White House says Comey committed ‘atrocities’ as FBI director

A White House spokeswoman said on Wednesday that President Trump fired James Comey after receiving a letter that outlined “atrocities” committed by the FBI director.

White House deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters that “one of the big catalysts” for Trump was Comey’s decision to hold a press conference last summer announcing the bureau’s conclusions in its probe into Hillary Clinton’s emails without telling then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch what he was going to say.

“He had essentially taken a stick of dynamite and thrown it into the Department of Justice by going around the chain of command,” Huckabee Sanders said. “That is simply not allowed.”

During testimony to Congress last week, Comey said that Lynch’s controversial tarmac meeting with former President Bill Clinton last June led him to believe that the Justice Department could not by itself “credibly” conclude its investigation.

“That was a hard call for me to make, to call the attorney general that morning and say, ‘I’m about to do a press conference and I’m not going to tell you what I’m going to say,'” Comey testified. “I knew this would be disastrous for me personally, but I thought this is the best way to protect these institutions that we care so much about.”

Putin says Russia had ‘nothing to do’ with Trump’s firing of Comey

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that Moscow had “nothing to do” with President Trump’s abrupt firing of FBI Director James Comey amid the bureau’s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

In an impromptu interview with a CBS News reporter in a tunnel adjacent to a hockey rink, Putin said the move would not affect U.S.-Russia relations.

“There will be no effect,” Putin, dressed in his hockey gear and holding a stick, said through a translator. “Your question looks very funny for me. Don’t be angry with me. We have nothing to do with that.”

Paris's Gare du Nord train station reopens after security alert

Police poured into Paris' Gare du Nord station late Monday, evacuating passengers from platforms and sealing off the area for several hours in a new security scare to hit the French capital.

Paris police spokeswoman Johanna Primevert told The Associated Press that the operation was aimed at "removing doubt" and ended with no arrests, but she would not say what prompted it. A station employee said the operation focused on a train from Valenciennes in northern France.

The busy station is the terminus of a large suburban and national rail network as well as Eurostar trains from London.

Rare £1.2million Ferrari driver faces court over horror crash that killed 13-year-old boy

A Ferrari driver will appear in court next month over the death of a 13-year-old boy killed in a horror crash.

Alexander Worth was declared dead at the scene after the £1.2 million supercar ploughed through a fence in North Warnborough, Hampshire, on August 26 last year.

Matt Cobden, 38, has been reported for summons for causing death by careless driving and is due to attend Basingstoke Magistrates' Court on June 6, the Daily Echo reports.

Cobden, who owns a bespoke luxury car storage facility, was rushed to North Hampshire Hospital in a serious condition after the crash.

Donald Trump's Hollywood Walk of Fame star hit with a toilet

US president, Donald Trump's star on the Hollywood walk of Fame has been vandalized a couple of times and the vandals don't seem to be backing down anytime soon .

The star got hit again but this time around, with a toilet which had the word '' Take A Trump'' inscribed on it.


The golden toilet which was placed right next to Trump's star over the weekend, was filled something wet and filthy.

Law enforcement sources tell TMZ  no one has reported the vandalism, and they're not yet investigating the toilet prank. The site also reached out to Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, which oversees the stars' maintenance but so far no response from them.

The FBI is scrambling to correct some of James Comey's testimony on Hillary Clinton's emails

FBI director James Comey generated national headlines last week with his dramatic testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee, explaining his “incredibly painful” decision to go public about the Hillary Clinton emails found on Anthony Weiner’s laptop.

Perhaps Comey’s most surprising revelation was that Huma Abedin — Weiner’s wife and a top Clinton deputy — had made “a regular practice” of forwarding “hundreds and thousands” of Clinton messages to her husband, “some of which contain classified information.” Comey testified that Abedin had done this so that the disgraced former congressman could print them out for her boss. (Weiner’s laptop was seized after he came under criminal investigation for sex crimes, following a media report about his online relationship with a teenager.)

The New York Post plastered its story on the front page with a photo of an underwear-clad Weiner and the headline: “HARD COPY: Huma sent Weiner classified Hillary emails to print out.” The Daily News went with a similar front-page screamer: “HUMA ERROR: Sent classified emails to sext maniac Weiner.”


The problem: Much of what Comey said about this was inaccurate. Now the FBI is trying to figure out what to do about it.

Suffer from headaches or migraines for no apparent reason? This could be why

From stripey sofas to brutalist buildings, patterns of parallel lines found everywhere could be bringing misery to millions of headache sufferers, according to scientists.

While the link between flashing lights and certain forms of epilepsy is well known, some static patterns made up of bars and lines are now suspected of causing negative effects even in the brains of healthy people.

Researchers at the University Medical Centre (UMC) Utrecht in the Netherlands say that a rise in a type of brain activity seen when such images are viewed indicates a possible cause of headaches.

Around one in five women and one in 15 men suffer from migraines in the United Kingdom, costing the economy an estimated 25 million working days per year.

Woman jailed seven years for stabbing husband to death over Baba Ijebu

The convict, Onyinyechi, was said to have stabbed her 35-year-old husband, Abuchi Akunne, with a kitchen knife during an argument on March 28, 2015 at their residence located at No. 85, Idimu Road, Ejigbo, Lagos.

For pleading guilty to stabbing her husband to death with a kitchen knife over Premier Lotto tickets, popularly called Baba Ijebu, Justice Josephine Oyefeso of a Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja has sentenced a 29-year-old housewife, Onyinyechi Akunne, to seven years imprisonment.

The convict, Onyinyechi, was said to have stabbed her 35-year-old husband, Abuchi Akunne, with a kitchen knife during an argument on March 28, 2015 at their residence located at No. 85, Idimu Road, Ejigbo, Lagos.

She was initially charged for murder but was commuted to a charge of grievous bodily harm and pleaded guilty to it.While delivering judgment, Justice Oyefeso rejected a clause in the plea bargain agreement where it was proposed that the housewife should serve a sentence of community service instead of a prison term.

Phoenix serial killer suspect arrested

Police in the US state of Arizona say a man arrested last month is responsible for a series of deadly shootings in Phoenix last year.

Aaron Saucedo, 23, had already been charged with murder in connection with a killing in August 2015, police say.

Now he has been linked to the deaths of eight other people, between January and July 2016.

Police say they have not identified a motive but believe he acted alone. His lawyer has not commented.

91 year old Queen Elizabeth II photographed driving a green Jaguar after Church services

91-year-old Monarch, Queen Elizabeth II was seen behind the wheel of her green Jaguar, while driving home from a Sunday morning service at the Royal Chapel of All Saints in Windsor Park. The Queen is the only person in the UK permitted to drive without a licence. A security guard however accompanied her. Another photo after the cut..

Emmanuel Macron elected next French president

Macron's win makes him France's youngest leader since Napoleon [Reuters]

Emmanuel Macron was elected president of France on Sunday with a business-friendly vision of European integration, resoundingly defeating Marine Le Pen, the far-right nationalist who threatened to pull out of the European Union.

The centrist's emphatic victory, which also smashed the dominance of France’s mainstream parties, will bring huge relief to European allies who feared another populist upheaval to follow Britain's vote to quit the EU and Donald Trump's election as US president.

Macron - the 39-year-old former investment banker, who served for two years as economy minister but has never previously held elected office - will now become France's youngest leader since Napoleon with a promise to transcend outdated left-right divisions.

How Sinzu, one among Nigeria’s most proficient rappers, deserted music to grow to be an American jailbird

In 2005, while the rapper referred to as Sauce Kid launched ‘Yebariba’, a cowl of the Remy Ma hit ‘Conceited’, it seemed he changed into destined for the big league and come to be a superstar.

12 years later, it hasn’t quite worked out for him like that. Instead of the quick cars, bitches and weed lifestyle he preferred to rap about; he’s a jailbird in the US, remanded on at least 3 events for prices of robbery.

Sinzu became-is a rare expertise. His capacity to weave complex American fashion rap around Nigerian slangs made him a quick contender for one of Naija’s best. He moved to america after his secondary college training in Lagos, Nigeria.

While there, he met up with a positive T Billion (Tee Billz subsequently) and formed a record label called Q Beats.

Nicki Minaj Helps Dozens of her Fans Settle their Student Loans & Tuition Fees

Nicki Minaj has offered to pay more than 25 of her fans’ student loans and other debts, and also get some of them into school.

The singer was tweeting about her latest giving back contest which involves her fans making a video of her song “Regret in your Years”.

The prize was to fly the winners to Las Vegas for her concert.

When Nicki Minaj tweeted that citizens from all countries can enter the contest, one fan replied: “Well you wanna pay for my tuition?” That was how the giveaway started.

50,000 evacuate German city over unexploded WWII bombs

More than 50,000 people were evacuated from Germany's northern city of Hanover on Sunday in one of the country's largest post-war operations to defuse unexploded World War II-era bombs.

Residents in a densely populated part of the city were ordered to leave their homes for the operation, planned since mid-April, to remove several recently discovered unexploded bombs.

Authorities had expected to remove at least five explosive devices, but only three were found. Two were defused successfully, while the third required special equipment to be made safe.

At two other sites, only scrap metal was found.

16 Psychological Reasons Good People Do Bad Things

"The line between good and evil is permeable," said psychologist Philip Zimbardo, "and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces." 

As Zimbardo and other social scientists have shown in a range of experiments, actions we deem evil — cheating, lying, stealing, and worse — don't spring from people's character, but the situations they find themselves in. 

To better understand why, we examined research from the fields of psychology and ethics. Here's what we found.