President Biden sent Secretary of State Antony Blinken, on behalf of the United States to meet with the leaders of the G7, as discussions on de-escalating the tensions in the Middle East intensified with Israel's recent retaliatory strikes.
If de-escalation is the watchword in the Middle East crisis, it also appears that the United States has embarked on a risky balancing act with no option for a quick resolution of tensions. Yet, the latter do exist.
President Biden has unequivocally condemned the unprecedented attack by Iran on Israel, while simultaneously clarifying to Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu U.S. policy will change unless he begins allowing aid relief to the millions of displaced Gazans.
With tax filing deadline quickly approaching, reviewing what the Biden Administration’s Build Back Better campaign has completed to make the tax system more equitable for all Americans, should highlight his commitment to the American people.
For Americans depending on insulin, the Biden Administration devoted a whole of government effort to negotiating with Medicare and Big Pharma to cap the cost; now they are battling to lower the cost of fifty additional prescription drugs.
Triumphantly re-elected Russian President Vladimir Putin seems as untouchable. However, a more advanced analysis of reality would tend to evoke an atmosphere of an end to his reign, or at least the beginnings of difficult years to come.
President Biden, who secured the required delegates this week to earn the Democratic party's nomination for president, has continued with the business of bridging the deep political, social, and economic divisions United States and throughout the world.
While 73% of French people say they are in favour of the European project, they also put the National Rally at the top of the list of voting intentions in the European elections next June.
President Biden, after a commanding vote of confidence during Super Tuesday primaries, delivered the annual State of the Union and presented his plan to help all Americans and finish the job entrusted to him four years ago.
As the 2024 presidential election looms, two contenders are emerging to occupy the White House. But are they the best representatives of their parties and do either have all the abilities to sit in the Oval Office?
As a 2024 presidential election rematch between President Biden and former President Trump appears to be inevitable, issues, outside of the obvious are surfacing, including the Israeli-Gaza war, which Palestine Americans believe, wrongly, can be controlled.
As the European elections loom, which are expected to be perilous for the presidential majority, Emmanuel Macron, President of the Republic, and Jordan Bardella, President of the Nationalist Party, have competed in demagoguery and populism.
As the Ukraine war moves into the third year, President Biden has continued to push Congress to act on a new military aid package and stand up against the tyranny of Russian President Vladmir Putin.
While the death of Alexei Navalny has galvanized the West, it is not enough to motivate determined opposition to Vladimir Putin. Taking advantage of Western cynicism, Russia no longer hides that it has become a contemporary dictatorship.
President Biden, along with French President Emmanuel Macron, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and British Prime Minster Rishi Sunak have denounced Russian President Vladimir Putin over the murder of Russian Opposition leader Alexei Navalny.
By announcing that he is reforming the law of the soil in Mayotte by constitutional means, the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, is playing on the founding text of the Republic for political rather than legal purposes.
President Biden has historically been seen as soft on immigration, he embodies the words inscribed on the Statue of Liberty, "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free," that attitude, however, is changing.
The absence of a credible discourse within the French left partly explains the disaffection of a political movement confined to the rank of parliamentary auxiliary and locked into a systematic sterile opposition to the President of the Republic.
President Biden, gearing up for his 2024 reelection campaign, swept the winner take all South Carolina Democratic primary gaining 55 delegates as he marches toward securing the democratic party's presidential nomination as he seeks a second term.
French President Emmanuel Macron's new Prime Minister, Gabriel Attal, confronts the current agricultural power struggle, which puts the tenant of Matignon in the spotlight, and the necessary response represents the first key test for the new PM.
As the pressure intensifies on President Biden to leverage the power of U.S. weapons in further talks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, media reports of a squeeze play have been denied by the White House and greatly exaggerated.
The Board of Trustees of Asia Society announced the appointment of Dr. Kyung-wha Kang, an accomplished diplomat and former UN leader, as the organization's 9th President and Chief Executive Officer. Her appointment is effective in April.
While the fighting in the Gaza Strip is still raging, some are wondering how long the conflict will last. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, aware of his strengths and support, also knows a long confrontation remains to his advantage.
President Biden spoke with Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu this week explaining the critical significance to stop indiscriminate bombing of the Gaza Strip, even as it maintains pressure on the Gaza military, and the need to permit greater humanitarian access.
The election of the President of the United States next November will be the epicenter of future international relations in the context of the conflicts in Ukraine and against Hamas and U.S. allies will need contingency plans.
President Biden ordered a series of strategic airstrikes, as part of a multi-national effort, on Houthi targets in Yemen that facilitated attacks in the Red Sea region, to stop the possibility of an escalating Middle East conflict.
French President Emmanuel Macron has appointed Gabriel Attal, 34, as the nation's newest Prime Minster, replacing Elizabeth Borne, who resigned after 20 months. Attal, the first openly gay prime minster is also the youngest ever to hold the position.
President Biden used a campaign stop in Pennsylvania to remind voters of the horrific images broadcast from January 6, 2021, just three years ago, as democracy was nearly overthrown by Trump rioters, while the president did nothing.
President Biden welcomed Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to the White House this week, he continues to seek help from the United States in his determined and globally united effort to stop Putin's advances into eastern Europe.
President Joe Biden delivered strong words to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with his warning of the risk of losing international support in his fight against Hamas, which essentially provided an opening for an honorable exit for Israel.
President Biden began his whistlestop fundraising campaign in Las Vegas, Nevada where he announced the $8.2 billion high-speed rail project that will reduce travel between Los Angeles and Las Vegas, two tourist destination cities, to two hours.
The growing influence of non-stop news channels raises questions about the role of the press in societies and media literacy, which has become essential but is nevertheless failing as the sensational tantalizes and feeds the instant appetite.
As the world recently experienced the short-lived pause in the Israeli/Hamas conflict, President Biden, and Vice President Harris, as well as international partners, has ramped up their conversations as what parameters should guide an expected post-conflict phase.
Torn by social tensions of various origins, France is going through a deep crisis of confidence in its founding model at the risk of seeing the social contract that underlies the notion of living together broken.
President Biden on this Thanksgiving weekend closely monitored the Israeli-Palestinian prisoner/hostage exchange and remained in contact to Qatari officials to ensure both sides honored the terms of the cease fire agreement in hopes of an extension.
Javier Milei's election as Argentine president confirms the rise of populism as a political alternative. In a downgraded country, the Argentines have chosen the populist experiment, while many attempts in America and Europe have ended in bitter failures.
President Biden has begun the Thanksgiving week early hosting a "Friendsgiving" meal for military personal, while keeping watch on the unfolding events in the Middle east as efforts shift to secure the release of U.S. hostages.
Present at the demonstration against anti-Semitism, the National Rally continues its quest for legitimacy in a political landscape that has been totally turned upside down and disoriented. At the risk of seeing the far-right party impose itself even more.
President Biden remembered the nations veterans, on this Veteran's Day, as he also honored the five servicemen killed in military operations in the Mediterranean Sea saying, "we once more affirm the sacred obligation," of service to our nation.
A year out from Election Day, PBS announced a broad schedule of news, public affairs, and documentary coverage of the 2024 presidential election with PBS NEWSHOUR Co-anchors Geoff Bennett and Amna Nawaz to lead breaking and Special News coverage.
President Biden delivered remarks at a memorial for the survivors and families of the Lewiston, Maine massacre which killed 18 and wounded 13, invoking an unfortunate truth in America, as gun violence is a pandemic that is uncontrollable.
By seeking to annihilate Hamas in the name of security, Israel is also nurturing the hatred and resentment of future generations of Palestinians through its massive military action, which could swell the ranks of future anti-Israeli armed groups.
As the Israeli-Palestinian conflict drags on in a never-ending confrontation, the question arises of the legitimacy of two peoples with similar rights, that of living in peace in their own independent states free from threats of violence.
President Biden announced that through the efforts of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Egyptian President Al-Sisi humanitarian aid trucks have crossed the borders of Gaza and reached the Palestinian people desperately in need of supplies.
Do you stand with Israel, or Ukraine, or both? Or for peace? The most powerful nation in the history of the world. Can we take care of both and still maintain our overall international defense?
The tragedy that occurred at the Lycée Gambetta, in Arras, where Dominique Bernard, a teacher was killed by a radicalized individual, has revived the debate on the protection of teachers in the exercise of their duties.
President Biden spoke with Israeli Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestine Authority Leader Mahmoud Abbas condemning the terrorist organization Hamas, pledging support to the people of Palestine, and ensuring humanitarian supplies reach the citizens of Gaza.
Hamas' offensive against Israel is a continuation of previous aggression on the southern Lebanon border and confirms the permanent state of war in the Jewish state since 1948 and augurs a twenty-first century as tense as the last.
President Joseph Biden addressed the terror attacks on Israel stating emphatically there is no justification for terrorism, and Israel has every right to defend themselves, and as always, the United States stands with our ally, Israel.
The difficulties encountered by schools in managing disruptive students refer to the notion of compulsory schooling, which is obviously misunderstood by some and potentially has become a burden for many middle and high schools.
President Biden was forced this week to deal with the bloated immigration problem at the southern border which has threatened to overwhelm authorities attempting to stay the escalating influx of illegals attempting to enter the United States.
Confronted with the dramatic consequences of a new case of harassment, the National Education officials can no longer postpone their update to the realities of its time and to those that interrupt the daily life of school.
President Biden confronted another week of distressing political saber rattling news as the 2024 Presidential election inches closer with the improbable and shocking polls numbers that suggest a 2020 presidential rematch remains a real possibility.
The announced rapprochement between North Korea and Russia tends to present itself as the creation of an Asian bloc capable of competing with the Western sphere. But the excessively divergent interests of the two countries demonstrate limits.
President Biden after attending the G20 Summit along with leaders of the world's top 20 economies, announced the commitment to India-Middle East Europe Corridor, which will focus on transportation and economic development between these nations.
The multiple coups d'état in West Africa demonstrates how the region has managed to get rid of the tacit authority of the former colonial power that was France to the benefit of Russia, which is very active in the area.
President Biden and First Lady, Dr. Jill Biden, traveled to Florida this week, to inspect the damage created by Hurricane Idalia, a category three storm, that created catastrophic damage to the panhandle region where it made landfall.
President Biden addressed the catastrophic and overwhelming destruction of the Maui Wildfires after touring the devastation and meeting those tragically injured and announced his "administration will be there as long as it takes to complete response efforts."
The Biden Administration has announced a comprehensive FEMA package to assist residents of Maui in recovery after the devastating fires killed 114, damaged or destroyed 5,000 structures and burned 80% of the historic town of Lahaina, Hawaii.
President Biden as responded immediately with federal aid to address the catastrophic devastation brought on by the Maui wildfires, citing efforts to rebuild, after the wildfire that has killed 95, is estimated to be in the billions.
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris kicked off their reelection campaign with a speech by the Vice-President in Wisconsin and celebrating the economic gains with a total of 13.4 million jobs created since they took office.
The evacuation of French nationals from Niger indirectly illustrates the growing and already well-established influence of Russia and China on a continent destined to become a new space of economic competition and diplomatic opposition.
President Biden signed an Executive Order this week amending the Uniform Code of Military Justice, the first since its inception in 1950, to significantly change how the officials handle sexual assaults, domestic violence, murder, and other serious offenses.
President Macron's desire to restore order in French society responds to a punctual popular injunction that offers the advantage of freeing himself from the settlement of underlying but nevertheless imperative questions. Explanations.
President Biden announced this week his Artificial Intelligence initiative, has secured collaboration arrangements with seven of the leading technology firms, to voluntarily and immediately commit to the safe, secure, and trustworthy use of AI software.
President Biden previously promised that American sons and daughters would not be sent to fight and die in Ukraine. But recently he authorized sending 3,000 troops to Europe as part of Operation Atlantic Resolve.
President Biden, this week announced his Bidenomics plan which will grow the American economy and permanently change the direction by recognizing the best way to grow the economy is from the middle out and the bottom up.
President Biden, who will be attending the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, reiterated the U.S. backing of Sweden's membership into the intergovernmental military alliance, which has confronted challenges from Turkey who believe that Sweden harbors terror organizations.
The murder of Nahel M. combined with the urban riots plunged France into a crisis of regime and, unprecedentedly, into a crisis of legitimacy where the Republic is shaken in its foundations, its symbols, and its institutions.
If Vladimir Putin's power trembled without collapsing under the blow of the Wagners, the abortive attempt at overthrow nevertheless opens the perspective of the post-Putin era that has become inevitable. But for which regime to come?
President Biden met this week with the Prime Minster Modi of India to discuss cooperation and guardrails between the two nations on the advancement of technology that effects every sector from agriculture to biotech and controlling climate change.
The announcement that the European Union will host the training of Ukrainian soldiers on its soil, the 27-block coalition is taking a further step in its assistance to Kiev, and with that strategy risks repeating history.
President Biden, in an attempt to normalize relations with Beijing, sent Secretary of State Antony Blinken to China to meet his counterpart in an effort to return the two nations back to a more predictable relationship.
Abortion wasn't always a religious issue as White evangelicals initially had a range of positions on abortion until right-wing evangelical leaders dominated the political scene in the 1970's. The leaders sought to steer evangelicals toward supporting the pro-life movement.
Confronted with an underestimated and despised Ukrainian resistance, Vladimir Putin is reduced to destroying civilian facilities to dash Kiev's hopes. More than psychological warfare, these acts demonstrate the failure of an unfounded military operation without vision.
Former President Donald J. Trump was criminal indicted this week, over the retention of classified documents relating to the security of the United States and conspired to keep them in his possession by hiding them from officials.
French politics is facing a crisis of political decorum as the recent succession of verbal or physical attacks, by several elected officials, testifies to the increasing loss of the natural authority and political dignity inspired by the Republic.
President Biden, after weeks of tense and acrimonious meetings, signed into law the historical budget package barely adverting a U.S. government default in the initial budget negotiation with the Republican led House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.
The re-election of Recep Tayyip Erdogan as President of the Turkish Republic extinguishes Western ambitions to witness a change of political orientation, particularly in view of the geopolitical issues crystallized around Crimea, the Black Sea and Ukraine.
President Biden and the House Majority Leader Republican Kevin McCarthy barely avoided a government default as each side has announced a deal had been made "in principle" which will prevent the shutdown of the United States government.
The diplomatic action led by Volodymyr Zelensky on the sidelines of the G7 highlights a vision of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict and its aftermath that aims to give Ukraine a role other than the one it occupied before the invasion.
President Biden, who has hesitated since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine to commit to sending fighter jets, has relented after the Ukraine president made a surprise appearance at the G7 summit in Hiroshima, Japan.
The break announced by Marine Le Pen with the GUD, in addition to highlighting an attempt to revive the National Rally’s credibility, confirms the transformation undertaken by the far-right party in the perspective of 2027 presidential election.
President Biden is expected to attend the G7 Summit, in Hiroshima, Japan, where the leaders of the seven largest economies are expected to discuss a wide range of issues including the nuclear weapons and Russia continued aggression.
French President Macron stumbled through the Pension Reform crisis and has yet to regain his footing as he walks through the minefield of French Party politics leaving him only one option: placate the populous to reform society.
President Biden joined a meeting this week, hosted by Vice President Kamala Harris on the future of AI in American business and to ensure that the software does not infringe on the rights of workers to earn a living.
Few French presidents have been so unpopular after a year in office. But Emmanuel Macron, willingly presented as the slayer of the old world, has become the scapegoat of a nation frightened by the irreversible mutations surrounding it.
President Joseph Biden ended speculation on his reelection plans by announcing his intention to seek a second term as President, if he wins it will make him the oldest candidate to be elected to a second term.
French President Emmanuel Macron, one year into his five-year second term, has marched through his social agenda effectively, and now is trying to appease a fractured country while trying to revive a struggling presidency.
French President Emmanuel Macron controversial pension reforms have continued to reverberate as Franco's maintain protests and conclude the Republic has been plunged into a deepening political crisis of epic proportion which will take years to recover.
President Biden traveled to Ireland this week to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the Good Friday Peace Agreement, which ended sectarian violence and to mark the first trip to his ancestral roots as President of the United States.
Chinese President Xi-Jinping has positioned himself as the middle man every foreign leader will meet with to stop Russian President Vladimir Putin’s maniacal march to decimate Ukraine and calm the tyrannical winds of war from spreading. Explanations.
President Biden celebrated twelve consecutive months of continued job growth as the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its March 2023 report which showed a gain of 236,000 jobs for the past month dropping unemployment to historic levels.
France's Minister of the Interior, Gerald Darmanin, has accused the political party The New Ecological and Social People's Union, (Le Nupes) of wanting to instigate a political and societal revolution comparable to that of the 1970s.
President Biden refused to be baited into commenting on the unprecedented, sealed indictment of former president Donald J. Trump, as the criminal charges are a pending legal matter for the jurisdiction where the charges are lobbied.
The recent unrest in France over French President Emmanuel Macron’s determination to push through his Pension Reform, forced cancellation of King Charles, first official state visit, and spawned even more protests over water management in the southern region.
President Biden spoke clearly and directly to the Islamic Republic of Iran leader Ali Khamenei emphasizing while he did not "seek conflict" with the nation he was fully prepared to protect American citizens and U.S. Military in the region.
French President Emmanuel Macron's use of Article 49.3 to adopt the pension reform highlights the constitutional limits of a Republic that is now ill-adapted to citizens' expectations. From a political crisis, France has moved to a regime crisis.
President Biden addressed the worst banking failure since the 2008 financial collapse stating that his administration had taken decisive action to stabilize the industry calling on congress to enact tougher penalties for senior banking executives.
French President Emmanuel Macron is facing another pushback to his social reform as workers throughout the Republic are mobilizing against his proposed pension reforms as the reforms could, ultimately, redefine the relationship with the value of work.
President Biden delivered on his State of the Union pledge to cap the cost of Insulin gaining support from big pharma manufacture Eli Lilly who agreed to slash the drug's out of pocket costs by 70% percent.
As the Russian-Ukrainian conflict drags on, China always anxious to anticipate its future,
poses as a mediator to seduce Westerners vital to its economy but also to prepare a post-war geopolitical redistribution in which its economy benefits. Explanations.
President Biden traveled to Kyiv this week to meet with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and reaffirm the support of the United States in aiding Ukraine as it maintains its fight for an independent and free nation.
French President Emmanuel Macron's desire not to humiliate Russia in the aftermath of the Russian-Ukraine conflict depicts the executive's ambition to anticipate peaceful diplomatic relations with Moscow while walking a tightrope with Ukraine's new global position.
President Biden, in response to the continual interception of high-altitude objects entering U.S. airspace, has directed an alert enhancement of the North American Aerospace Defense Command system to be on the ready to capture slow moving objects.
The Russian-Ukrainian conflict, which is constantly being questioned over its outcome, is gradually settling into the global geopolitical landscape to the point of presenting all aspects of a conflict of global scope but with a strictly regional dimension.
President Biden's annual State of Union address, which presented his accomplishments, was interrupted repeatedly by attention seeking members of the GOP, who believe that the vocal and televised shaming of the president does something for their cause.
The death toll in Turkey's devastating earthquake continues to rise and is expected to reach upwards of 10,000 in the aftermath of a powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake that was followed by several significant aftershocks and felt across the region.
The renewed tensions between Beijing and Washington, linked to the spy balloon affair, also reveal Beijing's desire to re-enter the global diplomatic game after the fiasco of the management of the umpteenth wave of Covid and the resistance.
President Biden sent a harsh rebuke to Chinese President Xi-Jinping as the surveillance balloon fallout that entered American airspace and initially detected over Montana on February 1, has been shot down as it approached the Atlantic coastline.
French citizens take to the street as a new day of demonstrations against the Government's pension reform project looms, an analysis of social and economic realities is needed in a logic of long-term anticipation. Explanations.
President Biden addressed Americans and the family of Tyre Nichols as the horrifying videos capturing the brutality of the five officers beating the unarmed and subdued Nichols, in a scene comparable to the 1991 Rodney King case.
The social tensions linked to the pension reform and the risks of paralysis of the country are once again raising the idea that the possibility of a solution may be found through negotiation rather than demonstration.
French President Emmanuel Macron, empowered during his second term is moving forward with his social agenda and confronting another divisive issue, the concept of pension reform, which will surely cause Parisians to flood the streets in protest.
President Biden became the subject of a federal investigation this week as classified documents were found in his former office at the University of Pennsylvania, where he served as a professor after his tenure as Vice-President.
The procrastination, wrangling and deal making, that presided over the election of the Speaker of the House of Representatives in the United States highlights the growing influence of radical movements in established but ultimately fragile democracies.
President Biden, who is scheduled to visit the southern border for the first time since he took office, is faced with harsh realities of the immigration crisis and plans to expand the Trump Era policies expulsion policies.
While the war in Ukraine will still condition the content of international relations in 2023, the upheavals it is causing could still generate and revive Sino-American and European relations. At the expense of an increasingly lonely Russia.
President Biden, over the last two weeks, has reminded Americans of the great distance we have traveled since the onset of the pandemic, the loved ones lost, heartache and the unconquerable spirit of hope woven into our DNA.
President Biden signed the Respect for Marriage Act, this week, requiring all states to recognize same-sex and interracial couples unions across all U.S. states and territories, and repels any previous laws that deny any couple these rights.
A powerful homemade bomb placed in a steel garbage unit exploded in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood, injuring 29, just after 8:30pm Saturday, launching a fireball into the air, blowing out windows, rocking cars and sending residents fleeing.
Apollo 11 Astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first man to set foot on the moon's surface, died Saturday, in Columbus, Ohio, after experiencing complications from cardiovascular surgery. He was 82.
Between Russian stubbornness, Ukrainian heroism, European sanctions and North American interventionism, the conflict that has shaken Europe since February 24 following the invasion of Ukraine by Russia seems to be on the verge of getting bogged down.
Après un mois de conflit, le président ukrainien tente de susciter l'aide et la compassion des nations occidentales par ses multiples interventions. Mais plongées dans leurs contradictions, ces mêmes nations voient leur modèle démocratique attaqué et fragilisé par la réalité de la guerre.
Lynne Stewart, the famed New York Civil Rights attorney arrested for smuggling messages for a blind Egyptian sheik serving a life sentence for plotting to blow up New York City landmarks, has received a compassionate release.
The legendary Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel has been a L.A. landmark since 1927, having hosted the first-ever Academy Awards and still serving as a playground for tinsel town’s A-team. Fun-loving gastronomes like me also flock to the locale for another reason: Public Kitchen & Bar.
