Month: December 2019

MEXICO CITY —  Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Thursday said visiting U.S. Atty. Gen. William Barr understood the importance of nonintervention in foreign policy, but there was no public indication that the two nations had resolved deep differences about the Trump administration’s plans to classify Mexican drug cartels as terrorist organizations. President Trump’s statement…

HOUSTON —  A flu-ridden 16-year-old from Guatemala writhed in agony inside a U.S. Border Patrol cell and collapsed on the floor where he lay for several hours before he was found dead, according to video released Thursday that further calls into question the Trump administration’s treatment of immigrant families. The footage published by ProPublica shows the…

PARIS —  Frustrated travelers are meeting transportation chaos around France for a second day on Friday, as unions dig in for what they hope is a protracted strike against President Emmanuel Macron’s plans to redesign the national retirement system. Most French trains were at a halt, including Paris subways, and traffic jams multiplied around the country.…

Here are the stories you shouldn’t miss today: TOP STORIES ‘No Choice but to Act’ Speaker Nancy Pelosi has announced that she is asking House committees to move to impeach President Trump, taking a major step toward making him just the third president in American history to face that sanction. “His wrongdoing strikes at the…

Renault F1 boss Cyril Abiteboul has made the bold claim that the French manufacture’s engine has clawed its way to the top of the power rankings where it now sits alongside Ferrari. Renault’s 2019 campaign failed to deliver on the team’s expectations, finishing fifth in the Constructors’ standings and outpaced by customer outfit McLaren. Despite…

Listen with: iTunes WNYC Stitcher TuneIn This week, after two months of questioning seventeen former and current State Department and White House officials, the House Intelligence Committee released its report on the impeachment inquiry into President Trump. What has the country learned with certainty about how the Administration tried to strong-arm the new President of…

What’s it like to be the political ray of hope for an entire region of the world? Depending on who is writing, the forty-six-year-old Zuzana Čaputová, the President of Slovakia, may be called upon to save Slovakia, Central Europe, or Central and Eastern Europe. Or all of Europe—Čaputová, who took office in June, is a…

The star striker has been the subject of transfer speculation for some time and more interest is expected in the coming months Wilfried Zaha deserves to play for a “top club” as his agent Federico Pastorello suggested the Crystal Palace star could leave during the January transfer window. Zaha wanted to depart before the start of…

Avec “Braguino”, Clément Cogitore nous offre un dépaysement total et parvient, en à peine 50 minutes, à filmer la naissance d’une civilisation déjà condamnée à s’éteindre. Un documentaire aux images superbes, à la lisière du conte. Après Ni le ciel ni la terre présenté au Festival de Cannes en 2015 et nommé au César de la…

Une première photo de tournage de “Glass”, la suite de “Split” et d’ “Incassable”, dévoile le tout nouveau costume porté par le personnage d’Elijah Price, incarné par Samuel L. Jackson. Il y a près de vingt ans sortait sur nos écrans Incassable, une relecture du mythe du super-héros par M. Night Shyamalan qui voyait un Bruce Willis…