Emmanuel Macron has declared last week’s “death grip” handshake with Donald Trump intentional. In an interview with French weekly Le Journal du Dimanche, the newly-elected…
PORTLAND ATTACK
“These two guys are the heroes”: The US Army veteran and economics grad who stood up to racism
Two men were killed this week while intervening in an apparently anti-Muslim attack in Portland, Oregon: Former US Army sergeant Rick Best, 53, and recent…
FINAL DEFEAT
The awful frustration of a teenage Go champion playing Google’s AlphaGo
This is the face of desperation. Ke Jie, the world’s best human Go player, lost two games against a new version of Google’s AlphaGo on…
PLANET TEMPEST
NASA’s latest flight over Jupiter reveals beautifully turbulent storm systems
From images captured by NASA, Jupiter reveals itself as an exquisite blue marble, shimmering with swirling gold sand. The Juno Mission recently completed its fifth…
HANDSHAKE DIPLOMACY
Trump’s handshake trick doesn’t seem to work on other people’s turf
Update: This article was updated to include new footage of Donald Trump shaking hands with Emmanuel Macron. While in the United States, president Donald Trump…
GIFTING DIPLOMACY
Trump’s big shiny gift to the pope reveals what he really cares about
US president Donald Trump gave Pope Francis a huge, gold-embossed box set of Martin Luther King’s books. In return, the pope gave him a few…
HANDS-ON DIPLOMACY
All the things Trump touched in his first visit to the Middle East as US president
Donald Trump just wrapped up his first visit to the Middle East as US president. This week, he traveled to Saudi Arabia and Israel to…
MOONSTRUCK
The rare phenomenon behind this fiery waterfall at Yosemite National Park
It looks like a stream of golden lava, quietly running down the east face of the El Capitan walls in California’s Yosemite National Park. This…
FIRST, LET ME TAKE A SELFIE
Chelsea Manning is Instagramming her first days of freedom
Chelsea Manning, the former Army intelligence analyst and whistleblower who leaked over 750,000 military and diplomatic documents to Wikileaks in 2010, was released from prison…
CURTAIN CALL
Ringling Bros. is closing for good. A backstage look at the end of the “Greatest Show on Earth”
After almost a century and a half, the “Greatest Show on Earth” is coming to an end. Associated Press reporters tagged along with the Ringling…
FRIENDLY FOES
These Russian state media photos of Trump in the Oval Office now take on a whole new meaning
These photos of US president Donald Trump’s meeting with Russian officials last week (May 10) led to raised eyebrows because US media were barred from…
WORLD ATLAS
This 6-foot-tall Renaissance book perfectly captures the timeless art of managing up
If you want to bribe a king, send him the biggest possible book. Ideally, make it a world atlas with giant maps showing all the…
