billion in damage in 2017. Hurricane Harvey was the most costly. Up to a meter and a half of rain flooded Houston and…
read moreU.S. consumers in November ran up nearly $28 billion in new debt on their credit cards and in new student, auto and other loans, a sign of growing confidence in the economy. The Federal Reserve said Monday that consumer borrowing grew 8.8 percent, the most in more than two years, to $3.83 trillion. The Fed’s…
read moreU.S. President Donald Trump is touting his policies for rural America, a segment of the national economy that has lagged behind growth in urban areas. Trump headed to Nashville, Tennessee, Monday to tell the American Farm Bureau Federation, one of the country’s top lobbying groups for agricultural interests, that his recently signed $1.5 trillion tax…
read moreA new proposal in California would allow residents to make donations instead of paying taxes in order to avoid the new federal tax plan’s cap on deductions of state taxes. The California legislation, introduced Thursday by Democratic Senate President Pro Tempore Kevin de Leon, would allow residents to donate to a new state public-purpose “excellence…
read moreU.S. Vice President Mike Pence will travel to Jordan, Egypt and Israel on behalf of President Donald Trump later this month, Pence’s office said in a statement Monday. “The vice president is traveling to the Middle East to reaffirm our commitment to work with the United States’ allies in the region to defeat radicalism that…
read moreA US entrepreneur is taking advantage of a demand for American goods in Africa — creating an online portal for cross border trade between the two countries. As VOA’s Mariama Diallo reports. …
read moreU.S. President Donald Trump and aides on Sunday heaped scorn on a new book detailing his chaotic first year in the White House and suggestions that he is not mentally fit to be the U.S. leader. Trump, in a Twitter comment, said, “I’ve had to put up with the Fake News from the first day…
read morePresident Donald Trump says he’s done campaigning for insurgents challenging incumbent Republican members of Congress. Trump told reporters after meeting GOP House and Senate leaders at Camp David on Saturday that he’s planning a robust schedule of campaigning for the 2018 midterm elections and that includes involvement in the Republican primaries. He’ll campaign for incumbents,…
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