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WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Wednesday that paid family and medical leave is back in the massive social safety net spending package, but its inclusion in the final draft hinges on support from Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., a key centrist. “I have asked the Ways and Means Committee…

(RNS) — President Joe Biden told reporters on Friday (Oct. 29) that when he met with Pope Francis earlier in the day, the pontiff told the president he was a “good Catholic” and should continue taking Communion. The pope’s alleged remarks constitute an apparent rejection of some conservative Catholics in…

Let’s be honest about this year’s big climate gathering in Glasgow, Scotland: There will be far more talk than action and few deliverables. Carbon emissions nearly everywhere will remain alarmingly high, with a warming climate raising the price we pay, in lives and dollars, for inaction. The good news on…

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President Joe Biden’s public struggles with even the simplest usage of the English language have been well documented on the U.S. political scene. From confusing his wife, Jill Biden, with his sister, Valerie, to saying in the lead-up to last year’s presidential race he is a “candidate for the United States…

PRESIDENT BUHARI TO ATTEND CLIMATE CHANGE CONFERENCE IN GLASGOW; PARTICIPATE IN PARIS PEACE SUMMIT President Muhammadu Buhari will Sunday, October 31 depart Abuja for Glasgow, Scotland to attend the 26th Conference of Parties (COP26) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The President is scheduled to deliver…

(L-R) British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and U.S. President Joe Biden, pose for the media prior to a meeting at the La Nuvola conference center for the G20 summit in Rome, Italy, on Oct. 30, 2021. (Stefan Rousseau/Pool/Getty Images) ROME—U.S. President Joe…

The G-20 is an annual summit of the world's top 20 major economies.The 2021 summit in Rome, Italy is the first held in-person since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.President Biden hopes to heal diplomatic relations with European allies during his time in Rome.An international forum of the world's largest…

U.S. President Joe Biden launched his whirlwind European diplomatic tour on a conciliatory note, saying Friday that the rollout of a security deal between the United States, Britain and Australia that cut out longtime ally France was "clumsy." "What happened was, to use an English phrase -- what we did…

Published 29 October 2021 As world leaders flock to Rome for the G20 summit, US President Joe Biden was set Friday to meet Pope Francis and France’s Emmanuel Macron at the start of a trip aimed at reasserting US international credentials. Shortly before leaving Washington, the president unveiled an “historic”…