President Joe Biden on Tuesday (August 10) marked this week’s 10th anniversary of journalist Austin Tice’s abduction in Syria by calling on that government to end his imprisonment now.

“[H]e is an investigative journalist who put the truth above himself and traveled to Syria to show the world the real cost of war,“ Biden said. ”We know with certainty that he has been held by the Syrian regime.

“There is no higher priority in my Administration than the recovery and return of Americans held hostage or wrongfully detained abroad,“ he said. “We must name them, keep them in our hearts and our minds, and make their recovery and return a priority. That is a pledge I have made to the American people and to Austin’s parents, and it is one that I am determined to uphold.“

Tice is a freelance journalist who has been held in Syria since August 2012.

Tice, a Marine as well as a veteran journalist, had filed on the Syrian conflict for a number of news outlets, including The Washington Post, CBS, the BBC, NPR and Al-Jazeera English. He has been unaccounted for since then. 

Syria regularly makes the Committee to Protect Journalists’ list of countries most dangerous for journalists. ■

President Trump is calling on Syria to release imprisoned journalist Austin Tice, calling it a priority for the Administration. That comes on the eighth anniversary of Tice's disappearance. 

Tice is a freelance journalist who has been reportedly held in Syria since Aug. 14, 2012.

Tice had filed on the Syrian conflict for a number of news outlets, including The Washington Post, CBS and Al-Jazeera English. He has been unaccounted for since then. At the time, The Washington Post blogged about Tice Facebook entry explaining why he would risk his life to tell the story of the conflict in Syria, which regularly makes the Committee to Protect Journalists' list of countries most dangerous for journalists. 

"Today marks the eighth anniversary of the kidnapping of United States citizen Austin Tice, a journalist and veteran officer of the United States Marine Corps," said the president in a statement. "Earlier this year, I asked the government of Syria to work with us to find and return Austin. I am again calling on Syria to help us bring him home. 

"There is no higher priority in my Administration than the recovery and return of Americans missing abroad. The Tice family deserves answers. We stand with the Tice family and will not rest until we bring Austin home."

President Trump is calling on Syria to release imprisoned journalist Austin Tice, calling it a priority for the Administration. That comes on the eighth anniversary of Tice's disappearance. 

Tice is a freelance journalist who has been reportedly held in Syria since Aug. 14, 2012. 

Tice had filed on the Syrian conflict for a number of news outlets, including The Washington Post, CBS and Al-Jazeera English. He has been unaccounted for since then. At the time, The Washington Post blogged about Tice Facebook entry explaining why he would risk his life to tell the story of the conflict in Syria, which regularly makes the Committee to Protect Journalists' list of countries most dangerous for journalists. 

"Today marks the eighth anniversary of the kidnapping of United States citizen Austin Tice, a journalist and veteran officer of the United States Marine Corps," said the president in a statement. "Earlier this year, I asked the government of Syria to work with us to find and return Austin. I am again calling on Syria to help us bring him home. 

"There is no higher priority in my Administration than the recovery and return of Americans missing abroad. The Tice family deserves answers. We stand with the Tice family and will not rest until we bring Austin home."

Cable shares managed to weather Monday’s stock market storm in the wake of the president’s controversial immigration policies, with most shares showing slight gains as other sectors swooned.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell as much as 200 points Monday before closing down 123 points to 19,971, as the market feared increasing instability in the U.S. political system, stemming from worldwide reaction to President Donald Trump’s ban on immigrants from seven countries.

Trump’s executive order Friday, which barred refugees from Syria indefinitely and immigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries ( Iraq, Iran, Somalia, Libya, Sudan, Syria and Yemen) for 90 days and suspending the admission of all refugees for 120 days, touched off protests across the country over the weekend. Thousands of protesters marched in airports in cities like New York, Washington and Boston as 109 immigrants were detained under the order.

Several legislators expressed their outrage at the ban, including New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo; U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) and Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.)

Trump blamed the airport delays on a computer glitch that grounded Delta Airlines flights (which happened on Sunday), protesters and “the tears of [New York’s U.S.] Senator [Charles] Schumer.”

While Trump’s administration called his actions another example of his decisiveness and action, the market and the world community feared it was a signal of increasing instability, sending the Dow plunging.

Cable shares were relatively unscathed. On the distribution side, Charter Communications gained 0.4% and Comcast and Cable One were down about 1%. Programmers fared even better, with The Walt Disney Co. (1.5%); Viacom (1.2%); AMC Networks (0.5%); Time Warner (0.25%); Scrips Networks (0.04%); 21st Century Fox (0.3%); and QVC Group (0.8%) all showing gains. Discovery Communications lost 0.3% and CBS was down 0.5%.

Airline stocks were hit hard -- American Airlines stock fell 4.4%; Delta Airlines was down 4.1% and United Continental Holdings dipped 3.6% on Monday. Tech stocks also took some hits – Google parent Alphabet Inc. fell 2.6% -- after several technology chiefs spoke out against the Muslim ban.

The decline – the biggest drop in the market since Oct. 11 – mars what had been a strong run-up since Trump won the election, when investors were encouraged by promises of more jobs, tax cuts and regulatory reform. Still, even with today’s decline, the index is up about 9% since Trump won the electorate.

But according to reports, the immigration moves are forcing investors to consider whether some of the President’s policies will create and deepen negative images of the U.S. on the world stage.  

On Monday, Trump signed another executive order, this one requiring all federal agencies to remove two regulations for every new one they enact.

Pasadena -- HBO will rollout a lineup of diverse documentaries during the first six months of 2017, including a profile of billionaire philanthropist Warren Buffett.

Becoming Warren Buffett will debut Jan. 30 and portrays the improbable story of an ambitious, numbers-obsessed boy from Nebraska who became one of the richest, most respected men in the world, according to the network.

Other documentaries scheduled for the first half of 2017 include Unlocking The Cage (Feb. 20), which explores animal rights lawyer Steven Wise’s unprecedented challenge to break down the legal wall that separates animals from humans; Solidarity: Inside Red Onion State Prison (Feb. 6), an exploration of the lives of inmates and corrections officers in one of America's most notorious “supermax” prisons; Cries From Syria (March 13), a searing look at the five-year conflict in Syria; Beware The Slenderman (Jan. 23), which explores how the dark corners of the Internet can influence society’s most impressionable young consumers of the media; and Mommy Dead And Dearest,  which profiles the story of Dee Dee Blanchard and Gypsy Rose Blanchard, touching on child abuse, mental illness and forbidden love.

On Feb. 13, Eagles of Death Metal: Nos Amis (Our Friends) will spotlight the American rock band as they recount their experiences before and after the Nov. 2015 terrorist attack in Paris that claimed 89 lives at their Bataclan Theatre concert; and, on Feb. 27, Tickled follows journalist David Farrier, who stumbles upon a bizarre “competitive endurance tickling” video online, wherein young men are paid to be tied up and tickled.