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Tony Doré, chief baker at the Olympic village poses for a photo on Aug. 10, 2024, in Saint-Denis, France. (AP Photo/Sylvie Corbet)

And the gold medal goes to … the chocolate muffin. At the Olympic village, the bakery is first with athletes.

August 10, 2024 at 11:25 a.m.

Freshly cooked bread and a selection of French pastries were meant to be the stars of the Olympic village. But the gold medalist was a surprise: the American-inspired chocolate muffin.

Noah Lyles pauses on the track after the 200-meter final on Aug. 8, 2024, in Saint-Denis, France. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

Olympians with COVID — like Noah Lyles — are competing in Paris, as restrictions are now a thing of the past

August 9, 2024 at 12:30 p.m.

Many hoped the Paris Olympics would be the post-COVID Games. Instead they seem to be the ‘’who cares about COVID’’ Games.

Soldiers patrol on the River Seine on July 17, 2024 in Paris. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard)

French troops — in and on the water — secure the River Seine for Paris’ Olympic opening ceremony

July 17, 2024 at 1:06 p.m.

French soldiers and police are being deployed both in and along the River Seine to make it safe during the grandiose opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics.

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, center, and other dignitaries, attend an international ceremony to mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day, Thursday, June 6, 2024, in Normandy. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden apologizes to Zelenskyy for monthslong congressional holdup to weapons that let Russia gain

June 7, 2024 at 8:47 a.m.

U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday for the first time publicly apologized to Ukraine for a monthslong congressional holdup in American military assistance that let Russia make gains on the...

American WWII veteran Bill Wall throws roses into the water during a wreath-laying ceremony at Utah Beach, Wednesday, June 5, 2024 at Utah Beach, Normandy,. World War II veterans from across the United States as well as Britain and Canada are in Normandy this week to mark 80 years since the D-Day landings that helped lead to Hitler’s defeat. (AP Photo/Jeremias Gonzalez)

D-Day anniversary haunted by dwindling number of veterans and shadowed by Europe’s new war

June 6, 2024 at 4:56 p.m.

A dwindling number of World War II veterans were joined by a new generation of leaders on Thursday to honor the dead, the living and the fight for democracy in...

Hostage-taker in France kills 3, is shot dead by police

August 22, 2019 at 3:15 a.m.

A police union official says a suspect has fatally shot one person and seriously wounded another inside a supermarket in the southern French town of Trebes. Yves Lefebvre, secretary general...

French President Emmanuel Macron meets people after voting in the final round of parliamentary elections, in the northern seaside town of Le Touquet, France, Sunday, June 18, 2017.

France’s Macron to reshuffle government after huge parliament win

August 21, 2019 at 11:48 p.m.

French President Emmanuel Macron is poised to rearrange his Cabinet after his new centrist party engineered a landslide in the country's parliamentary election, enabling the government to quickly start passing...

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