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The cost of France’s protests is running into the billions
PARIS — France’s wave of protests and violence over the past month or so has already cost the eurozone’s second-largest economy a fortune. Road blockades, demonstrations and successive weekends of rioting in Paris and other towns have left supermarket shelves empty, stopped shoppers from buying Christmas gifts and scared away tourists. The government stands to...
Tue, 11 Dec 2018 16:27:31 -0500
PARIS — France’s wave of protests and violence over the past month or so has already cost the eurozone’s second-largest economy a fortune. Road blockades, demonstrations and successive weekends of rioting in Paris and other towns have left supermarket shelves empty, stopped shoppers from buying Christmas gifts and scared away tourists. The government stands to...
Tue, 11 Dec 2018 16:27:31 -0500
Ex-USC gynecologist had nude photos of patients in exam rooms
Los Angeles police found pictures of nude women, some taken in medical exam rooms, inside a storage unit owned by the disgraced University of Southern California gynecologist accused of sexually abusing over 200 patients. Detectives found a trove of homemade pornography and the smaller set of photos of unclothed women in exam rooms when they...
Tue, 11 Dec 2018 15:59:35 -0500
Los Angeles police found pictures of nude women, some taken in medical exam rooms, inside a storage unit owned by the disgraced University of Southern California gynecologist accused of sexually abusing over 200 patients. Detectives found a trove of homemade pornography and the smaller set of photos of unclothed women in exam rooms when they...
Tue, 11 Dec 2018 15:59:35 -0500
Nuns stole $500K from Catholic school to gamble in Vegas: officials
Now that’s a bad habit! Two nuns who formerly worked at St. James Catholic School in Torrance, California, confessed to embezzling at least $500,000 from the school so that they could gamble it away at Las Vegas casinos, the Archdiocese of Los Angeles said at a meeting with parents and alumni on Monday. Sister Mary...
Tue, 11 Dec 2018 15:58:59 -0500
Now that’s a bad habit! Two nuns who formerly worked at St. James Catholic School in Torrance, California, confessed to embezzling at least $500,000 from the school so that they could gamble it away at Las Vegas casinos, the Archdiocese of Los Angeles said at a meeting with parents and alumni on Monday. Sister Mary...
Tue, 11 Dec 2018 15:58:59 -0500
1 killed in shooting at Christmas market in France
One person is dead and 10 more have been injured after someone opened fire near a French Christmas market. The fatal gunplay came just after 7 p.m. Tuesday at Strasbourg’s largest square, the Place Kleber, according to Sky News. The French Interior Ministry tweeted it was a “serious security event” and advised locals to stay...
Tue, 11 Dec 2018 15:37:13 -0500
One person is dead and 10 more have been injured after someone opened fire near a French Christmas market. The fatal gunplay came just after 7 p.m. Tuesday at Strasbourg’s largest square, the Place Kleber, according to Sky News. The French Interior Ministry tweeted it was a “serious security event” and advised locals to stay...
Tue, 11 Dec 2018 15:37:13 -0500
CVS employees fired for fighting off pharmacy robber
A CVS employee from Indiana says both he and a pharmacist were fired after fighting off a man threatening to steal oxycodone. CVS axed Zac Phillips, from Greenfield, days after he and the pharmacist, who is not being publicly identified, tackled suspect Jagger Maupin, 22, to the floor on Nov. 8. Phillips worked at CVS...
Tue, 11 Dec 2018 15:13:48 -0500
A CVS employee from Indiana says both he and a pharmacist were fired after fighting off a man threatening to steal oxycodone. CVS axed Zac Phillips, from Greenfield, days after he and the pharmacist, who is not being publicly identified, tackled suspect Jagger Maupin, 22, to the floor on Nov. 8. Phillips worked at CVS...
Tue, 11 Dec 2018 15:13:48 -0500
Child killer might be ‘hiding in plain sight’ 45 years after prison escape: feds
A convicted child killer simply walked away from prison officials in Ohio more than 45 years ago — and the US Marshals Service believes he’s “hiding in plain sight” in Michigan or California. Authorities believe Lester Eubanks is now 75 years old and may be living under an alias of Victor Young after walking away...
Tue, 11 Dec 2018 14:11:54 -0500
A convicted child killer simply walked away from prison officials in Ohio more than 45 years ago — and the US Marshals Service believes he’s “hiding in plain sight” in Michigan or California. Authorities believe Lester Eubanks is now 75 years old and may be living under an alias of Victor Young after walking away...
Tue, 11 Dec 2018 14:11:54 -0500
Team Trump scheming to escalate trade war with China
The Trump administration plans to escalate the US trade war with China for swiping American trade secrets and technology and hacking into government and corporate computers, a report said Tuesday. Multiple government agencies were expected to act against the country with the world’s second-largest economy, and pointed to a campaign of economic espionage and the...
Tue, 11 Dec 2018 14:06:24 -0500
The Trump administration plans to escalate the US trade war with China for swiping American trade secrets and technology and hacking into government and corporate computers, a report said Tuesday. Multiple government agencies were expected to act against the country with the world’s second-largest economy, and pointed to a campaign of economic espionage and the...
Tue, 11 Dec 2018 14:06:24 -0500
Putin: No one knows of alleged Russian spy Maria Butina
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday claimed none of his intelligence chiefs knows “anything about” alleged Russian spy Maria Butina. The 30-year-old grad student is expected to plead guilty Wednesday to conspiracy for working with a GOP operative and a Russian official to establish unofficial lines of communication between US politicians and the Kremlin, CNN...
Tue, 11 Dec 2018 13:22:24 -0500
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday claimed none of his intelligence chiefs knows “anything about” alleged Russian spy Maria Butina. The 30-year-old grad student is expected to plead guilty Wednesday to conspiracy for working with a GOP operative and a Russian official to establish unofficial lines of communication between US politicians and the Kremlin, CNN...
Tue, 11 Dec 2018 13:22:24 -0500
Trump says he’ll pick new chief of staff within weeks
President Trump said Tuesday he would select a new chief of staff within a couple of weeks. “A lot of friends of mine want it and a lot of people that Chuck and Nancy know want it,” Trump said during a White House meeting with the Democratic leaders of the Senate and House, Chuck Schumer...
Tue, 11 Dec 2018 13:17:19 -0500
President Trump said Tuesday he would select a new chief of staff within a couple of weeks. “A lot of friends of mine want it and a lot of people that Chuck and Nancy know want it,” Trump said during a White House meeting with the Democratic leaders of the Senate and House, Chuck Schumer...
Tue, 11 Dec 2018 13:17:19 -0500
Uber driver robbed a customer with the help of a translator app: cops
An Uber driver in St. Louis used a translator app to demand money from a customer who had earlier left his phone in the man’s minivan, police said. A 28-year-old victim told police he set up a meeting with the Uber driver early Sunday after leaving his phone inside the man’s black 2004 Honda Odyssey....
Tue, 11 Dec 2018 13:00:25 -0500
An Uber driver in St. Louis used a translator app to demand money from a customer who had earlier left his phone in the man’s minivan, police said. A 28-year-old victim told police he set up a meeting with the Uber driver early Sunday after leaving his phone inside the man’s black 2004 Honda Odyssey....
Tue, 11 Dec 2018 13:00:25 -0500
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