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Trump: Stricter US Gun Laws Would Not Have Stopped Texas Massacre

By Ken Schwartz/Ken Bredemeier | VOA on Nov 7, 2017 Featured, National, National/World, Politics

WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump says stricter gun laws in the country would not have prevented a gunman from killing 26 people in a massacre at a Texas church and possibly would have kept a bystander from confronting the shooter. Trump, in South Korea on a five-nation Asian trip, said Tuesday if there were increased […]

Trump: US Media Are ‘Distorting Democracy’

By Ken Schwartz/Ken Bredemeier | VOA on Jul 17, 2017 Featured, National, National/World, Politics

WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump fumed at the American news media Sunday, accusing reporters of “distorting democracy” in their stories about the meeting between his son and a Russian lawyer last year. Donald Trump Jr. apparently jumped at the chance to meet with the lawyer when an intermediary told him she had incriminating information on […]