Since the school massacre in Parkland, Florida, Americans have rushed to offer preventative solutions to mass shootings: Several student survivors from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High…
GOOD NEWS
What to worry about
Exhausted yet? As the year draws to a close and thoughts turn to holiday plans, there’s one place where business is still very much unfinished:…
THE BUTTON
Watch LIVE: Should Trump have control of US nuclear weapons?
For the first time since 1976, US lawmakers are re-evaluating who should control America’s nuclear weapons. Today (Nov. 14), expert witnesses will testify before senators…
A MacArthur “genius” unearthed the secret images that AI uses to make sense of us
Turns out there’s a bit of Caravaggio in artificial intelligence. Also a little Vermeer, Francis Bacon, Dalí…you could even see something of Edward Hopper, if…
“He took only his white suit and his radio”: How the people who escaped Chernobyl first reacted to news of nuclear disaster
Andrey Lomakin was 12 years old when he, his family, and all his neighbors were forced to leave home. Some left in a hurry, their…
2017
Gunmen opened fire on New Year’s Eve celebrations in an Istanbul nightclub
This is a developing story. Turkish police are still hunting for a man who attacked a popular Istanbul nightclub on New Year’s eve, killing at…
HOT SEAT
Mitt Romney ate chocolate cake with the man he called a “fraud”
Mitt Romney, formerly a fierce Donald Trump critic, met with the US president-elect in public last night (Nov. 29), giving US press a rare view…
NOUS NE LES OUBLIERONS PAS
One year after the Paris attacks, the Bataclan reopens
One year ago today, a terror attack on Paris sent the whole world reeling. At least 130 people were killed and 300 wounded in a…
Barack Obama’s face as he hands over the White House to Trump
US president Barack Obama hosted Donald Trump at the White House today to discuss their transition of power. Trump will assume the presidency on Jan.…
BREAK IN PROTOCOL
President-elect Trump went to the White House today and there are no photographs of his arrival
US president-elect Donald Trump went to the White House today to meet US president Barack Obama. There are no photos of his arrival. Departing from…
SURPRISE
Watching Hillary Clinton lose through the eyes of classmates who’ve been rooting for her since 1969
Our hearts broke at around 10pm. Condolences came in over WhatsApp and text, little beeps of confusion in a huge and silent hall packed with…
NO GRANDI NAVI
To save their sinking city, Venetians are dressing like pirates and chasing cruise ships
Venice, Italy A dozen small pirate boats bobbed in Venice’s Giudecca Canal last night (Sept. 25), waiting to confront the next big cruise ship to…
