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Neil Hall / Reuters The Rise of Gun-Carrying Cops in London
The city will add 600 armed police officers to its forces in response to recent terrorist attacks in Europe.
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Reuters China's New Futuristic Commuter Bus
The Transit Elevated Bus, or “straddling bus,” can accommodate up to 300 passengers as its glides over normal traffic.
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Reuters North Korea's Latest Missile Launch
It landed just 125 miles from the Japanese coast, marking one of the North’s longest efforts yet.
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AP Boko Haram's New Boss
ISIS named Abu Musab al-Barnawi as the head of its West African affiliate, but didn’t say what happened to the group’s previous chief.
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Aleppo Media Center / AP The 'Great Epic Battle of Aleppo'
Syrian rebels are in the midst of a major offensive against government-held positions in the strategically important city.
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Steve Marcus / Reuters The Democrats Who Cried Wolf
Did liberals botch their chance to take down Trump by hyperbolically attacking past Republican nominees? Probably, though the GOP is no more innocent.
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Hayen Ayari / AP Miracle in Dubai
All 300 people on board the Emirates flight from India, which crash-landed at the international airport, are safe, but a firefighter was killed.
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Bebeto Matthews / AP Judge Curiel Hands Trump a Fresh Rebuke
The federal jurist tells Trump he’ll have to abide by settled law—even if that means facing enormous liability in a racketeering case.
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Jason Reed / Reuters A Blow to Delaware's Death Penalty
The state supreme court ruled the sentencing scheme violated the Sixth Amendment’s right to a jury trial.
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Tony Gentile / Reuters Anton Yelchin and the Wrongful-Death Lawsuit Against Fiat Chrysler
The parents of the actor, known for his role as Pavel Chekov in the “Star Trek” franchise, are suing the maker of the car that crushed him to death in June.
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James Pomfret / Reuters The Chinese Crackdown on Human-Rights Activists
A court has convicted an activist, one of 300 arrested in the last year, of subverting state power.
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Marco Bello / Reuters The Recall Movement Against Venezuela's President
Opposition lawmakers have collected the number of votes from each state needed to continue with the effort to remove Nicolás Maduro from office.
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Brendan McDermid / Reuters 'The Architect of Our Neighborhood Policing Strategy' Is Out
Bill Bratton will leave his job as the New York City police commissioner next month.
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Reuters The Trouble With Police Body Cameras
A Chicago officer who shot an unarmed black man last week wore a camera that switched off during the shooting.
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Dave Kaup / Reuters Gaffe Track: Clinton Can't Help Stretching the Truth About Her Emails
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Rebecca Cook / Reuters Gaffe Track: Trump Shrugs at Sexual Harassment
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Vasily Fedosenko / Reuters Siberia's Deadly Anthrax Outbreak
Melted permafrost that exposed an infected reindeer carcass is believed to have resulted in the cases that killed a 12-year-boy and sickened eight others.
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AP The Myth of Gerald Ford's Fatal 'Soviet Domination' Gaffe
A boneheaded moment during a 1976 debate didn’t doom the president’s reelection, and most other such mistakes don’t affect outcomes either.
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Francois Mori / AP France's Disappearing Mosques
Twenty of France’s 2,500 mosques and prayer halls have been shut down since December for allegedly preaching a radical interpretation of Islam.
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Eric Thayer / Reuters Trump's Turn Toward Appeasement
Speaking in Columbus, Ohio, on Monday, the Republican argued for ceding Crimea to Russia to avoid “World War III” and preemptively questioned the legitimacy of the November election.
