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LE CASTELLET, France — Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton won the French Grand Prix from pole position to retake the lead of the Formula One title race on Sunday. Red Bull’s Max Verstappen and Kimi Raikkonen in his Ferrari crossed second and third to complete the podium at the Paul Ricard Circuit. Defending champion Hamilton was […]

White House adviser Jared Kushner used a rare interview with a Palestinian newspaper to slam leader Mahmoud Abbas. … …read more Source:: AOL.com       

GAO, Mali — Canada entered a new era of peacekeeping on Sunday as the first dozen members of Canada’s mission in Mali landed at a UN base near the desolate city of Gao. The troops were accompanied by chief of the defence staff Gen. Jonathan Vance following a day of meetings in the West African […]

Jaki Shelton Green RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Gov. Roy Cooper has named North Carolina’s first African-American poet laureate. Cooper announced Thursday that Jaki Shelton Green will succeed Shelby Stephenson, who was named the state’s poet laureate in February 2015. Green also is the third woman to become the state’s ambassador for poetry and the spoken […]

JERUSALEM — Israeli airline El Al is facing new allegations of discrimination after moving two female passengers under pressure from male ultra-Orthodox travellers who refused to sit next to women. In 2016, a similar case of discrimination was filed against the airline by a female passenger. Israel’s Supreme Court ruled that asking a passenger to […]

“I Adore My Lesbian Daughters / Keep Them Safe.” This article originally appeared on … …read more Source:: AOL.com       

COLUMBIA, S.C. — President Donald Trump’s effort to bend the Republican Party to his will faces its next test Tuesday, when South Carolina voters choose between two GOP gubernatorial candidates who both claim to be Trump acolytes. The president has already made his pick: incumbent Gov. Henry McMaster, a longtime Trump supporter who failed to […]

At the stroke of midnight local time on Sunday, extraordinary scenes unfolded on the roads of Saudi Arabia. … …read more Source:: AOL.com       

NIZHNY NOVGOROD, Russia — With the country’s most one-sided World Cup victory, England advanced to the last 16 with a game by spare. Harry Kane scored a hat trick in Sunday’s 6-1 rout of Panama, giving England its biggest victory margin at the World Cup in its highest-scoring game since 1966. That previous high-scoring affair […]

Cleo Lake asked that Colston’s portrait be moved to a museum on slavery and abolition. (Image courtesy of the Bristol Post ) There’s a new Lord Mayor in the British town of Bristol and her first order of business was removing a 300-year-old portrait of slave trader Edward Holston from the wall above her desk. […]