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Trump Considers Sending Illegal Immigrants to Sanctuary Cities

VOA News U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday that he was considering sending detained illegal migrants to so-called sanctuary cities, which oppose his tough immigration policies. Trump made the announcement hours after White...

Surgeons Perform First HIV-to-HIV Kidney Transplant

By Carol Pearson/VOA News For the first time, a person living with HIV has donated a kidney to a transplant recipient also living with HIV. A team from Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore performed...

UN Orders Members to Crack Down on Terrorist Financing

VOA News  The U.N. Security Council Thursday unanimously passed the first-ever resolution ordering members to enforce laws against terror financing. Experts believe as many as two-thirds of U.N. members are not adequately prosecuting...

US Senate Heats Up on Climate Change

By Michael Bowman/VOA News CAPITOL HILL — The U.S. Senate on Thursday completed its most momentous week on climate change in years, loudly swatting down an ambitious proposal to overhaul America's economy to...

Trump Renews Threat to Close Southern Border With Mexico

By Ken Bredemeier/VOA News  U.S. President Donald Trump is renewing his threat to close the country's southern border, saying Mexico and three Central American countries are not doing anything to halt the surge...

Sanders Holds Campaign Kickoff Rally in Birthplace

VOA News Bernie Sanders, the independent U.S. senator who represented third-party interests in the 2016 U.S. presidential race, on Saturday stepped back into the spotlight with a rally for his 2020 run...

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