The bitterest pill.

Twelve legal experts on whether Trump obstructed justice, in light of Cohen's claims the president knew about the 2016 Trump Tower meeting: If true, it's likely obstruction. 1/16

The GOP tax cuts have lowered corporate taxes so much, and so quickly, that the federal budget deficit is skyrocketing as a result. 2/16

Emotional reunification photos of families detained at the US-Mexico border. 3/16

North Korea returns 55 sets of what are the purported remains of US servicemen killed in the Korean War. 4/16

A cartoon history of the Trump family, which has been plundering for three generations. 5/16

As the epicenter of US innovation, Silicon Valley is, unsurprisingly, also a hotbed of international espionage. 6/16

To fight big pharma's price gouges, a DIY collective is producing lifesaving drugs at a fraction of the cost. 7/16

In a survey of cryptocurrency enthusiasts, 52% lean right in their political ideologies; 3% identify as nihilists. 8/16

She doesn't want to let go. Researchers observe a mother orca buoying her calf for at least three days after it died. 9/16

Only 13% of Earth's oceans are still wilderness, remaining free of human impact. 10/16

The monkey’s full name? Erythrocebus patas. / It enjoys, at the moment, an unthreatened status. / It lives across Africa, in the savannas / And eats bugs and tubers (not so much bananas). Dr. Seuss’s Lorax may have been based on the patas monkey—which is fun to read about in Seussian verse. 11/16

A Japanese spacecraft takes a stunning photo of the asteroid Ryugu, from just 3.72 miles away. 12/16

The story of Mark Hogancamp, who invented the miniature, World War II-era town of Marwencol during his recovery from an assault that left him in a coma, will soon become a movie with Steve Carell. See our 2011 gallery and interview with Jeff Malmberg, who directed a documentary about Hogancamp and Marwencol. 13/16

How the writer and literary social figure known—among other pseudonyms—as Anna March grifted literary communities. 14/16

By the time I arrived at the scene where empty airplane bottles line the rim of the motel bath tub, I had quit trying to make sense of the inconsistency. Let’s all agree: It just looked cool. Sarah Hepola, author of Blackout, on the depiction of alcoholism in Sharp Objects. 15/16

On those who've long fashioned their hair after "modfather" Paul Weller, who now has his first new hairstyle in decades. 16/16

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