PARIS, May 20 (Reuters) – The Eiffel Tower was evacuated and surrounding streets locked down on Monday after a man was spotted scaling the upper heights of the monument in the heart of the French capital, Paris Police and the tower’s operator said. Specialist firefighters were on the scene, the police spokeswoman said. “The man […]

For Jean Wyllys, peace comes only at night, in the darkness, when he can close his eyes and drift into a world he has left behind. Perhaps he’ll dream of Bahia, the northeastern Brazilian state where he was born and raised. Or of Rio de Janeiro, the ”Cidade Maravilhosa” that he adopted as his own. Some […]

A GOP congressman who said Saturday that President Donald Trump “engaged in impeachable conduct” reiterated his case Monday on Twitter. Over the weekend, Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.) said on Twitter that after reading the complete Mueller Report, he believes Trump “engaged in specific actions and a pattern of behavior that meet the threshold for impeachment.” Naturally, Amash’s comments angered […]

Janet Jackson made her Las Vegas residency debut on Friday in a star-studded opening night that had concertgoers feeling the “Rhythm Nation.” The multiple Grammy Award-winning global music icon announced her Park MGM residency, “Metamorphosis,” in February, set to take place the same year her album “Rhythm Nation 1814” celebrates its 30th anniversary. Opening night […]

A 16-year-old boy from Guatemala apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border died on Monday after a week in Border Patrol custody ― the fifth death of a migrant child since December. Border Patrol agents apprehended the youth, whose identity wasn’t revealed by authorities, on May 13 near Hidalgo, Texas, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Agents held […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge in Washington ruled Monday against President Donald Trump in a financial records dispute with Congress. Click Here: Arsenal FC Jerseys U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta, who was appointed by President Barack Obama, said Trump cannot block a House subpoena of financial records. He said the Democratic-led House committee seeking […]

Republican Sen. Jerry Moran of Kansas raised dire concerns over the Trump administration’s intensifying tariff war with China, warning Department of Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue on Monday that the impact on American farmers could prove devastating. In a letter to Perdue, the lawmaker contended that the back-and-forth levying of tariffs threatens “to cause long term […]

Scientists are trying to figure out what’s behind a surge in dead and dying gray whales washing up on the West Coast this year as they migrate north from Mexico to Alaska. At least 58 gray whales have been found stranded along the coast from California to Alaska as of Thursday, CNN reports. That’s the […]

For most people, filing taxes is supposed to be free and easy. Instead, the vast majority of Americans pay a fee to a private tax preparer each year. We owe this annual ripoff to one of the most celebrated and misunderstood practices in American politics: bipartisanship. Despite all the talk about widening political divides, Congress […]

Click:block manufacturing machine Servicemen on the second submarine in the U.S. Navy to integrate female officers and sailors with its male crew kept ranked “rape lists” of the women, triggering fears for their safety, a military investigation found. The lists were shared on the USS Florida, a guided-missile submarine, where investigators found that “lewd and sexist […]