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Barack Obama announced Tuesday that he had chosen Chicago's troubled south side as the location for his presidential library.
Sri Lanka's President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled his official residence shortly before protesters, angered by an unprecedented economic crisis, overran the compound and stormed his nearby office. Hundreds of thousands of people massed on the streets around the leader's home, according to police estimates, to demand he step down over the government's mismanagement of the unprecedented downturn. Earlier troops guarding the residence fired in the air to hold the crowd back until Rajapaksa was safely removed.
Marine Le Pen’s score rewarded her years-long efforts to make her far-right politics more palatable to voters. Campaigning hard on cost-of-living issues, she made deep inroads among blue-collar voters in disaffected rural communities and in former industrial centers.
The International Business Times reports that Pres. Barack Obama has a net worth of $70 million. The President receives a six-figure pension as a former president. Obama has made millions from speaking engagements and his best-selling books. His latest memoir, "A Promised Land," was published in November 2020. It sold nearly 890,000 copies within 24 hours of its release.
U.S.-led air strikes hit 10 units of Islamic State fighters in Syria in recent days as well as militants with the al Qaeda-linked Khorasan Group. Jillian Kitchener reports.