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Notre Dame cathedral has caught fire, according to the Parisian fire service and eyewitnesses. Footage posted online shows a large fire engulfing the upper part of the cathedral, with the flames licking around its two bell towers. A major operation was under way, the fire department added, while a city hall spokesman said on Twitter that the area was being cleared. Officials in Paris said the fire could be linked to renovation works being carried out at the cathedral. It comes after France's Saint Sulpice church , used in the filming of Dan Brown’s ‘Da Vinci Code’ thriller, caught fire...

BREAKING NEWS: Trump announces illegal immigrants WILL be bussed to sanctuary cities and states in move designed to outrage Democrats President Trump called on Congress to return to Washington D.C. to 'fix the immigration laws' as he struggles to full fill his key campaign promise 'Congress should come back to D.C. now and FIX THE IMMIGRATION LAWS!,' he tweeted on Monday morning Trump made building a border wall and stemming the tide of illegal immigrants a key promise of his 2016 campaign The administration has moved to shift the blame to Democrats The White House is also considering alternative ideas...

CBS News ✔ @CBSNews BREAKING: Justice Department says it will release the redacted version of special counsel Robert Mueller's report on Thursday https://cbsn.ws/2KFn08e

Hillary Clinton loyalists fed the FBI’s upper echelon an assortment of anti-Donald Trump criminal accusations during the 2016 campaign and his presidency, according to a string of interview transcripts released in recent weeks. James A. Baker, former FBI general counsel who participated on the receiving end, testified that the situation was “horrible” and “highly unusual.” At least 10 of Mrs. Clinton’s supporters directly or via middlemen told the bureau tales about Russia-Trump conspiracies. It appears to be an unprecedented effort by a presidential campaign and the party in power to count on the FBI to knock out the other party’s...

The Talk Shows April 14th, 2019 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sarah Sanders, White House press secretary; Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md.; Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, daughter of Robert F. Kennedy. The panel will be Rich Lowry, editor, National Review; Anna Palmer, co-author “Politico Playbook” and “The Hill to Die On”; Republican pollster Kristen Soltis Anderson; and Neera Tanden, president of the Center for American Progress.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Kellyanne Conway, counselor to President Donald Trump; Gov. Jay Inslee, D-Wash. The panel will be David Brooks of The New York Times and...

Just out: The USA has the absolute legal right to have apprehended illegal immigrants transferred to Sanctuary Cities. We hereby demand that they be taken care of at the highest level, especially by the State of California, which is well known or its poor management & high taxes!

Franklin TX just took a direct hit from a strong tornado....major damage and injuries now being reported... this is likely just the beginning ..... 1 CONVECTIVE OUTLOOK NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK ...THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER PARTS OF EAST TEXAS...CENTRAL/NORTHERN LOUISIANA...SOUTHEASTERN ARKANSAS...AND WESTERN/CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI... ..SUMMARY TORNADOES -- SOME POTENTIALLY STRONG TO VIOLENT (EF2+) -- ARE POSSIBLE TODAY FROM EAST TEXAS TO CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI. OTHERWISE, NUMEROUS SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL POSE A RISK OF LARGE HAIL, DAMAGING WIND AND TORNADOES FROM CENTRAL TEXAS THIS MORNING TO THE TENNESSEE VALLEY REGION OVERNIGHT.

A scuttled White House proposal to release immigrant detainees in San Francisco and other sanctuary cities triggered a fierce backlash Friday from Democrats including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, whose office called the idea “despicable.” The Washington Post first reported that the White House proposed sending the detainees to sanctuary cities, including Pelosi's district, twice in the last six months. The proposal was first floated in November amid reports of a large migrant caravan from Central America making its way to the southern border. The idea was again considered in February, amid the standoff with Congress over a border wall. “The...

exandria Ocasio-Cortez ‏ Verified account @AOC 6m6 minutes ago More Members of Congress have a duty to respond to the President’s explicit attack today. @IlhanMN’s life is in danger. For our colleagues to be silent is to be complicit in the outright, dangerous targeting of a member of Congress.

1 of 3 A girl from the Mexican state of Guerrero passes rows of tents as her family waits at a shelter of mostly Mexican and Central American migrants to begin the process of applying for asylum Friday, April 12, 2019, in Tijuana, Mexico. The Trump administration is asking an appeals court to let it continue returning asylum seekers to Mexico hours before a U.S. judge's order was set to go into effect Friday afternoon reversing the unprecedented change to the U.S. asylum process. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull) SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Latest on a court ruling that would have...

THE WHITE House is in lockdown after a man attempted to set himself on fire, a New York Times reporter has claimed. Photos taken at the scene show security personnel tackling a person on the ground. Police and amublance crews are in attendance. Nicholas Kristof, a columnist with the New York Times, said: “Someone apparently set himself on fire in front of the White House just now. I was coming out of the West Wing, and the Sevret Service isn’t letting anyone out onto Pennsylvania Ave. They say there are also suspicious packages. “The whole area in front of the...

President Trump responded to reports Friday that his administration proposed releasing immigrant detainees in sanctuary cities by not only confirming the plan but saying it remains under “strong” consideration. Further, the president tweeted that relocating illegal immigrants to these districts should make the "Radical Left" happy. The comments came after The Washington Post first reported that the White House proposed sending the detainees to sanctuary cities twice in the last six months. The proposal was first floated in November amid reports of a large migrant caravan from Central America making its way to the southern border. The idea was again...

The White House considered going after political opponents by pushing U.S. immigration authorities to release detained immigrants into "sanctuary cities," three sources familiar with the idea confirmed Friday. They told The Associated Press that President Donald Trump considered the proposal amid his ongoing battling Democrats over border wall funding. The Washington Post said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's district in San Francisco was among the targets.

Washington (CNN)A federal grand jury on Thursday indicted Greg Craig, a prominent Democratic attorney who worked for two presidents, charging him with false statements and concealing material information in connection with work he performed for Ukraine. An indictment in the case against Craig, which originated in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, has been expected for several weeks, with Craig's own lawyers saying Wednesday they anticipated such an outcome. Craig, 74, is the highest-profile Democrat to be indicted in a matter stemming from Mueller's work, which resulted in charges against numerous Republicans connected to President Donald Trump. The case is being...

Attorney General William Barr’s comment that he thinks “spying did occur” by intelligence agencies on the Trump campaign quickly reverberated outside the Senate committee hearing room, raising the hackles of top Democrats. “The top law enforcement officer of the country should not casually suggest that those under his purview engaged in ‘spying’ on a political campaign,” House Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) said in a statement. “This type of partisan talking point may please Donald Trump, who rails against a ‘deep state coup,’ but it also strikes another destructive blow to our democratic institutions.” Schiff’s fellow chairman Jerry Nadler...

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The Treasury Department said on Wednesday evening that it would not immediately comply with a congressional request to hand over President Trump’s tax returns, setting up a protracted legal battle between two branches of government.

WASHINGTON, April 10 (Reuters) - Attorney General William Barr said on Wednesday U.S. intelligence agencies engaged in spying directed at the 2016 presidential campaign of Donald Trump and that he would look at whether the surveillance was undertaken legally. "I think spying did occur," Barr told a Senate hearing. "But the question is whether it was adequately predicated and I am not suggesting that it wasn't adequately predicated. ... I am not suggesting those rules were violated, but I think it is important to look at that. And I am not talking about the FBI necessarily, but intelligence agencies more...

One person is dead and 15 have been taken to the hospital after an explosion and collapse near Brightleaf Square in downtown Durham on Wednesday morning, a police spokesman said. Crews responded to a reported gas leak and were “actively fighting fire,” according to a post from the City of Durham.

Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s conservative prime minister for the past decade, and his chief rival, Benny Gantz, a centrist former military chief, emerged neck and neck from a tight race in Tuesday’s parliamentary election, according to preliminary results. But by early Wednesday, with most of the votes counted, Mr. Netanyahu appeared poised to win a fourth consecutive term in office, and a fifth overall. A count of the broader blocs needed to form a coalition government gave Mr. Netanyahu’s Likud party a clear advantage over Mr. Gantz’s Blue and White.