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What can the United States citizens learn from the French?

Taylor Whiting, Columnist • March 2, 2026

YouTube recommended the video Why Americans Will Never Strike Like the French (And Why That’s the Problem) to me. Tiana Thompson, the creator of the video, describes her work on YouTube as cultural analysis...

France faces day of protests and disruption as new prime minister takes office

Saskya Vandoorne, Joseph Ataman, CNN • September 10, 2025

Paris (CNN) —Nationwide unrest broke out across France on Wednesday as protesters blocked roads, set fire to trash cans outside schools and clashed with police, who responded with tear gas, as anger...

France bans all pro-Palestinian protests

Dalal Mawad and Eve Brennan, CNN • October 12, 2023

CNN -- Hundreds of demonstrators gathered in central Paris on Thursday, in defiance of a controversial new ban on pro-Palestinian rallies in the country. French police and members...

How the Parisian protests are affecting study abroad students

Ashley Caudill, Reporter • May 9, 2023

When preparing to study abroad, some find it easy to look at what is happening in the world to discourage themselves from going abroad for weeks to months on end. With Russia’s war on Ukraine and now...

Two children among seven killed in French Pyrenees explosion

Dalal Mawad, Anaelle Jonah, Joseph Ataman and Allegra Goodwin CNN • February 15, 2022

(CNN) -- At least seven people, including two children, were killed in an explosion in the village of Saint-Laurent-de-la-Salanque in France on Monday.The death toll from the blast, which also injured...

OPINION: 2021 is “1984” – America’s education system as propaganda

Maria Ferrato Opinion Writer • March 21, 2021

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past,” George Orwell wrote in “1984,” his novel about a totalitarian government that retains its power by controlling...

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Pool • January 22, 2021

WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 19: President-elect Joe Biden's nominee for Secretary of Defense, retired Army Gen. Lloyd Austin testifies at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee...

Lamar Hylton Zoom

Screenshot from Zoom • June 9, 2020

Lamar Hylton, Vice President of Student Affairs helped lead the discussion and asked the questions throughout the town hall via Zoom on Tuesday, June 9, 2020.

Student organization Active Minds fights against finals week stressors

Celetre Jones Jobs and finance reporter • December 3, 2019

The Active Minds event welcomed Kent students, staff and faculty to Bowman Hall on Dec. 2. for its meditation event.The hour-long event briefly included a 15 minute meditation with the Director of Kent...

FlashCast – November 20, 2015

Julie Norton, Pearline Young, TV2 • November 20, 2015

TV2's Julie Norton and Pearline Young recap Clarissa Ward's interview with a woman who lives in the building where the ringleader of the Paris attacks was killed. Norton and Young also discuss Friday's...

FlashCast – November 19, 2015

Brianne Kocher, Mariel Zambelli, TV2 • November 19, 2015

TV2's Brianne Kocher and Mariel Zambelli discuss the death of Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the suspected mastermind behind the Paris attacks Friday. Abaaoud was killed in a police raid in the Paris suburb of...

FlashCast – November 18, 2015

Dartalia Alati, John Kost, TV2 • November 18, 2015

TV2's Dartalia Alati and John Kost discuss raids conducted by French authorities on terror suspects in the northern Paris suburb of Saint-Denis early Wednesday morning.Contact Joe Finley at: [email protected]