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Reports of vulgar, offensive outbursts by the president of the United States have real-world consequences. One is the impact on America’s reputation overseas and its ability to lead and influence world events — its “soft power.” That’s the argument from Norwegian statesman Jan Egeland.

Leilah Day and Hana Baba are journalists at KALW based in San Francisco. They say they wanted to “start conversations and provide sound-rich stories about what it means to be black, and how we talk about blackness” — and so, The Stoop was born.

US astrophysicists Barry Barish, Kip Thorne and Rainer Weiss were awarded the Nobel Physics Prize Tuesday for the discovery of gravitational waves, offering a sneak peek at the universe’s very beginnings.