The United States on Wednesday placed on
its terror watch list a jailed Turkish-born German national said to have
extensive ties to Al-Qaeda and other radical Islamic groups.
Jennifer Gavito took over the helm as the US Consul General to Munich in August, becoming the first woman to hold the position. The Local spoke with her about the refugee crisis, TTIP and what the United States can learn from Germany.
Germany said on Wednesday it was "demanding answers" from the United States over fresh allegations of official US espionage, this time against German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
Germans are more negative about the United States than the rest of Europe, but still largely support Americans' efforts to fight Isis, according to a new poll.
US Secretary of State John Kerry acknowledged in a German newspaper on Thursday that "tensions" had arisen between the US and Germany over revelations of US espionage but said relations would remain strong.
The US National Security Administration was amazingly well-informed about German affairs even before it tapped the internet - newly released documents show it knew about plans to build the Berlin Wall ahead of time, but failed to tell President John F Kennedy.
A gaudy ruby swastika ring which once belonged to Adolf Hitler will go on sale next week, with American auctioneers hoping to get bidders to shell out up to $100,000.
Commerzbank, Germany's second-biggest bank, said on Monday it had agreed to sell a huge portfolio of commercial real estate loans held in Britain to US bank Wells Fargo and Lone Star Funds.
German Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich said he expected "straight talk" at high-level meetings in Washington Thursday on a simmering dispute over broad state surveillance.
Another tall German has followed Dirk Nowitzki to the top rank of the American basketball - this time 19-year-old Dennis Schröder has been signed by the Atlanta Hawks.
Germany is confident the EU will find a "good solution" despite differences and hand the EU Commission a mandate to negotiate a landmark free-trade accord with the United States, a government source said on Friday.
US President Barack Obama will follow predecessors John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan by making a major speech in Berlin, the White House said Wednesday. He will speak in front of Germany's symbolic Brandenburg Gate on June 19th.
Americans have had a love affair with Heidelberg since Mark Twain visited the city. Matthew Luxmoore reports on the impact of the US Army's imminent withdrawal after 68 years.
US retailer JC Penney has been raising eyebrows in America and online, after it released an advertising campaign for a €40 kettle that, whether on purpose or accidentally, looks like German dictator Adolf Hitler.
US captain Clint Dempsey scored two goals to lead the American national team to stave off a late comeback on Sunday for a 4-3 victory over Germany in an international football friendly.
For this instalment of My German Career, The Local spoke with former US military man turned armed guard Keith Alban about leaving your home country in search of a better quality of life, and the perks of being an American abroad.
German scientists have solved the mystery of how millions of Monarch butterflies navigate several thousand miles every year to their winter dwellings - even though each one is taking the journey for the first time.
You might say he is just a collection of atoms, but then, really, aren't we all? The Local's German of the Week is Boy, from the world's smallest stop-motion film, made with individual atoms moved by a German-led research team.
German Defence Minister Thomas de Maizière on Monday cautioned against game-changing "red lines" in Syria's civil war, amid growing evidence that regime forces have used chemical weapons.
What do you buy a multi-millionaire who also happens to be the leader of the free world? Angela Merkel gave him a set of golf putters - and presented his wife with six bottles of wine.
Deutsche Bank, Germany's largest, will face legal action in Los Angeles after a US court denied the bank's bid to dismiss a case claiming it let hundreds of properties fall into disrepair and illegally evicted tenants.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday expressed her grief and outrage over the deadly bombing at the Boston Marathon. The German Embassy was still trying to account for the some 250 German nationals participating in the event.
Countless East Germans tried to flee communist oppression, but a new book documents the rare cases of western deserters going the other way. Matthew Luxmoore reports.
