U.S. lawmakers in both parties have seized upon last week's terrorist attacks in France in an ongoing battle over reforming America's oft-criticized immigration syste...
264 viewsPresident Barack Obama recently announced a plan to make two years of community college free for all eligible Americans, calling education and technical training essential pathways to the U.S. middle ...
248 viewsU.S. President Barack Obama says the United States and India must do better to capitalize on untapped potential in their economic relationship - by removing some of the roadblocks to greater trade and...
219 viewsThree former U.S. secretaries of state, with diplomatic experience reaching across three decades, appeared before a Congressional committee Thursday to offer their views on current challenges to world...
224 viewsU.S. President Barack Obama has sent a $4 trillion budget to Congress that calls for tax hikes mainly on wealthier Americans and corporations. Obama’s plan ends mandated spending caps and calls for...
433 viewsFourteen years of drought are draining a key source of water for Los Angeles, Las Vegas and millions of hectares of U.S. farmland. Lake Mead supplies life-giving water to the arid Southwestern U.S. Bu...
266 viewsPresident Barack Obama’s pick to be America’s next secretary of defense says he favors sending U.S. military aid to Ukraine and speeding arms sales to Jordan -- and lists Iran and the Islamic Stat...
266 viewsOne of the films that drew big crowds last week at the annual South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, tells the story of the last human being to stand on the moon, U.S. astronaut Eugene Cernan. ...
196 viewsA number of Western officials, including U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, have voiced concerns about unprecedented efforts by Russia to spread misinformation across the entire area of the former So...
199 viewsWhile the number of women who are in the U.S. Congress has reached a record high, they make make up just 20% of the House and Senate combined - much less than the U.S. population at large where just o...
215 viewsOver the last four years, commemorative events to mark the 150th anniversary of the U.S. Civil War have brought thousands of visitors to battlefields and historic landmarks across the country. As VOA...
260 viewsThe attacks in Paris -- and concerns that more terrorists from a cell linked to Said and Cherif Kouachi are waiting to strike -- have officials in the U.S. taking notice and bracing for what may come ...
212 viewsResidents of the Syrian town of Kobani are returning to their devastated homes, after months of fighting between the Islamic State and Kurdish fighters supported by U.S.-led airstrikes. Khadijan Farqu...
233 viewsIn northern Iraq, Kurdish fighters backed by U.S.-led airstrikes have blunted a six-month advance by militants of the Islamic State and their supporters.Yet few of the estimated 1 million northern Ira...
179 viewsNATO defense chiefs met in Istanbul on Saturday for their final conference of the year to discuss several security issues, including the support mission in Afghanistan, the threat of Russian aggressio...
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