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Trump Continues Wall Campaign as Shutdown Reaches Day 8

By VOA News U.S. President Donald Trump continued Saturday to stress the need for his proposed U.S.-Mexico border wall as a partial government shutdown, triggered by a stalemate over funding for the...

Trump Reportedly Discussed Firing Fed Chairman Powell

By VOA News U.S. President Donald Trump has discussed firing Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, Bloomberg reported Saturday. Citing four people familiar with the discussions, Bloomberg reported Trump has become more frustrated with Powell...

As US ‘Debt-Trap Diplomacy’ Rhetoric Heats Up, China-Africa Relations Hold Fast

By Salem Solomon/VOA News When U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton rolled out the United States’ new Africa strategy last week, he used the occasion to identify China as an imminent threat to...

White House: US Starts Withdrawing Troops From Syria

By Jeff Seldin/VOA News The White House said Wednesday the United States has begun withdrawing troops from Syria, shortly after U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted the U.S. has defeated the Islamic State...

Research Looks at Natural Fertilizer for Greener Agriculture, Cleaner Water

by Faith Lapidus/Voice of America A project at the University of Michigan is aimed at making our water cleaner and our agriculture more sustainable by capturing a source of fertilizer, rather than...

Dignitaries, Officials Honor George H.W. Bush at Funeral

by Steve Herman/Voice of America WASHINGTON — Bridging decades and the vast contemporary political divide, five U.S. presidents assembled Wednesday to mourn one of their own — George Herbert Walker Bush, who died...

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