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The Parliamentary faction of President Emmanuel Macron has been utterly destroyed in the unexpected snap election he called just three weeks ago, with Le Pen’s Party looking to nearly treble its seat holding. Polling has closed in France for the first round of this week-long Parliamentary election. While actual seat distribution won’t be fully known, the exit polls following this knock-out round have given a confident answer that Marine Le Pen’s nationalist-populist National Rally (RN) won the day. Per the exit polls, her faction gained 34 per cent of the vote, while the left-wing coalition founded for the purpose of...

resident Biden on Monday railed against President Trump after his conviction to donors at a fundraiser, arguing that “something snapped” after he lost the 2020 election. “Here is what is becoming clearer and clearer every day. The threat that Trump poses would be greater in a second term than it was in his first term. This isn’t the same Trump who got elected in 2016. He’s worse,” Biden said, according to prepared remarks. “Something snapped in him when he lost in 2020. He can’t accept he lost, and it is literally driving him crazy,” he added. “Now he’s running again....

A TikTok star on trial for shooting dead his estranged wife and her lover told jurors he “snapped” after seeing them cuddling on the couch — and just couldn’t stop spraying bullets at them. Ali Abulaban, 32, took to the stand to testify in his own defense Wednesday after being charged over the October 2021 slayings of his wife, Ana Abulaban, 28, and her friend Rayburn Cadenas Barron, 29, in San Diego, NBC7 reported. The social media personality copped to punching his wife three times in the face in an earlier argument in which she claimed to have slept with...

The Walmart gunman who massacred six people inside a Virginia store where he worked had a manifesto on his phone - in which he revealed how he was upset about a change in his employment status. Police revealed that gunman Andre Bing's deadly manifesto, which has not yet been made public, contained claims that his co-workers at the supercenter in Sam's Circuit, Chesapeake, were harassing him. One of Bing's neighbors has also described the moment the gunman left for his rampage in silence - with victims' friends revealing to DailyMail.com that he would regularly have arguments over ‘working weekends’ with...

GOP Rep. Liz Cheney confirmed she told fellow Rep. Jim Jordan, "Get away from me. You ******* did this," as members evacuated the House chamber during the January 6, 2021, siege on the Capitol. The New York Times' Michael Barbaro asked Cheney about the incident during an interview on "The Daily" podcast that aired Thursday, the first anniversary of the insurrection.

The man alleged to have rammed his car into Edmonton police station in London before lighting the road outside on fire “snapped” after being hit with a £10,000 coronavirus fine, according to reports. The 45-year-old suspect, who can be seen pouring petrol on the road outside the station just a few feet from occupied cars and buses before lighting it on fire in video footage shot by members of the public and shared on social media, was detained by officers at the scene and arrested “on suspicion of arson and a number of other offences”.

<p>UPLAND, Calif. – Prosecutors have charged a California mother in the death of her infant daughter and for injuries sustained by her son after police say he was dropped from an apartment building's second story.</p> <p>The San Bernardino County district attorney's office said Thursday that 24-year-old Tierra Ortega is charged with child abuse causing death and attempted murder.</p>

There were sure to be some unhappy travelers Thursday night when a United Airlines flight had to be diverted to Anchorage due to the actions of a passenger on board. United Airlines flight 895 from Chicago to Hong Kong had to be redirected to Anchorage Thursday due to a "passenger smearing feces everywhere", according to Ted Stevens International Airport Police. Airport Police say the adult male smeared the excrement within a couple of bathrooms, took off his shirt and attempted to stuff it in the toilet. He was cooperative with the flight crew and was seated when the flight landed...

Police were called to a Hillcrest neighborhood early this morning when neighbors reported that a local mom of twins began throwing flaming dirty diapers at a group of people setting off fireworks. The woman, Ernie Orsborn, became angry over fireworks going off in her neighborhood while her two young children were trying to sleep. Records show repeated calls to 311 reporting the firework violators between 8:30p.m. and 1 a.m. Around 9:00 Orsborn posted to her twitter account: “I mean, if you like fireworks, go to Pops on the River and let us abstained sip our wine in peace as babies...

[caption id="attachment_9110" align="alignright" width="240" caption="It's Nobody's Fault"][/caption] A brief survey of stories about murders around the country shows how frequently family members, victims, the police, and others involved gravitate toward the notion that the murderer was crazy or as some call it, “mentally” ill. It isn’t always stated that way, but sympathy for the murderer is sometimes given more coverage than for the murder victim. Suggestions that the perpetrator “must have snapped” is simply a way to excuse murder. In fact, a reality television with the name “Snapped” has been created to explore stories of women who murdered their husbands....

Neighbors believe suspect just snapped Police have released the name of a man who allegedly shot an 11-year-old boy to death outside a home in northwest Houston. Police charged Raymond Lee Shaw, 58, with murder this morning. The young victim was reportedly a friend of Shaw's son. It happened at Iron Liege near Fashion Hill in northwest Houston last night. Shaw is described by neighbors as a kind and good person. According to one neighbor, he wouldn't hurt a soul. But last night, neighbors say they had to pull a shotgun from Shaw`s hands after police say he chased down...

As dozens of anti-war demonstrators heckled President Bush outside an Indian Wells resort last weekend, a plainclothes Riverside County sheriff's deputy and another man moved through the crowd, the deputy waving a protest sign as the two snapped digital photographs of the demonstrators. Riverside County Sheriff Bob Doyle said that the U.S. Secret Service asked that members of his department's intelligence unit monitor the protest. Any photos taken Saturday of the protesters were snapped "under the auspices of the Secret Service," Doyle said. But Eric Zahren, a spokesman for the Secret Service in Washington, D.C., said the agency did not...

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) greets people as she arrives for U.S. President George W. Bush's the State of the Union address at the U.S. Capitol in Washington January 31, 2006. REUTERS/Jason Reed

Mars 'Grand Canyon' snapped by Beagle mother ship Mars Express, the mother ship of Britain's ill-fated Beagle 2, has sent back its first pictures of the Red Planet's Grand Canyon. The pictures show Valles Marineris - more than six times deeper than the famous Grand Canyon on Earth and as long as the whole of Europe. It is the first image of this size showing the surface of Mars in high resolution in colour and in 3D. The lower part of the picture shows the same region in perspective view as if seen from a low-flying aircraft. It shows vast...