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RUSH: President Trump in France today accepted the invitation from the new French president, Macaroni. Why do I — it’s Macron. I think macaroni when I see the word, and I know it’s not macaroni. Why did I say that? I wasn’t trying to be — anyway, we knew it was gonna happen. He got a question from the Drive-Bys about Donald Jr. and the honey pot. It was from Cecilia Vega of ABC. BREAK TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Cecilia Vega at ABC said, “Mr. President, your FBI nominee said that if someone in the campaign got an email about Russia like...

After taking a tour of Les Invalides and a boat ride down the Seine, First Ladies Melania Trump and Brigitte Macron dined at the Eiffel Tower tonight—and celebrated the occasion in French labels. For Trump, that meant a custom Hervé Pierre frock, while Macron stuck with her tried-and-true formula: a mini-dress from Louis Vuitton. Both ensembles felt directional and new, with little details that stole the show. Trump’s red, white, and blue palette nodded toward both the American and French flags on the eve of Bastille Day, France’s national day of celebration. Also symbolic was a fabric adornment meant to...

LIVE STREAM: PRESIDENT TRUMP & FRENCH PRESIDENT MACRON NEWS CONFERENCE FROM PARIS 7/13/17 Live pre-show begins at 11:30 AM Eastern. RSBN live coverage featuring Steve Lookner.

Some of the children's parents were in the room as Melania and the children gathered around a table topped with building blocks, books and toys. 'Hello! Bonjour! How are you?' Trump said as she entered the room. She then spoke to the children in French, one of the five languages she speaks. She is also fluent in Serbian, German, Italian and English. As reporters came into the room, Melania switched to English as an adult in the room translated for some of the French-speaking children. Sitting in an adult-sized chair at the table, Melania leafed through a coloring book for...

President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump have arrived in Paris to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the United States’ entry into World War I and the Bastille Day. The first couple arrived at Orly airport just after 8:30 am local time, Melania sporting a chic red blazer and skirt combination paired with red pumps, while the president remained in the same suit with the same tie that he had on when he left Washington. They're packing a punch with the brief trip that brought them back to Europe five days after the G20 summit.

France will increase housing for refugees while “systematically” deporting illegal economic migrants, the Prime Minister said on Wednesday as a mayor denounced inhumane conditions for children in a migrant camp by tweeting out shock photos.France will cut processing time for asylum requests and boost housing for refugees while “systematically” deporting illegal economic migrants, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said Wednesday. Unveiling an “action plan” for dealing with tens of thousands of people who arrive in France each year, Philippe said it aimed to “guarantee the right to asylum (and) better handle migratory flows.” France, which received 85,000 asylum requests last year,...

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Two hundred French Jews arrived in Israel on a special aliyah flight. The flight organized by The Jewish Agency for Israel, the Ministry of Aliyah and Immigrant Absorption, and Keren Hayesod-UIA arrived in Israel on Monday. Among the new immigrants to Israel were 74 children and teens. The youngest immigrant is two and a half months old and the oldest, 92, is making aliyah with his daughter and her husband. The immigrants were greeted by Chairman of the Executive of The Jewish Agency for Israel Natan Sharansky, Minister of Aliyah and Immigrant Absorption Sofa Landver, former Chief...

The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Strasbourg Luc Ravel has called attention to the demographic shift in France saying Muslims are having far more children than native French and slammed the widespread “promotion” of abortion.The Archbishop of Strasbourg went against the grain of Church leaders in France who have largely remained politically correct on the issue of demographic changes occurring in the country. He said the rising birth rate of Muslims in France was leading to what prolific French writer Renaud Camus has termed “the Great Replacement”, French conservative magazine Valeurs Actuelles reports. “Muslim believers know very well that their birthrate...

Make no mistake, this is warfare. French reader Alexandre writes me, “French suburbs, new gaza tunnel ? Holes dug and camouflaged to trap police at night during pursuit races. Several testimonies and photographs have been received from the residents of the district of Trois Ponts in Roubaix. A group of young individuals dug holes 60 cm deep on average and covered them to camouflage them. Their goal ? Attract police officers in pursuit races at night to trap them. According to several consistent testimonies, these traps worthy of North American trappers contain sharp metal objects to injure police officers. Police...

France’s new environment minister said Monday nearly a third of the country’s reactors could be shut under plans to scale back the amount of electricity produced from nuclear power. In 2015, the previous Socialist-dominated parliament passed a law obliging the government to reduce the proportion of electricity generated from nuclear to 50 percent by 2025 compared with around 75 percent now. “We can all understand that to reach this target, we’re going to have to close a certain number of reactors,” Nicolas Hulot told RTL radio. “It will be perhaps as high as 17 reactors, but we need to look...

France’s finance minister urged his European counterparts Sunday to do more to chase down tax due from the European operations of US tech giants such as Google, Amazon and Facebook. Bruno Le Maire’s comments addressed an issue which has aroused fierce controversy: the complex tax arrangements of multinational corporations under fire for slashing European tax bills by shifting revenue across borders. “I have just come back from the G20 meeting in Hamburg, and I can tell you that the present age is not one for the weak,” Le Maire told an economic symposium in the southern French city of Aix-en-Provence....

Commuters on a new high-speed rail line in France got to race a Dassault Rafale fighter jet, which is pretty cool. I would like to snark how American it is of them, but America doesn’t really do high-speed rail. To celebrate a new line between Connerré and Cesson-Sévigné, the French rail service was joined by the French Air Force, with a Dassault Rafale fighter jet following along the new train, looking cool and giving commuters the impression that they were mere pawns in France’s multi-transport racing gambit. In the video from Puissance Française (French Power) on YouTube, you can also...

The French Prime Minister on Friday laid out a raft of measures aimed at boosting Paris's attractiveness to high finance in order to cash in on Britain's exit from the European Union, including cutting income tax for high earning bankers and opening international schools. France continues to make eyes at London's bankers and on Friday the Prime Minister Edouard Philippe laid out a raft of measures to attract financiers who may have to leave London when the UK leaves the EU.

Emmanuel Macron’s decision to invite Donald Trump to the annual Bastille Day celebrations in France on July 14th has been criticized at home, but the French president appears determined to prevent his US counterpart from isolating himself. New French President Emmanuel Macron is trying to serve as a bridge between Europe and Donald Trump, seeking to influence and understand the US president amid widespread confusion in Paris about his intentions. […] French government spokesman Christophe Castaner told the LCI channel on Thursday that the invitation to Trump was in honor of the United States, France’s ally and liberator in the...

France’s swashbuckling TV star turned environment minister Nicolas Hulot laid out France’s new “climate plan” intended to meet the ambitious targets of the Paris climate accord on Thursday and become carbon neutral by 2050. […] “We are announcing an end to the sale of petrol and diesel cars by 2040,” Hulot said, calling it a “veritable revolution”. “The solutions are there,” Hulot said. “Our own manufacturers have what they need to support this promise”, adding that it all contributed to the “public health agenda”. Acknowledging that reaching the target would be “tough”, particularly for automakers, Hulot said that France’s car...

Emmanuel Macron is a remarkable man. Beyond this simple statement, there is little else we can know for sure about him. This is because a complete enigma has won the French presidency and is now taking Europe by storm. Macron is such a new, unknown entity that until very recently there was not even a visible record of his political commitments.

In France, the land of liberty, equlity and fraternity, to say a bad word about Islam means a hefty fine and court appearance - and no one who dares to defend you. The controversy began with his intervention in September 2016 on the broadcast “C à vous”. Éric Zemmour was then immediately sued at the 17th Criminal Court of the Paris Court. He must respond to the alleged offense of “incitement to discrimination and hatred against people of Muslim faith”. The lawsuit is promoted by the EuroPalestine Association. Zemmour is in trouble for a few sentences, such as the ones...

There are abundant lessons in India for the Australians negotiating the huge and complex $50 billion contract for the navy’s 12 new submarines. The Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited (MDL) yard in Mumbai is halfway through a program to build six conventionally-powered Scorpene-class submarines in collaboration with the French shipbuilder Naval Group, which has just changed its name from DCNS. Against competition from Japan, Germany and, earlier on, Sweden, Naval Group won the contract to design and help build 12 very large Shortfin Barracuda submarines in Australia. The Shortfin is a conventionally-powered version of another Naval Group class, the nuclear-powered Barracuda...

This is a story that needs to go viral and that needs to be covered by every conservative and patriotic new outlet in America and Europe. It concerns what everyone is calling a Day of The Jackal style plot to assassinate President Emmanuel Macron of France on Bastille day in front of President Trump. The Day Of The Jackal, (The original book and movie not the remake with Bruce Willis which is crap) Is about the attempted assassination of then president Charles De Gaulle by Army radicals after De Gaulle  declared independence for Algeria. In truth such a plot did...

French President Emmanuel Macron has taken part in a nuclear missile launch simulation after being winched down to a navy submarine in the Atlantic. The 39-year-old signalled his commitment to France's nuclear deterrent with a day-long visit to weapons facilities on the Ile Longue base off the Brittany coast. During the visit France's youngest ever president spent four hours underwater aboard the nuclear submarine 'The Terrible' where he took part in a simulated rocket launch.