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Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior aide, has been front and center at the White House this week, making his speaking debut before a high-powered gathering of tech executives and heading off on a sensitive diplomatic mission to the Middle East. Kushner, 36, a New York real estate magnate, was close by Trump’s …

Muslims in some parts of the U.S. say they are worried about their security, as hate crimes targeting Muslim-Americans are on the rise. The recent anti-Sharia marches held by right-wing extremists added to the fear that many Muslims are feeling. VOA’s Abdulaziz Osman reports. …

The United Nations Refugee Day (June 20) seeks to bring attention to the unprecedented number of refugees worldwide. More than 65 million people have been displaced from their homes, mostly by war and violence, and more than 22 million of them are refugees. VOA’s Zlatica Hoke reports that refugees are supported largely by donations, and …

Otto Warmbier, the U.S. college student released by North Korea in a coma last week, died Monday in a Cincinnati, Ohio hospital. He was 22 years old. Warmbier had been held by Pyongyang for 17 months, having tearfully confessed to trying to steal a propaganda banner while on a on a tour of the secretive …

Russia says it will now treat all U.S. led coalition planes in the air over Syria, west of the Euphrates, as targets after an American fighter jet shot down a Syrian military plane. In a statement Monday, the Russian military also said it is suspending use of a hotline that that was set up to …

Nevada’s marijuana regulators are working furiously to launch recreational sales on July 1, a fast-approaching deadline that could hinge on a court deciding whether the powerful liquor industry should be guaranteed a piece of the pot pie before tourists and residents can light up. Lawyers for the liquor industry, marijuana retailers and the state are …

Police in the U.S. state of Virginia have charged a man with murdering a 17-year-old girl after assaulting her as she walked with friends from a nearby mosque in the suburbs of Washington, DC. Authorities said there was a “dispute” between the two sides, and the girl’s friends fled as he got out of the …

When Wal-Mart Stores Inc. bought online retailer Jet.com for $3 billion last year, it marked a crucial moment — the world’s largest brick-and-mortar retailer, after years of ceding e-commerce leadership to arch rival Amazon, intended to compete. On Friday, Amazon.com Inc. countered. With its $14 billion purchase of grocery chain Whole Foods Market Inc., the largest …

U.S. President Donald Trump is not under investigation by the prosecutor probing Russian meddling in last year’s election and his possible obstruction of justice, one of his lawyers said Sunday, contradicting Trump’s own tweet acknowledging the probe. Attorney Jay Sekulow told NBC and CNN in interviews that Trump “is not under investigation by the special …

The U.S. has called off its search for seven missing sailors after finding bodies in the sleeping compartments of the USS Fitzgerald, the Navy destroyer that collided with a massive merchant vessel off the coast of Japan early Saturday. “The search and rescue is over,” US 7th Fleet commander Vice Admiral Joseph Aucoin told reporters …

Yellowstone National Park officials are installing barriers in front of boat launches in an attempt to prevent invasive mussels recently discovered in Montana from spreading to the park and into the Columbia River Basin. Invasive mussel larvae have been found in Montana’s Tiber Reservoir and are suspected in Canyon Ferry Reservoir. They can spread quickly, …

The U.S. Navy continued its search early Sunday for seven sailors who were missing after the destroyer on which they were deployed was struck by a container ship off the coast of Japan. The USS Dewey and other American and Japanese vessels and aircraft were involved in the search for the missing sailors, the Navy …

A key part of House Republicans’ plan to overhaul the way corporations pay taxes is on life support, leaving lawmakers scrambling to save one of President Donald Trump’s biggest priorities and increasing the chances the GOP will simply pass a tax cut instead of overhauling the tax code. A proposed tax on imports is central …

President Donald Trump on Friday announced a partial rollback of his predecessor’s actions that were meant to normalize relations with Cuba, following more than a half-century of isolation by the United States. But as VOA’s Bill Gallo reports, the move was less drastic than many expected. …

A Minnesota police officer was cleared Friday in the fatal shooting of Philando Castile, a black motorist whose death captured national attention when his girlfriend streamed the grim aftermath on Facebook.    Castile’s family stormed out of the courtroom after the verdict was read, and the city of St. Anthony swiftly announced plans to dismiss …

Muslims in the Midwest state of Minnesota say they are worried about their security after recent anti-Sharia rallies held by right-wing extremists. Muslim leaders and members of Somali communities in Minnesota say they need help and protection as anti-Muslim sentiment and hate crimes targeting Muslim-Americans surge. Community members are critical of Act for America, a …

Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who is investigating whether President Donald Trump tried to obstruct justice, also is probing the finances and business dealings of the president’s son-in-law, who is one of the president’s top advisers. The Washington Post reported Mueller’s probe into Kushner’s financial transactions Thursday. Previous Post articles have mentioned Kushner’s meetings with the …

Sue Hodgkinson stood unsteady and emotional as a local sheriff’s deputy held her hand and led her to a bank of several microphones. It was her first time to face the TV cameras that had been camped outside her house here since Wednesday morning, when her husband opened fire at a Virginia baseball field, outside …

The FBI continues to investigate Wednesday’s shooting at a suburban Washington baseball field as Republican members of Congress were practicing for a charity game. The gunman was killed by U.S. Capitol Police after using a rifle and a handgun to wound a congressman and three others. James Hodgkinson seemed to be targeting the Republican politicians. …

The U.S. Senate voted 98-2 Thursday to approve sweeping sanctions against Russia and make it harder for President Donald Trump to ease punitive measures against Moscow. “We have no time to waste,” said Republican Senator John McCain of Arizona. “The United States of America needs to send a strong message to [Russian President] Vladimir Putin …

Police in Washington have issued arrest warrants for 14 people, including Turkish security agents, for their alleged role in assaulting protesters outside the Turkish Embassy following a visit to the White House by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan last month. “Using video of the incident, law enforcement has been able to identify the majority of …

President Donald Trump on Thursday ordered more money and a bigger role for private companies in designing apprenticeship programs meant to fill some of the 6 million open jobs in the U.S.   Trump signed an executive order to roughly double to $200 million the taxpayer money spent on learn-to-earn programs. The money would come …

President Donald Trump’s first test of leadership at a time when a brazen act of political violence shocked the nation was bound to come. From both sides of America’s partisan divide, the president’s handling of the shooting of a Republican congressman and several others has earned him respect, some of it grudging. Trump delivered a …

Developments in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday include Republican members at an early morning baseball practice are attacked by a gunman, Congressman Steve Scalise is critically injured, a newspaper reported that special counsel Robert Mueller is investigating President Donald Trump for possible obstruction of justice, and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says cut in department funding …

People in the Ohio hometown of a college student released by North Korea said they were pleased he was back and expressed hopes Wednesday for his recovery as he remained hospitalized in a coma.   Otto Warmbier, 22, landed in Cincinnati late Tuesday night and was taken by ambulance to the University of Cincinnati Medical …

Efforts to bring international students to U.S. campuses and send American students overseas has accelerated in the past five years, according to an American Council on Education (ACE) survey of U.S. colleges. International engagement was “high” or “very high,” ACE said of the more than 70 percent of 1,100 American colleges and universities it polled …