Month: February 2020

CHICAGO (AP) — A federal judge has refused to dismiss Chicago’s lawsuit against former Empire actor Jussie Smollett. U.S. District Judge Virginia Kendall on Tuesday allowed the lawsuit to proceed. It seeks to recoup the $130,000 that the city says the police department spent to investigate Smollett’s claim that he was the victim of a racist and homophobic attack in January. Kendall rejected the argument made by the former Empire actor’s attorneys that the lawsuit…

Continue reading

A statue holding the symbol of the Euro, the European common currency, stands in front of the European Parliament | Mark Renders/Getty Images Italy and Austria: Two votes, but only one excites Brussels ‘Populism is not a fatality:’ Commissioner Pierre Moscovici By David M. Herszenhorn 12/5/16, 5:45 PM CET Updated 12/8/16, 12:04 PM CET Italy voted. Brussels yawned. And the financial markets shrugged. A day after Italian voters decisively rejected a package of Constitutional reforms,…

Continue reading

The carefully calibrated “grand coalition” of Europe’s dominant political parties, which EU leaders have relied on to sustain their agenda and to manage a series of crises since 2014, this week imploded amid the collapse of a power-sharing deal in the European Parliament and the start of a bruising fight over the Parliament presidency. The rupture cast a shadow of uncertainty over Brussels, raising the prospect of weeks of distraction and legislative paralysis, and leaving…

Continue reading

HBO’s Westworld star Evan Rachel Wood shared several photos to social media that she says are a result of an abusive relationship, including images of “self-harm.” The True Blood actress Tweeted out images from a photo shoot from several years ago that she says were taken when she was suffering domestic violence in an abusive relationship. “The day of this photoshoot, I was so weakened by an abusive relationship. I was emaciated, severely depressed, and…

Continue reading

European Commission Vice President Frans Timmermans speaks in Brussels | Emmanuel Dunand/AFP via Getty Images Romanian graft move could affect EU funds, Timmermans warns Commission vice president clashes with MEPs from Romania’s ruling coalition. By Anca Gurzu and Carmen Paun 2/2/17, 3:11 PM CET Updated 2/2/17, 3:17 PM CET European Commission First Vice President Frans Timmermans warned Romania Thursday that controversial plans to decriminalize some corruption cases could affect EU spending in the country. On…

Continue reading

Burberry has launched a new augmented reality (AR) shopping tool through Google Search that allows users to get a better idea of what an item looks like before purchasing it. When searching for the Burberry Black TB bag or Arthur Check Sneaker through Google Search on a smartphone, shoppers will be able to see a digital image of the product at scale against other real-life objects. The tool is currently available in the UK and…

Continue reading

Click:EGP nicotine pouches Actress Gabby Sidibe has deleted a tweet backing her disgraced Empire co-star Jussie Smollett, as further details emerge over how and why he allegedly orchestrated a fake hate crime incident against himself. Smollett surrendered himself to police on Thursday morning to face charges of filing a false police report, after police determined he had faked a racist and homophobic hate crime against himself in downtown Chicago last month. However, Sidibe backed Smollett’s initial version of…

Continue reading

The Uruguay international tops an illustrious list including some of the most famous strikers in the world today Edinson Cavani has become the first Paris Saint-Germain player to score 200 goals for the club. The 33-year-old Uruguay international drew the Ligue 1 champions level against Bordeaux with a bullet header from eight yards out to reach his double century. Click Here: cheap sydney roosters jersey The landmark goal came in his 298th game for the…

Continue reading

Click:defoamer for coatings Jean-Claude Juncker has had enough of EU states scapegoating Brussels for their failures. Over his first two years as president of the European Commission, he has been repeatedly undermined by countries passing the buck to Brussels on toxic decisions about controversial topics like genetically modified food and pesticides. In response, Juncker is preparing to hit back. Next week, he is expected to launch an overhaul of the EU’s obscure and dysfunctional decision-making…

Continue reading

Stephen Colbert, dans The Colbert Report diffusé sur Comedy Central, devait recevoir mardi les Daft Punk sur son plateau, mais les Frenchies lui ont posé un lapin. Pas de problème pour l’animateur américain qui a plus d’un contact dans son carnet d’adresses. Matt Damon, Hugh Laurie, Jeff Bridges, Bryan Cranston, ou encore les jurés d’America’s Got Talent lui ont prêté main forte pour réaliser une parodie du tube estival Get Lucky. LOL. On n’a pas…

Continue reading