President Donald Trump has a silent partner behind several of the accomplishments he likes to boast about: Barack Obama. Despite assailing his Democratic predecessor for waging a “cruel and heartless war on American energy,” for example, Trump can brag about U.S. energy supremacy thanks to the sector’s growth in the Obama years. And the Obama-Trump…
read moreIn a surprise move, President Donald Trump said he would push back by a couple of weeks the raids planned for Sunday by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). “At the request of Democrats, I have delayed the Illegal Immigration Removal Process (Deportation) for two weeks to see if the Democrats and Republicans can get…
read moreThe World Health Organization says nearly half of the world’s population is at risk of contracting malaria. Efforts to fight the disease take two paths, fighting the disease itself and fighting the mosquitos that carry the disease. University of Maryland researchers are testing a novel new way to kill mosquitos in Burkina Faso. VOA’s Kevin…
read moreMuslims started settling in America in the 1600s. From the Northeast to Midwest, they have left their mark on U.S. history. Even in some Midwestern states where few Muslims live, there are historic milestones of their presence. Muslim homesteaders in Ross, North Dakota, built a mosque in the 1920s, making it one of the first…
read moreIstanbul votes again in a mayoral election Sunday, after authorities voided an opposition victory in March that ended 15 years of control by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s AKP Party. The CHP’s Ekrem Imamoglu, a once-obscure opposition figure, pulled off the political upset, but it was eventually undone by Turkey’s president, who cited mistakes in the…
read moreU.S. President Donald Trump said Friday he intends to nominate Army Secretary Mark Esper to be secretary of defense, the White House said in a statement. Esper takes over as acting defense secretary Monday following the resignation of Patrick Shanahan, who is stepping down after media reports emerged this week of domestic violence in his…
read moreU.S. President Donald Trump has ordered immigration enforcement officials to conduct a mass roundup of migrants who have received deportation orders, in an operation that is expected to begin Sunday, according to U.S. media reports. The operation, first reported by The Washington Post, would target up to 2,000 families in large cities that are major…
read moreMissouri’s Department of Health and Senior Services rejected a license renewal Friday for a Planned Parenthood clinic in St. Louis, but the clinic can temporarily continue to provide abortions. The rejection was the latest development in a long legal battle over the state’s last remaining abortion clinic. The health department told Planned Parenthood of the…
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read moreLast week, the Office of Special Counsel, a little-known government watchdog, declared Kellyanne Conway a “repeat offender” of the federal Hatch Act and recommended that President Donald Trump fire her. Conway had used her perch as presidential counselor to lambaste Democratic candidates in media interviews, a clear violation of the law, which prohibits government employees…
read moreA Washington watchdog group on Thursday accused Ivanka Trump, U.S. President Donald Trump’s daughter and one of his White House advisers, of using her Twitter account for both government and political commentary, a violation of U.S. federal law. The Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington group said that in the early stages of Trump’s…
read moreAn ally of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and a Democrat who flipped a Republican district have joined calls for impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump. Rep. Jan Schakowsky says in a Twitter video Trump “certainly has committed all kinds of offenses that meet the standard” for a formal charge by the House. Rep. Sean Casten…
read moreAn ally of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and a Democrat who flipped a Republican district have joined calls for impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump. Rep. Jan Schakowsky says in a Twitter video Trump “certainly has committed all kinds of offenses that meet the standard” for a formal charge by the House. Rep. Sean Casten…
read moreA top State Department official is assuring Congress the United States is not seeking war with Iran. But congressional Democrats worry that escalating tensions with the Islamic Republic will give the Trump administration an excuse to enter into a military conflict – and they warn President Trump must respect Congress’ constitutional power to declare war.…
read moreU.S. President Donald Trump has conferred the nation’s highest civilian honor on a Reagan era economist who helped popularize the notion that tax cuts pay for themselves through faster economic growth. He awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Arthur Laffer in a ceremony Wednesday at the White House. The controversial economist is hailed by…
read moreFormer top White House adviser Hope Hicks was refusing to answer questions related to her time in the White House in an interview Wednesday with the House Judiciary Committee, dimming Democrats’ chances of obtaining new or substantive information about President Donald Trump as part of their investigation into obstruction of justice. Less than an…
read morePresident Donald Trump has asserted executive privilege over documents that were subpoenaed by Congress related to the Trump administration’s decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census, the Justice Department said Wednesday. The claim comes as the House Oversight Committee considers whether to hold Attorney General William Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross…
read moreTwo U.S. senators asked the FBI on Wednesday to explain what it has done to investigate the suspected hack by Russian intelligence of a Florida-based voting software company before the 2016 election. In a letter sent to FBI Director Christopher Wray, Democratic Sens. Ron Wyden of Oregon and Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, who is the…
read moreU.S. President Donald Trump kicked off his re-election campaign at a rally in Orlando, Florida, one of the swing states that fueled his poll-defying victory in 2016. The crowd greeted him with “USA” chants as he recalled the “movement” he started four years ago. “It turned out to be more than just a great political…
read moreU.S. President Donald Trump promised to start deporting “millions of illegal aliens” from the United States next week, but the announced raids on immigrant families appear to have caught the country’s immigration officials by surprise. The deportation plans have been under consideration for months. A Trump administration official says the 1 million migrants who have been…
read moreU.S. President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign will kick-off with a rally in downtown Orlando, Florida, Tuesday night, but his most loyal fans have already camped outside of the Amway Center since early Monday to claim their spot in line. Several hundred Trump supporters were gathered a block away from the rally venue Monday evening, with…
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