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Once one of the country's most powerful politicians, former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal charges of evading bank rules. Hastert told a federal judge he structured large payments of hush money to an unnamed individual in order to keep those payments and details about past misconduct secret.

Banning cruise ships is not the first step Seychelles has taken to mitigate the spread of the virus. Its international airport shut down in March is not scheduled to reopen until June 1.

A snafu of a shortcut was a reminder that even navigation apps can still get it wrong. "There's so many other people going, it must be OK," is how one driver was led astray.

Rare, wild Greek mountain music comes to life once again from a surprising source: Jack White's Third Man Records. #TBT

Our guest on this edition of ST is Michael Blanding, an author and magazine writer who's also a senior fellow at the Schuster Institute for Investigative…

In a commencement speech, Jill Abramson used humor to tackle her controversial dismissal from The New York Times. Like the college students before her, she said, she doesn't know what's next for her.

Also: finalists for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction announced; testing the Hemingway App; warfare and rocket cats.

Thistle tortoise beetles have enormously long, hooked penises that are rigid in some parts and soft in others. Scientists hope studying the beetle penises could help people design better catheters.

Since 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick began kneeling during the national anthem to protest oppression, more athletes have followed his lead. Now a woman singing the anthem has joined, too.

But the attorney general would not confirm that a federal probe on the matter is underway. He said the Justice Department would "look at the facts and the law and take it from there."