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THE ORLANDO MASSACRE Our June 27 cover--which listed the names of every person fatally shot in Orlando, alongside the question "Why did they die?"--moved readers like George Zaver of Los Angeles, who wanted to see a focus on the victims and not the "madman killer." For Don Wigal of New York City, the cover's somber and stark aesthetic evoked an older TIME cover, which in 1966 asked a different question: Is God Dead? Some, like Jon Edwards of Novato, Calif., stressed the importance of language in characterizing the tragedy. The cover question was "insensitive," he said, for not making clear that the deaths in question were murders. As for answering that question? Barbara Mann of Frederick, Md., wrote that the victims died because "we as a nation allow assault weapons…

PULP NONFICTION The five booksellers worked at Causeway Bay Books, a dingy store in Hong Kong's most bustling commercial district that's famous for selling lurid books about the private lives of mainland Chinese politicians. Four of the booksellers are still believed to be in mainland China, but Lam was freed temporarily on bail. GOING PUBLIC Lam had been expected to return to the mainland but defied Chinese authorities by telling the press how he had spent months in solitary confinement under constant surveillance. Protesters marched from the bookstore to Beijing's government outpost on June 18 to demand justice. CHINA RISING Lam's revelations further underscore growing concerns over Chinese encroachment on Hong Kong's autonomy and democratic freedoms, granted to the territory after Britain returned it to China in 1997. "I think…

51% The share of the world's refugees in 2015 who were under the age of 18. The UNHCR reported a record 98,400 asylum requests from unaccompanied or separated minors. 172,700 The number of claims for asylum submitted in the U.S., the second largest total in 2015 after Germany. The majority fled organized crime, gang violence and cartel activity. 32,000 The number of refugees who gained citizenship in 2015 in 28 countries. Some 25,900 were in Canada, which accounted for 81% of the naturalizations last year.…

A new federal report revealed that Americans spend about $30 billion a year on nontraditional health care, such as yoga and ginkgo biloba (above). That's a fraction of overall U.S. health care spending, but it still marks an all-time high. A primer on some of the lesser-known drivers: QIGONG An ancient Chinese practice to aid relaxation. It integrates physical movements, mental focus and deep breathing. OSTEOPATHIC MANIPULATION Uses "healing touch" to restore function and alleviate pain. Techniques include stretching and applying gentle pressure to aid muscles and joints. HYPNOSIS An altered state of consciousness triggered by relaxing the body and focusing on an object or idea. It's sometimes used to treat pain and stress. --Alexandra Sifferlin…

Even some vegetarians opposed to animal cruelty say it's fine to eat fish, citing their lower brain capacity. But in his new book, What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins, Jonathan Balcombe argues that there is a huge moral distinction "between a cod and a cucumber." To illustrate his point, Balcombe cites several studies about how fish live. Among the findings (some of which are disputed): rainbow trout can probably feel pain; carp can learn to avoid bait for up to three years after getting caught and released; cichlids engage in play; frillfin gobies can memorize and recall the topography of a tide pool 40 days later; and orange-dotted tuskfish can use tools to uncover and open buried clams. "Fishes are not merely alive--they have lives,"…

-0.07% MAINE Even with the drop, Maine's population of 1,329,328 is about a thousand more than it was five years ago. -0.11% CONNECTICUT The Nutmeg State's loss of 3,876 people was mostly a result of people moving away. -0.17% ILLINOIS Illinois's population shrank by more than 22,000 people, 10,488 from Cook County alone. -0.25% WEST VIRGINIA As in Maine, more people are dying than being born in the Mountain State; its current population is 1,844,128. -1.7% PUERTO RICO The island's population shrank by 60,706 people amid its financial struggles, overwhelmingly from migration. --Belinda Luscombe…

Rami Malek has taken a beating--or at least it certainly looks that way. It's a sunny spring day in Brooklyn, and he's on a break from shooting a scene for his show Mr. Robot that's left him in impressively bad condition. He fiddles with the contact lens that creates the illusion of a streak of blood in one of his eerie, saucer-like eyes. A makeup artist touches up one of his lesions. Malek points to his bruised face. "He's still battling demons," he says of his character, a hacker named Elliot. "It hasn't turned up roses in Season 2." The same can't be said for USA's Mr. Robot, returning July 13 after becoming last summer's most surprising breakout hit. It's a dark thriller about a coder (Malek) with a drug…

How liberal is my Brooklyn neighborhood? Let's put it this way: I was at a rock concert in the park this past weekend, and vendors were selling combos of parsley fries and kale salad. The local NPR station is the media partner for this music series because, as one of the hosts said on Saturday, "This is a really big ZIP code for us." When we left, there was a huge line for the "bike valet." Park Slope, as this part of Brooklyn is called, is widely and often justifiably mocked for its elite leftiness and entitled children. Breast-feeding moms are known to take over entire taverns in the afternoons with their expensive strollers and rampaging toddlers. There are notorious online spats like the one after someone posted about finding…

'It's gonna be like being at a Beyoncé concert.' LeBron James, basketball star, on becoming an NBA legend, after his Cleveland Cavaliers won the league title for the city's first major sports championship since 1964 118ºF High temperature in Phoenix amid a deadly heat wave in the southwestern U.S. Coffee Cuban coffee will soon be imported to the U.S. GOOD WEEK BAD WEEK Soda Philadelphia passed a tax on sugary and diet drinks 'We are now living on Maduro's diet: No food, no nothing.' Lucila Fonseca, 69-year-old resident of Cumaná, Venezuela, which has been crippled by food shortages that have sparked protests against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro 100,000 Number of chickens Bill Gates is donating to poor countries to stimulate local economies 1,200 Height, in feet, of a…

DIED Anton Yelchin, 27, film and TV actor who played Chekov in the rebooted Star Trek movies, in a car accident. He also had roles in Terminator Salvation and, most recently, Green Room. ANNOUNCED By the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, that the world's coral reefs are experiencing the "most widespread, largest bleaching event ever." Triggered by rising ocean temperatures, this bout has killed one-third of all coral in some places since 2014. ELECTED Virginia Raggi, 37, as Rome's youngest and first female mayor. The lawyer belongs to Italy's anti-establishment movement Five Star, which also won the mayor's race in Turin and 17 smaller towns in runoff elections. WON By golfer Dustin Johnson, the U.S. Open, marking the 32-year-old's first major title. A controversial call at the 12th tee almost…

It's a cruel reality that exercising is not a reliable way to lose weight and keep it off. But that doesn't mean you should abandon the effort. As little as 15 minutes of exercise a day confers benefits that reduce the risk of death from all causes, a recent study found. Here is what other new research has to say about the benefits of regular exercise. 1 IT HAS MIND-BODY BENEFITS A survey published in June of more than 500 respondents who practice yoga found that while people initially tried it for exercise and stress relief, most say their reason for practicing changed as they continued. For 37% of yogis, spirituality became the primary reason for keeping up their practice. "I think because yoga is such a mind-body practice, people…

Kathy Niakan's laboratory at London's Francis Crick Institute is the size of a walk-in closet, but between its walls she's working on one of the most expansive frontiers ever contemplated by science. Sometime soon, Niakan will place a human embryo on the platform of her microscope. With one hand, she will steady the embryo--an egg that has been fertilized by a sperm but hasn't yet begun the cell division that eventually leads to a person. With the other, she will maneuver a tiny pipette up against the embryo and inject a specially prepared liquid. If all goes as expected, the liquid will alter the DNA at the core of the cell--literally rewriting the embryo's genetic code. At that point, Niakan will have effectively edited this potential human being. She isn't…

"I ate from the can--No spoon," Ivy Moxam tells the investigators who are trying to find out more about the decade-plus that she spent in captivity. She speaks with matter-of-fact grimness: "We had to earn the right to a spoon. I never did." BBC America's new limited series Thirteen explores both Ivy's ordeal--like Brie Larson's character in Room, she was kidnapped as a teen--and its repercussions. Switching from subdued to rageful, actor Jodie Comer convinces you of both Ivy's fears and her feral side; when her mother bakes a cake, Ivy digs into the batter, smearing it into her unkempt hair. She's disinclined to tell the truth about the years she spent locked away, even though she could help solve a new kidnapping case. But she eventually, thrillingly, breaks out…

LOVE IT Kanye West let a young fan interview him on Snapchat. When asked how he wrote the song "I Love Kanye," the rapper replied: 'I just thought about what I loved.' Some fans are calling Piper--star of the animated short that plays in theaters before Finding Dory--the cutest Pixar character ever created. The cast of Hamilton will reportedly film two of its live performances in the near future (though it's unclear how or when the footage will be displayed). A British woman received a shout-out from Google after her grandson posted a photo of her using "please" and "thank you" to bookend her searches. During a recent visit to Hasbro headquarters, viral star Candace Payne, a.k.a. Chewbacca Mom, was given her own action figure. Disney's newest international park, Shanghai…

Recently, you had a $140 million judgment against Gawker Media and you declared bankruptcy and put the media empire you founded up for sale. How's your mood? Actually, it's good. It's a bit of a relief. We have a deal in place with Ziff Davis. And separately we'll pursue this litigation with the various plaintiffs who are being backed by [PayPal billionaire] Peter Thiel. And we expect frankly to win all of those cases. Can you explain the news value of the story that triggered the lawsuit, the Hulk Hogan sex tape? People, journalists, publishers will have different opinions about whether they would have published the eight seconds of grainy sex that was the illustration of the article. I don't want to get into that debate all over again, just…

In the world of central bankers, Raghuram Rajan is a rock star, and the abrupt announcement on June 18 that he will depart the Reserve Bank of India in September came as a shock for investors. Some experts suspect that the charismatic, outspoken former IMF chief economist was forced out for political reasons and consider his departure a disaster for his country's economy. But there's no need to raise alarms for India. Early reports suggest his successor will be a credible figure with a distinguished résumé, and all signs point to continued policy progress on India's most pressing problems. To appreciate India's positive outlook, compare the country with its emerging-market peers. In China, growth has slowed dramatically in recent years, the debts of local governments and Chinese companies have ballooned,…

Liberals tend to think of themselves as open-minded and supportive of free speech. But recent examples show otherwise--and prove that many on the left are not above using intimidation and harassment to silence dissenting voices. Consider the fight against California's Prop 8. In an attempt to stymie the 2008 amendment, which aimed to preserve traditional marriage, some activists posted its supporters' names and addresses to a public map--which others reportedly used to key their cars, blockade their businesses and leave threatening phone messages. Several prominent Californians, including Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich, resigned from their jobs after being excoriated online. And the backlash likely dissuaded some donors from supporting a political cause ever again. Moreover, in 2012, a liberal Wisconsin prosecutor probed conservative groups and alleged that they had illegally coordinated…

Team USA heads to the Rio Games this summer with a chance to win something that would seem impossible for a bunch of Americans: an Olympic medal in rugby. Their cause has been bolstered by the rise of 26-year-old Carlin Isles, one of rugby's emerging worldwide stars. But if the team succeeds, they can also chalk up an assist for YouTube. A month before the 2012 U.S. Olympic trials, Isles, then the 36th-ranked sprinter in the country, says he was searching YouTube for clips to help him hone his running technique. Then he stumbled across a video of a rugby player speeding downfield, converting a "try," the sport's rough equivalent of a touchdown. The clip showed the "sevens" version of rugby--a faster game played with seven players to a side,…