France eases off-field woes ahead of World Cup with comfortable 2-0 against Austria in Nations League
CNN
After a torrid few months in the French national team camp, there were plenty of positives to take away from France's 2-0 win over Austria in Nations League Group A on Thursday.
A powerful strike from Kylian Mbappé and a trademark header from Olivier Giroud were enough to see Didier Deschamps' side leapfrog Austria at the bottom of its Nations League group as the world champion seeks to avoid relegation in the competition after a dismal campaign.
In front of a raucous Stade de France crowd, Les Bleus dominated from start to finish.
At least 30 people were detained by New York Police Department officers, CNN witnessed, as police entered Columbia University on Thursday to disperse a pro-Palestinian protest that began a day earlier as the university’s president testified before a House committee about the school’s response to antisemitism.
President Joe Biden is tapping a senior White House official to serve as US ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, a key body amid the ongoing war in Ukraine and at a time when the US is seeking to project confidence about its support for Ukraine, according to an announcement from the White House.
Speaker Mike Johnson is being lobbied by his members to raise the threshold required to trigger the procedure to oust the speaker, according to multiple GOP sources – a move that would help ensure the Louisiana Republican can pass foreign aid bills and still keep his job without needing to rely on Democrats to bail him out.