PARIS (AP) — French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne resigned Monday following recent political turmoil over , paving the way for President Emmanuel Macron to seek fresh momentum by appointing a new government in coming days.

The shakeup was widely seen as an attempt by the 46-year-old centrist Macron to head off a looming lame-duck status. Macron’s term is to end in 2027, and he won’t be able to run for president for a consecutive third term in line with the French

NEW YORK (AP) — The estate of Lois Kirschenbaum, an opera fanatic known for collecting autographs backstage at the Metropolitan Opera for more than a half-century, has donated $215,000 to the George and Nora London Foundation for Singers.

“Lois’s love and dedication to opera and its artists was absolute,” foundation president John Hauser said in a statement on Monday. “She was a real friend to the foundation, and whenever she was in the audience, we were the

Olympic gymnastics great Mary Lou Retton said she faces a long battle recuperating at home from a rare form of pneumonia in which doctors weren’t sure whether she would survive.

In an interview that aired Monday on NBC’s “Today” show, Retton said while wearing a breathing tube pumping oxygen through her nose that she was sent home after a few days in a Texas hospital but had an immediate setback that required her to be put in intensive care in October.

“This is serious and this is life,”

TORONTO — There are times when Mark Critch completely forgets he’s filming a show about his own childhood on the set of “Son of a Critch.”

“I was watching a scene and I actually thought, ‘Huh, that happened to me once,’” says the 49-year-old actor, who plays his father Mike in the series. “And then I thought, ‘What the hell am I doing? I wrote this and I know it happened to me once.’”

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s president on Monday suspended the country’s minister of humanitarian affairs and poverty alleviation over the use of a private bank account for ministry financial transactions in the government’s social welfare program.

Betta Edu was suspended with immediate effect while Nigeria’s anti-corruption agency carries out a “thorough investigation” of all ministry financial transactions,” presidential spokesman Ajuri Ngelale said in a statement. It said the investigation would extend to the entire framework of Nigeria’s social investment

OTTAWA — Members of Parliament from all parties must set a better tone when the House of Commons resumes later this month, interim Liberal House leader Steven MacKinnon said Monday.

MacKinnon was speaking shortly after being sworn in at a private ceremony at Rideau Hall to temporarily replace Karina Gould as the Liberal’s main House of Commons manager while she is on maternity leave.

“There’s no question we can do better,” said MacKinnon.

The MP for Gatineau, Que. is now in charge of negotiating with other parties

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A “highly impactful” winter storm delivered a punch to the country’s midsection on Monday, with blizzard conditions dumping as much as a foot or more of snow and shutting down schools and highways in several Midwest states.

Through Tuesday, snow as deep as 8 to 12 inches (20 to 30 centimeters) could blanket a broad area stretching from southeastern Colorado all the way to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, including western Kansas, eastern Nebraska, large parts of

BERLIN (AP) — Franz Beckenbauer, who won the World Cup both as player and coach and became one of Germany’s most beloved personalities with his easygoing charm, has died. He was 78.

Beckenbauer’s death was first announced through a statement from his family to German news agency dpa and then confirmed .

“It is with deep sadness that we announce that my husband and our father, Franz Beckenbauer, passed away peacefully in his sleep yesterday, Sunday, surrounded by his family,” the family

MONTREAL — Canadian air travellers will be largely unaffected by the grounding of Boeing’s 737 Max 9 airplane, but they may want to double-check their itineraries nonetheless.

Some passengers could be booked on routes disrupted by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) order, which grounded the Max 9 after a panel tore away from the fuselage of an Alaska Airlines plane Friday, leaving a refrigerator-sized hole in the cabin wall and prompting an emergency landing. No one was seriously injured.

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