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Paris Following a no-confidence vote that brought down his government, Prime Minister Michel Barnier submitted his resignation on Thursday, casting a shadow over the festivities as French President Emmanuel Macron got ready for a weekend of celebrations focused on the reopening of the Notre Dame Cathedral. In France, the EU's second-largest economy, Barnier's weak parliamentary alliance was the first to collapse in almost 60 years. Barnier was the French prime minister with the shortest tenure, having been appointed to the position by Macron only three months before to the vote against him. Until Macron names a new prime minister, Barnier will continue to serve in a caretaker capacity. With the most recent incident throwing the country into even greater political turmoil, Macron was sche...

WASHINGTON — On Thursday, members of the House are scheduled to vote on whether to require the Ethics Committee to make public the findings of a thorough, multi-year investigation into former Representative Matt Gaetz, R-Fla. The bipartisan Ethics panel will meet in private for a second time this afternoon to decide whether to release the findings on Gaetz's alleged sexual misbehavior with a 17-year-old girl, illegal drug usage, obstruction of the House investigation, and other charges. Some Senate Republicans privately stated that they would not vote to approve Gaetz as President-elect Donald Trump's attorney general because he refuted the accusations. On November 13, the day Gaetz resigned from Congress, Trump named Gaetz as his choice for attorney general. The 10-member panel was unable...

Although nothing has been verified as of yet, Hannah Kobayashi's family stated that they are looking into if she was a part of a potential green card marriage fraud. The 30-year-old Hawaiian woman who was the focus of a Los Angeles missing person search was reclassified as a voluntary missing person on Monday after police revealed that she had voluntarily crossed into Mexico. She might have been a part of a green card marriage as part of an immigration fraud for money before she vanished, according to an article by Los Angeles Magazine that was published on Wednesday and cited sources. According to the article, Kobayashi may have been defrauded of the money from the alleged scheme in which she married an Argentinean man. According to the source, Kobayashi's mother uncovered the potential s...

As the deep discounter attempts to stave off more intense competition from Walmart, Dollar General is attempting same-day delivery to consumers' homes. Todd Vasos, the CEO of Dollar General, stated during a Thursday earnings call that the delivery service was soft launched in September. According to him, it now provides same-day delivery at roughly 75 locations. He did not identify the third-party company that offers it. Vasos remarked, "We've always stated here that we'll deliver our way when the time comes." We think the time has come. According to him, the business anticipates eventually bringing the product to thousands of outlets. The Tennessee-based dollar store is recognizing the pressure from other stores like Walmart, Amazon, and Temu that provide low costs and convenience by off...

Worshippers likely considered communicating with Jesus as an expression of faith rather than an actual dialogue when they first prayed at St. Peter's Chapel 300 years ago. Three centuries later, worshippers can now communicate with a computer-generated avatar of the Son of God in Lucerne, Switzerland's oldest church. A group from the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts' Immersive Realities Research Lab, along with chapel theologian Marco Schmid, created Deus in Machina. "A lot of people came to talk to me," Schmid said, adding that the machine had recorded some 900 interactions with people of all ages. According to Schmid, the people's genuine and serious conversations with him were what was most fascinating to observe. The machine, which was created using artificial intelligen...

Because of a fuel leak, Honda is recalling over 205,000 SUVs, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said. In a recall notice issued on Thursday, the NHTSA stated that in certain vehicles, the fuel filler pipe and neck tube may separate, causing fuel to leak. "A fuel leak in the presence of an ignition source increases the risk of a fire," the alert stated. According to the NHTSA, this recall is limited to select 2023 and 2024 Passport and 2023 to 2025 Pilot vehicles, potentially impacting 205,760 of them overall. If required, dealers will examine and fix the impacted vehicles' gasoline filler necks and pipes at no additional cost. In addition to contacting Honda customer care at 1-888-234-2138 and the NHTSA Vehicle Safety Hotline at 1-888-327-4236, owners should anticipate rec...

Waymo is aiming for the Sunshine State as its next destination. The startup, which is owned by Alphabet, declared on Thursday that it will begin operations in Miami. Before allowing users to use its robotaxi service via the Waymo One app in 2026, Waymo stated that it will start roaming the Florida city with human safety drivers in 2025. Waymo's decision to expand into Miami reflects its increasing confidence in its ability to operate its self-driving cars in more severe weather conditions in major American cities. In 2019, Waymo conducted its first test in Miami, which the company said enhanced its self-driving cars' capacity to maneuver in rainy and damp circumstances. According to a company spokeswoman, we gained a deeper comprehension of how the Waymo Driver performs in inclement weathe...

London With world-ending weapons once again proliferating worldwide and international accords to regulate them disintegrating, the top of the British armed services has warned that the world is approaching a third nuclear age. The head of the UK's military staff, Adm. Tony Radakin, accused Russia on Wednesday of threatening NATO nations with tactical nuclear weapons and staging mock assaults. The West and the United States have been frequently threatened with nuclear vengeance by Russian President Vladimir Putin for their support of Ukraine, where his soldiers have been engaged in combat since their invasion over three years ago. However, Radakin's warnings at a talk at the Royal United Services Institute think tank in London were not solely motivated by Kremlin saber-rattling. In additi...