US House Democrats’ attempt to remove President Donald Trump from office for alleged abuse of power and obstruction of Congress failed in the U.S. Senate this month, and some polls show the president is now more popular than ever before. But that hasn’t stopped House Speaker Nancy Pelosi from criticizing Trump for what she says…
read moreThe 2020 battle for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination is off to a fast though uncertain start, with strong showings in the first two contests by Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders and former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg.Buttigieg narrowly won the most delegates in the Iowa caucus voting while Sanders prevailed in a close race…
read moreGood news for President Donald Trump, recent polling suggests a majority of Americans say they are better off than they were when Trump took office. The president is betting that rosy economic indicators will pave the way to his re-election in November. White House Correspondent Patsy Widakuswara has this story. …
read moreFacebook decided Friday to allow a type of paid political message that had sidestepped many of the social network’s rules governing political ads. Its policy change came days after presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg exploited a loophole to run such humorous messages promoting his campaign on the accounts of popular Instagram personalities followed by millions of younger people. The…
read moreFacebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to throw his support behind international reforms that would require Silicon Valley tech giants to pay more tax in Europe. The billionaire social network founder is due to meet members of the European Union’s executive Commission in Brussels and speak at the Munich Security Conference in Germany. …
read moreStaff and patients celebrated at Beatrice Government Hospital this week after a U.S. charity known as We Care Solar installed solar power in the medical center’s labor and maternity wards.The hospital is one of more than 200 institutions that have benefited from the $3 million project by the California-based NGO.Eighteen-year-old Bridget Dube delivered her son…
read moreA U.S.-funded charity has started installing solar panels to provide electricity to the maternity wards of rural hospitals in Zimbabwe. The move should come as a relief to new and expecting mothers, as power cuts have left many Zimbabwean hospitals without working lights. Columbus Mavhunga reports from Beatrice Government Hospital, about an hour’s drive south…
read moreNorth Dakota reached a proposed settlement agreement Thursday with American Indians who sued over the state’s voter ID laws, arguing they are a form of voter suppression. The proposed federal consent decree announced jointly by tribal lawyers and the state follows U.S. District Judge Daniel Hovland’s ruling Monday that the Spirit Lake Nation…
read moreIt’s normal to target new voters ahead of Super Tuesday. Think volunteers holding clipboards at street festivals, malls or outside grocery stores. Democrats in Texas have made it a perennial focus, hoping they can end decades of losses by rousing more voters to the polls. Republicans here, meanwhile, never really needed to bother, …
read moreSplintered results in early Democratic Party presidential nominating contests are providing an opening for former New York mayor and billionaire Mike Bloomberg’s unconventional media-driven campaign strategy.Matthew Dallek, a professor of politics at George Washington University, said Bloomberg made a “risky bet” that the Democratic field would be “so scrambled” and moderate candidates “sufficiently weak” that…
read moreA federal judge in Washington has halted, for now, a major U.S. Defense Department cyber contract, blocking Microsoft Corp. from working on the Pentagon’s JEDI cloud-computing initiative pending the resolution of a lawsuit brought by rival Amazon.com.In October, Microsoft was awarded the Pentagon’s Joint Enterprise Defense infrastructure (JEDI) cloud contract, which has an estimated worth…
read more(Warning: This story includes content of a sexual nature and descriptions that some may find disturbing.) Cynthia, who for privacy does not wish to use her real name, was 12 years old when a senior female teacher announced that girls at her school — more than 100 — would undergo genital stretching. Under pressure from the girls’…
read moreLast month was the warmest January ever recorded, U.S. government forecasters say, with human-led climate change the leading cause.Global temperatures were 1.13 degrees Celsius higher than the 20th century average, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported Thursday — the highest in at least 141 years.Record-high heat was felt in parts of Latin America, Asia,…
read moreThe Trump administration is transferring $3.8 billion in recently passed military funding to finance construction of the president’s long-sought U.S.-Mexico border wall, angering not just Democrats but also GOP defense hawks.Thursday’s move by the Pentagon would transfer money from National Guard units, aircraft procurement and shipbuilding to anti-drug accounts that can finance construction of new…
read moreA handful of Republican senators joined their Democratic colleagues Thursday to pass a resolution calling on President Donald Trump to “terminate the use of U.S. Armed Forces for hostilities against Iran” unless those actions are authorized by Congress.The U.S. Senate passed the bipartisan war powers resolution by a vote of 55-45. Trump is expected to veto…
read moreU.S. Attorney General William Barr says President Donald Trump’s tweets about the Justice Department, its people, and its cases “make it impossible for me to do my job.”This surprising statement from one of the president’s most steadfast allies came Thursday, days after Barr’s Justice Department overruled its own prosecutors and recommended a lighter prison sentence…
read moreAfter the death of a young girl in upper Egypt during a botched circumcision, women and doctors in Cairo launched a number of protests in recent days to decry the practice, which has been officially outlawed since 2008. Government officials say, however, that they can only step in when someone formally launches a complaint.A crowd…
read moreU.S. President Donald Trump assailed his former White House chief of staff, John Kelly, on Thursday after Kelly defended the National Security Council aide ousted by Trump after he testified against the president during the impeachment investigation.Kelly, a retired Marine Corps general who served as Trump’s top White House aide for 17 months until early…
read moreOrganizers of the world’s biggest mobile technology fair insisted Thursday that they canceled the annual Mobile World Congress due to health and safety concerns over the virus outbreak in China. But the Spanish government disagreed, hinting that there was another motive for the cancellation. “This is indeed a very difficult situation and a very difficult…
read moreIn a bid to revive the Equal Rights Amendment, the House has approved a measure removing a 1982 deadline for state ratification and reopening the process to amend the Constitution to prohibit discrimination based on sex. “There is no expiration date on equality,” said Democratic Rep. Jackie Speier of California, the resolution’s sponsor.…
read moreHope Hicks, one of President Donald Trump’s most trusted and longest-serving aides, is returning to the White House as his reelection campaign moves into high gear. Hicks will be serving as counselor to the president, working with presidential son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner, according to a person familiar with the situation who spoke on…
read moreIn the 2016 presidential election, Donald Trump carried Wisconsin by fewer than 25,000 votes out of nearly 3 million ballots cast. Winning the state helped propel his larger victory over Democrat Hillary Clinton. Looking ahead, both political parties want to carry Wisconsin in the 2020 presidential contest. As VOA’s Kane Farabaugh reports, many pollsters who…
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