US Politics

Elizabeth Warren wants to move the country to a government-funded health care system in stages over three years rather than immediately push for a full 'Medicare for All'

In total, House committees will hear from nine witnesses during five separate hearings taking place on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday

While 59 other countries have elected female heads of state, the United States has yet to shatter what former Democratic nominee for president Hillary Clinton called the “highest, hardest glass ceiling.” Clinton’s loss to President Donald Trump in 2016 may have blazed a trail for five female candidates currently running for president in 2020, but as VOA’s Brian Padden reports it also reinforced doubts that a woman can be elected to the nation's highest office.

For nearly two months, momentum had been building inside the White House to try to halt a youth vaping epidemic that experts feared was hurting as many as 5 million teenagers

High court will decide whether to consider appellate court ruling that president's accounting firm must turn over eight years of his financial records to opposition Democratic lawmakers

Case represents an important showdown pitting the powers of the presidency against the authority of Congress

Underlying their concerns is an almost desperate urgency shared by much of the Democratic Party to find a surefire nominee to deny Trump a second term