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U.S. President Donald Trump departs early Friday for his trip to France where he and dozens of other world leaders will mark the centenary of the Armistice, which brought an end to the fighting in World War I. His trip comes as relations between the United States and many of its allies remain tense. French …

U.S. President Donald Trump will travel to France this weekend along with dozens of other world leaders for ceremonies to mark the centenary of the armistice that brought an end to the fighting in World War I. As Henry Ridgwell reports, relations between America and U.S. allies are tense, and France has warned that the …

Despite numerous areas of potential conflict, a politically divided and ideologically polarized U.S. Congress may find limited areas of cooperation between the two chambers and President Donald Trump beginning in January, according to political observers. “Divided government is common in American politics — we have it more than we have a united government,” political analyst …

Matthew Whitaker, appointed by U.S. President Donald Trump as the acting attorney general and now overseeing the investigation of Trump’s 2016 campaign links to Russia, has often echoed the president’s verbal attacks on the probe. The 49-year-old Whitaker joined the Justice Department last year as chief of staff to then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions after often …

Sudan on Thursday welcomed a U.S. announcement that Washington was willing to remove Khartoum from its blacklist of state sponsors of terrorism and said it was ready to cooperate. The U.S. State Department Wednesday said Washington was prepared to “initiate the process of rescinding Sudan’s designation as a state sponsor of terrorism” if Khartoum undertakes …

President Donald Trump says he is in “no rush” to finalize a deal with North Korea and remove sanctions. “I would love to take the sanctions off, but they have to be responsive too. It’s a two-way street,” Trump said during a lengthy White House news conference Wednesday. He told reporters he has made more …

Stocks rallied Wednesday as investors were relieved to see that the U.S. midterm elections went largely as they expected they would. Big-name technology and consumer and health care companies soared as the S&P 500 index closed at its highest level in four weeks. Democrats won control of the House of Representatives while Republicans kept a …

At a combative, lengthy news conference Wednesday, U.S. President Donald Trump congratulated himself for achieving what he termed a “tremendous success” in the previous day’s midterm elections.  “History will see what a good job we did in getting people over the finish line,” Trump said, noting that nine of the 11 candidates for whom he …

A onetime Somali refugee and the daughter of Palestinian immigrants shared the historic distinction Tuesday of becoming the first two Muslim women elected to the U.S. Congress. Both women — Ilhan Omar, 37, and Rashida Tlaib, 42 — are Democrats from the Midwest and outspoken advocates of minority communities that have found themselves in the …

The 2018 U.S. midterm elections wound to a close Tuesday amid voter frustration in some parts of the country as worries about cyberattacks gave way to concerns about voting irregularities in a handful of states.  From Florida to Georgia to Texas, election monitors reported a gamut of glitches, from broken voting machines and a shortage …

The Girl Scouts of the United States of America has filed a lawsuit against the Boy Scouts of America for dropping the word “boy” from its flagship program in an effort to attract girls. In the complaint filed Monday in Manhattan federal court, the Girls Scouts claim the name change erodes “its core brand identity” …

Dr. Anna Perez is a tribal member of the Tigua Nation–one of three federally recognized Native American tribes in Texas and a resident of the federally-recognized tribal nation, Ysleta del Sur Pueblo, located in El Paso, Texas.  The view from the backyard of the adobe house she designed herself? Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.  “The beauty” of …

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will meet with a senior North Korean official Thursday in New York City.  The State Department issued a statement Monday saying Pompeo and Kim Yong Chol, a senior advisor to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, will discuss “making progress on all four pillars of the Singapore Summit joint …

A sharply divided U.S. electorate is voting Tuesday to elect a new Congress and to render a midterm verdict on President Donald Trump.  The results could shift the balance of power in Washington and alter the next two years of Trump’s presidency. All 435 seats in the House of Representatives are at stake Tuesday, plus …

NBC and Fox News Channel both said Monday that they will stop airing President Donald Trump’s campaign advertisement that featured an immigrant convicted of murder.   CNN had rejected the same ad, declaring it racist.   Fox pulled the ad Sunday “upon further review,” said Marianne Gambelli, president of the network’s ad sales department. Fox …

President Donald Trump implored his supporters to vote on Tuesday, saying the media will treat the midterm results as a referendum on his presidency. “Even though I’m not on the ballot, in a certain way I am on the ballot,” Trump said during a tele-town hall organized by his re-election campaign Monday to encourage Republicans …

Elon Musk has tweeted a new video of a tunnel constructed under a Los Angeles suburb to test a new type of transportation system.   Musk tweeted Saturday that he walked the length of the tunnel and commented that it is “disturbingly long.”   The tunnel runs about 2 miles (3.2 kilometers) under the streets …

Sweeping accusations that the Kremlin tried to sway the 2016 U.S. election haven’t chastened Russian trolls, hackers and spies — and might even have emboldened them. U.S. officials and tech companies say Russians have continued online activity targeted at American voters during the campaign for Tuesday’s election, masquerading as U.S. institutions and creating faux-American social …

A yoga student is being lauded as a hero for wrestling with a gunman who posed as a customer to get into a yoga studio in Florida and started firing. Joshua Quick spoke to ABC’s Good Morning America on Sunday and said he grabbed Scott Paul Beierle’s gun after it jammed, and hit him. Tallahassee …

The big names were on the campaign trail Sunday, two days before a midterm election with control of Congress at stake. Americans vote Tuesday for all 435 members of the House of Representatives and 35 of 100 Senate seats, as well as for numerous state governors, local offices and ballot questions. President Donald Trump led …

In its humanitarian mission, the USNS Comfort naval ship provides medical help and treatment for the most vulnerable communities in Latin America. During its first stop in Esmeraldas, Ecuador, thousands of patients were able to get treatment that they would not be able to afford. Belen Mora has the story. …

A new exhibition in Los Angeles is celebrating the U.S. cult of custom cars and art culture. “Auto-Didactic: The Juxtapoz School” features art, fashion and vehicles that represent the custom culture of the “hot rod” era that began in Southern California in the 1960s. VOA’s Julie Taboh has more. …

A 4,000-strong caravan of Central American migrants traveling through Mexico split into several groups with one spending the night in a town in the coastal state of Veracruz and other migrants continuing toward the country’s capital. The divisions came during a tense day in which tempers flared and some migrants argued with caravan organizers and …

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) says the Central American migration caravan wending its way through Mexico toward the United States is an annual event and poses no threat.   U.S. President Donald Trump calls the migrant caravan moving toward the United States’ southern border an invasion, a view the International Organization for Migration does …

New York City police say two Saudi sisters whose bodies washed ashore on Manhattan’s Hudson River likely committed suicide. Dermot Shea, New York City Police Department chief of detectives, said Tala Farea, 16 and Rotana Farea, 23, were reported to have preferred suicide over returning to Saudi Arabia.   Shea said the young women likely …

The U.S. military in Kabul says a U.S. service member has been killed in an apparent “insider attack” in the capital Kabul. Sgt. 1st Class Debra Richardson, a Resolute Support spokeswoman, said Saturday in a statement that another U.S. service member was wounded in the attack. The statement said the attacker was a member of …