Month: December 2019

À 36 ans, et après le décès de sa mère ce dimanche, Raphaël est désormais le seul héritier du patrimoine musicale important de ses parents, l’auteur-compositeur-interprète Michel Berger et la chanteuse France Gall. Comme ses parents, il a choisi la musique. Mais Raphaël Hamburger, fils de Michel Berger et de France Gall, est un homme…

Brigitte Macron est considérée dans le monde entier comme une ambassadrice de la mode française. À chacune de ses sorties, la Première dame porte toujours des pièces très élégantes, souvent prêtées par des marques de luxe comme Louis Vuitton, Balmain, Dior ou Louboutin. Cependant, l’épouse d’Emmanuel Macron n’a pas l’autorisation de conserver certaines pièces, à…

DETROIT – The family of a Detroit teenager who died in a 2017 ATV crash shortly after a state trooper deployed a stun gun on him has settled its wrongful death lawsuit against Michigan State Police for $12 million. The settlement will go to the family of 15-year-old Damon Grimes, who was driving his ATV in August 2017 on…

BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore broke its annual per capita homicide record after reaching 342 killings Friday. With just over 600,000 residents, the city hit a historically high homicide rate of about 57 per 100,000 people after recent relentless gunfire saw eight people shot — three fatally — in one day and nine others — one…

Ammar Awad/Reuters Controversial New York Times op-ed writer Bret Stephens published a new column exploring the assertion that Jewish people, especially Ashkenazi Jews, are more intelligent than other ethnic groups. He used a 2005 paper that measured IQ, the accuracy of which has been scientifically questioned. It was authored by a professor with ties to…

Ekité (Cameroon) (AFP) – It was a “dirty war” waged by French colonial troops but it never made headlines and even today goes untold in school history books. The brutal conflict unfolded in Cameroon, which on January 1 marks its 60th anniversary of independence — the first of 17 African countries that became free from…

Donald Trump has continued to use America’s homelessness crisis to attack his political opponents in California and New York, tweeting on Saturday that homelessness should be “easy” to handle and that the governors of the two liberal states should ask him for help. Workers and activists on the front lines of the crisis have repeatedly…

By Lizbeth Diaz COLONIA LEBARON, Mexico (Reuters) – Surrounded by dozens of his descendants, Adrian LeBaron gave thanks to God as he prepared to celebrate Christmas for the first time since suspected Mexican drug cartel hitmen murdered his daughter and four grandchildren last month. The patriarch of a large family of U.S.-Mexican Mormon origin, LeBaron…

Mexican authorities have arrested a local police chief over suspected links to the killing of three women and six children last month, according to an official. Suspected drug cartel hitmen shot three US mothers, twin babies and four other minors as they travelled along a dirt road in the northern Sonora state on November 4.…

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican authorities have arrested a municipal police chief for his suspected links to the killing of three women and six children of U.S.-Mexican origin in northern Mexico last month, local media and an official said on Friday. Suspected drug cartel hitmen shot dead the nine women and children from families of…