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French police clash with migrants after executing eviction order on Parisian theater squatters– rmx.news
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French riot police forcibly evacuated the Gaîté Lyrique cultural venue on Tuesday morning, which had been illegally occupied by hundreds of migrant squatters for over three months with the backing of far-left local lawmakers.

The operation, carried out amidst protests and clashes with demonstrators, resulted in the arrest of 46 individuals, mostly migrants, and several minor injuries.

The eviction process began at approximately 6 a.m., as demonstrators — who heeded the call by the far-left La France Insoumise to protest at the venue — attempted to block police entry. Riot police had to deploy tear gas to clear the area.

According to reports, many migrants had already left during the night, fearing forced removal and detention without a viable housing alternative.

Discovery of a new species of fossil tree helps paint picture of ancient African forest– phys.org
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Recent research by scientists at the Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT), Texas Tech University, and several other collaborating institutions have identified ancient fossils of a newly described tree species named Astropanax eogetem.

The discovery further reveals the details of life nearly 22 million years ago (a geological time known as the early Miocene) in a prehistoric forest in Ethiopia. The findings are published in the Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society.

The fossils were found in the Mush Valley, which is located about 160 miles northeast of the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa. Dr. Aaron Pan, Executive Director of the Museum of Texas Tech University and a Research Associate at BRIT, has conducted extensive excavations at the site as a member of a research team, uncovering a wealth of evidence of life in a lush tropical forest surrounding a volcanic crater lake.

Trump Declares Biden Auto-Pen Pardons ‘Void’ – But now What?– lidblog.com
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President Donald Trump has declared former President Joe Biden’s fake auto-pen pardons null and void. But what happens now?

Probably nothing.

The fact is, the courts will never touch this case. It is too fraught with the possibilities of interfering with presidential privilege. Sure, if the Trump White House arrested someone involved here, the courts might be forced into it. But, shy of that, no court will touch this case.

Further, I’d bet that the Trump White House won’t do anything past this political proclamation, either.

MSNBC Host Dramatically Quits the Democratic Party On-Air: ‘They Blew It’– www.westernjournal.com
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Symone Sanders-Townsend is a longtime operative in the Democratic Party.

The MSNBC host served as the press secretary for the 2016 presidential campaign of Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, then joined the 2020 primary campaign for then-former Vice President Joe Biden.

From there, she served in the last administration, specifically as the chief spokesperson for now-former Vice President Kamala Harris, also working as her senior adviser.

Sanders-Townsend has poured the last decade or more of her life into Democratic politics, but the current weakness of the party means that even she has had enough.

Accused Texas megachurch pastor to surrender on child sexual abuse charges– www.bostonherald.com
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A former pastor of a Texas megachurch is expected to turn himself into Oklahoma authorities Monday on child sexual abuse charges.

Robert Preston Morris, 63, is expected to surrender to officials in Osage County, where he was charged last week with five counts of lewd or indecent acts with a child, his attorney, Mack Martin, told The Associated Press.

Martin declined to comment on the charges against Morris, but said he anticipated entering a not guilty plea on Morris’ behalf.

Court records show an Osage County judge set a $50,000 bond and ordered Morris to surrender his passport to the local sheriff.

Morris resigned last year as pastor of Gateway Church in the Dallas suburb of Southlake after a woman accused him of sexually abusing her in the 1980s.

Trump’s Assault Demands a United Front– www.vanityfair.com
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Donald Trump has been in office for only about two months, but his administration is on a supercharged march to exert complete control over both the media and academia. So much of this is right out of Project 2025, which involves concentrating executive power while castrating the judicial and legislative branches. I predicted last month that the latter two might be something of a bulwark, as they were last time, against Trump’s worst instincts. This time, however, that doesn’t seem to be the case: Congressional Republicans will seemingly rubber-stamp just about anything Trump wishes, while Democrats appear increasingly powerless against the GOP’s groupthink. Only the courts and the cratering financial markets have provided some checks on Trump—and he has unsurprisingly decided to ignore both.

That’s why I’ve spent so much time lately thinking about how we can protect the norms and institutions we still have. Democratic senator Sheldon Whitehouse appeared on my podcast last month to argue that Democrats should fight the “corruption” and “chaos” of “Trump and his creepy billionaires” by “hang[ing] together with persistent and relentless focus on the real danger we are facing.” That call for solidarity isn’t just applicable to Democrats; it also applies to the media and the university system, which Trump is targeting through a process of divide and conquer.

Trump says Xi to visit in ‘not too distant future’– www.channelnewsasia.com
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WASHINGTON: United States President Donald Trump said on Monday (Mar 17) that his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping would visit the US soon, as trade tensions soar between the world’s two largest economies over Trump’s tariffs.

“He’ll be coming in the not too distant future,” Trump told reporters as he visited the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington while talking about the Chinese leader.

Trump did not give any further details.

The Wall Street Journal reported last week that Washington and Beijing had begun discussions about a possible summit in June in the US. Both leaders celebrate birthdays in the month of June.