How Trump’s split-screen presidency transfixes a divided US
On one side of the screen, President Trump sits pensively, leaning forward, tapping his fingers together. Next to him, a smiling Kim Jong-un takes his seat. On the other side of the screen sits Michael Cohen.
Kremlin Says U.S. Cyberattacks On Russia Are ‘The Reality We Live In’
Spokesman Dmitry Peskov links the attacks to Russia’s need for its own Internet. It is a “geopolitical angle to try to defend their own steps,” says Internet freedom expert Sanja Kelly.
What restrains India, Pakistan from nuclear war
One lesson of modern war is this: Watch your tongue. India and Pakistan appear to have absorbed this lesson as seen so far during their latest military flare-up. In retaliatory strikes following a Feb. 14 terrorist attack in disputed Kashmir, each ha…
It’s 40 feet tall and concrete. Is ‘Peace Cross’ a civic or Christian symbol?
There are a lot of complicated and painful reasons why Michael “Mikey” Weinstein decided to stand on the steps of the Supreme Court on Wednesday and speak out against the modest support a Maryland municipality provides for its massive World War I memor…
Cohen calls Trump a ‘con man’ – but seems unlikely to change many minds
So many things about Donald Trump’s presidency have been unprecedented, atypical, norm-busting – it sometimes feels like we’ve run out of adjectives to describe it.
Specter of new arms race has Russia recalling Soviets’ fate
Most Russian schoolchildren hold as true that the Soviet Union collapsed in part because it was foolish enough to engage in a vast global competition with the United States. Key to that competition, they know, was a ruinous arms race that diverted res…
WATCH: German Firefighters Work To Free Rotund Rat Stuck In Manhole Cover
Like a square peg in a round hole, a fat rat learned the hard way about squeezing through a too-tight space in Germany over the weekend. Luckily, the fire department had its back.
Promising New Bed Net Strategy To Zap Malaria Parasite In Mosquitoes
Progress against malaria has stalled. Now a team is trying a new tactic.
At Least 20 People Killed In Fire At Cairo’s Main Train Station
A train locomotive crashed into a barrier at the main train station in Egypt’s capital Cairo. Then, authorities say its fuel tank exploded, sending flames through the crowded travel hub.
Pho Real: Hanoi Goes All Out For Summit Kitsch
Playing host to the second summit between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, people in the Vietnamese are having fun with everything from t-shirts to parody haircuts.
He’s Vietnamese. She’s From North Korea. They Had To Wait 3 Decades To Marry
“I knew I should stop loving him,” says Ri Yong Hui. “But I couldn’t.” She met Pham Ngoc Canh in 1971, when he was in North Korea on an internship. After years of separation, they married in 2002.
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