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The newly created House Select Committee on U.S. competition with China will hold its first hearing late Tuesday, with testimony from former President Donald Trump’s national security advisers and Chinese human rights activists. VOA’s…

U.S. lawmakers this week are launching a two-year effort to address strategic competition between the United States and China, with a prime-time hearing set for Tuesday that will include testimony from human rights activists and members of…

Fox Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch acknowledged that some Fox News commentators endorsed the false allegations by former President Donald Trump and his allies that the 2020 presidential election was stolen and that he didn't step in to stop…

Canada and the United States moved forward Monday with bans of TikTok on government devices. The White House gave federal agencies 30 days to halt the use of the popular social media app, implementing a ban approved by Congress in…

China says the fight of a U.S. military plane over the Taiwan Strait Monday “endangered peace and stability” in the region.   The Eastern Theater Command of the People’s Liberation Army said in a statement that it closely monitored a U.S.…

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot is fighting for reelection Tuesday after a history-making but tumultuous four years in office and a bruising campaign threaten to make her the city's first one-term mayor in decades. Lightfoot in 2019 became…

Heavy snow bookended the United States on Tuesday, with a late-season storm bringing a messy morning commute to the Northeast and California residents digging out, or in some cases simply stranded, after yet another storm. While not a…

Holding the bulky brick cellphone he’s credited with inventing 50 years ago, Martin Cooper thinks about the future. Little did he know when he made the first call on a New York City street from a thick gray prototype that our world — and…

Twitter Inc has laid off at least 200 employees, or about 10% of its workforce, the New York Times reported late on Sunday, in its latest round of job cuts since Elon Musk took over the micro-blogging site last October.  The layoffs on…

A majority of the nation's business economists expect a U.S. recession to begin later this year than they had previously forecast, after a series of reports have pointed to a surprisingly resilient economy despite steadily higher interest…