The US could default on the debt obligations by March according to warnings from the US Treasury Secretary Jack Lew.
The Syria peace talks in Geneva have opened with bitter accusations from each side over the ongoing conflict which has cost more than 100,000 lives.
California governor Jerry Brown has officially declared a drought emergency in California, which will allow the golden state to seek federal aid.
After 12 years under the guidance of Mayor and business mogul Michael Bloomberg, the biggest city in the United States is itself a tale of two cities. On the one hand, New York is more gentrified and safer than ever as previous no-go areas in Brooklyn and Harlem have been transformed into playgrounds for students and young professionals. On the other hand, skyrocketing housing prices and the 2008 financial meltdown has sent more of the city’s poor to the streets than ever before.
Barrack Obama has chosen two openly gay sportswomen as part of its team of Sochi Olympic delegates as a statement on equality, and the current repression of homosexuality in Russia.