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President Donald Trump is deploying the full trappings of formal state entertaining for the first time on Monday in the hopes an elaborate display of diplomacy can lead to a deeper bond with French President Emmanuel Macron.

The former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg has said he will write a $4.5m cheque to cover this year’s US commitment to the Paris climate agreement.

Donald Trump last year pulled the US out of the deal, which was signed by Barack Obama, making the US the only country opposed. Even Syria, torn by a seven-year civil war, has signed the pact.

Bloomberg, whose net worth is pegged by Forbes at about $50bn, was speaking on Earth Day, to CBS’s Face the Nation. He did not commit to provide funds beyond 2018 and said he hoped that by next year Trump would have changed his mind.

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Flight records of Trump’s trip to Russia obtained by Bloomberg confirm Trump’s overnight stay at the Ritz-Carlton in Moscow.

In the memos from Comey released last week, which the former FBI director kept during his time in office to document his interactions with the president, Comey writes that Trump twice told him that hadn't stayed the night in Russia during the trip.

The man suspected of killing four people and injuring four others after opening fire inside a Tennessee Waffle House has been arrested following a massive manhunt, according to police.

Travis Jeffrey Reinking, 29, was taken into custody on Monday afternoon, moments after a press conference in which police said they had no new leads.

"Murder suspect Travis Reinking is in custody. Arrested moments ago," Metropolitan Nashville Police Department tweeted just after 2 p.m. ET.

In a second tweet, police said that Reinking was found "in a wooded area near Old Hickory Blvd & Hobson Pk.," which is less than two miles from the Waffle House.

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Police have arrested a suspect after a van mounted the curb and struck numerous pedestrians in Toronto

The incident happened on Yonge Street south of Finch Avenue, according to the Toronto Police Service. Initial estimates suggest eight to 10 people were struck.

Witness Alex Shaker, who was driving southbound at the time, says the van was travelling at high speed on the sidewalk. The van was also southbound.

“He started going down on the sidewalk and crumbling down people one by one,” Shaker told CTV News Channel on Monday afternoon.

Update: 9:50 PM (ET).  Toronto officials report that ten people have died, and  15 others were injured as a result of this attack.

Ismael Lopez was killed by police who came to his home in the middle of the night looking for an alleged domestic abuser who actually lived across the street. Nearly a year later, the authorities continue to shield the identities of the cops who killed him and won’t allow for a public accounting of the many mishaps that led to Lopez’s needless death.

Lopez was a Mexican-born immigrant who worked without documentation as an auto mechanic for the City of Bartlett, Tennessee. Across the state line in Southaven, Mississippi on July 23, 2017 he was asleep in his home when, according to his wife, Claudia, their barking pit bull woke the couple from their slumber. Ismael got out of bed to investigate. Moments later he was dead after a bullet ripped through the back of hisskull.

DPS Chief Bobby Maldonado announced the filing of complaints in a campus-wide email on Sunday evening.

“Our investigation is ongoing and others may be implicated in the coming days,” Maldonado said.

Those 18 individuals have also been removed from academic participation out of an “abundance of caution” and concern for the university community, Maldonado said. Alternate class and study arrangements will be made for those students during the university’s judicial process, the chief said.

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