At a jail with death rates four times the national average in New Orleans, teenagers and young men are trying a new program that enrolls them into full-day high school classes for diplomas, using the same curriculum and tests as the school district. In collaboration with NPR’s This American Life, The Marshall Project’s Eli Hager reported the story and talks to Hari Sreenivasan.

Read more at PBS News.

President Donald Trump’s visit at the G-7 summit in Canada was tense and truncated. Arriving late and leaving early, he advocated for the readmission of Russia, which was expelled from the group after allegedly annexing Crimea, and refused to reverse tariffs on imported steel and aluminum. NewsHour’s White House Correspondent Yamiche Alcindor joins Hari Sreenivasan from Quebec.

Read more at PBS News.

Schools across the country are moving away from an era of zero-tolerance policies and shifting toward methods that involve restorative justice, encouraging students to resolve their differences by talking to each other rather than resorting to violence. In New York City, five schools that have implemented this system are already seeing results. NewsHour Weekend's Megan Thompson reports.

Read more at PBS News.

With all the international attention focused on Singapore and the historic summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, Pyongyang must be buzzing with excitement, right?

Well, it might be, if anyone knew what was going on.

Instead, it’s like the center of the storm.

Read more at Associated Press News.

Embarking on a self-described “mission of peace,” President Donald Trump’s seat-of-the-pants foreign policy is facing its toughest test yet as he attempts this week to personally broker an end to North Korea’s nuclear program in talks with Kim Jong Un.

The impulsive American president, who just this weekend sowed chaos within the Western alliance, is set to face his match on the global stage as he prepares to meet Kim in Singapore on Tuesday.

Read more at Associated Press News.

A beetle that has killed millions of acres of pines in southern forests is munching its way north, and new research suggests its tree-killing prowess could be magnified in cooler climes.

Once unheard-of north of Delaware, southern pine beetles have been steadily expanding their range as the climate warms. Efforts are underway to quell a large outbreak in Long Island’s pine barrens and monitoring traps have caught beetles as far north as New England. The insect could reach Nova Scotia by 2020 and cover forests from the upper Midwest to Maine by 2080, according to a Columbia University study published in the journal Nature Climate Change in August.

Read more at Associated News Press.

You’re probably familiar with those sweeping, romantic shots of the pyramids of Giza. In photos, movies and textbooks, there’s sand as far as the eye can see — and maybe a figure in the distance obscured by haze. It must surely take a train or a bus to get there. At least a camel ride.

Well, for those who have never visited the Pharaonic structures or thought about what may surround them, this might come as a surprise: The pyramids are flanked on three sides by the roads and neighborhoods of Giza, a major city with a population in the millions.

Read more at The New York Times.

As soon as sugar touches your tongue, your nervous system kicks into high gear. The tongue tells the brain’s “taste center” that you ate something sweet, relaying a message to another part of your brain that eating sweet stuff is good. This is a problematic process for anyone who’s ever tried to shed some pounds, but now, scientists studying mouse brains have found a way to disrupt it. As researchers write in Nature on Wednesday, just because your brain senses sweetness doesn’t mean it has to conflate sweetness with pleasure.

Read more at Inverse.

Although Americans are finally focusing on getting more sleep—perhaps due to the onslaught of sleep-positive tech like FDA-approved pajamas, weighted blankets, and lamps that mimic the sunrise—there’s still plenty to explore regarding the relationship between snoozing and mental health. And while extensive research and experts have noted links between the two, the findings of one new study in particular will be of interest to summer travelers and busy boss babes alike.

Published in The Lancet Psychiatry, the study analyzed 91,000 United Kingdom residents aged 37 to 73 who wore an accelerometer on their wrist for one week. Researchers determined the circadian rhythmicity of the subjects’ rest-activity cycles—AKA, how consistent they are about bedtime and wake-up time—a measure dubbed the “relative amplitude variable.” They then examined the connection between a low relative amplitude variable (a regularly disrupted circadian rhythm) and conditions such as depression, happiness, and cognitive functioning (using a model that accounted for demographics, lifestyle, education, and other factors that might influence these conditions).

Read more at Well and Good.

Microsoft has passed Google (Alphabet) in market valuation for the first time in three years, reports CNBC. Microsoft is now valued at $753 billion, while Alphabet (Google’s parent company) is valued at $739 billion. It makes Microsoft the third most valuable company in the world, behind Apple and Amazon. This will likely only be temporary, though. Google originally passed Microsoft back in 2012, and the pair have traded positions a number of times in recent years. Still, it shows how much Microsoft has improved its stock price over the past five years since former CEO Steve Ballmer announced his plans to retire as Microsoft CEO.

Read more at The Verge.