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Minh Hoang / AP The United States Is Still Trying to Sell North Korea on Denuclearization
Days before Donald Trump’s second summit with Kim Jong Un, an administration official admits Kim may not be prepared to part with his nuclear weapons.
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Bulent Kilic / AFP / Getty Photos: Closing In on the Last ISIS Stronghold
A U.S.-backed coalition now surrounds the last remaining ISIS holdout—the final vestige of a so-called caliphate that once controlled vast territories but that is now boxed in and desperate—in a tiny village under siege in eastern Syria.
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Fernando Vergara / AP When Humanitarian Aid Is Used as a Weapon to Bring Down Regimes
As the United States offers crucial humanitarian aid to Venezuelan migrants, it is doubling down on its opposition to Venezuela’s president.
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Vatican Media / Reuters The Catholic Church’s Battle Between Rhetoric and Reality
Pope Francis wants “concrete” change over the Church’s child sexual-abuse scandal. It won’t be easy, though.
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Ozkan Bilgin / Anadolu Agency / Getty Photos of the Super Snow Moon
Last night, skywatchers around the world were treated to views of the so-called super snow moon, and photographers across the globe captured the event.
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Reuters About a Dozen Lawmakers Just Made Brexit More Complicated
In Brexit Britain, up is down, left is right, and lawmakers who unite to support a new referendum end up making that goal harder to achieve.
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Max Rossi / Reuters What to Watch for During the Catholic Church’s Sex-Abuse Meeting
Pope Francis convened 190 bishops and other prelates to discuss the protection of minors in the Church. Are they serious about it?
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Vincenzo Pinto / AFP / Getty Carnival in Venice 2019
Colorful images from the opening days of the festival—“Tutta colpa della Luna!”
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Paul Faith / AFP / Getty How Brexit Threatens Peace in Northern Ireland
The effective lack of a border between the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom helped end violence on the island.
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Kevin Winter / Getty for The Recording Academy Photos of the Week: Lego Bugatti, Snowy Seattle, Cattle Dating
Valentine’s Day among humans and animals, family reunions at an Indian border fence, an icy dinosaur in Latvia, snow kayaking in Estonia, International Condom Day in Mexico City, and much more
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Olympia Orlova / Phenomen A Mind-Boggling Soviet Nostalgia Project
A confounding exhibition from the Russian film director Ilya Khrzhanovsky poses as an exploration of artistic control and authoritarianism. But it might just be plain exploitation.
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Michael Sohn / AP The Trump Administration Can’t Get a United Front Against Iran
But the Warsaw conference did bring together Gulf Arabs and Israel against their common enemy.
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Temilade Adelaja / Reuters Nigeria’s Militarized Democracy Faces a Test at the Polls
The country has been led by someone linked to the military for 48 of the 58 years since it gained independence.
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Ozge Elif Kizil / Anadolu Agency / Getty Images From Antarctica
Photos from the past few years of the Antarctic landscape, wildlife, and research facilities, and some of the work taking place there
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Reuters Germany Preps a Plan B for Trump’s Foreign-Policy ‘Zigzag’
One of Washington’s closest allies in a fractured Europe struggles to adapt to the Trump administration’s unpredictable policy moves.
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Craig F. Walker / The Boston Globe / ... Why Does the Catholic Church Keep Failing on Sexual Abuse?
Cardinal Seán O'Malley has spent decades cleaning up after pedophile priests. Now he's once again found himself in the middle of a crisis.
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‘She’s Not a Woman. She Doesn’t Have a Child.’
An inside look at the fate of an African woman experiencing the pain and stigma of infertility
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Ralph Morse / The LIFE Picture Collection / ... 50 Years Ago in Photos: A Look Back at 1969
A half century ago, humans first set foot on the moon, hundreds of thousands of young people gathered in New York’s Catskill Mountains for a music festival that became a cultural milestone, and so much more.
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Athit Perawongmetha / AFP / Getty The Trump Administration Wants North Korea to Be the Next Vietnam
When Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un meet in Vietnam later this month, the U.S. hopes the North Korean leader will see what might await his country if he decides to denuclearize.
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Timothy A. Clary / AFP / Getty Photos From the 2019 Westminster Dog Show
Images from the two-day competition and preliminary activities held in New York City at Piers 92/94 and Madison Square Garden
