France turns to the right

France’s high-stakes legislative elections propelled the far-right National Rally to a strong but not decisive lead in the first-round vote Sunday. We talk Terri E. Givens is a professor at McGill University in the Department of Political Science. Representatives of Afghanistan’s Taliban government began meetings on Sunday. Hurricane Beryl strengthened into what experts called an “extremely dangerous” Category 4 storm as it approaches the southeast Caribbean. And In Russia’s far northeastern Yakutia region, local scientists are performing an autopsy on a wolf frozen in permafrost for around 44,000 years.