Today’s Lead News Stories

Paris announced it would audit all 40 municipal pools, saying women ‘must be able to feel safe’

Assailants targeted cars and a building lobby linked to prison staff in France overnight, the authorities said Wednesday, the latest in a series of coordinated attacks that have put the government on edge.

Verónica Abad claims Daniel Noboa, her former running mate, used state power to tilt the vote

The European Union on Wednesday published a list of seven countries it considers "safe", in a bid to speed up migrant returns by making it harder for citizens of those nations to claim asylum in the bloc.

Three arrests were made as Maga representative’s meeting was repeatedly interrupted by protesters

Newton-Wellesley hospital president says all six tumors benign as ‘rigorous ongoing investigation’ conducted

Woman identified as Teresa says she was estranged from Jorge Gonzalez, 37, and is worried for her ill mother-in-law

The state may have a hard time showing that its broad restrictions are consistent with the "historical tradition of firearm regulation."

All four maintained innocence and said they were being prosecuted for doing their job as journalists

French President Emmanuel Macron has told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Natanyahu in a phonecall that the suffering of Gazan civilians "must end" and that only a ceasefire in Gaza could free remaining Israeli hostages. He also called for the prospect of a two-state solution to be revisited.

Judge considers whether officials are in contempt of court in deportation case; Obama backs Harvard in funding face-off – key US politics stories from Tuesday at a glance