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French President Emmanuel Macron called for early parliamentary elections in an effort to quell rising extremist views—but experts say it may backfire.

No prominent Democrats have called for Biden to step aside, and party leaders have rallied around him in the wake of the report that questioned his mental faculties.

President Joe Biden said in April he was “considering” the end of Assange’s prosecution

Hunter Biden was convicted on three felony counts related to a 2018 gun purchase.

French authorities arrested an 18-year-old Chechen national for plotting an attack on a Saint-Etienne soccer stadium during the Olympics.

If Trump were sentenced to a year or less, he would serve out his sentence in a city jail, such as Rikers Island, and would likely be eligible for parole after serving two-thirds of the sentence

Former President Donald Trump was convicted on 34 felony charges of falsifying business records Thursday, becoming the first former or sitting president to ever be convicted on criminal charges—though it remains uncertain if he’ll be sentenced to prison.

An Israeli official said Wednesday he expects fighting against Hamas will last to the end of the year.

The Papua New Guinea government’s latest numbers are more than triple the U.N.’s estimated death toll from the disaster.

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei appointed the country’s first vice president, Mohammad Mokhber, as the acting president before a new election following the president’s death in a helicopter crash—elevating a longtime ally of Iranian hardliners who once ran the country’s state-related investment firm and oversaw a weapons sale to Russia.