COVER STORY this issue: President Trump’s defiant diplomacy.  Kim Jon Un had a request.  As Donald Trump wooed the North Korean leader inside a former British garrison in Singapore, Kim asked Trump to suspend military exercises by U.S. and South Korean forces on the Korean Peninsula, long a source of concern for Pyongyang’s hair-trigger military.  It wasn’t something that had been negotiated by their staffs, and some of Trump’s aides were concerned that the concession would irritate allies … To understand the world we live in, read TIME.

As Israel gets its way with Washington, Gazans mobilize despair.  It is possible, in theory that the parallel events of May 14 might affect the sympathies of Americans watching them unfold on the split screens of cable news channels.  In Jerusalem, the ceremonial opening of the new U.S. Embassy proceeded at a stately pace, President Trump’s daughter Ivanka unveiling a plaque that announced not only the new address for U.S. representation in Israel but also a new, snugger alignment with the host nation.  A few miles away, cameras captured the chaos as Israeli soldiers methodically cut down some 2,700 Palestinians, 60 fatally, as they marched toward the fence …

Daniel Dudley, 28, is a busy man.  The medical resident at Valley Medical Center in Washington is an active hiker, an amateur chef—he’s currently learning how to cook Indian cuisine—and a proud “father” to two dwarf rabbits, whose antics he chronicles under the Instagram handle @bunnyzaddy.  He’s also at least partly responsible for the creation of a new male contraceptive.  Over the past five years, Dudley has volunteered for three separate clinical trials of three male contraceptive methods …