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Greg Gianforte, a Congressional candidate in Montana's special election was charged with misdemeanor assault after allegedly body-slamming a reporter to the ground and breaking his glasses, according to The New York Times. Gianforte can be heard on an audio recording yelling at Guardian reporter Ben C. Jacobs saying, "I'm sick and tired of you guys! The last time you came in here you did the same thing. Get the hell out of here!" A Fox News camera crew witnessed the event, which happened at GIanforte's campaign headquarters in Missoula, and said after Jacobs asked him a question about the newly-released CBO score for the health-care bill, Gianforte "grabbed Jacobs by the neck with both hands and slammed him into the ground behind him." Gianforte then started punching Jacobs. Gianforte is vying for the House of Representatives seat vacated when President Trump named Ryan Zinke Secretary of Interior. If found guilty of the charge, Gianforte faces a $500 fine or six months in jail.

British officials have stopped sharing details with the U.S. about Monday's suicide bombing at Manchester Arena after leaks to the media compromised the investigation, Reuters reported. Eight people have been arrested in connection with the attack, including family members of bomber Salman Abedi. The bombing at an Ariana Grande concert killed 22 people, many of them young girls. Britain raised its threat level to critical in the wake of the bombing. President Trump has called for an investigation into the leaks.

President Trump met French President Emmanuel Macron and congratulated him for doing a "great job" in winning his hotly-contested recent election, according to Reuters. Among the other topics on the agenda, Macron was expected to try to convince Trump to honor U.S. commitment to the 2015 Paris climate agreement. Observers of the meeting said that during their handshake, Macron's grip was strong enough to turn Trump's knuckles white.

Former Playmate and model Dani Mathers will spend a month cleaning up grafitti in Los Angeles as punishment for posting a naked photo of a woman at a gym on Snapchat, NPR reported. Mathers pleaded no contest to a charge of invading the woman's privacy after taking the photo at an LA Fitness health club last year. The caption on the photo read "if I can't unsee this then you can't either." The 30-year-old Mathers was banned from the gym where she took the photo.

Sean Hannity is taking a few days off after several companies pulled their ads from his Fox News show, according to Inquirer. The advertiser exodus was in response to Hannity's promotion of a conspiracy theory about the death of Seth Rich. A Democratic National Committee staffer, Rich was fatally shot in Washington D.C. last year, and Fox recently retracted a story stating that he was killed in retaliation for handing over documents to Wikileaks. There's been no credible evidence to support this claim. Ring, Cars.com, USAA, Casper and Crowne Plaza Hotels are among the advertisers who said they will not buy any more time on Hannity's show. It's the latest in a series of setbacks for Fox News, which saw both its late founder Roger Ailes and its star Bill O'Reilly depart amid sexual assault allegations. Hannity said on his show this week he was backing off the Rich story "for now."

In his first post-presidency speech in Europe, former President Barack Obama said wealthy countries can't isolate themselves from the world's problems, Reuters reported. Obama made his remarks at a panel discussion in Berlin with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, close to where the Berlin Wall once stood. "If there are disruptions in these countries, if there is bad governance, if there is war or if there is poverty, in this new world that we live in we can't isolate ourselves," Obama told the audience of about 70,000 people. "We can't hide behind a wall."

Researchers at Stanford University have found that fitness trackers are mostly inaccurate when it comes to counting calories, according to The Washington Post. In a paper published in the Journal of Personalized Medicine, the researchers report that the range of error for calorie tracking with devices such as FitBit or PulseOn was between 27 percent and 93 percent. One of the fitness tracker companies told NPR that the user parameters might have been set incorrectly. The researchers noted that the trackers were accurate for measuring heart rate.

Most states saw a decline in refugee resettlement following President Trump's travel ban, a new report has found, Reuters reported. According to the Pew Research Center, which reviewed State Department data, in October 2016 there were 9,945 refugees resettled in the U.S. That figure plunged to 2,070 refugees in March. The report did not specifically attribute the decline to any one factor, but Trump issued two executive orders limiting refugee admissions to 50,000 for all of the 2017 fiscal year, less than half the 110,000 annual limit set by the Obama administration.

Five to nine hurricanes can be expected in the Atlantic this season, according to the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, according to CNN. That's above the average number of hurricanes, and NOAA says two to four of them could be major. It's expecting up to 13 named storms for the entire season, which begins June 1. The agency is basing its prediction on the combination of warm sea surface temperatures and a weak or even non-existent El Niño system.

AlphaGo software defeated the world's top human Go player, Ke Jie, in two straight games, winning a best-of-three series and confirming that the AI has surpassed human Go-playing ability, according to the Verge. AlphaGo was developed by DeepMind, a British company acquired by Google in 2014. DeepMind's CEO, Demis Hassabis, confirmed that the second match with Ke Jie was the closest a human competitor has yet played against the "Master version" of AlphaGo. The program's analysis judged Ke Jie's first 50 moves as perfect. The competiton was held as part of Google's Future of Go Summit in Wuzhen, China.