A Las Vegas wedding with an Elvis impersonator: Canceled. A 3,500-kilometer (2,200-mile) trans-America road trip, a voyage of a lifetime that took months to prepare: On ice, too.The new anti-virus travel ban announced by U.S. President Donald Trump threw Europeans’ best-laid plans — family reunions, birthday celebrations, vacations, trips for both business and pleasure —…
read moreTwo Republican senators on Thursday introduced a bill aimed at banning federal employees from using Chinese social media app TikTok on their government-issued phones, amid growing national security concerns around the collection and sharing of data on U.S. users with China’s government.The bill by Senators Josh Hawley and Rick Scott comes as several U.S. agencies…
read moreU.S. President Donald Trump Wednesday night announced a 30-day ban on travel from Europe and other measures to curb the spread of the coronavirus in an address to the nation. White House Correspondent Patsy Widakuswara has this story. …
read moreWith the World Health Organization classifying the global coronavirus outbreak a pandemic, U.S. President Donald Trump announced late Wednesday a series of emergency measures, including an unprecedented 30-day suspension of all flights from Europe.But Trump, who spoke from the Oval Office, stopped short of resorting to an even more dramatic measure urged by some members…
read moreMore than two months after a U.S. airstrike killed Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani, increasing tensions between the United States and Iran and renewing discussion about presidential war powers, U.S. lawmakers are finally sending new ground rules to President Donald Trump.By a 227-186 vote, the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday passed the Iran War…
read moreScientists are calling on UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) to declare a unique coral reef system off the Egyptian coast a Marine World Heritage Site. So far, the location has resisted the effects of climate change bleaching coral reefs around the world. But as VOA’s Arash Arabasadi reports, experts say visitors are now threatening the…
read moreThere are about 150,000 American citizens who have immigrated to Israel, and many are closely following the U.S. Presidential race. As Linda Gradstein reports for VOA from Jerusalem, Democrats living in the Jewish state are divided over whether to vote for Joe Biden or Bernie Sanders because of worries that American liberals want to reduce the Democratic…
read moreCongress is taking a first step toward addressing errors made by the FBI during its investigation of the Trump campaign and Russia, setting a House vote Wednesday on legislation that would impose new restrictions on the federal government’s surveillance tools.The measure is a compromise that reflects angst in both parties about the way the surveillance…
read moreThe Associated Press surveyed voters in three of the six states that held Democratic presidential contests on Tuesday. Here’s a snapshot of voters in Michigan, Missouri and Mississippi, who they are and what matters to them, based on preliminary results from AP VoteCast, conducted for The Associated Press by NORC at the University of Chicago.…
read moreThe new coronavirus can live in the air for several hours and on some surfaces for as long as two to three days, tests by U.S. government and other scientists have found.Their work, published Wednesday, suggests that the virus can spread through the air as well as from touching things that were contaminated by others…
read moreWhich disease is the most contagious per person? Here’s a comparison, based on scientific data. …
read moreThe US needs a top-level cybersecurity coordinator and a better strategy of “deterrence” to protect against hackers and other cyber threats, a congressionally mandated commission said Wednesday.Defense in cyberspace requires a series of government reforms and policies to strike back at attackers, according to the report by the Cyberspace Solarium Commission.The bipartisan panel which included…
read moreJoe Biden’s path to the Democratic presidential nomination widened significantly Tuesday with commanding victories in Mississippi, Missouri and Michigan, a state that his rival Bernie Sanders won four years ago. Key takeaways: Biden’s nomination to lose Biden has become the reliable Buick of this race. His momentum accelerated as he…
read moreFormer Vice President Joe Biden has cemented his status as frontrunner in the race for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination, with wins in party preference votes in key states Tuesday. Biden won in Missouri, Idaho and Mississippi, and scored a decisive victory over rival Sen. Bernie Sanders in the crucial Michigan vote. Mike O’Sullivan reports,…
read moreOne of the United States’ top disease experts says Americans and Europeans should be prepared not to do the things they could do just a few months ago before the coronavirus outbreak.”It doesn’t matter if you’re in a state that has no cases or one case. You’ve got to start taking seriously what you can…
read moreFormer U.S. Vice President Joe Biden swept to victories Tuesday over Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders in the Democratic presidential nominating contests in four states, including pivotal Michigan in the Midwest heartland of the country.Biden, in his third run for the presidency over three decades, increased his lead in the race to oppose Republican President Donald…
read moreFormer Vice President Joe Biden has cemented his status as frontrunner in the race for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination, with wins in party preference votes in key states Tuesday. Biden won in Missouri, Idaho and Mississippi, and scored a decisive victory over rival Sen. Bernie Sanders in the crucial Michigan vote. Mike O’Sullivan reports,…
read moreFormer U.S. Vice President Joe Biden swept to victories Tuesday over Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders in the Democratic presidential nominating contests in three states, including pivotal Michigan in the Midwest heartland of the country.Biden, in his third run for the presidency over three decades, increased his lead in the race to oppose Republican President Donald…
read moreFormer U.S. Vice President Joe Biden is looking for another strong showing Tuesday in six more Democratic presidential primaries against Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, as the two candidates vie to oppose President Donald Trump in November’s national election.Biden won 10 of the 14 party primaries last week over Sanders. Advance polling shows him doing well…
read moreDemocratic presidential candidates Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and former Vice President Joe Biden canceled primary night rallies Tuesday, due to coronavirus concerns.”Out of concern for public health and safety, we are canceling tonight’s rally in Cleveland,” said Mike Casca, a campaign spokesman for Sanders. “We are heeding the public warnings from Ohio state officials, who…
read moreThe Justice Department must give Congress secret grand jury testimony from special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday, giving the House a significant win in a separation-of-powers clash with the Trump administration.The three-judge panel said in a 2-1 opinion that the House Judiciary Committee’s need for the material in its…
read moreThe Justice Department must give Congress secret grand jury testimony from special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday — giving the House a win in a separation-of-powers clash with the Trump administration.The three-judge panel said in a 2-1 opinion that House Democrats were entitled to the material as part of…
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