France's left-wing parties fought bitterly on Tuesday (July 16) over who to put forward as prime minister, leading Communist party leader Fabien Roussel to warn they were risking a "shipwreck" despite their election success.

French left fights over PM role

French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal was on Tuesday (July 16) poised to resign but lead a caretaker government with restricted powers until after the Paris Olympics amid parliamentary deadlock in France. FRANCE 24's Emerald Maxwell tells us more.

French PM Attal poised to assume caretaker role amid parliamentary deadlock

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Rights groups have accused France of 'discriminatory hypocrisy' for its refusal to allow its athletes to wear the hijab during their participation at the Paris Olympics.

France faces a backlash over hijab ban for athletes at the Olympics Games in Paris, with campaigners branding the move 'racist, gender discrimination'

As Attal and other ministers eye a future outside government, deep cracks have appeared between the 35-year-old premier and his former mentor Macron. Macron did not get any mention in Attal's message to Renaissance deputies outlining his leadership bid, with observers saying that the prime minister blames the president for calling the vote, which he said took the party to the brink of "extinction". With election runoff leaving the National Assembly without any overall majority, but a broad alliance – called New Popular Front (NFP), FRANCE 24 is joined by Dr Joseph Downing, Senior Lecturer in International Relations and Politics at Aston University and LSE Fellow in nationalism where he teaches courses on global security, migration policy, minority rights and qualitative research methods.

'Uncertainty not good: France likely to see continuation of uncertainty in lead-up to 2027 election

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Shortly before 3 AM, people in the Chicago area may have felt their houses shake as a 3.4-magnitude earthquake occurred about 60 miles west of the city. (CHICAGO) The United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported a 3.4-magnitude earthquake around Somonauk, IL. Somonauk is in DeKalb and LaSalle Counties, 64 miles west of Chicago.

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Cheryl E Preston

Yesterday was the third time this year that an ad stating Chelsea Clinton lives in a beautiful Virginia home popped up on my laptop. My computer did not warn me this was a dangerous site, so this time, I clicked on the link.

Chelsea Clinton is rumored to be living in Virginia but probably still in NYC

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

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The FBI has seen a rise in scams targeting timeshare owners. In this kind of scam, criminals con these part-time property owners into shelling out hefty sums of cash, all under false pretenses related to their timeshare properties.

FBI warns that Mexican cartels are targeting Americans with timeshare scams

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Bucks County Beacon

With an assassination attempt on Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania on July 13, 2024, the U.S. experienced another violent episode in its increasingly polarized politics. Former President Trump, who’s about to formally become the GOP nominee for president in the 2024 election, survived the attempted assassination when, initial reports said, a bullet grazed his ear . But one rally attendee was killed , more spectators were injured and the suspected gunman is also dead. The Conversation’s politics editor, Naomi Schalit, spoke with University of Massachusetts, Lowell, scholar Arie Perliger after the event. Perliger offered insight from his study of political violence and assassinations. Given the stark political polarization in the U.S., Perliger said, “it’s not a surprise that eventually people engage in violence.”

‘One Inch from a Potential Civil War’? Trump Shooting a Close Call for American Democracy

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CJ Coombs

Bringing them home: for 40 years, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) has been helping to locate missing children. Since July 1, 2024, according to the NCMEC, 15 children have been reported missing in the U.S. Not included in that number are those who have been missing in Missouri since June 2024.

Seven teenagers have been missing in Missouri since June 2024

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Croatia ranked ahead of all of the European Union’s 27 member states, as well as Switzerland and Albania.

This Country Has the Cleanest Swimming Water in Europe — and 1,700 Miles of Coastline

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Chinese automakers seek retaliatory tariffs on EU cars, state media reports

Trump had been wounded by a gunman at a campaign rally in Philadelphia. But Fredericks, who spent a week preparing for the convention, remained confident that Trump would still come to Milwaukee, despite having come so close to death. "He isn't going to hover in a corner," Fredericks said, who...

Shock in Milwaukee after Trump shooting

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CALIFORNIA – Starting July 1, landlords will only be allowed to collect one month’s rent for the security deposit on a rental property. Assembly Bill 12, signed into law last October, says regardless of whether the residential property is unfurnished or furnished, only one month’s rent can be charged in addition to any rent for the first month paid on or before initial occupancy.

Law limiting security deposits goes into effect July 1

Continuing their investigation into Sunday's assassination attempt on former president Donald Trump, authorities search for answers as to why Thomas Crooks, 20, the main suspect, carried out the attack.

No motive for Trump assassination identified

Former US president Donald Trump's reaction to an apparent assassination attempt at a campaign rally Saturday could have huge sway over the narrative surrounding the incident, Former pentagon advisor Jasmine El-Gamal told FRANCE 24. "It could go two different ways, one could hope that his address at the RNC – Republican National Convention – that Donald Trump would say 'look, I am also guilty of this, we have been using divisive, political rhetoric for way too long, it's brought us to a really dark place, we have four more months and we cannot continue like this' and to pledge to do better," El-Gamal said.

Trump rally shooting aftermath: ‘It could go two different ways’

TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan government said on Friday it "deeply regrets" China's move to impose the death penalty in extreme cases for what it called "diehard" Taiwan independence separatists.

Taiwan says it deeply regrets China's guidelines against 'separatists'

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A recent study suggests that the transition from hunter-gatherer to farming societies in late Stone Age Europe was not as peaceful as previously thought. Researchers found that farming populations in southern Scandinavia replaced nomadic groups in a violent takeover, wiping out their predecessors' DNA traces.

Violent Takeover Replaced Hunter-Gatherers with Farmers in Stone Age Europe

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In Virginia, Drinking in public or offering another person alcohol in a public space is prohibited. This is a class 4 Misdemeanor punishable by a fine of up to $250.00. Under a new law that goes into effect on July 1, this will change to a degree.WDBJ7 reports that the prohibition on drinking or offering an alcoholic beverage to someone else in public will no longer apply under the following conditions.

Drinking in public will no longer be prohibited on private Campgrounds in Virginia beginning July 1

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So, Ford's CEO Jim Farley dropped some pretty big news recently, and it might just shake up how we think about electric vehicles (EVs). Speaking at the Aspen Ideas Festival, Farley laid out what he sees as a necessary shift in the automotive industry—especially for those of us accustomed to big, powerful vehicles.

Ford CEO Jim Farley Warns of ‘Radical Change’ and Says EV Batteries Will ‘Never Be Affordable’

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French left suggests former communist MP Huguette Bello for premiership

Following France's election runoff Sunday which left the lower house of parliament without any overall majority, but a broad alliance – the...

French left suggests former communist MP Huguette Bello for premiership

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