Month: February 2020

Chicago PD Commander Ed Wodnicki on Tuesday called the decision to dismissed charges against Empire actor Jussie Smollett a “punch in the gut” and said law enforcement was prepared to bring a “rock solid case” against the Fox star. Prosecutors on Tuesday abruptly dropped all charges against Smollett, defense attorneys said, apparently abandoning the case barely five weeks after the Empire actor was accused of lying to police about being the target of a racist, anti-gay…

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Polish President Andrzej Duda | Sean Gallup/Getty Images Brussels to trigger ‘nuclear option’ against Poland Measure to come after repeated warnings on changes to legal system. By Maïa de La Baume and David M. Herszenhorn 12/19/17, 6:55 PM CET Updated 12/20/17, 12:32 PM CET The European Commission will on Wednesday take the unprecedented step of triggering Article 7 — the so-called nuclear option — against Poland, following countless warnings, requests for dialogue and demands for clarifications…

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Actor and National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Image Awards host Anthony Anderson said he is happy that the “system worked” for Empire star Jussie Smollett, after prosecutors in Chicago abruptly dropped all charges against him over hoax hate crime against himself. On Tuesday, the Cook County State Attorney’s Office dropped all charges against the 36-year-old, who was facing 16 separate felony counts related to filing a false report that he was assaulted by two men who shouted…

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The EU's chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier | Emmanuel Dunand/AFP via Getty Images Barnier warns UK objections put Brexit transition period at risk ‘It’s not a given,’ says chief EU negotiator. By David M. Herszenhorn and Maïa de La Baume 2/9/18, 4:21 PM CET Updated 2/12/18, 10:13 AM CET The EU’s chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, bluntly warned the U.K. that it may not get a Brexit transition period if London continues to dispute the…

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The France forward has now scored in successive games following a nine-game goal drought as he bagged the winner in Athens Cometh the hour, cometh the man. It had all been going so wrong for Alexandre Lacazette until Bukayo Saka picked him out with a perfect cross in from the left with just eight minutes remaining of Arsenal’s Europa League last-32 first leg against Olympiacos. But as he prodded the ball home from close range to…

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Disney announced Friday that it has reinstated disgraced A-list Hollywood writer-director James Gunn to direct the third installment of the wildly popular Marvel superhero franchise film Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 3. Disney fired Gunn over social media posts he made about committing child rape and jokes about the Holocaust, Mexicans, and AIDS. According to Deadline Hollywood’s Mike Fleming Jr’s report: Long before he routinely attacked President Trump — in June 2018 Gunn said President Trump “wakes…

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Brussels wanted to keep the race for Brexit’s biggest spoils from turning into a feeding-frenzy for self-interested member countries. It failed. The race to host the European Medicines Agency and the European Banking Authority has turned — as with so many such high-profile decisions in the EU — into a political bazaar, where favors, money and jobs are traded. Diplomats don’t want to spoil their sweetheart deals by being too explicit, but proffered gifts range from NATO…

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Click:electric insulation coatingPuisque le retour de Friends semble avoir du mal à se concrétiser au cinéma ou à la télévision, Jennifer Aniston a eu l’idée d’adapter la série en comédie musicale pour Broadway. Elle verrait bien Lea Michele reprendre son rôle de Rachel. Souvent annoncé, toujours démenti, le retour de Friends n’est pas d’actualité. Quoi que. Si les acteurs de la série culte ne semblent pas prêts pour reprendre les rôles qui les ont rendu…

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Le 30 avril sortira The Amazing Spider-Man : le destin d’un Héros. Deuxième volet de la nouvelle trilogie avec Andrew Garfield et Emma Stone, il s’annonce comme l’un des blockbusters du printemps. Sa chanson phare, It’s On Again, vient d’être dévoilée – avec derrière le micro Alicia Keys et Kendrick Lamar, et aux manettes Pharrell Williams et Hans Zimmer. « Je suis un guerrier de la liberté. Il n’y a pas de repos pour les…

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Jérôme Cahuzac est plutôt discret depuis le 2 avril 2013, date de sa mise en examen pour « blanchiment de fraude fiscale ». Il s’est pourtant confié à Vanity Fair ce mois-ci, pour s’expliquer et dévoiler la genèse du compte illégal qui l’a éjecté du gouvernement. « Le prix de la vérité était trop lourd. » Sorti de sa spirale de mensonges, Jérôme Cahuzac revient, un an après, dans les colonnes de Vanity Fair, sur…

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