France’s far-right leader Marine Le Pen says the country is “in a quagmire” after chaotic legislative elections produced a fragmented parliament.

France’s privacy watchdog has fined Amazon’s French warehouse business $35 million for using an “excessively intrusive system” to monitor worker performance and activity.

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A French army general involved in the preparations says France’s military is planning to contribute 15,000 soldiers to the massive security operation for next year’s Paris Olympics.

France’s parliament has approved a boost to military spending spurred on by Russia's war in Ukraine.

France’s beloved abbey of Mont-Saint-Michel has reached a ripe old age.

In a story published May 25, 2022, about France honoring Darren Walker, the president of the Ford Foundation, The Associated Press incorrectly referred to the National Gallery of the Arts where Walker is on the board.

France recorded more than 100,000 virus infections in a single day for the first time since the pandemic struck and COVID-19 hospitalizations have doubled over the past month.

This week’s new entertainment releases include documentaries about celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck and another on a landmark 1969 Harlem concert series known as “Black Woodstock” that featured Nina Simone, Stevie Wonder, Sly and the Family Stone.

Pap Ndiaye, a Black French scholar and expert on the U.S. civil rights movement poses for a photo inside France's National Museum of the History of Immigration, in Paris, Thursday, March 11, 2021. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)PARIS – A Black French scholar and expert on U.S. minority rights movements who's taking charge of France’s state-run immigration museum says it's “vital” for his country to confront its colonial past so that it can conquer present racial injustice. AdFrom his new post at the immigration museum, Ndiaye hopes to contribute to opening up the debate needed so the French confront their collective memories. The Palais de la Porte Doree, which houses the museum in the east of Paris, is in itself a strong testimony from France’s colonial era. It will propose a new approach to the history of immigration to ensure that it is “not a footnote” in France’s history, Ndiaye said.

The Orange County Sheriff’s Office is investigating an overnight shooting after they say a man strangled someone then tried to set their house on fire. Sheriff John Mina said deputies responded to the 3400 block of Ridgemont Road Friday night to respond to a domestic violence call. “The suspect had choked the victim, later came back and intentionally lit the house on fire and fled the scene,” Mina said. Investigators said several hours later, the same man returned to the home and tried to set the home on fire and fled again. While deputies were investigating, he came back and opened fire on deputies who returned fire striking him.

Delta is expected to make landfall in Western Louisiana Friday as a Category 2 hurricane just six weeks after Category 4 Laura devastated those same areas. Delta will be the fourth named storm -- following Cristobal, Marco and Laura -- to make landfall in Louisiana in what has been an extremely busy hurricane season for the Gulf Coast. 2004 was a rough hurricane season for the Sunshine State to say the least. Five named storms impacted Florida in 2004Frances and Jeanne took the 2004 hurricane season to another level by making landfall just a few miles apart within three weeks of each other. In total, three of the four hurricanes that impacted Florida in the 2004 season occurred in a three-week period in September.

But has France really grown more savage as Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin says? Or is the problem a growing sense of insecurity fueled by the word savage itself, as Justice Minister Eric Dupond-Moretti contends? But has France really grown more savage, as Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin says? Or is the problem a growing sense of insecurity fueled by the word savage itself, as Justice Minister Eric Dupond-Moretti contends? The justice minister says the word "savage itself is the root of France's security problem.

French President Emmanuel Macron speaks during a ceremony to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the proclamation of the Republic, at the Pantheon monument, Friday Sept.4. Speaking at a ceremony Friday celebrating Frances democratic history and naturalizing new citizens, the French president said, You dont choose one part of France. You choose France....The Republic will never allow any separatist adventure.Freedom in France, Macron said, includes the freedom to believe or not to believe. Macrons centrist government has promised a law in the coming months against Islamic separatism but it is not clear yet exactly what it would police. Some critics fear it could unfairly stigmatize Frances largely moderate Muslim population, the largest in western Europe.

VILLENEUVE-LA-GARENNE With Frances national health agency decrying an exponential rise in new virus infections, French President Emmanuel Macron said Friday he couldnt rule out a new nationwide lockdown. Nothing in theory can be excluded, Macron told reporters when asked about a new nationwide lockdown. Amid worries that France could become a new virus hotspot, Macron defended his governments push to restart the economy and its handling of the post-lockdown period. In the face of new cases, Paris started requiring masks everywhere starting Friday and French workers nationwide will have to wear masks on the job starting Tuesday. With Britain, Germany and Belgium all imposing new restrictions on people arriving from all or parts of France, Macron called for better European coordination to fight the spread of the virus.

A waitress serves a glass of champagne at La Grande Georgette restaurant in front of the cathedral in Reims, the Champagne region, east of Paris, Tuesday, July 28, 2020. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)PARIS French Champagne producers decided Tuesday to put unprecedented limits on the quantity of grapes theyll harvest this year in hopes of propping up prices and containing damage from the coronavirus pandemic. But for the Champagne Committee, the influential group that represents 16,000 vintners around France's Champagne region, thats the price to pay for saving their luxury business. But this years discussions took on unprecedented importance after the industry collectively lost $2 billion in sales because of virus lockdown measures. Champagne revenues this year have already fallen by a third, a plunge unmatched in living memory.

Festering beneath France's promise of guaranteed health care for all lie deep disparities across economic and racial lines differences laid painfully bare by the COVID-19 crisis. The COVID-19 crisis has re-focused attention on the health care challenges that have long plagued areas like Seine-Saint-Denis. They deliver food and basic protective gear, translate public health guidance on their social media accounts and offer translators to help people navigate the French health care system. The French health care system is meant to provide accessible medical treatment for all, but years of cost cuts left it stretched when the virus hit. Talking about racism in French health care can prove difficult.

Sixteen years ago, three hurricanes -- Charley, Frances and Jeanne -- slammed Central Florida leaving Floridians with memories of survival they soon wont forget. Even all these years later, people still remember every detail of how they were impacted by the three hurricanes. During Charlie, 11 trees came down on our property and off went the power. Our power was for two weeks after the last hurricane that went through here. Nobody wanted to buy horses after that, so I lost everything.Feel free to share your own story from those hurricanes in the comments below.

France's Prime Minister Jean Castex leaves after the weekly cabinet meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Wednesday, July 15, 2020. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)PARIS Frances new prime minister on Wednesday laid out 100 billion euros ($110 billion) in new spending to rescue the virus-battered economy from its worst crisis since World War II. The crisis highlighted our difficulties and our failures, Prime Minister Jean Castex told lawmakers. The new virus rescue plan will include 20 billion euros for climate-related investment, including wider use of electric bikes, stimulus for local food suppliers, urban renovation and mass renovation of older buildings. Another 40 billion euros will go to overhauling strategic French manufacturing sites, he said.

France's Prime Minister Jean Castex leaves after the weekly cabinet meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Wednesday, July 15, 2020. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)PARIS Frances new prime minister is firmly defending the police despite growing concerns about police brutality, and is pledging to crack down on ethnic or religious separatism in neighborhoods with large minority populations. In his first major policy speech, Prime Minister Jean Castex vowed to fight racism and anti-Semitism, but didnt directly address recent protests in France against racial injustice and police violence unleashed by George Floyds death in the United States. Multiple cases are running through French courts involving accusations that police were at fault for deaths or injuries during difficult arrests. Addressing concerns about police brutality, French President Emmanuel Macron promised Tuesday that more police units would be equipped with body cameras to restore trust.But the governments response to protests about abuses by French police has been clumsy.

French pharmaceutical company Servier Laboratories is facing millions of euros in potential fines after a massive trial around a diabetes drug used as a diet pill. The popular drug, called Mediator, became one of Frances biggest modern health scandals. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)PARIS Accused of favoring profits over patients lives, French pharmaceutical company Servier Laboratories is facing millions of euros in potential fines and damages after a huge trial involving 6,500 plaintiffs who say the company allowed a diabetes drug to be widely and irresponsibly prescribed as a diet pill with deadly consequences. But it took an independent investigation by another worried French doctor before the company suspended sales in its main market in France in 2009. Lawyers for Servier argued that the company wasn't aware of the risks associated with Mediator before 2009, and said the company never pretended it was a diet pill.

French Defense Minister Florence Parly tweeted that Droukdel and several of his allies were killed Wednesday in northern Mali by French forces and their partners. It was not immediately clear how his identity was confirmed by the French. She said the operations dealt a severe blow to terrorist groups in the region that have been operating for years despite the presence of thousands of French, U.N. and other African troops. Since sending troops in 2013 to contain jihadists terrorizing Mali, France has struggled to root out extremism from the region. In a March video released by the extremist monitoring group SITE, Droukdel urged governments of the Sahel region to try to end the French military presence, calling the troops armies of occupation."