One giant act of trolling.

Hurricane Michael, with maximum sustained winds of 155 miles per hour, is close to a Category 5 storm, the most severe on the scale. 1/23

"This is the worst storm the Florida Panhandle has seen in more than 100 years," said Florida Gov. Rick Scott. 2/23

European shares fall to their lowest level in 20 months after yesterday’s rout on Wall Street. 3/23

A fact-check of Trump's USA Today "Medicare for All" op-ed finds a false or misleading statement in almost every sentence. 4/23

Another baffling tweet from President Trump, this time because he didn't understand a joke on Fox & Friends. 5/23

The trail of clues in the vanishing of Washington Post contributor Jamal Khashoggi, who remains missing a week after he disappeared inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul. 6/23

Trump is reluctant to punish Saudi Arabia if the kingdom is found to be responsible for Khashoggi’s death. 7/23

George Will: “Trump’s presidency is one giant act of trolling.” 8/23

As Los Angeles seizes 111 weapons from owners forbidden from holding them, California remains the only state to do so. 9/23

Economist Lawrence Summers gets an education during a road trip through the mountain West. 10/23

A quick explanation of why the carbon tax proposed by William Nordhaus—now a Nobel Prize-winner—is relatively modest. 11/23

Your weekly white paper: A study finds that Britons who prefer realistic paintings strongly support Brexit. 12/23

In Britain, the number of young adults who don't touch alcohol increased from 18% in 2005 to 29% in 2015. 13/23

Airport police in India, said to be excessively friendly, will move from a "broad smile system" to a "sufficient smile system." 14/23

Some illustrated visions of space and the future from Japan in the '70s and '80s. 15/23

The world's longest nonstop flight goes from Singapore to New York over the span of 19 hours. 16/23

Fitness bands and Apple watches can detect heartbeats in things like bananas and toilet paper. That doesn't mean they're necessarily flawed. 17/23

A new take on life after death: "plastination," where fluids and soluble fat are replaced with resin, silicon rubber, and epoxy. 18/23

Try blowing up a balloon in under a tenth of a second. It’s pretty much impossible. Now try doing the same thing for a larger bag in even less time. You can’t do that with air. The only answer is an explosion that produces a gas to fill the airbag. A few notes on the remarkable physics of airbags. 19/23

A gecko took charge of a hospital phone in Hawaii and made "a bazillion" calls with "his tiny gecko feet." 20/23

Most kickers and punters in Division I college football are white. The same goes for kickers at historically black colleges. 21/23

Actor Daniel Radcliffe joins the New Yorker’s fact-checking department for a day. 22/23

“A singer devoid of personality." Notes from an early audition for the BBC by one of David Bowie's first bands. 23/23

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