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Every president makes a commitment to bipartisanship, but few actually succeed in bringing the parties together. Biden, who served in the Senate for more than three decades before becoming vice president, thinks he can defy history. After his party’s wins in Georgia’s Senate runoff elections, Biden will at least have a Democratic House and Senate to help him. But his majorities are razor-thin, creating a unique challenge for Biden. ADVERTISEMENT Even with congressional majorities, Trump and...

John Kerry was wrong in 2015 to sign the deal in the first place. He was wrong in 2016 to throw down his gauntlet to Israel/the Arab world and he will be wrong again.

The project had already been languishing, but the action by Mr. Biden would signal his determination to undo President Trump’s environmental legacy.

As President-elect Joe Biden announced his picks for the Cabinet, the joke went around on Jewish Twitter that the West Wing would have a minyan. Indeed, at least 10 prominent Jews have been nominated to key positions. There’s Ronald Klain (chief of staff); Anthony Blinken (Secretary of State); Janet Yellen (Treasury); Merrick Garland (Attorney General); Alejandro Mayorkas (Homeland Security);and Avril Haines (Director of National Intelligence). One level down are Wendy Sherman (deputy Secreta...

This week in history: January 18-24 17 January 2021 25 years ago: Arafat wins Palestinian vote On January 20, 1996, PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat and his al-Fatah party won the election held among residents of the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem. The electoral triumph confirmed Arafat’s role as the chief enforcer of Israeli dictates in the territories occupied by Israel since the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. Arafat won 88 percent of the vote for president of the Palestinian Council while...

ANGELA MERKEL has been replaced by Armin Laschet, a German politician who called for closer ties to Russia, archive accounts show.

WASHINGTON — After four years of being relentlessly targeted by a Republican president who worked overtime to bait, punish and marginalize California and everything it represents, the state is suddenly center stage again in Washington’s policy arena. California is emerging as the de facto poli

President Trump tried to marginalize California. He failed. Now, with Joe Biden and Democrats taking power, no state is more influential in setting a policy agenda.

Jan 15, 2021 catholic news service Bishop W. Shawn McKnight of Jefferson City, Mo., prays at the end of the inauguration ceremony for members of Missouris executive branch outside the state Capitol in Jefferson City Jan. 11, 2021. The event also marked the beginning of a yearlong celebration for Missouris bicentennial of statehood. (Credit: CNS photo/Dan Bernskoetter via The Catholic Missourian.) Bishop W. Shawn McKnight of Jefferson City prayed Jan. 11 that God would bless and guide the newly...

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