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Clodagh Kilcoyne / Reuters United Nations Panel Tells Ireland to Change its Abortion Ban
Human-rights experts said the country’s laws subject women seeking abortions to “discrimination and cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment.”
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Radu Sigheti / Reuters The Animals Behind Power Outages
The monkey that caused a nationwide power outage in Kenya on Tuesday is one of many animals to sabotage electrical grids.
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Sebastian Scheiner / AP Israel’s Response to the Deadly Tel Aviv Attacks
Israel said it was sending two additional battalions to the West Bank and was suspending permits for Palestinians to visit their relatives inside the country during Ramadan.
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Yves Herman / Reuters Four Names for Four New Elements
Nihonium, moscovium, tennessine, and oganesson will join 116 others on the periodic table.
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Mark Makela / Getty Who Will Grab the Bernie-or-Bust and the Never-Trump Vote?
Opening the general election, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump make an immediate, cross-party pitch to supporters of their rivals’ vanquished opponents.
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Sebastian Scheiner / AP The Deadly Attack in Tel Aviv
At least three people were killed in a shooting in a market in the Israeli city on Wednesday.
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Mary Altaffer / AP Fraud Charges for a New York City Union Boss
Norman Seabrook, longtime president of the Correction Officers’ Benevolent Association, was arrested Wednesday.
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Mark Duncan / AP Another Court Defeat for Ohio's Strict Voting Laws
A federal judge says new laws made it too easy to throw out provisional ballots, potentially hurting minority voters.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Will the Supreme Court Rule on Transgender Bathrooms Sooner Rather Than Later?
A federal court in Virginia sided with a student who wanted to use boy’s bathroom, but the local school board is appealing the decision.
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AP The Fake Drunken Boat Ride to Syria
Three British men claimed they ended up in Russian custody nine hours after sailing from Cyprus—but it was an Internet prank.
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Daniel Munoz / Reuters Maria Sharapova's Two-Year Suspension
The Russian tennis star tested positively for performance-enhancing drugs in March. She says she will appeal the ITF’s ban.
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Ronald Zak / AP Austrian Elections Redux?
The head of the far-right Freedom Party said last month’s presidential vote, which his candidate narrowly lost, saw a “massive number of irregularities and mistakes.”
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Julio Cortez / AP A History-Making Night in Brooklyn
Claiming the Democratic nomination for United States president, Hillary Clinton fully embraced the magnitude of her milestone.
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John Locher / AP Hillary Makes History
With a series of decisive wins, Clinton secures the delegates she’ll need to become the first woman to be a major-party nominee.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters Hillary Clinton's Appeal to History and Unity
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP Republicans Struggle to Make Their Anti-Poverty Plan Heard
House Speaker Paul Ryan forges ahead with the first plank in a substantive policy agenda—and promptly gets drowned out by Donald Trump.
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Carolyn Kaster / AP The Legacy of Helen Chavez
The labor-rights activist and widow of Cesar Chavez has died at the age of 88.
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David Ryder / Reuters D.C.'s Minimum-Wage Hike
Councilmembers have unanimously approved a measure to increase the minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2020.
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Terry Gilliam / AP A Cheating Scandal at Ohio State University
Officials say 85 students in the prestigious veterinary program collaborated on online exams.
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Gene Blevins / Reuters Will This Be California's Worst Wildfire Season?
Consecutive years of drought have killed more tress, and recent rains have added to grass growth, which provides quick fuel for fires.
