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Ron Howard is one of the most prolific and celebrated filmmakers of the last fifty years. This week, Howard and host Charlotte Alter dive deep into his decades-long career in front of and behind the camera. Howard shares the inspiration behind his latest documentary film, “Jim Henson: Idea Man,” and what drove his decision to chronicle the life and work of a fellow Hollywood legend. The pair explore how Howard’s films reflect the eras in which they were made, the complex stories and characters that captivate us all, and why many of Howard’s films lack a traditional villain. Howard shares his insights on maintaining optimism in storytelling, balancing a prolific career with parenthood, and the invaluable advice he's received from industry legends. He also discusses how his documentary work enhances his narrative films, the inspiration behind his upcoming film "Eden," and the joy of experiencing his films through the eyes of his grandchildren. Tune in for an intimate look into one of Hollywood’s most enduring and beloved minds.
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Maya Rudolph is a comedy legend, and a 2024 TIME100 honoree. The multitalented actor, acclaimed for her iconic tenure on Saturday Night Live and unforgettable performances in “Bridesmaids,” “Big Mouth,” and more, joins host Charlotte Alter this week to dive deep into her creative process and personal journey. Maya takes us behind the scenes of growing up in a musical family and highlights the parallels between careers in music and comedy. In discussing her hit Apple TV series “Loot,” Maya shares her thoughts on what it would be like to live the life of a billionaire, the perks of working alongside world-renowned chef David Chang, and what drew her to the series in the first place. Rudolph opens up about balancing motherhood with the demands of a live weekly show, how she mastered the art of her world-class impressions, and what made the cohort of female comedians she worked with on SNL so incredibly special. Tune in for a conversation filled with laughter, revelations, and a glimpse into the life of one of comedy’s finest.
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Acclaimed novelist and 2024 TIME100 honoree Lauren Groff is a singular voice in American fiction. This week, Groff joins host Charlotte Alter to delve deep into the essence of creativity and the intricacies of the natural world and the human body. Lauren shares her unique perspective on how time acts as the "secret currency" of art, reflecting on the challenges of balancing marriage, motherhood and writing. Known for her commitment to an analog writing practice, Lauren discusses the virtues of disconnecting from digital distractions in favor of play, and unpacks the parallels between athleticism and artistic expression. Articulating the urgencies of this moment in history, Groff provides insights into her approach to weaving real-world themes and pressing societal issues into her narratives. Join Charlotte and Lauren for a deep dive into the life and mind of a writer who crafts not just stories, but windows into our world.
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As you've probably heard by now, TIME's 2023 Person of The Year is Taylor Swift. In this special bonus episode, host Charlotte Alter sits down with TIME’s Editor in Chief, Sam Jacobs, and Senior Executive Editor, Kelly Conniff, for a behind-the-scenes look at the history of TIME's legendary, annual Person of the Year issue and to hear all the reasons why Taylor Swift is this year's Person of The Year.
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Person of the Week, a new podcast from TIME, highlights the people who shape the world, and the forces that shape them. Each week, TIME Senior Correspondent Charlotte Alter hosts candid conversations, unearthing unexpected stories that shed light on the way our world works. Get to know household names and emerging leaders in a way you never have, on TIME’s newest podcast, Person of the Week.
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The CEOs of the leading AI companies made their most unified statement yet about the existential risks posed by the technology
The first obstacle comes on Tuesday evening, when the House Rules Committee will convene to determine whether the agreement comes to a vote.
The military published video Tuesday of the latest in a series of incidents in the region between the two powers.
“The agreement represents a compromise, which means not everyone gets what they want,” President Joe Biden said.
Because the ocean is rising at a similar rate as the land is sinking, the Earth's changing climate could accelerate the timeline.
Russian drones buzzed over Kyiv, before being taken down by Ukraine's air defense systems
America's major health systems largely ignore social drivers of poor health. That needs to change.
Florence Pugh is featured as one of TIME's Next Generation Leaders, a list of 10 trailblazers shaping a brighter future. The British actor has had a string of remarkable performances including in 'Midsommar' and 'Little Women' and is on the cusp of a breakout year with upcoming roles in two highly anticipated movies: Christopher Nolan’s 'Oppenheimer' and Denis Villeneuve’s 'Dune: Part Two'. We join Pugh to discuss her influence on the next generation of the movie industry.
Paxton has denied any wrongdoing and invited Texans to the capitol to “peacefully” protest
A satellite launch will be a violation of U.N. protocols on the use of long-range missile technology
The Erdoğan era lives on after Turkey’s longtime leader emerged victorious in Sunday's runoff election.
When it comes to the Colorado River, the U.S. and Mexico have entered a new era of agreement as both countries face unprecedented drought.
The Democratic president and Republican speaker reached the agreement after the two spoke Saturday evening by phone.
Included in this Episode:
1. What to Know About the History of the Debt Ceiling
2. The U.S. Surgeon General Fears Social Media Is Harming the 'Well-Being of Our Children'
3. For Marianne Williamson, the Bernie Sanders Lane Looks Wide Open
Overall, demand is lower says one expert. And if EV sales continue, that could continue to help drive down the cost of gas.
Deeper than our desires is the question of what is actually worth wanting, write Ryan McAnnally-Linz, Matthew Croasmun, and Miroslav Volf.
Without mandated air-conditioning, the number of heat-related deaths in U.S. prisons (Texas in particular) have increased in the last decade.
Sam Levinson's controversial HBO series, which stars co-creator The Weeknd and Lily-Rose Depp, is an almost Biblical cautionary tale about a pop star.
In a new study, researchers found a "global erosion of species,’ with nearly half of animal populations in decline.
The laws in Louisiana allow for abortions in certain cases when a pregnant patients' life or health may be at risk.
TIME speaks to Thomas Borer on scrapping the country's longstanding policy of military neutrality.
McCarthy warned that a potential agreement would require a level of compromise likely to disappoint both parties.
Originally called Decoration Day, the occasion was first marked three years after the end of the Civil War.
Ten lighthouses along America's shorelines are being given away at no cost or sold at auction by the federal government.
A widely promoted Twitter Spaces event with Elon Musk to launch his campaign began disastrously for Ron DeSantis.
'We are committed to not having missed payments and raising the debt ceiling,' Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said.
Taking a daily multivitamin can improve memory and slow some of the cognitive decline associated with aging, new research shows.
In an interview with TIME at the Chicago Humanities Festival, Clinton said Feinstein shouldn't retire because of the "tradeoff" on confirming judges.
An investigation by the Attorney General of Illinois found that at least 1,997 children were abused across six dioceses.
Biden has decades of history compromising with Republicans, sometimes over the howls of Democrats. Some of his allies worry it's happening again.
The announcement comes amid U.S. efforts to reduce American companies’ reliance on foreign chipmakers.
Poet Amanda Gorman says she was 'gutted' over her poem’s removal after a parent filed a complaint
If Trump's indictment was the first inflection point of the campaign cycle, we are entering a second one.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and President Joe Biden called the discussion "productive," but key sticking points remain
The fine for the transfer of user data is the largest since the E.U. implemented the General Data Protection Regulation.
Real Madrid star Vinícius Jr. tweeted that "today, in Brazil, Spain is known as a country of racists”
The U.S. remains awash in tragedies linked to doctors who prescribed dubious treatments.
The bulk of the business in Hiroshima was not focused on Putin’s war of choice, but on Beijing’s growing assertiveness
Sam Altman received a warmer welcome from lawmakers than other tech CEOs at a recent Senate hearing
The cost of financing renewable energy plays a significant role in determining the cost of clean electricity.
The pandemic may be over, but employees are refusing to return to the office full-time.
Included in this episode:
1. All The Stuff in Your Home That Might Contain PFAS 'Forever Chemicals'
2. Column: Polypharmacy Killed My Son. He’s Not Alone
3. Return-to-Office Full Time Is Losing. Hybrid Work Is On the Rise
Like Lyme disease, Powassan is transmitted through ticks. While there are only a handful of U.S. cases every year, the virus can be deadly.
It’s impossible to fully understand the Supreme Court's power without examining the shadow docket, writes Stephen Vladeck.
It's largely a growing populist identity that prioritizes parents’ rights over expert recommendations, state mandates, or the safety of others.
The WHO’s advice is based on a review that found products containing aspartame and stevia—like diet soda—don’t help reduce body fat.
The material that causes nail products to harden under UV lamps can cause seemingly random allergic reactions.
Countries have been forced to return to coal as Europe dips into liqueified natural gas supplies meant for Asia
Ukrainian president to join leaders of the world’s most powerful democracies as they ready more sanctions for Russia
Liberals calling for the ailing Dianne Feinstein to quit haven't considered what that would mean for one possible, albeit unlikely, scenario: a vacancy on the Supreme Court.
Gov. Gianforte’s office called the law an attempt to “protect Montanans’ personal and private data
Dominion CEO John Poulos tells TIME that the hit to the company's reputation will eventually scare away all its customers, despite a $787.5 million settlement with Fox News.
Deutsche Bank agreed to settle a lawsuit in which victims of Epstein’s sexual abuse accused the bank of facilitating his sex-trafficking operation
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy generally received a warmer welcome from Democrats than he had in the past, as he answered lawmakers questions about a surge in mail-related crimes.
The 284 million cars on the road are older than they've ever been. That'll take a toll on the speed of the EV transition.
The 2 hour chase, which involved the paparazzi, happened after the couple attended an awards ceremony in New York on Tuesday.
"If we ignore climate change as a public health threat, we are abdicating our role as healthcare providers"
In a Congressional hearing, Altman, whose company created ChatGPT, and senators expressed their fears about how AI could “go quite wrong.”
The two-minute clip was posted Tuesday on a new Telegram channel that provides information on how to securely contact the U.S. agency
Florida has opened an investigation into a teacher who showed her students a Disney film featuring a gay character during class.
That the outcome of the 2024 election could plausibly turn on similar events made the "America Decides" episode anxiety-attack inducing
A day after saying on Fox News that he could no longer ‘track down’ an informant in House Republicans’ Biden investigation, Rep. Comer provided more details.
Conversational product search has the potential to reshape a key element of Amazon’s core retail business
Deepika Padukone, India's top actress, is focused on making a global impact while remaining rooted in her country. Brands see her as a gateway to India's growing market, which is expected to be worth over $83 billion by 2025.
President Biden said he believes an agreement can be reached with House Republicans to raise or suspend the debt cap before the U.S. runs out of cash
President Biden and top congressional lawmakers will meet early this week to discuss the default
The EPA's new rule is significant on its own. But to understand its significance, it’s important to look at it as part of a bigger picture.
Included in this episode:
1. Why Allergy Seasons Are Getting Worse
2. This Company Could Be Crucial to Biden’s EV Charger Agenda
3. The Radical Joy of Rachel Cargle
Leaders from Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the U.K., and the U.S. will meet in Hiroshima to discuss the war in Ukraine, AI, and more.
Ending legacy admissions is where Democrats and Republicans can find common ground, write Frederick Hess and Richard Kahlenberg.
The American Psychological Association's new guidelines include 10 recommendations about social-media use for kids.
The 2021 Western Heat Dome was particularly deadly for patients suffering from mental health conditions. Better community care can help.
The emergency may be over, but there are valuable lessons to be learned from what went right.
The grandson of J. Robert Oppenheimer explains why we need to develop and scale nuclear energy to meet the global energy transition
Turkey Is holding the world’s most important election this year. Here’s everything you need to know.
If South Africa is found to be giving Russia military aid, it threatens to fracture the relationship between the United States and a key partner in Africa.
The next Twitter CEO will have to deal with the fallout from Elon Musk's ownership, including an advertiser exodus.
Barry Diller warned AI could be as “destructive” to news publishers as free online news was in the early aughts.
Egyptian cease-fire efforts appeared to falter as neither side has shown any sign of backing down.
Federal prosecutors have charged Rep. George Santos on more than a dozen counts. Here's what could happen next.
Even being found liable for sexual abuse won't shake Trump's hold on the GOP, which had long ago factored his treatment of women into their decision to support him
“Everybody in this meeting reiterated the positions they were at. I didn’t see any new movement."
She's been gone for more than two months, and some Democrats openly complained that her lengthy absence was compromising the Democratic agenda in the Senate.
What a reporter learned from chasing the New York congressman and alleged serial fabulist
The verdict signals that there are at least some limits to what rich and powerful men can get away with
So far, 105 Palestinians—about half of them militants or alleged attackers—were killed by Israeli fire in the West Bank and east Jerusalem since the start of 2023, according to an Associated Press tally.
Despite declining smoking rates, tobacco use remains high as consumers pivot to alternative products.
Hundreds of security forces line Tehranpars Street, where protesters have gathered for weeks. Despite the heavy police presence, young people continue to gather and chant slogans every night.
Smugglers have been falsely telling would-be migrants that the expiration of Title 42 will allow people to more easily enter the U.S.
Tequila is poised to pass vodka as the U.S.'s most popular spirt, but it has an outsize climate impact that could threaten its future.
Artificial intelligence could drastically change Hollywood. Here's how the writers strike is pushing back.
More and more students are turning away from college. That matters for their economic future
Included in this episode:
1. Column: What Feeling Stuck Does to Your Body
2. She Was the 'Office Mom' of Tucker Carlson's Show. Now She's Suing Fox News
3. Rep. Zooey Zephyr: My Censure Was an Attack on Democracy
When the COVID-19 public health emergency ends on May 11, CDC will stop providing daily COVID-19 data. Here’s what will replace the old system.
The policing of the coronation has become "a human-rights nightmare," say civil liberties advocates
More than 150 workers for Facebook, TikTok and ChatGPT gathered in Nairobi to establish the first African Content Moderators Union
The British monarch, who will formally be crowned king in a coronation ceremony this weekend, is "one of the most eccentric sovereigns Great Britain has ever had."
The Writers Guild of America is on strike—including on-set writers, those who make last-minute changes during filming.
Miep Gies did not realize, when she started working as a secretary for pectin manufacturer Opekta, that she was destined for heroism
It absolutely was an insurrection, and the conspiracy theory that it wasn't represents a standing threat to the United States.
Neely was on a Manhattan F train and had been reportedly screaming about being hungry, thirsty, and tired
From the Federal Reserve raising interest rates to the debt ceiling, different parts of the U.S. government keep hurting the economy
Donald Trump called it "very disrespectful" for President Joe Biden to skip the coronation.
Taking a closer look at the debt ceiling bill and how it came about can tell us a lot about why the Inflation Reduction Act is so durable.
It’s a gloomy preview of what will happen to Earth when our sun morphs into a red giant and gobbles the four inner planets.
President Biden's best deal on debt ceiling negotiations doesn't run through Speaker Kevin McCarthy. He needs to court other House factions instead
“Each incremental interest rate hike beyond what they had anticipated is going to exacerbate the banking problem significantly."
President Joe Biden noted last month that AI can help to address disease and climate change but also could harm national security and disrupt the economy in destabilizing ways.
Donanemab slowed cognitive decline in people with early Alzheimer’s disease by 35%, according to the company.
Carrie Fisher is receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, a May the Fourth tribute to one of the “Star Wars” franchise's most beloved figures.
Bowie's death was announced Wednesday by her management company and USA Track and Field
The man, who was carrying a knife, allegedly threw items believed to be shotgun cartridges onto the palace grounds on Tuesday evening
Abby Grossberg discusses suing Fox for gender discrimination and why she thinks conspiracy theories thrive on the network
Experts call Zephyr's suit an “unusual” legal move to protect her right to free speech.
The U.S. is bracing for a record surge across the southern border when Title 42 ends May 11
Since the death of Queen Elizabeth II last year, the institution has continued to enjoy broad, if waning, support.
Nearly 40% of ACOG's political donations go to anti-abortion candidates, new data find.
He was considered one of the most renowned voices to emerge from Toronto’s Yorkville folk club scene in the 1960s
A new study out of China shows the immediate impact on heart health of exposure to air pollution from burning fossil fuels.
How to make sure your money is protected amid recent bank failures, according to the experts.
The discourse surrounding Lagerfeld has reached a fever pitch in the time following the announcement
The ad depicts Sandro Botticelli’s 'Birth of Venus' as a pizza-eating influencer and it features footage that isn't even in Italy.
It is impossible to understand the U.S. without understanding its Indigenous history, writes Ned Blackhawk.
China's latest construction work in the South Pole is further causing tensions with the U.S., writes Ian Bremmer.
Policies that make people wait to get divorced are paternalistic at best, and dangerous at worst, write Rebecca Feinglos and Sophia Laurenzi.
The therapy opens the door to future treatments that may restore healthy bacteria in the body.
A third of Sudan's population relies on humanitarian aid—but organizations have had no choice other than to flee.
This is a historic, high-stakes opportunity for the U.S. to design a serious strategy to counter China’s corrosive footprint in Latin America.
Newly revealed documents underscore the British monarchy's ties to the slave trade, which go as far back as the 16th century.
Here are some of the best examples of Musk saying one thing and then doing another at the company
Prosecutors found arsenal of weapons and uncovered previous violent threats, according to a new filing.
Montana’s state legislature voted Wednesday to bar transgender state representative Zooey Zephyr
“I'm singing out loud,” he sang, as he tried to teach the jury his method of creating music during the trial over a copyright dispute.
The deciding vote came down to Rep. George Santos. The bill is dead on arrival in the Senate.
It’s easy to envision a nation of people confined to their homes, believing the violence reported on TV is the reality at their doorsteps
The focus on deterrence underscores how little the U.S. has achieved in its diplomatic struggle to curtail Pyongyang’s missile and nuclear programs
As the pandemic fades, the anti-vax movement is in a state of flux. By courting its members, 2024 contenders stand to spread dangerous anti-science conspiracies.
The students’ conclusion: “The course does have educational value, and they said that they learn something new every day.”
In a study of 25 gummy melatonin supplements, 22 didn't match the dose listed on the label.
A TikTok creator's AI-generated Drake song, featuring a faux-assist from an AI-generated The Weeknd, has gained millions of streams on major platforms, sparking debates about AI's role in music production and copyright infringement. This is part of a wider trend of AI-generated music gaining popularity on social media, leaving artists and record labels unsure how to tackle this new form of content creation.
ESG means different things to different people. That's causing supporters and skeptics to talk past each other, making everyone confused.
As the E.U. finalizes its draft artificial intelligence regulation, there's debate over how to handle ‘general purpose’ AIs like ChatGPT
History is all too human. Yet, it is our relationship to animals that has changed the face of the planet, writes Keggie Carew.
Challenging, fun, and engaging hobbies have the power to make us happier and healthier.
Included in this episode:
1. Column: Self-Love Is Making Us Lonely
2. The Latest Promising Long COVID Treatment? Psychedelic Drugs
3. How to Find Your New Favorite Hobby
As Dollar General and Dollar Tree stores continue to grow, labor violations and penalties at the stores are on the rise.
Vouchers are largely tax subsidies for existing private school families, and a tax bailout for struggling private schools.
Russian president Vladimir Putin weaponized homophobia as a reason to invade Ukraine. Now, that's backfiring.
A single passenger aboard a rocket is responsible for 100 times more pollution than an airline passenger.
The advice will hold until health officials make final decisions on a potential yearly COVID-19 vaccine shot for most people.
The new rule adds to the existing Parental Rights in Education law, enacted in March 2022
Stephen King, LeBron James, and William Shatner didn’t lose their blue checks even though they say they aren’t subscribed to Twitter Blue.
Stand Your Ground and related self-defense laws seek to enshrine people's right to defend themselves while using deadly force. Studies show they also can lead to more killings.
Red states, take note: Local laws governing reproductive rights are playing a bigger role in where young people choose to study.
"This is without question going to be a more difficult fight to overcome than previous years."
Reps. Gus Bilirakis and Carlos Gimenez plan to announce their support for Trump this week, sources tell TIME, in another blow to DeSantis.
The settlement in the Dominion lawsuit will lead to further litigation and controversy for Fox News, writes Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Steven Tian
The U.S. is in a long-term technology competition with China, but pure decoupling is a weak strategy.
The United Nations is ready to take the “heartbreaking” decision to pull out of Afghanistan in May if it can’t persuade the Taliban to let local women work for the organization.
Fox News and Dominion Voting Systems reached a settlement Tuesday in the voting machine company’s defamation lawsuit over false election claims, averting a trial.
An elderly white homeowner in Kansas City shot a Black teen on Thursday after he rang the wrong doorbell.
"This was one of the great mysteries, one of the last few critically important Holocaust related collections in the world that was not yet open."
Gerald Groff, a Christian former postal worker living in rural southeast Pennsylvania, says he was not allowed to observe Sabbath on Sundays and was punished when he did not work those days.
In December, Jin, 30 and the oldest member of BTS, became the band's first member to enter the army
While President Joe Biden and his European counterparts have stayed away from TikTok, blocking it from government devices and weighing an outright ban due to national security concerns about its Chinese ownership, Latin American heads of state are embracing the massively popular platform more than ever.
It's not just George Santos' seat. Both parties are eyeing the Empire State as the most important target in the fight for House control.
The Inflation Reduction Act offers credits and rebates for consumers purchasing an EV or making their homes more climate-friendly.
"Puppy mills are taking advantage of both people and animals with misleading websites and false claims," writes Dr. Karen Fine.
Italy could be the first country to ban cultivated meat. But doing so could worsen a bigger threat to Italy’s food system: climate change.
Dismantling reproductive rights makes it impossible to enthusiastically consent to parenthood, writes Peggy O'Donnell Heffington.
Included in this episode:
1. How America Started to Fall Out of Love With College Degrees
2. How Evan Gershkovich's American Dream Became a Russian Nightmare
3. Jennifer Coolidge Has Some Life Advice for You
Confirming judicial nominees is one of the few things Democrats hope to get done in this Congress, and Feinstein's absence has brought it to a standstill.
Ukraine’s air defense system may not be able to withhold the threat of Russian warplanes as early as next month.
"There needs to be really only one other lane, and that is an alternative to Donald Trump."
“I believe that a lot of what people want in their job is at the other end of a hard conversation typically with their boss or someone in HR,” says TikToker Amy Lentz Liberati
The most damaging disclosure of U.S. government documents in a decade may have stemmed from the hubris of a junior enlisted member of fthe Massachusetts Air National Guard who allegedly shared them in an online chat group called Thug Shaker Central
A new study lays the blame for rising urban water crises on city elites—not climate change
Even as tension ratchets up, it's unlikely that China will invade Taiwan imminently, argues Ian Bremmer
The U.S. EPA unveiled tough new emissions rules today to speed electric vehicle adoption. The industry response was tepid.
A flagship Whole Foods shuttered abruptly, citing the city’s struggles with homelessness, drugs and crime.
Only 38% of Americans would be willing to pay $1 per month to address climate change, according to new polling released Tuesday.
From abortion to book bans, Republicans in red states are pushing policies at odds with what their constituents want. And they know that's what they are doing.
That a judge may be able to suspend the FDA’s approval of a drug opens the door to undermining the agency’s authority.
The lawsuit centers on the election-related falsehoods spread by Fox News stars and guests in the wake of the 2020 election.
The disclosure of more than 100 pages of classified U.S. intelligence documents, which could be the most damaging disclosure of U.S. government documents in a decade or more, has baffled officials
Yes, there is a parallel between Trump and Holy Week—but it’s not what MAGA thinks, writes Rev. Nathan Empsall.
Here’s what to know about the abortion pill mifepristone and its imperiled legal status.
George Santos was just the beginning. Next year, it will become painfully clear to voters that many candidates aren't getting properly vetted by the local press.
“I think the Korean public is really upset that the U.S. is not trusting South Korea,” says one analyst about the incident.
Back in the 80s hemp was touted as a miracle crop that could save the world, but it hasn't quite lived up to its promises.
An international team has discovered galaxies that were around less than 350 million years after the Big Bang
The White House placed much of the blame for the deadly and chaotic US departure from Afghanistan with the Trump administration.
Interpretation of the law is built on precedent. Climate change, much like Donald Trump, is unprecedented.
The bill’s critics argue that the bill would chip away at the separation of church and state
Researchers think global warming could help spawn more dangerous supercell storms. But the science is far from certain.
So much more is at stake then whether an ex-President cooked his books to pay off a porn star.
Here's how to know what's fact and fiction in the new movie about the creation of Michael Jordan's iconic Nike sneakers, 'Air.'
The inclusion of Finland as the 31st member of NATO doubles the military alliance’s border with Russia.
In a divided country rife with conspiracy thinking, Americans needed to see this historic event with their own eyes
Experts recommend the strategic use of boosters to combat the new Omicron subvariant spreading in India.
Trump’s Secret Service detail is working with the NYPD to safely escort him into the courthouse
Coughs are an under-appreciated health metric, but artificial intelligence-based tools may soon change that.
Authorities have detained one suspect, Daria Trepova, in connection to the explosion that killed one of Russia's leading pro-war bloggers.
The first ever mug shot of a former President will be widely shared by Trump critics, but Trump may also use it to rally the MAGA faithful, and boost donations.
The movie's genial dumbness begs the question: have we really reached the point where we’ll watch pretty much anything at home?
Biden and LBJ have a lot in common. Being a one-term president shouldn’t be one of them, writes Mark K. Updegrove.
A major JAMA meta-analysis finds that moderate drinkers are not at lower risk of premature death than those who abstain from alcohol.
Young children who survive school shootings like the recent Nashville disaster can need ongoing mental health care for years.
Ben Alderson-Day explores what the presence of the unseen other can tell us about ourselves.
There are several other investigations underway involving Trump’s behavior after he was inaugurated.
“There is no constitutional bar on a felon running for office,” says Richard Hasen, an election law professor at UCLA Law School.
There is enough money to get started on real climate action. But what we don’t have is time.
Malpractice litigation is a thorny topic to discuss openly. Even among doctors, it carries an air of shame and secrecy, writes Dr. Gita Pensa.
Despite the growing gun control energy in states, many of these new laws could be vulnerable to be overturned if they're challenged in court, legal experts say.
Netanyahu wants unrestrained power, even when he and his cronies are tainted by corruption.
Roddick, John McEnroe, Andre Agassi and Michael Chang will compete in the Pickleball Slam on ESPN
Experts on press freedom tell TIME that Russia’s claim he committed espionage is dubious.
Falsifying business records may pale in comparison to other crimes Trump is under investigation for, but defendants don’t get a pass
When the time came to stand up to him, Trump’s primary rivals and political enablers were too cowardly or calculating to throw a punch
The bill, which Biden supports, would dismantle the authorizations of military force passed for the 1991 Gulf War and the 2002 Iraq War.
It's the first time a U.S. correspondent was put behind bars on spying accusations since the Cold War.
An Ohio bill would force college instructors to teach proven falsehoods and misleading fossil fuel talking points about climate change.
Rules changes, like a pitch clock, and one standout player in Seattle—Julio Rodriguez—should bring buzz back to baseball
Elon Musk was among signatories of an open letter urging AI labs to pause the training of new super-powerful systems
38 died in all and 28 were seriously injured, victims of a blaze apparently set in protest by the migrants themselves.
A new study led by AidData found that China has emerged as a heavyweight global lender to developing countries.
“How is this still happening?” Ashbey Beasley, who survived the 2022 Highland Park shooting and was in Nashville for a family vacation, pleaded after The Covenant School massacre.
The U.S. has consistently been two to three months behind the Ukrainians in their requests for critical military aid. That must change
ChatGPT is just the newest in a line of technologies that destabilize how and what our children learn in school.
In a first since the Cold War, Russia plans to move nuclear weapons abroad. But observers say Putin still isn’t likely to use the arsenal.
The lender said it will assume $56 billion in deposits and 17 legacy branches will begin operating Silicon Valley Bank, a division of First Citizens. There will be no immediate change to customer accounts.
What Xi's Russia visit and South Korea and Japan's rapprochement means for the changing geopolitical landscape
King Charles III will no longer travel to France as pension reform protests in the country have spiraled into violent clashes.
Warming temperatures create ideal conditions for potentially fatal Vibrio vulnificus infections to spread.
Eight states already have gender-affirming-care bans in place for people under the age of 18
The ban would apply to five chemicals: red dye No. 3, titanium dioxide, potassium bromate, brominated vegetable oil, and propylparaben.
Russia has falsely claimed the munition has nuclear components and threatened to escalate attacks in Ukraine
Promising research suggests that certain drugs may reduce the risk of long-term COVID-19 complications.
TikTok’s CEO was grilled by U.S. lawmakers at a congressional hearing Thursday. Here’s what to know about the debate over the app.
What to know about the history of the deadly standoff between an anti-government cult and federal law enforcement thirty years ago.
Significantly enhanced or unlimited deposit insurance would be a major gift to privately run banking institutions.
For the second time in the 21st century, mistakes in the financial sector could topple the economy.
If approved, the Power of Siberia 2 pipeline would help Russia permanently reorient its gas industry to the east.
The health impacts of the so-called "widowhood effect" can change with age, a new study finds.
Astronomers have come up with a long-awaited explanation for the behavior of a very peculiar comet
The vast majority of pro-Trump online groups seemed to shrug off the former President's rallying cry
Xi Jinping's visit to Moscow only underscores the need to contain Russia in three key areas where Chinese support will help Putin advance.
The Microsoft co-founder says generative AI is the most important technological advance in 40 years
Democrats privately are worried that an indictment over hush-money payments to Stormy Daniels might undermine more serious cases into Trump
“I don't think we need to be an all-night party town. We offer so much more,” Mayor Dan Gelber says.
After years of thwarted ambitions and vague promises, officials say the French capital is set to make its once heavily polluted waterway fit for swimming again. They believe their plan will only build on the progress made in recent years to upgrade waste treatment—and make the Seine swimmable nearly all the time.
Included in this episode: 1. Gaslighting, Narcissist, and More Psychology Terms You’re Misusing 2. Doctors See the Wreckage of Gun Violence Every Day. We've Had Enough 3. Unmasking the Man Behind One of Russia's Most Popular Propaganda Channels
Maybe the relationship wasn't a “waste of time.” Maybe it was just a situationship, writes Myisha Battle.
'Boston Strangler' tells the story of a series of murders in the early 1960s from the perspective of the two journalists who broke the story
The Biden Administration threatened a nationwide ban on the video-sharing app unless its Chinese owners promised to sell their stake in the company
From testing for common toxins like asbestos and radon to running an air purifier, here's how to reduce indoor air pollution.
Netanyahu is trying to change Israel’s Supreme Court. He’s going to need all the help he can get, writes Ian Bremmer.
The former Los Angeles mayor’s confirmation to the post in Delhi was stalled for almost two years amid controversy.
Most voters understand that those offering an easy explanation to something as complex as a banking crisis are playing a partisan blame game, one they risks prompting more bank runs.
In a matter of hours, developers were using Open AI's new software to design websites, create legal documents, and make games.
The pandemic sent the cruise industry into a 15-month shutdown, but ships are now fully back in business, with new covid-19 protocols in place.
A Dutch man was convicted of removing his condom without his partner’s consent—the first trial of its kind in the Netherlands. Here's what to know.
A new report identifies the source of "War on Fakes" as a former Russian journalist who has worked with Kremlin-tied organizations
The question now is whether China is willing to step up to play a central role negotiating a settlement in the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
The bills would also make it the policy of state schools that sex is “an immutable biological trait."
The Willow project is just the latest development in the Biden Administration's complicated, evolving relations with the industry.
The short answer for the vast majority of Americans with bank accounts is that your money is safe and insured.
Republicans pounced on Biden’s efforts to shore up Silicon Valley Bank's depositors, calling it a “woke” bailout for elites. “Woke! It’s all woke,” joked a Democrat in response
Australia will acquire a fleet of nuclear-powered submarines thanks to its partnership with the U.S. and the U.K.—and China’s not happy about it.
Even tiny pieces of junk can pose serious risks to astronauts. Scientists call for a global treaty to eliminate increasing orbiting debris.
The long workdays, the constant pressure, and the knowledge that one wrong word could cost you your job can all make Congress a less-than-ideal workplace for mental health.
The move backstops the $175 billion that was held at the bank—about 85% of which was uninsured
The package was introduced days after last month’s tragedy at Michigan State University
An administration proposal could make it harder for trans people to access gender-affirming care. Is it a hint that Biden might go wobbly in his LGBT support as he prepares for re-election?
Included in this episode: 1. Our Relationship With Time Is Changing—Maybe for the Better 2. Column: Queer People Must Use History as a Guide to Fight Hate 3. Why There Are No Houses to Buy in Many U.S. Metro Areas
“It’s like a Lehman Brothers moment for Silicon Valley,” says one Silicon Valley startup founder whose company has millions of dollars tied up in SVB
The milder symptoms caused by Omicron variants may also reduce the chances of Long COVID.
The unrealistic ideals placed on female athletes are not only ignorant, but also deeply harmful, writes Lauren Fleshman.
NASA says the first of many close encounters with this asteroid will occur on Feb. 14, 2046. Here's why you don't need to worry—yet.
A look back across the past four decades of Best Picture nominees shows a clear uptick in films that grapple with the climate crisis.
More workers are taking pay transparency into their own hands and openly sharing what they do for work and how much money they make.
The U.S. Department of Transportation has registered more than 12,400 train derailments over the past decade, and they rarely lead to disaster.
Research shows that such layoffs are often a net negative drag on companies’ financial performance over time.
China, nuclear escalation with Russia and white-supremacist violence were among those on the list at the annual worldwide threats hearing in Congress
A new Freedom House report finds that the gap between backsliding and improving countries is the narrowest in years.
Voters in Oklahoma resoundingly rejected a legalization measure on the ballot Tuesday—following rejections in 2022 in three other states
Musk got into a spat with an employee who appeared to have been laid off. Now he’s backtracking
“If the United States does not hit the brake … no amount of guardrails can prevent derailing,” Qin Gang said in his first news conference.
Capping insulin at $35 per month allows patients to focus on other tough aspects of the disease.
Environmental groups rank electric vehicle makers based on the environmental and human rights impacts of their supply chains.
After several months of grinding, attritional conflict, the longest and bloodiest battle of the Russian war in Ukraine appears to be reaching an apex.
The Medicare tax rate would rise from 3.8% to 5% on income exceeding $400,000 per year, with the full details of the plan released Thursday.
Members of the United Nations for the first time reached an agreement on protecting marine life on the high seas, after two weeks of talks.
A global backlash against clean energy on Indigenous land is complicating the energy transition
Evolution plays a big role in our obsession with gruesome true crime stories like the Alex Murdaugh murder trial.
For all the talk of focusing on the economy, there’s little sign that a newly emboldened Xi—surrounded by lackeys and sycophants—is going to back down on his key policy priorities to make it happen.
The Biden administration has no plans to hire 87,000 new IRS agents, but the debunked claim has served as grist for GOP fundraising.
"It’s time to imagine an American Renewal—an American Dream that unites us, instead of divides us," writes Adam Kinzinger.
Included in this episode: 1. Should I Withdraw Social Security Earlier in Case It Gets Cut? 2. Bernie Sanders' Light in the Darkness 3. For People with Eating Disorders, the Buzz About Ozempic Is a Nightmare
Supporting my child’s gender expression isn’t hard. Shielding him from anti-trans stories is, writes Rebecca Brenner.
The perks can include sharpened attention, more productivity, reduced stress and anxiety, and a happier outlook.
A new Pew report shows that there is still a significant pay gap between men and women in the U.S.—and offers insight into why.
SEC Chair Gary Gensler has ramped up his aggression against crypto following the FTX crash, charging companies with violating securities laws.
Africa's biggest democracy was promised a transparent and technologically advanced election. Critics say that wasn't the case.
Legal experts told TIME it is increasingly likely loan forgiveness will get thrown out by the conservative majority court
Over the past year, the backlash to ESG investing has swept up red states. As the saying goes, it’s bigger in Texas.
Shoppers have had to ration staples for the past two weeks amid a shortage of fresh vegetables
The Chicago Mayor carried each of the city’s 50 wards just four years ago. On Tuesday, she couldn't even get enough votes to make a runoff.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have been asked by King Charles to vacate Frogmore Cottage. Their eviction leaves them without an official royal residence.
Experts worry the charged atmosphere surrounding COVID's origin may keep us from ever knowing for sure whether the virus escaped a Chinese lab.
As the war enters its second year, concerns in Congress mount over the weapons and funding the U.S. is pouring into Ukraine
James Bond novels will now be edited to remove racist remarks. But the misogyny is baked in—and hard to remove.
There is increasing concern that Beijing could obtain control of American user data that the app has obtained.
Giant Eagle withdrew its spring water from shelves out of an 'abundance of caution' following the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio.
"From tomorrow we are completely returning to normalcy," Hong Kong leader John Lee said.
Over the past year, the Kremlin and its allies used a dizzying array of strategies to defend its actions, seed doubt about news from the ground, and push misleading or false narratives to undercut support for Ukraine.
More than 26 million Americans applied for student loan forgiveness, and another 16 million applicants were fully approved
Tens of thousands of people filled Mexico City’s vast main plaza Sunday to protest President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's electoral law changes they say threaten democracy.
1 in 4 Americans cannot afford to take their medications because of pharmaceutical companies' drug patent abuses.
House Bill 999 would ban funding for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives and gender and CRT majors at Florida state universities.
The US government's embrace of telehealth was a gamechanger for those seeking gender-affirming care.
Tempering inflation should not be done on the backs of workers, write Katherine S. Newman and Elisabeth Jacobs.
Included in this episode: 1. No More Mr. Nice Boss: Flexible Employers Were a Pandemic Blip 2. Why Americans Are Uniquely Afraid to Grow Old
Russia suspended its participation in New START and China is reluctant to engage in dialogue about nuclear arms control.
Discrimination against Dalits, the lowest stratum of a hierarchical system in India, is rampant to this day.
By most measures, Russia's year-long war in Ukraine has been an unremitting tragedy. For the climate, it's a little different.
The U.S. Forest Service has gotten approval to fly helicopters with sharpshooters into southwestern New Mexico to hunt down 150 feral cattle and shoot them from the air.
Roughly two-thirds of all Americans say abortion should be legal in most or all cases, up from 55% who agreed with that statement in 2010 to 65% last year, according to data released Thursday from the Public Religion Research Institute.
On Russian television, confusing viewers is the ultimate goal: "When you don't trust anything, you don't act."
“It’s another emerging technology that China knows it needs to be competitive,” says a Beijing-based IT consultant.
The Transportation Secretary has faced criticism for his response to the train derailment.
Meta and Twitter have come up with a new approach to tackling security issues: passing the cost on to users
Trump backers look to re-write findings of bipartisan Jan. 6 investigation. Democrats say the release poses a security risk.
After a year of bloodshed, China now says it sees the Russia-Ukraine war as a problem—and wants to play a role in ending it.
While Trump claimed the Biden Administration has been neglecting the town, Trump’s critics argue that the rail regulations Trump rolled back during his presidency helped set the stage for the disaster in East Palestine.
Webb's latest discovery could drastically change how we think about the beginning of our universe.
The publisher of Clarkesworld said they have had to close their submissions, following a deluge of work flagged as plagiarism.
The possible collapse of the last arms control pact between the world's two nuclear superpowers illustrates how the security situation is growing more precarious, not less, as the war enters its second year
Ensign Peak, which manages the equities portfolio for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, agreed to pay a $4 million penalty.
The EPA will take over responsibility for cleaning up the toxic waste of the Norfolk Southern train derailment; the railway will pay the bills.
A new global study finds that disinformation campaigns against women in politics are a national security threat.
The Russian President's comments came during his hotly-anticipated annual state of the nation address.
“China is deeply worried about the escalation of the situation," Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang said Tuesday
The end of China’s pandemic travel restrictions is a huge relief to the global hospitality industry. But rebuilding the sector to pre-pandemic levels won’t be easy.
Artificial intelligence has already had a pervasive impact on our lives. AIs are used to price medicine and houses, assemble cars, determine what ads we see on social media. But generative AI, a category of system that can be prompted to create wholly novel content, is much newer.
Here's everything we know about the historic trip, days before the 1-year anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Leader Kim Jong Un opened the year with a pledge to exponentially increase his nuclear arms program and has ignored repeated calls to wind down his atomic ambitions.
Belzer, who had been dealing with circulatory and respiratory issues, died Sunday at his home in southern France, according to a friend.
Included in this episode: 1. What’s the Point of PCR Tests Anymore? 2. Column: The Water Crisis No One In America Is Fixing 3. 'If He Was White, He Would Have a Job.' One of the Best Coaches in Football Keeps Getting Ignored 4. The Subversive Brilliance of Rihanna’s Super Bowl Halftime Show
Whether it's app dating or meeting someone in real life, we are always bargaining for love, writes Myisha Battle.
A study adds new evidence that SARS-CoV-2—the virus that causes COVID-19—could have a lasting impact on the heart.
From pinatas to pretzels to eating muskrat, some traditions for the period of Lent have taken on a life of their own.
Russia is reportedly introducing new troops to the battlefield and launching new offenses ahead of the invasion's one-year anniversary.
The Pennsylvania Senator survived a stroke in May and was hospitalized earlier this month after feeling lightheaded.
Floating the prospect of a call to the Chinese President underscored the seriousness of the White House efforts to calm the relationship with Beijing.
Shareholder advocacy group As You Sow judged CEO pay based on stock returns, shareholder opposition, and the ratio of compensation to average worker pay.
Rates of newly diagnosed diabetes, high blood pressure, and elevated cholesterol were higher in the 90 days after COVID-19 infection.
Plants are searching out cooler places to grow in North America. But studies suggest they are struggling to keep up with climate change.
As the earthquake rescue effort morphs into rebuilding, experts say climate threats must be kept in mind for future resilience.
"We’re saying to our agencies, ‘Come up with creative ways of having flexibility,’” Adams said at a press conference
Eric Bieniemy, offensive coordinator for Kansas City, just won a second Super Bowl. He can't get a head coaching job.
At least one person is dead while three others were injured from a shooting at Cielo Vista Mall in El Paso, Texas, next to the Walmart where 23 people were killed in 2019.
"The youth mental health crisis requires a systemic approach to intervention," writes Minnie Bredouw.
The decision could prevent a diplomatic headache, but India has long maintained that the 105-carat diamond was stolen during colonialism.
Grocery prices rose 11.3% since January 2022, even as food inflation is starting to slow.
There have already been 67 mass shootings across the U.S. in 2023 so far, according to Gun Violence Archive, a gun violence analysis group.
Experts explain their theories for what is likely behind a seemingly sudden influx of objects flying over the U.S.
A new report from the CDC shows the shocking rates of mental health issues for teen girls. Jean Twenge explains what's causing it
It's unlikely that using Sidewinder air-to-air missiles at about $400,000 a pop will be an economical response in the long term, experts say.
At least three people have been killed and five remain critically injured, the police said, and the suspected shooter was found dead.
Mitch McConnell and Rick Scott are bickering over entitlements, as well as the Republican Party's plans for 2024 and beyond
"There is no, again no, indication of aliens or extraterrestrial activity with these recent takedowns," the White House Press Secretary said.
'Now that I am paying my debt to society, I think it is important to tell my side of the story,' writes Lev Parnas.
Quantum computing is the next industrial revolution, but it's also set to become a national-security headache.
The military downed a high-flying object over North American airspace for the fourth time in eight days
China says the Philippine ship had “trespassed.” The episode is the latest sign of rising tensions in the region.
Kansas City QB Patrick Mahomes earned another Super Bowl MVP, proving he's a generational talent—and potential GOAT.
Included in this episode: 1. A Message to the World From Inside a Russian Prison 2. The Historic Significance of a Super Bowl With Two Black Starting Quarterbacks 3. Paramore Revisits Its Expansive Discography, From "All We Know Is Falling" to "This Is Why"
Also known as the stomach flu, norovirus spreads quickly and is most commonly found in contaminated food.
"Like our emotions, negative and irrational thoughts will also adversely affect our sleep," explains Dr. Pedram Navab.
'People keep asking us climate activists what we should do to save the climate. But maybe the question itself is wrong. Maybe, instead, we should start asking what we should stop doing'
Many couples don't realize they have infertility until they try to get pregnant. But getting fertility testing before then can be tough.
Google parent Alphabet’s shares tumbled 7.7% on Wednesday after concerns surfaced about the competency of Bard, ChatGPT's rival.
Oil prices could go up after Russia said it will cut output by 500,000 barrels a day next month.
Because of a lack of research, we still can’t answer important questions about what reduced the spread of COVID-19.
Civic society groups have called the proposal a “step in the wrong direction,” criticizing it for patronizing doctors instead of catering to patients’ needs.
Outbreaks of avian flu are decimating poultry farms worldwide, but the virus would need some very specific mutations to pose a significant threat to humans.
From Disney to Netflix to Warner Bros. Discovery, executives facing huge losses now appear to be questioning everything they thought they knew about their business
The Pentagon says it was able to turn the tables against the Chinese, gathering massive amounts of information on the 200-ft. balloon and its alleged spying apparatus
A growing number of economists are questioning whether the Fed's approach of raising interest rates to slow down an overstimulated economy makes sense today.
These fees are often tacked onto credit card bills and the cost of concert tickets and air travel
“I will be leaving the Parliament today thanking all of you in advance for powerful English planes," Zelensky told a packed room of British lawmakers.
"If China’s threatens our sovereignty, we will act to protect our country. And we did.”
Biden touted a list of accomplishments and took credit for steering the economy back on track. But as much as progress has been made, inflation is still painfully high and voters are unhappy.
China’s successful development shows there is another way to modernize, President Xi Jinping said, rejecting any need to “westernize” and doubling down on his goal of increased self reliance.
The U.S. will now be focused on learning more about the purpose of the balloon, which was assessed to be 200 feet tall.
The high-altitude spy balloons briefly flew over the continental U.S. at least three times over the past six years, but went undetected until the most recent one
“Bard can be an outlet for creativity, and a launchpad for curiosity,” Google CEO Sundar Pichai wrote in a blog post
Crews released toxic chemicals into the air from five derailed tanker cars that were in danger of exploding Monday and began burning it.
The prospects of Biden running again puts most Republican cooperation on ice, making this speech far less meaningful than usual
Evidence suggests that the increase in companies enforcing return-to-office mandates may drive American mothers out of the workforce at a crucial moment.
China accused the U.S. of indiscriminate use of force when the American military shot down a suspected Chinese spy balloon Saturday.
The European Union and the G7 have stepped up sanctions against Russia's fossil-fuel export industry, putting new pressures on the country.
The Koch brothers are signaling their political machine will work to nominate someone other than Donald Trump for the GOP 2024 nomination
Included in this episode: 1. Inside the US Army Plant Making Artillery Shells for Ukraine 2. Why Aren’t Movies Sexy Anymore? 3. 8 Ways to Read More Books—And Why You Should
The U.S. economy added 517,000 jobs in January, making CEO worries about a downturn seem paranoid.
Subcontracted YouTube workers are fighting to have Google recognized as their joint employer.
One of Elon Musk's companies is putting thousands of satellites in space and changing our relationship to the sky.
There are lots of ways to fix Texas's energy grid. But as winter storms wreak havoc, state leaders are only interested in natural gas.
Nichols, the 29-year-old Black man who died after being beaten by Memphis police, was an avid skater. His death shines new light on the sport.
The Sergeant at Arms has installed a permanent live caption display monitor at Fetterman’s desk in the Senate chamber, among other new accommodations.
Two of Washington’s staunchest China hawks—Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri and Rep. Ken Buck of Colorado—introduced legislation that would prohibit users from downloading the Chinese-owned app on all U.S. devices.
President Biden asked for military options after the balloon was spotted, according to defense officials
Xi Jinping’s decision to personally meet with Antony Blinken has surprised U.S. diplomats given recent frosty engagement between the U.S. and China.
Ukraine's bid for E.U. membership will be up for discussion as European leaders gather in Kyiv Friday for a wartime summit.
Global leaders are raising alarms over the condition of former president Mikheil Saakashvili.
The Indian tycoon's fortune slipped below Mukesh Ambani's following a report that accused Adani Group of fraud.
The allegations put a spotlight on the relationship between India's business and political elite.
"He had a lot of game; he was very charismatic," Sary Mansour says of his friend and former coworker.
The province’s relaxation of previously strict family planning measures comes as China reports its first population decline in 60 years.
A new Indigenous design will replace the previous portrait of the late Queen Elizabeth II.
For borrowers, the higher interest rate means paying even more on credit cards, student loans and other types of variable-rate debt.
An analysis of 324 fundraising campaigns found that white supremacists, neo-Nazis, militias, QAnon conspiracists, and far-right groups were able to raise millions of dollars across 10 platforms
A comet soaring over the northern hemisphere this week was last seen 50,000 years ago, when mastodons and woolly mammoths roamed the earth.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken landed in Tel Aviv Monday amid growing concerns over Israel's hardline turn.
The outlook for the global economy is growing slightly brighter as China eases its zero-COVID policies
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said it's 'frivolous' to talk about jets so soon after Germany and the U.S. agreed to send tanks.
In a video uploaded on Jan. 29, the creator paid for 1,000 blind people to have surgery to restore their vision.
Why are some people compulsive talkers? And how can we fix it? Author Dan Lyons, a self-proclaimed talkaholic, set out to understand why it's so hard to keep quiet.
A lack of affordable natural gas has left many people struggling to keep warm—and Beijing worried.
The rise of Christian Nationalism has predictable cycles, but its popularity poses unprecedented threats, writes Jared Yates Sexton.
Tinned fish, especially expensive brands that cost up to $10 per can, is hard to find at some grocery stores.
Included in this episode: 1. For People With Disabilities, Losing Abortion Access Can Be a Matter of Life or Death 2. Aging Populations Can Be Good for the Climate Change Fight 3. How to Be Mindful if You Hate Meditating
Pandemic tax credits have expired, meaning that you're likely to see a smaller refund, or a bigger tax bill this year.
Here are fundraisers and organizations you can donate to, and memorials you can visit, to support the Monterey Park victims and community.
Fertility rates have been declining in the U.S. and there is a growing share of adults in the U.S. that don’t plan to have children
A new Pew study finds that they don't think it's very important that their kids get married and start families.
The expert panel agreed it was time to use the same strain in both the primary and booster doses of the COVID-19 vaccine.
The U.K. government has vetoed Scotland's transgender rights bill, which passed in December.
Ukraine was the bloodlands for Jews in World War 2, but today the Jewish soul echoes on its streets, writes Bernard-Henri Levy
Trump faces a trio of tests over the next 48 hours that will signal whether he is the candidate to beat in 2024 or a deflated bully.
Pat Gelsinger, CEO of Intel, emphasizes that AI is just one more example of the risks that come with innovation.
The operation targeted Bilal al-Sudani, a key financial facilitator for the global terrorist organization, in a mountainous cave complex.
As China reopens its economy, analysts warn that the price of crude oil may rise back above $100/barrel and drive up the cost at the pump
Advocates warn failing to plan how offshore wind will to connect to the wider grid could stick families, businesses with higher energy bills.
Joe Biden announced the U.S. will provide 31 Abrams tanks as part of a long-term plan to strengthen the Ukrainian army.
While high-profile cases can garner the attention necessary to bring new tips forward, they can also endanger innocent people
The symbolic tracker was updated Tuesday to 90 seconds to midnight—the closest to global catastrophe it’s ever been
Jacinda Ardern is likely to require an unprecedented level of security for a former New Zealand prime minister given the extent of the abuse and threats she faced while in office.
Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen's presented a bill Tuesday to abolish Great Prayer Day to help pay for NATO commitments.
Poland officially requested on Tuesday to send its German-made Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine.
They attempted to cover their tracks by referring to him as “you-know-whom,” “our friend from Vienna,” and “the big guy”
"The most important impact would be felt in terms of fundraising and organization building.”
This flu season is no 100-year outbreak. But it’s the most severe flu season since the start of the pandemic.
After Jeremy Irons' release from 23 years in prison, and Maya Moore's retirement from the WNBA, the couple look towards their future together.
Republicans are amplifying conspiracy theories and sidestepping Trump's classified documents case, potentially undermining public trust in the investigations.
The concept challenged calls for international cooperation at the World Economic Forum 2023.
After decades of minimal results from international aid, giving cash directly to Africans would have a serious impact, writes Rory Stewart
Included in this episode: 1. Why 2023 Could Finally Be the Year of the 4-Day Workweek 2. Exclusive: ‘I Feel Like I’m Drowning.’ Survey Reveals the Toll of Working For Amazon 3. Is There Really No Safe Amount of Drinking?
The liberation of women in Afghanistan is a human rights imperative, writes Homeira Qaderi.
Women in the workforce is nothing new. Medieval history proves it, writes Eleanor Janega.
Newly reported results from a late-stage human trial suggest Moderna's mRNA vaccine platform will work against another viral infection.
In New Mexico, involuntary manslaughter in the commission of a lawful act is used to hold people accountable for doing things that "an ordinary prudent adult would know better than to do," says University of New Mexico law professor Joshua Kastenberg.
"Information is power—and government officials everywhere are awash in it," writes Jonathan Abel.
France has one of the youngest retirement ages in the world at 62. President Macron’s plan to change that has been met with massive strikes.
The U.S. hit its debt ceiling of $31.4 trillion. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has said she doesn’t anticipate Americans will feel the effects before June—but there could be some consequences.
Santos, who identifies as a gay man and supported Florida’s Don’t Say Gay law, has disputed reports that he ever was a drag performer.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky welcomed Britain’s shipment of tanks. But Ukraine needs more from Western allies.
We must work more closely toward a solution for us all,' Ukraine's finance minister says.
On Day 2 in Davos, the Russian invasion of Ukraine was top of the agenda. But many also discussed "Ukraine fatigue" in the private sector.
“Us true American Nationalists will prevail, because you will have to kill us to stop us.”
The controversial three-part series has drawn criticism for suggesting that the deaths of several cast and crew members could constitute a 'curse'
The combination of millions of people crammed onto public transport traveling to a predominately elderly, under-vaccinated population in villages with rudimentary healthcare threatens to be a perfect storm.
Twenty-nine people were injured, including 15 children. It is unclear whether the crash was an accident or a result of the war with Russia.
The ruling represents the Nobel Peace Prizewinning journalist's latest victory against what press freedom advocates have branded as judicial harassment.
Addressing the wants and needs of consumers and employees means prioritizing thorough inclusivity.
The Global Collaboration Village is being introduced at Davos this year ahead of a full rollout.
Allies say the U.S. is engaged in green energy protectionism. The U.S. argues it's footing R&D costs for the world.
Hong Kong customs officials seized over the weekend thousands of contraband antivirals headed for the mainland.
Meta must not allow Donald Trump back onto Facebook. He violated their policies for years and would do so again.
Fun and leisure is not a distraction from improving your work life, but a key component, writes Mike Rucker.
The Maya Train has been touted as a jewel in Mexico’s infrastructure crown since it was first officially proposed in September 2018, but President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s promises to protect the environment and keep project costs to a minimum have already fallen short.
A domestic flight operated by Yeti Airlines traveling from the capital Kathmandu crashed near Pokhara International Airport on Sunday morning.
“Martin Luther King believed in violence," says teacher Keziah Ridgeway. "He knew that his ideas and what he was asking for would elicit violence."
Included in this episode: 1. Why Rapid COVID-19 Test Results Are Getting More Confusing 2. What the Potential Ban on Gas Stoves Means If You Have One 3. How I Found My Desire to Live After My Wife Died
Who will step in to plug this enormous supply gap? And, will there be enough? Is the bloc sleepwalking into a fuel crisis?
The growing revelations about President Biden's mishandling of classified documents undermines his strongest selling point as president
The messy election of McCarthy as Speaker of the House suggests steep challenges for bipartisan climate work in the coming Congress
80% of North Atlantic Right Whales have been entangled in fishing gear, risking the health of biodiversity, writes Dr. Michael J. Moore.
Photos show increased activity at funeral homes and crematoriums, as the virus surges throughout the country and reliable data is unavailable.
The disinformation that instigated Bolsonaro supporters to storm Brazil's capital was borderless and cyclical, writes Roberta Braga.
The Middle East is warming, but Israelis and Palestinians are too focused on politics to worry about impending climate catastrophe.
Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed a special counsel after classified documents were found at Biden's personal residence and former office.
The car in question is likely Biden's 1967 Corvette Stingray, a classic green convertible featured in Jay Leno’s Garage show.
What we learned about the birth of stars during the universe's 'cosmic noon' from the James Webb telescope's new dazzling image.
Dr. Armen Sarkissian, former president of Armenia, calls on the global community and announces his pension will fund causes in Artsakh.
Nurses are pushing for better staffing at New York City hospitals amid a nationwide uptick in COVID-19 cases.
During the insurrection in Brazil, Bolsonaro was in Florida. Now Biden is facing pressure to expel the former Brazilian president.
Congratulations on your new role as manager. But before you celebrate, you may want to ask your boss a few questions—and do some quick math.
It’s time to rethink the blanket recommendation for giving the new Omicron booster to everyone
The plan is the latest attempt by the Education Department to give student loan borrowers relief while Biden’s $20,000 student loan forgiveness program remains in legal limbo.
The National Weather Service placed large swaths of the region under flood watch and noted that almost all of the state has seen 400% to 600% more rainfall than usual.
New lawmakers need to focus on staffing, building relationships, and getting plum committee assignments—all of which pose particular challenges for Santos.
The U.S., France, and Germany agree to send Bradleys, French AMX-10s, and German Marders last week.
Former U.K. military officers have criticized Harry's statement in his memoir Spare. Experts say the comments also get at something deeper.
The moves represent China’s first attempt at retaliation after a raft of nations recently implemented testing requirements for travelers from the country
A party awash in backward-looking negativity needs to embrace a positive agenda, writes John Kasich
Supporters of ousted leader Jair Bolsonaro failed to overthrow the Brazilian government, but the threat to the country’s democracy remains.
After Biden landed in El Paso for his first border visit as President, the Texas governor handed him a letter saying he was “two years late."
“They will not succeed in destroying Brazilian democracy. We need to say that fully, with all firmness and conviction,” said the Justice Minister.
Stop trying to force that frown upside down. Instead, try the joy-building tips experts really use.
As the reach for human cruelty expands, we have a moral obligation to create justice for animals, writes Martha C. Nussbaum.
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As Ukraine battles Russia’s military, its people are fighting with vigor against a cultural assault, writes Suzanne Nossel
Santos' claimed prestigious education, substantial career on Wall Street, and impressive real-estate assets proved to be false
"The self-esteem and inner peace I have gained since I kicked lying in sobriety is what I searched for in every drink," writes Sarah Levy.
The California Republican won on the 15th round of voting, following an intense scene on the House floor involving Rep. Matt Gaetz.
Nuclear war is a serious possibility over Ukraine but the Biden Administration has been pursuing the right strategy to avoid it
The country recorded zero bank robberies in 2022—but fraudsters are turning to digital scams.
Since the Russian invasion Turkey's president Erdogan has played a dangerous game between NATO and Russia, write Enes Kanter Freedom
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association says it's reformed. But the shadowy group has already gotten and blown too many chances at redemption.
The concessions could create the conditions for perpetual dysfunction if they are ultimately adopted by the GOP-run House.
American and Ukrainian officials expressed skepticism about the Kremlin's unilateral 36-hour ceasefire, which comes as the U.S. and other Western allies pour new military aid into Ukraine
Christmas is still in full-swing for millions of Orthodox Christians who mark the day on Jan. 6 or 7.
"Despite the monks’ determination to dedicate themselves to divine matters, they still got distracted from their goals," writes Jamie Kreiner.
Francis became the first living pope Thursday to preside over the funeral of a deceased one.
Backers of Kevin McCarthy remained adamant that they would not acquiesce to the demands of about 20 far-right colleagues.
The rockets have provided Ukraine with greater long range capabilities in responding to Russian aggression.
Damar Hamlin's on-field cardiac arrest will have to force a reckoning—for the NFL, and its fans.
Amy Stover lost her son to a football injury in 2013. Damar Hamlin’s collapse brought her back to that fateful day and its lessons.
Bankman-Fried, 30, denied charges that he cheated investors and looted customer deposits on his cryptocurrency trading platform.
The GOP leader proposed hamstringing the Office of Congressional Ethics as it faces calls to investigate lawmakers involved in the Jan. 6 attack
The 24-year-old was administered CPR on the field, after collapsing following a tackle on Monday night.
As COVID-19 cases surge in China, more than a dozen countries have announced new restrictions.
A publicist for Renner said in a statement that the 51-year-old “Avengers” star is in an intensive care unit following surgery on Monday.
The hyper-financialization of the crypto space, and extreme emphasis on “number go up” only hurt the space in 2022. Next year, it’s time to try a different approach.
Even after this year’s 65% drop, Tesla's surge during 2020 and 2021 left it with stock-market value of $389 billion
Despite intensifying doubt about his fitness to hold federal office, the Congressman-elect has thus far shown no signs of stepping aside
The most important trend in American business is the increasing number of people working from home. That's not going to change.
Under the restrictions, officials have expelled asylum-seekers inside the United States 2.5 million times and turned away most people who requested asylum at the border on grounds of preventing the spread of COVID-19.
The government had pushed for a life sentence, saying Adam Fox was the “driving force" in the plot against Gretchen Whitmer—urging recruits to "take up arms, kidnap the governor and kill those who stood in their way.”
Here's why some E.U. countries are spending hundreds of millions of euros so teens can watch movies, go to concerts, or even buy comic books.
Southwest canceled almost 3,000 flights on Monday and had hundreds of others run late, disrupting more than 80% of its schedule
China’s People’s Liberation Army has stepped up its military harassment of Taiwan, sending fighter planes and navy vessels toward Taiwan on a near-daily basis in recent years.
"Access to food is a function of gender—especially in times of crisis," writes Ritu Sharma.
The huge storm caused by a bomb cyclone has killed at least 34 people across the U.S. after trapping people in homes and knocking out power.
Rome's wealthiest man who helped end the Republic bears echoes with Donal Trump today, writes Peter Stothard
The U.S. Congress nearly missed the chance to act on climate. It's frightening to think of where we would be if they did.
In its final act, the Jan. 6 committee recommends legal and prosecutorial steps to strengthen elections against insurrection.
The bill allocates over $850 billion for military spending and almost $773 billion for domestic programs, like education, healthcare and affordable housing
The 814-page report released Thursday asserts that Trump criminally engaged in a “multi-part conspiracy” to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
Arizona will take down a makeshift wall at the Mexico border, settling a lawsuit and political tussle with the U.S. government.
Today the principal risk is not that the Federal Reserve has done too little but that it will go too far
Depending on how many years you keep it, a fake, plastic Christmas tree may be better for the environment than a new, live tree.
Meteorologists are tracking the storm and predict that its effects will begin to be widely felt by Wednesday night and quickly intensify over the next few days
Biden made the comments during Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's historic visit to the White House.
Some 3.6 million borrowers could be affected by an Education Department program related to student loan forbearance and income-driven repayment. Here's what to know.
The House vote marks first time that a presidential candidate forcibly had tax information released by Congress
In first known trip abroad since the war began, Ukraine's President will meet with Biden and address Congress in Washington on Wednesday.
"My power’s really low... I’ll be signing off here soon,” NASA tweeted from the InSight probe, which landed on Mars four years ago.
The ban represents the latest curtailing of women’s rights in Afghanistan since the extremist group returned to power after the U.S. military withdrawal last year.
The House Jan. 6 Committee voted on Monday to refer criminal charges against Donald Trump for trying to overturn the 2020 election.
Elon Musk said “My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci.” Ron DeSantis is targeting COVID vaccine makers. Pandemic politics are making a comeback.
Twitter is a soap opera where Musk is the star, the only actor in the spotlight. The world should look away, says Roger McNamee
AI-powered tools like ChatGPT took the internet by storm two weeks ago with its uncanny ability to mimic human thought and writing. But the book, Alice and Sparkle, also renewed a fierce debate about the ethics of AI-generated art. Many argued that the technology preys on artists and other creatives—using their hard work as source material, while raising the specter of replacing them.
The move by the bipartisan Jan. 6 committee to formally urge the Department of Justice pursue criminal charges against a former President would be "a unique moment in our history.”
Musk said the account would only be “temporarily suspended” due to “prior doxxing action from the account
Elon Musk's chaotic reign at Twitter is giving us a masterclass in how to think about leadership and burnout
As climate change alters animals' habitats, their search for new ones may be blocked by borders.
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Megan has been the subject of widespread hate on social media since she came forward about the shooting
The Maccabees would’ve hated modern Hanukkah traditions. Maybe that’s not a bad thing, explains Alana Vincent.
Ukraine’s reconstruction will be a decades-long effort requiring the participation of a new generation of leaders
Shaquille O'Neal talks about his infidelities, painkillers, and his relationship with his father in a new HBO docuseries.
The Biden administration is making four rapid virus tests available through covidtests.gov.
Since Obergefell was decided, same-sex marriage bans in 35 states across the country have lain dormant. But should Obergefell be overturned, they would again be activated.
Daniel Medwed explores how the prison system doesn’t value true justice even for the innocent, but rather the appearance of it.
Prince Harry opened up about the “wedge” that has grown between himself and Prince William, and the roots of that rift. His comments could also widen it.
The company hasn't explained why it took down the accounts and made their profiles and past tweets disappear.
Coolant streaming from the docked Soyuz spacecraft could leave three space station crew members without a means to come home.
Holiday shoppers are sending a message to retailers: Lower your prices. U.S. shoppers pulled back on spending just as the holiday season began, a sign…
Even as support grows for DeSantis over Trump, new polling shows that enthusiasm for MAGA remains strong
SBF is accused of illegally funneling millions to campaigns. He publicly donated mostly to Democrats, but claims he secretly gave just as much to the GOP.
From NASA's budget to the CHIPs Act, the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis charted a surprisingly successful path.
“Any account doxxing real-time location info of anyone will be suspended, as it is a physical safety violation,” Musk tweeted.
NOAA's 2022 “Arctic Report Card" shows climate change pushed air temperatures to their sixth warmest on record.
Astronomers spot a galactic quartet dating to just 400 million years after the Big Bang
Sam Bankman-Fried is in handcuffs, but the SEC stopped short of declaring broader regulation on the chaotic cryptocurrency industry.
The Department of Energy’s National Ignition Facility has achieved an important step toward the goal of generating unlimited clean energy.
The former crypto exchange CEO will be extradited from the Bahamas and face federal criminal charges from an indictment that is set to be unsealed on Tuesday morning.
The advisory group was formed in 2016 to address hate speech, child exploitation, suicide, self-harm and other problems on the platform.
A study shows that the red planet, thought to be geologically dead, is quite alive, adding new promise to search for extraterrestrial life.
Negotiations could go as late as the week after Christmas as Democrats and Republicans remain $26 billion apart on funding the government
LBJ warned that public needed to be convinced of the link between racial equity and economic opportunity. His advice rings true today
Volodymyr Zelensky was raised in the empire whose revival he is now fighting to stop. He is defending Ukraine and uniting the world as TIME’s 2022 Person of the Year.
When it comes to protecting seniors, “we’re doing a terrible job of that in this country,” said Dr. Eric Topol
Her becoming an independent will force some of her potential Democratic challengers from the left to recalibrate their calculus.
Self-testing for viral illnesses like flu and RSV wasn't a necessity before the COVID-19 pandemic, but could become the norm in coming years.
At first there was a bust, then there was a boom, and now U.S. birth rates are back on their long-term, downward trend.
The passage of the Respect for Marriage Act demonstrates that people can and do change their minds on fundamental questions.
The Orion spacecraft will have to do some fancy flying to return to Earth safely on Sunday, Dec. 11, after its Lunar journey.
Five years after survivors of workplace harassment and assault were named Person of the Year, many still worry about speaking out
The longtime Sports Illustrated writer, who helped boost the popularity of soccer in the U.S., collapsed in a World Cup press box
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A prisoner exchange for Trevor Reed, a former U.S. Marine in poor health, marked an opening in the administration's approach to such negotiations.
The 52-year-old former U.S. Marine was not included in the prisoner swap that freed Brittney Griner.
A man-made environmental crisis is part of the anger building against Iran's government.
No Iranian officials have confirmed the abolishment of the morality police, and activists say claims otherwise undermine the movement.
Peruvian President Pedro Castillo sparked fears of a coup Wednesday after dissolving Congress ahead of an impeachment vote.
Musk's erratic behavior does not bode well for the future of free speech on social media
Warnock's victory over Walker expands Democrats’ Senate majority, and could help the party hold the Senate in two years when they face a tough election map.
Donald Trump’s company was convicted of tax fraud on Tuesday in a case brought by the Manhattan District Attorney.
The novel, a new adaptation of which is now on Netflix, was originally published in the late 1920s but did not reach mass audiences until closer to 1960
China has seen the largest protests in years in response to COVID-19 lockdowns. What do they reveal about China today?
Some in Europe are pushing for the U.S. to bolster NATO as much as possible now, in case an isolationist like Trump becomes President again in 2024.
The young team's talent could permanently shift the needle regarding the popularity of men's soccer at home.
Kirstie Alley won an Emmy for her role on “Cheers” and starred in films including “Look Who's Talking.”
After campaigning as the most pro-union candidate ever, Biden decided the economy was a bigger priority than rail workers' bargaining power
The police unit has for years stalked major intersections arresting those that violated Iran's strict religious dress codes
In tweets, news interviews, and House hearings, Jeffries called to question the legitimacy of Trump's 2016 election. But calling him an 'election denier' conflates different issues.
China’s zero-COVID policy—and the subsequent outrage—have a wide range of implications, including for climate change
Rights groups say that the lack of a precise toll underscores the need for truth and justice.
The pandemic-era ban, which began under former President Donald Trump in 2020 and has continued under Biden
The murder of an Indigenous man in the Amazon shows how the struggle to save the rainforest in Brazil can turn deadly
The popular video-sharing app, owned by the Chinese technology company ByteDance, boasted more than 1 billion active global last year
Crisis diversity initiatives are faulty solutions to combat and understand the gravity of Islamophobia, writes Evelyn Alsultany.
As dissent is quashed on the mainland, these largely diaspora-led shows of support may lose steam.
While Biden's marijuana pardon is a start, true justice requires a push for prison reform, writes Michael Thompson.
To get the most out of these plans, it’s important to understand how they work—especially since many FSAs are about to expire.
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The French President warned during a White House visit that the measures could “fragment the West." Biden said he would consider "tweaks."
The allies are grappling for new ways to ramp up pressure against North Korea for an unprecedented series of missile tests.
Kanye West, who goes by Ye, tweeted an image combining the Star of David with a swastika, which got removed by the social media service.
Joe Biden is nudging Kyiv toward a compromise with Moscow, which serves neither Western nor Ukrainian interests at this point.
Lake intends to ask the Maricopa County Superior Court to nullify the county's election and hold it over again, sources tell TIME.
While Beijing and Moscow share aspirations to push the U.S. from its hegemonic role over world affairs, a formal alliance between the two nations will prove challenging to sustain.
The conviction on rare seditious conspiracy charges won't dampen an anti-government movement that has moved on from the Oath Keepers
The World Cup has been a PR nightmare for Qatar. But Arabs can still cheer on surprise wins and acts of diplomacy.
Elon Musk’s plan to offer ‘amnesty’ to suspended Twitter users puts human rights in jeopardy across the globe, advocacy experts say.
Polls show GOP support of Trump softening, as his 2016 win appears less durable. Dining with white supremacists doesn't help.
American politics is so calcified that there is little reason for Democrats to assume that the 2022 elections portend success in 2024
The U.S. men's team's most accomplished international player was due for a dramatic goal. Pulisic's bravery delivered against Iran in Qatar.
His dinner with Ye and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes serves as a dog whistle to the worst corners of the current political landscape.
As a strike of 48,000 academic workers at the University of California stretches into a third week, schools across the country are watching
Schools said they were protecting students from COVID-19. But dispersing them also reduces the likelihood of more activism.
The company’s AI algorithm is being licensed for the first time for commercial use for mammograms.
Houston became the latest U.S. city to issue a boil-water advisory after a power outage at a treatment plant caused water pressure to fall
Rare mass demonstrations against the country’s strict pandemic measures have broken out in multiple cities across the country, including Beijing and Shanghai.
Mexican authorities have not publicly named the American woman they are seeking to extradite
Reviewed footage appears to show a state broadcaster pulling back on shots of the stadium crowds compared to other international networks.
A new poll shows U.S. Christians believe humans must protect the Earth, but often don't believe climate change science.
Customers who trusted FTX’s platform are likely at the back of the queue for receiving whatever assets a bankruptcy judge can extract from the company.
1 in 5 Americans suffers from chronic loneliness. Here's how we can build a society that is more inclusive and nurturing
Richard Wang, CEO of Cuberg, is developing lighter, more powerful lithium batteries that could help make electric airplanes a reality.
The effect climate change is having on children's mental health and brain development must be addressed, writes Frederica Perera.
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Even as many people return to normal, some families are shaping their holiday 2022 plans around avoiding COVID-19.
Twitter's new owner said Thursday he will grant "amnesty" to suspended accounts—experts predict a rise in harassment, misinformation.
After my near-death experience with a whale, citizen scientists analyzed the viral video. Thank you, internet.
Reach out to new and old friends, be flexible about travel, let yourself feel sad, and set boundaries.
Part of our drive to consume is down to the way our brains have evolved, a new book argues
Embrace the sentimental, opt for experiences over things, and don't overdo the personalization.
Research suggests that women vote in ways that are beneficial for their group, while men vote in ways that are beneficial for themselves
Senator Gary Peters answers nine questions about why Democrats held the Senate and how they plan to win Georgia's Dec. 6 runoff.
Following the One Love armband controversy, fans and journalists are being confronted for wearing rainbow flags at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
The league said it found no evidence of collusion between New York Yankees and Mets owners in market for Aaron Judge
More regulation isn't enough to fix the crypto space after the collapse of FTX, prosecutors need to get involved
Legal experts say that even if the court sides with the Biden Administration, there are still legal hurdles that will delay relief for borrowers.
It takes an aggressive suspension of suspicion to view the national environment toward LGBTQ rights and think it has no bearing on the latest deadly attack on a gay nightclub.
Seven European teams abandoned their plans to wear the LGBT rights armband amid threats of sanction during the 2022 Qatar World Cup.
The 'Knives Out' sequel at times works overly hard to remind us how much fun we’re supposed to be having, but following along is still enjoyable enough
COP27 concludes a hard fought battle over loss and damage. The next few years will define what this new climate paradigm looks like.
The artist formerly known as Kanye West had been temporarily suspended from the platform at the end of October after an anti-Semitic tweet.
Under Elon Musk the Twitter that so many people depend on may collapse. Roger McNamee on what comes next
The Senate is stopping well short of codifying the 2015 Supreme Court decision that extended marriage rights to all couples.
Two out of three single women say they won't date someone with opposing views on abortion
Support for families opting out of school for differing politics is growing ahead of the midterms
Increasing drug overdose deaths, rising violent crime, and the COVID-19 pandemic have all demanded more from this small specialty workforce.
Americans are ready to re-embrace holiday travel. Here's how to save money and make the experience less stressful.
A slew of pay transparency laws across the country can help you negotiate for higher pay.
I wonder if it is still legal to teach students about what Black soldiers and veterans experienced
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"Population growth is the elephant in the room for climate change," writes Eugene Linden.
Florida insiders say the state’s rightward shift is tied to the pandemic, which led to an influx of new voters drawn by DeSantis’ policies.
Upside Foods is just a few steps away from selling lab-grown chicken in the U.S. market.
Montana’s “born alive” ballot showed the sinister nature of anti-abortion deception. Voters saw right through it.
The celebrity billionaire's new online pharmacy is a bid to bring benevolent disruption to an industry that charges steep markups
In a last-minute reversal, FIFA said on Friday that alcoholic beer would be banned at World Cup stadiums.
Mandate thinking can be dangerous—the GOP should represent their voters’ concerns, rather than only an anti-Biden agenda
The White House's discreet, multi-pronged effort to pressure Moscow to stop issuing nuclear threats.
Ukraine is using the international climate conference to garner more support against Russia's war, particularly among ambivalent countries.
Judging from his rhetoric and tone, he’s going to run the same campaign as before, with the same half-baked promises.
The successful liftoff of NASA’s Artemis program—which aims to have Americans back on the moon by as soon as late 2025—is at last underway.
The GOP’s middling midterms performance has some Republicans questioning whether Trump should still represent the party’s future.
As Trump announced his third bid for the presidency, Biden held an emergency meeting with G7 and NATO leaders to deal with crisis in Europe.
The 1912 election bears a striking resemblance to the 2024 election. That's good news for the Democrats
Hobbs defeated Kari Lake, a former TV anchor who insisted Donald Trump really won the 2020 election and became a right-wing sensation.
After failing to deliver a red wave in the midterms, House Republicans will on Tuesday elect their leader to govern a much smaller than expected majority.
UNFPA Executive Director Natalia Kanem argues that looking exclusively at population numbers comes with great dangers.
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To a certain extent, politicos were expecting a wave because the past midterm elections had resulted in waves. But every midterm being a "wave election" is a relatively recent phenomenon.
Americans casting their ballots peacefully and losing candidates conceding may seem like a low bar, but clearing it in 2022 mattered more than ever.
After Biden's COP27 speech, activists said the U.S. had failed to help developing countries addressing climate change
The U.S.' outsize contribution to global emissions is not reflected in the climate finance it gives, data analysis shows.
Even after the Republican's midterm results, Christian nationalists will remain a force in American politics
Twitter users with disabilities say they could be "left with nothing" in the wake of Elon Musk taking over the site
Inflation and rising interest rates are driving tech layoffs this month, and more than 21,000 workers have lost jobs
African folklore has always been a prime influence on pop culture, but its recognition is long overdue, writes Elizabeth Agyemang.
"To ensure a strong future for the party, Democrats must expand their models of political manhood," write Amanda Jayne Miller and Edward O. Frantz.
A federal judge blocked Biden’s student loan relief plan. The Education Department has stopped accepting applications
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The rising cost of housing is helping to drive inflation, but raising interest rates is exacerbating that problem
Georgia’s history shows how an electoral system that demands the majority’s support can be manipulated to exclude the minority vote
From cylindrical s'mores to a "Mexican Week" from hell, the beloved show is now a mess of toddler-in-the-kitchen proportions.
"When young people’s rights are on the ballot and championed by the candidate, they show up," writes Ashley Aylward.
Trump spent Wednesday making angry calls to friends and advisors about the red wave that failed to materialize.
Voters turned out to protect reproductive rights, and voted for Democrats while they were at it
Democrats faced criticism for investing millions in the primary races of far-right Republicans, but their gamble appeared to pay off.
A new report from Boston schools shows that universal masking for kids reduces the spread of COVID-19 and keeps kids in school
Most Democrats still think their majority in the House is gone, but it's looking nothing like the 63-seat loss that Obama endured in 2010.
Binance, the largest crypto exchange in the world, just bought its fastest-rising competitor, FTX. Here's what that means for the crypto world and beyond
Ukraine received its first NASAMS air defense systems from the U.S. and Aspide units from Spain.
For every topic we asked about, more people judged it to be bumming out the country than said it was bothering them personally
The platform banned several comedians for parody tweets in which they impersonated its new owner
Arkansas, Ohio, and Oklahoma could election women as both governor and lieutenant governor
Ohio's races for Senate and Governor couldn't be more different. And yet, they may affect each other, leading a good number of voters to split their ticket.
Novelist Silas House writes about growing up in a fundamentalist church and seeing that same hate and vitriol in U.S. politics today
Every four years, for four weeks, World Cup host countries open their doors to millions of fans, investing national pride in ever more fantastic stadiums purpose-built for the world’s most popular sport. Qatar has spent more than $200 billion on construction that offers a preview of future technologies, from outdoor air-conditioning to retractable roofs.
National Democratic groups should have invested more in dynamic candidates like Val Demings, Cheri Beasley and Stacey Abrams, critics argue.
If you look beneath the surface, there’s a case that candidates talking about climate change on the campaign trail can pay dividends
Many hold the opinion that the U.S. needs to adopt either Standard Time (ST) or Daylight Saving Time (DST) year-round
Three dozen races for governor and competitive races to control state legislatures will shape just how far the U.S. can go on climate.
In Arkansas, Maryland, Missouri, North Dakota and South Dakota voters are being asked whether they support legalizing the recreational use of marijuana for adults.
Fifty years ago, the Six Who Sat protesters helped make the New York City Marathon more accessible to women.
The amount of attention and investment Democrats have given social media influencers has skyrocketed in just a few years, and goes all the way up to the 79-year-old occupant of the Oval Office.
There were enough overseas American voters to make the difference in key 2020 races. For the 2022 midterms, many organizers are hoping for a repeat.
U.S. health officials are testing passengers at airports to keep on top of COVID-19 variants entering the country.
To have a real digital townsquare, we need to build online spaces governed by the people using them, writes Evan Greer.
The unapologetic progressive populist has managed to build up a striking level of credibility and affection in Republican-trending Ohio.
Elon Musk plans to cut about half of Twitter's workforce in a bid to drive down costs following his acquisition
In a state where Trump beat Biden in Oklahoma by 33 points, Democrat Joy Hofmeister is within striking distance of Governor Kevin Stitt.
The signatories of a global pact increased their use of virgin plastics last year, undoing recent progress to cut wasteful packaging.
With a slew of technology companies reporting financial results this week, all eyes are on how investors will respond after a series of recent disappointing…
Calls for Home Secretary Suella Braverman to resign are growing over her hardline approach to migrants.
The gender desegregation of the labor market has so far been almost entirely one-way. That needs to change
The mean-spirited digs helped spread debunked claims about the attack, as Nancy Pelosi's husband remained hospitalized with a skull fracture.
Police have arrested a suspect in the 2017 murders of Abby Williams and Libby German in Delphi, Ind.
Crime concerns have made Democrats nervous about a gubernatorial election in a blue state.
Misinformation, paying for verification, troll campaigns: users and employees face uncertainty as Twitter changes hands.
Trump reiterated his support for TRUTH Social on Friday, but here's what we know about the chances of Trump making his way back to Twitter.
“We have to find a way for more capital to flow into developing countries," he said in an interview with TIME.
"We are at a point now where unless there's a legislative solution to provide permanent protections for DACA recipients, many will likely lose what they have built over the last decade."
The man accused of breaking into House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's California home and severely beating her husband with a hammer appears to have made racist…
Should Elon Musk allow him back on Twitter, Trump would regain a platform that he previously used to lie, bully, and incite violence.
Egypt's obstruction of environmental activism will be under the microscope as it hosts the 2022 U.N. climate conference.
Of the 26 large urban districts where NAEP assessments, "the Nation's Report Card," were given, Los Angeles was the only one to make gains in eighth-grade reading.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband was hospitalized after a man broke into their San Francisco home and attacked him with a hammer.
The Nobel Prizes often give us an inaccurate view of scientific progress. There is a better way to drive human knowledge, writes Martin Rees
Successful countries in the future will be distinguished by one thing: Importing young people
Americans want corporate leaders to step up against racism and hate speech, writes ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt
With midterm elections looming, a TIME/Harris poll found Americans in a middling mood, though not uniformly so
Billionaire Tesla CEO Elon Musk has officially "acquired Twitter," he announced on the platform
Biden's new Defense Strategy puts the U.S. military on a Cold War-footing with Moscow and Beijing in coming decades.
Activists in the U.K. and Germany have thrown food on famous paintings to make a point—and the acts have grabbed the world's attention.
For the President, the outcome of the Nov. 8 election is about far more than who controls the House and Senate.
Volodymyr Zelensky has called for the seizure of Russian assets to be part of a “new Marshall Plan” to rebuild Ukraine.
There is a growing threat of Putin using a nuclear weapon in Ukraine. Admiral James Stavridis on how the West should respond if he does
Legal experts are skeptical that current challenges will ultimately prevail in court—but it only takes one victory to throw a wrench in the student loan forgiveness program
Americans support the Biden Administration's approach in Ukraine but fear the risk of nuclear escalation
The company had been under intense scrutiny over the last month from Jewish community groups that condemned its nine-year relationship with West.
Cabinet of Curiosities' eight hour-long tales go hard on Del Toro's well-documented obsessions: elaborate monsters, vividly human characters, H.P. Lovecraft.
The criminal tax-fraud trial of the Trump Organization begins on Monday, and the outcome could impact more than the coffers of former President Donald Trump’s family business.
“If left unaddressed, this could alter the trajectories and life opportunities of a whole cohort of young people,” said National Center for Education Statistics official Daniel McGrath.
Many of the people most impacted by the climate crisis reside in countries served by the World Bank
After the attack, Rushdie was treated at a Pennsylvania hospital, where he was briefly put on a ventilator to recover
Election officials are working to manage expectations and make clear that delays do not suggest election results are illegitimate.
The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a stay while it considers an appeal from six Republican-led states to abandon the program entirely
The Federal Reserve's moves to keep raising interest rates is going to lead to disaster. There is a better way.
The Biden Administration’s application for debt cancellation has officially launched. Borrowers can apply for forgiveness anytime before Dec. 31, 2023.
Sandy Biar of the Australian Republic Movement says the organization has seen “phenomenal growth” since Queen Elizabeth's passing
Netflix will officially start charging for password sharing in early 2023. Here's what that means for users.
Following Liz Truss’s resignation on Thursday, the country once again finds itself in need of a new leader.
Truss, who campaigned on a platform to deliver “growth, growth, growth” for Britain achieved just the opposite.
Annual planned "Grom" and "Steadfast Noon" nuclear war games take place amid grinding Ukraine conflict
With the experience of last year’s record-breaking Omicron wave, American leaders should now be ready. They're not.
Sarah Palin has continued her legal fight against the New York Times and what it means for the free press should concern us
Reported job cuts come at an awkward time for Intel, given that the company lobbied heavily for the subsidies in the CHIPS Act.
The former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine outlines the substantial risks and costs of Putin's nuclear threats
Biden hopes to elevate abortion as an issue in the minds of voters, even as polling suggests inflation and the economy are bigger concerns for many.
The increase was driven by food prices, which leapt by 14.5% from a year earlier, the biggest jump since 1980.
The closely watched case—in which both sides argue they are acting in the best interest of children—has already received input from major medical organizations, LGBTQ advocacy groups, and the Biden Administration.
The announcement comes just days after West's other social media accounts were locked due to anti-Semitic posts
The U.K.'s new finance minister scrapped almost all of Prime Minister Liz Truss's tax plans, as her premiership looks increasingly shaky.
Researchers speculate about what's behind the recent rise in homicides and suicides caused by firearms.
Britain is buzzing about how close to a financial crisis the country recently came; the episode has reignited calls for green investment
The cost of supporting Ukraine may be high but the cost of failing to keep doing so would be much higher, writes Mikhail Khodorkovsky
For Lula, election night is where the good news ends because he faces major challenges from the right-wing and the economy
A new study suggests income inequality has stabilized due to growth in wages for the lowest-paying jobs
While exacerbating droughts and floods, climate change also fuels migration and makes food imports less reliable.
Dream, a popular gaming YouTuber who has been streaming for years, finally showed the world his face after concealing it behind a mask.
The feud was sparked by a report that Herschel Walker, who runs an anti-abortion campaign, had paid for a girlfriend's abortion.
Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal, and K. Barry Sharpless received the award for work that led to improved cancer treatments.
While the 1975 ode to birth control is considered a pillar of country music, it remains all but absent on classic country radio.
NBA stars LeBron James, Draymond Green, and Kevin Love all invested in a pro pickleball team
The Court's decision in Merrill v. Milligan could further undermine the most powerful federal legal protection for equitable voting laws.
The Michigan state senator has become the most visible face of a Democratic push to pour money into the legislative races the party has long neglected
"You don't need to worry about the killer robot," the former Google CEO said at the TIME100 Leadership Forum in Singapore. It makes for a good movie, but "we're not building that, right? It's not happening."
That means that the polarizing battle between Bolsonaro and Lula will continue for weeks
The combined impact of worsening climate change and less pollution is like a performance enhancer for tropical cyclones.
Peter Farrelly's new movie might have been a disaster with any other star, but Zac Efron manages to keep it on track with laid-back charisma
Russia's likely sabotage of natural gas pipelines spells an escalation of Putin's energy war—and increases chance of him losing it
House Democrats made a point of criticizing Trump’s assault on government ethics, so it’s maddening to see their leadership adopting his most notorious ethics dodge just a few years later.
The answer gains greater significance with each passing week, as Democrats weigh other contenders and wonder if Donald Trump will run again.
“It just is a great concern when access to communication is denied to a certain population.”
“It just is a great concern when access to communication is denied to a certain population.”
A judge in Spain ruled that the Colombian singer must stand trial over accusations of tax fraud. Shakira denies all allegations
A judge in Spain ruled that the Colombian singer must stand trial over accusations of tax fraud. Shakira denies all allegations
The former Soviet republic has been a key hub for Russian exiles since February, but a fresh influx is angering many locals.
The former Soviet republic has been a key hub for Russian exiles since February, but a fresh influx is angering many locals.
The case is a test for the Justice Department, which is seeking to successfully prosecute the rare charges for the first time in 30 years
The case is a test for the Justice Department, which is seeking to successfully prosecute the rare charges for the first time in 30 years
The rising importance of abortion rights, which most Latinos support, is helping Democrats retain support of Latinos, new data suggests.
The rising importance of abortion rights, which most Latinos support, is helping Democrats retain support of Latinos, new data suggests.
In the absence of military victories, experts say that Russia is annexing Ukrainian territory to try and undermine Western support for Ukraine.
In the absence of military victories, experts say that Russia is annexing Ukrainian territory to try and undermine Western support for Ukraine.
Conservative media may be trying to cause confusion when it comes to how climate change impacts storms, but the science is "overwhelmingly clear."
Conservative media may be trying to cause confusion when it comes to how climate change impacts storms, but the science is "overwhelmingly clear."
Christian Nationalism is a growing movement that presents a dangerous threat to American democracy
Christian Nationalism is a growing movement that presents a dangerous threat to American democracy
Facebook parent company Meta said it took down a network of fake accounts, originating in China, that was attempting to interfere in the U.S. midterms
Facebook parent company Meta said it took down a network of fake accounts, originating in China, that was attempting to interfere in the U.S. midterms
The DART spacecraft crashed into the asteroid Dimorphos, in a first test of humanity's ability to deflect incoming space debris
The DART spacecraft crashed into the asteroid Dimorphos, in a first test of humanity's ability to deflect incoming space debris
The conservative Pacific Legal Foundation has launched the first legal challenge to President Biden’s student loan debt forgiveness plan.
The conservative Pacific Legal Foundation has launched the first legal challenge to President Biden’s student loan debt forgiveness plan.
U.S. funding would be used for radiation sensors, supplies for Ukrainian forces and protective capabilities at nuclear facilities
U.S. funding would be used for radiation sensors, supplies for Ukrainian forces and protective capabilities at nuclear facilities
The committee has effectively wielded the words of Trump's allies against him, and doing more of that as it wraps up could have a long-lasting impact.
The committee has effectively wielded the words of Trump's allies against him, and doing more of that as it wraps up could have a long-lasting impact.
After years of delay, the E.U. is finally trying to stand up to Orban's anti-democratic rule in Hungary
After years of delay, the E.U. is finally trying to stand up to Orban's anti-democratic rule in Hungary
September's climate conference in New York was an opportunity for polluting companies to polish their environmental image
September's climate conference in New York was an opportunity for polluting companies to polish their environmental image
Republicans continue to view tough messaging on immigration as a key strategy to unite their party and win over voters.
Republicans continue to view tough messaging on immigration as a key strategy to unite their party and win over voters.
The Ukrainian government calls for a special tribunal to try Putin and his ruling circle for war crimes against Ukraine and the world
The Ukrainian government calls for a special tribunal to try Putin and his ruling circle for war crimes against Ukraine and the world
Our national narrative is locked on 2020’s terms. Historians are likely to view the year as a turning point akin to 1968.
Our national narrative is locked on 2020’s terms. Historians are likely to view the year as a turning point akin to 1968.
In "American Sirens," author Kevin Hazzard spotlights the Black men in Pittsburgh who pioneered America's modern emergency medical service.
In "American Sirens," author Kevin Hazzard spotlights the Black men in Pittsburgh who pioneered America's modern emergency medical service.
Puppies aren't born barking, just as children aren't born chattering. They learn their voice, and then they learn to use it
Puppies aren't born barking, just as children aren't born chattering. They learn their voice, and then they learn to use it
Giorgia Meloni looks set to be Italy's next Prime Minister, following elections on Sept. 25.
Giorgia Meloni looks set to be Italy's next Prime Minister, following elections on Sept. 25.
Senate Democrats are asking the country’s largest network of anti-abortion pregnancy centers to provide information about how it gathers, protects, and shares the personal data of pregnant people
Senate Democrats are asking the country’s largest network of anti-abortion pregnancy centers to provide information about how it gathers, protects, and shares the personal data of pregnant people
Ukraine has expressed outrage that the elections are sure to be a “sham,” similar to the 2014 referendum in Crimea
Ukraine has expressed outrage that the elections are sure to be a “sham,” similar to the 2014 referendum in Crimea
The New York Attorney General Letitia James' lawsuit against Donald Trump may be the legal action that finally holds him accountable.
The New York Attorney General Letitia James' lawsuit against Donald Trump may be the legal action that finally holds him accountable.
Meta's CEO dreams of hologram poker nights and virtual reality "eating TV." But privacy concerns linger.
Pakistan accounts for 0.7% of global carbon emissions but is consistently ranked among the top 10 countries most vulnerable to climate impacts
The British leader ushered in major changes to the country’s political life that stretch far beyond his signature Brexit project.
People are stuck waiting in Mexico because of a new process designed by DHS that requires those in MPP to wait until their next court date before they can be removed from the program
Sending my daughter to school is terrifying, but the simple act of taking her shopping for new clothes gives me a sense of normalcy.
As prices rise and Russia threatens to cut off gas supplies, the Europe's energy crisis threatens to spiral out of control this winter
Biden embraced a sharper tone in a primetime address, warning of the dangers of a Republican Party still largely under Trump’s spell. It's a shift he's been honing for weeks.
In its 35 years of polling on the court, Pew has never documented a wider partisan gap in views of the institution.
An estimated 12.7 million people are expected to fly from U.S. airports for Labor Day weekend
The latest filing is the most damning so far, with prosecutors alleging government records at Mar-a-Lago were “likely concealed and removed."
The drills are seen as a show of growing defense cooperation between Moscow and Beijing as they both face tensions with Washington.
Mikhail Gorbachev made three crucial decisions that were key to ending the Cold War peacefully
U.S. forces foil Iranian attempt to grab an American sea drone in the Persian Gulf as diplomats pursue a renewed nuke deal
Those two Russian words were synonymous with Mikhail Gorbachev's campaign for reforming Soviet society. Here's what to know about them.
It's a distinction that matters more than many realize. Peltola is currently leading Sarah Palin in a special election for Don Young's seat.
The Jan. 6 committee returns in September with public hearings and an initial report. Trump may prefer public attention to be elsewhere.
Former Louisville Det. Kelly Goodlett is the first to plead guilty to federal charges in the killing of Breonna Taylor
Conservative legal groups are exploring who would have legal standing to sue. House Republicans could try to sue if they win back the chamber.
Under the Biden Administration’s new debt forgiveness plan, eligible borrowers’ relief is capped at the amount of outstanding debt they owe.
A new military study warns that China is on track to become the world's dominant space power in the next generation
The discovery of carbon dioxide on a distant planet is one more sign that organic chemistry—and perhaps life—exists throughout the universe
The FDA is now considering whether to authorize the first Omicron-specific booster shots, based on animal data
The U.S. today is dominated by middlemen, like Cargill or Walmart, that are distorting the economy and making us less resilient
Judges in Texas and Idaho issued decisions on whether federal protections for patients in emergency situations extend to circumstances in which the treatment would be abortion
New research found that psychedelics and near-death experiences both reduced anxiety about death
For decades, the government mostly relied on economic rewards to spur an EV transition. Now the climate laggards are seeing consequences
From private jets to superyachts, luxury travel became more popular during the pandemic
In Tennessee, which has invested heavily in tutoring, students are still below pre-pandemic proficiency levels in math, but 30% of now meet grade-level expectations compared to 25% in 2021.
President Biden just announced he would cancel $20,000 in student loan debt for certain borrowers
Democrats have less reason to think that November will be the bloodbath many expected, after Pat Ryan's win in a special election that turned on abortion.
Biden signals Putin, allies, that Washington will back Kyiv for months or years, if necessary, in its fight with Russia.
A tightly-controlled media and lack of a viable political opposition help explain Russian support for President Vladimir Putin.
An Israeli study published Aug. 24 provides important data on who could benefit most from the antiviral treatment.
Ukraine is marking both 31 years of independence from the Soviet Union and six months since Russia’s full-scale invasion on Wednesday.
“It is time for CDC to change,” says Dr. Rochelle Walensky, after a new report reveals how the agency mishandled COVID-19.
The film is built around three minutes of footage captured in a Polish town in 1938, not long before the Holocaust
'Nothing is more dramatic than having the College Board launch an AP course in a field,' says Henry Louis Gates Jr., who helped develop the curriculum
“He was poisoned in the womb, and because of that, his brain was irretrievably broken through no fault of his own,” Nikolas Cruz's public defender, Melisa McNeill, said in her opening statement
Dr. Fauci will step down as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and chief medical advisor to President Joe Biden, but says he will not retire.
The man-vs.-nature thriller is packed with tense action scenes, which may be entertaining or unbearable depending on the viewer
Upcoming cases in Texas and Idaho have major stakes for whether pregnant patients can get emergency abortions in states with bans.
In several tangled races, Democrats are working out how much identity should influence who they pick to represent them.
Researchers find that for years after getting COVID-19, people are at greater risk for brain fog, psychosis, seizures, and dementia.
America's gun industry is currently fixated on selling military-style weapons to consumers, but it wasn't always this way
Glucose meters, which are widely available, could help test how much immunity people have to COVID-19.
Sen. Schumer: “We need to stomp out this bug before it spreads, otherwise our farmers and local businesses could face millions in damage"
Historians and former Carter advisers fact-check the critics who have compared Joe Biden to Jimmy Carter
Why Ticketmaster has made seeing your favorite artists so difficult—and how to find cheaper tickets to concerts
The U.S. is setting aside an extra 50,000 doses of monkeypox vaccine for places with upcoming gay pride events, health officials said Thursday.
The Finnish Prime Minister said she was disappointed that the videos, which were from a private event, were shared online.
A small study finds that about half of vaccinated people experience no COVID-19 symptoms—or only mild ones—from an Omicron infection.
Liz Cheney lost by a stunning 37 points after daring to hold Trump accountable for his role in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
China says a $52 billion program to expand American chipmaking targets Beijing’s own efforts to build a semiconductor industry
A National Academies of Sciences report finds that while people should use sunscreen, more research is needed into its safety.
The next chapter of the climate fight involves a tug of war between industry, activists, and policymakers.
China’s ambassador to Washington, Qin Gang, said China viewed such Taiwan transits as an escalation by the U.S.
Trump publicly offered an olive branch to law enforcement on Monday, while continuing to stoke the rage of his supporters over the Mar-a-Lago search.
Documents reveal that the FBI is investigating whether former President Trump violated the Espionage Act of 1917. Here's what to know
Although schools are racing to find innovative solutions, millions of families could be paying more for breakfast and lunch this year.
Globally, around 500 million people who menstruate live in "period poverty"—the inability to access menstrual products because of financial constraints.
The Academy apologized to her for the abuse she endured nearly 50 years after Sacheen Littlefeather stood on the Academy Awards stage.
Liz Cheney may still have a future in GOP politics. But it's hard to see it including a successful run for president in 2024.
Twin studies using satellite observations show ice loss over Antarctica is twice as great as feared.
Researchers have found that high-demand cognitive work can lead to mental fatigue, making it harder to make decisions.
The Taliban have crushed women’s rights and a humanitarian crisis has worsened, but the U.S. war was a hopeless exercise.
Drew Pavlou insists that a Chinese operative sent a bomb threat from a spoofed email account in his name.
The climate bill aims to help lower-income Americans electrify their homes and cars. Here's why experts say it will work
Struggling companies are more likely to experience a decrease in diversity on their boards, a study found
The polio virus has been found in New York City’s wastewater in another sign that the disease is quietly spreading among unvaccinated people.
Elon Musk is a singular visionary driving humanity toward a better future—or at least that’s what he and his admirers want us to believe. For…
Australia is poised to pass new, ambitious climate legislation. But the bill does not ban new coal and gas projects
Tornado Cash’s service has let hackers flourish, regulators say. But privacy experts worry the ban goes too far.
The surge in violent rhetoric drew concerns that it could inspire attacks on law enforcement, as analysts noted a wave of threats.
Donald Trump called late Thursday for the “immediate” release of the federal warrant the FBI used to search his Florida estate
"U.S.-China engagement on climate is sorely needed...to ensure that bilateral tensions do not irreparably harm the ability to reduce emissions"
The Justice Department announced Wednesday it charged a member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in connection with an assassination plot against former National Security…
As a movie villain, the Predator has pretty basic motivations. He's an alien who comes to Earth to hunt for fun with some cool gadgets.…
The Sturgeon Supermoon is coming. The hoopla that's greeting it is rooted deep in our history as a species
The unprecedented move by federal law enforcement to execute a search warrant on a former President's home could serve to mobilize Trump's base.
Bid to avoid a last-minute selloff if he has to go ahead with his aborted Twitter takeover plan
Barnes, perhaps Democrats' best recruit this cycle, enjoys stronger support within his party than Johnson does with his fellow Republicans.
Carolyn Bryant Donham, whose accusation set off the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till, is now in her 80s
The bill will jumpstart an economic transformation and rejigger international climate politics— and affect the way Americans live.
The raid is related to a probe of whether Trump had taken classified records to his Florida residence.
Progressive Democrats have been grousing for what seems like eons about the fact that some of the nation’s wealthiest corporations avoid paying their fair share…
The white father and son were sentenced to life in prison after they chased the Black man through a Georgia neighborhood and murdered him.
Here’s what you need to know about the health risks of extreme heat and how to understand your own risk.
“Today there are more people working in America than before the pandemic began,” the President boasted.
The new law, which was passed by the Indiana House and Senate on Friday, bans most abortions in the state
A survey shared exclusively with TIME details how Democrats can catch up to Republicans on the issue of the economy.
You know an action movie’s bad when it saps your will to live. Bullet Train, directed by David Leitch and adapted from Kotaro Isaka’s 2010…
Even booming companies are laying off workers and talking up concerns about an economic downturn
New York state health officials called for unvaccinated kids and adults to get the polio vaccine.
With inflation among voters' top concerns, framing a massive spending bill as a way to address the issue makes political sense
The bill, which Amazon, Meta and Google oppose, appears to have the support of enough Senators for it to pass.
Until recently, monkeypox rarely spread from person to person. In 2005, a study declared a cluster of six cases in the Republic of Congo “the…
A new study reveals the virus is widespread among animals, but they're better protected against Omicron than humans
An emotional Brittney Griner apologized Thursday for her actions as her drug possession trial drew to a close
The prestige streaming service wasn't axed. But the era of streaming-only movies appears to be receding
Four officers involved in the police raid that killed Breonna Taylor were arrested on federal charges more than two years after her death.
Her Taipei stopover badly damaged relations, but experts say both sides have reasons to reestablish a tentative trust
The Austin jury must still decide how much the Infowars host must pay in punitive damages.
Sweltering weather is another formidable barrier to kids getting enough physical activity, finds a new scientific review.
The U.S. House Speaker's visit will be followed by unprecedented military drills by a furious Beijing, which considers the self-ruling island its territory.
At the supermarket, work, schools, restaurants, sports events, and airports we are witnessing a remarkable change. Masks are rarely seen. People are hugging, crowding, traveling.…
Both Republican Adam Laxalt and Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto are heavily courting Hispanics, many of whom lean conservative in Nevada.
Vin Scully, the universally-recognized great sports broadcaster who died on Tuesday, at 94, is rightly synonymous with the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball franchise. Scully, born…
During a meeting with Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen, Pelosi said U.S. commitment to the island "remains ironclad”
The billionaire paid for 250 people to fill up at $2.38 per gallon, the price when Joe Biden became President.
His death brings to a close one of the CIA’s longest-standing manhunts since the Sept. 11, 2001, attack.
The U.S. House Speaker's expected trip to Taiwan is no more than costly virtue signaling.
The warning from Secretary-General Antonio Guterres came at a conference to review the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
The boss of the Russian space agency threatens to quit the space station in 2024—but Moscow backpedals
Amazon's efforts to buy One Medical and expand further into healthcare must be stopped to protect patients' privacy
When all five full-time police officers in tiny Kenly, N.C. handed in their resignations last week, citing conflicts with the new town manager, it made national news
The Ukraine invasion is showing that Europe will come together as a geopolitical union or not come together at all
The bill's ultimate success came about after a pivotal closed-door national security briefing in mid-July and crucial interventions with Republicans by former top Trump officials.
When kids learn that prejudice is permanent it reinforces racial divides. There's a better approach
The Supreme Court said the Biden Administration can end MPP, but a month later, it still hasn't. Here's why
The recent uptick in air travel and flight delays have travelers questioning if it’s a good idea to check a bag
Ron Howard's true-life drama tells the story of a remarkable 2018 rescue in a Thai cave
A movement is trying to make health care more inclusive of people with disabilities as Long Covid looms.
For Rachel Robles, getting diagnosed with Long COVID was an uphill battle. She caught the virus in March 2020, when nearly nothing was known about…
Research shows that the combined risk of death from extreme temperatures and air pollution is more than the sum of their individual effects
Homicides decreased by 2% in the first half of 2022—but still remain 39% higher than the same period in 2019
A recession has traditionally been defined as two back-to-back quarters of declining gross domestic product
The bill would the most significant U.S. climate law of all time, and could set the world on the path to reining in climate change
Rresidents Joe Biden and Xi Jinping had their first phone call since March—lasting more than two hours.
Talks to unlock $3.5 billion in reserves come as the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan deteriorates
If the fall of Roe taught Americans anything, it is this: assuming something dating back a half century is durable is a sucker’s bet.
Running for local office isn't easy. But whenever the going gets tough for Amanda Gonzalez, a Democratic candidate for Jefferson County (Colo.) Clerk and Recorder,…
It’s been a difficult year for shoppers looking for cars, electronics and anything that requires a computer chip. A global semiconductor shortage has left many…
Washington has reportedly offered to release an infamous Russian arms dealer in exchange for the WNBA superstar
The Kremlin said it would further reduce gas supplies to the E.U. from Wednesday, fueling ongoing concerns about rationing.
In his first speech in Washington since leaving the White House, Trump offered autocratic ideas, lied about the 2020 election, and all but confirmed he wants to run again in 2024.
Last week, we were told the President of the United States has COVID-19, but it wasn’t a big deal, as White House press secretary Karine…
Beijing is dismissing concern about the Long March 5B rocket debris set to make an uncontrolled reentry around July 31
On July 23, following months of rising case counts in numerous countries, the World Health Organization's (WHO) director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus declared monkeypox a global…
Emily Oster does not offer parenting advice. She is rather insistent on this point. A Brown University economist who specializes in health data, Oster prefers…
Sorvino specialized in playing crooks and cops like Paulie Cicero in “Goodfellas” and the sergeant Phil Cerretta on “Law & Order,” has died.
If President Biden really wanted to escape his political morass he might consider saving Ukraine. His approval ratings—31%—are worse even than former President Trump’s. Americans…
Like a bad hype reel for a reality show, Trump this week returns to Washington for the first time since he left the presidency.
The executions—the country's first in over three decades—were reported in state media Monday
“Nope,” which opened on 3,785 theaters in the U.S. and Canada, is the most expensive film Peele has made to date
A former Trump White House official says the clearest impact can be seen in how the Republican Party’s powerful donor base views the former President.
Not so long ago, Atlantic salmon was an abundant wild species. Born in the rivers of northeastern United States and Canada, after a couple years…
Milk is an extraordinary substance, packed with all the proteins, sugars, fats, minerals, and vitamins a young mammal needs to flourish until it can eat on its own.
The testimony aired Thursday evening of the agents’ state of mind, laid bare the very real risk the Vice President faced.
Differentiating carbon credits based on their outcomes—reducing emissions, protecting carbon sinks, and removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere—can steer carbon-market money in the right direction
Lis Smith and Tim Miller, two former campaign operatives, have just published transparently scandalous memoirs.
It’s been a difficult summer for Elon Musk. Facing a lawsuit filed by Twitter, factory shutdowns for Tesla, and backlash from SpaceX employees, the world’s…
British homes are typically designed with cooler temperatures in mind, with a greater emphasis on heating.
While Netflix performed better than expected during the second quarter, its subscriber exodus continues to raise questions about streaming's future
Analysts say the homeowner protest is affecting 235 property developments in 24 of China's 31 provinces
Through the lawsuit, Amazon says it aims to identify fraudsters who operate fake review schemes and shut them down
A handful of American consumers–especially tourists visiting Europe–stand to benefit from the U.S. dollar’s recent strengthening against the euro, but the wider impact on the…
Watching it is like stepping through a portal to a time when sweet-natured, visually resplendent pictures like this were plentiful
Bannon is one of the most prominent Trump allies to refuse to cooperate with the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
Housing, transport and other U.K. infrastructure was not designed for record 104°F (40°C) temperature.
Prosecutors recounted the deadly 2018 rampage at a Parkland, Fla., high school in harrowing detail, as the gunman’s sentencing trial began
Micah Johnson, a former Major League baseball shortstop turned digital artist, rendered an image of a virtual portal featuring his character Aku
In 2020, the most recent year that data is available, more than 45,000 people died from gun-related injuries
The state won't count mailed-in ballots until Thursday. That could needlessly fuel conspiracy theories.
Back in 1789, John Adams and others forming the new United States recognized a head-scratching potential issue with the yet-to-be-ratified First Amendment and other state…
If Trump announces soon, GOP candidates will be forced to respond, and risk alienating their base, independents, or both.
Ghislaine Maxwell has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for helping the wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse teenage girls.
It had invited the wrath of President Rodrigo Duterte for its reports on his notorious 'drug war'
The agreement comes at the opening of a crucial summit dominated by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade on June 24th triggered immediate bans on abortion in several states, which had put in place…
Western leaders will meet in the Spanish capital Madrid from Jun. 28 to Jun. 30 for what many are expecting to be the most important…
It’s a grim marker in the country’s rapid transformation into an economic, financial and political outcast
It’s among the deadliest tragedies to have claimed thousands of lives of people attempting to cross the U.S. border from Mexico in recent decades
Facebook and Instagram have begun removing posts that offer abortion pills to women who may not be able to access them following a Supreme Court decision
The issue will be particularly salient in a handful of races where the outcome could determine abortion access in those states.
The Supreme Court confirmed what was long suspected: Roe v. Wade is dead. No time for mourning, let’s get to work on what we must…
(MOSCOW) — More than four months after she was arrested at a Moscow airport for cannabis possession, American basketball star Brittney Griner is to appear…
On the heels of the Supreme Court decision that struck down the national right to abortion, Attorney General Merrick Garland issued a statement proclaiming that…
According to the Public Religion Research Institute, 43% of Americans who "identify strongly" with their religious identity do not believe Roe v. Wade needed to be overturned
As abortion access shrinks in the U.S., more people will likely turn to medication abortion
There’s always been something a little pathetic with how Eric Greitens publicizes himself. After the Osama bin Laden raid, he went on cable show after…
A gentle pleasure isn’t necessarily a flimsy one. The hero of the faux documentary Marcel the Shell With Shoes On is a diminutive mollusk shell…
On Friday, the Supreme Court held that the Constitution no longer protects the right to an abortion, eviscerating nearly 50 years of precedent and opening…
The June 26-28 summit offers a key test to demonstrate Western unity amid the war in Ukraine
Warning. This is graphic. I still remember those two blood vessels deep in that boy’s brain, shredded by a bullet fired into a crowded playground.…
The bill passed by a vote of 65 to 33, garnering support from the entire Democratic caucus and 15 Republicans
After years of resisting commercials on its streaming platform, Netflix is now introducing an ad-supported tier to its service.
Emmanuel Macron has had quite a ride the past few weeks. In April he scored a resounding 17-point victory over far-right opposition veteran Marine Le…
The director of the Texas Department of Public Safety called the police response to the Uvalde shooting “an abject failure,” and the school police chief has been put on leave.
New research links relationship satisfaction to whether partners use each other's preferred love language
German photographer Fabian Ritter spent three weeks profiling young people in Kyiv Oblast
On Tuesday, a bipartisan group of senators released legislative text for a narrow set of gun safety measures, marking the most significant step towards toughening federal
Diplomats fear the two Alabama vets' fate will be tied to U.S.-backed war crimes prosecutions of captured Russian soldiers in Ukraine
At least 920 people have been killed and hundreds more injured after a powerful earthquake hit southeastern Afghanistan overnight
Facebook whistleblowers Frances Haugen and Daniel Motaung came from very different parts of the social media platform’s ecosystem, but when they met for the first…
Our ideas about marriage and marital roles have changed radically in the past 50 years, especially now that women are major players in the work…
After originally saying it would hold six hearings, the committee is now planning a seventh, as more evidence comes in.
About one year ago, prosecutors vowed to revisit the 2013 killing of Terrance Franklin by Minneapolis police. The community is still waiting for signs of progress.
The world’s leading neurologists assembled in Seattle earlier this month for a Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications. Sponsors of the event included Google…
Dmitry Muratov auctioned his Nobel Peace Prize medal for $103.5 million to help children displaced by the war in Ukraine
If we already had one Independence Day, why did we need another? This works as a question about the holidays, but also about the history
Ukraine’s bid to join the E.U. received a boost Friday after the bloc’s executive arm recommended it for "candidate" status
The victory marks a drastic change in the country's politics and a leftward shift in Latin America
A review article shows how dangerous climate-related threats are to children’s well-being
Zhadan's work has long given voice to life in the Donbas, in eastern Ukraine. Now he's trying to help people in Kharkiv as Russian bombs fall.
The language of Order No. 3 also promised a lot that couldn’t be delivered, advising freedmen to “remain quietly at their present homes” and “work for wages” without any way to guarantee either
This summer President Joe Biden has the rare opportunity to take a single meaningful action that would rebuild the American middle class, help close the…
The disclosure of John Eastman and others seeking pardons raises questions, including whether Trump may have issued secret pardons
The much lauded Transatlantic unity against Russia’s war in Ukraine has failed either to save Ukraine or hobble Russia. Judging by the rhetoric coming out…
The decision is a big moment in Assange’s years-long battle to avoid facing trial in the U.S.—though not necessarily the end of the tale. Assange has 14 days to appeal.
Panda Dulce was just about to begin her Drag Queen Story Hour on Saturday in San Lorenzo, Calif., when a group of eight to 10…
"Make no mistake about the fact the vice president's life was in danger," a member of the Jan. 6 committee said.
The cryptocurrency winter, with prices of most crypto assets tumbling in recent months, has shone a harsh light on the fragility of Bitcoin and other…
When Jay Prakash, a 35-year-old shopkeeper, inherited his father’s local convenience store in Bengaluru, it had a dependable customer base streaming in from a wealthy…
If you invested pandemic-era gains into the stock market, or own a 401(k) plan, get ready for an anxiety-inducing ride.
Their trip marks the highest-profile visit to Ukraine's capital since Russia invaded its neighbor
Human rights groups have condemned the U.K.'s controversial new policy of flying asylum seekers to Rwanda for processing and permanent resettlement.
He is the first of 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump over the Jan. 6 insurrection to lose a reelection bid
Amber Heard said she will defend her testimony until her “dying day” in an interview with the TODAY show’s Savannah Guthrie, following a Virginia jury’s…
There are a million origin stories in the naked city, and in the toybox too. Now, whether we care or not, we get the backstory…
Despite the pandemic, Trump encouraged his supporters to vote in person, which led to big swings in the reporting of some election results.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday that immigrants detained in the United States are not entitled to a bond hearing, a decision that means…
The road ahead remains complicated for the deal, which has the pivotal backing of 10 Republican Senators.
If widely used, T-cell testing may also provide the data needed to fine-tune vaccination strategies
The world’s food systems are being battered on 3 fronts: suffocated by climate change, shaken by the COVID-19 earthquake, and suffering from the cyclone of…
The Jan. 6 committee’s presentation on Thursday amounted to examining an open wound, writes Philip Elliott.
Despite clear directions from my GPS, I felt certain I was in the wrong place as I drove the last mile to meet Colorado Representative Joe…
The first time I said it out loud was to my son. He’d been watching TV and a little cartoon girl was hiding from a…
Footage from depositions taken by former Trump officials provided some of the most explosive moments.
Investors at roughly two dozen major U.S. companies have rejected generous executive-pay packages
As the war in Ukraine drags into its fourth month with no end in sight, a number of observers are beginning to ask, “Will the West grow tired of supporting Ukraine?”
New financial-disclosure reports released Thursday reveal how much the U.S. Supreme Court Justices made last year.
Kimmel pressed Biden on why he hasn’t done more to curb access to semi-automatic weapons.
So far, there have been 247 mass shootings this year, and 13 in the first weekend of June. There have been nearly 19,000 deaths as a result of firearms in the U.S., which includes more than 8,300 homicides as of June 6.
Australia's lettuce shortage has led to soaring prices and spurred fast food giant KFC to put cabbage in its burgers
The vaccine is the first to combine the original vaccine with a new version that targets Omicron
The cost of the COVID-19 pandemic is staggering, in terms of both human life and and economic activity. But Bill Gates believes humanity is fortunate that the virus was not even more devastating.
"I have to say, given the toll of this pandemic 20 million dead globally, a million in the U.S., and it could have been way more fatal. We just got lucky that the death rate per case was like 0.2%," Gates told TIME senior correspondent Alice Park during the TIME 100 Summit in New York City on Tuesday.
Matthew McConaughey punched a fist down in anger on the lectern of the White House Briefing Room on Tuesday, filling the crowded space with a jarring boom, as he described how authorities in Uvalde, Texas, needed to take DNA from a girl’s green sneakers to confirm her identity amid the carnage.
The Hollywood star and Uvalde native showed raw emotion as he addressed reporters two weeks after a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom cruised to an easy victory in Tuesday’s primary, advancing to the November general election where he will be an overwhelming favorite to win a second term barely a year after surviving a recall attempt.
Early returns Tuesday showed Newsom with 59%. The state Republican Party’s endorsed candidate, little-known state Sen. Brian Dahle, was far behind with 18%. If he maintains second place, Dahle will face Newsom in November.
Monkeypox and COVID-19 are different in many ways. Though relatively rare, monkeypox has been around for decades; indeed, it has become endemic to parts of central and western Africa.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco residents voted Tuesday to recall progressive District Attorney Chesa Boudin following a heated campaign that captivated the country and bitterly divided Democrats over crime, policing and public safety reform in the famously liberal city.
We’ll never know what Philando Castile was feeling when the police lights first flashed across his rearview mirror on a balmy night in the summer of 2016. But we can be reasonably certain of what he wasn’t feeling: surprise. The traffic stop—ostensibly for a broken tail light—that precipitated his tragic death, and captured the nation’s attention, was nothing out of the ordinary for Castile. It was in fact the 46th time he had been pulled over.
DETROIT — Elon Musk is threatening to walk away from his $44 billion bid to buy Twitter, accusing the company of refusing to give him information about its spam bot and fake accounts.
Lawyers for the Tesla and SpaceX CEO made the threat in a letter to Twitter dated Monday that the company disclosed in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Colin Ely says he doesn't keep much in savings. Instead, he's "aggressively invested in index funds." The recent selloff in stocks has made him more reluctant to pull his money out—and potentially take a loss on his investments. But, if he finds “the right real estate deal” in the greater Philadelphia area, he’s willing to hit the proverbial “sell” button to make his dream a reality.
On October 1, 2015, after a gunman shot and killed his professor and eight students at Umpqua Community College in Oregon, President Barack Obama, who three years earlier, following the massacre at Sandy Hook elementary school in Connecticut, had failed to force Congress to pass new gun safety laws, stood frustrated at the podium. “Somehow this has become routine. The reporting is routine. My response here at this podium ends up being routine, the conversation in the aftermath of it .
Hadiya Pendleton was standing with friends in a park on Chicago's South Side when she was shot and killed by a gunman who ran toward the group and opened fire. The 15-year-old King College Prep student's death in 2013 may have never made headlines, except for the fact that she had performed as part of a majorette squad at President Barack Obama's second inauguration just one week earlier.
From the five shot and killed at a Tulsa, Okla., hospital on Wednesday, to the 22 slain at a Uvalde, Texas elementary school on May 24, to the 10 left dead by a racially motivated shooting spree at a Buffalo, New York grocery store on May 14, the spate of horrific mass shootings over the last month has drawn a new round of calls for federal lawmakers to tighten the country's gun control laws.
Obesity is linked to a number of health issues, including Type 2 diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, liver problems, and joint disorders. But many people might not know that the condition is also closely tied to cancer.
In a study published in JAMA, researchers provide the strongest evidence yet supporting the link between obesity and cancer, and the benefits of weight-loss surgery in lowering the risk of developing or dying from cancer.
Nobody would have known if I had touched Neil Armstrong’s moon-walking suit back in 2018. I wasn’t supposed to touch it—indeed, I was forbidden to touch it—but boy, I could have.
I was in the restoration lab at the National Air and Space Museum’s Udvar-Hazy extension outside of Washington, D.C.
Boris Johnson will face a leadership vote in his ruling Conservative Party on Monday following a series of scandals, including becoming the first sitting prime minister found to have broken the law.
Senior Tory MP Graham Brady said in a televised statement the threshold of at least 54 MPs—15% of the Conservative total—has been met to trigger a confidence vote in Johnson. The vote will take place for two hours from 6 p.m., with a result shortly after, Brady said.
“I just feel numb. It’s horrible but it’s just the latest shooting.”
That was the response of my 17-year-old son, Jake, when I asked how he was doing, last Tuesday night, as we were still learning how many children and teachers had been killed in Uvalde, Texas. I realized this is all my son has ever known.
In a market glutted with over-the-counter sleep aids, melatonin is one of the most popular. A naturally occurring hormone, it governs the sleep-wake cycle and is sold as a dietary supplement to help battle insomnia, jet lag and other conditions. Melatonin sales are rising fast in the U.S., from $285 million in 2016 to $820 million in 2020, according to the market research group Statista.
But melatonin’s ubiquity poses dangers for kids, finds a new study published by the U.S.
I live with my partner. Neither of us owns a gun. Concerned about reports of rising crime rates in our neighbourhood, my partner decides to buy a handgun to help keep us safe. Is our home safer now? Am I?
Millions of Americans may have asked themselves these questions, or versions of them—especially in the wake of horrific mass shootings like those in Buffalo and Uvalde.
On June 3, the New York Senate passed the U.S.’s first statewide moratorium on cryptocurrency mining, aimed at energy-intensive operations that use fossil fuels for power.
The measure, which still needs to be signed into law by Governor Kathy Hochul, comes as the crypto mining industry has opened an increasing number of operations in the U.S. The U.S.
Lona DeNisco has lost track of the violent incidents that have taken place in the 20-odd years she’s worked as an emergency room nurse in Buffalo, New York. “There's not one shift that goes by that a nurse doesn't get punched, kicked, slapped, hair pulled. That happens every day,” she says. “I’ve been punched, taken to the ground.” She is also certain that the growing violence in the Buffalo community is spilling into her hospital, Erie County Medical Center.
President Biden sent more than condolences when the nominal leader of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) died. The entire top tier of his Cabinet—Vice President, CIA Director, Secretaries of State and Defense – journeyed across the globe to shake the hand of the new boss, Mohammad bin Zayed al Nahyan, previously described as the Arab world’s most powerful ruler. He may be.
Following two horrific mass shootings, the government announced new legislation that would dramatically restrict the sale of handguns, and start a program to buy back semi-automatic assault rifles. But the proposed gun restrictions came from Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau—and the shootings happened across the border in Buffalo, N.Y., and Uvalde, Texas.
Suicides among young people have been on the rise for a long time. Among 10 to 24 year olds, overall rates of deaths by suicide in the U.S. increased 57% from 2000 to 2018, according to federal data.
More than 20 years ago, I was the first woman to take maternity leave at Google.
But I almost didn’t come back to work after my first baby was born. It felt like too much to spend the workday away from my newborn while juggling the demands of my job and parenthood. If I had made a different decision in that moment, it would have changed the course of my career.
That’s one of the reasons why I’ve long advocated for better maternity leave policies.
Sarah Lerner is painfully familiar with how teachers in Uvalde, Texas must have felt as a gunman attacked their elementary school and fatally shot 21 people on May 24. In 2018, Lerner kept 15 students safe in her classroom at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., while a teenager armed with an AR-15-style rifle shot and killed 17 people on the campus.
“We get into education because we love children, we love our subject matter, and we love teaching.
Children were always going to be the toughest group to vaccinate against COVID-19, so it's no coincidence that they were the last group to receive authorization for the shot; manufacturers and government agencies want to be extra careful to find the right dosing and safety profile for the youngest Americans.
The same is true for boosters. Here are answers to some frequently asked questions about boosters for kids. Which children are eligible for a booster? On May 19, the U.S.
This week, the U.K. is celebrating Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee, marking 70 years on the throne. She rose to the throne in 1952 at the age of 25 upon the death of her father King George VI. Per TIME’s Feb.
When landfills get capped and grassed over, they have the appearance of lush, rolling hills. Despite their green appearance, however, these sites are known as “brownfields”—a term for an environmentally hazardous site without a promising future. Indeed, landfills are typically unsuitable for development because the contents below the surface are both contaminated and physically unstable.
President Joe Biden’s decision Wednesday to provide Ukraine with advanced rocket systems that can strike targets from dozens of miles away gives Kyiv a new, much-needed advantage in their hard-fought war with Russia. After months imploring the U.S.
TULSA (OKLAHOMA) — A gunman carrying a rifle and a handgun killed four people Wednesday at a Tulsa medical building on a hospital campus, police said, the latest in a series of deadly mass shootings across the country in recent weeks.
Tulsa Police Department Deputy Chief Eric Dalgleish confirmed the number of dead and said the shooter also was dead, apparently from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Denmark on Wednesday voted to overturn its opt-out of the E.U.’s common defense policy, reversing three decades of Euroskepticism regarding security matters. The move is the latest sign of the West coalescing in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Some 66.9% of voters cast referendum ballots in favor of abandoning the opt-out—first negotiated in 1992—meaning Danish officials can now participate in E.U. defense discussions and the country's armed forces can deploy on E.
These 2022 NBA Finals between the Golden State Warriors and Boston Celtics, which tip off Thursday night in San Francisco, offer no shortage of basketball intrigue. Two dynastic franchises going head to head: the Celtics are tied with the Los Angeles Lakers for the most NBA championships in history (17), and the Warriors have claimed three of the past seven NBA crowns. East Coast vs. West Coast. This is also a matchup of the two best defensive teams during the regular season.
When the pandemic first began, many experts feared that even people who managed to avoid the virus would suffer from unprecedented levels of loneliness. What would happen when millions of people were told to stay at home and distance themselves from friends and loved ones?
Two years of research later, experts have found that the pandemic did make Americans slightly more lonely—but loneliness levels were already dire enough to pose a threat to mental and physical health.
Within hours of the school shooting in Uvalde that left 19 students and two teachers dead, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz said armed police need to be stationed in elementary schools. Former President Donald Trump advocated for armed teachers and metal detectors days later in a speech at the National Rifle Association's annual meeting. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton dismissed the idea of stronger gun laws in lieu of arming and training citizens.
In mid-May, I traveled from London to Slovenia to interview the Ukrainian men’s soccer team on their bid to reach November’s Qatar World Cup. It was a four-day assignment, requiring travel via train stations, airports, and taxi ranks—but at no point was I asked to show a negative COVID-19 test, my vaccination status, nor even to wear a facemask. I can barely recall seeing anyone wear one, least of all the elite sportsmen with whom I mingled daily.
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration announced on Tuesday that it will send Ukraine a small number of high-tech, medium-range rocket systems, a critical weapon that Ukrainian leaders have been begging for as they struggle to stall Russian progress in the Donbas region.
The rocket systems are part of a new $700 million tranche of security assistance for Ukraine from the U.S.
As President Joe Biden sat with New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern in the Oval Office on Tuesday, the juxtaposition was hard to miss: a leader of one country who had robustly tackled gun control after one horrible mass shooting, beside another who remained incapable of such action after hundreds.
The U.S. was shaken by the deadliest school shooting in nearly a decade when, on May 24, an 18-year-old gunman walked into an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, and killed 19 children and two teachers with an AR-15-style rifle.
The tragedy has reignited fervent gun control debates across the nation, particularly in relation to the availability of semi-automatic assault weapons, which have been involved in the majority of mass shootings in the U.S. in recent years.
646,970 lives.
This is the number of Americans who would be alive today if the United States had the same per capita death rate from COVID-19 as our northern neighbor, Canada.
Reflect for a moment on the sheer magnitude of the lives lost. 646,970 is more than the entire population of Detroit. And it is more than the total number of American lives lost in World War I, World War II, and Vietnam combined.
No country is more similar to the U.S.
Shanghai will let people in areas deemed low risk for Covid-19 move around the city freely and resume road and public transportation from Wednesday, in a major step forward in its efforts to dismantle a bruising two-month lockdown.
Taxi and ride hailing services, as well as private cars, will be allowed onto roads in low-risk areas, while bus, subway and ferry services will also resume, the municipal government said in a statement on Monday.
LONDON — The World Health Organization’s top monkeypox expert said she doesn’t expect the hundreds of cases reported to date to turn into another pandemic, but acknowledged there are still many unknowns about the disease, including how exactly it’s spreading and whether the suspension of mass smallpox immunization decades ago may somehow be speeding its transmission.
In a public session on Monday, WHO's Dr.
Ten-year-old Eliahna "Ellie" Garcia was planning to recite a Bible verse, Deuteronomy 6:18, the Primera Iglecia Bautista's (First Baptist Church's) Sunday service on May 29. But plans changed after a gunman entered Robb Elementary School on May 24, killing her and 18 of her classmates and two teachers. Instead, three of her friends from Sunday school recited the verse in her honor, with a picture of Ellie projected behind them.
UVALDE, Texas — The Justice Department said Sunday it will review the law enforcement response to the shooting in Uvalde, Texas, that left 19 students and two teachers dead.
The review comes amid mounting pressure and questions about the shifting and at times contradictory information about what happened in the shooting last Tuesday at Robb Elementary School and how police responded.
POKROVSK, Ukraine — Russian and Ukrainian troops traded blows in fierce close-quarter combat Sunday in an eastern Ukrainian city as Moscow’s soldiers, supported by intense shelling, attempted to gain a strategic foothold to conquer the region. Ukraine's leader also made a rare frontline visit to Kharkiv, the country’s second-largest city, to assess the strength of the national defense.
(AP) — Ronnie Hawkins, a brash rockabilly star from Arkansas who became a patron of the Canadian music scene after moving north and recruiting a handful of local musicians later known as the Band, has died.
His wife Wanda confirmed to The Canadian Press that Hawkins died Sunday morning after an illness. He was 87.
“He went peacefully and he looked as handsome as ever,” she said by telephone.
Julian Moreno was in his front yard watering his plants when he heard rapid, loud booms on the morning of May 24. At first, he thought it was noise from nearby construction. But people began screaming and running toward Robb Elementary School, a block away from his home. He immediately dropped his hose and made his way toward the gunshots as quickly as his 82-year-old body could take him.
“I knew Lexi was in there,” he tells TIME, his voice breaking and his face quivering.
The U.S. is still in the throes of an unprecedented infant-formula shortage. Supply-chain issues caused by the pandemic started affecting baby formula in the summer of 2021, and inventory constricted even further after Abbott recalled certain formula products in February (then more in March) and shut down its Michigan plant.
More and more privacy watchdogs around the world are standing up to Clearview AI, a U.S. company that has collected billions of photos from the internet without people's permission.
The company, which uses those photos for its facial recognition software, was fined £7.5 million ($9.4 million) by a U.K. regulator on May 26. The U.K. Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said the firm, Clearview AI, had broken data protection law. The company denies breaking the law.
"That’s totally the guy!” Sloane Crosley yelps, coming to an abrupt halt. She gestures at a gray-haired man exiting a graffiti-adorned brick building. For the past 20 minutes, we’ve been booking it through Manhattan’s Chinatown, past bustling produce stands and purse vendors, to find this former synagogue tucked away on a quiet stretch of Rivington Street—a source of inspiration for the author as she wrote her novel, Cult Classic, coming June 7.
It’s well established that the state of U.S. plastics recycling is dismal. But plastic waste experts, who have long cautioned that the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) purported recycling rate was overestimated, now say that the country is poised for a reckoning.
The May 24 mass shooting in a Uvalde, Texas elementary school, in which a gunman killed 19 young children and two teachers, was the third-deadliest school shooting in U.S. history. But it was also just the latest of an increasingly common type of U.S. tragedy—one that experts say is saddling American schoolchildren, even the youngest, with rising levels of anxiety and other mental-health problems.
Thinking about flying this summer? You’re not alone—and you might face some delays.
With COVID-19 restrictions loosening up, more Americans are expected to travel in the next six months than at any time since the start of the pandemic. An estimated 60% of the nation is planning to take a vacation over the summer, according to the U.S. Travel Association, and Google searches related to travel have skyrocketed, reaching levels higher than in 2019.
Baz Luhrmann’s movies—even the great ones, like his 1996 Shakespeare-via-Tiger Beat romance Romeo + Juliet, or The Great Gatsby, from 2013, a fringed shimmy of decadence and loneliness—are loathed by many for what they see as the director’s garishness, his adoration of spectacle, his penchant for headache-inducing, mincemeat-and-glitter editing.
As Russia bullies and blisters Ukraine, two small but pivotal Nordic nations are getting belligerent treatment from Turkey as they attempt to join the security alliance NATO in the quest for a safer world.
It should come as no surprise that Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan is putting his own interests ahead of both human lives and the interests of the people of Turkey by thuggishly opposing Sweden and Finland’s NATO membership.
Russia’s efforts to help Donald Trump win the 2016 election are well established. Special Counsel Robert Mueller concluded that Russia tried to damage Hillary Clinton and help Trump win, as did the bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee panel that investigated the election. Russian operatives used social media accounts to sow discord and disinformation among the U.S. population and set in motion real-life rallies that helped Trump’s campaign.
In the Town Square in Uvalde, Texas, 21 crosses stand in rows, each bearing the name of someone killed by the gunman who stormed Robb Elementary School on May 24. They're about two feet high, with baby blue, heart-shaped plaques glued to the top. Sharpie pens are attached to each of them on a string, so members of the community can write messages of condolence and love.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott made a point to hail the “quick response” of “valiant local officials” in the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, this week. But as new details about the police response emerged Thursday, and questions about why it took officers 14 minutes to enter the building, that praise became more complicated—underscoring a dynamic that was in plain view at the governor's press conference the day before.
On April 11, public schools in Providence, R.I, made face masks optional instead of mandatory for students and teachers—celebrating the move as a “positive milestone” brought about by declining COVID-19 cases among students and community support for a more lenient policy.
President Joe Biden signed a law Friday that will increase financial disclosure requirements for federal judges and Supreme Court justices, a move legal experts describe as a small but meaningful step towards reform at a time when public trust in the federal judiciary is at an all time low.
The new law, the Courthouse Ethics and Transparency Act, mandates the creation of an online database where the public can search federal judges' and Supreme Court justices' financial disclosures.
In the wake of a leaked Supreme Court draft opinion overturning Roe v Wade, a handful of state and local Republican politicians appeared to support proposals restricting access to birth control.
In Arkansas and Louisiana, some Republican lawmakers announced their support for bills that would effectively result in immediate bans on certain emergency contraception, including copper intrauterine devices (IUDs) or Plan B, the so-called morning after pill, if the Supreme Court indeed overturns Roe.
Whether you are an “average” American, a central banker, a CEO or a parking attendant, inflation is now the primary economic concern for most Americans. Polling bears that out: for the first time in decades, a notable portion of Americans say inflation is the number one issue facing the country. Each new economic release points to higher inflation, including the most recent government report that showed prices up 8.3% year-over-year.
LAGUNA WOODS, Calif. (AP) — A man opened fire during a lunch reception at a Southern California church on Sunday, killing one person and wounding five senior citizens before being stopped and hog-tied by parishioners in what a sheriff’s official called an act of “exceptional heroism and bravery.
BUFFALO, N.Y. — A white 18-year-old wearing military gear and livestreaming with a helmet camera opened fire with a rifle at a supermarket in Buffalo, killing 10 people and wounding three others Saturday in what authorities described as “racially motivated violent extremism.”
Police said he shot 11 Black and two white victims before surrendering to authorities in a rampage he broadcast live on the streaming platform Twitch.
The ascent of Philippine dictator’s son Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. to power marks an important turning point for the Southeast Asian country as it tries to find a balance in its relationship with the U.S. and China.
Outgoing President Rodrigo Duterte’s foreign policy approach was, for the most part, marked by hostility toward the West in general and the U.S. in particular. Ever since a 2002 bombing in Davao City—his home turf—where U.S.
Since the U.S. drug war was declared in 1971, various drugs have been identified as public enemy number one—from crack cocaine, in the 1980s, to prescription opioids in the early 2000s. Today, the primary villain is fentanyl, a synthetic opioid about 50 times more potent than heroin. In 2021, more than 71,000 people in the U.S. died after overdoses involving synthetic opioids—mostly fentanyl, according to provisional data released by the National Center for Health Statistics on May 11.
In Audrey Diwan’s tense and quietly radical film Happening, Anne, a bright young student in early 1960s France, discovers she’s pregnant. The law, as the doctor who breaks the news tells her, “is unsparing.” Anyone who helps her terminate the pregnancy will land in jail, as will she. Her closest friends abandon her when she confesses her plight; the father of the unborn child absolves himself of responsibility.
When Rachel, a 35-year-old from Colorado, learned four years ago that she was pregnant despite taking birth control pills, she wanted to make sure it didn’t happen again. The stakes were high: in addition to not wanting kids, she has a uterine deformity that makes pregnancy risky. She terminated the pregnancy, then began looking for long-lasting birth control.
Modern societies would be impossible without mass-scale production of many man-made materials. We could have an affluent civilization that provides plenty of food, material comforts, and access to good education and health care without any microchips or personal computers: we had one until the 1970s, and we managed, until the 1990s, to expand economies, build requisite infrastructures and connect the world by jetliners without any smartphones and social media.
It no longer matters whether you like or dislike Tom Cruise: no matter how good he looks in his ultra-moisturized, deal-with-the-devil skin, his ship has sailed not just into the waters of middle age, but beyond them. Always a performer desperate to be liked, Cruise has entered a new era, one of potential irrelevance, which could be the best thing that’s ever happened to him.
It’s a side of Joe Biden the public rarely sees. Friends who've endured lengthy car rides with him or joined in his impromptu huddles after mass know that chewing over the ins and outs of religious thought is a time-honored pastime for the country’s second Catholic President.
That interest spilled into public view the morning after news broke about a draft Supreme Court ruling that would eliminate nationwide abortion protections under Roe v. Wade.
For five months, a bipartisan group in Congress has been working to overhaul the Electoral Count Act, the 1887 law that Donald Trump and his allies tried to exploit on January 6, 2021, to overturn the presidential election. The working group’s members have repeatedly emphasized that there is ample support for updating the little-known statute.
"This will pass," Sen. Joe Manchin, Democrat of West Virginia, told The New York Times in February. "There's broad consensus," Sen.
You’d think it would be hard to overlook an object with a mass four million times greater than the sun. But when that object is a supermassive black hole like Sagittarius A*, the giant object astronomers have long believed sits at the center of our galaxy, it is, by definition, impossible to see. Black holes, after all, are collapsed objects with a gravitational pull so great that not even light can escape.
All the same, this morning, at a National Press Club even in Washington, D.C.
North Korea on Friday went public with its first “explosive” COVID-19 outbreak, reporting six fatalities and raising concerns about the hermit state’s defenses against the coronavirus after two years of claiming to have warded off infections.
The state-run Korea Central News Agency (KCNA) says that one of the six people who died had tested positive for the BA.2 subvariant of Omicron.
The seemingly made-for-TV story of the Alabama murder suspect who escaped from jail with the help of a female correctional officer after the two possibly became "romantically involved" ended in tragedy this week. Vicky White, the assistant director of corrections at the Lauderdale County Jail in Florence, Ala., died by suicide after she and fugitive Casey White were spotted by police in Evansville, Ind., authorities said.
Technology companies thrived when the pandemic began more than two years ago. But now, as much of the population returns to work and spends less time at home, the tech sector is suffering deep losses as investors fear that companies boosted by the pandemic are running out of steam.
The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite reported the biggest dip, closing on Monday down more than 4% after ending April with its worst monthly performance since the 2008 financial crisis. It rose 0.
In the wake of the Supreme Court’s leaked draft opinion declaring their decision to overrule Roe v. Wade and allow states to recriminalize abortion, Americans have turned to their pro-choice elected officials looking for a plan.
Parents across the U.S. have been scouring social media or crossing states to get hold of baby formula amid a national shortage driven by ongoing pressure on supply chains.
The crisis has worsened in the past few weeks as 40% of popular baby formula brands were sold out at U.S. retailers in the week beginning April 24, according to an analysis by Datasembly of more than 11,000 stores. That’s up from 31% less than two weeks earlier, and 11% in November 2021.
Google recently started allowing users to remove their personal information from search results, including their phone number, email, and home address. On Wednesday, the company announced at its annual I/O developer conference that it's launching a tool to further streamline the process.
As Russia’s invasion chokes off Ukrainian wheat exports, pushing up bread and noodle prices, the global harvest faces an added test: extreme weather.
Droughts, flooding and heatwaves threaten output from the U.S. to France and India, compounding shrinking production in Ukraine. Just about every major producing region is facing one threat or another.
Getting away with breaking the law in the digital age is tricky. Almost everything one does—whether it’s making a Google search for “how to clean up a crime scene,” purchasing suspicious items on Amazon, or merely having been in the proximity of a crime scene with a cell phone that had its location services turned on—can be discovered via court-issued warrant and lead to charges and convictions.
If Roe v.
Bitcoin took a brutal fall on Monday, briefly dipping below $30,000 for the first time since July 2021. The world’s largest cryptocurrency is now worth less than half of what it was in the fall. Other cryptocurrencies, like Ether and BNB, have seen similar falls, while trading volumes have also tapered off on major exchanges. Some experts are now warning of a “crypto winter,” in which the sector’s astonishing growth is replaced by an extended period of contraction.
LONDON — Elon Musk said he will reverse Twitter’s permanent ban of former President Donald Trump if the Tesla CEO follows through with his plan to buy the social media company.
Musk, speaking virtually at a Future of the Car summit hosted by the Financial Times, said Twitter’s Trump ban was a “morally bad decision” and “foolish in the extreme.
Even the most imaginative spy novelist couldn’t have made it up: In 1943 a motley group of British operatives created an elaborate false identity for a corpse, which they then sent awash on a beach in Spain, with the aim of throwing the Nazis off the trail of the Allies’ impending invasion of Sicily.
The debate over fetal rights is an old one, and at least 38 states already have some form of fetal-harm laws in place that make it a crime to hurt a fetus. Under Roe v. Wade, these laws are required to exempt abortion from punishment. But if Roe is overturned – and a leaked draft of a Supreme Court opinion suggests that’s a real possibility – the landscape of protection will change dramatically.
Worries about a new civil war in the United States are misplaced because the Civil War never fully ended. That is essential knowledge for understanding current political divisions, especially the recriminations surrounding the leaked draft Supreme Court Roe decision, negating constitutional protections of a woman’s abortion rights.
When Eric Dirksen received his first electric car in December—a new Tesla Model Y—he didn’t know gas prices would spike a few months after. But with fuel costing about $4.20 per gallon on average this week, he’s happy with the decision.
“Very fortunate at the timing,” he says. Dirksen spent $62 on charging in the last month, roughly the same amount as 15 gallons of gas.
NEW YORK — Andy Warhol's “Shot Sage Blue Marilyn” sold for a cool $195 million on Monday, making the iconic portrait of Marilyn Monroe the most expensive work by a U.S. artist ever sold at auction.
The 1964 silkscreen image shows Monroe in vibrant close-up — hair yellow, eyeshadow blue and lips red — on a rich blue background.
United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) issued a memo Friday ending a controversial Border Patrol oversight team charged with investigating incidents involving border enforcement personnel. Instead, investigations will be turned over to the Office of Professional Responsibility, a different department that, while still within CBP, is specifically charged with agency oversight. Similar offices exist at other government agencies, including the Department of Justice.
The National Museum of Lviv in western Ukraine, one of the country’s biggest museums, was able to keep its collection intact through two world wars. And yet, over the last month, since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, the museum has had to quickly dismantle its exhibitions.
“For the first time since the museum was founded in 1905, all exhibition rooms are empty—all museum items are wrapped, packed and are hidden,” Ihor Kozhan, museum's director, tells TIME over Zoom.
Evgeny Chichvarkin is looking agitated. He’s just heard a whisper about some potential stock going cheap and so politely declines my suggestion we leave his bustling wineshop in London’s tony Mayfair district in search of somewhere quieter to chat. But Chichvarkin isn’t dashing off in pursuit of another 1774 Jura vin jaune, which sells for a precise £72,553.80 ($95,308) at Hedonism Wines, the store he set up in 2012 to be “the world’s best wineshop.
Matt Damon called in from a movie set—but he didn’t want to talk about his latest film. In fact, he didn’t want to talk about his “day job” in general, which meant no questions about growing his mullet in The Last Duel, or if the newer Bourne film stood up to the originals. Nothing about his personal style either, or about his taste in cars, or what he eats for breakfast every morning.
Chimére Smith used to love her job as an English teacher in the Baltimore public school system. But she hasn’t taught since March 2020, when she caught COVID-19 and then developed Long COVID. Two years later, she still experiences symptoms including fatigue, migraines, blurry vision, chronic pain, and dizziness.
Two years into a global pandemic whose initial cause remains a subject of debate, Reuters, on March 11, published an especially jarring story: the World Health Organization, according to the news agency, had advised Ukraine to eliminate any high-threat pathogens it had in its biolabs, to reduce (and ideally eliminate) the chances that, were the Russian army to attack those facilities, pathogens would leak out and spread disease to the population.
Two years into the pandemic, the Biden Administration has launched a virtual hub to help Americans find COVID-19 prevention and treatment resources—including masks, tests, and vaccines—in their communities.
The website, COVID.gov, consolidates several existing initiatives into what President Joe Biden described during a press briefing on March 30 as a “one-stop shop.
NEW YORK — Bruce Willis is stepping away from acting after a diagnosis of aphasia, a condition that causes loss of the ability to understand or express speech, his family announced Wednesday.
In a statement posted on Willis' Instagram page, the 67-year-old actor's family said Willis was recently diagnosed with aphasia and that it is impacting his cognitive abilities.
Netflix faced immediate backlash earlier this month after announcing that it was going to begin making some subscribers pay an additional fee for sharing their account with users outside their household. Some users, especially younger ones, are left wondering how the change will affect their own bottom line.
"On the business front, I understand Netflix’s move. But as a user, I find it frustrating," says Vel Mensah, a 33 year-old Netflix user in New Jersey.
For all of the hand-wringing and gawking that the world has engaged in since Best Actor winner Will Smith slapped Chris Rock across the face during the 2022 Oscars, most of the critique has been focused on the incident itself, rather than its cause: a degrading joke that Rock made about Smith's wife, actor Jada Pinkett Smith, and the fact that her head was shaved. "G.I.
Almost one week has passed since the Taliban reneged on its promise to reopen schools for girls from the sixth grade. The international community has sharply condemned the Taliban for the U-turn, and teenage girls have taken to the streets of the Afghan capital in protest, demanding a right to education.
On March 23, hundreds of thousands of adolescent girls across Afghanistan headed back to school after more than 180 days away, their backpacks full and books tucked under their arms.
Job openings hovered at a near-record level in February, little changed from the previous month, continuing a trend that Federal Reserve officials see as a driver of inflation.
There were 11.3 million available jobs last month, matching January's figure and just below December's record of 11.4 million, the Labor Department said Tuesday.
The number of Americans quitting their jobs was also historically high, at 4.4 million, up from 4.3 million in January. More than 4.
Will Smith is only the fifth Black man in history to win an Oscar for Best Actor. But on the night of his historic win, the biggest story has become his reaction to Chris Rock’s joke about his wife Jada Pinkett Smith. At first glance it was a throwaway line in the patter, suggesting Pinkett Smith would appear in G.I. Jane 2, a reference to Demi Moore’s 1997 movie in which her head was shaved for most of the movie as her character attempts to finish a military training program.
The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol voted Monday night to move forward with contempt charges against two of Donald Trump’s former aides for their participation in efforts to overturn the 2020 election and their subsequent months-long refusal to comply with the committee’s subpoenas.
The committee alleges that Peter Navarro, a former White House trade adviser, and Daniel Scavino Jr.
A “Billionaire Minimum Income Tax” is included in President Joe Biden’s fiscal year 2023 budget proposal — part of the administration’s effort to reduce the federal deficit over the next decade and fund new spending. The proposal “eliminates the inefficient sheltering of income for decades or generations,” the White House says.
Whether Congress will approve is a major question as the administration outlines its hope to tax the nation's highest earners.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a Texas death row prisoner likely has the right to have his Baptist pastor touch and audibly pray over him as he is put to death. The state of Texas had said the request was a safety risk. The ruling, which was 8-1, is the first time the Supreme Court has issued a full opinion on the role clergy can play in executions, and provides guidance for death penalty states on how to handle the issue going forward.
The stunning moment at the Oscars when Will Smith slapped Chris Rock on stage wasn't just about a joke made at Jada Pinkett Smith's expense.
Rock was onstage at the Oscars to present Best Documentary, and true to form as a stand-up comic, he began sending barbs out into the crowd. After making a quip about Denzel Washington, Rock turned his attention to Jada Pinkett Smith, saying he was looking forward to seeing her in G.I. Jane II.
Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings were historic, grueling, and at times combative between Senators. Now, what a handful of Republicans make of her answers during more than 22 hours of questioning will determine whether the first Black woman is confirmed to the Supreme Court with bipartisan support.
Jackson still needs to be approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee, which is set to vote on her on April 4th.
The Biden Administration is preparing for a possible new surge in COVID-19 cases and has already started the political blame game in case the response falls short.
The White House has called out Republicans in Congress for not authorizing new funds to make a fourth round of booster shots free and pay for therapeutics and other ways to reduce the impact of another surge in cases.
It was quite a coup for the Oscars to land a rare performance from Beyoncé, singing her nominated song from King Richard on the same Compton tennis courts where Venus and Serena Williams got their start.
On a chilly evening in mid-March, Myroslava Bodakovksa was clearing out the trunk of her car, getting ready for another nocturnal mission. She’d parked the car behind the main railway station in Lviv in western Ukraine, where women and children fleeing violence and horror were arriving in trains from all over the country. Bodakovska, a 38-year-old travel agent, wanted to greet as many as possible.
Shame is a visceral, instinctual response. We react violently to shaming by others, either by feeling shame or by feeling outraged at the attempt. This human hardwiring, which historically salvaged our reputations and preserved our lives, is being hijacked and perverted by the Big Tech companies for profit. In the process, we are needlessly pitted against each other. It doesn’t have to be like this.
As China deepens relations with Saudi Arabia in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Uighur diaspora finds itself in the crosshairs. Riyadh is preparing to deport two Uighurs back to China’s western province of Xinjiang, where they will almost certainly be detained for “re-education” in its vast network of concentration camps for the region’s Turkic inhabitants.
At the end of February, in an attempt to offset the saggy ratings of recent Oscars broadcasts, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that for its 94th edition, airing on March 27, eight of the “smaller” awards—the academy didn’t use that exact language, but you can see it hanging above their invisible heads like a cartoon thought bubble—would be handed out in the hour before the beginning of the live telecast, with clips of the winners appearing later in the show. Last week, in the Los Angeles Times, the show’s producer, Will...
Is it possible to reinvent yourself? The question has been on Susan Rigetti’s mind since 2017. It was then that she, under her maiden name Susan Fowler, wrote a viral blog post that thrust her into the spotlight at just 25 years old. Titled “Reflecting on one very, very strange year at Uber,” the post described the rampant sexual harassment she experienced as an engineer at the ride-share company. It sparked a headline-grabbing internal investigation, led by former U.S.
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On March 1, President Joe Biden made a big promise to Americans. In his State of the Union speech, he proudly announced he was launching a program that would allow people who test positive for COVID-19 to immediately have access to recently authorized pills to treat the viral infection.
“We’re launching the “Test to Treat” initiative so people can get tested at a pharmacy and, if they prove positive, receive the antiviral pills on the spot at no cost,” he said.
Christine Emba has a radical proposition: What if there’s no such thing as casual sex? In her new book, Rethinking Sex: A Provocation, Emba posits that sex itself is inherently not casual—it’s not just a physical interaction, even if we’ve tried to internalize the modern assumption that sex is like any other social activity.
On a cold, clear weekend in January, tens of thousands of anti-abortion activists convened in Washington for their annual gathering, the March for Life. The mood was triumphant. In the next few months, the U.S. Supreme Court is widely expected to pare back or overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision that established the constitutional right to abortion. Anti-abortion activists have been fighting for this moment for nearly a half century.
As the tragic war in Ukraine has now driven roughly 10 million from their homes and killed many thousands, with no end in sight and no real prospect of near-term victory for either side, it is increasingly necessary to focus on a possible peace plan.
In late February, four days after Russia invaded Ukraine, Inna Vdovichenko, a staffer in the Odessa office of the Jewish humanitarian organization JDC, was sitting in Natalia Berezhnaya's home when an air raid alert began. Sirens blared. For Vdovichenko, who had come over to keep Berezhnaya company and to see if she needed food or medications, it was the second time she'd heard such sirens; the noise brought with it a wave of fear.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky made an emotional appeal to a joint session of Congress Wednesday morning, evoking the memories of the aerial attacks on Pearl Harbor in 1941 and the Twin Towers and Pentagon in 2001 as a means of imploring the U.S. to provide more military assistance to his embattled country.
"Ladies and gentlemen. Friends. Americans.
Less than 48 hours after appealing to Elon Musk on Twitter, Ukraine’s Minister of Digital Transformation, Mykhailo Fedorov, posted a photo of a truckload of satellite dishes. The SpaceX founder had come through with help for Ukrainians trying to connect to the Internet amid Russia’s invasion, Fedorov said in the Feb. 28 tweet: “Starlink—here. Thanks, @elonmusk.
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There are only a handful of challenges that can unify Washington. Hurricane-relief packages and tornado-rescue plans are up there. Wildfires and earthquakes, too. The opioid epidemic bled across Red States and Blue States alike. COVID-19 tested that unity thesis, as did the need to reassess criminal justice.
In 1985, the first HIV vaccine trial was launched with great fanfare. The previous year, Margaret Heckler, the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, confidently declared that an HIV vaccine would be created within two years. But almost four decades after the initial discovery of the HIV virus, there is still no viable HIV/AIDS vaccine. That doesn’t mean, though, that there is no cure.
Most people ages 12 and older are considered “up to date” with their COVID-19 vaccines if they received either three doses of the mRNA shots from Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna, or two doses of Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen vaccine. But some public health experts say another dose might be needed in the coming months.
On March 15, Pfizer and BioNTech requested authorization from the U.S.
Farmers in Ukraine, the breadbasket of Europe, have run out of fuel. Two weeks into Russia’s assault on Ukraine supply chains are disrupted and a critical shortage of fuel for tractors and trucks is pushing Ukraine’s agricultural sector toward collapse. If it does not secure diesel soon, Europe could face massive price spikes for agricultural commodities and challenging food shortages.
As has been widely reported, Ukraine is a major agricultural powerhouse.
(Washington, D.C.) — President Joe Biden will travel to Europe next week for face-to-face talks with European leaders about the Russian invasion of Ukraine, White House press secretary Jen Psaki announced Tuesday.
Biden will meet with European leaders at an extraordinary NATO summit in Brussels on March 24. He will also attend a scheduled European Council summit, where efforts to impose sanctions and further humanitarian efforts are underway.
To keep Martin’s Snacks' 80,000-square-foot south-central Pennsylvania factory humming throughout COVID-19, CEO Butch Potter has had to shell out 20% more for potatoes than he did pre-pandemic. His packaging film expenses have increased 35%. Box prices are up 30%. He’s also had to raise wages to retain and recruit talent.
As the Russian ground advance in Ukraine begins to gain a bit more momentum and encircle Kyiv, the West must consider its options. Despite the heroic efforts of the Ukrainians, facilitated by a deluge of weapons from NATO countries, “quantity has a quality all its own,” and the Russians continue to throw massive levels of bombing, long range missiles, and troops at the Ukrainian military and civilian population.
It was a jaw-dropping moment when for a few seconds a young woman interrupted a live news broadcast on Russian state media to wave a sign that said: “Stop the war. Don’t believe propaganda. They’re lying to you.”
What made the instance so noteworthy is the lengths to which Vladimir Putin has gone after his invasion of Ukraine to cut Russians off from sources of independent information and social media, including Facebook and Twitter.
Some movies don’t have enough plot or excitement; others try to pack in so much that it’s a scramble just trying to figure out what’s going on. It’s hard to know exactly where The Adam Project, a futuristic fantasy and coming-of-age adventure-comedy starring Ryan Reynolds, falls. Is it way too much or not nearly enough? And where should we lay the blame for its flaws? (Jonathan Tropper, T.S.
Dolly Parton has announced she is pulling out of this year’s nominations for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, saying she hasn't “earned that right.”
The music icon, who has been elected into the Country Music Hall of Fame, explained her decision in a statement posted on her official social media pages Monday, noting she did not want to take votes away from the remaining nominees.
During his campaign for the Oval Office, President Joe Biden made criminal-justice reform a focal point, calling out many problems with the system: over-incarceration, a lack of focus on redemption and rehabilitation, racial and socioeconomic disparities, "urban gun violence," and more.
When it comes to having turned those promises into reality, a little more than a year into his first term, criminal-justice experts give him a mixed report card.
Who can stop Russia’s war in Ukraine? European and U.S. diplomats have worked hard to win help from China, a country powerful enough and close enough to Russia, they hope, to change Vladimir Putin’s plans. On March 8, China’s President Xi Jinping held a video call with France’s Emmanuel Macron and German’s Olaf Scholz to talk about the war, fueling hopes that Xi will become more actively involved in brokering a deal to end the fighting.
More than 6 million people have died from COVID-19 worldwide, according to official counts. But the more comprehensive toll, tallying deaths directly or indirectly attributable to COVID-19, may be three times higher, according to a new study published in the Lancet.
“We can confidently say that the pandemic has killed an extra 18.2 million people,” says Dr. Chris Murray, director of the Institute for Health Metrics at the University of Washington and a co-author of the paper.
The biggest problem with television as an art form right now is that it gives us too many new shows but too few new stories. Doctors. Lawyers. Cops. Wild teens. Families with Neanderthal husbands, harried wives, and a few cute kids. Series set in outer space or in a fantasy realm, where the political conflicts echo our own. There's comfort in familiarity, to be sure. But it's a rare pleasure, these days, to encounter a premise that feels genuinely original.
Shining Vale might, at first, make you question Tolstoy’s famous claim that "each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." In the new Starz horror comedy, which premieres on March 6, an emasculated dad moves his unfaithful wife and their two teen children out of Brooklyn and into a huge, old, dimly lit house in quaint Shining Vale, Conn. You have surely seen versions of these characters and this setup before.
Sunday marks two years since Breonna Taylor's killing at the hands of Louisville, Ky., police officers—a death that contributed, along with the murders of Ahmaud Arbery and George Floyd, to a national outcry on racial injustice and police violence against Black citizens. And, because of the circumstances of her death, the situation also sparked a more specific reckoning, too: on the use of no-knock warrants, which allow police to enter residences unannounced.
Ike Gazaryan’s wife, Yulia, typically answers the phone for their San Diego, Calif. restaurant, Pushkin Russian Restaurant, which serves food from former Soviet republics. But after Russia invaded Ukraine, Gazaryan decided to answer it himself. In the week after the war began, he says, the restaurant received about 15 to 20 abusive phone calls.
On March 5, Ukrainian gymnast Illia Kovtun stepped up to the podium at a gymnastics World Cup event in Doha to receive his gold medal in the parallel bars. Next to him stood Russian gymnast Ivan Kuliak who had won bronze. But their athletic accomplishments are not what the world is talking about.
Earlier this week, I wrote about how potato chips may be harder to come by as Russia's invasion of Ukraine hinders production of sunflower oil, a common snack food ingredient. Today, I spoke with United States Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo about an ongoing shortage of different sort of chip: the kind that power your laptops, cell phones, vehicles, video game consoles, electronic medical equipment, and more.
Natalia Gavrilița knows she is in a tight spot. It is, after all, the job of Moldova’s Prime Minister to project control, an easy calm, the sense that everything will work out fine. But Gavrilița also knows that the humanitarian fallout from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is fraying the seams of her nation, which by some metrics is Europe’s poorest.
Deterrence is working in the Ukraine crisis, just not for the right side. In this tragedy’s most catastrophic blunder, the United States and its allies failed to deter Russia from invading. President Joe Biden’s plan to create deterrence relied almost exclusively on threats that would be executed only after Russian forces crossed Ukraine’s borders.
In the fog of the war in Ukraine, it’s easy to forget about a smaller, but still very poignant tragedy that occurred months before the fighting began, back on Oct. 6, 2021. That day, a 17-month-old girl in the Rivne region in the west portion of the country was stricken with paralytic polio—19 years after the European region as a whole was declared polio-free. A second case of the disease appeared in the Zakarpattya region to the south on Dec. 24.
On its face, 1966 was a very good year to be a consumer. A gallon of milk would set you back just 42 cents. A pack of cigarettes went for 30 cents. And a gallon of gas—which today is topping $5 in some places as the war in Ukraine and the cutoff of Russian oil push prices higher—went for just 31 cents.
Humans aren’t big fans of the status quo. We yearn for new experiences and rewards, whether by seeking a new meal, job, or creative project. Such diverse behaviors are spurred by a chemical in the brain called dopamine. Call it the motivation molecule.
In the modern world, though, dopamine has a dark side. Substances that give us great pleasure, from coffee to cocaine, can raise dopamine levels too high. And digital technologies, such as video games and social media, may affect us similarly.
In 2022, I’ve developed a weekly ritual of absolutely screaming into my group chat about whatever queer show is currently airing. I grew up in the aughts and watched LGBTQ narratives slowly leak into the mainstream. Today, between Euphoria, Special, The Sex Lives of College Girls, Yellowjackets, And Just Like That..., Genera+ion, The Morning Show, The Other Two, Feel Good, The L Word: Generation Q, I can watch a new episode of television almost every week that has at least one queer character.
As gas prices spike for American drivers, fossil fuel boosters have slammed President Joe Biden for policies they say constrain U.S. energy production. "We have the reserves here and this is preventable," Rep. Garret Graves of Louisiana, the ranking Republican on the House Select Committee on Climate Crisis, told reporters in Washington Tuesday. “No leasing or energy production—that’s not an energy policy.
As tragic as things already are in Ukraine, they will likely get even worse in the days and weeks to come. Vladimir Putin deserves every bit of punishment this war may exact on him, on the battlefield and to Russia’s economy. But the people of Ukraine do not; nor do most of the Russia people. We should therefore not be content with a U.S.-Western policy that simply imposes pain on Putin for pain’s sake, since it may do little to mitigate the consequences of this conflict.
As world leaders attempt to isolate and punish Russia with sanctions and trade bans for its invasion of Ukraine, a handful of American academics are pushing a more unconventional idea: the United States and Europe should offer refuge to Russian soldiers who defect and surrender.
Eileen Gu’s Olympic final debut was alway going to be huge. The American-born free skier is China's most high-profile athlete at the Beijing Olympics, and her face is on advertising campaigns and magazine covers in both countries.
But the way Gu won her first gold medal on Tuesday—on her final run, in front of a VIP crowd and fans on both sides of the Pacific watching live—cemented her place as one of the biggest stars of the 2022 Winter Games.
At least 19 states passed 34 laws restricting access to voting in 2021, according to the Brennan Center for Justice. In Georgia, Gov. Brian Kemp signed a law limiting the number of drop boxes for ballots; in Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott signed a law banning 24-hour and drive-thru voting.
While mountains of studies and the paucity of African Americans in most professions have long signaled the prevalence of hiring discrimination, the insidiousness of the practice typically makes it difficult to prove.
Throughout 2021, hotel workers and others in the tourism industry in the Pacific island nation of Kiribati had rigorous training on how to guard against COVID-19. The two-day course included lessons on proper hand-washing and how to put on and take off personal protective equipment (PPE). It ended with a test—to ensure everyone was proficient.
"It was almost like how you train surgeons when they do operations," says Petero Manufolau, the CEO of the Tourism Authority of Kiribati.
On Jan.
With a freshly stoked fire roaring in the fireplace behind him, President Joe Biden welcomed into the Oval Office Tuesday two of the most powerful Senators charged with considering his pick for Supreme Court. “We’re different parties, but two good friends,” Biden said, gesturing toward the top Republican on the Judiciary Committee, Chuck Grassley of Iowa, and his fellow Democrat, committee chair Dick Durbin of Illinois.
There was a sense of relief inside the narrow, cramped Situation Room on Wednesday evening, when an early report came to President Joe Biden from the risky commando mission underway in northeastern Syria. A family living on the first floor of the building being targeted by the U.S.
(BEIJING) — American figure skater Vincent Zhou has tested positive as part of regular COVID-19 screening at the Beijing Olympics, one day after struggling through a poor free skate for the eventual team silver medalists.
Zhou is undergoing additional testing Monday to confirm his status. If the results are negative, he will be allowed to compete in the individual competition, which begins with the men’s short program on Tuesday.
(BEIJING) — Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai has told a French newspaper that international concern over her well-being is based on “an enormous misunderstanding” and she denied having accused a high-ranking Chinese official of sexual assault.
A popular theory of social progress holds that it starts not by winning the hearts and minds of the people but by changing the law, after which hearts and minds will follow. The top-down theory, however, misses an earlier step in the path to change: the moment when a singular individual, troubled by some intimately personal conflict with their society and with themselves, is stubborn and brave enough to confront rather than evade it.
(To receive weekly emails of conversations with the world’s top CEOs and business decisionmakers, click here.) From his spacious offices in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia’s energy minister Prince Abdulaziz Bin Salman believes he has a bird’s eye view on the global energy transition—a momentous shift on which the kingdom’s climate policies could have a major impact, for good or bad.
A new study published Feb. 1 in the journal PLOS Climate suggests that phasing out animal agriculture over the next 15 years would have the same effect as a 68% reduction in carbon dioxide emissions through the end of the century.
As a child, Quinta Brunson loved being able to gather around the TV with her family for the shows they all enjoyed, from 227 to Martin to The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Now, the writer and executive producer of Abbott Elementary is hoping the new sitcom will become that kind of show for families today.
BEIJING — When Madison Chock looks outside here in the Chinese capital, the U.S. Olympic ice dancer sees glimpses of herself.
“Every time I’m on the bus, I’m just looking out and studying the city and just imagining my roots are here, my ancestors are here," says Chock, whose father is Chinese-Hawaiian, with family ties to rural China.
At Airbnb, hopes were sky-high three years ago when the company reached deep into its pockets for $500 million to sign on as a major Olympic sponsor, placing itself in the rare company of such gilded brand names as Coca-Cola, Visa, and Procter & Gamble. Airbnb executives were not only enamored at the opportunity to join the exclusive club of top sponsors, but eager to bring their emerging hospitality brand to the forefront at the 2020 Tokyo Summer Games and the 2022 Beijing Winter Games.
Gayle King, the long-time journalist and current CBS Mornings host, is known for both her interview skill and the depth, length, and quality of her friendships.
In the days following the death of her mentee-turned-close-friend Cheslie Kryst, King has asked herself a recurrent set of questions.
“I really can’t get over it,” King tells me when we speak by phone a few days after Kryst’s death, which has been determined to be due to suicide. “I’m haunted by it.
What’s behind the most significant inflation in decades? Read most news articles and you’ll hear a variation on a standard answer: a combination of supply chain challenges caused by the quick ramp up of the economy after COVID-19 lockdowns and substantial spending driven by consumers who saved up—and collected money from the government—while businesses were closed.
Here we go again. From late March 2020 till almost the end of last year, stock markets had been on an extraordinary tear. When the pandemic exploded, market plunged close to 30% in a matter of weeks. Aggressive government action by the Fed and then Congress staunched the panic, and from then until November 2021, the S&P 500 doubled, with the Nasdaq up even more.
When you look at Kanye West, what do you see? An egomaniac? A hip-hop legend? A god? Is he “very cool,” to quote Donald Trump, or “a jackass,” to quote Barack Obama?
When Coodie Simmons looks at Kanye West, he sees a brother. The filmmaker, a fellow Chicagoan, met West—who recently changed his legal name to Ye—at a South Side barbershop in 1995.
Hosting the Olympic Games is a daunting challenge during any year. Add a global pandemic, and the logistics of welcoming the world’s athletes in while keeping the virus out become complicated fast. But China believes its aggressive stance against COVID-19 is up to the task. While the rest of the world is struggling to keep up with the virus, China’s strategy is to stay ahead of it.
One year after President Biden issued an executive order forming the Family Reunification Task Force, roughly 130 children who were separated from their families at the United States-Mexico border under the Trump Administration have been reunited on U.S. soil, according to the Task Force. About 400 parents have also begun the reunification process, leveraging new pathways, including a website, that were built by the Task Force this past year.
Amid a sharp plunge for Bitcoin and other top tokens like Ethereum and Solana, some cryptocurrency investors say they're taking a long-term view of the market to weather the storm.
Following a rough week, Bitcoin's price climbed back up to hover in the $38,000-39,000 at last check on Tuesday morning, according to CoinDesk.
When the COVID-19 pandemic vanishes into history (which, to be clear, isn’t happening yet), no one in the world will mourn its passing. But that’s not to say every single change we’ve made to accommodate the crisis has been a bad thing. Here are five COVID-related practices we’ve learned to live with—and that I’ll miss if they go.
The United States and Russia claim to have no interest in fighting a war over Ukraine, yet the two nations have spent the past several weeks building up military forces and inching them closer together on the European continent.
The most recent move came Wednesday when the U.S. announced it was deploying 3,000 troops to eastern Europe to demonstrate solidarity with North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) allies confronting a possible Russian ground invasion of neighboring Ukraine.
The list of musicians and podcasters banding together to remove their content from Spotify Technology SA is growing, adding to the streaming service’s troubles. Spotify also offered subscriber projections on Wednesday that fell below Wall Street forecasts for the first quarter, sending its stock tumbling in late trading.
The streaming giant has faced mounting criticism after singer-songwriter Neil Young followed through on threats to remove his music from Spotify.
This article is part of the The DC Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox every weekday. It’s no secret that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s gift of the gab is a point of pride. His flip phone was practically an appendage for the top Democrat even before he took the reins of an evenly divided Upper Chamber with zero margin for error.
During a recent virtual roundtable sponsored by the Los Angeles Times, Lady Gaga—who has said that she prepared for her performance as a vengeful wife in House of Gucci by, among other things, speaking with an Italian accent for months—caught her fellow panelists off-guard with an imploring speech.
A couple of hours after the New York Times announced on Monday that it had acquired the online word game known as Wordle, its inventor was still looking for the right word—this time, for his emotions.
"My biggest sense, actually, right now, isn't joy. It's relief," Josh Wardle, who was paid "in the low seven figures" for the daily puzzle, told me by phone. It was our second conversation in as many days.
Spotify has a much bigger problem than Joe Rogan.
The streaming service has been in damage control mode, trying to quell the outcry over COVID-19 misinformation spread by Rogan, the wildly popular podcast host. Earlier this week, Spotify released its internal rules prohibiting “dangerous content,” and said it will attach an advisory to any podcast that discusses the pandemic, directing listeners to a new COVID-19 informational hub.
In Florida's Polk County, Nobel Literature Prize-winner Toni Morrison’s novels The Bluest Eye and Morrison's Beloved were among 16 books "quarantined"—taken off shelves in public school libraries "so a thorough, thoughtful review of their content can take place," a spokesperson explained to The Ledger—on Jan. 25 after a complaint.
This article is part of the The DC Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox every weekday. If it weren’t for the masks and lingering consternation about a pandemic, this week’s headlines would feel a lot like 2015.