By Michael Bowman (VOA News) WASHINGTON – CAPITOL HILL — The U.S. Senate on Thursday completed its most momentous week on climate change in years, loudly swatting down an ambitious proposal to overhaul America’s economy to halt carbon emissions, while at the same time taking baby steps toward bipartisan agreement on the threats posed by a [...]
By Ken Shwartz – (VOA News – UPDATED) Special counsel Robert Mueller says neither President Donald Trump, his campaign, nor anyone associated with it conspired with Russia to interfere in the 2016 presidential election, according to a summary by Attorney General William Barr released Sunday.
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(WEBPUBLICA) NEW YORK – The European Aviation Safety Agency has banned Boeing 737 MAX 8 flights in its airspace following last Sunday’s Ethiopian Airlines tragedy. It came after Germany, France, and Britain announced national prohibitions, according to DW News service.
Belatedly following the lead of more than 30 other countries, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has [...]
By Masood Farivar (VOA News) – WASHINGTON — A federal judge’s unexpected sentencing of Paul Manafort to less than four years in prison has been decried by some critics as a mere slap on the wrist, reigniting a debate over racial and class disparities in the American criminal justice system.
On Thursday, U.S. District Court Judge T.S. [...]
By Oliver Pieper (DW) – Is he a beacon of hope, a future president or just a US puppet? Venezuela’s self-declared leader, Juan Guaido, has told DW he is confident he will prevail over Nicolas Maduro in his country’s power struggle.
Juan Guaido, the self-declared interim president of of Venezuela, says he wants to “put an end [...]
(WEBPUBLICA) New York – The US president’s Donald Trump first Oval Office speech on immigration crisis has come amid a contentious government shutdown as he and Congress dig in over the issue of the border wall. His “low energy” speech, as was described by some US TV networks (MSNBC) has been seen as an effort [...]
By John J. Metzler - UNITED NATIONS — Beijing held a big party to celebrate the Economic Reform process starting forty years ago which changed China and the world.
Amid the meticulous staging in the cavernous Great Hall of the People, China’s supreme leader Xi Jinping addressed the party faithful to a backdrop of massive red banners, gold trappings, [...]
By Arthur Sullivan (DW) - In a wildly successful corporate career, Sheryl Sandberg became a billionaire. Through her feminist activism, she urged women around the world to “lean in.” But recent criticism could force her to lean out of Facebook.
Few people are as instantaneously associated with two short words as Sheryl Sandberg is with “lean in”.
The [...]
By Jim Malone (VOA) – WASHINGTON — A sharply divided U.S. electorate is voting Tuesday to elect a new Congress and to render a midterm verdict on President Donald Trump. The results could shift the balance of power in Washington and alter the next two years of Trump’s presidency.
All 435 seats in the House of Representatives are [...]
By Masood Farivar (VOA) - Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg rejoined the Democratic Party on Wednesday, signaling an interest in running as a Democratic presidential candidate in 2020.
The announcement came as the billionaire media mogul has emerged as a top financial backer of the Democratic Party during the pivotal 2018 midterm congressional races, pledging [...]
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