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Library of Congress What Steve King Doesn't Understand About Harriet Tubman
Despite the Iowa Republican’s effort to block her, putting Tubman on the $20 bill isn’t about political correctness—it’s about historical correctness.
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Arko Datta / AP Deadly Lightning Strikes in India
At least 79 people were killed.
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Jonathan Ernst / AP Republicans Offer a Plan to Replace Obamacare
The House GOP’s health-care proposal would expand savings accounts, provide tax credits for buying insurance, and allow people to purchase coverage across state lines. Just don’t ask how much it costs.
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Ricardo Moraes / Reuters Can Brazil Make its Olympic Games Safe?
Australia’s Olympic leaders tell Brazil to increase security after one of its athletes was robbed at gunpoint.
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David Becker / Reuters Trump Is on the Verge of Losing Even Republicans
In a new CNN poll, nearly half of GOP voters responded that they’d prefer to see their party nominate someone else.
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People's Daily A Chinese Bank’s Motivational Spanking
Two top bank executives in have been suspended after poor-performing employees were spanked at a company training session.
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Seth Wenig / AP The NYPD's Corruption Scandal
Two businessmen who allegedly bribed four officers were major campaign fundraisers for Mayor Bill de Blasio.
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP Democrats Fight Back on Gun Control
The Obama administration offered a withering attack on the senators who voted down a series of measures aimed at tightening regulations on firearms.
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John Locher / AP Donald Trump's Campaign Is Nearly Penniless
The most recent filing for the presumptive Republican nominee shows just $1.3 million cash on hand and a measly $5.6 million in fundraising over the course of May.
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Reuters ‘I'd Return to Space In a Heartbeat’
British astronaut Tim Peake urged his country Tuesday to conduct more missions.
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Reuters A Congolese Warlord Is Sentenced
The International Criminal Court sentenced Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo to 18 years in prison for crimes against humanity.
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Vahid Salemi / AP Will the U.S. Approve Boeing Sales to Iran?
The Chicago-based aviation giant tells the AP it has signed an agreement with Iran Air potentially worth billions—but the deal is subject to government approval.
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Muhammad Hamed / Reuters An Attack in Jordan
A car-bomb explosion killed six soldiers and wounded 14 others near a refugee camp and military outpost in the country’s northeast.
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Mohamed Abd El Moatey / Egyptian Presidency / … Blocking the Transfer of Two Islands
An Egyptian court said the Red Sea islands of Tiran and Sanafir, which were handed to Saudi Arabia, “should remain part of Egyptian territory.”
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James Lawler Duggan / Reuters A Defeat for Gun Control in the Senate
Republicans voted down a pair of Democratic efforts to expand background checks and bar suspected terrorists from purchasing firearms following the Orlando massacre.
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Rick Loomis / AP Is Long-Term Immigration Detention Illegal?
The U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether detained migrants can be held for longer than six months without a bail hearing.
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Jim Young / Reuters Justice Sotomayor's Ringing Dissent
Citing writers from W.E.B. Du Bois to Ta-Nehisi Coates, the U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor takes issue with a ruling on unlawful searches.
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Russell Boyce / Reuters The Immigration Battle at the Heart of Brexit
A poster unveiled by a politician who supports Britain’s withdrawal from the EU has prompted an angry debate.
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Matt York / AP The Deadly 'Heat Dome' Scorching the Southwest
Record-breaking temperatures have put 30 million people in the U.S. under heat advisories or warnings.
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Reuters The Orlando 911 Transcripts
The FBI has now released a transcript that names Omar Mateen as the Orlando shooter and shows him pledging allegiance to the Islamic State.
