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US President Joe Biden delivers a speech on the legacy of Pointe du Hoc, and democracy around the world, Friday, June 7, 2024 as he stands next to the Pointe du Hoc monument in Normandy, France. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
June 7, 2024, 7:06 pm
Biden uses cliffs of Normandy to channel Reagan, call to defend freedom and democracy
US president seeks to contrast the sacrifice of US forces to defeat the Nazis with his political opponent Donald Trump’s increasingly isolationist international policies
By CHRIS MEGERIAN
Bernard Kalb during an appearance at Montgomery College in 2015. (screen capture: YouTube)
January 9, 2023, 6:25 am
Bernard Kalb, longtime newsman who waded into Mideast incitement tussle, dies at 100
Jewish correspondent for New York Times, CBS and NBC covered diplomats for decades before becoming US State Department spokesman, served on Trilateral Anti-Incitement Committee
By AP
Mort Sahl, comedian, during taping at WRC studios in Washington December 6, 1978. (AP)
October 27, 2021, 5:26 am
Mort Sahl, satirist who brought politics to comedy, dies at 94
Credited as the first to give stand-up acts an iconoclastic edge, Sahl skewered presidents from Eisenhower to Trump, paving the way for comics like George Carlin and Jon Stewart
By AP
US Secretary of State George Shultz, left, greets Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin at the State Department in Washington on January 28, 1985 (AP Photo/Ira Schwarz)
February 8, 2021, 5:29 pm
When George Shultz, friend of Israel, opened the door to Palestinian legitimacy
In Moscow, US secretary of state met with Jews denied exit permits, and once arranged a ‘refusenik’ Passover Seder at the US Embassy
By Matthew Lee
Then-secretary of state George Shultz, center, walks with then-president Ronald Reagan and vice president George Bush upon his arrival at the White House in Washington, after two days of arms talks with the Soviet Union in Geneva, on January 9, 1985. (AP Photo/Barry Thumma, File)
February 7, 2021, 9:06 pm
George Shultz dies at 100, shaped US stance on Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Reagan’s secretary of state worked to end nuclear arms race, resolve Lebanon civil war, bring Israel, Palestinians to talks. Told ToI in 2016 interview: Israel’s doing pretty well
By Matthew Lee
US President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence stand on stage during the first day of the 2020 Republican National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, Aug. 24, 2020. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
October 3, 2020, 8:24 am
How would a possible US presidential power transfer look under 25th Amendment?
Trump has not invoked clause; if necessary, would send letter saying ‘unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office’ and VP would assume role
By Jessica Gresko
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks at a news conference at the State Department in Washington, November 18, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
November 19, 2019, 3:23 pm
Pompeo’s settlements speech: Empty rhetoric or prelude to annexation?
Experts say new US policy less dramatic than it sounds as it simply reinstates Reagan-era ambiguity on settlements’ legal status. Others warn it prejudges final status of West Bank
By Raphael Ahren
In this May 9, 2018, file photo, Iranian demonstrators burn a picture of US President Donald Trump during a protest in front of the former US Embassy in Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)
November 3, 2019, 10:53 am
Iran, US still captive to 1979 hostage crisis
Mutual suspicion between Washington and Tehran has reached a level unseen since the Islamic Revolution, with people continuing to be used as bargaining chips
By Jon Gambrell
Firefighters walk through a cloud of smoke as winds fuel the Easy Fire Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2019, in Simi Valley, Calif. Fire officials say they're investigating the cause of the fire. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
October 31, 2019, 5:08 am
Fires spare Reagan library but menace homes near Los Angeles
About 7,000 homes and around 30,000 people ordered evacuated between the cities of Simi Valley and Moorpark; cause of blaze not yet clear
By brian melley and MARCIO JOSE SANCHEZ
Richard Nixon, left, greets Gov. Ronald Reagan, right, as the California chief executive arrives in San Diego on August 16, 1968. (Henry Burroughs/AP)
July 31, 2019, 11:42 am
Reagan, in 1971 phone call to Nixon, called African UN delegates ‘monkeys’
Infuriated at countries supporting a vote to accept China into international body, California governor told US president that ‘they’re still uncomfortable wearing shoes’
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Elliott Abrams, now the US special representative for Venezuela, testifies at a hearing before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Feb. 13, 2019. The hearing featured a testy exchange between Abrams and Rep. Ilhan Omar. (Alex Wong/Getty Images via JTA)
February 15, 2019, 8:14 am
Who is Elliott Abrams and why is Ilhan Omar attacking him?
The Trump administration’s new envoy to the Venezuela crisis is a controversial former diplomat whose influence is woven throughout Republican foreign policy
By Ron Kampeas
Elliott Abrams (L) listens to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo talk about Venezuela at the State Department in Washington, on Jan. 25, 2019. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
January 26, 2019, 4:53 am
Pompeo taps hawkish GOP veteran to lead US efforts in Venezuela
Top US diplomat says Elliott Abrams, who was initially passed over by the administration due to criticism of Trump, will assist in ‘restoring democracy’ to Latin American country
By Agencies and ToI Staff
The Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel and Ambassador Carl Spielvogel Gallery houses the artwork 'Consequence,' by Sol LeWitt.(Raymund Flandez/US Holocaust Memorial Museum)
January 9, 2019, 8:52 am
Former US ambassador to Slovakia gives $2m to US Holocaust Memorial Museum
Gallery to be named in honor of Carl Spielvogel and his wife, Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel, in appreciation of donation
By JTA
US President Donald Trump arrives for a campaign rally at the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas, on October 22, 2018. (SAUL LOEB/AFP)
October 23, 2018, 7:48 am
Trump: US will build nuclear arsenal until Russia, China ‘come to their senses’
President’s warning comes after announcement he intends to jettison atomic treaty — a step Moscow cautions would be a major blow to global security
By Maggy DONALDSON and Anna SMOLCHENKO
In this May 4, 2018 photo, former US Marine Lt. Col. Oliver North speaks before giving the Invocation at the National Rifle Association-Institute for Legislative Action Leadership Forum in Dallas. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
May 8, 2018, 12:55 am
Oliver North, central figure in Iran-Contra scandal, named NRA president
North is known for his role in secret sale of weapons to Iran in 1980s, proceeds of which went to anti-communist rebels in Nicaragua
By LISA MARIE PANE
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