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France was gripped by political turmoil yesterday after Marine Le Pen's hard-Right party won the first round of a snap election.

Fears of French civil war after Marine Le Pen's hard-Right party victory in election called by 'reckless' Macron that saw clashes in streets

The New Republic

France’s New Popular Front Coalition pulled off a stunning parliamentary election victory on Sunday, blocking Marine Le Pen’s far-right ultranationalist party, the National Rally, from overtaking the country’s government. After a strong showing from a coalition made up of the Republican right-wing party and the National Rally in the first round of voting last week, France’s Prime Minister Gabriel Attal called upon candidates from President Emmanuel Macron’s party who were caught in three-way races to begin dropping out—and, quite amazingly, they did. As a result, the New Popular Front, a four-party left-green alliance, came in first with 192 seats. Macron’s...

Watch: French Far Right Has Funniest Response Ever to Election Results

Jordan Bardella, the president of the euroskeptic and anti-immigration National Rally party, could be thrust into one of the top roles in French politics. Opinion polls point to Rassemblement National, or RN, winning the largest share of the vote — but not enough to gain an outright majority. If...

He's only 28 but has revitalized France's far right: Meet the man who could be the country's next prime minister

TheDailyBeast

A left-of-center coalition beat out Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally in France’s second round of parliamentary elections Sunday, shocking politicians and pundits alike. But with no party winning an absolute majority, the country has been plunged into an uncertain state of political gridlock that could stretch on for months.The alliance, the New Popular Front, won at least 181 seats, according to the Associated Press, which cited France’s Interior Ministry. Meanwhile, Macron’s centrist bloc slid into second place with at least 160 seats, while National Rally took a measly 143 seats.Final results were still being tallied on Sunday night, with...

French Prime Minister to Resign After Shocking Defeat for Far Right

WashingtonExaminer

You probably wouldn’t know it from headlines of most media outlets, but the recent victories for leftist parties in France and the United Kingdom were not nearly as sweeping as has been portrayed. Yes, the Labour Party won a landslide victory in the U.K., putting the left-wing party in charge of the government for the […]

The Left’s victories in France and the UK will be short-lived

During an appearance with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Tuesday night, Stormy Daniels detailed the harrowing circumstances she’s facing in the aftermath of Trump’s 34-count felony conviction and her big concerns moving forward, noting that threats against her have gotten “more graphic and detailed and brazen” because “people don’t care” to minimize their rhetoric or hide behind anonymous accounts.“It just poured gasoline on some of the stuff that I had been going through the entire time,” Daniels told Maddow of how Trump’s guilty verdict intensified the harassment she faced throughout Trump’s hush-money trial, including explicit threats to her and her family and...

Stormy Daniels Reveals Her Big Fear After Trump Conviction

Two Italian men were arrested on Friday after they were accused of splitting up—and then raping—two American women, according to local media reports.Police told Corriere Del Mezzogiorno that the two men rode up to the women while on a scooter as the women tried to use a cigarette vending machine in Syracuse, a city in Sicily. As the men pretended to offer their help to the women, both of whom were in the country to study, they conspired to separate the two.Eventually, the two men succeeded, according to police. One woman was allegedly assaulted near a marina, while another was allegedly abducted to a home and raped there. Both women reported their attacks to police on Thursday, and the men were taken into custody on Friday.According to ANSA, the suspects were arrested on charges of aggravated sexual assault.The identities of those involved have not been released, though Rai claims the men are originally from Syracuse.The attack came months after a Canadian woman was raped in Palermo, Sicily’s largest city. U.S. State Department currently has a level two travel advisory for Italy, warning against potential terrorist attacks.  Read more at The Daily Beast.

Two U.S. Women Raped in Shocking Ordeal in Sicily: Reports

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Prince William is very much still next in line for the throne, but that hasn’t stopped him from making plans for when he does inherit the crown. According to Richard Eden, royal expert and reporter for The Daily Mail, he’s planning some &...

Prince William Will Reportedly Remove Princess Charlotte And Prince Louis As Royals: 'Radical Plans To Reshape The Monarchy'

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Yesterday the Supreme Court released its shocking new ruling in the case involving Donald Trump’s demand for absolute immunity from prosecution for insurrection-related crimes. The court gave Trump much of what he wanted, notably ensuring that his trial for the insurrection will be delayed indefinitely. But what’s really worrying is what this ruling could allow Trump to get away with if he wins back the White House. We talked to legal expert Richard Hasen, who just published A Real Right to Vote and regularly writes about Trump’s attacks on democracy, about why the case for alarmism is real and serious. Listen to this episode here.

How the Supreme Court Just Made a Second Trump Term More Terrifying

This was supposed to be a generational election. A once-in-a-lifetime fight. An overturning on the scale of 1979, 1997, or 1945. The seismograph has been hitting the limiter for a year now, tapping out the coming rumble of a landslide. Wipeouts are forecasted; decimations, vanquish, conquest. In power for fourteen years, the Conservatives might be bound for third-party relegation. Keir Starmer has been pre-anointed the next prime minister. A decade of power awaits Labour. But emerging out of these last five weeks in the United Kingdom, we are stuck with a troubling fact: the election campaign did not matter. The vote...

Is the U.K. Heading Toward the Least Consequential Landslide Ever?

The Independent

Violent clashes erupted on the streets of France after a shock win for the country’s left-wing coalition blocked the far-right from taking power in the country’s snap general election.Protesters could be seen launching flares, setting e-bikes on fire and clashing with police as thousands of officers were deployed across France.Follow live election updates hereIt comes after the left-wing New Popular Front won 182 seats, followed by president Emmanuel Macron’s centrist Together alliance on 168 and the far-right National Rally in third with 143 seats - in a bitter blow for Marine Le Pen’s party.National Rally had held a commanding lead...

Violent clashes break out in Paris after shock exit poll results in France’s general election

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The Supreme Court declined Tuesday to take up a challenge to Illinois’s ban on assault weapons, though not every justice on the high court agreed with the decision to do so.In a separate opinion, Justice Clarence Thomas appeared keen to uproot future bans, urging the court to take up another such case on the basis that some semiautomatic guns, such as the AR-15, are among the most popular weapons in the nation, thereby claiming that more guidance is needed to delineate which weapons are “dangerous” and “unusual.” He further called the Seventh Circuit’s decision to uphold the state ban, which...

Clarence Thomas Pushes Dangerous Definition of Assault Weapons

Washington, DC

NBC News’s Vaughn Hillyard and ABC News’s Jonathan Karl recently made a journalistic misstep by interviewing Steve Bannon right before he reported to prison. This move, which might seem innocuous at first glance, actually elevates Bannon’s “political prisoner” narrative, a misleading storyline that does little but bolster the War Room host’s victim complex.By interviewing Bannon just before he heads to prison, both NBC and ABC are essentially giving him a platform to paint himself as a martyr.It allows Bannon to control the narrative. This plays directly into the hands of Bannon and his supporters, who are eager to cast any...

Why Does the Media Insist on Helping Steve Bannon Act the Martyr?

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How the United Kingdom and France elections work and who will win.

Voters are mad as hell in the UK and France

The 2008 election of Barack Obama electrified a generation of Americans, who projected onto him almost limitless meanings. It also spawned a cottage industry of public thinkers whose affiliation with the Obama administration helped launch their careers: the Pod Save America hosts, former foreign policy speechwriter Ben Rhodes, adviser turned political consultant David Plouffe.New Yorker theater and TV critic Vinson Cunningham is no Obamanaut but, in a roundabout way, owes his career as a writer partially to the Obama campaign. As a twentysomething fresh out of college, the quintessential young person energized by the future president, he found himself working...

An Insider’s Portrait of Obama-Era Hope—and Disillusionment

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New York – As Trump anticipates his sentencing on July 11th in the New York hush money case, Florida Judge Aileen Cannon made a ruling this Monday. Despite rejecting Trump’s legal team's request to dismiss several charges in the classified documents case, she conceded on a minor point. She removed a portion of the charges that referenced an uncharged allegation, but upheld the other charges.

Legal expert says Trump should not be jailed after New York guilty verdict because he is ‘too old’

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Why Idaho Ranks in the Top 10 States Americans Are Flocking To in 2024. A lot of Idahoans are saying 'Idaho is FULL! Go find somewhere else to live!'. With that said, MANY people and their families are flocking to this state and calling it home.

Why Is Everyone Relocating To Idaho?

Texas State

Nobody seems to trust Ted Cruz anymore.The Texas senator’s simple hurricane warning message was ill received by state residents late Sunday, apparently reminding the Lone Star citizens of another one of his climate misfires.Cruz reshared an emergency relief video made by local businessman Jim McIngvale, better known as Mattress Mack to Houstonites, offering help should the storm take a turn for the worse. Cruz urged people to stay safe, ahead of Hurricane Beryl’s landfall.“Mack is an American hero,” Cruz wrote on X. “Stay safe & avoid high water as the hurricane makes landfall.”But sending a message of care to Texas...

Ted Cruz’s Hurricane Warning Hilariously Backfires

The Guardian

As voters decide in the second round of elections today, the far right’s shock success last week has left many asking what the future holds for the republic

France no longer resembles a divided but tolerant family. It is catastrophically fractured  | Andrew Hussey

With the champagne on ice, they thought they were on the brink of victory - but it didn't happen.

France's far right 'sad and disappointed' over election result

One month ago, following the far-right National Rally’s stunning victory in the June 7 European Parliament elections, French President Emmanuel Macron dissolved the National Assembly in the hope of “clarifying” the country’s political situation. He wagered that new elections would strengthen his centrist coalition and weaken both the left and the extreme right.The results are now in, and it’s an understatement to say that they come as a surprise. The New Popular Front, or NPF, a hastily assembled coalition of four parties—La France Insoumise, the Socialists, the Communists, and the Greens—stunned all observers by winning the most seats (182). The...

In France, the Right Was Humiliated, but What’s Next Is Far From Clear

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