One of Chicago’s bloodiest holiday weekends in memory ended with 17 people fatally shot, including a 7-year-old girl and a 14-year-old boy, and 70 more wounded, despite a concerted effort to quell the violence with an additional 1,200 police officers on the streets. The violence was far worse than last year, when the long July […]

President Emmanuel Macron is promising that a new French government expected to be named later Monday will be one of “purpose and unity.” The French leader fired off a series of tweets late Sunday as he gears up with a new government team for the last two years of his five-year term. Macron last week […]

A bus driver in France was declared brain dead Monday after being attacked by several people he refused to let aboard because they were not wearing face masks as required during the coronavirus outbreak. A police source in Bayonne, near the ritzy Atlantic resort of Biarritz in southwestern France, said one person was in custody […]

Ghana’s main presidential challenger, John Mahama, on Monday named Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang as his running mate for December’s election, the first time a major party has chosen a female vice-presidential candidate. Opoku-Agyemang, who served as Mahama’s education minister during his previous presidential term, was unanimously endorsed by the opposition National Democratic Congress. Mahama, who ran […]

Donald Trump’s niece will release her unflattering book on the US president on July 14, her publisher announced Monday, after a judge lifted a temporary ban on publication. Simon & Schuster has brought forward the release of the memoir by two weeks, according to an update on its website. In her 240-page book, Mary Trump […]