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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is planning to use the West’s pre-eminent annual security conference to argue for tougher Western action against Israel’s regional rival, Iran. Netanyahu is scheduled to make that case in a speech to global leaders and security officials at the Munich Security Conference on Sunday. As he left for Germany on …

Local police and the Washington State Patrol have responded to a report of shots fired at a community college south of Seattle. The Renton Police Department said on Twitter that the reports Friday morning were not confirmed but advised people to avoid the area around Highline College. Highline College was on lockdown, and reported that …

President Donald Trump had a nine-month extramarital affair with the 1998 Playboy Playmate of the Year beginning in 2006, showing the woman his wife’s bedroom in Trump Tower and bringing her to his private bungalow at the Beverly Hills Hotel, according to the woman’s eight-page, handwritten account of the relationship obtained by The New Yorker …

President Donald Trump will host Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House next month.   White House spokesman Raj Shah confirms that Netanyahu will meet with the president on March 5.   The pair met last month in Davos, Switzerland weeks after the Trump administration rejected international criticism of its decision to recognize …

The U.S. Senate on Thursday rejected all four immigration proposals the chamber considered during a week of deliberations dedicated to addressing the legal status of young undocumented immigrants who could be at risk of deportation beginning March 5. Failing to advance in the chamber were two bipartisan proposals granting young immigrants a path to citizenship …

When a gunman opened fire with an AR-15 at a large high school in south Florida, the 17 dead included students and school workers, young and old. Here is a look at some of some of those who lost their lives in the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Coach and security monitor Assistant …

The White House on Thursday blamed Russia for the devastating “NotPetya” cyber attack last year, joining the British government in condemning Moscow for unleashing a virus that crippled parts of Ukraine’s infrastructure and damaged computers in countries across the globe. The attack in June of 2017 “spread worldwide, causing billions of dollars in damage across …

Traffic deaths on U.S. roads fell slightly in 2017 after two straight years of big increases, but a leading safety organization that compiled the numbers says it’s no cause for celebration. The National Safety Council on Thursday estimated that 40,100 people were killed in traffic crashes last year, down just under 1 percent from the …

The shooting at a Florida high school Wednesday will rank among the worst in a long list of massacres across American campuses. These are the 10 deadliest school shootings in modern U.S. history: 1. Bath Consolidated School, Bath, Mich. May 18, 1927: Andrew Kehoe, a farmer unhappy about the property taxes being used to fund …

Just 45 days into the new year, there have been seven school shootings across the United States that have either killed or wounded children, including one Wednesday. At least 17 people were killed when a former student, who had been expelled for disciplinary problems, opened fire at a Florida high school. Sixteen others were wounded. …

U.S. stock markets are set to open higher Wednesday as investors prepared for the government’s latest monthly inflation report. Markets in Europe also showed gains in early trading, while in Asia, Hong Kong’s Hang Seng finished up more than 2 percent and Japan’s Nikkei finished down 0.4 percent. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics will …

American snowboarder Shaun White has won his third career Olympic gold medal Wednesday with a masterful run in the men’s halfpipe at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics in South Korea. The 31-year old White was trailing Japan’s Ayumu Hirano going into the final of three runs at the Phoenix Snow Park venue, but dazzled the crowd …

Top U.S. intelligence officials say Russian President Vladimir Putin is targeting the U.S. midterm elections this November. Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats told the Senate Intelligence Committee Tuesday the United States is “under attack,” with Russia and other adversaries engaging in cyber warfare to degrade American democratic institutions. VOA’s Diplomatic Correspondent Cindy Saine reports from …

Aimin Liu’s food delivery job is an exercise of muscle memory and physical endurance. He scans the Chinese kitchen’s receipts and addresses before placing his hands on the padded handlebars of his e-bike. Lifting his body, he is off — as fast as the bike will allow, against the sting of the winter wind. The …

The Oglala Lakota tribe on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota is one step closer to taking control of the food it eats: The Charging Buffalo Meat House will open shortly for business, processing and packaging buffalo meat from the tribe’s own herd. Buffalo were for centuries the lifeline of Plains tribes, a source …

U.S. Central Intelligence Agency Director Mike Pompeo strongly denied on Tuesday a report that Russia bilked U.S. spies out of $100,000 by offering compromising information on President Donald Trump. He told a Senate hearing that reporting on the matter was “totally inaccurate.” The New York Times reported on Friday that a Russian offered stolen National …

President Donald Trump’s administration on Monday revived its support for construction of a new FBI headquarters, saying it planned to ask Congress in 2018 for the remaining $2.175 billion needed to help pay for it. The funding request, tucked inside the president’s larger $1.5 trillion infrastructure plan, would help cover the cost to tear down …

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Monday urged department employees to intervene if they witness sexual harassment, two days after U.S. President Donald Trump expressed sympathy for those accused of harassment and not given due process. “There is no form of disrespect for the individual that I can identify, anything more demeaning than for …

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday he would push for a “reciprocal tax” against countries, including U.S. allies, that levy tariffs on American products, but officials did not provide details on how such a tax would be structured or what goods it would apply to. During his populist 2016 presidential campaign, Republican Trump railed …

A blackout hit northern Puerto Rico late Sunday after an explosion set off a big fire at a main power substation in the U.S. territory. Officials with the island’s Electric Power Authority said several municipalities were without power, including parts of the capital of San Juan. It was not immediately known what caused the fire, …

The Senate begins a rare, open-ended debate on immigration and the fate of the “Dreamer” immigrants on Monday, and Republican senators say they’ll introduce President Donald Trump’s plan. Though his proposal has no chance of passage, Trump may be the most influential voice in the conversation. If the aim is to pass a legislative solution, …

U.S. President Donald Trump is set to unveil his long-awaited plan to tackle the nation’s crumbling infrastructure Monday, and meets with state and local officials to discuss the initiative. The plan aims to turn $200 billion in federal funds into a $1.5 trillion investment for fixing America’s roads, bridges, railways and other infrastructure. The proposal …

Federal investigators are still looking at how CSX railway crews routed an Amtrak train into a parked freight train in Cayce, South Carolina, last weekend. But even if CSX should bear sole responsibility for the accident, Amtrak will likely end up paying crash victims’ legal claims with public money. Amtrak pays for accidents it didn’t …

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s invitation to South Korean President Moon Jae-in to visit Pyongyang could complicate the Trump administration’s diplomatic efforts to pressure the reclusive communist state to abandon its nuclear weapons program, analysts say. Kim extended the rare invitation to the South Korean leader through his closest confidante: his only sister Kim …

Increasing demand for long-haul truckers in the United States is drawing more African immigrants onto America’s roads. VOA’s Arzouma Kompaoré hitched a ride with African truckers whose routes to success stretch across the United States. …

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence left South Korea Saturday saying the U.S. and its allies are more committed than ever to dismantle North Korea’s nuclear and missile development programs. “We are going to continue to stand together, along with our other allies and partners, to continue to intensify the economic and diplomatic pressure on North …