NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Authorities say comedian Artie Lange has been arrested on a charge of having failed to comply with his drug court program. The Essex County sheriff says Lange was arrested Tuesday morning at a halfway house on an unspecified violation. Sheriff Armando Fontoura told NJ.com that Lange would remain at the county […]
Click:5 axis cnc machining A majority of Europeans believe the EU is heading in the wrong direction, but Brussels hopes to convert that dissatisfaction into democratic zeal rather than more political apathy. With a year to go until EU citizens go to the polls, those at the heart of European democracy aspire to a truly Continent-wide […]
Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza dismissed Angelina Jolie’s meeting with Venezuelan refugees this weekend as an orchestrated “show” and accused the United Nations Human Rights Commission on Refugees (UNHCR) of inflating the number of people who have fled the country. Over the weekend, Jolie, who works as a UNHCR envoy, visited Venezuelan refugees in the […]
Social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter and Google must do more to stop Russian trolls from disrupting next May’s European election, according to the European Commission. “We need to see an improvement in how we detect and call out disinformation,” Commissioner for Security Julian King told reporters in Brussels on Wednesday. “We need to see […]
Television host and Hollywood actress Busy Philipps revealed Tuesday that she had an abortion at 15 and used the occasion to slam Georgia’s new “Heartbeat” law that bans most abortions once a fetal heartbeat is detected. “Every woman deserves compassion and care, not judgment and interference, when it comes to their own bodies,” said the host of […]
German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz (right) and French Economy, Finance Trade Minister Bruno Le Maire | John Thys/AFP via Getty Images Paris, Berlin to propose new tech tax to save face New proposal effectively kills European Commission’s proposed ‘digital services tax.’ By Bjarke Smith-Meyer 12/4/18, 7:30 AM CET Updated 4/19/19, 1:26 AM CET France and […]
Actor John Leguizamo went on a Trump-bashing Twitter rant over the weekend, claiming that President Donald Trump is “destroying America for Putin.” In a Sunday tweet, the Ice Age actor again claimed that the president is a stooge of Russian strongman, Vladimir Putin. “Trump is trying to divide and destroy America for Putin!” Leguizamo said. […]
The mood in the European Union on military affairs is undergoing a seismic shift. Policymakers across the Continent finally agree that hard power — long viewed as antithetical to the EU’s raison d’être — is now essential to the bloc’s survival. The question is how, or sometimes if, the EU’s militaries should work together. After decades of the […]
Hollywood left-wing activist Cher took to Twitter Thursday to rant about an already debunked claim that Georgia’s “heartbeat” abortion law will send women who have miscarriages to jail. The actress-pop icon linked to a May 10 Business Insider article with the false headline, “Women deemed ‘responsible’ for having miscarriages could spend 30 years in prison under […]
Thousands of anti-government protesters ally against a string of judicial reforms | Janek Skarzynski/AFP via Getty Images Poland suspended from EU judicial organization Warsaw’s changes to the judicial system prompt a reaction from one of the EU’s leading legal bodies. By Jan Cienski 9/17/18, 8:04 PM CET Updated 4/19/19, 1:39 AM CET Poland was suspended […]