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By Alexandra Banner and James Grant
A student uprising. A hurricane threat. A grand homecoming. What do you remember from the week that was?
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Unprecedented student protests are rocking France. Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Paris this week to voice anger over teacher shortages, overcrowded classrooms and dilapidated school buildings.
Isaias rapidly intensified into the Atlantic season’s first hurricane this week, putting the Gulf Coast on alert.
Christa Pike, a Tennessee inmate, is conscious and speaking more than a week after her failed execution in Tennessee, according to a statement from her attorneys.
The USS Abraham Lincoln and thousands of sailors departed San Diego in late November 2025. After nearly a year at sea, they returned home this week, capping off the US Navy’s second-longest aircraft carrier deployment since the Vietnam War.
ICE has recently been taking around 2,000 people into custody each day nationwide, on average. This week, agents were directed to ramp up immigration arrests to 3,000 people a day.
Election officials are urging voters to use ballot drop boxes as concerns grow that changes at the US Postal Service could delay mailed midterm ballots.
Russia’s health watchdog said Wednesday there is no risk of an epidemic following the death of a worker at a plague research laboratory, even as the World Health Organization made a plea for more information about the concerning episode.
Kabul, Afghanistan’s capital, is on track to be the first modern city to run out of water and could do so as soon as 2030, according to a report from the nonprofit Prosper Global.
The painting above was found in a “dark corner” of an estate sale and purchased for $30. It just fetched $1.35 million at auction.
One group of researchers is spending $900,000 to determine if Amelia Earhart crashed — and possibly survived — on an uninhabited island in the Pacific Ocean. They traveled to the remote island this week to begin investigating satellite imagery of an object that could either be Earhart’s plane or simply a sunken tree.
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