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Facebook Tweet Email Link She was craving peace and quiet after working as a teacher for 20 years, and Amelia Butler from the US says that buying a bargain home in Italy has given her just that. The 57-year-old now spends half of the year in the rural village of Latronico, located in the deep southern region of Italy’s Basilicata, and the rest in Philadelphia, her home town. It’s a dream come true for Butler, who loves the remoteness of the idyllic village, surrounded by mountains, and says she is finally able to “relax, enjoy life and people” there. “I…

Facebook Tweet Email Link Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man who was unlawfully deported to El Salvador earlier this year, was taken into custody by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement after turning himself in to a facility in Baltimore. “Mr. Abrego Garcia was taken into custody by ICE this morning,” attorney Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg told a crowd outside an ICE facility in Baltimore, where Abrego Garcia was ordered to report after being released from criminal custody pending a trial on federal charges. “Regardless of what happens today in my ICE check-in, promise me this,” Abrego Garcia said at a rally with…

Facebook Tweet Email Link Paris  —  A man in France has been detained on suspicion of murder after four bodies were found in Paris’ River Seine earlier this month. The suspect, who prosecutors described as a “homeless man in his twenties,” was brought before a judicial court on Sunday, the Créteil Public Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement to CNN. He is being investigated for “multiple counts of murder” in respect to the four victims, all of whom were men, the prosecutor’s office said. On August 13, the bodies of the four men were discovered in the Parisian municipality of…

Facebook Tweet Email Link America’s next big showdown is brewing over Donald Trump’s zeal to impose unusual presidential power as he eyes big, Democratic-run cities to expand a crime crackdown that sent troops flocking onto the streets of Washington, DC. Trump’s torrid rhetoric claiming that crime is out of control, which is often misleading, is a classic page from the playbook of strongman leaders. It could precipitate high tensions between the federal government and states over the limits of his constitutional and legal authority. The president’s threats prompted alarmed Democrats on Sunday to warn that there would be no justification…

Facebook Tweet Email Link As Russia’s war machine grinds forward in eastern Ukraine, there is another offensive being waged far beyond the front line. Russia is ramping up nightly drone attacks on Ukrainian cities and civilian infrastructure, and as it rapidly increases its production of those weapons its strikes are intensifying. Many of the drones aren’t particularly fast or high-tech, but they are cheap enough for the Kremlin to launch more than 700 in one night, in an effort to overwhelm Ukraine’s air defenses and decimate civilian morale, experts say. After obtaining Iranian designs for Shahed attack drones, Russia built…

We can give you more details on an executive order to be signed by President Donald Trump today. The order is expected to be one that would pressure jurisdictions to eliminate cashless bail, two White House officials told CNN. It will direct Attorney General Pam Bondi to provide the president with a list of jurisdictions that have cashless bail policies, the officials said. It also threatens to revoke federal funding or government-backed project approvals for the areas that don’t comply with the order. The New York Post was the first to report the details of Monday’s executive order. In jurisdictions…

Facebook Tweet Email Link Paris Reuters  —  France’s minority government could be ousted next month after three main opposition parties said they would not back a confidence vote which Prime Minister Francois Bayrou announced for September 8 over his plans for sweeping budget cuts. The far-right National Rally and the Greens said they would vote against him. The Socialists, on whose vote Bayrou’s fate largely lies, said they did not see how they could back him – unless he changes tack on the budget, which they did not see as likely to happen. If he loses the confidence vote in…

Facebook Tweet Email Link President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday tasking his secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, with establishing “specialized units” in the National Guard that will be “specifically trained and equipped to deal with public order issues” — the clearest sign yet he intends to expand the US military’s role in domestic law enforcement activities across the country. Under the newly signed order, Hegseth is charged with “ensuring that each State’s Army National Guard and Air National Guard are resourced, trained, organized, and available to assist Federal, State, and local law enforcement in quelling civil disturbances and…

Facebook Tweet Email Link Three people died when a helicopter crashed on the Isle of Wight during a flying lesson Monday morning, officials have said. One person was hospitalized and is in serious condition, according to the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary. Flight operator Northumbria Helicopters said the aircraft took off from the Sandown Airport around 9 a.m. local time, with four people on board as it was undertaking a flying lesson. About 24 minutes later, police said they were called about a helicopter that had crashed in a field near a road in the Shanklin area. Aerial footage…

Facebook Tweet Email Link While a recent bout with Covid-19 didn’t give Petra Kvitova the proper preparation she probably would have liked, the two-time Wimbledon champion did successfully make her farewell to tennis the way she wanted – at the US Open. After her 6-1, 6-0 defeat to Frenchwoman Diane Parry, Kvitova told reporters after the match she had Covid-19 three weeks ago. “Yeah, my physicality wasn’t great,” the 35-year-old Czech said. “My lungs are not really working yet, but I hope it will be OK when I’m not practicing now.” While she did consider not playing in New York…