Now 67, Kouchner is a veteran of previous cabinet posts under French Socialist governments and a stint administering Kosovo in the wake of the 1999 war fought to stop a Balkan genocide. He’s learned the uses of statecraft and diplomacy; he has an unparalleled record of on-the-ground experience, and he’s shown a penchant for warm relations with the United States. In all respects, he presents an enormous contrast with his predecessors in the foreign ministry, and one many Americans will welcome....

The Venice Suncoast Rotary Club was prepared to give its annual donation of dictionaries to the Sarasota County Schools ahead of the new school year. But the district stopped all donations and purchases of books for school libraries until at least next year. This came after HB 1467 took effect in July. The law requires school districts to have all reading and instructional materials reviewed by a district employee with a “valid educational media specialist certificate....

In a video posted on the YouTube channel of m4wares, a missile can be seen in the shot right before the explosion occurs. YouTube removed the video, which was previously linked in this story, after Newsweek inquired why it had not been flagged for false information. “YouTube has clear policies that outline what content is not acceptable to post and we remove videos violating these policies when flagged to us,” wrote YouTube spokesperson Farshad Shadloo in a statement sent to Newsweek on Friday....

A clip of the video has been viewed more than 1 million times on Twitter, with the full version attracting 1.5 million views on the Banned.video hosting site, which is operated by Jones’ Infowars. During the video, Jones and other members of the Infowars team claim migrant children from a processing camp in Donna, Texas, are being taken to a COVID processing center in McAllen. Jones claims that the Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley will then provide the children with debit cards containing $1,200, before they are “released into the United States into a destination or city of their choice....

Barcelona beat Real Madrid in economic Clasico Luiz is not Conte’s preferred type of defender, but the Italian boss was still happy to bring him in after growing worried that without another signing the club would have been left lacking in both numbers and quality in defense. Super-agent Kia Joorabchian was instrumental in orchestrating the deal between Paris Saint-Germain and Chelsea’s directors at such late notice, and he told Goal that it was Luiz’s fondness for the club that got the deal over the line....

Bieber shared that he introduced himself to the Bachelor star at church, where Lovato also attends services. “We watch The Bachelor,” he explained. “[Peter] was at church the other night…I went up to him and I was like, ‘I feel like I know you.’” What Bieber seemingly didn’t realize is that the church sighting could be a major hint into what Weber’s future looks like. Weber’s Bachelor season has been messy, confusing and all around shocking....

Mount Rainier National Park officials quickly took to Twitter to dispel the rumor. “Mount Rainier is NOT erupting,” the tweet said. “We have looked at the cloud that has caused concern from multiple webcams and have determined that it is a lenticular cloud. In addition, the USGS reports no indications of unusual seismic activity.” A video showing clouds that looked suspiciously like a potential eruption was posted on KOMO meteorologist Kristin Clark’s Twitter....

After running back Cam Akers scored a TD out of the Wildcat formation, coach Sean McVay called a nifty hook-and-lateral for the 2-point conversion to make the score 25-18, Green Bay, with 1:41 remaining in the third quarter: MORE: Wilson, Seahawks’ offense need big change after NFC playoffs flop vs. Rams It’s not too often you see a hook-and-lateral in the NFL, especially on a non-game-ending play. Unless you’re the Dolphins, that is....

Premier League Team of the Week The Spain international has not scored in 329 minutes of football, his longest dry period of the season, but remains third in the scoring charts even after firing another blank in his side’s 1-1 draw at Burnley. Pedro opened the scoring in that clash, but Chelsea were quickly pegged back by a Robbie Brady free-kick and failed to muster a single shot on target in the second half at Turf Moor....

“We continue to see imports arriving into the mid-Atlantic and Northeast, about 623,000 barrels of distillate arrived last week, which was below recent levels. However, supply in the region is slowly building for now,” Patrick De Haan, GasBuddy’s head of Petroleum Analysis told Newsweek. “Diesel prices are falling gently across the country, to a modest degree, a trend that will likely continue into Thanksgiving and potentially beyond it as well....

Unlike most surprise corporate departures, Diller’s decision wasn’t the result of a beheading or an illness. There are reports that Diller chafed at Fox owner Rupert Murdoch’s increasing presence on the lot, but Diller denies any friction. “There was zero. None,” he says. Having just turned 50, he says he just wants to run his own company. Adds producer Sandy Gallin: “He’s made billions upon billions for ABC, Paramount and Fox,” and now he “wants to run his own store....

Patina (L.A.) At the new Walt Disney Concert Hall, celeb chef Joachim Splichal offers a private nine-seater with a picture-window view of all the slicing and dicing. A two-hour, four-course dinner is $85. Commander’s Palace (New Orleans) A four-seat table, wedged right inside the kitchen, is affectionately called the Chef’s Playground. A seven-courser is $75 and requires reservations nearly six months in advance. Charlie Trotter’s (Chicago) Snag one of two nightly seatings at this six-seat table adjacent to Trotter’s station....

That is just one of a number of “blow your mind” scientific facts mentioned in a viral Reddit thread that explores basic scientific facts, including many which are often forgotten or just never described in mainstream scientific discussions. For example, one user mentioned how Voyager I has been traveling over 30,000 miles per hour since its launch into orbit in 1977 and is 20 light years away. According to NASA, in August 2020 Voyager I “made the historic entry into interstellar space, filled with material ejected by the death of nearby stars millions of years ago....

Not long after Labor Day, Cliff Jackson, the Little Rock lawyer who later became Clinton’s nemesis, called Bush senior adviser Charlie Black and put several Arkansas state troopers on a speaker-phone. The troopers claimed to have firsthand knowledge of Clinton’s sexual escapades when he was governor. “I believe it,” Black said, “but what I believe doesn’t matter. Nobody in this campaign can pursue this. You have to go to the press....

Disney CEO Bob Chapek was criticized for not immediately and publicly condemning the legislation. The company has also donated at least $250,000 to Florida Republican senators who voted to pass the bill. “I truly believe we are an infinitely better and stronger company because of our LGBTQ+ community. I missed the mark in this case but am an ally you can count on—and I will be an outspoken champion for the protections, visibility, and opportunity you deserve,” Chapek said in a letter Friday that announced the donation pause....

Though users can have up to seven Disney+ profiles (each of which gets their own Disney character avatar), and can download movies and TV series on up to 10 mobile devices, subscribers of Disney+ can only watch the service on four devices at once as part of the $6.99 a month package or the $69.99 a year subscription. People who sign up to the Disney+, Hulu and ESPN+ bundle can watch Hulu on one device, ESPN+ on three devices and can also watch all three services at once on three different devices....

On Friday, Disney issued a letter addressed to theater owners about the new film and the risk of seizure it may pose to some viewers. “Out of an abundance of caution,” the statement read, “we recommend that you provide at your venue box office and online, and at other appropriate places where your customers will see it, a notice containing the following information: ‘Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’ contains several sequences with imagery and sustained flashing lights that may affect those who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy or have other photosensitivities....

HOLY TRINITY Evangelical The Father, his Son (Jesus Christ) and the Holy Spirit are a single entity. Each has distinct attributes, but the three are undivided in essence or being. This is the traditional Christian conception of the Holy Trinity. Mormon Heavenly Father, Jesus Christ and the Holy Ghost are physically separate and distinct entities with distinct roles, but act with a single purpose. Mormons typically refer to the Holy Trinity as the Godhead....

The Slidell Police Department posted on Sunday that they participated in the dolphin’s rescue mission with several other agencies. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration led the rescue effort and worked with a number of other groups, including the Institute for Marine Mammal Studies, team members from SeaWorld and the Chicago Zoological Society.“Groups from all over the Gulf South converged to help rescue the injured dolphin,” the post read....

In fact, the soundest studies–those with the most rigorous methodology–had in fact found no such increased risk, and today an exhaustive study confirms that. According to a study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, a journal of the American Medical Association, neither abortion nor miscarriage appears to increase the risk of breast cancer. On paper, you might actually expect abortion to raise the risk of breast cancer. After all, women younger than age 35 who give birth have a reduced lifetime risk of breast cancer; another way of saying that is that women who do not give birth–which tends to happen after an abortion–have an elevated risk....