A curious video game called Playing History 2 - Slave Trade recently attracted some social media ire. A 25-percent sale on Steam, a video-game marketplace, had drawn new attention to a specific part of the game—the so-called “Slave Tetris” portion. It’s as awful as it sounds.
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Eddie Keogh / Reuters Cecil Rhodes, Colossus of Africa, Will Stay Up in Oxford
Oriel College announced that it is rejecting a student drive to remove a statue of the controversial colonialist.
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Omar Sanadiki / Reuters Syrian Peace Talks, Now Featuring a Reluctant Oppostion
After boycotting the opening in Geneva, an anti-Assad coalition has now decided to attend the meetings and focus on humanitarian issues.
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Kathy Willens / AP A Blow to Daily Fantasy Sports in Hawaii
The state is the latest to find that the games are illegal gambling—a string of rulings that threaten the industry’s existence.
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Jeff Roberson / AP A Suspension for Melissa Click
The University of Missouri’s board announced the move just days after prosecutors brought third-degree assault charges against her.
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Suzanne Plunkett / Reuters An Easier Way to Enroll in School Lunches
The U.S. Department of Agriculture will test using Medicaid data to automatically enroll eligible students.
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Jeff Chiu / AP Lyft Drivers Still Aren't Employees, but What About Uber Drivers?
Under a settlement reached Tuesday, the car service will give better benefits to people who drive but will continue to consider them independent contractors.
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Oswaldo Rivas / Reuters What’s Next for the Zika Virus?
The CDC is warning pregnant women against traveling to 22 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, and some of those countries are urging their own citizens to avoid conception.
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Omar Sobhani / Reuters The Search for Answers at Médecins Sans Frontières
The global medical charity has called on an international commission to investigate a recent attack on a facility in Yemen.
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Jim Urquhart / Reuters The Standoff in Oregon, Three Weeks Later
An armed group remains camped out in the headquarters of a national wildlife refuge in protest of the federal government.
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Don Wright / AP Peyton Manning Accused
The Denver Broncos quarterback is dismissing as “garbage” claims made in an Al Jazeera documentary that he was supplied with human growth hormone in 2011.
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Charles Rex Arbogast / AP More Questions About the Police in Chicago
Police shot and killed two people on Saturday, including a woman who was accidentally struck.
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Another Wildfire in Southern California
Officials say traffic was shut off in both directions on Highway 101 near Ventura, 65 miles northwest of Los Angeles.
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Jorge Saenz / AP Floods in South America
More than 150,000 people have been displaced in Paraguay, Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil.
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Mark Schiefelbein / AP Another Journalist’s Effective Expulsion From China
Ursula Gauthier, a French journalist, is being accused of inciting “the outrage of the Chinese people” with an article on Beijing’s relationship with Uighurs.
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Joe Penney / Reuters The Latest in the Mali Hotel Attack
The country begins a period of national mourning as police search for suspects in the deadly shooting.
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Joe Penney / Reuters Mali Mourns After Hotel Attack
Security forces are searching for suspects in Friday's deadly shooting in Bamako.
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Kayhan Ozer / Reuters The G20 Summit After Paris
World leaders gather in Antalya, Turkey, to discuss Syria, ISIS, and the migrant crisis in the wake of a deadly terrorist attack in France.
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Pascal Rossignol / Reuters What’s Next for Migrants After Paris?
Friday’s terrorist attacks have intensified an ongoing global debate on accepting Syrian refugees.
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Christian Hartmann / Reuters A New Use for Facebook’s Safety Check
The Paris attacks marked the feature’s first activation outside of a natural disaster.
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How Not to Design a Video Game About Slavery