Walls line a railroad to prevent migrants from accessing trains to Britain, near Dunkirk, northern France, Aug. 26, 2026. Thousands of migrants cross the sea between France and England each year, though numbers have fallen amid increased policing. (Dmitry Kostyukov/The New York Times) By SÉGOLÉNE LE STRADIC and MARK LANDLER On a warm, windless evening last month, some 40 African migrants gathered at a bus stop in Dunkirk, on the northern coast of France. Many carried plastic

By KEVIN ROOSE This, friends, will be my final column at The New York Times. I am off to new adventures, including publishing a book about the race to create artificial general intelligence and starting a new podcast with my “Hard Fork” co-host, Casey Newton. It has been an honor to spend the last nine years as your tech columnist, testing out all manner of gadgets, selling NFTs and being seduced by unhinged chatbots in the name of journalism. Before I go, my editor has invit

Céline Dion fans participate in an open-air karaoke event in Paris, on Sept. 11, 2026. The diva from Quebec has long been an adored cultural figure in France, but Dion’s comeback tour, beginning with a 16-day residency in Paris, has seen such a fever of attention that Le Monde compared it to Beatlemania. (Dmitry Kostyukov/The New York Times) By CATHERINE PORTER and GIULIA IMBERT Paris hasn’t just opened its arms to Céline Dion. It has declared its fevered, undying love for he

POR EL STAR STAFF Puerto Rico será sede del Caribbean Health & AI Congress & Expo (CHAIC 2026), presentado por sus organizadores como el primer congreso del Caribe dedicado exclusivamente a la inteligencia artificial (IA) aplicada a la salud. El evento se celebrará los días 25 y 26 de septiembre de 2026 en el Centro de Convenciones de Puerto Rico y espera reunir a cerca de 500 profesionales de la medicina, tecnología y políticas públicas de Puerto Rico, Estados Unidos y Améri

El alcalde de Bayamón, Ramón Luis Rivera, y la gobernadora Jenniffer González Colón. POR EL STAR STAFF El presidente del comité municipal del Partido Popular Democrático (PPD) en Bayamón, Dr. Morgan Alejandro Cordero, cuestionó al alcalde de ese municipio, Ramón Luis Rivera Cruz, por su relación política con el Partido Nuevo Progresista (PNP) y con la gobernadora Jenniffer González Colón. Las declaraciones de Cordero surgieron luego de que, según afirmó, Rivera Cruz intentar

Israel is treating the new documentary “NAZA,” by the Israeli filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, less like bad publicity than a national security crisis. Eyal Zamir, chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces, pledged to use “every tool at our disposal” against the documentary, which features anonymous interviews with 24 intelligence officers and soldiers, most involved in remote strikes in the Gaza Strip. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called for legislation t

By NINA AGRAWAL An advisory committee to the Food and Drug Administration recommended on Wednesday that the agency approve a blood test designed to detect various cancers in the early stages, despite concerns among doctors about the test’s efficacy. The test, which is called Galleri and is manufactured by Grail, is one of a handful of so-called early detection blood tests that claim to be able to find multiple cancers at early stages. The idea of catching cancers sooner with

Timothy Mellon in 1981 (Wikipedia.) By THEODORE SHLEIFER One of the Republican Party’s biggest donors has sharply reduced his giving ahead of the midterm elections, especially to Senate Republicans, a decision driven largely by the party’s failure to pass a far-reaching bill of voting restrictions. The donor, Timothy Mellon, a reclusive Wyoming billionaire who is a grandson of Gilded Age industrialist Andrew Mellon, gave nearly $200 million to support President Donald Trump a

By THE STAR STAFF The Puerto Rico Child Support Administration (ASUME) is maintaining its opposition to proposed changes in how overtime income is calculated when determining child support payments, as lawmakers consider legislation that would establish new criteria for determining whether additional income is recurring. The debate centered on House Bill 1412, introduced in late August by Rep. Ensol Rodríguez Torres. The measure would establish 13 consecutive months as the mi

Sen. Ángel A. Toledo López presents legislation seeking official recognition of Puerto Rican Sign Language. By THE STAR STAFF Sen. Ángel A. Toledo López has introduced legislation for the third time seeking official recognition of Puerto Rican Sign Language (LSP) as the natural and culturally and linguistically legitimate language of Puerto Rico’s Deaf community. Senate Bill 1463 would establish respect for linguistic rights as public policy, promote the preservation of regio