Month: June 2023

A powerful gas explosion damaged a building on Paris’s Left Bank on Wednesday, injuring more than two dozen people and sparking a massive fire, authorities said. There were a total of 37 injured, French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin told French national broadcaster BFM TV. Four people were in “absolute emergency” and 33 were “relatively injured”. Two people are still missing and the debris of the damaged building is being combed through, Darmanin said. There were 320 firefighters and 200 police officers at the scene. “We still don’t know the origin of the explosion,” Darmanin said. Police and a national government…

ABC political editor Andrew Probyn has been sacked as part of a new five-year plan. Editor-in-Chief Michelle Pini takes a look at what this means for the public broadcaster. ANDREW PROBYN has been dropped from his role as political editor at the ABC. This is not in defense of Probyn, who, as a political editor, should have had someone edit his own privilege-laden, often blatantly biased commentary before it was released for public consumption. Also, let’s not start with the standard of Probyn’s recent questioning of people like the former prime minister Paul Keatingfor example, that it was, at best,…

Virginia’s primary election results are in, setting the stage for the general election. This year, all seats in the General Assembly are re-elected. Now that we know which candidates are advancing, political analyst Dr. Eric Claville sat down with News 3 anchors Jessica Larché and Erin Miller to break down the results. Louise Lucas comes out on top in the 18th Senate District State Sen. Louise Lucas defeated state Sen. Lionell Spruill in the Democratic primary in the 18th Senate District, which includes parts of Portsmouth and Chesapeake. The race was intense, with both candidates running attack ads against each…

U.S. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna’s renewed effort to impeach Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff passed the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday on a 213-209 vote. The resolution is the latest high-profile action by Luna, a freshman Republican member of Congress from Pinellas County. The resolution also shows the growing influence of the House Freedom Caucus, a group of hard-line conservative Republicans in the US House, of which Luna is a member. A crowd of Democrats shouted “shame” toward the Republican side of the floor as House Speaker Kevin McCarthy repeatedly tried to bring members to order. Schiff was formally censured…

Trump grilled the Fox News host about all the aides who turned on him Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email to receive exclusive US coverage and analysis delivered to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Donald Trump was left speechless during his latest interview with Fox News reporter Bret Baier when the host pointed out that if Trump’s proposed policy of executing convicted drug dealers had been in place during his presidency, among their victims would have been Alice Johnson, a woman whom Mr Trump granted clemency after being persuaded to do so by a campaign…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The special counsel who investigated the FBI’s probe into ties between Russia and Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign found himself at the center of a heated political row when he appeared before a congressional committee on Wednesday, with Democrats denouncing his investigation and Republicans arguing that its findings helped demonstrate an anti-Trump bias within law enforcement. John Durham, the Justice Department special counsel who recently completed his report, testified before the House Judiciary Committee in a hearing that unfolded against the backdrop of a 37-count indictment against Trump on charges of illegally retain classified documents. Despite roughly six…

The GOP’s Boebert wanted to impeach Biden, but House Speaker McCarthy had other plansA year after Roe fell, 25 million women live in states with abortion bans or tighter restrictionsIn a boisterous scene, the House censures Rep. Adam Schiff over the Trump-Russia probeTexas Sen. Angela Paxton can’t vote in husband’s impeachment trialTrump-Russia special counsel Durham at center of political showdown as he appears before CongressModi flexes India… READ MORE The GOP’s Boebert wanted to impeach Biden, but House Speaker McCarthy had other plans A year after Roe fell, 25 million women live in states with abortion bans or tighter restrictions…

An 18-year-old Cotopaxi teenager died Tuesday in a crash involving two vehicles near mile marker 232 on US 50 between Cañon City and Salida. According to Colorado State Trooper Gabriel Moltrer, CSP was notified around 5:21 pm of a crash involving a Chevy Silverado and a Ford F-150. Fremont County Coroner Randy Keller identified the driver of the Chevy as Shane Semer, 18, of Howard, who was ejected from the vehicle during the crash and was pronounced dead by the Fremont County Chief Coroner, Laura Allen, at the scene of the accident. He was not wearing a seat belt, according…