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Andres Martinez Casares / Reuters Lawmakers Injured in Violent Attack on Venezuelan Assembly
Seven politicians were wounded by pro-government protesters during the nation’s Independence Day.
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Felipe Dana / AP Hundreds of ISIS Fighters Remain in Mosul
With around 300 militants trapped in the city, Iraqi special forces have heightened their inspection of fleeing civilians.
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Alessandra Tarantino / AP British Hospital Declines Vatican’s Offer to Treat Charlie Gard
Multiple courts have granted the hospital permission to remove the terminally ill infant from life support.
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Scott Morgan / Reuters Why Fact-Checking Doesn't Faze Trump Fans
The president’s backers aren’t impervious to reality: Confronted with untruths, they concede he was wrong, but don’t waver in their support for him.
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Seth Wenig / AP The Murder of Miosotis Familia
An NYPD officer was shot and killed as she sat in a truck early Wednesday morning, in what officials called an “unprovoked” attack.
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TT News Agency / Reuters Volvo's Electric Future
The automaker says starting in 2019 it will make only electric or hybrid cars.
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KCNA / Reuters North Korea Crisis: U.S. and South Korea Respond
The two allies conducted a ballistic-missile drill in the Sea of Japan in response to Pyongyang’s test of an ICBM.
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Kim Hong-Ji / Reuters North Korea Says it Tested ICBM
The move would mark a dramatic improvement in Pyongyang’s military capabilities.
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Goran Tomasevic / Reuters Syrian Fighters Breach a Historic Wall in Raqqa
U.S.-backed forces blew two holes in the Rafiqah Wall, which ISIS used as a defensive position.
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Jorge Silva / Reuters An Appeals Court Blocks the EPA's Delay on Methane Regulations
The decision ends Scott Pruitt’s 90-day postponement of an Obama-era rule that limited the release of the planet-warming gas.
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Luc Gnago / Reuters Nine Killed, Dozens Abducted in Suspected Boko Haram Attack
The attack signifies a larger struggle to contain the militant group’s eight-year insurgency.
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Government-produced handout / AP Syrian Army Declares Brief Truce Ahead of Peace Talks
The army plans to suspend its combat operations in the nation’s southern provinces through Thursday.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Why the Media's Defense Against Trump Has Proven So Ineffective
The press may never succeed in eliciting popular sympathy—instead, it needs to convince members of the public that the president’s rhetoric will hurt them, too.
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Philippe Wojazer / Reuters Emmanuel Macron's State of the Union
The French president promised a “profound transformation” of the country’s political system, but critics said the speech demonstrated a “monarchical” drift.
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Axel Schmidt / Reuters How Germany Managed to Avoid Populism
The country’s economic resilience may have contributed to its political resilience.
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Henry Romero / Reuters Archeologists in Mexico Find an Aztec Tower of Skulls
Existence of the edifice has been rumored since the conquest of Hernan Cortes.
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters Why Trump Keeps Returning to Reddit
The president’s love of memes drawn from the message board shows his uncommon need for adulation and inability to assess the source of information he receives.
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Vahid Salemi / Reuters Iran Signs a $5 Billion Energy Deal With France's Total
The deal is the first with a foreign energy company since sanctions were lifted.
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Eduardo Munoz / Reuters Chris Christie's Day at the Beach
The New Jersey governor was photographed at a beach after he’d ordered the state’s beaches closed over a budget impasse.
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Reuters A Deadly Bus Crash in Germany
Eighteen people are feared dead in Bavaria.
