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Emmanuel Macron has been declared the President of France after early vote counts:
France has a new president. Emmanuel Macron – an independent centrist who has never held elected office – has won a resounding victory over far-right, nationalist Marine Le Pen in the most important French presidential race in decades, according to early vote counts by the French Interior Ministry.
In early returns, Macron had won an estimated 65 percent of the vote to Le Pen's nearly 35 percent, according to the French Interior Ministry. Le Pen has already called to congratulate Macron and conceded defeat to a gathering of her supporters in Paris.
Also at The Guardian (live), Washington Post, NYT, Reuters, and The Local.
From CNBC: Euro hits six-month high on Macron victory
CNN editorial: Why Macron's victory is reassuring ... and yet not
BBC has an article about Macron's potential choice of Prime Minister.
(Score: 2) by AthanasiusKircher on Monday May 08 2017, @01:49PM
The rate of posting stories is frequently glacial, with stories frequently posted several days to a week after they first appeared.
This is a criticism I agree with, though the delay is generally more like 2 or 3 days I think in most cases. Nevertheless, I think it's problem for many users. A lot of "news" really is pretty ephemeral; wait 2 days and nobody cares anymore. For things like new scientific discoveries or whatever, it doesn't much matter if the post comes a couple days later. But for "current events" stories that make a big splash in the media, I kind of wish the editors here would bump things to the front of the queue more frequently. The main opposing argument I've heard here is that waiting a couple days often benefits discussion, because more "facts" are often in than with breaking news. But I think that really only applies to a minority of stories. Waiting maybe up to 24 hours is okay (since the major media outlets will sometimes uncover new stuff), but 3 days after some event happened, you've lost a lot of the interest.
I often wonder if many occasional users or people who have tried using this site end up just going elsewhere when they actually want to discuss current events on the day they happen, which ultimately leads them away.
This site was created in response to changes at Slashdot, but it has become worse than Slashdot.
Have you been to Slashdot lately? I said more in another post below, but Slashdot has also become worse than Slashdot used to be (even in the past year or two).