Author: Fotous
Senior White House Official Testifies Privately in Trump Impeachment Probe
A senior White House budget official arrived on Capitol Hill Saturday to testify behind closed doors before congressional investigators who are conducting an impeachment inquiry against U.S. President...
House, Senate Agree on Something: A Way to Fight Robocalls
It’s looking like an anti-robocall bill will be sent to President Donald Trump this year, helping tackle an infuriating problem in the U.S. House and Senate leaders said Friday they’ve rea...
Americans Split on Impeachment Hearings
Millions of Americans have been watching the U.S. House of Representatives impeachment inquiry hearings into President Donald Trump. Mike O’Sullivan reports from Los Angeles, some voters support...
California High School Shooter Dies From Wounds
A teenage shooter who opened fire at his high school in Southern California this week, and then turned the gun on himself, died from his wounds Friday afternoon. Police said Nathaniel Berhow, 16,...
NRA Tax Filing: Embattled CEO Earned About $2 Million in 2018
The National Rifle Association’s embattled top executive earned about $2 million last year at a time when the gun rights lobby is beating back challenges from regulators, longtime members and gun co...
Trump’s ‘America First’ Approach to Military Cost-Sharing Could Hurt Alliance with Seoul
Washington’s defense cost-sharing demand could hurt the U.S.-South Korean alliance, said a former military general, suggesting the demand seems to stem from “a new paradigm” the Trump administra...
Battle for Public Opinion Shapes Trump Impeachment Effort
With public hearings now under way in the House impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump, both sides have a key focus in mind: winning over public opinion. Support for the Democratic-led impeachm...
Battle for Public Opinion Shapes Trump Impeachment Effort
The impeachment inquiry involving President Donald Trump moved into an important new phase this week — public hearings. Opposition Democrats believe Trump abused his power by pressuring Ukraine to i...
First Public Trump Impeachment Hearing Changes No Minds in Washington
A day of testimony in the impeachment inquiry targeting U.S. President Donald Trump changed no minds in Washington, with his critics convinced as ever that he abused his office by pushing Ukraine for ...
GOP Senators Confronted Erdogan Over Video, Participants Say
A band of GOP senators rebuffed Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s effort to depict anti-Islamic State Kurd forces as terrorists in a contentious Oval Office meeting, as the White House al...
Next Up in Impeachment Hearings: A Parade of Key Witnesses
Several more witnesses scheduled to testify in the House impeachment hearings over the next week are expected to say they too worried about President Donald Trump’s push for Ukraine to investiga...
Naturalizations Hit 11-Year High as Election Year Approaches
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services naturalized 833,000 people — an 11-year high in new oaths of citizenship — in fiscal 2019, which ended Sept. 30. This fiscal year, USCIS administere...
US-North Korean Officials Meet at Moscow Nonproliferation Conference
U.S. and North Korean officials held a meeting at a nonproliferation conference in Moscow, a former U.S. official who attended the conference told VOA’s Korean Service, as the denuclearization talks...
Republicans Defend Trump in Public Impeachment Hearings
Republicans contended Wednesday that U.S. President Donald Trump did not improperly pressure Ukraine to investigate political rivals for political advantage, with Representative Devin Nunes declaring ...
US Supreme Court to Decide DACA Fate
The fate of about 800,000 young, undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as children is in the hands of nine U.S. Supreme Court justices. The court will decide if the Trump admin...
Split Supreme Court Appears Ready to Allow Trump to End DACA
Sharply at odds with liberal justices, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority seemed ready Tuesday to allow the Trump administration to abolish protections that permit 660,000 immigrants to w...