Attendees at the National Rifle Association’s annual meeting in Dallas can carry their firearms — except during the forum where President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence speak Friday. A White House official said Monday that Trump will attend Friday. Pence had already been slated to speak at Friday’s leadership forum, The NRA…
read moreU.S. President Donald Trump is assailing the White House correspondents’ annual dinner celebrating the country’s free speech guarantees after a comedian performing at the affair unleashed a string of barbed jokes aimed at Trump and his aides. Trump skipped last Saturday’s black-tie event at a Washington hotel for the second year in a row in…
read moreThe White House says Dr. Ronny Jackson remains assigned to the White House — but it’s not addressing reports the Navy rear admiral won’t be returning to the job of President Donald Trump’s personal physician. Jackson abandoned his nomination to be secretary of Veterans Affairs last week. White House spokesman Raj Shah said in a…
read moreUganda’s President Yoweri Museveni was criticized this month when he asked the Finance Ministry to find a way to tax social media use, in order to control what he called “gossip” online. Officials have since walked back that characterization, though they say they are pushing ahead with efforts to add a daily tax on mobile…
read moreFired FBI Director James Comey is dismissing a Republican-led House committee report clearing the Trump campaign of collusion with the Russians as a “political document.” “This is not my understanding of what the facts were before I left the FBI and I think the most important piece of work is the one the special counsel’s…
read moreThe third and fourth biggest U.S. wireless carriers, T-Mobile and Sprint, said Sunday they plan to merge, the third attempt they’ve made to join forces against the country’s two biggest mobile device firms, Verizon and AT&T. The deal, if it happens this time, calls for T-Mobile to buy Sprint for $26 billion in an all-stock…
read moreIf President Donald Trump isn’t comfortable being the target of jokes, comedian Michelle Wolf gave him and others plenty of reasons to squirm Saturday night. “It’s 2018 and I’m a woman, so you cannot shut me up,” Wolf cracked, “unless you have Michael Cohen wire me $130,000.” No, Trump’s personal attorney wasn’t there. And, for…
read morePresident Donald Trump took aim at familiar political targets and added a few fresh ones during a campaign-style rally Saturday night in an Upper Midwest state that gave him a surprising victory in the 2016 election. Trump has been urging voters to support Republicans for Congress as a way of advancing his agenda. In his…
read moreFacing a rising death toll from drug overdoses, state lawmakers across the United States are testing a strategy to boost treatment for opioid addicts: Force drug manufacturers and their distributors to pay for it. Bills introduced in at least 15 states would impose taxes or fees on prescription painkillers. Several of the measures have bipartisan…
read moreU.S. President Donald Trump called for the resignation Saturday of Democratic Senator Jon Tester for raising concerns about Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs, Ronny Jackson, who withdrew his name from consideration on Thursday. Jackson, who is the White House physician and a Navy Rear Admiral, dropped his bid Thursday to head…
read morePresident Donald Trump was betting on a big crowd and a friendly reception at a Saturday evening rally in Michigan – one of the states in the Upper Midwest that Hillary Clinton counted on in 2016 but saw slip away. In fact, Trump was the first Republican presidential nominee to capture Michigan since George H.W.…
read moreIt was another landmark week in the presidency of Donald Trump. He hosted key U.S. allies Emmanuel Macron of France and Angela Merkel of Germany; but, he also had to weather more turmoil in his Cabinet as well as the ongoing Russia investigation and intensifying scrutiny of his personal lawyer, Michael Cohen. What might be…
read moreIt was another landmark week in the presidency of Donald Trump. Trump hosted key U.S. allies Emmanuel Macron of France and Angela Merkel of Germany. But he also had to weather more turmoil in his Cabinet as well as the ongoing Russia investigation and intensifying scrutiny of his personal lawyer, Michael Cohen. VOA National correspondent…
read moreTexas’ voter ID law that was twice blocked because of findings of discrimination can stay in effect for the 2018 elections, a U.S. appeals court ruled Friday. It was the second major ruling over voting rights in the U.S. this week after an Arkansas judge on Thursday blocked that state’s voter ID measure as unconstitutional.…
read moreNavajo Nation leaders say a Utah county is trying to keep a Native candidate off the ballot during the first election since a federal judge ruled voting districts were drawn based on race. Navajo Nation Vice President Jonathan Nez said in statement the threat of possible criminal charges is an “example of the county’s bad-faith…
read moreU.S. President Donald Trump has commended the release of a report by the Republican-led House Intelligence Committee, saying it proves there was no collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government. Questioned about it during a joint news conference with visiting German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Trump said, “We were honored. It was a great…
read moreFormer Democratic Gov. Philip Hoff, who’s credited with starting Vermont’s transition from one of the most Republican-entrenched states in the country to one of the most liberal, has died. He was 93. Hoff, who became the first Democrat elected governor of Vermont in more than 100 years in 1962, died on Thursday, according to The…
read moreArkansas officials are appealing a judge’s order blocking the state from enforcing a voter ID law nearly identical to a measure struck down as unconstitutional four years ago. Secretary of State Mark Martin filed notice Friday that he’s appealing Pulaski County Circuit Court Judge Alice Gray’s ruling against the voter ID law to the state…
read moreGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel visits the White House Friday for a one-day working meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump. The meeting follows a three-day state visit to the United States by French President Emmanuel Macon. The back-to-back visits to Washington are seen as a joint effort to persuade President Trump not to abandon the Iran…
read moreThe Republican-led House intelligence committee on Friday officially declared the end of its Russia probe, saying in its final report that it found no evidence that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia in the 2016 presidential campaign. The report’s conclusion is fiercely opposed by committee Democrats, who say the committee did not interview enough witnesses…
read moreNew U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo sent a powerful signal to NATO allies, traveling to Brussels for Friday’s ministerial meeting just hours after being confirmed. “I hopped straight on a plane and came straight here,” Pompeo told NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. “There’s good reason for that. The work that’s being done here today…
read moreFrom T-shirts, socks and toys to knives and lanterns, a store in upstate New York takes pride in only selling goods that are made in America. Olga Loginova from VOA’s Russian service talked to the store owner about his business, which emerged after the 2008 financial crisis. …
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