Sasha Zients

This article has been corrected.

Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump is due to visit Laredo, Texas today (July 23), where he planned to tour the US-Mexico border and was expected to expand on his controversial views on immigration. But while Trump may still be heading to Laredo, his border tour has been cancelled.

Bicycling, on the whole, is healthy. Too much sun is not. With that in mind, the Bouclier visor—featured on a Kickstarter campaign launched Wednesday (July 22)—mounts to a bicycle helmet and provides full-face protection from potentially harmful rays.

There’s something odd about the police dash-cam video of Sandra Bland’s July 10 arrest, which has gone viral since the 28-year-old woman was found dead due to “self-inflicted asphyxiation” in her jail cell, three days after being arrested.

A consortium of German car makers—including the parent companies of Audi, Mercedes-Benz and BMW—are on the verge of buying Nokia’s digital mapping service, a technology that is crucial for self-driving cars.

“Dad bod”—the pudgy-around-the-middle build that has been trending lately and critiqued for being another marker of male privilege—is a real thing, science has proved.

Grooveshark co-founder Josh Greenberg has been found dead at his home in Florida, several months after his 8-year-old music streaming site was shut down by a barrage of music label lawsuits.

Marijuana has increasingly been used for its medicinal properties, but until now, the drug has mostly been associated with alleviating symptoms—such as nausea and decreased appetite. A recent study shows that there may be a use that actually enhances healing—of broken bones.

Dozens of sharks—collectively known as a gam, herd, school, shiver, or frenzy—were spotted in waters near West Sussex on the southern UK coast yesterday (July 16). A bystander’s video shows dozens of smooth-hound sharks in intertidal waters near the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds in Medmerry, a wetland habitat in West Sussex:

The new cinematic smart case promises to transform the iPhone 6 into a fully functional camera—complete with interchangeable lenses and a pistol grip, vaguely reminiscent of the Super 8 cameras once used to shoot home movies.

Japan’s police have taken action against more elderly people than youths in the first half of this year, for the first time since the country began tracking statistics in the 1980s. It’s probably not because of a surge in dastardly senior citizens—it’s yet another marker of Japan’s rapidly aging population.

A Chicago woman was found dead in a Texas jail cell this week after being arrested for allegedly assaulting a police officer. Friends and relatives of Sandra Bland told news channel ABC 7 they do not believe the county sheriff’s account of what happened, and #BlackLivesMatter activists on social media are taking up her cause—including a planned Friday protest at the sheriff’s office in Hempstead, Texas.

Billionaire Xingfa Ma has just purchased two large cattle stations in Australia, part of China’s growing appetite for beef, and the latest in a string of deals between Chinese investors and Australian farmers this year. China has 20% of the global population, including many newly affluent meat-eaters, but only 9% of the world’s arable land.

Legalizing marijuana isn’t just about dropping rules—it’s also about creating new ones. In the US, where over half of US states have now legalized some degree of pot use, one of those new rules requires setting a limit on marijuana intake while driving. That has drawn private tech companies, such as Vancouver’s Cannabix Technologies, to develop a breathalyzer that detects Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) levels of drivers for police officers to use at the roadside.

Biking at night—or driving behind a bicyclist at night—can be an unnerving and unpredictable experience.

IAC’s Match Group, the online dating site that owns Tinder and OkCupid, is buying Vancouver-based PlentyOfFish for $575 million in cash, ahead of the spin-off IPO it is planning for the end of the year.

Universal Pictures pulled out all of the stops to promote “Minions”—from Happy Meal toys to banana stickers—and it paid off with more than $115 million in US box office sales. That’s the second-highest grossing opening weekend ever for an animated film, second only to 2007’s “Shrek the Third,” and well ahead of the previous two ”Despicable Me” films from which it was spun off.

Colorado authorities have closed a seven-month search for two girls who were abducted in December by their mother, Brittany Nunn, and her husband, Peter Barr, in the midst of a custody dispute. The case was ultimately cracked by local sheriff’s investigator Drew Weber, who executed a search warrant and pulled records from Nunn’s Spotify account, The Coloradoan newspaper reported.

Malala Yousafzai, who became the youngest ever Nobel Prize winner in 2014, has decided that for her 18th birthday, she wants world leaders to recognize that they are failing Syrian children. Only one-fifth of Syrian children in Lebanon are receiving formal education, Reuters reports.

A new paper finds that living in a leafy neighborhood isn’t just pleasant—it’s better for your health.

The British Foreign Office announced today (July 9) that any “non-essential” travel in Tunisia should cease.

Lenny Bernstein, Exxon’s former in-house climate expert, has asserted in an email that the oil company knew about climate change as early as 1981—seven years before the phenomenon came to the attention of the general public. The company has since reportedly invested millions in climate change denial.

After 24 hours of negotiations with Britain and the United States, Russia denied a United Nations resolution Wednesday that would have acknowledged Srebrenica, a massacre that took place in 1995 during the Bosnian war, as an act of genocide.

Amnesty International wants to remind Irish people that abortion for any reason other than to save a life is still illegal in Ireland—and punishable with jail time.