THE COUNTRY THAT USED TO BE FRANCE

-- "Police have launched an investigation into coordinated physical attacks on infrastructure leaving several French cities with internet outages and slowdowns on Wednesday. The attack is the latest in a line of recent such cases, many of which have been connected to hard-left anarchist groups." --

NOW LET'S DO SWEDEN

-- "'Segregation has been allowed to go so far that we have parallel societies in Sweden. We live in the same country but in completely different realities,' Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson told a news conference on Thursday." --

MEANWHILE BACK AT THE RANCH

-- Alexanda Kotey, one of the men convicted of kidnapping and killing American journalist James Foley, along with three other Americans in Syria, was sentenced to life in prison in a Virginia court Friday." --