Trump's Weaponization Fund

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Will Americans Ever Lose Their Grip on the Handshake?

This default greeting isn’t always as friendly and egalitarian as it seems.

Passenger review

A demonic entity attaches itself to travellers on the road in this competently directed but hopelessly indistinctive scare-free misfire

Kingfisher by Rozie Kelly audiobook review

This heartfelt story of attraction and friendship, shortlisted for the Women’s prize for fiction, is sensitively read by Dan Bottomley

Today's Atlantic Trivia: Alien Coverups

Test your knowledge—and read our stories for a little extra help.

Epstein island trespasser says he was hog-tied, thrown into "dungeon"

Little St. James in the Virgin Islands has attracted seekers lured by tales of Jeffrey Epstein's private island.

Keeping Our Enemies Close—And Our Allies Guessing

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‘The devil’s child’: the rise and fall of the only female yakuza

Mako Nishimura fought her way into the Japanese underworld, but drug addiction and the slow demise of organised crime gangs almost destroyed her

A bride wades through a flood to get married: Aaron Favila’s best photograph

‘The couple had been told the church was likely to be under water on their wedding day. But they were from an area of the Philippines prone to flooding – and stuck to their plan’

Blinded and broken, Sunny the owl becomes another casualty of Russia's war

Ukrainians lament appalling toll of fighting on their country's bird population

I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning review

Cannes film festival: Clio Barnard’s absorbing tale depicts five friends who grew up together in Birmingham but now face divided destinies

Fry off: did New Zealand invent the sausage sizzle? Australian claims hit a snag

The sausage open-sandwich is a cherished part of Australia’s culture. But its origins may be in the land of the long white cloud