France’s Macron arrives in US for state visit

French President Emanuel Macron has arrived in the US as the guest for the first state visit of Joe Biden's presidency.The event this week is a revival of diplomatic pageantry that had been put on hold because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Biden-Macron relationship has turned around from its choppy start.Macron briefly recalled France's ambassador to the United States last year after the White House announced a deal to sell nuclear submarines to Australia that undermined a contract that France had to sell diesel-powered submarines.