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A child of working-class Jamaican immigrants in the Bronx, Colin Powell rose from neighborhood store clerk to warehouse floor-mopper to the highest echelons of the U.S. government.

The Foo Fighters frontman’s memoir isn’t about score-settling or dirt-dishing.

Biden will nominate Wendy Sherman as deputy secretary of state and Victoria Nuland as undersecretary of state for political affairs — the second- and third-highest ranking posts, respectively. They were among the 11 officials announced to serve under the incoming secretary of state, Antony Blinken. America is back.”Among the others are:—longtime Biden Senate aide Brian McKeon, to be deputy secretary of state for management. —Derek Chollet, a familiar Democratic foreign policy hand, to be State Department counselor. Price and Porter intend to return to the practice of holding daily State Department press briefings, officials said.

One thing, at least, used to be predictable in this world: crowds gathering around the globe to celebrate as the New Year rolled in. And there is no immediate improvement in all the issues the world is facing just because the date has now changed to 2021. "Definitely not," replied Madeleine Albright, who was U.S. Secretary of State 20 years ago, when the world was a different place. U.S. President Donald Trump confronted by world leaders (including German Chancellor Angela Merkel) at the 2018 G7 Summit. We have to have the bandwidth," Albright said.

2021: The U.S., no longer AWOL on the world stage The New Year promises a period of renewed engagement in the world by the United States, but after four years of the outgoing administration, will our Western allies once again trust American leadership? Correspondent Mark Phillips talks with former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, and with Dr. Karin von Hippel, director-general of the Royal United Services Institute in London.

2021: The U.S., no longer AWOL on the world stage The New Year promises a period of renewed engagement in the world by the United States, but after four years of the outgoing administration, will our Western allies once again trust American leadership? Correspondent Mark Phillips talks with former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, and with Dr. Karin von Hippel, director-general of the Royal United Services Institute in London.

Georgian Foreign Minister David Zalkaliani, left, gives flowers to Susan Pompeo as she and her husband, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, arrive at Tbilisi International Airport in Tbilisi, Georgia, Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2020. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, Pool)WASHINGTON – An independent probe into the travel of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s wife has concluded that the trips with her husband on official business did not violate federal ethics rules. The IG report was released just hours after the State Department took aim at the watchdog, Democratic members of Congress and media outlets for raising questions about Susan Pompeo’s travel and suggesting it may have been inappropriate. Susan Pompeo had attracted criticism for using government resources while accompanying her husband on diplomatic trips. The inspector general reacted icily to Bulatao's comment, saying Bulatao did not understand the role of an independent watchdog.

Thomas-Greenfield joined the State Department more than three decades ago, when Black women were even more of a rarity in the U.S. diplomatic corps than they are today. That makes her the most experienced diplomat of the six people named by Biden for top national security positions on Monday. Her tenure at the State Department rivals that of previous U.N. ambassadors like Richard Holbrooke, John Negroponte and Thomas Pickering, all of them white men. Other than secretary of state, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations is often the most high-profile foreign policy portfolio in a presidential administration. Thomas-Greenfield's immediate predecessors — all women — highlight that dichotomy: Rice, Samantha Power, Nikki Haley and Kelly Craft.

When Bernie Sanders takes the stage or gets behind a microphone, he seldom surprises the presidential candidates policy-heavy script is so familiar that crowds at his rallies often know what line is coming next. Their sometimes startling riffs and freewheeling broadsides against the establishment have played a large role in swelling the Sanders movement. He needs to be careful that his surrogates reflect that effort.AdvertisementThe surrogates are showing no sign of toning it down. Im a black woman in America, and I do have a thought outside of what I do for Sen. Sanders, campaign co-chair Nina Turner said Thursday in a brief interview in Las Vegas. 11 is going to come around, and you are thinking: Hey, Ive got a chance for a hot date Vote?

Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright addressed the DNC Tuesday. Albright said she has "seen Clinton fight and win for our country." See her full remarks.

Washington, D.C.'s mom-and-pop shop Tiny Jewel Box is frequented by the likes of President Obama, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and the Bush family. The shop's chairman, Jim Rosenheim, describes how some of their more famous customers behave differently from their public personas while shopping for gems.

Madeleine Albright now a Wheaties champion The former secretary of state is now gracing Wheaties cereal boxes. General Mills says its new definition of a champion is anyone who looks inside and challenges their personal best.

Madeleine Albright: "To put it mildly, the world is a mess" Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright discusses the crisis in Ukraine, relations with Russia, and the fighting between Israelis and Palestinians.

Madam Secretary Several weeks after Madeleine Albright became America's first female Secretary of State, Ed Bradley dropped by her office to find Albright still pinching herself.