Congressional Democrats plan to introduce legislation on Thursday to expand the U.S. Supreme Court by four justices, a proposal aimed at breaking the conservative grip on the court that promises to dr...
The Biden administration is planning to announce sanctions on Russian officials as soon as Thursday, in a move that will target several individuals and entities, according to several people familiar t...
A defense medical expert testified Wednesday that George Floyd’s heart condition and drug use played a “significant” role in his death last year as the defense lawyer for former Minneapolis poli...
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia and the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice have closed their investigation into the fatal shooting of a female protester...
A Minnesota prosecutor said Wednesday he will file a charge of second-degree manslaughter against a former Brooklyn Center police officer who fatally shot Black motorist Daunte Wright during a traffic...
President Joe Biden is set to tell Americans on Wednesday that he is withdrawing all U.S. troops from Afghanistan by Sept. 11 because the country cannot justify staying there two decades after the ter...
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is set to meet Wednesday in Brussels with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and top diplomats from several U.S. allies as the United States launches it pla...
In the wake of last month’s deadly shootings in Colorado and Georgia, President Joe Biden Gun-rights supporters demonstrate in front of state Capitol in Richmond, Va., Jan. 20, 2020.Many pro-gun...
Attorneys for Derek Chauvin are presenting their arguments defending the now-fired Minneapolis police officer charged in George Floyd’s death. VOA’s Jesusemen Oni has more. Video source...
Police and protesters clashed for a third night in the U.S. state of Minnesota after an officer shot a 20-year-old African American man during a traffic stop.Authorities in the Minneapolis area had se...
Several U.S. states have temporarily stopped providing Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccines in line with federal guidance after six people who received the shots developed rare blood clots. Mean...
“They were dumb asses,” Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes wrote on the encrypted app Signal in early March, blasting members of his anti-government militia group who breached the U.S. Cap...
The Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, police officer involved in the shooting death of a 20-year-old African American man during a traffic stop Sunday has resigned, as has the police chief of the Minneapol...
U.S. intelligence agencies are not optimistic about the prospects for a peaceful Afghanistan with or without the presence of U.S. troops in the country.In a report on global threats issued Tuesday, in...
The defense in the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin starts its case Tuesday after prosecution witnesses for 11 days blamed him for the death last year of a Black man, George Fl...
All U.S. troops in Afghanistan will be withdrawn by September 11 – the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, a senior administration official announc...
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken headed to Brussels on Tuesday to meet with European and NATO allies on a range of issues, including Russia’s buildup of forces along the border with Ukraine an...
Hundreds of people gathered late Monday outside a police station in the U.S. state of Minnesota to protest the deadly shooting of a man by an officer.Police in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Cente...
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Monday ordered an Army review of an investigation into a January 2020 militant assault on the Manda Bay military base in Kenya that killed three Americans and wo...
Dozens of Americans are rolling up their sleeves for a third dose of COVID-19 vaccine. This time, the shots have been tweaked to guard against a worrisome mutated version of the virus.Make no mistake:...