Every evening, the editorial staff of Libé selects the news of the day that should not be missed in France and the rest of the world.
Donald Trump’s challenge to land rights suspended
A federal judge in Seattle this Thursday suspended Donald Trump’s challenge to land rights in the United States. “This is a blatantly unconstitutional order”said federal magistrate John Coughenour, preventing the new administration from implementing a decree limiting the right to automatic birthright citizenship in the United States. In his text signed Monday, the new American head of state asks American agencies to refuse to recognize the citizenship of children born in the United States to parents who are not American citizens or legal permanent residents.
The Senate votes on Bayrou’s budget, still under pressure
The senators adopted this Thursday by a large majority the finance bill (PLF) for this year at first reading by 217 votes to 105 (those of the socialists, ecologists and communists). They had resumed its examination a week earlier where they had interrupted at the beginning of December when the Barnier government had been censored. They still had to finish discussing its second part, the one devoted to expenses. The opportunity also, for the Bayrou government installed in the meantime, to integrate its own adjustments to the content of the text inherited from its predecessors and which it has chosen to take over.
Chopper attacker targeting “Charlie Hebdo” gets 30 years in prison
Zaheer Mahmood, a 29-year-old Pakistani man tried for trying to kill two people in front of the Charlie Hebdo premises in September 2020, was sentenced this Thursday to thirty years in prison by the special assize court for minors in Paris. He was found guilty of attempted assassinations and terrorist conspiracy after seriously injuring two people with a chopper in Paris in front of the former premises of the Charlie Hebdo newspaper, thinking of attacking journalists from the satirical weekly.
Thirteen nominations for “Emilia Pérez” at the 2025 Oscars
The highly anticipated announcement of the Oscar nominations took place this Thursday. And it’s a total raid on the musical Emilia Perez by Jacques Audiard, selected to represent France during the ceremony which will take place on March 2, and who will compete in thirteen categories – three more than The Artist in 2012 – including best film and best director. The star of the film Karla Sofía Gascón is also among the contenders for the Oscar for best actress, a historic first for a transgender actress.
Jean-François Kahn is dead
The non-conformist journalist, who claimed to be “revolutionary centrism” and had launched several press titles, including Thursday Event et Mariannedied this Thursday at the age of 86. Jean-François Kahn was notably a frenzied engineer of concepts aimed at stirring up public debate and a media world whose lack of pluralism and propensity towards conformism he criticized throughout his life.
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Trial of Amandine’s ordeal: “What is this hatred that drives you? Towards each of your children, all of them, one after the other?
-Before the Montpellier Assize Court, Amandine’s mother and stepfather tried this Thursday, January 23, to explain the deadly mechanism which led to the child’s death in August 2020. The verdict is expected for Friday. Our hearing report.
On the Côte d’Azur, an “inclusive class” for apprentices with disabilities
The CFA of the metropolis set up a new system last school year dedicated to young people with a cognitive disorder. Their contract is completed over four years instead of two, to adapt to their pace and avoid dropping out. From our correspondent in Nice.
Mathieu Boogaerts: “On stage, I feel strangely better when I feel ugly”
The songwriter, back with “Grand Piano”, a melancholic, sensual and meticulous record, recounts his anxiety about freezing his songs and the different ways of expressing the same feeling. Read the interview.
