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Tens of thousands of students and teachers across the United States will walk out of schools Wednesday in a politically charged tribute to the victims of a high school shooting in Florida exactly one month ago. The walkout will take place at 10 a.m. local time at each site and will last for 17 minutes — one …

If police in Austin, Texas, see a pattern in the three package bombs that have struck fear in the state’s capital this month, they are not revealing it, insisting they do not know the motive or see a common thread among the victims. As a consequence, residents of the three neighborhoods where the bombs exploded …

President Donald Trump has ousted his Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and is replacing him with CIA director Mike Pompeo. Pompeo is to be replaced at CIA by Gina Haspel, Pompeo’s deputy at CIA.  “Thank you to Rex Tillerson for his service! Gina Haspel will become the new Director of the CIA, and the first …

Hopes for the release of three American citizens imprisoned in North Korea got a big boost by the news of a possible summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Freeing the prisoners would be relatively low-hanging fruit and a sign of goodwill by Kim. It would also mark something of …

U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis made an unannounced visit to Kabul Tuesday, in the first trip by a Trump administration official to Afghanistan since President Ashraf Ghani offered to hold peace talks with the Taliban. Ghani, in a conference late last month called the Kabul Process, involving representatives of 25 countries along with the United …

After a year of threats and diatribes, U.S. President Donald Trump and third-generation North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un have agreed to meet face-to-face for talks about the North’s nuclear program. It remains to be seen whether a summit, if it takes place, could lead to any meaningful breakthrough after an unusually provocative year. North …

Donald Trump Jr. has a previously undisclosed business relationship with a longtime hunting buddy who helped raise millions of dollars for his father’s 2016 presidential campaign and has had special access to top government officials since the election, records obtained by The Associated Press show. The president’s oldest son and Texas hedge fund manager Gentry …

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s surviving daughter had a private audience with Pope Francis at the Vatican on Monday. The Rev. Bernice King presented the pontiff with the sixth volume of the civil rights leader’s published papers, subtitled “Advocate of the Social Gospel, September 1948-March 1963.” The Vatican made public a video of the …

A San Francisco fertility clinic says thousands of frozen eggs and embryos may have been damaged after a liquid nitrogen failure in a storage tank. Dr. Carl Herbert, president of Pacific Fertility Clinic, told the Washington Post on Sunday that officials have informed some 400 patients of the failure that occurred March 4. Herbert says …

Wildlife protection in Kenya has improved dramatically in recent years, thanks to widespread anti-poaching efforts, including some help from the United States. But as U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson visits Kenya, conservationists there say the U.S. lifting a ban on imports of some African animal trophies sends the wrong message. Tillerson praised Kenya Wildlife …

The main events in a political campaign used to happen in the open: a debate, the release of a major TV ad or a public event where candidates tried to earn a spot on the evening news or the next day’s front page. That was before the explosion of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube as political …

China said Sunday it does not intend to ignite a trade war with the U.S. because the move would be disastrous for the entire world. “There are no winners in a trade war,” Minister of Commerce Zhong Shan said on the sidelines of China’s annual parliamentary session. “China does not wish to fight a trade …

The U.S. is bolstering its military presence in Afghanistan, more than 16 years after the war started. Is anyone paying attention? Consider this: At a Senate hearing this past week on top U.S. security threats, the word “Afghanistan” was spoken exactly four times, each during introductory remarks. In the ensuing two hours of questions for …

President Donald Trump attacked his critics, promoted his steel and aluminum tariffs and tossed out an idea to have drug dealers face the death penalty, all while addressing a raucous rally Saturday for a Republican congressional candidate in a tight race. “I don’t know if that’s popular,” he said of the death penalty idea. “I …

As crews re-string electric lines and clear debris from Hurricane Maria, a small group of Puerto Rican and international conservationists is working on rebuilding natural wonders destroyed by the strongest storm to hit the island in nearly a century. Environmental groups and volunteers are gathering native seeds to replant forests across the U.S. territory and …

Authorities say the gunman who killed three mental health workers at a California veterans home was a 36-year-old former soldier and patient of the workers. The Napa County Sheriff’s Department said Friday that Albert Wong was found dead at the Yountville veterans facility along with the three victims, identified as 42-years-old Jennifer Golick, 48-years-old Christine …

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has canceled a day of events in Kenya because of illness.   Undersecretary of State Steve Goldstein says Tillerson “is not feeling well after a long couple days working on major issues back home such as North Korea.”   There are no indications his illness is serious. Goldstein said …

 The U.S. State Department said on Thursday that it is offering a $5 million reward for information on Mullah Fazlullah, the chief of the Pakistani Taliban, whose men shot Malala Yousafzai, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate. It said in a statement that it also is offering rewards of $3 million each for information on Abdul …

North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un is eager to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump for talks as soon as possible and says he is committed to refrain from nuclear and missile tests. The stunning and historic announcement was made outside the White House Thursday night by South Korean national security adviser Chung Eui-yong. Chung …

President Donald Trump raised concerns about the graphic depiction of violence in video games at a White House meeting Thursday with members of the industry and some of their most vocal critics. Searching for ways to respond to last month’s Florida school shooting, Trump has questioned the impact of video games, although decades of research …

Primary voting got underway in Texas this week, marking the official beginning of the 2018 congressional election campaign. All 435 seats in the House of Representatives and about one-third of the 100 Senate seats will be on the ballot, with huge political consequences for President Donald Trump, his Republican allies and opposition Democrats. VOA National …

President Donald Trump is presenting a skewed picture of the decline of manufacturing in making his case for import penalties that could spark a trade war. A look at his latest statement on the subject as he prepares to impose heavy tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum: TRUMP: “From Bush 1 to present, our Country …

Ethiopia’s defense minister announced the arrests of the “main instigators” linked to anti-government protests roiling the country, insisting that armed federal patrols were trying to minimizing violence. At least a handful of civilian deaths have been reported over the last several days.  “If these people were not arrested, imagine how much destruction would happen,” Siraj …

The head of Australia’s central bank is upbeat about domestic economic growth despite a disappointing end to last year, but fears the specter of a trade war calling threatened U.S. tariffs “highly regrettable.” President Donald Trump intends to slap duties on imports of steel and aluminum, a pledge that has met with warnings of retaliation …

North Korea’s agreement to enter into talks with the United States could be a diplomatic breakthrough to reach a peaceful resolution to the nuclear crisis, or a ruse to weaken sanctions, or both.  North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s willingness to engage with the United States in negotiations to end his country’s nuclear weapons program, …

The United States says it will impose new economic sanctions on North Korea for using a lethal chemical nerve agent in last year’s assassination of the estranged half-brother of leader Kim Jong Un. The U.S. State Department announced Tuesday that it has determined that Pyongyang used the banned VX nerve agent to kill Kim Jong …