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Darren Staples / Reuters The Maiden Voyage of the World's Longest Aircraft
The plane cruises at 90 miles per hour, can carry 22,000 pounds, and stay suspended for weeks.
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Kacper Pempel / Reuters Twitter's Crackdown on Users Promoting Terrorism
Twitter announced the suspension of 235,000 accounts for promoting terrorism, bringing the total number of accounts deactivated since 2015 to 360,000.
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Brendan McDermid / Reuters The Road to Gawker's End
The news-gossip website that was bought this week by Univision announced Thursday it will cease operations next week.
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Kate Brumback / AP The U.S. Government's Verdict on Private Prisons
The Justice Department announced it plans to stop using private prison to house inmates.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP Bill Clinton's Half-Baked Entry in the Presidential Cookie Contest
A quarter-century ago, Hillary Clinton made a snippy remark about baking cookies, then won a competition with Barbara Bush. Can the prospective first gentleman measure up?
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Globo TV / Reuters The Continuing Saga of the U.S. Swimmers in Rio
Jack Conger and Gunnar Bentz were taken off a U.S.-bound flight over what Brazilian authorities say are inconsistencies in their accounts of being robbed at gunpoint.
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Diana Haecker / AP The Vote on the Future of a Native Alaskan Community
Residents of the Inupiat Eskimo village, identified as one of the communities most affected by coastal erosion, brought on by climate change, voted to leave their island for the mainland.
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Chuck Burton / AP Have North Carolina Republicans Found a Way to Reinstate Discriminatory Voting Rules?
After a federal court struck down the state’s strict voting law as racially discriminatory, Republicans are trying to restrict voting at the county level.
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Aleppo Media Center via AP The New Face of the Syrian Civil War
The picture of a five-year-old boy awaiting treatment at a hospital in Aleppo is a reminder of the nature of the conflict.
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Patrick Fallon / Reuters The Explosive Growth of the Blue Cut Fire
The wildfire has charred more than 25,000 acres and 80,000 people have been told to evacuate their homes.
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Kai Pfaffenbach / Reuters Welcome to Uber's Self-Driving Future
The ride-hailing service plans to launch its first such fleet this month in Pittsburgh.
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Jerome Scholler / Shutterstock The Mystery of Zika’s Path to the Placenta
Scientists are beginning to understand how Zika replicates and spreads within the womb, but they still don’t know how the virus manages to get there in the first place.
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Osman Orsal / Reuters The 38,000 Turkish Prisoners Being Freed
Turkey has announced the release of thousands of inmates to make room for those arrested in connection to last month’s attempted coup.
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Reuters The Autopsy Report in a Chicago Police Shooting
The city's medical examiner’s office has confirmed that an officer shot Paul O’Neal, an unarmed black man, in the back as he fled.
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Amr Dalsh / Reuters Too Fat for Egyptian TV?
The state-run broadcaster told eight female anchors they had one month to slim down before they could reappear on air.
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Gregory Smith / AP The Capture of 'The Ghost,' a Criminal Legend of Miami's Cocaine Era
Anibal Mustelier is tied to a famous Florida bank heist, Colombian cartel murders in the 1980s, and even Cuban government assassinations.
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Michael Dalder / Reuters Why a Brazilian Judge Wants Ryan Lochte's Passport Seized
She says his account, and that of his teammates, of being robbed in Rio has inconsistencies.
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Stephane Mahe / Reuters Hawaii's Hepatitis-A Outbreak Is Among the Worst in Decades
Health officials say 168 people have been sickened by the virus, which they linked to tainted scallops at the Genki Sushi restaurant chain.
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Josh Edelson / AP The Fire Forcing 80,000 People From Their Homes
The Blue Cut began as a small brush fire Tuesday and now threatens to destroy several towns in Southern California.
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Kim Hong-Ji / Reuters Another North Korean Defection
South Korea says a senior diplomat is now under its protection.
