Author: Mike Nova
French President Emmanuel Macron is looking for a new PM after the far right and left parties united to push through a no-confidence motion against the government. Giorgio Pradelli, CEO of EFG International told Bloomberg’s Chief Africa Correspondent Jennifer Zabasajja on Horizons Middle East and Africa that France is just another factor why they have placed EU in an underweight position. (Source: Bloomberg)
Barnier is likely to stay on as caretaker prime minister while Macron chooses a successor, a process which could take weeks.
Police are searching for a gunman on the loose after shooting and killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in what police described as a bold and deliberate attack in the heart of New York City.
Author of an amicus brief in the Supreme Court case of United States v. Skrmetti describes the reasons to restrict gender affirming case for minors.
The lawyer defending Tennessee’s anti-trans law, and conservatives on the Supreme Court engaged in a “blizzard of wordplay” to pretend that the law pertaining to gender-affirming care is not sex-based discrimination, an extension of the reasoning Supreme Court conservatives used in deciding the Dobbs case about abortion. Mark Joseph Stern, senior writer for Slate Magazine, and Leah Litman, University of Michigan law professor and co-host of the Strict Scrutiny podcast talk with Alex Wagner about how Donald Trump’s Supreme Court is eroding anti-discrimination protections.
The CEO of US-based UnitedHealthcare, Brian Thompson, was gunned down outside a New York hotel on Wednesday.
Investigators are searching for clues that could help them identify the masked gunman who stalked and killed the leader of one of the largest U.S. health insurance companies on a Manhattan sidewalk, then disappeared into Central Park. UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, 50, died in a dawn ambush Wednesday as he walked to the company’s annual investor conference at a Hilton in Midtown, blocks from tourist draws like Radio City Music Hall and the Museum of Modern Art. The killing, and the shooter’s movements in the minutes before and afterward, were captured on some of the multitudes of security cameras present in that part of the city.