In a forum of presidential candidates, Sen. Grace Poe backed the government on taking China to court over the South China Sea dispute.
The president's statement came after a meeting Tuesday at which he and the French president discussed strategies for defeating the Islamic State group.
Russia's intense policing policies in the North Caucasus region could be helping ISIS recruiters, according to local residents.
"It is a little puzzling that I do this every year," Obama said last year, "but I will say that I enjoy it, because with all the tough stuff that swirls around in this office, it's nice once in a while to just say, 'Happy Thanksgiving.'"
Parisians have been asked not drive their cars ahead of the COP21 climate summit, and protests ahead of the event have been banned.
While Russian President Vladimir Putin calls it being “stabbed in the back,” his U.S. counterpart Barack Obama has said Turkey has the right to protect its borders.
French President François Hollande is meeting with world leaders to step up the offensive against the Islamic State group in response to the Paris attacks.
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders says he wants to create a pathway to citizenship for immigrants and end "militarization" along the U.S.-Mexico border.
In an email Tuesday, Jeh Johnson, U.S. secretary of homeland security, explained how new arrivals would be vetted by the U.S. government.
Russia’s conflicts in eastern Ukraine and Syria were already proving unsustainable. Now a downed warplane at the Syrian-Turkish border makes things even more complicated.
Concerns that Turkey's shooting down a Russian warplane could lead to a world war emerged on social media.
At the White House Tuesday, France and the U.S. solidified their unity in the fight against the Islamic State group and advocated de-escalation between Russia and Turkey.
The Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Netherlands will hear a dispute between the Philippines and China.
ISIS will be the focus Tuesday when French President François Hollande confers with U.S. President Barack Obama.
The attention the 14-year-old received after being arrested for bringing a homemade clock to school ultimately forced the family to leave the U.S., they say.
The National Christmas Tree lighting ceremony will be held on Dec. 3.
Authorities in Brussels have not released the names of the third and fourth people they charged in connection with the Paris terror attacks.
Alexei Ulyukaev said he expects Russia to experience 3.9 percent GDP decline in 2015, a rosier forecast than the World Bank's.
François Hollande and David Cameron are presenting a united front against the Islamic State group, but challenges remain, particularly with regard to Syria's Bashar Assad.
They protested plans to relocate Syrian refugees to the United States, as well as a rumored -- and nonexistent -- Islamic court at the mosque.
The American president has said that he will not allow the notion that his country is powerless to beat the Islamic State group.
A U.S. presidential envoy, speaking during a television interview, also said America would step up its offensive against ISIS to target its international networks.