The police shut down the Champs-Élysées after a shootout between officers and an attacker days before France holds the first round of its presidential election.
Presidential candidates in France expressed solidarity with the police after a shooting in Paris left the gunman and a police officer dead and others wounded. A question of “who is French” may be a source of the rising far-right populism the country is experiencing.
Slipping in polls before the first round of a presidential election, the leader of the far-right National Front vowed to clamp down on foreigners, thrilling her base.
After recent electoral upheavals, including the victory of Donald J. Trump and the vote for “Brexit,” the world is waiting to see which way the French will lean.
The first votes will be cast on Sunday. Here’s how we have covered the issues and the candidates in a tight, unpredictable and complex race.
The president ordered an investigation into steel imports, scoring a victory for his administration’s nationalists in a debate that remains far from settled.
Global steel makers blame Chinese rivals for swamping the world with unwanted product, but closing mills there can be expensive and difficult.
The measure faces an uncertain fate as Congress also must deal with a far more urgent deadline: a looming government shutdown if a new funding measure is not approved.
Protection for people with pre-existing problems would be largely technical as states could waive key insurance rules.
The town of Van Wert, Ohio, became a crossroads of federal policy with a visit by Education Secretary DeVos and Randi Weingarten, a teachers’ union leader.
The attorney general’s comments, related to a federal judge’s ruling that blocked the Trump administration’s latest travel ban, drew criticism from lawmakers.
States seeking to execute inmates face a range of practical and legal barriers, as recent court battles in Arkansas have made clear.
Activists who pressured advertisers to pull out of “The O’Reilly Factor” are claiming victory after the Fox News star was dismissed from the network.
With the payment to the dismissed host, 21st Century Fox payouts related to sexual harassment allegations at Fox News now total more than $85 million.
Many women remain skeptical that they will be heard if they come forward with tales of inappropriate workplace behavior. But the power women wield outside their own offices may help even the game.
President Trump treated the trio of high-profile supporters to a private dinner, a room-by-room tour and a wide-ranging discussion on Wednesday night.
Scouring the 510 pages of documents from Trump inaugural donations reveals million-dollar checks from people and companies with interests at stake in Washington.
Rudolph W. Giuliani, who is negotiating in the case of Reza Zarrab, a Turkish gold trader, said he was seeking a resolution that would promote national security interests.
In this rose-colored revival of the 1964 war horse “Hello, Dolly!,” Bette Midler provides a dazzling lesson in star power.
For the 197 residents of Taesung, also known as Freedom Village, the proximity to danger is mixed with an odd sense of security.
A new Goethals Bridge, connecting Staten Island to New Jersey, is opening soon. Like thousands of other bridges across the country, the old bridge, which opened in 1928, was not designed to handle its current traffic. A debate among United States prosecutors is being led by Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who said that arresting Mr. Assange was a priority. A Republican-drawn map setting the boundaries of Texas' statehouse districts violates the U.S. Constitution by intentionally discriminating against minority voters, a federal court found Thursday — the third such ruling against the state's voting laws in roughly a month. The recording, released through a Muslim Brotherhood channel, seems to show the Egyptian military staging the deaths to look as if the men had died in combat.
The university said the conservative author could speak on May 2, but she rejected the offer and vowed to appear next week, as originally planned.
Street protests, shortages, currency restrictions and the constant threat of government expropriation have left foreign companies planning to leave.
A legislator made a last-minute attempt to shut down the International Church of Cannabis, but it opened its doors to the public on Thursday.
A man was indicted on charges that he claimed falsely to be a registered architect. The New York attorney general couldn’t resist comparing him to George Costanza.
Naked mole rats flip a metabolic switch to last for hours in oxygen levels that would kill other mammals. They can last 18 minutes with zero oxygen. A passenger found the weapon and gave it to a member of the flight crew. The episode is the latest in a string of embarrassments for the air marshal program.
One of the last surviving scientists in the forefront of the computer revolution, Dr. Huskey helped develop what was once billed as the first personal computer.
High winds have grounded a huge iceberg on the Newfoundland shore, to the delight of camera-wielding sightseers.
Rodricus Crawford’s case drew national attention to a parish that sentenced young black men to death at an unusually high rate.
The timing of stimulation to the brain was determined to be crucial in research published on Thursday, and it might help treat dementia, head injuries and other conditions.
A photo of the banner, posted online by the coach of a college women’s basketball team, led to calls across China to fire the coach and punish the students.
The story behind one of the chef’s most memorable dishes.
Michiganders know the state gets a bad rap, but we remain captivated by its peculiar charms.
A journey through the brilliant, nearly 70-year career of a virtuoso who created some of art’s greatest portraits and had a deep respect for all his subjects.
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