The New York Times

Léon Marchand, who has the potential to win medals in four individual events, bears much of the weight of France’s expectations. He is ready, he says, but adds, “it does feel weird.”

The network hired the rapper for an expanded role on its broadcasts of the Summer Games in Paris after posting record-low viewership of the Tokyo competition.

Undeterred by arson attacks on rail lines earlier in the day, the Parade of Nations continued beneath a glittering Eiffel Tower, where Celine Dion belted out a love anthem.

The former president met with the Israeli leader in Florida, a day after his main opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, and he both criticized Israel’s conduct of the war.

It was the first public performance since 2020 for Dion, who has a rare neurological disorder known as stiff person syndrome.

Blazes that generate such stormy conditions can be nearly impossible to put out and pose special dangers to firefighters.

The N.B.A. star LeBron James of the Los Angeles Lakers and the tennis star Coco Gauff were chosen by their peers to lead the United States at the opening ceremony in Paris.

Gojira, a popular French band, became the first hard rock act to perform in an Olympic Games opening ceremony when it did a metal version of “Ah! Ça Ira,” a song that was popular during the French Revolution.

The arson attacks were carefully planned to cause maximum disruption on a train network so vast it is virtually impossible to fully secure.

In Paris, Chinese swimmers have been under extra scrutiny by doping watchdogs, but that hasn’t satisfied competitors like American star Caeleb Dressel.

The ceremony will provide a showcase for Aya Nakamura, a French-Malian singer, and a range of musical styles including disco, French hip-hop and zouk from the French Caribbean.

The city’s expanded low-emissions zone, which was politically fraught, has cut emissions that contribute to health problems like asthma, new numbers show.

In the era when people traveled by sailing ship and steamer, illnesses usually burned themselves out before boats reached shore, a new study finds.

A lawyer and confidant of François Mitterrand, he was in the forefront of French politics for decades, only to be undone by his taste for the high life.