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My nine-year-old skips, jumps, flails his arms, jumps some more, kicks, skip-jumps, stops by to punch me in the leg, and continues. He drifts through the house to the energetic pop rock of his favorite band, Imagine Dragons. He’s mouthing the words, but his “dancing” takes no cues from the music’s rhythm.

Once anointed both the next Spielberg and a modern-day Hitchcock, M. Night Shyamalan has experienced a fair share of highs and lows in his 30-plus years in the movie business. The filmmaker, who broke into the Hollywood mainstream with his 1999 smash horror hit The Sixth Sense, made a name for himself as the reigning king of the twist, shocking viewers with late-movie reveals that flipped his thrillers’ plots on their heads.

After experiencing three ACL tears, Brazilian gymnast Rebeca Andrade thought several times about giving up gymnastics. None other than Simone Biles, the most decorated gymnast of all time, encouraged her to continue. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] That’s even though Biles, in her recent Netflix documentary, Simone Biles Rising, admitted that Andrade is her fiercest competitor and “scares me the most.” Read More: What Are ‘the Twisties’ in Gymnastics?

There is little doubt that Israel was behind the audacious assassination of Hamas’ hostage-deal negotiator and political head Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran on Wednesday. By deliberately maximizing Tehran’s embarrassment—Haniyeh was killed only hours after the inauguration of Iran’s new reformist President Masoud Pezeshkian—the Israeli government also maximized the likelihood of Iranian retaliation.

President Joe Biden on Thursday announced that Russian authorities have released Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich along with two other American citizens and an American green-card holder as part of a sweeping prisoner swap. The historic swap, involving seven countries and over 20 prisoners total, marks a significant diplomatic achievement for Biden and a rare moment of cooperation amid deepening global tensions.

On March 14, 2016, in the squid grounds off the coast of Patagonia, a rusty Chinese vessel named the Lu Yan Yuan Yu 10 was fishing illegally, several miles inside Argentine waters. Spotted by an Argentine coast-guard patrol and ordered over the radio to halt, the specially-designed squid-fishing ship, known as a “jigger,” fled the scene.