Pikachu’s got a new fur coat. Detective Pikachu arrives in theaters Friday, marking Pokémon’s first foray into live-action. The film tells the story of a former Pokémon trainer (Justice Smith) who teams up with a talking Pikachu (voiced by Ryan Reynolds) to solve his father’s murder. The film’s creative team faced a tall order in adapting the creatures of Pokémon in a way that would both satisfy fans of the cartoons and also look real onscreen.

Rep. James Comer, the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, held a press conference on Wednesday to detail the latest updates in his investigation of Hunter Biden’s business dealings. The evidence so far does not directly implicate President Biden, but does suggest his son may have profited off of his famous name. Records of Hunter Biden’s activities also echo the foreign business dealings of the family members of another President. While in office, former President Trump remained connected to the Trump Organization, even as he passed control of the company to his two sons, Donald Trump Jr.

The solar eclipse set to cross North America on Monday, April 8, has humans aflutter with anticipation, but the phenomenon, and even more so the crowds it attracts, could be disorienting and anxiety-inducing for pets. During solar eclipses, when the sky briefly turns dark, dogs may cower, birds stop flying and grow quiet, and nocturnal creatures emerge.  But the bigger concerns for pets, veterinarians tell TIME, are the anticipated mass gatherings.

QAYYARA AIRBASE, Iraq, Sept 9 (Reuters) – The U.S.-led war on Islamic State has depleted the group’s funds, leadership and foreign fighters, but the biggest battle yet is expected later this year in Iraq’s northern city of Mosul, where Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared his “caliphate” two years ago. The jihadist insurgents have lost more than half the territory they seized in Iraq and nearly as much in neighboring Syria, but still manage to control their twin capitals of Mosul and Raqqa, symbols of the state they sought to build at the heart of the Middle East.

March 30, 2018 12:03 PM EDT Easter will fall on April Fools’ Day for the first time since 1956 on Sunday, giving Jimmy Kimmel the perfect opportunity to show off some pranks inspired by the double holiday. With the help of former NASA engineer Mark Rober, Kimmel demonstrated a few hilarious ways for parents to terrorize their children come Easter Sunday morning, including filling their chocolate bunnies with broccolini, coating Brussels sprouts with chocolate to make them look like cake pops and, worst of all, replacing the filling in a Cadbury Creme Egg with mayonnaise.