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Macron calls for 'different' method of governing after disappointing legislative vote
CNN
French President Emmanuel Macron called for a "different" method of governing in France in his first public comment following Sunday's parliamentary elections.
Speaking in a national address on Wednesday, Macron said he recognized the "deep fractures" in the country.
"I cannot ignore the fractures, the deep divisions that run through our country and that are reflected in the composition of the new [National] Assembly," he said.
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The CIA has sent the White House an unclassified email listing all new hires that have been with the agency for two years or less in an effort to comply with an executive order to downsize the federal workforce, according to three sources familiar with the matter – a deeply unorthodox move that could potentially expose the identities of those officers to foreign government hackers.
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Trump administration officials are hurrying to catch up to the president’s audacious and improbable plan for the United States to take ownership of Gaza and redevelop it into a “Middle Eastern Riviera,” trying to wrap their heads around an idea that some hope might be so outlandish it forces other nations to step in with their own proposals for the Palestinian enclave.