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Chaos took hold of France this past weekend, as rioters stormed the streets, smashed buildings, set cars and a city hall in Limoges on fire, and looted stores across the country.

Obesity isn’t unhealthy.

Over the past several months, as artificial intelligence and its potentially catastrophic effects on society have taken center stage, discussion around the technology has broken down along a familiar framework in American politics, dividing into two camps:

A few summers ago, Debra Brewer, the chief of the Portsmouth Police Department in southern Ohio, walked outside of the station and found a man sitting on the steps, crying.

It’s Wednesday, October 21.

DALLAS — John Berry, a Republican county chairman from Jacksboro, Texas, had a blunt explanation for his decision to show up to this year’s first-ever GOP midterm convention: his own serious concerns about Republican “voter apathy” surrounding this year’s…

The people who described the Black Lives Matter riots as “mostly peaceful” and Joe Biden as “sharp” and “focused” are at it again.

On Friday, Heidi Levine, a Jewish American photojournalist for The Washington Post, was documenting the Palestinian olive harvest in the West Bank, when about 20 masked Israeli settlers descended upon her.

Did Sally Rooney ever really want to be an author?

Like many other people, I was enthralled by the new movie You Can See Everything.

Welcome back to This Week in Canada, where Monday’s defeat of the separatism referendum in Alberta isn’t anywhere close to the end of the forces that put the question on the ballot.

It’s Tuesday, October 20.

Who are you going to believe: the Trump administration, or your lying eyes?

In 2022, when I first profiled the erstwhile Massachusetts Institute of Technology molecular biologist David Sabatini, he was collecting unemployment.

Whenever France burns, people look for precedents, the best comparison to the riots du jour.

“You bourgeois bitch, we’re going to rape you!”

Russia is losing ground in eastern Ukraine and suffering mounting casualties.

CBS Evening News anchor Tony Dokoupil is joined by Vice President J.D.

Last year, a San Francisco-based AI start-up called Delphi embarked on a project: building an artificial intelligence version of me, called Arthur AI.

It’s Monday, October 19.

I read presidential biographies for fun, and I can watch basketball for hours.

In the past two decades that I have been living in Paris, I have been a witness to some terrible events—the massacre at the offices of Charlie Hebdo, the mass slaughter of young people at the Bataclan, the untrammeled violence of the Gilet Jaunes demonstr…

The allegation that seven members of the Chi Phi fraternity at Cornell University drugged and sexually assaulted a female student has roiled the country.

“C’est la Révolution, on prend la Bastille!”

On September 30, Texas representative James Talarico, the Democratic candidate for Senate in Texas, appeared on Zoom for a scheduled event with the United States Hispanic Business Council.

A few weeks ago, the famed investor Steve Eisman warned that the companies driving the AI boom were using the same financial shenanigans that once brought down Enron in what is still regarded as one of the greatest financial frauds ever.

“When I play tennis, I don’t really care if I win.

Welcome back to The Weekend Press!

Unlike most of us, Chrystia Freeland saw Donald Trump coming from about 450 miles away, from her perch in Ottawa as a top government minister under former Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau.

I went to see the new Tom Cruise film, Digger, at a midweek matinee in Pasadena, expecting it to be a somewhat monastic experience.

You can see everything is a remarkable sentence.

Max sailed off, in and out of weeks and almost over a year, for the land of the Wild Things.

Hello, readers.

Last week, social media influencer Alix Earle went viral for admitting that she’s never read a book—despite graduating from the University of Miami with a business degree.

America is running low on munitions, its shipyards can’t keep pace, and the materials its weapons depend on too often run through China.

Garry Kasparov came to The Free Press office earlier this week with a new member of his team: his security guard.

Some things never change.

If you live in New York City and spend any time on social media, there’s a chance Joe Sweeny’s videos have come across your feed.

Hi Abigail, I was in my mid-20s when I started dating a man in his mid-40s.

Sometime in the fall of 2020, shortly after she departed The New York Times, I had a brief conversation with Bari Weiss.

It’s Thursday, October 8.

A young researcher in Siberia has died of the very disease her institute studies, and Russia won’t say how it happened.

Ever since Zohran Mamdani won the mayoral election nearly a year ago, many New Yorkers have chosen to give him a chance.

Canada has spent five years trying to do something that many psychiatrists say is impossible: reliably determine when a person who is mentally ill will never get better.

You can’t open the news these days without seeing something about my school.

Hayden Kelner, a senior at Ohio Wesleyan University, was giving a campus tour last month when his group reached fraternity circle, the epicenter of the school’s Greek life.

Few people outside of tech knew the name Jensen Huang as recently as Donald Trump’s first term.

“Is it your quinceañera?”

Earlier this morning, we brought you a collection of stories on the world October 7 made.

It’s Wednesday, October 7.