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Twitter bars advertising from two Russian news outlets that are accused of interfering in the 2016 US election on behalf of the Russian government.

Renowned Latino cartoonist Lalo Alcaraz is hitting the screen as a writer for a new Seth MacFarlane show set in a town on the US-Mexico border. And while issues of immigration and identity are old stuff for him, he’s happy they’re getting an airing — especially a sharp-edged one — on TV.

Neither the occurrence of a terrorist attack nor the deaths of people who were widely loved was easy for France to bear on Wednesday. But as people gather in French cities to mourn, there are hopes that the attack on the Charlie Hebdo satirical newspaper will help spark a conversation about radicalism in France.

Growing up in France, I remember my older brothers guffawing behind Charlie Hebdo’s pages of vivid cartoons. Many French people may have disliked Charlie Hebdo’s approach — I was not always a fan myself — but its output embodied freedom of speech and freedom of the press. I hope it can find a way forward in spite of this atrocious attack.

French publisher Arash Derambarsh was just a boy when he first watched cartoonist Jean “Cabu” Cabut on a popular French kids show. As an adult, he went on to publish Cabu’s work and that of many of the cartoonists from Charlie Hebdo, including editor-in-chief Stéphane “Charb” Charbonnier.