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German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrived in Washington on Wednesday for what will in all likelihood be her last official visit to the US before her almost 16-year term in office ends after the September federal election. Although the Merkel era is coming to an end, the trip is being seen as marking a new beginning in German-US relations following the tensions between Berlin and Washington under the administration of Donald Trump. However, although new US President Joe Biden has vowed to steer his country away from the far more unilateral "America First" course of his predecessor, he and Merkel will...

U.S. President Joe Biden will host a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel next Thursday to affirm "deep and enduring" ties between the NATO allies

President Joe Biden announced on Friday that he was nominating Amy Gutmann to serve as US ambassador to Germany. Gutmann, who is the president of the University of Pennsylvania, is also the daughter of a Holocaust survivor. Gutmann's father escaped Nazi Germany in 1934, according to a 2013 interview in The Daily Pennsylvanian. ... Her family history inspired her to help establish one of the world's largest Holocaust education archives, Haaretz reported. She partnered with the University of Southern California Shoah Foundation Institute's Visual History Archive in 2013 to bring nearly 52,000 video testimonials to the University of Pennsylvania's library...

At the invitation of Chancellor Angela Merkel, President Bush traveled to northeastern Germany in advance of his participation in the G-8 Summit in St. Petersburg, Russia. Chancellor Merkel hosted President Bush today in the towns of Stralsund and Trinwillershagen, which are in the Chancellor's electoral constituency. The visit, which took place in what had been communist East Germany, underscores our two nations' commitment to advancing freedom and prosperity, and to strengthening the transatlantic partnership.The President and the Chancellor took part in a joint press conference in the Straslund Town Hall, and the President also spoke in the historic market square....