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A popular tour guide’s death leads to more scrutiny of border issues
Kristie Thibodeaux’s gunfire death made headlines first because it happened in the French Quarter — New Orleans’ oldest neighborhood and a place where residents of historic homes and owners of tourist-dependent restaurants and clubs have long worried about recurring violent crime.
A popular tour guide's death leads to more scrutiny of border issues
Kristie Thibodeaux's gunfire death made headlines first because it happened in the French Quarter — New Orleans' oldest neighborhood and a place where residents of historic homes and owners of tourist-dependent restaurants and clubs have long worried about recurring violent crime.
France's left-wing coalition thwarts far right in parliamentary run-off vote
France's left-wing New Popular Front coalition unexpectedly thwarted a far-right advance, clinching the largest number of seats but falling short of absolute parliamentary majority in the run-off vote, early data showed. The New Popular Front — an alliance of five parties ranging from the far-left France Unbowed to the Socialists and the Ecologists — could secure between 180 and 215 seats in the latest electoral round, according to an IFOP estimate for French broadcaster TV 1. Ipsos projected a lead of between 172 to 192 seats for the faction. French President Emmanuel Macron's Ensemble party and its allies were set to gain between 150 and 180
France Votes In Key Election That Could Force Macron To Share Power With Far Right
PARIS (AP) — Voting was underway in France on Sunday in pivotal runoff elections that could hand a historic victory to Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally and its inward-looking, anti-immigrant vision — or produce a hung parliament and political deadlock.
Acknowledging Debate Debacle, Biden Says He ‘Fell Asleep on the Stage’
President Biden acknowledged on Tuesday that he “fell asleep on the stage” during his disastrous debate last week, blaming his performance on the fact that he had traveled “around the world a couple times” in the two weeks before the face-off with former President Donald J. Trump.
French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal to tender resignation
French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal said he would submit his resignation on Monday, after early poll data showed his and French President Emmanuel Macron's centrist Ensemble party and its allies coming in second in the parliamentary runoff. Ensemble and its allies are projected to secure between 150 and 180 seats, according to an IFOP estimate, behind the leading New Popular Front's 180-215 result. Both factions have outpaced the winner of the first parliamentary vote, the far-right Rassemblement National — RN or National Rally. France now looks likely to be stranded in a hung-parliament scenari
Vanessa Hudgens Welcomes Her First Child With Husband Cole Tucker: Reports
Vanessa Hudgens is (reportedly) officially a mom.