PARIS (Reuters) – French retailers have lost around 1 billion euros ($1.1 billion) in revenue since the start of the “yellow vest” protests in the country last month, the French retail federation (FCD) told Reuters on Friday. The federation, which regroups large supermarket groups like Carrefour or Casino, has warned that the protests that started on Nov. 17 could spoil […]

For Jane MacNeil, there’s a lot to admire in worms. “They’re gender neutral, they have five to eight hearts to love you with, they’re all gay by extension of not having gender and they’re just nice to hold on your hand.” MacNeil began coming out when they were a Grade 5 and 6 student at St. Jean Brebeuf, a Catholic […]

Donald Trump Jr. took a jab at Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in an Instagram post that suggested the Democratic socialist ideology she supports would lead to Americans eating dogs. https://www.instagram.com/p/BrELOVXlhGs/ The meme, posted Thursday night for his 1.5 million followers, shows two photos stitched together — one of Ocasio-Cortez and one of his commander-in-chief father. Under the photo of Ocasio-Cortez, text […]

Trump tells lawmakers to FORCE Comey to answer their questions ‘under oath’ after Republicans complain that a DOJ lawyer kept the former FBI director from talking House Republicans called back former FBI Director James Comey as one of their last acts before handing over reins of power to Democrats Comey filed a court motion seeking to have the hearing made […]

Paul Manafort LIED to Robert Mueller about talking to top Trump officials THIS YEAR and covered up links to Russian ‘spy’, special counsel says in highly-redacted memo Special counsel Robert Mueller reveals memo spelling out what sentence he wants for ex-Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort  It blasts him for ‘lies’ about administration contacts that continued until 2018 Says he told […]

The trial of a Halifax Regional Police officer accused of voyeurism is set to wrap up as legal teams present their closing arguments in Halifax Provincial court on Friday. Cst. George Farmer faces charges of voyeurism, trespassing by night and breach of trust in connection with incidents at the Esquire Motel along the Bedford Highway between Nov. 23 and Dec. 3 2017. […]

The 2018 United States elections, so-called midterms, launched Texas Democrat Beto O’Rourke into the stratosphere. As previously reported by the Inquisitr, O’Rourke managed to break all fundraising records, prompting even individuals like Michael Avenatti to get on the hype train. Dubbed “Betomania,” the phenomenon has not resulted in O’Rourke’s victory, as the Democrat lost to Ted Cruz. Nonetheless, the enthusiasm […]

BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday told North Korea’s foreign minister that he hoped North Korea and the United States could meet each other halfway and address each other’s reasonable concerns, China’s foreign ministry said. China is the North’s most important economic and diplomatic backer, despite anger over its neighbor’s nuclear and missile programs. Ties have warmed […]

TERVUREN, Belgium (Reuters) – Belgium’s Africa Museum will reopen to the public on Sunday after five years of renovations designed to modernize the museum from an exhibition of pro-colonial propaganda to one that is critical of Belgium’s imperialist past. The museum, full of artefacts and stuffed wildlife, was often criticized for ignoring the brutalities of King Leopold II’s fiefdom, whose […]

Manhattan federal prosecutors on Friday said that President Trump’s longtime lawyer and fixer committed campaign finance crimes “in coordination with and at the direction of Individual 1” — a reference to President Trump. It was the first time the feds directly linked Trump to hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels and Playboy model Karen McDougle, a fact noted […]