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St. Lucie County Sheriff's Office The Fire at the Mosque Where the Pulse Nightclub Shooter Prayed
Security footage shows someone arrive shortly after midnight Monday and set the building ablaze.
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Ronald Zak / AP Austria's Unglued Election
The already-delayed presidential contest has been postponed because glue on the postal ballots isn’t sticking.
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Syrian Presidency / Facebook / AP A Syrian Breakthrough?
President Bashar al-Assad vowed to “retake every area from the terrorists,” hours before a cease-fire was set to go into effect.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters Clinton Battles Pneumonia
The candidate’s doctor disclosed the diagnosis after Clinton’s sudden departure from a 9/11 commemoration.
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Terry Chea / AP A Police Scandal in Oakland
Seven Bay Area police officers face criminal charges for their roles in a widespread sexual-misconduct scandal.
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U.S. Army / Reuters Chelsea Manning's Hunger Strike
The U.S. Army whistleblower said Friday she would “refuse to eat or drink voluntarily” to protest her treatment behind bars.
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AP An Overturned Conviction in the Rutgers Suicide Case
A New Jersey appeals court threw out the 15-count conviction against Dharun Ravi. He will be retried with new charges.
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Vahid Salemi / AP The British-Iranian Woman Sentenced to Five Years in a Tehran Prison
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s family said the dual citizen, detained for more than 150 days, was convicted on unknown charges.
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Thierry Roge / Reuters The Right's Putin Derangement Syndrome
Four years ago, Mitt Romney denounced Russia as America’s top geopolitical foe. Today, Donald Trump sees Putin’s lawlessness and brutality as a feature, not a bug.
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Ruben Sprich / Reuters FIFA's Internal Ethics Inquiry
Soccer’s governing body is investigating three former officials for ethics violations after they were found to have secretly gifted themselves tens of millions of dollars.
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Tony Gutierrez / AP The Pitfalls of 9/11-Themed Advertisements
Two stores received backlash this week for what some found to be tasteless promotions on the anniversary of the terrorist attacks.
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Geoffroy Van Der Hasselt / AFP / Getty The Foiled Paris Attack
French authorities announced the arrest of three women Friday believed to be planning an operation in support of ISIS.
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Reuters Spain's Deadly Train Crash
The Portugal-bound train derailed, killing four people and injuring 50 others.
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Kim Hong-Ji / Reuters North Korea's Nuclear Test
Kim Jong-un’s government carried out the country’s fifth detonation Friday, raising regional fears.
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Andrew Kelly / Reuters The Danger of Flying with A Samsung Cellphone
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration asked passengers to switch off their Samsung Galaxy Note 7 phones while flying because of fire risks. The CPSC asked owners of the phone to stop using it.
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Nick Ut / AP The Iconic Photograph That Didn't Make It Past Facebook's Censors
Nick Ut’s Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph that turned the tide of American public opinion against the Vietnam War was removed because of nudity. Facebook later relented.
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U.S. Launch Report / Reuters SpaceX's 'Difficult and Complex' Failure
Elon Musk says his company is investigating why the Falcon 9 rocket exploded last week before a scheduled launch.
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Texas Education Agency The Textbook That Calls Mexicans Lazy
Activists and teachers worked for years to get Mexican American Studies into Texas schools, but they don’t want the book the board of education is set to endorse.
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Steve Helber / AP Bob McDonnell Goes Free
Two months after a Supreme Court defeat, the U.S. Justice Department moved Thursday to dismiss its corruption case against the former Virginia governor and his wife.
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Charles Mostoller / Reuters Wells Fargo's Phony Accounts
One of the largest banks in the U.S. was fined $185 million for a widespread scheme to collect fees.
