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Paris CNN — A Paris court has convicted far-right figurehead and 2027 presidential frontrunner Marine Le Pen of embezzlement and banned her from running for political office. The ban will come into effect immediately, but the court has not yet announced how long it will last. If it is longer than two years, Le Pen’s fourth attempt to win the French presidency would again end in failure. The court’s president, Bénédicte de Perthuis, said Le Pen’s actions amounted to a “serious and lasting attack on the rules of democratic life in Europe, but especially in France.” Le Pen left the…
CNN — In a Fox News segment last year on America’s declining birth rate, former congressman Sean Duffy joked about how he would “lose count” of his nine kids, and urged viewers to follow his lead in having more children. “If you look at what’s good for country and society, it’s to reproduce, to have kids,” Duffy declared. “That shows that you’re healthy, you’re strong, and you’re patriotic.” Now, in his new position in President Donald Trump’s cabinet, Duffy is writing that philosophy into an unlikely area of federal policy: transportation funding. The day after he was sworn in as…
Sign up for CNN’s Eat, But Better: Mediterranean Style. Our eight-part guide shows you a delicious expert-backed eating lifestyle that will boost your health for life. CNN — What West Virginia lawmaker Adam Burkhammer “once thought was a conspiracy theory became reality” to him recently. The Republican state delegate had been witnessing “the adverse effects that synthetic dyes were having on my son’s behavior, and the improvement of focus and attention” when he removed foods with the dyes from his son’s diet, Burkhammer told CNN via email. Inspired by this experience, he worked with the West Virginia Legislature last month to…
CNN — The Supreme Court will hear arguments Monday over whether states may require religiously affiliated groups like Catholic Charities to pay unemployment taxes in a case critics say could put more than 1 million US workers at risk of losing benefits. In the first religion-centered appeal the 6-3 conservative Supreme Court has heard in nearly two years, the Catholic Charities Bureau and four affiliate organizations say Wisconsin violated the First Amendment’s religious protections by denying exemptions from the taxes. Conservative justices in recent years have blurred the line that once clearly separated church from state. They have done so…
CNN — A popular Japanese restaurant chain has closed nearly all of its 2,000 stores for cleaning this week, after a rat and a bug were found in its food. Sukiya, the country’s largest chain serving gyudon, or beef bowls, announced the temporary closures following an insect contamination incident at one of its suburban Tokyo locations on Friday. This came just weeks after a rat was found in a bowl of miso soup in late January in an outlet in Tottori, western Japan. Apologizing for the “great inconvenience and concern caused,” Sukiya said in a Saturday statement that most of…
CNN — Richard Chamberlain, an actor who got his start playing a hunky TV doctor and went on to become a miniseries maestro, died on Saturday, according to his publicist. He was 90 years old. Chamberlain died in Hawaii of complications following a stroke, publicist Harlan Boll said in a statement. The award-winning “Thorn Birds” star would have turned 91 on Monday. Chamberlain, a three-time Golden Globe winner, wore many hats over the years – actor, singer, soldier, painter, author – but he first rose to prominence and cemented his heartthrob status playing a handsome young physician in the 1960s…
A suspected illegal immigrant convicted in a deadly Colorado crash last year involving a semi-truck he was driving was detained on Sunday by federal immigration authorities.Ignacio Cruz-Mendoza, 47, a Mexican national, was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in the lobby of the Jefferson County Detention Center shortly before 8:30 a.m. on Sunday, immediately after his release from jail, according to Denver7.Cruz-Mendoza was the driver of a semi-truck involved in a June 2024 crash on Highway 285, which left one man dead.FEDERAL JUDGE RULES TRUMP ADMINISTRATION CANNOT IMMEDIATELY DEPORT TUFTS STUDENT A suspected illegal immigrant convicted in a…
CNN — The mopane worm – colorful, hairy and nutritious – has many things going for it, but its name is not one of them. Native to woodlands in southern Africa, it is in fact a caterpillar that’s widely eaten in rural areas; and being high in protein and low in fat, it is being pitched as a superfood to overseas markets. Based in the Angolan capital of Luanda, on Africa’s southwest coast, FoodCare is a dried food manufacturer that processes and packages a range of 25 homegrown foods, including cassava, mushrooms, various fufu (pounded starchy meals) and mopane worms,…
CNN — The prime minister of Greenland pushed back Sunday against assertions by U.S. President Donald Trump that America will take control of the island territory. Greenland, a huge, resource-rich island in the Atlantic, is a self-governing territory of Denmark, a NATO ally of the United States. Trump wants to annex the territory, claiming it’s needed for national security purposes. “President Trump says that the United States ‘will get Greenland.’ Let me be clear: The United States will not get it. We do not belong to anyone else. We decide our own future,” Jens-Frederik Nielsen said in a Facebook post.…
London CNN — The chairwoman of a charity co-founded by Prince Harry has accused him of “harassment and bullying at scale” in a TV interview Sunday, after he and others involved with the charity quit this week. Sophie Chandauka, the chairwoman of Sentebale, said the Duke of Sussex unleashed “the Sussex (PR) machine” on her earlier this week when he publicly quit as a patron of the charity, along with co-founder, Prince Seeiso of Lesotho, and the board of trustees. “At some point on Tuesday, Prince Harry authorized the release of a damaging piece of news to the outside world…