Section: Voice of America (USA)
Student Newspapers Face Real World Challenges
The Daily Orange isn’t daily anymore.The student-run newspaper has covered Syracuse University since 1903 and trained generations of journalists, but it now prints just three issues per week.Editor-in-chief Haley Robertson said she is looking for advertisers, worries about firing friends who work as staff, and searches for alumni donors who...
Six US Democratic Presidential Challengers Staging Last Debate Before First State Votes
Six Democratic challengers to Republican President Donald Trump are squaring off in a high-stakes debate late Tuesday, their last face-to-face encounter before voters in the Midwestern farm state of Iowa start to pick a Democratic nominee to oppose Trump in the November national election.Iowa, with its mostly rural landscape and a predominantly...
Iranian Anti-Government Protesters Clash With Security Forces
Iranian protesters took to the streets in the third day of demonstrations against the government after it acknowledged mistakenly shooting down a Ukrainian passenger jet, killing all 176 aboard. Video posted online showed students outside universities in Tehran and Isfahan Monday chanting at the country’s rulers, “Clerics get...
Ahead of Impeachment Trial, Trump Suggests Not Having It
President Donald Trump says the Senate should simply dismiss the impeachment case against him, an extraordinary suggestion as the House prepares to transmit the charges to the chamber for the historic trial.The Republican president is giving mixed messages ahead of the House’s landmark vote that will launch the Senate proceedings in a...
Iranian Americans React to Ongoing Protests at Home
Iranian Americans are closely watching the unfolding situation in their home country as protests continue in Tehran over the Iran military’s admission on Saturday that it mistakenly shot down a civilian Ukrainian plane, killing all 176 on board.Many Iranian Americans have taken to the streets to express their support for the Iranian people...
Trump, Pelosi Taunt Each Other as Impeachment Trial Looms
U.S. President Donald Trump and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi taunted each other Sunday as Trump’s Senate impeachment trial looms in the days ahead.The U.S. leader called Pelosi, his chief impeachment antagonist in the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives, “Crazy Nancy,” even before she told ABC News’ This Sunday show...
Protests in Iran Shatter Image of a United Country
The outrage was aired first of all on social media forums — before spilling chaotically on to the streets with Saturday’s mass protests catching Iranian authorities off-guard and exposing how many Iranians hold the country’s embattled regime in disdain.After three days of public denials, the confession Saturday by the Iranian military...
British Ambassador Detained Briefly While Attending Tehran Vigil for Jet-Crash Victims
Britain’s ambassador to Tehran has said he was detained briefly by Iranian authorities as he attended a vigil for the victims of last week’s crash of a Ukrainian passenger jet.Iran’s Mehr news agency said Rob Macaire was arrested on Saturday for his alleged “involvement in provoking suspicious acts” at the gathering...
Iran Forced Into Telling Truth About Doomed Flight
Iranian officials told the truth about the circumstances of a Ukrainian jetliner crash only after it became apparent that the evidence on the ground from the doomed flight would not allow the Iranians to continue to lie, according to a leading U.S. newspaper.The plane crashed Wednesday, but Iran did not reveal that it had shot down the aircraft,...
Canada Mourns Ukrainian Airlines Crash Victims
“Everything that’s related to war and people trying to kill each other for the sake of land or oil, it’s always stupid,” Danny Gonzalez told Canada CTV News about Iran shooting down a Ukrainian jet that killed all 176 people on board. Canada is coping with the news that 57 of the victims were Canadians. Many of them were...
