By refusing to set aside the motion, the House now opens an extraordinary floor debate ahead of the next round of voting. Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s ability to remain in leadership was thrown into serious risk Tuesday after the House voted to move ahead with an effort by hard-right Republican critics to oust him.The narrow outcome […]

Updated: 03/10/2023 – 21:49 Vincent Van Gogh stares out from his self-portrait which he painted not long before his suicide in 1890. The painting features in a new exhibition at Paris’ Orsay Museum, opening on Tuesday, focussing on the two months before his death at age 37 on 29 July, 1890. Vincent Van Gogh stares out […]

Their translucent bodies stand out against the half-light of the Théâtre Joliette, revealing their fragility. The protagonists of “Les Vagues”, a creation presented on Tuesday in Marseille, are puppets made of ice, an ephemeral material that allows them to “pass through time”, like Virginia Woolf’s characters.Between these characters, whom the British writer’s novel follows “from their […]

A bus plunged a bridge in Venice on Tuesday evening, claiming “numerous victims”, announced the mayor of this northern Italian city Luigi Brugnaro. “A tragedy has struck our community this evening”, he said, claiming “many victims among those on board the bus which fell” from a bridge near Mestre.The mayor has described “an apocalyptic scene”. It’s […]

Meta plans to give European Facebook and Instagram users the option of paying for ad-free versions as a way to comply with new EU data privacy rules. Meta plans to give Facebook and Instagram users in Europe the option of paying for ad-free versions of the social media platforms as a way to comply with […]

Updated: 03/10/2023 – 20:27 The show begins with a mass in commemoration of the Virgin of the Magdalena. Then eight young people equipped with 50 centimetre high stilts and wide skirts hurl themselves down a cobbled slope, turning on themselves. The show begins with a mass in commemoration of the Virgin of the Magdalena. Then […]

As Lampedusa commemorated the 10-year anniversary of the sinking of a migrant boat that claimed 368 lives, participants said little has changed to prevent a similar tragedy. Hundreds gathered on the Italian island, to lay flowers and pay their respects to the victims of one of the Mediterranean’s deadliest migrant disasters.”People continue to die at […]