Barbara VornDick was researching the fifth U.S. president’s daughter. It turned into a years-long odyssey that cast her into the roles of sleuth, genealogist and more.

The man was sent to France under the 'one in, one out' deal but returned via the Channel on a small boat, the BBC understands.

Authorities raced against the clock Tuesday as experts in art security told NBC News it could already be too late to recover the jewels.

France’s latest political crisis has eased, for now. Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu narrowly survived a no-confidence vote on Thursday, averting another government collapse and giving President Emmanuel Macron a brief respite before an even tougher fight over the national budget.

A hunt is under way to find the four thieves before the jewels - which once belonged to French royals - vanish for good.

A cruise passenger was found unresponsive in her cabin while the boat was docked in Cannes, France, a local outlet has reported.

The precious artifacts snatched from Paris’s Louvre Museum on Sunday include an emerald necklace gifted by Napoleon to his second wife and other priceless crown jewels.

French police are desperate to retrieve priceless jewels stolen from the Louvre in a brazen daylight robbery, but experts have warned it may already be too late to save them.

I am now in distress, in ill health, & in a forreign [sic] country,” Hay wrote in one letter from 1839, pleading its reciever to “save me from utter ruin.”

The revelations came on another day of shame for the Home Office, as the number of migrant arrivals this year passed the total for 2024 - 36,816.