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Khalid Mohammed / AP More Bombings in Iraq
Multiple attacks in Shia-dominated parts of Baghdad have killed dozens.
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Wilson Ring / AP What Killed Burlington College?
The small Vermont liberal-arts college will close up shop this month, and a controversial real-estate deal made by Jane Sanders, Bernie Sanders’s wife, may be to blame.
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Kim Kyung-Hoon / Reuters The Cultural Revolution’s Legacy in China
The Chinese government did not celebrate the 50th anniversary of the bloody period, but President Xi Jinping’s actions have drawn comparisons to the era.
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NASA The International Space Station's Odometer Hits 100,000 Orbits
The space laboratory has now traveled about 2.6 billion miles since 1998.
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Reuters The Geopolitics of Eurovision
Ukrainian officials are thrilled and their Russian counterparts fuming at the results of the popular singing competition.
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Massachusetts General Hospital The First Penis Transplant in the U.S.
Doctors say that so far Thomas Manning’s new appendage shows no sign of infection.
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Wikimedia How Did the ‘Secret’ Sykes-Picot Agreement Become Public?
Soon after coming to power, the Bolsheviks printed the text in Pravda—not the last time the Russians would play spoiler to Western efforts to control events in Syria and Iraq.
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Library of Congress The Most Expensive Gun Sold at Auction
The rifle sold for $1.2 million, and was owned by the man credited with capturing Geronimo, the Apache leader.
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Jason Franson / Pool / Reuters Surveying Fort McMurray by Satellite
The provincial government has released a mapping app to give evacuees their first look at burned neighborhoods.
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The Supreme Court's Punt on the Contraception Mandate
The justices sent Zubik v. Burwell back to the lower courts—a move that means the issue is unlikely to be resolved until after the 2016 election.
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Mel Evans / AP The $429-Million Powerball Winners Are ...
… a New Jersey woman and her family.
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Mary Altaffer / AP Gaffe Track: Trump's Spokesman Snafu
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Erik de Castro / Reuters A Promise to Bring Back Capital Punishment in the Philippines
In his first news conference since winning the presidential election, Rodrigo Duterte said he’d bring back the death penalty.
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Gary Cameron / Reuters ‘It Looks Like We’re Not Going to Have a Very Good Relationship’
Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, is criticizing British Prime Minister David Cameron’s remarks about his candidacy.
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Cassandra Vinograd / AP Spies Like Us
GCHQ, Britain’s equivalent of the NSA, has joined Twitter.
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Frank Augstein / AP Colombia’s Record Cocaine Haul
The president called the nearly 8 tons seized in Turbo "the greatest amount in our history."
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Malcolm Lightner Off to the Swamp Buggy Races
A fourth-generation Floridian returns to the Sunshine State to photograph this extreme Southern sport.
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Marco Bello / Reuters Venezuela’s State of Emergency
President Nicolas Maduro issued the declaration amid economic meltdown.
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Carolyn Kaster / AP How Republicans Finally Got a Victory on Obamacare
A federal judge’s ruling against the administration vindicated the GOP's try-anything strategy to derail the Affordable Care Act.
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