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Alex Brandon / AP A Pharmaceutical CEO Breaks With Trump
Merck CEO Kenneth Frazier resigned this morning, citing “a responsibility to take a stand against intolerance and extremism.” The president quickly attacked him.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters The Alt-Right’s Rebranding Effort Has Failed
Some members attempted to pivot away from overt racism. Charlottesville shows that they were always white nationalists.
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Steve Helber / AP Why Charlottesville?
The university town was once named “the happiest city in America.” More and more, though, it’s the setting for hatred.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters 'We Must Reject Hate'
Democratic and Republican leaders broadly rejected the violence at a major white-nationalist gathering in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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Steve Helber / AP A State of Emergency in Charlottesville
University of Virginia students are being instructed to shelter in place amid protests, a professor says.
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters Is Snapchat Doomed?
It was supposed to be the future of social media and video. It’s looking like just another Facebook victim.
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Charles Platiau / Reuters Emmanuel Macron: Monsieur Unpopular
The French president’s approval rating has taken a nosedive.
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Jonathan Ernest / Reuters Trump Doubles Down on North Korea
The president said his earlier remarks about “fire and fury” were not “tough enough.”
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Carolyn Kaster / AP Why Is Trump Turning on the Ally He Needs Most?
The president is on a sustained campaign against the Senate majority leader, despite his great control over Trump’s political fate.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Trump Informally Declares the Opioid Crisis a National Emergency
Once the proper paperwork is drawn up, the president’s unexpected and off-the-cuff announcement will free up disaster funding for cities and states dealing with the epidemic.
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China Stringer Network / Reuters 2016 Was Hot, Weird, and Unprecedented, Says NOAA
Five lessons from the agency’s report on the year’s record-breaking weather
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters Mueller Closes In on Manafort
The special counsel’s team executed a search warrant on the former Trump campaign chair’s home.
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KCNA / Reuters Why North Korea Is Threatening Guam
The U.S. territory is home to large military bases, and occupies a strategic place between the Korean Peninsula and the South China Sea.
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Shannon Stapleton / Reuters Meet Patagotitan, the Biggest Dinosaur Ever Found
It weighed 69 tons.
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Reuters Did North Korea Just Inch Closer to the 'Red Line'?
A new intelligence estimate reportedly says Pyongyang has a miniaturized nuclear warhead. President Trump said any threat to the U.S. “will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen.”
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Carlos Jasso / Reuters How North Korea Cheats Sanctions
Will the latest UN action be different?
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Fadi Arouri / Reuters The Countries Closing Ranks on Al Jazeera
The network’s problems extend beyond the Gulf crisis.
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Bryan Woolston / Reuters The JCC Bomb-Threat Suspect Had a Client
Newly unsealed FBI documents suggest the Israeli arrested for sending the threats was selling his services for a fee.
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Evan Vucci / AP Trump Is Losing His Battle With the Republican Party
The president’s major achievements all dovetail with longstanding GOP priorities, while nearly all of his distinctive policy proposals have stalled or failed.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters There Is Nothing New Under the Sun, Martin Shkreli Edition
His big-talking, livestreaming persona underlines not how much American fraudsters have changed in the last century, but how little.
