Both her center-left and center-right opponents are campaigning on much needed labor reforms, as well as tax and spending cuts, not popular with Socialists.
An initial police investigation found the rape of a 22-year-old was 'accidental.'
Zineb El Rhazoui doubts Charlie Hebdo still has the "capacity to carry the torch of irreverence and absolute liberty."
With dismal approval ratings, it was highly unlikely Hollande would've gotten anywhere if he had decided to run.
The rationale for France's veil ban-protecting other people's sensibilities-seems broad enough to cover full-body swimwear.
France's top court struck down a ban on Muslim women's swimwear known as "burkinis."
Freedom of religion is supposedly guaranteed by the European Convention on Human Rights, but there are many exceptions.
Secular and socially-liberal Americans are blasting the French burkini bans. Yet when it comes to spreading "tolerance" here, will we get the message?
The French government has long tried to mandate correct thinking and secularism by curbing free expression.
Why do we put up with laws and regulations that contribute to the problem?
ISIS claimed responsibility.
French prime minister says: "We are at war."
Civil liberties increasingly threatened under state of emergency that's been extended for 6 months.
Were the murdered journalists "free speech martyrs" or "hipster racists"?
Socialist government likely to amend French constitution to extend state of emergency, strip citizenship of convicted dual nationals
What you need to know about the year's biggest international hotspots, revolutions, and brewing conflicts.
8p ET on Fox Business Network: The mustachioed libertarian TV icon discusses the French retreat from liberty in the name of security.
After ISIS attacks, France follows in America's footsteps on targeting civil liberties.
Two proposed laws could potentially violate the French constitution.
France's erosion of civil liberties while under a state of emergency continues.
Warrantless raids, house arrests, limits on freedom of speech and assembly are just some of the measures used in the name of security.
Missing in many media accounts of Paris terrorism was any reference to France's bombing of Syria or that France is Syria's former colonial overlord.
It is in times of fear when we need to be most vigilant about our liberties.
Two analyses come to radically different conclusions about how the Islamic State seeks to cause violence in Europe and the United States.
Death toll in the coordinated series of attacks now at 129; Syrian refugee reported among attackers.
Never let a terrible event got to waste when you've got an obsession, an enemy, or an empty cliche left standing.
French President Francois Hollande has declared a state of emergency and closed the country's borders
French authorities says Google must apply "right to be forgotten" to international search-engine results.
Street violence goads French officials into physically grabbing organizers of helpful services
Violence precipitates change
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Politicians ignore role in citizen poverty, instead mandate new obligations to food retailers.
Charlie Hebdo's posthumous critics pen an authoritarian anti-speech manifesto
For some, sword is mightier than the PEN
Letters to the Swindlers of Islamophobia who play into the Hands of Racists is one of the better titles
Actually, the French government has been snoopy as hell for a long time
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