No one knows who they were or what they were doing.
Trump tweets that he called off a retaliatory strike on Iran with 10 minutes to go after learning it could kill 150 people, which he said wouldn't be "proportionate to shooting down an unmanned drone." 1/17
"It was unclear why Mr. Trump would have been getting information about possible casualties so late in the process of launching military action." 2/17
The 9th Circuit has ruled the Trump administration can deny funding to Planned Parenthood and other organizations that provide information about abortions in the same facilities where they're performed. 3/17
Riviera Beach, Fla., says it will pay a $600,000 ransom after a cyberattack froze its computer systems three weeks ago. 4/17
A bony "horn" that some adults have developed at the base of their skulls probably isn't entirely from phone use, but rather from combined postural changes. 5/17
For thousands of years, thousands have gathered at Stonehenge to celebrate the summer solstice. Now, a planned underground motorway may damage the site. 6/17
Once thought to date back to the Iron Age, some human-made islands in Scottish lochs may have been built in the Neolithic era. 7/17
Around 11 million acres of land have been stolen from black Americans—much of it in the past 50 years. 8/17
Bikini Atoll's flag resembles America's, but includes three black stars for the islands decimated by US nuclear weapons testing. 9/17
After a two-year increase in auto fatalities, deaths decreased last year—possibly due to improved safety technologies in new cars. 10/17
Microbiologists warn that climate change could wreak havoc on microbes—which are needed for, among other things, producing oxygen. 11/17
Science is the key to solving climate change. It's also a source of millions of tons of plastic waste every year. 12/17
"At black and Puerto Rican bars, parties, and picnics in New York City, 'people had to provide their own entertainment. All the queens lip-synced and vogued—though I don't think we had a word for voguing.'" Nicole Pasulka on the history of lip-sync performances in the drag world. 13/17
Frequent targets of worker derision, HR departments must now choose whether to be heroes or villains in the #MeToo era. 14/17
"There was a moment where we thought if we cashed out, we could have our life forever. But we wanted to live decentral. We don't want a house." An interview with the dad in a family of five that lives almost entirely on bitcoin. 15/17
Data visualizations of Proust's In Search of Lost Time. 16/17
Paintings of fires—some close, some in the distance—blend realism and post-impressionism styles, by Daliah Anmar. 17/17
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