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Paris police set curfew to prevent more riots

PARIS -- Paris police issued an overnight curfew on Monday in two areas of the French capital, after a weekend marred by France's worst rioting in years that targeted city halls, other public buildings and thousands of businesses across the country.

Ukraine: Russia hits energy sites again without warning

KYIV, Ukraine -- Russia launched new attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure using ballistic missiles and jet-powered drones, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Monday, adding that Kyiv again received no early warning of the attack from partner countries that previously shared their intelligence.

EDITORIAL: Time Lords

When we applied for the editorial writing job, we were told there would be no math.

COLUMNIST: Why France is burning

Anyone walking along the boulevards of Paris on Sunday afternoon will have sensed the "shame and anger" described by President Emmanuel Macron after a weekend of rioting.

Cotton, Hill and Sanders: When fear makes Arkansas votes dependable

Years ago, when I flew more often, a congressman would occasionally turn up on the same flight to Washington. Leaving the hometown airport, he sat in coach with the rest of us. On the connecting flight, I would walk past him settled into first class. This happened more than once, and always made me smile. There's no…

Independents acting independently in Arkansas races

Independent voters decide things, but they don't use that power effectively. Power in politics comes in organizations with large numbers. Independents are ... well, independent. They're not joiners. They answer only to themselves.

Letters

Colts fire General Manager Chris Ballard

INDIANAPOLIS -- The Indianapolis Colts missed the playoffs five straight years and missed out on finding their next franchise quarterback in the 2023 NFL Draft.

Homsi endures, advances to semifinals

Defending champion Michael Homsi of Pulaski Academy was determined not to let cramps end his stay Monday at the state overall tennis championship at Burns Park in North Little Rock.

Knicks now the hunted as NBA season tips off

LeBron James went to Philadelphia. Giannis Antetokounmpo moved to Miami. Kawhi Leonard returned to Toronto. A dozen or so former All-Star selections, the majority of them being former All-NBA picks, changed addresses this offseason as well.

Trial over failed grocery merger starts

Almost two years after they failed to complete the largest U.S. grocery chain merger ever, Albertsons Cos. and Kroger Co. have taken their legal fight before a judge in a case that could have implications for any large deals that face antitrust scrutiny from regulators.

Amazon considers nuclear facility

American Electric Power Co. is working with Amazon.com Inc. to evaluate plans for a 960-megawatt nuclear plant in Indiana using a new reactor design, a project that would rely on unproven technology while potentially advancing efforts to promote next-generation fission.

Germany urged to embrace AI

FRANKFURT, Germany -- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang urged Germany's makers of cars and industrial machines to quickly adopt artificial intelligence to "re-engineer" the country's struggling business model by tapping its wealth of manufacturing data and expertise.

US bars its agencies from DeepSeek use

The Trump administration barred civilian U.S. government agencies from using products or services from Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek, citing a potential threat to national security from the company's operations in China.

China’s economy fueled by exports

HONG KONG -- China said Monday that its economy grew 4.5% in the July-September quarter from a year ago, fueled by robust exports, moving closer to meeting its official annual growth target for the year as trading partners seek to balance their trade deficits with the country.

High court turns Google patent rule appeal away

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a challenge by Alphabet's Google to a U.S. Patent and Trademark Office rule that the company argued has insulated older patents from validity reviews and helped fuel a surge in patent litigation.

AI stocks recover some losses; rest of market shaky

NEW YORK -- Stocks in the artificial intelligence industry bounced back on Wall Street Monday and recovered some of their steep losses from last week, but the rest of the market and stocks worldwide were shaky.

Malaysia Airlines parent floats green tax

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia -- The head of Malaysia Airlines' parent company said Monday that he doesn't rule out a green tax on passengers to help offset high costs of sustainable aviation fuel -- a move that would only further raise ticket prices.

Nscale, Anthropic in talks for $45B computing deal

Nscale Ltd., the AI cloud computing firm, is in talks to sell computing power to Anthropic PBC in a deal that could be worth about $45 billion, according to people familiar with the negotiations.

Singapore issues more haze notices

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia -- Singapore will issue preventive notices to three more Indonesian companies to tackle and prevent forest fires in Kalimantan province that may have sent smoke across the border, the National Environment Agency said Monday.

Arkansas Postcard Past: England in 1908

England, 1908: James Breckenridge Gray (1872-1926) built this handsome house with a rounded front porch, picket fence and horse in the yard. At the age of 12 Gray lost his father after he was caught in the gears of a gin, presumably a cotton gin. His father’s 1884 obituary read, “Though he was not a professed…

Rex Nelson's high school football rankings: After eight weeks

Class 6A has a new No. 1 team. On the eighth Friday night of the high school football season, No. 1 Searcy took on No. 2 Sheridan. And Sheridan came away the winner with a 48-45 victory in a heavyweight fight that went back and forth all night. Sheridan is now the No. 1 team in Class 6A. Searcy falls to No. 5.

Ukraine hits Russian oil facilities

Ukrainian strikes set an oil export terminal and a depot ablaze in St. Petersburg on Sunday as Kyiv launched more than 1,000 drones at Russia in one of its largest aerial attacks of the war.

Macron condemns rioting, looting in protests

PARIS -- French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday voiced the public's "anger" and "shame" over rioting and looting during nationwide protests against rising living costs and poor conditions in schools. At least 2,400 people were arrested.

Trump announces D.C. golf course renovations

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- President Donald Trump on Sunday announced plans to close a historic public golf course in the nation's capital for 15 months and redevelop it despite a court challenge to his long-sought renovation.

Photographer faults response by Netanyahu to settler attack

JERUSALEM -- The photographer with The Washington Post who was attacked by Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank so badly that several vertebrae were broken said Sunday that she was increasingly angry that Israel's military seems to protect settlers more than the Palestinians they threaten.

Vance fields queries from voters in town hall on CBS News

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- Vice President JD Vance faced tough questions from voters about the Trump administration's policies on data centers, high costs, immigration and his own rhetoric in a town hall on CBS News that aired Saturday night.

Blaze on Canadian base sees 4 dead, dozens hurt

EDMONTON, Alberta -- Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Sunday that four service members were killed and dozens more seriously injured in a fire at a military base in Alberta, describing it as one of the worst peacetime tragedies for Canada's military on domestic soil.

At least 9 said killed in Yemen airstrike

An airstrike has killed at least nine people in an area of Yemen controlled by Iran-backed Houthi rebels as fighting escalates with Saudi-backed forces.

Netanyahu endorsed by Trump in election

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- President Donald Trump on Sunday endorsed embattled Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu late in his reelection campaign, a coveted boost because of Trump's popularity but one that the American had withheld for months as the vote neared and the leaders' strategies in the Middle East…

Arizona’s elections to hinge on water as a vital resource

PHOENIX -- As the Colorado River shrinks and a Southwest "megadrought" drags on, water is top-of-mind for Arizona voters and politicians. Cities are bracing for cutbacks, farmers are letting fields go fallow, and neighborhoods are revolting against data center projects they say will hog resources.

Rubio visiting Uzbekistan, India

WASHINGTON -- For the 31st time as secretary of state, Marco Rubio has left on a trip abroad, flying to Uzbekistan and later India amid rumblings that America's top diplomat is ignoring pressing matters in favor of politically safer visits and meetings.

Worry over dynamic pricing’s use on rise

U.S. consumers aren't just frustrated with high prices. They're angry and confused about the increasingly high-tech ways that restaurant chains and major retailers are setting those prices.