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  1. The joke was recorded two days before the White House correspondents’ dinner, where a gunman tried to storm the press gala.
  2. Reporting on the people who upend life and those whose lives are upended can bring surprising and uncomfortable details to light.
  3. In its latest offer delivered on Sunday, Iran proposed opening the key waterway to shipping traffic and lifting the U.S. blockade, while postponing the thornier nuclear issue until later.
  4. In just eight weeks, much of the global economy has been knocked sideways. America has mostly been spared from the tumult.
  5. China’s strategic reserves of oil and natural gas have insulated it somewhat, but its manufacturing-based economy is beginning to falter.