Month: January 2020

C’était la rentrée pour le prince George ce jeudi 7 septembre, qui a fait son premier jour à l’école Thomas’s Battersea. A en croire le principal de l’établissement, le fils de William d’Angleterre et Kate Middleton y suivra une scolarité normale et n’aura droit à aucun traitement de faveur. Le prince George a fait sa…

Rudy Giuliani says he’s willing to testify, give ‘demonstrations’ at Trump impeachment trial originally appeared on abcnews.go.com Rudy Giuliani, President Trump’s private attorney and a key figure in his impeachment, said he is prepared to do more than just testify at the Senate trial when that comes to pass — saying he would turn the…

Former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe faced scorching criticism and potential criminal prosecution for changing his story about a conversation he had with a Wall Street Journal reporter. Now newly released interview transcripts show McCabe expressed remorse to internal FBI investigators when they pressed him on the about-face.  The FBI released the documents in response…

PALM BEACH, Fla. — President Donald Trump said Tuesday night that his administration would “very shortly” announce a plan to address underage vaping and indicated it would involve pulling “certain flavors” off the market for a period of time. Speaking to reporters at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida before hosting a New Year Eve’s celebration, the…

President Trump suggested that some e-cigarette flavors could be taken off the market in order to combat underage vaping. While vague about details, Trump said  Tuesday the federal government will offer a new strategy to tackle the issue soon. “We’re going to protect our families, we’re going to protect our children, and we’re going to protect…

Associated Press The Food and Drug Administration will implement a ban on all flavored e-cigarette pods except tobacco and menthol varieties as part of an attempt to curb youth vaping, Trump Administration officials told multiple news outlets on December 31, 2019. The ban would exclude open-tank vaping devices, a compromise made for small businesses. According…

A company that spurned talent it badly needed couldn’t thrive. The same is true for a country. But that isn’t stopping the Trump administration from blithely driving foreign students into the open arms of other countries with its ill-advised immigration policies. For three years in a row, the number of new foreign students enrolling in…

Tokyo (AFP) – Officials on Thursday raided the Tokyo residence of former Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn who fled to Lebanon to avoid a Japanese trial, while Turkey detained several people as part of a widening probe into the security lapse. Ghosn, who faced multiple charges of financial misconduct that he denies, won bail in April…

By Samia Nakhoul and Laila Bassam BEIRUT (Reuters) – Fugitive former Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn met Lebanon’s president after fleeing from Japan, where he was smuggled out of house arrest by a private security company, two sources close to Ghosn said on Wednesday. One of the sources said Ghosn was greeted warmly by President Michel…

By Linda Sieg TOKYO (Reuters) – Carlos Ghosn’s daring flight from Japan, where he was awaiting trial on charges of financial wrongdoing, has revived global criticism of the nation’s “hostage justice,” but in Japan is prompting talk of reversing more lenient curbs on defendants. The ousted boss of Japan’s Nissan Motor Co and France’s Renault…