Tens of thousands of uniformed police officers from across the United States attended the funeral of one of their murdered last week in New York on Saturday, an impressive show of solidarity after criticism against American police in recent months . U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, New York State Governor, city mayor, and police chief … Read more
Photo AFP – FRANCE MEDIA AGENCY Posted Jan. 4, 2016, 3:18 p.m. Updated at 17:28 – – – Murders and rapes increased in 2015 in New York, as did gang-related violence, halting the overall decline in crime seen in recent years in America’s largest city. This overall decline was 1.7% this year compared to last … Read more
New York is home to some 75,000 homeless people, unprecedented since the 1930s according to some experts, and the problem is growing embarrassment for its Democratic mayor Bill de Blasio, accused of having underestimated him. Bill de Blasio announced on Tuesday the departure of his advisor in charge of the itinerant, Gilbert Taylor, and the … Read more
As with this year’s election of the next US president, the “most divided” America was talked about twenty years ago – and just as this year, it did not bring a clear winner the morning after the election night. The US Supreme Court had to decide when the election would end, and current US President … Read more
Sosok.ID – Twenty years ago, the election for President of the United States in Florida was in turmoil. Quoted from Wikipedia.org, the Democratic candidate, Al Gore and the Republican candidate George W. Bush when it was competing for power. The 2000 election results, however, were not known for more than a month after the elections … Read more
The Americans, who listened to the radio sixty years ago, felt that Republican Vice President Nixon was winning. On the contrary, those who watched television attributed more points to Kennedy. Kennedy was not one of the most experienced politicians at the time, but he reportedly looked much better on screen – he was tanned and … Read more
Ten years ago one of the worst natural disasters in US history struck the people of the southern United States. In late August 2005, Hurricane Katrina wreaked havoc on coastal regions in Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia. New Orleans was hit particularly badly, where the hurricane developed its full destructive power on August 29th. … Read more
The official appointment of Joe Biden as a democratic candidate for the White House, this week, he shot me for April 2000, more than twenty years ago, when I first crossed the Atlantic for a month of work in the USA. Among the things I have not forgotten is a dinner alone, accompanied by a … Read more
Republican trouble. Former Secretary of State Colin Powell wants to vote for Democrat Joe Biden in the US presidential election. Powell sees Trump as a threat to democracy. Former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell – a Republican – plans to run for the Democrat in the November US presidential election Joe Biden vote. That … Read more