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PARIS — The White House is rolling out the red carpet for French President Emmanuel Macron — again. The French leader is the rare recipient of two state receptions in four years under two successive presidents. An Élysée Palace official who briefed the press ahead of the trip was not subtle in pointing out the divide between the two countries.Thursday's dinner, the first of President Joe Biden's administration, is a tribute to the visitor's unique role as Europe's leader after the departure of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, as well as a tribute to France's historic position as America's oldest ally.…

A Maryland woman is speaking out after a Starbucks barista wrote her name as "Mono" while taking her order.Monique Pugh said TODAY.com who has been a loyal Starbucks customer for 20 years. On November 19, she said, she visited the location inside the Annapolis, Maryland, mall and ordered a Venti Caramel Frappuccino.“The lady at the till asked my name and I told her, and that was it,” she said, noting that she used the Starbucks app to pay and verbally told the woman working that her name was “Monique.”Pugh said the wait for her drink was long and watched as…

ESPN personality Stephen A. Smith has responded to criticism for his position on Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones after his colleague liked, and later liked, a tweet criticizing him using an epithet racial.Mark Jones, who narrates NBA games for the company, liked the tweet that called Smith a "c---" for defending Jerry Jones over a photo showing him in the crowd of white students trying to stop for black students to enter an Arkansas school in 1957.Mark Jones didn't like the tweet, but not before it was captured on social media. ESPN declined to comment earlier this week on whether…

Police investigating the grisly murders of four University of Idaho students have retracted an earlier statement and now say it is not known whether the residence where the bodies were found or its occupants were "specifically targeted."Friends Madison Mogen, 21; Kaylee Goncalves, 21; and Xana Kernodle, 20; and her boyfriend Ethan Chapin, 20, were found fatally stabbed in an off-campus home in Moscow, Idaho, on November 13, and their killer remains a mystery.The Latah County Prosecutor's Office had previously stated that the "suspects specifically looked at this residence" and "one or more of the occupants was undoubtedly attacked." On Wednesday,…