The big news of the day is a historic handshake in Singapore. More on that in a moment. But let’s pause to recognize what happened on a smaller stage, a baseball diamond in Minnesota.

High school pitcher Ty Koehn is one pitch away from taking his Mounds View team to the state championships. He delivers a sizzling fastball. Steee-rike, the umpire signals. Game over. The crowd erupts and Ty’s teammates rush onto the field.

But Ty doesn’t join the victory scrum. Instead, he jogs to home plate, sidestepping the embrace of his own catcher, and gives a long hug to the dejected rival batter.

The batter, Jack Kocon, is a childhood friend. They’d played on the same Little League team a few years back. “Our friendship is more important than just the silly outcome of a game,” Ty told Bring Me The News.  “I had to make sure he knew that before we celebrated.”

No one would have criticized him – or even noticed – if Ty had joined his team’s celebration dance. But he chose empathy and friendship first.

In an age of political tribalism, fraying alliances, and “my team over yours,” a high school baseball player offers us another approach to winning.

Now on to our five selected stories, including an empathetic look at China’s own migrants, the Trump administration’s perspective on global trade deals, and making the US safer by educating inmates.