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How the Sandy Hook Families Showed That Gun Makers Aren’t Invincible from 2022-02-21T07:35:12
For nearly two decades, gun makers in America have been widely viewed as untouchable in court, where they’re impervious to most lawsuits under fed...
What the World Can Learn from China’s COVID-19 Rules at the Winter Olympics from 2022-02-21T07:16:50
China promised a "simple, safe, and splendid" Beijing Olympics. While the elaborate, anti-COVID measures at the 2022 Winter Games were far from si...
Rents Reach ‘Insane’ Levels Across U.S. With No End in Sight from 2022-02-21T06:56:16
Krystal Guerra’s Miami apartment has a tiny kitchen, cracked tiles, warped cabinets, no dishwasher and hardly any storage space.
But Gu...
The Threat of a Russian Invasion Is Crushing Ukraine’s Economy and Culture from 2022-02-20T12:50:29
For years, the Closer nightclub in the Ukrainian capital has dominated Eastern Europe's legendary dance scene. A guest performance by a pair of ce...
Sabaa Tahir Is Ready to Talk About Rage from 2022-02-20T12:24:07
Sabaa Tahir still remembers when a classmate at her high school in California’s Mojave Desert probed her about whether she had a green card. The P...
How Social Media Shone a Light on the Lauren Smith-Fields Case from 2022-02-20T11:47:04
In the months since Lauren Smith-Fields was found unresponsive in her Bridgeport, Conn., apartment, the question of what happened to the 23-year-o...
Review: President Biden Should Let His Faith Guide Him Toward Nuclear Disarmament from 2022-02-20T11:29:48
When I traveled to Japan in 2017 for a vacation with two bishop friends, I was not prepared for what I witnessed in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I hear...
A Priest Got a Single Word Wrong. Now Thousands of Baptisms May be Invalid from 2022-02-20T11:16:11
PHOENIX — The priest was beloved by his parishioners — yet for years he made a one-word ritual mistake, repeatedly, that has caused confusion and ...
Review: Channing Tatum Will Make You Believe in Dog from 2022-02-20T10:58:24
If the devil were to arrive on Earth in human form, he wouldn’t appear as an infant born to an Upper West Side mom with a pixie cut, or even as a ...
How Gen Z Baristas Are Spreading the Starbucks Unionization Effort from 2022-02-19T01:33:16
Joseph Nappi is a 20-year-old Starbucks barista and Cleveland State University political science major. He’s also learning how to be a union organ...
What to Know About the 2022 Winter Olympics Closing Ceremony from 2022-02-19T01:08:28
While competition is still going strong in Beijing, all Games must eventually end.
After 19 days of events across 15 different sports,...
Rand Paul Almost Killed a Senate Rebuke of Russia. Here’s Why That Matters from 2022-02-19T00:56:21
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Women Seem to Have Better COVID-19 Outcomes Than Men. Here’s a Theory Why from 2022-02-19T00:44:17
Getting vaccinated and boosted dramatically increases the likelihood of surviving a case of COVID-19, but many risk factors—like being biologicall...
Column: History Demands We Preserve the Wreck of America's Last Slave Ship from 2022-02-19T00:25:50
The wreck of the Clotilda, the last ship to bring enslaved Africans to the United States, remains buried in mud on the bottom of the Mobile River ...
Antony Blinken Details Nightmare Scenario in Ukraine Amid Mounting Tensions in Europe from 2022-02-18T08:08:31
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Russia is moving toward an imminent invasion of Ukraine and laid out how U.S. intelligence believes such an...
Your Neighborhood Mexican Restaurant May Soon Run Out of Guacamole from 2022-02-18T08:01:48
Avocados will soon run out at smaller restaurants that don’t have the buying power of Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc.
For example, Salsarit...
Eileen Gu Wins Gold in Halfpipe—and Makes Olympic History from 2022-02-18T07:47:02
Eileen Gu made winning her third medal of the 2022 Winter Games look easy on Friday morning, soaring so far ahead of the competition in the first ...
Column: It's Time to Change Americans' Attitude Toward COVID-19 Risk from 2022-02-18T07:16:27
As the pandemic has evolved and most Americans have sought vaccines for protection, and as those who chose to forgo vaccination became infected (o...
How Nasal Vaccines Could Help Stop COVID-19 From Spreading from 2022-02-17T08:11:06
When SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, infiltrates the body, it typically enters through the nose or mouth, then takes root and begins r...
Why the CIA Director Is Declassifying Material on Russia’s Ukraine Plot from 2022-02-17T07:32:29
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Tesla Is Used to Controversy. But Its Latest Scandals Could Hurt Its Bottom Line from 2022-02-17T07:11:36
Tesla’s troubles just keep piling up. Late last week, California’s Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) sued the automaker, alleging t...
Britney Spears Has Been Invited to Congress to Testify on Conservatorship from 2022-02-17T06:51:01
Britney Spears was invited to Congress to testify about her yearslong conservatorship, according to a post on the pop star’s Instagram.
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The Tobacco Giant That Won’t Stop Funding Anti-Smoking Programs for Kids from 2022-02-16T09:00:20
Tobacco giant Altria, which owns the maker of Marlboro cigarettes and a stake in vaping company Juul Labs, has for years quietly funded substance-...
Getting Vaccinated During Pregnancy Cuts Baby’s COVID-19 Risk, Study Says from 2022-02-16T08:05:07
COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy provides strong protection for both mother and baby, new data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and ...
Heart Experts Cast Doubt on Claims That Russian Skater’s Drug Test Was Contaminated by Her Grandfather’s Medicine from 2022-02-16T07:58:38
The latest revelations about Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva's doping case raise more questions about the substances found in her sample—and ...
‘Nobody Tells Him What to Do.’ Brazil’s President Bolsonaro Is Visiting Putin Despite U.S. Criticism from 2022-02-16T07:23:27
The timing has proved awkward. Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s far right leader, touched down in Moscow on Tuesday for a visit with Russian President Vla...
Alec Baldwin Is Being Sued by the Family of the Cinematographer Killed on the Set of Rust from 2022-02-16T07:12:30
LOS ANGELES — The family of a cinematographer shot and killed on the set of the film “Rust” sued Alec Baldwin and the movie's producers Tuesday al...
2022 Was the Year Climate Broke Through at the Super Bowl from 2022-02-15T09:00:48
Toyota debuted its hybrid Prius for the first time at the Super Bowl in 2005, calling it “good news for planet Earth.” In 2006, there were two Sup...
Canadian Protesters Defy Trudeau’s Emergency Powers With Border Blockades from 2022-02-15T08:07:02
Demonstrators against vaccine mandates halted traffic at two major border crossings in Western Canada and some vowed to stay even as Prime Ministe...
Spotify’s Joe Rogan Controversy Isn’t Over Yet from 2022-02-15T07:36:05
Spotify needs to do more soul-searching. That’s the prevailing opinion among crisis management experts in the aftermath of recent boycotts by arti...
‘Dirty Cheaters.’ Olympians Let Loose on Kamila Valieva and the Russian Doping Controversy at the Beijing Olympics from 2022-02-15T07:19:58
Former Olympic stars are up in arms over the controversial ruling allowing Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva to continue to compete in the Beij...
As Schools Drop Mask Mandates, Parents of Kids With Disabilities Prepare to Fight from 2022-02-14T08:11:21
When Tasha Nelson’s 10-year-old son, Jack, heard on the radio that Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin would end the statewide school mask mandate—a move...
Russian Skater Kamila Valieva Is Allowed to Compete at the Olympics. The Battle Over Her Drug Test Is Just Beginning from 2022-02-14T07:38:58
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) ruled Monday that 15-year-old Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva will be allowed to compete in the Beij...
Ukraine's President Plays Down Russian Invasion Fears from 2022-02-14T07:21:06
WASHINGTON — Some airlines canceled flights to the Ukrainian capital and troops there unloaded fresh shipments of weapons from NATO members Sunday...
COVID-19 Booster Effectiveness Wanes But Remains Strong from 2022-02-14T06:50:26
(New York) — An early look at the performance of COVID-19 booster shots during the recent Omicron wave in the U.S. hinted at a decline in effectiv...
The NFL Keeps Fumbling and Congress Keeps Punting from 2022-02-13T12:33:59
Fans of the National Football League (NFL) have long complained about the organization's history of fumbling its public relations.
In 2...
Biden Wants an American Solar Industry. But It Could Come at an Emissions Cost from 2022-02-13T11:59:16
President Joe Biden made a big compromise on his climate goals last week—depending on how you look at it.
On Feb. 4, the President ann...
I Analyzed Super Bowl Ads For Two Decades. Here’s What They Get Wrong. from 2022-02-13T11:44:35
I’ve watched more Super Bowl commercials—for a living—than just about anyone.
But I’m not an ad executive. I’m not a commercial directo...
How Trump’s Vaccine Support Is Splitting His Base from 2022-02-13T11:24:37
In late January, a blast of fundraising emails for Donald Trump featured a “MUST-SEE: New Trump Ad” that, among other things, championed Trump's r...
There’s Good Reason to Be Optimistic About Omicron from 2022-02-13T11:04:16
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve started to notice twinges of a feeling to which I have become unaccustomed. At first I thought it was indigest...
Almost All U.S. Eggs Will Soon Be Cage-Free, Thanks to Public Pressure on Farms from 2022-02-13T10:44:36
DES MOINES, Iowa — Without much fuss and even less public attention, the nation’s egg producers are in the midst of a multibillion-dollar shift t...
Should You Wear a Mask? What to Do as Mandates Roll Back from 2022-02-12T08:49
Now is a confusing time in the pandemic. Hundreds of thousands of Americans are getting infected every day, and 3,000 or so are dying. Earlier in ...
FDA Committee Delays Review of Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 Vaccine for Young Kids from 2022-02-12T08:34:24
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) postponed a meeting to discuss the authorization of Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine for children yo...
The History of Speed Skaters Brittany Bowe’s and Erin Jackson’s Friendship On And Off the Ice from 2022-02-12T08:26:09
When Team USA's Erin Jackson slipped during a 500-m long-track speedskating trial, the athlete, who was ranked No. 1 in the world, thought her cha...
Eric Adams Wants ‘Dangerousness’ Factored into New York’s Bail Laws. Advocates Say It Will Only Bring More Bias from 2022-02-12T07:42:42
In New York City, Mayor Eric Adams wants to crack down on crime. And the state's bail system, which both criminal justice advocates and lawmakers ...
What the Resignation of London’s Top Police Chief Means for Boris Johnson from 2022-02-12T07:32:31
The head of Britain’s largest police force was forced to resign Feb. 10 after the mayor of London accused her of failing to root out a culture of ...
Column: Why Olympic Bronze Medalists Are Happier Than Silver Medalists from 2022-02-12T07:17:21
With the Beijing Winter Olympics upon us, Team USA has made clear that it is approaching this year’s Games with a special emphasis on the mental h...
How Inventing Anna Meticulously Recreated Scammer Anna Delvey’s Glamorous Wardrobe from 2022-02-12T06:57:48
Lyn Paolo was hired as the costume designer on Netflix’s miniseries Inventing Anna, but she often felt more like a detective.
The Shond...
The Potent Drug Mix Causing Unprecedented Rates of Black Americans to Overdose from 2022-02-11T08:56:33
Opioid overdoses have killed so many Americans in recent years that experts say the epidemic is in its fourth wave. But the current wave of the op...
Dropping Mask Mandates, Democratic Governors Bow to Political Reality from 2022-02-11T08:13:07
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‘This Is It for Me.’ Shaun White Ends His Olympic Career on a Bittersweet Note from 2022-02-11T07:31:55
It was a bit of a surprise when U.S. snowboarding champion Shaun White advanced to the finals in the halfpipe competition at the 2022 Winter Olymp...
Solar Storm Knocks 40 SpaceX Satellites Out of the Sky, After the Company Ignored Scientists’ Warnings from 2022-02-11T07:21:27
Let’s start with the good news: There is no danger to anyone on the ground from the flock of 40 SpaceX Starlink satellites that are currently plun...
What Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” Bill Could Mean for LGBTQ Kids from 2022-02-10T08:59:16
On Tuesday night, President Joe Biden took to Twitter to condemn a controversial bill that’s swiftly moving through the Florida legislature.
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How Nathan Chen Finally Got His Olympic Gold from 2022-02-10T08:14:49
It took two Olympic cycles, eight years of training and a pandemic, but U.S. figure skater Nathan Chen finally has his Olympic medal. And it’s gol...
Chloe Kim Makes History With Gold Medal in Women’s Snowboard Halfpipe from 2022-02-10T07:52:31
Chloe Kim secured the gold medal in the women's halfpipe with her very first run at the Beijing Winter Olympics on Thursday—and made history in th...
What to Know About Kamila Valieva’s Reported Positive Drug Test and the Heart Medicine’s History in Doping from 2022-02-10T07:29:08
After a day of swirling rumors and anonymous leaks, the Russian newspaper RBC reported that the star of the Russian figure skating squad, 15-year-...
There’s A New Way To Watch The Widening Income Gap in (Almost) Real Time from 2022-02-10T06:49:14
Goldman Sachs paid its CEO David Solomon $35 million in 2021, the investment bank announced recently. The handsome sum— a reflection of the fact t...
At-Home COVID-19 Tests Will Soon Be Everywhere from 2022-02-09T08:11:54
After weeks of shortages across the country, Americans are gradually finding it easier to get their hands on at-home rapid antigen tests. That’s i...
How One Dance Studio Became a Bulwark Against Loneliness in New York City’s Chinatown from 2022-02-01T07:58:10
Every Sunday at 2 p.m, the narrow building in Manhattan’s Chinatown echoes to beating footsteps and 1950s Chinese oldies. In the large, mirrored d...
The Best Way To Stop Putin’s Invasion of Ukraine from 2022-02-01T07:34:52
Can the West stop Putin from invading Ukraine? Yes, it’s possible if we understand why he’s doing it in the first place.
Putin has been...
Pregnant New Zealand Journalist Stranded in Afghanistan Will Be Allowed to Return Home from 2022-02-01T06:53:45
(WELLINGTON, New Zealand) — A pregnant New Zealand journalist who was stranded in Afghanistan by her home country's COVID-19 border policy said Tu...
The New York Times Is Buying Wordle for More than $1 Million from 2022-02-01T06:50:19
The New York Times acquired Wordle, adding the popular daily word phenomenon to the newspaper company’s expanding portfolio of games and puzzles.<...
The Great Resignation Fueled Higher Pay—Even For Those Who Didn’t Switch Jobs from 2022-01-31T07:58:25
There is one piece of good financial news out this week: wages have gone up across the board in the past year. A new report from the ADP Research ...
The World’s Farmers Need to Prepare for Serious Cash Crop Disruption from 2022-01-31T07:30:53
Climate change has its winners and losers. As global temperatures rise, some species will find themselves squeezed out of suitable living arrangem...
Russia Tensions May Help Push Europe Towards a Cleaner Energy Future from 2022-01-31T07:21:21
Escalating tensions with Russia are forcing a confrontation with an uncomfortable reality for European leaders: Vladimir Putin holds the cards whe...
Trump Dangles Prospect of Pardons for Jan. 6 Defendants If Elected from 2022-01-31T07:09:05
CONROE, Texas — Former President Donald Trump is dangling the prospect of pardons for supporters who participated in the deadly Jan. 6 storming of...
Column: What Happens Next in Ukraine Could Change Europe Forever from 2022-01-31T06:58:32
A consensus is beginning to form that a new war in Ukraine has become inevitable. In large measure this is due to the escalation in both rhetoric ...
Red States Aren’t Waiting for the Supreme Court’s Roe Decision to Push New Abortion Bans from 2022-01-30T13:56:34
As the Supreme Court weighs the high-profile case that could unwind Roe v. Wade—and, with it, the Constitutional right to abortion—conservative st...
Australia Just Exported Its First Batch of Fuel That Doesn’t Emit CO2. There’s Just One Catch from 2022-01-30T12:59:24
When the 380-foot-long Suiso Frontier set sail from Australia on Friday, bound for Japan with liquid hydrogen in its insulated hold, it marked the...
Tom Brady Is 44. But Somehow His Possible Retirement Comes as a Surprise from 2022-01-30T12:15:42
Tom Brady thought he would throw touchdown passes, basically forever. "I really think I can play as long as I want," Brady, 44, said in October. "...
Community Leaders Fear Eric Adams’ Plan to End Gun Violence Is Leaving the Public Out of ‘Public Safety’ from 2022-01-30T11:50:43
Eric Adams, the new mayor of New York City, announced on Jan. 24 a detailed plan aiming to end gun violence in his city. Adams, a former police of...
The Oscar-Shortlisted Documentary Writing With Fire Shines a Light on the Only All-Women News Outlet in India from 2022-01-30T11:18:08
It’s 2016 and inside a newsroom in India, a group of rural female journalists are discussing why they need to pivot away from print reporting to d...
What to Know About BA.2, a New Omicron Variant from 2022-01-29T08:29:13
Even as SARS-CoV-2 gets better at spreading and evading some of the immune protection that people have built through infections or vaccination, ne...
Column: We Urgently Need a New National COVID-19 Response Plan from 2022-01-29T08:21:10
The recent Chicago public school crisis, collapse of Broadway theater in New York City, ongoing changes in NBA and NFL screening protocols for pla...
Augmented Reality is the Future of Online Shopping from 2022-01-29T08:03:33
When you open up Snapchat's lens carousel, you're greeted with a variety of filters that let you do everything from smoothing your skin to wearing...
The James Webb Space Telescope Is in Position—And Now We Wait from 2022-01-29T07:34:13
The James Webb Space Telescope traveled nearly 1.6 million km (1 million mi.) to reach a destination that, in some ways, is nowhere at all. On Jan...
Paris Buried a River 100 Years Ago. Now The City Needs To Resurface It to Combat Climate Change from 2022-01-29T07:19:35
In 1899, a writer for French newspaper Le Figaro surveyed the damage Parisians had done to the Bièvre, a river that for hundreds of years had snak...
Column: Why Boris Johnson Could Lose His Job Over a Birthday Party from 2022-01-29T06:38:55
Britain’s Metropolitan Police announced this week that they will investigate a series of highly controversial parties held in U.K. government buil...
Where the New First Cat Fits in the History of Presidential Pets from 2022-01-29T06:26:17
Breaking in news that mews: The Biden family announced Friday that they have a new pet cat.
Hailing from a Pennsylvania farm, the tabby...
Why Kamala Harris’ Trip to Honduras Is Really About the U.S.-Mexico Border from 2022-01-28T08:49:12
Vice President Kamala Harris arrived in Honduras on Thursday to attend the inauguration of Xiomara Castro, the country's new president who the Whi...
Pramila Jayapal’s Bid to Change the Uneven Impact of Climate Change from 2022-01-28T07:25:48
The research showing how climate change-related events disproportionately affect vulnerable communities is staggering. From New Orleans after Hurr...
China’s New 5-Year Plan is a Blueprint for the Future of Meat from 2022-01-28T07:16:02
China's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs has set the lab-grown meat industry abuzz with the release of its official five-year agricultura...
Review: Apple’s Star-Studded Murder Comedy The Afterparty Is the Perfect Antidote to the Winter Blues from 2022-01-28T06:54:29
Attending a high school reunion is like committing a murder in at least one respect: you need a compelling reason to do it. Whether it’s to show o...
Pressure Mounts for Biden to Nominate a Black Woman to the Supreme Court from 2022-01-27T09:11:02
Joe Biden’s summer is starting to look brighter. With widespread media reports that Justice Stephen Breyer will retire from the U.S. Supreme Court...
Moderna Booster May Wane After 6 Months, Company Says from 2022-01-27T09:05:35
Moderna reported today the first data on how well its currently authorized vaccine and booster hold up against the Omicron variant, which quickly ...
Hulu’s Abysmal Pam & Tommy Is at Its Worst When Paying Lip Service to Feminism from 2022-01-27T08:14:38
When the news broke, in 2020, that Disney-owned Hulu was making a miniseries about Pamela Anderson, Tommy Lee and the purloined sex tape that shoo...
Basically Everybody Under 40 Hates Washington from 2022-01-27T07:35:47
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Amy Schneider’s Jeopardy! Streak Ends at 40 Consecutive Wins and $1.4 Million from 2022-01-27T07:24:15
(LOS ANGELES) — “Jeopardy!” champion Amy Schneider’s dazzling streak is over, snapped Wednesday by a Chicago librarian after 40 consecutive wins a...
Small Businesses Need Help Again. But More Stimulus Could Be Risky from 2022-01-26T07:32:35
An unexpected jump in new jobless claims the week of Jan.
Pfizer and BioNTech Start Studies of an Omicron-Specific Vaccine from 2022-01-26T07:22:39
Pfizer and BioNTech announced today that they have started testing an Omicron-specific COVID-19 vaccine in healthy adults.
While data s...
Column: Existing Federal Laws Could Protect Abortion Rights if Roe Is Overturned from 2022-01-26T07:17:19
On this year’s anniversary of Roe v. Wade, many wondered if it would be the last. Ever since the Supreme Court heard arguments in Dobbs vs. Jackso...
5 Edith Wharton Books to Read After Watching The Gilded Age from 2022-01-26T06:45:05
Fabulous displays of wealth, high society scandals and power struggles at all levels fuel the opulent drama of HBO’s The Gilded Age, which premier...
U.S. Puts 8,500 Troops on Alert for Possible Deployment to Europe Amid Ukraine Crisis from 2022-01-25T07:31:40
Thousands of U.S. troops were put on standby to deploy to eastern Europe as fears of a Russian ground invasion into neighboring Ukraine looms over...
Column: The Life-Changing Practice That Will Help You Feel More Gratitude from 2022-01-25T07:18:45
I spent the first long months of the pandemic in suburban Maryland alone and away from my family. The world beyond my door became a stream of time...
Pandemic Anxiety Is Fueling OCD Symptoms—Even for People Without the Disorder from 2022-01-25T07:06:02
Rosalyn (not her real name) had no idea what she intended to do with the three boxes of spaghetti she had just dumped into her shopping cart. She ...
Giving Cash to Low-Income Mothers Linked to Increased Brain Activity in Their Babies, Study Suggests from 2022-01-25T06:46:37
New research suggests giving extra cash to low-income mothers can change their infants’ brain development.
Brain measurements at age 1 ...
President Biden Calls Fox Reporter a ‘Stupid Son of a Bitch’ After Question About Inflation from 2022-01-25T06:35:53
(WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden responded to a question about inflation on Monday by calling a Fox News reporter a vulgarity.
The pr...
‘Abducted by Luxurious Pirates.’ Cruise Diverts Passengers to Bahamas After U.S. Orders Seizure of Ship from 2022-01-24T08:16:37
(MIAMI) — A cruise ship that was supposed to dock in Miami has instead sailed to the Bahamas, after a U.S. judge granted an order to seize the ves...
UAE Says It Intercepted 2 Ballistic Missiles Targeting Abu Dhabi from 2022-01-24T07:36:32
(DUBAI, United Arab Emirates) — The United Arab Emirates intercepted two ballistic missiles targeting Abu Dhabi early Monday, its state-run news a...
Column: Journalists Are Under Threat in El Salvador. I Know Because I Was Targeted from 2022-01-24T07:26:06
Becoming a target of one of the most notorious spyware programs in the world has been an unnerving experience. While it has briefly brought the wo...
The Story Behind TIME’s ‘Year One’ Joe Biden Cover from 2022-01-24T06:54:49
As President Joseph Biden closes in on his first year in office, the Jan. 31, 2022, TIME cover returns to a familiar setting—a gloomy Oval Office....
Cultivated Meat Passes the Taste Test from 2022-01-23T12:32:45
Renowned Israeli gastronome Michal Ansky knows her food. She’s a professional taster and a Master Chef judge. So when she was invited to the world...
Column: Democrats Lost Virginia By Ignoring Parents. Snow Days Show They Still Are from 2022-01-23T12:25:09
Schools may be a local issue, but how they are run—especially during the pandemic—can stoke the outrage politics that define many state and nation...
Kid of the Year Finalist Lino Marrero, 15, Invented a Shoe That Can Charge a Cell Phone from 2022-01-23T12:07:20
Lino Marrero was leaving cello practice one day when he noticed several blisters on his fingers. The pain was so bad that the 10-year-old inventor...
I’m Vaccinated, Boosted and Had COVID-19. Can I Go Back to Normal Now? from 2022-01-23T11:51:59
Welcome to COVID Questions, TIME’s advice column. We’re trying to make living through the pandemic a little easier, with expert-backed answers to ...
Why It’s Still So Complicated to Get Free Home Covid Tests from 2022-01-22T07:15:33
This week, nearly two full years into the on-going pandemic, the Biden Administration told Americans that they would, at long last, be given acces...
Column: Sharing Personal Stories Won't Move the Needle on Paid Family Leave. Talking About Money Might from 2022-01-22T07:04:50
As Omicron spreads across the nation, some schools are going virtual and an unprecedented number of people are testing positive and needing to tak...
After Sweeping Voting-Rights Reform Fails, Senators Shift Focus to Arcane Law That Emboldened Jan. 6 Rioters from 2022-01-22T06:48:30
Late Wednesday night, Democratic Senators suffered a stinging defeat when their months-long effort to pass sweeping voting-rights reform was torpe...
Remembering André Leon Talley: Remarkably Accessible in an Elitist Fashion Industry from 2022-01-22T06:34:59
Former Vogue creative director and editor-at-large André Leon Talley, known for his rare combination of exuberance, intellect, and brilliant humor...
How Do You Even Calculate COVID-19 Risk Anymore? from 2021-12-17T07:43:40
This month, I did something both mundane and momentous: I went to a fitness class, in an actual gym, alongside other humans. In the Before Times, ...
A Wonky Tax Break for the Well-Off Is a Bigger Problem for Democrats Than You’d Think from 2021-12-17T07:25:33
In its edible form, salt is used to dry out meat; in its mineral form, it's used to dry out snowy highways; and in its tax form, SALT—the acronym ...
U.S. Government Recommends Americans Get the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna COVID-19 Shots Instead of J&J’s from 2021-12-17T07:08:46
Most Americans should be given the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines instead of the Johnson & Johnson shot that can cause rare but serious blood clots, U...
Column: A 'Mississippi Compromise' on Abortion Would Threaten All Our Freedoms from 2021-12-17T06:47:57
The last 100-plus days of a ban on most abortions after six weeks in Texas have made painfully clear the future anti-abortion extremists want, not...
How the U.S. Boycott of the Beijing Olympics Is Splitting the World from 2021-12-16T08:32:32
The last time the U.S. boycotted an Olympic Games, China joined in—withdrawing from the 1980 Moscow Games along with at least 44 other nations, os...
bell hooks, Renowned Author, Activist and Educator, Dies at 69 from 2021-12-16T07:43:37
(NEW YORK) — bell hooks, the groundbreaking author, educator and activist whose explorations of how race, gender, economics and politics were inte...
U.S. Surpasses 50 million COVID-19 Cases. It Has Been Worse from 2021-12-16T07:24
The number of reported cases of COVID-19 in the U.S. surpassed 50 million on Monday as the pandemic reached yet another inglorious milestone. Whil...
Column: My Family's Hometown Was Destroyed by a Tornado But For Many It Had Already Been Lost from 2021-12-16T07:17:11
I’m reminded of Mayfield, Kentucky every day by a poster that hangs in my living room. I found it in my grandfather’s garage after he died and I h...
Joe Biden Tries to Bring Comfort to Kentucky After Deadly Tornadoes from 2021-12-16T06:53:58
There was hand holding. There were pats on the head. And there were hugs— a lot of hugs. As Joe Biden walked through Dawson Springs, Kentucky on W...
Happy Centenary, Bloody Mary. Drinkers Celebrate a Famous Cocktail’s 100th Birthday from 2021-12-16T06:32:46
PARIS — Harry’s Bar in Paris is celebrating the 100th birthday of the bloody mary, the vodka-tomato juice cocktail believed to have been invented ...
How the First American Vaccinated Against COVID-19 Feels About the Pandemic a Year Later from 2021-12-15T08:04:02
Exactly one year ago, Sandra Lindsay became the first person in the U.S. to get vaccinated against COVID-19. As she sat before flashing cameras to...
Gender-Affirming Hormone Therapy for LGBTQ Youth Can Help Save Lives, Study Finds from 2021-12-15T07:38:27
The use of gender-affirming hormone therapy (GAHT) is significantly related to lower rates of depression, suicidal ideation and suicide attempts a...
Elon Musk on Income Inequality, Cryptocurrency and His Tweets: Excerpts From the 2021 Person of the Year Interview from 2021-12-15T07:19:29
Elon Musk, TIME's 2021 Person of the Year, already has a reach that extends beyond Earth. The controversial billionaire, who helms both Tesla and ...
The U.S. COVID-19 Death Toll Hits 800,000 from 2021-12-15T07:14:21
The U.S. death toll from COVID-19 topped 800,000 on Tuesday, a once-unimaginable figure seen as doubly tragic, given that more than 200,000 of tho...
Increasing Arctic Fires Are Melting Permafrost That Keeps Carbon Underground from 2021-12-15T06:44:54
Few things signal something's gone haywire on the planet quite like frozen land on fire. Now scientists have determined that Arctic fires, even mi...
Pfizer Confirms COVID-19 Pill’s Results, Potency Versus Omicron from 2021-12-15T06:16:24
WASHINGTON — Pfizer said today that its experimental pill to treat COVID-19 appears effective against the omicron variant.
The company ...
How Elon Musk Built His Fortune—And Became the Richest Private Citizen in the World from 2021-12-14T07:32:58
If you want to become a billionaire—and you didn’t happen to be born into the Saudi royal family—there are a few ways to get the job done. You cou...
Thousands Are Without Heat and Water in Kentucky After Tornadoes Kill Dozens from 2021-12-14T07:27:19
MAYFIELD, Ky. — Residents of Kentucky counties where tornadoes killed dozens of people could be without heat, water or electricity in frigid tempe...
Why You Eat the Same Thing For Breakfast Every Day from 2021-12-14T06:43:40
Every morning, I eat the same breakfast. Toast and almond butter, coffee, and an avocado, spinach, protein powder and banana smoothie. I’ve eaten ...
No Troops Disciplined in US Strike Killing Afghan Civilians from 2021-12-14T06:06:05
WASHINGTON (AP) — No U.S. troops involved in the August drone strike that killed innocent Kabul civilians and children will face disciplinary acti...
USA Gymnastics Reaches $380M Settlement With Nassar Victims from 2021-12-14T05:49:16
The legal wrangling between USA Gymnastics and the victims of sexual abuse by former national team doctor Larry Nassar, among others, is over.
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Parents Deported Under Trump Can See Their Kids Again. But a Long, Hard Journey Awaits Them from 2021-12-13T07:53:08
David's son was just 13-years-old when U.S. border officials took him from his father. David remembers that day, in 2018, like it was yesterday. H...
Red Rocket Is a Spiky Comedy With a Fascinating, Magnetic Performance by Simon Rex from 2021-12-13T07:09:29
Who needs likable characters with admirable qualities? These unruly times call for fictional gadabouts, like the opportunistic washed-up porn star...
What Gen Z Can Teach Employers About Diverse Hiring from 2021-12-13T06:52:40
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The True Story Behind HBO’s Gripping True Crime Drama Landscapers from 2021-12-12T11:21:15
Susan Edwards is living out the dream of many a hopeless romantic at the start of Landscapers, a crime drama series out this week on HBO. She live...
NFT Art Collectors Are Playing a Risky Game—And Winning from 2021-12-12T10:59:18
Behind the high white walls of a nondescript single-story building in Miami’s Wynwood neighborhood, past the velvet ropes and ticket-checkers, and...
The U.S. Almost Had Universal Childcare 50 Years Ago. The Same Attacks Might Kill It Today from 2021-12-12T10:26:39
Among the policy proposals included in the "Build Back Better" Act championed by the Biden administration and congressional Democrats is legislati...
Kentucky Hardest Hit as Storms Leave Dozens Dead in 5 States from 2021-12-12T10:23:13
(MAYFIELD, Ky.)—A monstrous tornado, carving a track that could rival the longest on record, ripped across the middle of the U.S. in a stormfront ...
Supreme Court Allows Texas Abortion Law to Stand, But Says Abortion Providers Can Challenge It from 2021-12-11T10:08:58
The Supreme Court will once again allow Texas’ law that bans most abortions after about six weeks to stay in effect, it said Friday, but it will a...
Make Every Conversation a Stay Interview from 2021-12-11T09:52:32
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‘Cows Are the New Coal.’ How the Cattle Industry Is Ignoring the Bottom Line When It Comes to Methane Emissions from 2021-12-04T11:06:25
One of the early, attention-grabbing announcements at November’s COP climate conference in Glasgow was a commitment by more than 105 countries to ...
Does the Global Scramble to Contain Omicron Show that China’s COVID Zero Approach is Simply Better? from 2021-12-04T10:56:50
Countries across the world scrambled this week to impose border and travel curbs after the new omicron variant emerged. In China, it was business ...
Biden’s ‘Free’ At-Home COVID Test Plan Isn’t as Straightforward as it Sounds from 2021-12-04T10:40:52
As the Biden Administration prepares to tackle the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic this winter, part of its strategy is to expand access to rapid, at-ho...
What Researchers Have Learned About Whether it’s Possible to ‘Cure’ HIV from 2021-12-04T10:29:41
It’s the news that the HIV community has been waiting four long decades for: the hint that maybe, just maybe, HIV can be cured.
Dr. Xu ...
Mayors, Borough Bosses and Land Commissioners: Why Donald Trump Is Making Extremely Local Endorsements from 2021-12-04T10:02:35
During their local mayoral race in early November, town residents in Hialeah, Florida, population 230,000, heard a familiar voice in a campaign ad...
How the Enron Scandal Changed American Business Forever from 2021-12-04T09:46:58
It's the kind of historic anniversary few people really want to remember.
In early December 2001, innovative energy company Enron Corpo...
Independent Musicians Are Making Big Money From NFTs. Can They Challenge the Music Industry? from 2021-12-04T09:32:16
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School Shooting Shows That COVID-19 Isn't the Only Thing American Kids Need Protection From from 2021-12-03T08:55:50
When a 15-year-old opened fire on Tuesday at a high school in Oxford Township, Mich., killing four students, it marked the deadliest school shooti...
Arctic Rain Will Soon Be More Common Than Arctic Snowfall from 2021-12-03T08:21:55
When rain—not snow—fell on the highest point of Greenland’s ice sheet this August for the first time in recorded history, it was considered a worr...
New Study Explores if a Vaccine Can Prevent Breast Cancer from 2021-12-03T08:15:15
Harnessing the immune system to target cancer has long resided on doctors’ wish lists, with very little promise of becoming reality. Because cance...
Supreme Court Signals It’s Ready to Limit Abortion at Historic Arguments from 2021-12-02T07:35:10
The Supreme Court on Wednesday seemed ready to uphold a Mississippi law that bars abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, a move that would signifi...
Congress Can’t Agree on How to Reform Big Tech. Frances Haugen Says That’s What Facebook Wants from 2021-12-02T07:17:26
A House hearing on Wednesday, which included new testimony from Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen, laid bare the deep partisan divisions that ...
WTA Suspends Tournaments in China Over Lingering Concerns About Peng Shuai from 2021-12-02T06:54:56
The suspension of all WTA tournaments in China because of concerns about the safety of Peng Shuai, a Grand Slam doubles champion who accused a for...
Alec Baldwin to ABC About the Rust Shooting: ‘I Didn’t Pull the Trigger’ from 2021-12-02T06:12:17
NEW YORK — Alec Baldwin told ABC's George Stephanopoulos in an interview airing Thursday that he did not pull the trigger on a prop gun he was hol...
Column: There's Only One Way to Stop the Emergence of Variants Like Omicron from 2021-12-02T06:04:39
There are still more questions about the Omicron variant than answers. While the mutations identified suggest it has the potential to be more resi...
Do Current COVID-19 Tests Still Detect Omicron? from 2021-12-01T07:44:38
While no cases of the new coronavirus variant, Omicron, have been reported in the U.S. yet, it’s only a matter of time. In fact, Dr. Anthony Fauci...
3 Students Killed, 8 People Wounded in Mass Shooting at Michigan High School from 2021-12-01T07:30:52
(OXFORD TOWNSHIP, Mich.) — A 15-year-old sophomore opened fire at his Michigan high school on Tuesday, killing three students, including a 16-year...
FDA Panel Narrowly Backs a First-of-a-Kind COVID-19 Antiviral Pill Made By Merck from 2021-12-01T07:13:16
WASHINGTON (AP) — A panel of U.S. health advisers on Tuesday narrowly backed a closely watched COVID-19 pill from Merck, setting the stage for a l...
CNN Suspends Chris Cuomo for Helping His Brother Andrew in a Sexual Harassment Scandal from 2021-12-01T06:51:56
NEW YORK — CNN indefinitely suspended anchor Chris Cuomo on Tuesday after details emerged about how he helped his brother, former New York Gov. An...
What To Know About the Contacts Book That Could Be Crucial to Ghislaine Maxwell’s Trial from 2021-11-30T08:03:32
The trial of Ghislaine Maxwell began on Monday, more than two years after the death of her alleged associate Jeffrey Epstein, with whom she had be...
Here’s What COVID-19 Vaccine Makers Are Doing to Fight Omicron from 2021-11-30T07:25:47
On Nov. 26, the World Health Organization declared Omicron the latest COVID-19 variant of concern, and vaccine makers jumped on the news. Moderna ...
Why the Omicron Variant Is a New Political Test for Joe Biden from 2021-11-30T06:48:22
One of Joe Biden’s greatest political vulnerabilities going into next year is a mutating virus.
Voters do not seem to be rewarding Pres...
Column: It's Time for a New Progressive Era, With Informal Workers at the Center from 2021-11-30T06:22:39
A century ago, on the heels of another deadly pandemic, an estimated 10,000 coal workers in West Virginia banded together to march in protest agai...
The White House’s Holiday Decor Honors COVID-19 Frontline Workers from 2021-11-30T06:12:43
WASHINGTON — Holiday decorations unveiled Monday for Joe and Jill Biden’s first White House Christmas honor frontline workers who persevered durin...
Nuclear Fusion Finally Finds Its Place in the Sun from 2021-11-29T07:23:10
One of my favorite bar signs is the one that promises “Free beer tomorrow.” That’s how I’ve always thought of nuclear fusion—a (theoretically) che...
‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ Apps Are Taking Over Holiday Shopping Season. Here’s What to Know About the Risks from 2021-11-29T06:51:36
As Black Friday approaches and the 2021 holiday shopping season kicks into high gear, "buy now, pay later," or BNPL, programs are having a resurge...
Visionary Louis Vuitton Fashion Designer Virgil Abloh Dies at 41 from 2021-11-29T06:19:18
(NEW YORK) — Virgil Abloh, a leading designer whose groundbreaking fusions of streetwear and high couture made him one of the most celebrated tast...
Moderna Says New Vaccine for Omicron Variant May Be Ready in Early 2022 from 2021-11-29T06:04:01
Moderna Inc. Chief Medical Officer Paul Burton said he suspects the new omicron coronavirus variant may elude current vaccines, and if so, a refor...
How the Kyle Rittenhouse Trial Verdict Could Devastate the Work of Black Lives Matter Activists from 2021-11-28T12:11:15
On the surface, the jury's Nov. 19 verdict in the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse was all too simple. His defense team successfully pled the case that R...
Yes, You Should Get a COVID-19 Booster from 2021-11-28T11:53:44
On Nov. 19, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), supported an advisory committee’s advice and ...
How Germany’s New Government Plans to Be the Greenest One Yet from 2021-11-28T11:45:12
Among environmentalists, hopes have been running high for Germany’s new government. At elections this September, growing concern about climate cha...
25 Great Cyber Monday Deals You Can Get Right Now from 2021-11-28T11:27:08
As the holidays approach this year, you’ll be forgiven for having visions of supply chain issues dance through your head alongside those sugar plu...
Brené Brown Thinks You Should Talk About These 87 Emotions from 2021-11-28T11:04:56
Why is it that people are quick to say they’re jealous of someone, but will not admit to being envious? What’s the difference between shame and gu...
Even Santa Claus Prefers Working Remotely from 2021-11-28T10:48:40
Logging into video chat has become rote: I sit down at my computer, check my hair, turn on the camera. But this time, I’m greeted with a jolly “Ho...
How to Talk to Your Family About COVID-19 Before the Holidays from 2021-11-28T10:32:05
It’s entirely possible to love and dread the holidays at the same time—especially in 2021, which promises awkward conversations along with glad ti...
After 27 Years Behind Bars, This Trailblazing Prison Reform Advocate Is Now Home for the Holidays from 2021-11-27T13:58:50
On Nov. 22, Joel Castón—dressed head to toe in a dapper bright blue suit—exited the D.C. Jail to take his first breath of freedom in 27 years. Sur...
How Your Post-Thanksgiving Diet Could Help Save the Planet from 2021-11-27T13:51:37
As you tuck into your Thanksgiving dinner, the kick-off event (at least for Americans) of the holiday season, spare a thought for the planet’s car...
Inside the 80-Year Quest to Name Pearl Harbor’s Unknown Victims from 2021-11-27T13:44:27
The seven sailors point their rifles skyward and fire three times in unison, shattering the silence at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacif...
Japan’s Oscar Entry Drive My Car Is a Gorgeous Tale of Loss and Forgiveness from 2021-11-27T13:14:56
Humans need to be close to other humans: when you say it like that, it sounds like your typical warm, fuzzy truism, the kind of platitude we all a...
6 Lessons on the Future of the Metaverse From the Creator of Second Life from 2021-11-27T13:08:54
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What We Know So Far About the New Variant of COVID-19 Raising Alarms Globally from 2021-11-27T12:45:34
A new variant of SARS-CoV-2 first reported in South Africa is raising alarms for health officials around the world, leading to fresh travel restri...
Buying a House Feels Impossible These Days. Here Are 6 Innovative Paths to Homeownership from 2021-11-27T12:41:40
A dozen Grade-A eggs will run you about $0.40 more than they did a year ago, and you'll have to fork over $0.66 more for a pound of ground beef. A...
All of Paul Thomas Anderson’s Movies, Ranked from 2021-11-27T12:06:33
Your favorite Paul Thomas Anderson movie probably depends on whether you prefer his oddball comedies (Punch-Drunk Love, Inherent Vice, the new Lic...
Scientists Concerned About New COVID-19 Variant With High Number of Mutations from 2021-11-26T08:20:16
(JOHANNESBURG) — A new coronavirus variant has been detected in South Africa that scientists say is a concern because of its high number of mutati...
6 Things to Know (About Yourself) to Have a Successful Black Friday from 2021-11-26T08:07
For many years, Americans have had a holiday right after Thanksgiving that prompted a lot of buying. It is called Christmas. But it was a whole mo...
Column: Why We Should Stop Freaking Out About Inflation from 2021-11-26T07:58:19
For the first time in decades, we are in the midst of a bona-fide inflation scare. Recent numbers came in at 6.2%, the highest since 1990. With go...
Here Are the Most 'Attractive' Global Cities. Can They Keep Their Edge After the Pandemic? from 2021-11-26T07:13:47
Many major global cities saw a significant decrease in competitiveness during the COVID-19 pandemic, as governments tightened border restrictions ...
Column: How to Have Fun With That Relative Whose Opinions You Can't Stand from 2021-11-25T07:23:01
As Americans prepare to host Thanksgiving dinners and other holiday meals, much attention is paid to the food served, the table setting, and the g...
Why Sweden’s First Female Prime Minister Resigned Just Hours After Her Appointment from 2021-11-25T06:49:42
Sweden’s first female prime minister, Magdalena Andersson, got the worst possible start to her tenure when she was forced to resign only hours aft...
Jamie Dimon Apologizes After Joking JPMorgan Will Outlast Chinese Communist Party from 2021-11-25T06:38:17
JPMorgan Chase chief Jamie Dimon knew as soon as the words came out of his mouth that the joke about China could land him in hot water.
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Austria’s Plan to Make COVID-19 Vaccines Compulsory Is Dividing Citizens — and Experts from 2021-11-24T08:20:59
Grappling with Europe’s punishing fourth wave of COVID-19, Austria’s government took bold steps to combat the spread of the disease on Friday — no...
Boy, 8, Dies in Hospital After Being Struck in Waukesha Parade Crash from 2021-11-24T07:23:46
An 8-year-old boy became the sixth person to die Tuesday as a result of a man driving his SUV into a suburban Milwaukee Christmas parade, with a c...
The Supreme Court’s Decision on the Mississippi-Tennessee Aquifer Conflict Will Change U.S. Water Wars from 2021-11-24T07:16:09
On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously rejected Mississippi’s claim that Tennessee was stealing its groundwater in a decision that legal ex...
Why the International Olympic Committee Intervened on China’s Behalf in the Peng Shuai Controversy from 2021-11-24T06:54:47
When Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai seemingly disappeared from public view after posting allegations that a top Chinese official sexually assaul...
The Buck Stops Here: Dollar Tree Raises Prices to $1.25 from 2021-11-24T06:44:50
(NEW YORK) — Faced with the rising cost of goods and freight, discount retail chain Dollar Tree said Tuesday it will be raising its prices to $1.2...
Column: What Vladimir Putin Is Up To in Ukraine from 2021-11-23T07:39:24
In recent weeks, Russia has advanced more than 100,000 soldiers to its border with Ukraine. The Ukrainian government, fearing an attack, has calle...
3 Milwaukee ‘Dancing Grannies’ Among 5 Killed in Christmas Parade Crash from 2021-11-23T07:31:29
The short skirts. The sparkly pompoms. The sassy hip sways. The grandchildren.
They are the Milwaukee Dancing Grannies, a marching, dan...
Samsung Reportedly Picks Texas for $17 Billion U.S. Semiconductor Plant from 2021-11-23T07:22:46
Samsung Electronics has decided to build an advanced U.S. chip plant in Texas, a win for the Biden administration as it prioritizes supply chain s...
Column: The Kyle Rittenhouse Verdict Makes Us All Less Safe from 2021-11-22T07:35:24
Jurors make their decisions in isolation. The problem is that in some cases, their verdicts can have sweeping consequences.
The case of...
5 People Killed and 40 Injured After SUV Plows Into Wisconsin Christmas Parade from 2021-11-22T07:19:03
(WAUKESHA, Wis.) — A joyous scene of marching bands and children dancing in Santa hats and waving pompoms turned deadly in an instant, as an SUV s...
AI Hiring Tools Can Discriminate Based on Race and Gender. A New NYC Bill Would Fight That from 2021-11-22T06:58:10
Job candidates rarely know when hidden artificial intelligence tools are rejecting their resumes or analyzing their video interviews. But New York...
The Duterte Family’s Plan for the Next Election Highlights the Problem of Political Dynasties in the Philippines from 2021-11-22T06:42:10
Outgoing Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte finalized his candidacy Monday for a senate seat in elections scheduled for May 2022, just days afte...
Review: In C'mon C'mon, Mike Mills and Joaquin Phoenix Navigate the Puzzling Territory of Kid Logic from 2021-11-22T06:11:35
Movies about childless adults learning great life lessons from children are generally a terrible idea—unless they’re made by Mike Mills, whose sem...
I Traveled the World to Witness the End of Winter from 2021-11-21T12:26:24
For a century and a half, melting snow and ice have been the most recognizable visual evidence of climate change. You can see it in the Arctic Oce...
Kevin McCarthy’s Very Trumpy 8-Hour Audition for House Speaker from 2021-11-21T11:48:54
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Congress Is Looking Into Groups Profiting From Fake COVID-19 Drugs After TIME Investigation from 2021-11-21T11:29:20
Spreading misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines has never been more lucrative. The past year has created a thriving online marketplace for unprov...
The 19th Century Advocate For ‘Free Love’ and Women’s Liberty from 2021-11-21T11:14:17
When the roots of modern-day polyamory, sexual freedom, and "free love" are discussed, they're often traced back to the 1960s—the era of hippies, ...
The Strange Shortsightedness of Malfunction: The Dressing Down of Janet Jackson from 2021-11-21T11:01:30
A week after The New York Times Presents: Framing Britney Spears debuted on FX and Hulu, this past February, Justin Timberlake took to Instagram w...
Kyle Rittenhouse Found Not Guilty of All Charges from 2021-11-20T08:41:50
Kyle Rittenhouse, the teenager who killed two people during demonstrations last year in Kenosha, Wis., was found not guilty on all charges Friday....
What Will the Senate Do with the Build Back Better Bill? from 2021-11-20T08:32:48
Buried in the graveyard of Democrats’ early hopes for the sweeping social and environmental spending bill that passed in the House of Representati...
The ‘Vindicating’ Exoneration of 2 Men Convicted of Malcolm X’s Murder from 2021-11-20T08:15:10
On Nov. 18, Muhammad Aziz and Khalil Islam—convicted of the 1965 assassination of Malcolm X—were exonerated after serving more than 20 years in pr...
China Is Trying to Make the Tennis Star Peng Shuai’s #MeToo Allegation Disappear. It’s Not Working from 2021-11-20T08:02:02
When Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai went public with a bombshell sexual assault accusation against a retired top official, China's response was to...
Marjorie Taylor Greene Isn’t a Fluke—She Might Be the Future from 2021-11-20T07:42:06
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Surf and Turf: How Seaweed Helps Cows Become Better Climate Citizens from 2021-11-20T07:15:36
Getting calories out of grass is not easy. That’s why cows and other ruminants, like goats and sheep, have multiple compartments in their stomachs...
Review: Ghostbusters: Afterlife Is Excessively Eager To Please from 2021-11-20T07:02:56
In the world of franchises, sequels, reboots and remakes, there are true fans and then there’s everybody else. In early 2019, as filmmaker Jason R...
Why We’re Only Just Starting to Talk About Actually Keeping Oil and Gas in the Ground from 2021-11-19T09:46:42
Speaking in Glasgow last week, Danish climate minister Dan Jorgensen emphasized that the international oil and natural gas phase-out agreement he ...
Wuhan Wet Market Worker Is Now the 1st Known Case of COVID-19, According to New Study from 2021-11-19T09:27:20
An accountant from Wuhan, China, who was widely thought to be first person with Covid-19 actually developed symptoms eight days later than initial...
Lael Brainard Could Be the Next Fed Chair. She Believes the U.S. Central Bank Can Help Fix Wealth Inequality from 2021-11-19T09:17:43
President Biden's decision on whether to replace Jerome Powell as chair of the Federal Reserve Board is coming down to the wire. The Board's only ...
What King Richard‘s Story of an Uncommon Dad Means for the Rest of Us from 2021-11-19T09:09:30
In King Richard, the new biopic chronicling the rise of the superstar tennis sisters each now known by one name—Venus and Serena—the protagonist R...
In the Kyle Rittenhouse Trial, Self-Defense Takes Center Stage from 2021-11-18T09:43:34
Jurors in Kyle Rittenhouse’s polarizing murder trial have been deliberating whether the teenager acted in self-defense when he shot three people d...
The Head of Women’s Tennis On His Fight for a Chinese Star Who’s Been Missing Since Her Sexual Assault Claim from 2021-11-18T09:32:43
Steve Simon, the CEO and chairman of the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), says he's tried to speak directly with Peng Shuai, the tennis pro from ...
Catholic Bishops Just Sidestepped a Confrontation with Joe Biden Over Communion from 2021-11-18T09:15:18
Hundreds of the country’s Catholic bishops, their names on tags hanging from green lanyards around their necks, sat at long tables inside a confer...
Column: The Story of the Jonestown Massacre Is About Much More Than Jim Jones from 2021-11-18T09:09:44
Forty-three years ago, on November 18, 1978, 918 Americans died in a remote jungle in Guyana, South America. One was a U.S. Congressman, three wer...
A Quirky Ping-Pong Ball Lottery Just Dealt a Blow to Biden’s COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate from 2021-11-17T12:01
A peculiar ping-pong ball lottery—think: the NBA draft, only required by federal law—on Tuesday dimmed the fate of the Biden Administration’s new ...
As More Companies Make Net-Zero Pledges, Some Aren’t as Good as They Sound from 2021-11-17T11:48:38
At COP26, the U.N. climate summit in Glasgow, governments and businesses put forward ambitious-sounding plans to de-carbonize. But a closer look b...
President Biden and Xi Jinping’s Summit Suggests Climate Diplomacy Could Soften the U.S.-China Divide from 2021-11-17T11:26:37
The summit between U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese president Xi Jinping this week could signal that relations between the world's two largest...
Librarians Grapple With Conservatives’ Latest Efforts to Ban Books from 2021-11-17T11:15:35
On Nov. 8, two members of a Virginia school board called for a book burning.
During a board meeting that evening, the Spotsylvania Coun...
Column: Ethiopia's Tigray Conflict Demands International Attention. Time Is Running Out from 2021-11-16T10:05:11
When Abiy Ahmed, Ethiopia’s prime minister, launched an attack on the restive region of Tigray in his country’s north last November, he promised i...
The 5 Most Important Revelations From the ‘Facebook Papers’ from 2021-10-26T07:36:04
A more complete portrait of how Facebook was vividly aware of its harmful effects came to light Monday, both at Frances Haugen’s testimony in fron...
Princess Mako's Wedding to a Commoner Puts a Spotlight on the Japanese Monarchy's Succession Problem from 2021-10-26T07:16:20
Japan’s Princess Mako finally married her long-time commoner boyfriend Kei Komuro on Tuesday, ending uncertainty fueled by years of delay, controv...
What the Facebook Whistleblower Did to the Company’s Stock in 6 Weeks from 2021-10-26T06:50:06
Facebook’s stock price has been diving since the Wall Street Journal first published initial reports from whistleblower Frances Haugen on Sept. 13...
Moderna Reports COVID-19 Vaccine Safe and Efficacious for Kids from 2021-10-26T06:24:50
Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine is safe and efficacious for children ages 6 to 11 years old who recieve two half doses, the company said today. That's ...
By Ending Legacy Admissions, Amherst Aims to Change the Makeup of Its Student Body from 2021-10-25T08:25:31
Since Johns Hopkins University stopped giving admissions preference to children of alumni seven years ago, its percentage of low-income and first-...
The True Story Behind The Last Duel—and History’s Attempt to Erase It from 2021-10-25T08:07:43
Warning: This post contains spoilers for The Last Duel.
“Do you swear on your life that what you say is true?” This question, posed to ...
James Michael Tyler, Who Played Gunther on Friends, Dies at 59 from 2021-10-25T06:52:24
NEW YORK — James Michael Tyler, the actor known widely for his recurring role as Gunther on “Friends,” has died. He was 59.
Tyler died ...
The Supreme Court’s Texas Abortion Case Could Give States More Power Than Ever from 2021-10-24T12:24:58
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday declined for the second time to immediately block Texas' six-week abortion ban, but said it will hear two separat...
Woman Accuses Biden Administration of Anti-Gay Discrimination in Foster Program from 2021-10-24T12:14:38
Kelly Easter wanted to help. Like many Americans, she watched the news in 2020 in dismay at the conditions awaiting unaccompanied migrant children...
Business Travel’s Demise Could Have Far-Reaching Consequences from 2021-10-24T12:01:45
In 2019, Jason Henrichs took 46 flights for business, traveling to cities where he stayed at hotels, dined at local restaurants, and sometimes eve...
Barney Frank Looks Back—And Forward—After Decades of LGBTQ Advocacy from 2021-10-24T11:52:34
In 1987, Congressman Barney Frank, a Democrat from Massachusetts, made history when he told the Boston Globe, “If you ask the direct question: 'Ar...
Column: Brexit Is Still a Hot Mess from 2021-10-24T11:19:07
From the pandemic to President Joseph Biden’s election, the January 6 insurrection, and the vaccine rollout, a lot has changed in the last 18 mont...
What the History of Money Says About Its Future from 2021-10-24T11:05:32
When Franklin Roosevelt told his economic advisers he was about to take the U.S. off the gold standard, they freaked out. The President was leadin...
The Fate of Roe v. Wade May Rest on This Woman’s Shoulders from 2021-10-23T08:31:19
The night before Julie Rikelman was scheduled to argue before the Supreme Court for the first time, she hardly slept at all. But it wasn’t nerves ...
Halyna Hutchins’ Death Could Change The Way Guns Are Used In Hollywood from 2021-10-23T08:09:14
Guns have dominated American movies for decades, with millions of fake rounds of ammunition fired off by John Wayne, Sly Stallone, Keanu Reeves, L...
Amid a Labor Shortage, Companies Are Eliminating Drug Tests. It’s a Trend That Could Create More Equitable Workplaces from 2021-10-23T07:48:24
A growing number of companies are eliminating workplace drug testing to attract and retain workers amid a global labor shortage, a new development...
How a Long-Shot Push to Remove Dams to Protect Wild Salmon Is Gaining Traction from 2021-10-23T07:29:13
Two powerful Democrats from the Pacific Northwest are launching a formal review to study the possibility of removing four hydropower dams currentl...
Critics Say Academic Freedom Will Suffer After Georgia Changed the Rules of Tenure from 2021-10-23T07:15:39
Tenure, one of the bedrocks of higher education in the U.S., is at the center of a heated debate in the world of academia after Georgia’s public u...
A New Name Won’t Fix Facebook from 2021-10-23T07:01:27
When an established company becomes fraught with scandal, advisers will often suggest changing the subject to distract from its mistakes. It’s usu...
How Only Murders in the Building Grapples With the Thorny Ethics of True-Crime Podcasting from 2021-10-23T06:50:01
As someone who listens to a lot of podcasts as part of my job, I couldn't help but admire how well Hulu's mystery-comedy Only Murders in the Build...
What to Know About the Multiple Criminal Investigations into Alex Murdaugh from 2021-10-22T07:55:17
Murder investigations, embezzlement allegations, a drug addiction and hitman-for-hire: in recent months, a series of bizarre criminal incidents su...
Should Aging Government Leaders Have to Pass Cognitive Tests to Serve? from 2021-10-22T07:33:55
Republican Senator Bill Cassidy finally said something few dare to say aloud: some of the people who run American government may be too old for th...
Why Flying Carbon Class To COP26 Is More Expensive Than Taking the Train from 2021-10-22T06:47
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Cinematographer Killed by Prop Gun Fired by Alec Baldwin on the Movie Set of Rust from 2021-10-22T06:21:13
SANTA FE, N.M. — A prop firearm discharged by veteran actor Alec Baldwin, who is starring and producing a Western movie, killed his director of ph...
Climate Change Threatens to Spread Viruses Through an Unprepared World from 2021-10-21T08:00:12
Climate change is creating ideal conditions for infectious-disease transmission and the world’s health-care systems aren’t ready for the shock it ...
How the Pandemic Era May Have Deterred Witnesses From Trying to Stop a Rape from 2021-10-21T07:21:07
On the night of Oct. 13, a woman was raped on a commuter train near Philadelphia—an attack that authorities say lasted several minutes and could h...
FDA Authorizes Moderna and J&J Booster Shots from 2021-10-21T07:06:01
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today followed the advice of its advisory committee and recommended booster shots of COVID-19 vaccines from...
Why Netflix Investors Should Care About Its Chappelle Controversy from 2021-10-21T06:46:13
Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos struck a note of contrition while speaking to journalists after the company released its third-quarter results on the ...
Scientists Successfully Attached a Pig Kidney to Human For the First Time from 2021-10-21T06:19:26
Scientists temporarily attached a pig’s kidney to a human body and watched it begin to work, a small step in the decades-long quest to one day use...
It May Be Too Late to Find the Origin of COVID-19. The WHO Is Trying Anyway from 2021-10-20T08:16:47
Almost two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s still not clear exactly how, where or when the SARS-CoV-2 virus began infecting people. Many exp...
‘I Am Both Ancient and Trendy.’ He’s a Buddhist Monk, a Makeup Artist and an LGBTQ Activist from 2021-10-20T07:35:43
Buddhist monks are typically trained to live austerely, wearing plain robes and few accessories. Kodo Nishimura does anything but. He tends to his...
Major League Baseball Will Cover Housing Costs for Minor Leaguers. Advocates Say It’s a Start, But Far From Enough from 2021-10-20T07:10:58
By 2018, Joe Hudson had been playing professional baseball for five years as a minor leaguer. He had less than $1,000 in his bank account.
Bergman Island Is the Rare Movie About Writers Trying To Write That Really Works from 2021-10-20T06:39:59
Movies about artists making art—or, worse, writers trying to write—are always a risky proposition. For one thing, to everyone out there in the rea...
Colin Powell and the Transformative Power of Owning Your Mistakes from 2021-10-19T07:31:59
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What Colin Powell’s COVID-19 Death Says About the Current State of the Pandemic from 2021-10-19T07:25:27
The death of Colin Powell, an 84-year-old former four-star general who served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under U.S. President George...
What Donald Trump's Jan. 6 Records Lawsuit Means for Biden from 2021-10-19T06:59:46
For over a century, U.S. Presidents have fought zealously to defend the executive branch’s right to withhold certain information from Congress and...
Japan’s Plummeting COVID-19 Cases Create Mysterious Success Story from 2021-10-19T06:24:17
(TOKYO) — Almost overnight, Japan has become a stunning, and somewhat mysterious, coronavirus success story.
Daily new COVID-19 cases h...
Here’s How to Fix Facebook, According to Former Employees and Leading Critics from 2021-10-05T09:52:43
Frances Haugen, a former Facebook employee, revealed her identity on Sunday as the whistleblower who handed thousands of internal Facebook documen...
New York’s Vaccine Mandate Is Working, But Hospitals Are Struggling With the Fallout from 2021-10-05T09:33:31
By almost any measure, New York State's requirement that health care workers get vaccinated against COVID-19, which was announced on Aug. 16 and w...
The Biden Administration Promised ‘Immediate’ Aid to Haitian Deportees. It Has Yet to Arrive from 2021-10-05T09:12:07
As the United States moves quickly to deport thousands of Haitians, the Biden Administration has repeatedly promised to support the migrants upon ...
Why TV and Film Workers Just Authorized One of the Biggest Strikes in Hollywood History from 2021-10-05T08:22:28
More than 50,000 film and television workers voted to authorize a union strike this weekend, calling attention to exhausting working conditions in...
FBI Data Shows a Surge in Murders in 2020. That’s Not the Full Story from 2021-10-04T07:22:39
The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) Sept. 27 release of its annual Uniform Crime Report (UCR) confirmed what many expected: the number of m...
Juul Is No Longer U.S. Teenagers’ Preferred E-Cigarette. Puff Bar Seems to Have Taken Over from 2021-10-04T07:10:31
Disposable e-cigarettes like Puff Bar are now far more popular among teenagers than the pod-based products from once-dominant brand Juul, accordin...
Why Can’t I Get A COVID-19 Booster Shot If I’ve Been Vaccinated With Moderna or J&J? from 2021-10-04T06:51:11
There’s been quite a bit of news about COVID-19 booster shots lately, and it’s been more confusing than reassuring. Public health officials don’t ...
The Facebook Whistleblower Revealed Herself on 60 Minutes. Here’s What You Need to Know from 2021-10-04T06:14:50
The Facebook whistleblower who caused a firestorm after releasing internal documents detailing how the company failed to address negative effects ...
Caring for the Caregivers Post-Pandemic from 2021-10-03T12:09:35
Since March 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic was first officially declared, doctors, nurses and other clinicians have stepped up and shouldered bu...
Congressional Democrats’ Infighting Is Jeopardizing a Historic Expansion of Housing Access from 2021-10-03T11:44:28
As Democrats spar over a sweeping bipartisan infrastructure bill and an even bigger budget reconciliation package that includes funding for everyt...
Donald Trump Still Leads The Republicans—And That’s Bad for Almost Everybody from 2021-10-03T11:33:44
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How Seinfeld Became One of TV’s Great Moneymakers from 2021-10-03T11:22:58
“People don’t turn down money—it’s what separates us from the animals,” Jerry Seinfeld proclaimed as his character on a 1991 episode of Seinfeld. ...
The Board Game Business Is Booming, But the Global Shipping Crisis Could Be Disastrous from 2021-10-03T10:59:46
Games became an entertainment lifeline for many people hunkered down at home amid the pandemic, and many board game business owners found success ...
The Problem With Jon Stewart Could Be Great, If It Ever Catches Up to the Present from 2021-10-03T10:44:38
There’s a telling moment in an early episode of The Problem With Jon Stewart. During a lively discussion on contemporary authoritarianism, Francis...
School Masking Mandates Are Going to Court. Here’s Why the Issue Is So Complicated from 2021-10-02T08:24:44
As both the school year and the COVID-19 pandemic progress into another month, there's no sign that parent anger over the intersection of the two ...
Column: R. Kelly Has Finally Been Silenced. Let's Keep It That Way from 2021-10-02T08:05:01
In the summer of 2017, at a neighborhood Atlanta coffee house, the #MuteRKelly movement was born. There, I met Oronike Odeleye, the woman who woul...
Column: Rethinking What it Means to Recover from Addiction from 2021-10-02T07:45:41
When I kicked cocaine and heroin in 1988, I was told that there was only one way to get better: abstain forever from psychoactive substances inclu...
Here Are the 8 New Books You Should Read in October from 2021-10-02T07:27:21
The best new books arriving this month dive deep into a range of topics, from a wrenching portrait of homelessness and poverty in America to the d...
The Rise and Fall of a Dangerous Political Movement in Revolutionary America from 2021-10-02T07:11:30
The Brethren did not begin as a tory uprising. Ironically, its members—a group of eastern North Carolina yeomen—believed themselves to be respondi...
Review: Just Try to Look Away From Jake Gyllenhaal’s Gripping Performance in'The Guilty' from 2021-10-02T06:53:40
There are some actors so intense, their nerve endings sizzling so close to the surface, that they can make you want to look away. That’s Jake Gyll...
Joe Biden’s Agenda Uncertain After Progressives Force Delay on Infrastructure Vote from 2021-10-01T08:00:41
For weeks, progressive lawmakers in Congress have been threatening to sink the bipartisan infrastructure bill if they were not given certain guara...
Column: Why Counting Calories Isn’t an Effective Weight-Loss Strategy from 2021-10-01T07:48:05
You can say one thing for Professor Mark Haub: He knows how to make a lesson stick.
Haub, who teaches nutrition at Kansas State Univers...
Column: Why We Must Hear the Warning in Frederick Douglass' 'Sources of Danger to the Republic' Today from 2021-10-01T07:29:53
On Jan. 3, 1867, nearly two years after the end of the Civil War, Frederick Douglass stood before a full house of hundreds of African Americans at...
Why Joe Biden Isn’t Strong-Arming the Senate Democrats Holding Up His Agenda from 2021-09-30T08:54:43
Senators have spent hours on the custard-colored couches of Joe Biden’s Oval Office over the past several days. Dozens of chocolate chip cookies h...
Jamie Spears Suspended From Britney Spears’ Conservatorship Amid New Allegations of Abuse from 2021-09-30T08:50:53
It was a monumental day for Britney Spears and supporters of the #FreeBritney movement. Just over three months after Britney testified that the co...
Column: Don't Fall for Dear Evan Hansen from 2021-09-30T08:47:25
Dear Evan Hansen, the film adaptation of Steven Levenson’s multiple-award-winning stage musical, is ostensibly a nice little movie about a teen tr...
Making Meals From Mealworms Is ‘Part of the Answer’ to the Climate Crisis, the CEO of Ynsect Says from 2021-09-30T08:16:59
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Three New Britney Spears Documentaries Tell a Chilling Tale About the Bystander Effect from 2021-09-29T09:12:20
For about a decade, it seemed that no one knew what was going on with Britney Spears. She toured the world, released albums, had a hit Las Vegas r...
Fumio Kishida Is Set to Be Japan’s New Prime Minister. Here’s What to Expect From Him from 2021-09-29T08:58:33
Japan's former foreign minister Fumio Kishida looked set to become the country’s new prime minister Wednesday after he was elected leader of the r...
Column: Angela Merkel Didn't Just Save Europe. She Also Made It More Resilient from 2021-09-29T08:51:03
Germany's election on Sept. 26 ended without a clear winner, but one thing at least is certain: Angela Merkel will soon exit the political stage s...
What We Fear in the Wake of the Texas Abortion Law from 2021-09-29T08:39:51
On Sept. 1, Texas enacted an extreme law that effectively ended abortion care in the state. Since then, clinics in states on the western and north...
Why Biden’s COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate Is Frustrating OSHA from 2021-09-28T08:57
When President Joe Biden directed the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) on Sept. 9 to impose strict COVID-19 vaccination and te...
R. Kelly Found Guilty in Sex Trafficking Trial from 2021-09-28T08:16:02
(NEW YORK) — The R&B superstar R. Kelly was convicted Monday in a sex trafficking trial after decades of avoiding criminal responsibility for nume...
42% of Women Say They Have Consistently Felt Burned Out at Work in 2021 from 2021-09-28T08:05:20
Both men and women are feeling even more burned out in 2021 than they were in 2020. Given that the labor force is sojourning through a second year...
Inside Broadway’s Jubilant Homecoming from 2021-09-27T08:41:33
For the spectator, Broadway is magic, not work: Every show, whether it’s a drama or a musical, is a feat of illusion, designed to allow an audienc...
The Social Democrats Have Beaten Angela Merkel’s Bloc in the German Elections from 2021-09-27T08:20:03
BERLIN — Germany's center-left Social Democrats won the biggest share of the vote in a national election Sunday, narrowly beating outgoing Chancel...
Biden Laid Out an Ambitious Global Agenda at the UN General Assembly. Here’s How It Compares to Reality from 2021-09-27T08:07:23
Everything is easier said than done, and that’s especially true for big challenges. Like, for example, trying to establish America’s place in the ...
In a New Lifetime Documentary, Olympic Gymnast Aly Raisman Finds a Path to Healing After Her Experience With Sexual Abuse from 2021-09-27T07:51:55
In Aly Raisman: From Darkness to Light, the former Olympian confronts her most challenging task yet: recovering from the sexual abuse she experien...
Apple TV+’s Beautiful, Frustrating Foundation Is the Latest Example of the Problem With Genre TV from 2021-09-26T13:13:10
How can the doomed societies of the present help the societies of the future flourish? This is the central question of Foundation, the gorgeous, e...
Biden Administration Grapples With How to Send Aid to Afghanistan Without Supporting the Taliban from 2021-09-26T12:58:23
When President Joe Biden stood in front of the iconic green marble and gold foil backdrop to address the United Nations General Assembly in New Yo...
Meet the 14-Year-Old Girl Whose Solar-Powered Invention Is a Finalist for Prince William’s Earthshot Prize from 2021-09-26T12:43:37
Tell Vinisha Umashankar that your teen years pale in comparison to hers, and she is quick to remind you that everyone has a different life journey...
Dr. Lorna Breen’s Family: Doctors Shouldn’t Be ‘Punished’ for Seeking Support from 2021-09-26T12:33:11
When Dr. Lorna Breen, an emergency-room physician at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, died by suicide in April 2020, her family and colleagues were ...
How to Free Up Storage Space on Your iPhone from 2021-09-26T12:24:32
There’s nothing worse than that dreaded iPhone message that always seems to pop up at the wrong time: “Not enough storage.”
Maybe you’...
‘Defund the Police’ Was a Catchy Slogan. It’s Also Why a Policing Bill Fell Apart from 2021-09-26T12:12:59
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Can Cannabis Help Your Gut? from 2021-09-26T11:59:40
When Joe Silverman developed Crohn’s disease at age 21, the symptoms started out mild. While the sight of blood in his stools initially freaked hi...
Texas’ Abortion Law Could Worsen the State’s Maternal Mortality Rate from 2021-09-25T11:51:43
Texas’ controversial six-week abortion ban has been in effect just 21 days, and physicians and researchers are already warning that the impact cou...
Anita Hill: I Didn’t Need Joe Biden’s Apology. What I Need Is His Commitment to End Gender-Based Violence from 2021-09-25T11:47:15
In March 2019, I sat in a hotel room in Houston waiting for a conversation that was nearly 28 years in the making. The apology that in December 20...
What Would a Climate-Conscious Facebook Look Like? from 2021-09-25T11:29:29
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A Parole Board Recommended Julius Jones’ Death Sentence Be Commuted. A Week Later, His Execution Date Was Set from 2021-09-25T11:19:50
Julius Jones, a Black man on death row in Oklahoma having been charged with murder in 1999, is scheduled to be executed on Nov. 18, despite the st...
Column: Democrats Must Pass Voting Rights Protections, But They Can't Codify a Lie from 2021-09-25T11:05
Back from their summer recess, Senate Democrats announced last week that they have united behind the "Freedom to Vote" Act, a compromise bill that...
Who’s Afraid of Peter Thiel? A New Biography Suggests We All Should Be from 2021-09-25T10:50:41
Paypal cofounder Peter Thiel is famous for destroying media outlets, not paying taxes, and being a conservative tech billionaire. A new biography,...
With His Agenda on the Brink, Joe Biden Scrambles to Unite Democrats from 2021-09-24T08:57
Joe Biden ran for president promising to be a savvy dealmaker in Congress. But now, with his domestic agenda threatened by disagreements within hi...
CDC Panel Outlines Who Should Get Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Booster Shots, And Who Should Wait from 2021-09-24T08:50:48
In a four-part vote, a Centers for Disease Control (CDC) committee today recommended booster shots of Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine for peopl...
China Says All Cryptocurrency Transactions Are Illegal from 2021-09-24T08:36:45
China’s central bank said all cryptocurrency-related transactions are illegal and must be banned, sending the strongest signal yet on its determin...
Manny Pacquiao Is Campaigning to Be President of the Philippines With Rodrigo Duterte's Playbook from 2021-09-24T08:33:21
Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao has mastered the art of fighting. At 42, he has 12 world boxing titles across eight weight divisions. Out of the 72 ...
Gunman Kills 1 and Wounds 12 in Mass Shooting at Tennessee Kroger: ‘He Kept on Shooting’ from 2021-09-24T08:17:58
(COLLIERVILLE, Tenn.) — A gunman attacked a grocery store in an upscale Tennessee suburb on Thursday afternoon, killing one person and wounding 12...
Will Joe Biden’s $11 Billion Pledge Convince the World the U.S. Can Lead on Climate? from 2021-09-23T07:29:47
President Joe Biden's remarks to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday contained much of the same lofty rhetoric that pervades a lot big ...
The FDA Authorized a Booster Shot of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine—But Not For Everyone from 2021-09-23T07:15:45
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Sept. 22 authorized booster doses for certain people already vaccinated against COVID-19 but at hig...
Following Mandate, United Airlines Says 97% of U.S. Employees Are Fully Vaccinated from 2021-09-23T07:04:27
United Airlines says more than 97% of its U.S.-based employees are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 now that there is less than a week before a d...
A New Campaign Asks Facebook Users to Log Off. Will It Have an Impact? from 2021-09-23T06:58:20
A coalition of advocacy groups is calling on Facebook and Instagram users to log out of both platforms for one day in November to hold the company...
Apparently, Mars Was Always Destined to Die from 2021-09-23T06:41:30
Mars is the solar system's near-miss world. Earth may have gotten everything right when it came to sustaining life—atmosphere, water, proximity to...
Here's Why Companies Aren't Fighting the Employee COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate from 2021-09-22T08:54:07
President Biden met last week with business leaders to inspire others to require their employees to get vaccinated against COVID-19. His recent gu...
Column: Instagram Is Doing Grave Harm to Our Generation. We Need Help to Stop It from 2021-09-22T08:50:33
Although Destinee was just 13 when she created her first Instagram account in 2012, she was late to the world of social media. She remembers stand...
Why China’s Promise to Stop Funding Coal Plants Around the World Is a Really Big Deal from 2021-09-22T08:41:21
Chinese President Xi Jinping announced on Tuesday that China will no longer finance overseas coal projects—a move that could have far-reaching imp...
Column: Why Didn't We Leave Afghanistan Before Now? In a Word, Fear from 2021-09-21T08:58:35
It is hardly remarkable to say that success for the United States in Afghanistan was never likely. For years, experts, scholars, and officials hav...
Why Apple’s Health App Could Be the Sleeper Hit of iOS 15 from 2021-09-21T08:11:18
When Apple's iOS 15 goes live Monday, it will come with the usual bevy of software upgrades meant to enhance slightly older iPhones while also lay...
Why an Immigration Overhaul Won’t Be Part of the $3.5 Trillion Infrastructure Plan from 2021-09-21T07:57:18
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party Falls Short of Majority, but Will Remain in Power from 2021-09-21T07:45:57
(TORONTO) — Canadians gave Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberal Party a victory in Monday's parliamentary elections, but his gamble to win a ma...
Review: Cry Macho Is Pure Clint Eastwood—and That's Mostly a Good Thing from 2021-09-21T07:34:31
To criticize Cry Macho—Clint Eastwood’s 39th or 40th movie as a director, depending on how you’re counting—is like picking on a cave painting beca...
‘A Tragic Mistake.’ Botched Drone Strike in Afghanistan Raises Concerns Over Biden’s Counterterrorism Strategy from 2021-09-20T08:02:14
Days after ISIS-K terrorists killed more than 100 Afghans and 13 U.S. troops at Kabul’s airport, the U.S. military obtained intelligence that anot...
With All Eyes on Washington, the Real Far-Right Threat Has Moved On from 2021-09-20T07:29:09
A much-hyped “Justice for J6” rally on Saturday to support individuals being prosecuted for participating in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol...
Police Find Body Believed to Be Missing Van Trekker Gabby Petito from 2021-09-20T07:17:13
(MOOSE, Wyo.) — Authorities say a body discovered Sunday in Wyoming is believed to be Gabrielle “Gabby” Petito, who disappeared while on a cross-c...
Why the Federal Firearms Agency Can’t Find a Permanent Director from 2021-09-20T06:54:29
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) remains without a leader after President Joe Biden's selection of David Chipman to l...
Some Vaping Companies Are Turning to Synthetic Nicotine to Outsmart the FDA from 2021-09-19T12:46:11
Troy Johnston swears he wanted to play by the rules.
Johnston, who owns the Texas-based vaping company VaporSalon, tried to follow the ...
Meet the Iranian Musician Who Keeps Risking Imprisonment for His Music from 2021-09-19T12:31
Mehdi Rajabian is considered a dangerous criminal In Iran: he’s been arrested several times, spent months in solitary confinement, and is closely ...
Column: The One Story That Captures the Immigrant Experience Like No Other from 2021-09-19T12:11:02
Sometimes the best take on current affairs is found not in the punditry of the cable shows but in great literature. Watching the horrific scenes i...
Pour One Out For the Network Comedy from 2021-09-19T11:43:39
The problem with TV these days, as everyone knows, is that there’s too much of it. By the time you clear out last month’s backlog of binges, anoth...
The Eyes of Tammy Faye Turns the Fallen Televangelist into Camp Curiosity from 2021-09-19T11:08:07
In the grand scheme of Christian forgiveness, maybe it’s a nice idea to try to reclaim the honor, or at least the humanity, of the late evangelist...
Instagram Makes Teen Girls Hate Themselves. Is That a Bug or a Feature? from 2021-09-18T08:50:25
The features within Instagram that cause teenage girls to develop negative feelings about their body image may be baked into the very core of the ...
A Decade After Jamey Rodemeyer’s Death, His Parents Are Still Trying to Protect Kids From Homophobia and Bullying from 2021-09-18T08:36:35
It has been ten years since the death of 14-year-old Jamey Rodemeyer, a Williamsville, New York teen whose suicide further turned a national spotl...
Column: The U.S. Turned Away Jewish Refugees in 1939. We Must Not Repeat History With Afghans Fleeing the Taliban from 2021-09-18T08:01:37
In May 1939, more than 900 Jewish refugees boarded the MS St. Louis in Hamburg, hoping to flee Nazi Germany for the relative safety of Cuba. Due t...
Column: Access to Birth Control Is No Substitute for Abortion Rights from 2021-09-18T07:45:22
We have reached a dangerous new place in the battle over bodies and birth control in the United States. After years of attacks, this month Texas e...
St. Jude’s Fundraising Chief on Space Missions, ‘Pushing Boundaries’ and a Record-Setting Year from 2021-09-18T07:33:07
TIME Studios is producing the Netflix documentary series Countdown: Inspiration 4 Mission to Space, starting Sept. 6.
St. Jude Children...
The Moderna Vaccine's Protection Wanes by 36% After 12 Months, According to a New Study from 2021-09-17T09:04:25
Studies from COVID-19 vaccine makers and public health officials have been suggesting for a while that protection provided by the vaccines wanes o...
Joe Biden Is Keeping Mark Milley. But His Actions Show the Country Is Still Grappling with the Trump Era from 2021-09-17T08:53:27
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley took extraordinary steps to try to prevent Donald Trump from using military action to remain in ...
FX’s Epic Y: The Last Man Adaptation Gets Off to a Shaky But Intriguing Start from 2021-09-17T08:42:20
A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle. So goes the old feminist slogan, coined by Irina Dunn and popularized by Gloria Steinem. But, as ...
I Tried Lab-Grown Fish Maw. Here’s Why It Could Help Save Our Oceans from 2021-09-17T07:43:44
I'm an avid surfer and a certified scuba diver, and spending so much time in the water means that I'm keenly aware of the impact that human activi...
American Rust Sounds a Lot Like Mare of Easttown. Sadly, It Isn’t from 2021-09-17T07:34:25
American Rust opens with a montage of small-town denizens taking their morning drugs. In the first shot of the Showtime crime drama, protagonist D...
Inspiration4 Makes Space History With First-Ever All-Civilian Orbital Launch from 2021-09-16T08:24:03
In the end, the camping trip up the flank of Mt. Rainier that the Inspiration4 crew made back in April may have done more than anything else to pr...
The U.S. Needs an Operation Warp Speed for Rapid COVID-19 Testing from 2021-09-16T08:11:46
The Delta variant has caused a resurgence in COVID-19 cases and deaths, threatening earlier gains made by the Biden Administration in tackling the...
How This Fall Could Shape the Future of Moviegoing from 2021-09-16T07:42:46
Everyone has the tea leaves; no one has the actual tea. Will the movies come back this autumn? Will they ever come back at all?
The ans...
Companies Are Struggling to Regroup After the Delta Variant Scuttles Back-to-the-Office Plans from 2021-09-16T07:22:07
This week was supposed to be the triumphant return to the office after 18 hard months of working remotely for many organizations around the U.S. B...
Democrats Won the California Recall by Invoking Trump. There’s More of That Coming from 2021-09-15T10:30:15
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‘A Queer Tax.’ New Lawsuit Alleges Aetna Discriminates Against LGBTQ People Seeking Fertility Treatment from 2021-09-15T10:18:43
When Emma Goidel was denied coverage for her fertility treatments in September 2020, she was furious. A 31-year-old writer in New York City, Goide...
Norm Macdonald’s Comedic Genius Explained in One Brilliant Joke from 2021-09-15T10:06:44
Norm Macdonald was responsible for some of the worst punchlines in Hollywood history.
“There are times when Bob has something on his m...
I Didn’t Want to Push My Aunt to Get the Vaccine. Now I Live With Regrets from 2021-09-15T09:56:58
In normal times, the ICU is a dreadful place.
Sickness lingers like a fog. You can feel it, sense it, even hear it—the machinery pumping, the...
Column: An Open Letter to Tim Cook From a Silicon Valley Investor of 35 Years from 2021-09-14T08:35:07
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I have followed Apple as a securities analyst and investor since 1985, and have admired the company and its values for most o...
COVID-19 Vaccine Boosters Are Not Necessary Yet, Say Top Health Officials from 2021-09-14T08:15:17
In a viewpoint published in the Lancet, leading health officials from around the world say booster doses of the COVID-19 vaccine aren’t necessary ...
Watch Live as the Inspiration4 Crew Launches to Space for the First All-Civilian Orbital Mission from 2021-09-14T07:52:36
Are you ready to go to space? Join TIME and Netflix as we bring you the launch of Inspiration4—the first-ever all-civilian orbital mission—live. <...
North Korea Says It Test-Fired New Cruise Missiles With Range to Hit Japan from 2021-09-13T07:26:17
North Korea said it successfully test-fired a new model of long-range cruise missile this weekend, in the latest sign the regime is trying to bols...
As College Athletes Finally Start Cashing In, Entrepreneurs Big and Small Also Look to Score from 2021-09-13T06:02:23
Back in 2013 Blake Lawrence, a former University Nebraska linebacker who is co-founder and CEO of a then-fledgling sports technology platform call...
Brazil’s Restrictive New Social Media Rules Could Be an Omen For the Future of the Internet from 2021-09-13T05:58:26
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro signed a decree on Monday that temporarily bans social media platforms from removing many types of content, inc...
Review: Edgar Wright's 1960s Fever Dream Last Night in Soho Is a Half-Brilliant Thriller from 2021-09-13T05:53:14
Some of us have memories of things that didn’t even happen in our lifetimes. We’re drawn to a specific era, or certain relics of the past, for rea...
America Has Always Struggled to Memorialize Tragedy. Some Communities Are Trying to Do Better for COVID-19 from 2021-09-12T09:34:27
When Rima Samman lost her brother Rami to COVID-19 in May 2020, her family decided to put off holding a funeral until restrictions eased enough to...
Column: I Lost My Father on 9/11. I Am Still Ashamed of the Injustice Done in the Name of Families Like Mine from 2021-09-12T09:09:28
I was 6 years old on Sept. 11, 2001, when I lost my father, firefighter Douglas C. Miller. At such a young age, how does one process death, let al...
Inside the SpaceX Crew Dragon: Here’s How the Inspiration4 Crew Will Fly to Space from 2021-09-11T17:15:20
TIME Studios is producing the Netflix documentary series Countdown: Inspiration 4 Mission to Space, starting Sept. 6.
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Cities Have Firefighters and Trash Collectors. As the Climate Breaks Down, Do They Also Need Resilience Corps? from 2021-09-11T16:40:35
When Hurricane Ida hit New Orleans in early September, Tonya Freeman-Brown made the difficult decision to stay in the city. The 53 year-old and he...
Column: Why Silicon Valley's Optimization Mindset Sets Us Up for Failure from 2021-09-11T16:21:11
In 2013 a Silicon Valley software engineer decided that food is an inconvenience—a pain point in a busy life. Buying food, preparing it, and clean...
5 Creative Ways to Make a Winning Home Offer, According to Real Estate Experts from 2021-09-11T15:54:53
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Steve Buscemi: Everyone Said ‘Never Forget’ 9/11. Some Have No Choice from 2021-09-11T08:31:13
My dad was a sanitation worker for New York City. His message to me and my brothers was, when you turn 18, take whatever civil service test is ava...
Twenty Years of Data Shows How America Changed—And Didn’t— After 9/11 from 2021-09-11T08:23:05
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The Fourth U.S. Wave of COVID-19 Could Be Ebbing. The Fifth Might Be Worse from 2021-09-11T08:10:08
President Joe Biden’s announcement Thursday that broadly expanded mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations or at least compulsory weekly testing is a sign,...
Column: What the U.S. Owes to Afghanistan's People Has No Expiration Date from 2021-09-11T08:03:36
When you’re waging a ‘Forever War’, the one thing you think you always have enough of is time. That's what the successive U.S. presidential admini...
Silicon Valley Investors Haven’t Let the Theranos Scandal Change the Way They Do Business from 2021-09-11T07:48:31
Many Silicon Valley venture capitalists continue to invest on promising new health technology start-ups as Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes stand...
How Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings Reimagines Its Characters’ Racist Comic-Book Origins from 2021-09-11T07:30:39
It took 25 movies for Marvel Studios to produce its first Asian lead in a superhero film. In that time, fans protested the casting of Ben Kingsley...
Review: Denis Villeneuve's Take on Dune Is an Admirably Understated Sci-Fi Spectacle from 2021-09-11T07:15:23
To call Denis Villeneuve’s science-fiction extravaganza Dune a good example of its type of thing is probably damning it with fainter praise than i...
Why ‘Common Prosperity’ Has China’s Billionaires Running for Cover from 2021-09-10T08:10:51
In a sign of how far China’s leaders have drifted from their revolutionary roots, the biggest shock gripping the country today is that the ruling ...
Here's what to know about Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhund, the Taliban's new prime minister from 2021-09-10T07:53:26
Little more than three weeks after their rapid sweep to power in Afghanistan, the Taliban has announced the country’s interim government. Comprisi...
Kristen Stewart and Pablo Larraín Do Princess Diana Wrong in Spencer from 2021-09-10T07:25:35
Kristen Stewart is a tiger in actor form, one of our most gifted and understated young performers. Her fearlessness is the casual kind, arriving w...
A Climate Change-Induced Landslide Is Wreaking Havoc on Denali National Park from 2021-09-10T07:04:18
For decades, the rangers at Denali National Park in Alaska were easily winning their battle against a slow-moving landslide underneath the park’s ...
‘You Can’t Put the Genie Back in the Bottle.’ Silicon Valley Struggles to Transition Out of Remote Work from 2021-09-09T07:50
(SAN FRANCISCO) — Technology companies that led the charge into remote work as the pandemic unfurled are confronting a new challenge: how, when an...
Why the Human Rights Campaign Had to Fire Its President from 2021-09-09T07:45:19
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Recovery From Severe COVID-19 May Provide Better Future Protection Against Some Variants from 2021-09-09T07:22:32
Contracting a case of COVID-19 is bad enough. Contracting a case that requires you to be hospitalized is decidedly worse. But according to a new s...
Review: Olivia Colman Is Extraordinary in The Lost Daughter, Maggie Gyllenhaal's Bold Directorial Debut from 2021-09-09T07:10:22
For her directorial debut, Maggie Gyllenhaal has chosen a complicated project, a movie that winds through complex emotional corridors that would c...
Emergency Medical Service Workers Battle a Hurricane, and COVID-19, To Bring Health Care To New Orleans from 2021-09-08T09:00:07
As Hurricane Ida pounded the coast of New Orleans with downpours and 150-mile-per-hour winds on the afternoon of Aug. 29, New Orleans Emergency Me...
Ouster of Human Rights Campaign President Alphonso David Steeped in Controversy from 2021-09-08T08:44:24
Alphonso David was fired from his role as president of Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Monday night, just a month after the board had elected to exten...
Nearly 9 Million Americans Just Lost All Their Unemployment Benefits from 2021-09-08T08:10:33
(WASHINGTON) — Mary Taboniar went 15 months without a paycheck, thanks to the COVID pandemic. A housekeeper at the Hilton Hawaiian Village resort ...
The Tricky Politics of the Texas Abortion Law from 2021-09-08T07:55:18
Americans just can't stop fighting about abortion. It's a third-rail issue that has alternately animated the left and emboldened the right. But no...
Rising Heat Is Making It Harder to Work in the U.S.—and the Economic Costs Will Soar from 2021-09-07T06:41:57
Rising extreme heat will make it increasingly hard for workers to do their jobs, shaving hundreds of billions of dollars off the U.S. economy each...
Can Hurricane Ida Move Public Opinion on Climate Change? from 2021-09-07T06:20:39
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Column: The Withdrawal From Afghanistan Should Make Us Reflect on America's True Failure Since 9/11 from 2021-09-07T06:12:55
The longest war in US history has come to a close with scenes of violent chaos from Afghanistan. The deaths of US Marines and fleeing Afghans will...
Mexico City Will Replace Its Columbus Statue With One Honoring Indigenous Women from 2021-09-07T05:59:07
MEXICO CITY — Christopher Columbus is getting kicked off Mexico City's most iconic boulevard.
Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum announced that th...
In Texas, Rape Crisis Centers Struggle to Respond to New Abortion Law from 2021-09-06T07:02:49
The crisis hotline for the Dallas Area Rape Crisis Center is open all hours of the day, every day of the week. Trained volunteers answer roughly 1...
Column: Why We New Orleanians Keep Coming Back After Every Storm from 2021-09-06T06:49:55
The hardest part is deciding what to leave behind. I’ll need money and clothes, but not the gorgeous red blues guitar hanging on the wall. The gui...
The Gun Maker Being Sued for the Sandy Hook Shooting Wants School Records for Some of the Children Who Died from 2021-09-06T06:37:09
The gun maker being sued by families who lost loved ones in the Sandy Hook shooting is seeking school records for some of the first-graders killed...
Oscar Isaac Smolders in the Pensive Romantic Thriller The Card Counter from 2021-09-06T06:28:25
Oscar Isaac, the star of writer-director Paul Schrader’s ardent romantic drama The Card Counter—premiering at the 78th annual Venice Film Festival...
Nursing Home COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates Protect The Most Vulnerable, But Pose a Hidden Threat to Residents from 2021-09-05T11:09:21
Some two weeks before U.S. President Joe Biden announced on Aug. 18 that nursing homes must require their staff to get vaccinated or risk losing t...
HBO’s Scenes From a Marriage Remake Is Trying to Break Your Heart, All Over Again from 2021-09-05T10:47:13
Ingmar Bergman’s Scenes From a Marriage is a dance between emotional realism and theatrical artifice. The 1973 miniseries, which aired on Swedish ...
The Vaping Industry as We Know It May Soon Disappear from 2021-09-05T10:29:28
For the last 15 years, there’s been a caveat tacked on to any discussion of e-cigarettes’ public health impact. Though millions of people in the U...
Jane Campion’s Gorgeous Western The Power of the Dog Is a Sharp Study of Masculinity Gone Awry from 2021-09-05T10:11:56
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It’s Time For Boys To Talk About Emotional Health from 2021-09-05T10:04:05
The first day my school moved to remote learning in March of 2020, my grandfather died. We had just heard about this new virus called COVID-19, an...
I Fled Hurricane Katrina When I Was 12 Years Old. We Can’t Forget the Kids of Louisiana Today from 2021-09-04T12:56:43
In the aftermath of Hurricane Ida, it’s hard to think of my childhood in New Orleans. I don’t remember doing anything without my close-knit family...
Just 39 Female Journalists Are Still Working in Kabul After the Taliban’s Takeover from 2021-09-04T12:46:14
Only a few dozen women journalists are still working in Kabul following the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan—despite the Islamist group's assurance...
Column: How the Origins of Epidemiology Are Linked to the Transatlantic Slave Trade from 2021-09-04T12:36:51
Since the outbreak of COVID-19, many have been frustrated by the ways in which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) keeps changing...
Certified Lover Boy: What to Know About Drake's New Album from 2021-09-04T12:22:04
Drake's most memorable work has always centered on his many, many feelings about the women he can't control—the ones who have left him, wronged hi...
Column: Everyone Procrastinates. Here's How to Accomplish What Matters Most to You from 2021-09-04T12:03:58
There must be few opinions more widely held, when it comes to the art of time management, than that procrastination is always and exclusively a ba...
Japan’s Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga Is Resigning. Here’s What That Means from 2021-09-03T08:45:45
Yoshihide Suga is bowing out as prime minister of Japan, amid increasing anger over his government's handling of COVID-19 in the wake of the Tokyo...
‘A Decision Was Made.’ Biden Faces the Fallout for His Chaotic Retreat in Afghanistan from 2021-09-03T08:30:47
It was the first time Joe Biden had witnessed dead Americans returning home from a foreign battlefield as President and Commander in Chief. The bo...
After Hurricane Ida, New Orleans Police Focused on Looting. Some Hear Echoes of Katrina from 2021-09-03T07:30:25
With Hurricane Ida having made its way through Louisiana and Mississippi, leaving behind a region flooded and in many places without power, some l...
The 5 Best New TV Shows Our Critic Watched in August 2021 from 2021-09-03T07:22:18
Whether you know it as vacation season, hurricane season or wildfire season, August is a time when our natural surroundings can take on outsize im...
What Hurricane Ida Means for Louisiana’s COVID-19 Problem from 2021-09-02T07:43:40
On Thursday, as Hurricane Ida loomed as a Category 4 storm that threatened massive flooding, high winds and power outages along Louisiana’s Gulf C...
Senator: Let's Not Rush to Judgment About the Withdrawal From Afghanistan from 2021-09-02T07:30:59
As I listen to the commentators discuss the current situation in Afghanistan, the central question does not seem to be whether we should leave the...
The War in Afghanistan Is Over. But Congressional Oversight Is Just Beginning from 2021-09-02T07:21:16
America’s longest war may have ended, but the accountability battles for President Joe Biden's Administration are just beginning.
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Deadly Bombing Marks a Tragic Turning Point in Joe Biden’s Afghanistan Exit from 2021-08-27T08:52:25
As President Joe Biden’s Aug. 31 deadline to leave Afghanistan neared, the Abbey Gate entrance to the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul ...
After ISIS-K’s Kabul Airport Attack, the U.S. Faces a New Terrorist Threat in Afghanistan from 2021-08-27T08:42:14
Just days away from pulling its last troops out of Afghanistan following 20 years of protracted war, the U.S. faces a new terrorist threat: Islami...
The Stakes for Tokyo’s COVID-19 Bubble Are Even Higher for the Paralympics. Can It Keep Vulnerable Athletes Safe? from 2021-08-27T08:30:15
It began much like its bigger counterpart: fireworks, music and a parade of athletes waving to an empty National Stadium in Tokyo. But only two da...
Why OnlyFans Suddenly Reversed its Decision to Ban Sexual Content from 2021-08-27T08:10:02
OnlyFans, the subscriber-based social media platform, sparked outrage last week when it announced it would ban “sexually explicit” content on Oct....
Pandemic Woes and a ‘YOLO Mentality’ Has Ignited a Boom Time for Tattoo Artists from 2021-08-27T07:59:59
"The pandemic has had a great deal of impact on everybody. It's made a lot of people try not to take life so seriously—so they've decided to do so...
Column: I Represent the Least Affordable Region in the U.S. Here's How We Can Fix the Housing Market from 2021-08-26T08:06:10
Not long ago, I texted one of my constituents—someone who was deeply engaged in his community—to let him know about an upcoming debate for an issu...
An Australian Farmer Made a Giant Heart With Sheep for His Aunt's Funeral from 2021-08-26T07:51:11
CANBERRA, Australia — An Australian farmer couldn’t go to his aunt’s funeral because of pandemic restrictions so he paid his respects with a novel...
Buying a New Car? Why It May Be Smarter to Wait a Year—Or Longer from 2021-08-26T07:32:49
Before the pandemic, Earl Stewart could count over 300 new cars sitting on the lot of his family’s Toyota dealership in South Florida on any singl...
Column: Vermont Offered the U.S. a Textbook for Reopening Schools. Why Is It Throwing Out the Lesson Plan? from 2021-08-26T07:28:35
Americans have reached consensus on a single goal: children must return to classrooms. Yet, as the Delta variant has surged, policymakers across t...
Joe Biden Faces a Major Test Evacuating Americans From Afghanistan from 2021-08-25T09:28:08
When Afghanistan's now-deposed President Ashraf Ghani visited President Joe Biden in the White House in late June, he expressed some concerns abou...
Column: Biden Must Keep U.S. Operatives in Afghanistan To Enable the Counterterrorism Mission from 2021-08-25T09:13:52
In his April 14 speech, President Joe Biden stated that despite withdrawing all U.S. troops from Afghanistan, his administration will continue to ...
Many U.S. At-Home COVID-19 Test Results Could Be Going Unreported from 2021-08-25T08:57:19
Popular at-home COVID-19 tests from Abbott Laboratories and Quidel Corp., available without a prescription, were launched without a mechanism for ...
Pennsylvania Abolishes Prison Gerrymandering from 2021-08-25T08:10:54
A Pennsylvania commission responsible for drawing the state’s legislative districts voted 3-2 on Tuesday to end prison gerrymandering, the practic...
How the Pandemic and Trump-Era Policies Helped Create a Massive U.S. Trade Imbalance from 2021-08-24T09:30:50
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Pfizer-BioNTech’s Vaccine Is the First COVID-19 Shot to Get Full Approval From the U.S. FDA from 2021-08-24T09:01:44
On Aug. 23, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first COVID-19 vaccine, one made by Pfizer-BioNTech, for anyone 16 years and ...
Why National Teachers Unions Support Vaccine Mandates But Won’t Require Them from 2021-08-24T08:49:01
This fall, as many schools across the country are planning to reopen for full in-person learning, parents and educators are bracing for the third ...
House Democrats Are Fighting Among Themselves on How to Pass Infrastructure from 2021-08-24T07:23:29
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I Returned to Afghanistan 20 Years Ago to Help My Country. I’m Not Leaving Now from 2021-08-23T08:08:02
In the wake of the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan, a veteran Afghan political activist tells TIME why despair over the country’s future is misp...
Facebook’s New Zoom Competitor Adds Virtual Reality to Conference Calls. Here’s What It’s Like from 2021-08-23T07:56
As the vague buzzword “metaverse” snowballs into reality, today Facebook unveiled an intriguing peek into its plans for a collaborative online fut...
Rebecca Hall Shows Some Bristling Energy in the Otherwise Turbid Ghost Thriller The Night House from 2021-08-23T07:42:12
If there’s one reason to view Oscar tastemakers with skepticism, it’s the career of Rebecca Hall. She’s one of our finest, most daring actors. But...
Don Everly of Early Rock ‘n’ Roll Icons the Everly Brothers Dies at 84 from 2021-08-23T07:32:37
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Don Everly, one-half of the pioneering Everly Brothers whose harmonizing country rock hits impacted a generation of rock ‘n’ ro...
Josephine Baker Is the First Black Woman Given Paris Burial Honor from 2021-08-23T06:53:57
PARIS — The remains of American-born singer and dancer Josephine Baker will be reinterred at the Pantheon monument in Paris, making the entertaine...
First Came an Earthquake. Then a Hurricane. Now, Haiti is Bracing for an Outbreak of Disease. from 2021-08-22T12:00:06
On Aug. 14, a devastating 7.2-magnitude earthquake hit southwestern Haiti, leaving 2,189 people dead, 12,268 injured and at least 332 missing. Day...
MRNA’s Next Chapter Has Nothing to Do With COVID-19 Vaccines from 2021-08-22T11:45:27
It’s safe to say that before the development of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines, most people hadn’t thought about messenger RNA,...
This Documentary Depicts the Toll of Migrant Deaths in Texas from 2021-08-22T11:27:14
There's no beating around the bush. Within the first few minutes of Missing in Brooks County, a documentary by filmmakers Lisa Molomot and Jeff Be...
Joe Biden Mishandled the Afghanistan Withdrawal. Do Voters Care? from 2021-08-22T11:11:55
Less than 24 hours after the Taliban marched into Afghanistan’s capital city of Kabul, the Biden Administration announced the largest permanent ex...
The Outsider Unpacks the Controversy Behind the National September 11 Memorial & Museum from 2021-08-22T10:56:56
Ahead of the 20th anniversary of 9/11, a new documentary chronicles the controversy around the creation of the National September 11 Memorial and ...
Column: Kids Are Getting the Wrong Message About Happiness. Here's What You Need to Tell Them from 2021-08-22T10:27:53
When we ask parents what they want for their kids’ futures, most answer: “I want them to be happy.” But if you ask most kids what they think their...
Column: Leaving Afghanistan Was the Right Call, But It May Haunt Biden—and the U.S.—Forever from 2021-08-21T08:58:37
The last week saw the unceremonious end to the longest military adventure in American history. The botched withdrawal from Afghanistan is the firs...
Europe Sees a Migration Crisis in the Making in Afghanistan. Have the Lessons of the 2015 Surge Been Learned? from 2021-08-21T08:42:33
Reshad Jalali was nine years old when U.S.-backed forces ousted the Taliban from Kabul in 2001, and vividly remembers the crackle of Afghan singer...
Why Legacy Wealth Is an Easy Target to Fund Infrastructure from 2021-08-21T08:17:23
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U.S. Crypto Regulation Talks are Heating Up, With Three Major Themes Emerging. Here’s What They Mean for Investors from 2021-08-21T07:52:36
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New Jeopardy! Host Mike Richards Steps Down Amid Criticism. But He’s Not Leaving the Show Entirely from 2021-08-21T07:30:37
Jeopardy! executive producer Mike Richards has officially stepped down as incoming host of the long-running game show as multiple controversies fr...
Review: Netflix’s Sharp Satire 'The Chair' Throws Sandra Oh Into the Politicized Powder Keg of Higher Ed from 2021-08-21T07:18:35
Netflix’s perceptive black comedy The Chair opens at what should be the proudest moment of Professor Ji-Yoon Kim’s career. She has just been named...
Facebook Really Wants You To Believe Clickbait Memes Are More Popular Than Ben Shapiro from 2021-08-21T06:58:22
What was the most popular link on Facebook in the last three months?
It depends who you ask.
According to Facebook, it was ...
The Taliban Is Promising Amnesty in Afghanistan. But Some Officials Predict Bloodshed from 2021-08-20T08:39:38
As the black-turbaned mullahs of the Taliban gather in Kabul and Kandahar to hash out how they'll govern, the decisions they make will offer the w...
RushTok Is a Mesmerizing Viral Trend. It Also Amplifies Sororities’ Problems With Racism from 2021-08-20T08:09:25
While what goes into the curation of every TikTok user's For You page remains a mystery, one thing has become clear—content from University of Ala...
How a TIME Art Critic Covered Chuck Close Across the Decades from 2021-08-20T07:52:41
Just as Chuck Close’s enormous works of art loomed over their onlookers, his legacy looms large over the modern art world. Close, a gruff iconocla...
China Is Planning 43 New Coal Power Plants. Can It Still Keep Its Climate Promises? from 2021-08-20T07:30:55
China is planning to build 43 new coal-fired power plants and 18 new blast furnaces — equivalent to adding about 1.5% to its current annual emissi...
Column: How a New Deal for Global Taxation Might Save Democracy from 2021-08-20T07:22:16
Every year, multinational corporations divert some $1.38 trillion in profits away from the countries where they were made to places with much lowe...
Afghans Who Fled the First Taliban Regime Fear It Will Be Harder for Refugees This Time from 2021-08-19T08:39:40
When the Taliban first waved the flag of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan over Kabul in 1996, Syed Nasir’s parents — worried about imminent viol...
Column: The U.S. Offered My Family a Home After the Vietnam War. It Must Do the Same for Those Fleeing Afghanistan from 2021-08-19T08:10:01
The story and images are all too familiar. American troops withdrawing after several decades, cities falling, a president fleeing, chaotic airport...
Massive T-Mobile Data Breach Compromises 40 Million People from 2021-08-19T07:58:30
(NEW YORK) — The names, Social Security numbers and information from driver's licenses or other identification of just over 40 million former and ...
Researchers Studied Over 4 Million 911 Calls. Their Findings Could Influence Police Reform from 2021-08-19T07:53:36
Having tracked millions of 911 across 9 U.S. cities over the span of a year, a new study from the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences offers new ...
Watch: In ‘Unlivable Oasis,’ a Family Struggles to Find Housing on the Front Lines of the Climate Crisis from 2021-08-19T07:40:43
When farm worker Pedro Nicolas, 33, looked at the cracks in his plywood roof or smelled the foul water running from his faucet, he worried about E...
The Taliban Says It Will Now Respect the Rights of Afghan Women—Despite Its Brutal History from 2021-08-18T09:52:10
(KABUL, Afghanistan) — The Taliban vowed Tuesday to respect women's rights, forgive those who fought them and ensure Afghanistan does not become a...
How You Can Help People in Afghanistan from 2021-08-18T09:40:46
After 20 years of U.S. military presence in Afghanistan, the Taliban took control of Kabul on Sunday amid the chaotic evacuation of the Afghan nat...
Column: Kids Can't Get COVID-19 Vaccines Yet. But We Do Have Ways to Protect Them from 2021-08-18T09:28:56
The COVID-19 pandemic is now defined by its impact on two groups of people: the vaccinated and the unvaccinated. Lest we forget, all children unde...
Column: China Is Still the World's Factory—And It's Designing the Future With AI from 2021-08-18T09:14:19
For many years now, China has been the world’s factory. Even in 2020, as other economies struggled with the effects of the pandemic, China’s manuf...
‘Completely Helpless.’ Afghan Americans Scramble to Help Family Back Home from 2021-08-18T07:58:57
As President Joe Biden prepared to address the nation on the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan on Monday, Mariam Mustafa sat in her car a few bloc...
What Joe Biden Didn’t Say About the Chaos in Afghanistan from 2021-08-17T07:30:59
Less than 24 hours after the Taliban sacked Afghanistan’s capital city of Kabul and a little more than a week after the militant group began a lig...
Column: The Failure to Understand the True Mission Doomed Us to Defeat in Afghanistan from 2021-08-17T07:13:32
There are few items of bipartisan consensus in the United States. Here is one—the leaders of both political parties decided it was time to leave A...
How the Fourth COVID-19 Wave Is Convincing Holdouts To Finally Get Vaccinated from 2021-08-10T09:12:18
For the first time since April, when the U.S. lost its appetite for COVID-19 vaccinations, the rate at which Americans are showing up for their fi...
Joe Biden Should Follow George Washington’s Lead and ‘Inoculate All the Troops’ from 2021-08-10T09:07:01
With eyes long fixed on external enemies, the military during the American Revolution was forced to grapple with an internal one, “the most danger...
‘Unprecedented.’ Massive Forest Fire Ravages Greece’s Second Largest Island from 2021-08-10T08:51:06
ARKITSA, Greece — Firefighters and residents battled into the night Monday for a seventh day against a massive fire on Greece's second-largest isl...
Review: Netflix Horror Noir Brand New Cherry Flavor Tastes Terrible from 2021-08-10T08:34:29
There’s nothing Hollywood loves more than luring in beautiful, young people with big dreams and crushing them under the heel of its Ferragamos. Mu...
Column: The Climate Crisis is Here, But There’s Still Time to Limit the Damage from 2021-08-09T08:45:37
“Widespread and severe”—that’s how climate scientists from around the world have described the impacts of climate change in a new United Nations r...
The One Silver Lining in the Bleak IPCC Report from 2021-08-09T08:34:09
As heat waves, hurricanes and other extreme weather events around the world hit harder and more often in recent years, scientists have become more...
Some in U.S. Getting COVID-19 Boosters Without FDA Approval from 2021-08-09T08:12:59
DENVER — When the delta variant started spreading, Gina Welch decided not to take any chances: She got a third, booster dose of the COVID-19 vacci...
Schools Expected to Leave Virtual Learning Behind in the Fall, but the Delta Variant Is Forcing a Change in Plans from 2021-08-09T07:56:17
Public school leaders in Des Moines, Iowa had planned on teaching all their elementary school students face-to-face this fall. But weeks before cl...
6 Ways To Use the Child Tax Credit Payments, According to the Experts (Who Are Also Parents) from 2021-08-09T07:20:23
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With Private Space Flight On the Rise, Who Gets to Be Called ‘Astronaut?’ from 2021-08-08T12:11:57
On Sept. 15, if all goes according to plan, Jared Isaacman—the billionaire CEO of Shift4 Payments—and three other private citizens will strap into...
These Women Fought for Afghanistan’s Future. Now They Don’t Want to Leave It Behind from 2021-08-08T11:58:34
Last week more than 200 Afghan interpreters who worked with the U.S. military landed in Virginia, recipients of a special visa for those who serve...
‘The Women Showed Up.’ Team USA’s Relay Super Team Wins Gold, Making More Olympic History for Allyson Felix from 2021-08-08T11:38:17
During the 4x400 relay at the Tokyo Olympic Stadium on Saturday night, Sydney McLaughlin, who set a world record in the 400-m hurdles earlier this...
Review: Annette Is Gorgeous to Look at But All the Wrong Kinds of Weird from 2021-08-08T11:25:18
With the future of communal cinema feeling so perilous, many of us who love the movies might be feeling it’s time to go big or go home. Give me a ...
This Was No Team USA Men’s Basketball Dream Team. But In Tokyo, It Demands Our Respect from 2021-08-08T11:05:44
It was no thing of overwhelming beauty, the Team USA men's Olympic basketball team’s 87-82 win over France in the gold medal game on Saturday in S...
Column: What a Rural Corner of America Can Teach Us All About Community and Resilience from 2021-08-08T10:50:27
This summer, tens of thousands of vacationers are making their way to Maine. Resorts, camps, and local airports have posted record numbers, and th...
Populations are Booming in Flood-Prone Areas—Especially in Developing Countries from 2021-08-08T10:24:01
The number of people living in flood-prone areas is growing faster than in other places, and at a much faster rate than scientists had previously ...
Crypto Tax: How Congress Wants to Pay for Your New Roads from 2021-08-07T11:46:17
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5 Great Headphone Options to Get You Through a Sweaty, Song-Filled Summer from 2021-08-07T11:34
Summer is in full effect, which means barbecues, bashes, and begging for an end to the global pandemic. But as 2021's hot girl summer rages and th...
Column: American Agriculture Almost Ruined My Little English Farm from 2021-08-07T11:24:17
For much of my early life America meant progress, the bright shining farming future.
I was a kid on an old-fashioned farm in the North ...
The World Has Been On Fire for the Past Month. Here’s What It Looks Like from 2021-08-07T11:01:57
Flames light up hillsides in British Columbia. Smoke swells over highways into Athens. A swimming pool in California is surrounded by charred rubb...
She Helped New York Through the Worst of the Pandemic. Then the Nightmare Followed Her Home from 2021-08-07T10:52:14
Sixteen months ago, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City, Dr. Rebecca Martin was one of thousands of out-of-state doctors and n...
NBC’s Tokyo Olympics Coverage Was Always Going To Be a Disaster from 2021-08-07T10:38:33
The Olympics are in the business of creating indelible moments, and the past 11 days in Tokyo have been no exception. Suni Lee stepped into the vo...
The First All-Civilian Team of Astronauts Is Headed to Orbit. Here’s What to Know About the Inspiration4 Mission from 2021-08-06T08:58:43
The prospect of space travel will feel much different after the Inspiration4 mission—the first orbital mission with an all-civilian crew—launches ...
Column: Why the Chinese and Russian Vaccines Haven't Been Big Geopolitical Wins from 2021-08-06T08:54:27
China and Russia both thought the pandemic would give them a chance to show that they are scientifically innovative—and more generous—than Western...
Richard Trumka Has Died. Few Could Match His Clout in Labor Politics from 2021-08-06T08:22:25
From his seventh-floor office, Richard Trumka could look out the window and down at the White House just across Lafayette Park. The AFL-CIO chief ...
Column: We Must Rebuild Public Schools to Address Both Climate Change and Racial Inequality from 2021-08-06T08:04:44
When school facilities closed for in-person learning in early March 2020, the assumption was that the shutdown and pandemic would be temporary bli...
Noah Lyles Has an Important Message on Mental Health from 2021-08-05T09:11:18
"Boring," Noah Lyles said after the 200-m final in Tokyo, when asked how it felt to be a bronze medalist.
However, Lyles' post-race mes...
FDA Accelerates Full Approval of Pfizer-BioNTech Vaccine as Delta Variant Surges from 2021-08-05T08:55:28
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has begun accelerating the process to fully approve the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, facing pressure t...
Andrew Cuomo Is Defiant, But He Could Face Serious Legal Consequences from 2021-08-05T08:38:16
As Andrew Cuomo fights for his political life, his legal troubles cannot be ignored.
On Tuesday, New York Attorney General Letitia Jame...
Mattel Has Created a Line of Dolls Honoring Frontline Workers from 2021-08-05T08:18:56
Mattel is honoring frontline workers with dolls modeled on real-life doctors and nurses. Among them is a doll version of Amy O'Sullivan, a nurse a...
How Will Delta and COVID-19 Change This Back-to-School Season? Here’s What to Know from 2021-08-04T09:25:54
Getting the kids ready to go back to school each fall is stressful enough in a normal year, never mind in the midst of a pandemic. Between the mor...
President Biden Calls on New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to Resign After Sexual Harassment Report from 2021-08-04T09:18:58
(NEW YORK) — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo faced mounting pressure Tuesday to resign, including from President Joe Biden and other onetime Democratic...
CDC Issues New Eviction Moratorium Amid Standoff Between White House and Progressive Democrats from 2021-08-04T09:02:51
Raven Sullivan is awake responding to emails at 2:05 a.m. She recently received notice that her landlord wants to evict her and her two toddlers f...
Simone Biles Returns to the Tokyo Olympics—With a Big Statement from 2021-08-03T08:41:07
It was a dramatic way to begin and end the gymnastics competition at the Tokyo Summer Olympic Games. In the very first event, the team competition...
Can Your Employer Require That You Get Vaccinated? It Depends Where You Live from 2021-08-03T08:36
The COVID-19 pandemic not over for the U.S., but the Delta variant means the “war has changed,” as leaked CDC slides made clear. The development a...
Summer Tutoring Is Not the Solution to a Lost Year of Schooling. It Might Hurt Kids More Than It Helps Them from 2021-08-03T07:23:48
Summer tutoring has become the rallying cry by politicians and pundits as a way to address the learning loss from months of remote and hybrid lear...
COVID-19 Delta Variant Reaches Wuhan as China Battles Widest Outbreak Since Disease Emerged in 2019 from 2021-08-03T07:13:22
China is confronting its broadest Covid-19 outbreak since coronavirus first emerged there in late 2019, with the delta variant spreading to places...
Other NBA Superstars Ditched the Olympics. Kevin Durant Showed Up, and He’s Keeping Team USA on Track for the Gold from 2021-08-03T06:59:52
Kevin Durant takes his fair share of flack. There’s his insecurity on social media. His decision to join the 72-win Golden State Warriors, as a fr...
Simone Biles Just Competed for the First Time at the Tokyo Olympics. Here’s How She Did from 2021-08-03T06:37:49
It was probably the biggest question of the Tokyo Olympics — will she or won’t she? Will we see Simone Biles, the greatest gymnast of all time, ac...
Canada Ends U.S. Women's Soccer Team's Quest for Olympic Gold to Cap World Cup Glory from 2021-08-02T08:34:40
The dream of the double is over.
Canada defeated the U.S. Women’s National Team (USWNT), 1-0, in an Olympic semifinal on Monday in Kash...
‘The Ripple Effect Is a Major Concern.’ Chicagoans Worry Lollapalooza May Become a COVID-19 Hotspot from 2021-08-02T08:30
When music fan Noah Zelinsky bought tickets to the Chicago music festival Lollapalooza in May, he thought it might signal something of a return to...
Can Biden Finish What Obama Started And Close Down Guantanamo? from 2021-08-02T08:29
Nineteen years after he was captured in Afghanistan, and five years after a review board ruled he posed no threat to the United States, Abdul Lati...
The ‘Overview Effect’ Forever Changes Some Astronauts’ Attitudes Towards Earth—But You Don’t Need to Go to Space to Experience It from 2021-08-02T06:45:09
The best way to appreciate the planet fully is to leave the planet entirely. To inhabit a world is to get awfully used to it. The sky is up there—...
Summer Camps Across the U.S. Are Dealing With COVID-19 Outbreaks. So What Happens When School Starts? from 2021-08-02T05:40:45
Clear Creek Community Church took COVID-19 seriously from the beginning. The interdenominational church, which has five locations in and around Te...
88% of Homebuyers Used a Real Estate Agent Last Year. Here Are 5 Tips to Choosing One In Today’s Hot Market from 2021-08-02T05:26:36
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Column: Why Republicans Are So Determined to Distort the Truth About the Capitol Attack from 2021-08-01T11:32:12
On Monday a small band of U.S. Capitol Police officers delivered vivid, emotional testimony about a previously unthinkable event—the day a partisa...
Nearly 14 Million Homeowners Could Save Money By Refinancing. Here’s How to Tell If You’re One of Them from 2021-08-01T09:43:47
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Simone Biles Pulls Out of Olympic Vault and Uneven Bars Finals from 2021-07-31T09:08:45
Simone Biles has withdrawn from the event finals for vault and uneven bars at the Tokyo Olympics.
USA Gymnastics announced the news in ...
Katie Ledecky’s Incredible Olympic Legacy from 2021-07-31T09:04:03
On her most challenging day of competition in a career filled with them, Katie Ledecky thought about her grandparents.
The 24-year-old Americ...
How a Coalition of Business and Labor Groups Helped Save the Infrastructure Bill from 2021-07-31T08:49:22
As Democrats and Republicans in Congress squabbled over blowing past the deadline on an infrastructure agreement, the business and labor communiti...
Tunisia’s President Staged What Looks Like a Coup. But Democracy Isn’t Dead There Yet from 2021-07-31T08:32:52
In recent years, Tunisia has become a victim of its own reputation. In the decade since its landmark 2011 revolution, its characterization as "the...
McDonald’s Announces New Meal Collab with Rapper Saweetie, Building on Wildly Successful Musician Collabs from 2021-07-31T07:58:23
Ten crispy chicken nuggets, medium fries and a Coke: a classic McDonald’s order. But add sides of cajun and sweet chili sauces and a collectible p...
Tokyo Olympics Officials Fire Opening Ceremony Director Over Past Holocaust Joke from 2021-07-22T07:48:43
(TOKYO) — The Tokyo Olympic organizing committee fired the director of the opening ceremony on Thursday because of a Holocaust joke he made during...
Madagascar's Famine is the First in Modern History to be Solely Caused by Global Warming from 2021-07-22T07:43
Heatwaves, wildfires, floods. If there's still any doubt that the summer of 2021 is a turning point for a global awakening over the looming climat...
Column: How Far Has America Come Since the George Floyd Protests? from 2021-07-22T07:34:36
We’re more than a year out from the murder of George Floyd, which sparked a summer of national protests, rallies and dialogue for an end to police...
Ted Lasso and TV’s Strange Quest to Build the Perfect Man from 2021-07-22T07:20:24
Ted Lasso was either TV’s most or least surprising breakout hit of 2020. On one hand, it was a sitcom adapted from a series of commercials and deb...
Forget the Bezos and Branson Spaceflights. The Real Deal Happens This Fall from 2021-07-21T07:22:13
This has been a big month for billionaires in space. On July 11, Richard Branson flew aboard his Virgin Galactic VSS Unity spacecraft 80 km (50 mi...
Pegasus Spyware Reportedly Hacked Thousands of iPhones Worldwide. Here’s What to Know from 2021-07-21T07:10:49
On Sunday, an international collaboration between The Washington Post, The Guardian and other media organizations, published a massive report deta...
Aging Athletes Are Enjoying A Moment. Team USA’s Oldest Olympian Plans To Keep It Going from 2021-07-21T06:56:15
We've entered a golden age for graying athletes. Tom Brady, for example, just won his seventh Super Bowl. He's 43. In May, Phil Mickelson, 50, bec...
This Is What Happens When an Athlete Tests Positive for COVID-19 at the Tokyo Olympics from 2021-07-21T06:41:57
Japanese health authorities have an aggressive testing plan in place for the Tokyo Olympics, but positive COVID-19 tests are already cropping up.<...
Governments Used Spyware to Surveil Journalists and Activists. Here’s Why Revelations About Pegasus Are Shaking Up the World from 2021-07-20T09:04:05
Activist groups are calling on governments to step in to regulate the sale of spyware after data was leaked to major news outlets showing hundreds...
U.S. Capitol Rioter Who Breached the Senate Gets 8 Months in Jail from 2021-07-20T08:53:04
A crane operator from Florida who breached the U.S. Senate chamber carrying a Trump campaign flag was sentenced Monday to eight months behind bars...
Global Electricity Production Is Roaring Back—and So Are CO2 Emissions from 2021-07-20T08:41:38
Carbon emissions from power plants around the world declined in recent years, but they're poised to make a dramatic comeback over the next 18 mont...
A Fourth Wave of COVID-19 Is Brewing in the U.S. Is There Enough Time to Stop it? from 2021-07-20T08:08:53
With every passing day, the United States appears more likely to be on the cusp of a dreaded fourth wave of COVID-19 infections, even as the perce...
Wally Funk Is Going to Space Aboard Jeff Bezos’s Rocket. Here’s Why That Matters from 2021-07-19T08:33:03
There's a good reason for all the fuss about Wally Funk this week. On July 20, Funk, 82—an aviator, the first female air-safety investigator for t...
Texas Lawmaker in D.C. on Testing Positive for COVID-19: ‘Let This Be a Reminder’ from 2021-07-19T08:17:14
On Monday, 57 Texas lawmakers boarded planes to Washington, D.C.
The legislators, the bulk of the Texas House of Representatives Democratic ...
What You Need to Know About COVID-19 Booster Shots from 2021-07-19T08:08:11
Since the U.S. began a massive country-wide vaccination effort against COVID-19 last winter, a majority of adult Americans have been immunized. Bu...
After Decades of Offering Climate Carrots, Europe Adds a Stick In Its ‘Fit for 55’ Policy Roadmap from 2021-07-19T07:57:11
The European Union unveiled a new policy roadmap Wednesday designed to slash its emissions 55% over the next decade. The plan calls for a strength...
Column: Why Congress Deserves Its Own Emmy Category from 2021-07-19T07:45:21
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Review: Roadrunner Illuminates Anthony Bourdain the Man—But Are Its Means Totally Legit? from 2021-07-19T06:52:08
When Anthony Bourdain died by suicide in 2018, the news seemed incomprehensible. The face of this gregarious, appealing world traveler had become ...
Expelled From the U.S., Kidnapped in Mexico and Separated From Her 8-Year-Old Daughter. A Mother’s Journey at the Border from 2021-07-18T12:07:11
Estefani doesn’t know how long she was kept from her daughter. She says that after being kidnapped on the streets of Reynosa, Tamaulipas, in late ...
Russia Was Banned From the Tokyo Olympics. These Athletes Are Finding Other Ways to Compete from 2021-07-18T11:48:40
Russian long jumper Darya Klishina says has been waiting for her Olympic moment since she was 16 years old, when was professionally training in Mo...
The Conservative Case Against Banning Critical Race Theory from 2021-07-18T11:23:28
By the end of June, 29 Republican-led state legislatures had considered and nine had enacted laws to penalize schools or teachers teaching critica...
How Climate Change Science Has Changed Due to COVID-19 Restrictions from 2021-07-18T11:07:21
In late 2019, expeditioners and guides Hilde Falun and Sunniva Sorby went to Norway’s remote Svalbard archipelago to complete a long-term goal of ...
One Thing Couples Should ‘Never, Ever’ Do With Their Money, According to Suze Orman from 2021-07-18T10:48:30
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Travel Credit Cards Can Help You Unlock Virtually-Free Trips. Here’s How They Work from 2021-07-18T10:41:48
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‘I Won’t Shut Up.’ Team USA Hammer Thrower Gwen Berry Discusses Protest and the Olympics from 2021-07-17T10:59:24
Over the past few weeks Team USA hammer thrower Gwen Berry, who will be making her second Olympic appearance in Tokyo, has faced some fervent crit...
Zaila Avant-garde Knows the Troubling History Behind Her Historic Spelling Bee Win from 2021-07-17T10:47:25
Last week, Zaila Avante-garde, a 14-year-old from a suburb of New Orleans, walked to the center of the 2021 Scripps National Spelling Bee stage.
‘The Myth Itself Becomes a Stand-in.’ What Can the Alamo’s History Teach Us About Teaching History? from 2021-07-17T09:45:01
Less than a month after Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed into law a bill he described as "a strong move to abolish critical race theory in Texas"...
Could the World’s Largest Green Energy Hub Redefine How Companies Work With Indigenous People? from 2021-07-17T09:01:12
For the world to reach net zero emissions, huge fields of solar panels and towering wind turbines will need to cover vast tracts of the Earth. In ...
Anxious About Returning to “Normal Life”? Try Emotional Vaccination from 2021-07-17T08:35:33
I’m feeling a bit confused this July. I can’t figure out if I am living a pandemic life, a post-pandemic life, or somewhere in between. And while ...
Review: In 'Pig,' Nicolas Cage Plays a Grouchy, Meditative Hermit—and Gives His Best Performance in Years from 2021-07-17T08:03:32
At one time—the era of Moonstruck, of Leaving Las Vegas, of Wild at Heart—many people thought Nicolas Cage was the greatest living American actor....
Column: Loving Your Country Means Teaching Its History Honestly from 2021-07-04T17:05:55
Why do you love the United States of America? There is no better time to ask that question than on Independence Day. The answer to that question c...
Pacific Northwest Wineries Are Shaking Off the Extreme Heat Wave, But Are Worried What It Means for the Industry’s Future from 2021-07-04T16:52:26
The unprecedented heat wave that descended on the Pacific Northwest this week has alarmed many in the region's burgeoning wine industry, leaving t...
Column: Why Does the QAnon Conspiracy Thrive Despite All its Unfulfilled Prophecies? from 2021-07-04T08:03:21
To any reasonable person, the failure of a long-foretold event to materialize should erode the belief that it will happen. A perfect example is th...
Prosecutors Indict Trump’s Longtime Money Man, Business from 2021-07-04T07:37:49
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History You Didn't Learn About Sir Lady Java and Trans Rights from 2021-07-04T07:19:12
In the Los Angeles club scene of the 1960s, Sir Lady Java—a dancer, comedian and drag queen—was a two-shows-a-night fixture. “I loved the people t...
The Forgotten Woman Who Helped Save Countless Birds by Challenging the Fashion for Feathers from 2021-07-04T07:01:02
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Review: False Positive Strives for Elevated Pregnancy Horror But Misses the Mark from 2021-07-04T06:39:50
The stress of being unable to conceive a child is a world of anxiety and disappointment unto itself. The time-honored ritual of peeing on the stic...
The IRS Is Struggling to Keep Up—And That’s Bad For Everyone from 2021-07-03T09:54:14
In the early days of the coronavirus pandemic last spring—as healthcare providers worked tirelessly to treat piling COVID-19 cases, nursing home e...
How Prison Gerrymandering Distorts Political Representation from 2021-07-03T09:31:12
When Floyd Wilson first learned of the term “prison gerrymandering,” he’d already been incarcerated for more than 35 years. He was taking a colleg...
How Britney Spears’ Case Could Change the Future of Conservatorship from 2021-07-03T09:05:32
When Britney Spears told a judge on Wednesday about her experience with her conservatorship—the legal arrangement that gave her father control ove...
Review: Don Cheadle Steals the Show in Steven Soderbergh's Twisty No Sudden Move from 2021-07-03T08:50:35
Almost nothing is clear at the start of Steven Soderbergh’s playful but pointed neo-noir No Sudden Move, set in 1954 Detroit: Ex-con Curt Goynes (...
Facebook’s Surprise Antitrust Victory Could Inspire Congress to Overhaul the Rules Entirely from 2021-07-03T08:39:44
Facebook won a major victory this week when a judge dismissed two lawsuits that argued the social media giant was a monopoly. But critics of Big T...
Supreme Court Upholds Arizona Voting Restrictions in Another Blow to Voting Rights Act from 2021-07-02T08:13:56
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that two controversial Arizona voting laws do not violate the Voting Rights Act (VRA), in a decision that...
Billionaire GOP Donor Bankrolls National Guard Border Deployment from 2021-07-02T07:25:41
As many as 50 National Guard members are heading to the U.S.-Mexico border to help law enforcement deal with the ongoing migrant crisis. But the c...
How the Delta Variant Affects Whether You Should Wear a Mask or Not from 2021-07-02T06:42:11
As infections involving the new Delta variant of the COVID-19 virus continue to increase around the world, including in the U.S., health experts a...
Exclusive: Elizabeth Warren, Bob Casey Ask For Data on Conservatorships After Britney Spears Testimony from 2021-07-02T06:28:18
Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bob Casey want more federal oversight of the country’s guardianship system following Britney Spears’ emotional testi...
How The Extreme Heat in the Pacific Northwest Is Taxing Electric Grids (and People’s Air Conditioners) from 2021-07-01T08:24:33
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Bill Cosby Released From Prison After Pa. Supreme Court Overturns Sexual Assault Conviction from 2021-07-01T07:37:46
(PHILADELPHIA) — Pennsylvania’s highest court threw out Bill Cosby’s sexual assault conviction and released him from prison Wednesday in a stunnin...
Donald Trump’s Company and a Top Executive Have Been Indicted in a Tax Probe, AP Sources Say from 2021-07-01T07:16:27
Donald Trump’s company and his longtime finance chief have been indicted on charges stemming from a New York investigation into the former preside...
HRC Files Lawsuit Challenging Florida’s Transgender Sports Ban—and Announces More To Come from 2021-07-01T06:51:53
LGBTQ civil rights group The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) announced on Wednesday that it has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit challenging Flori...
Are Demographics Destiny? Maybe Not, New Pew Numbers Suggest from 2021-07-01T06:39:38
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Juul Is Paying $40 Million to Rebuild Its Reputation. Will It Work? from 2021-06-30T08:03:08
Juul Labs reached a $40 million settlement with North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein this week, agreeing to limit its sales and marketing pr...
Column: The U.S. Can't Move Forward on LGBTQ Rights Without Reparations from 2021-06-30T07:24:07
It is generally hard to know when a social revolution has achieved its goals. In the case of the American gay rights revolution, however, it appea...
Post-White House Donald Trump Continues to Destroy Norms from 2021-06-30T06:26:06
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Top U.S. General Foresees Afghan Civil War as Security Worsens from 2021-06-30T06:13:34
KABUL, Afghanistan — The U.S.'s top general in Afghanistan on Tuesday gave a sobering assessment of the country's deteriorating security situation...
Facebook’s Market Value Tops $1 Trillion as Judge Dismisses Antitrust Lawsuits from 2021-06-29T09:17:35
Facebook Inc. won a court ruling dismissing two monopoly lawsuits filed by the U.S. government and a coalition of states that sought to break up t...
England vs Germany Offers End to 25 Years of Hurt for One Man, and a Nation from 2021-06-29T09:06:29
Most English people of a certain age and disposition can remember where they were on the evening of June 26, 1996: perched on the edge of their se...
The Reopening of Springsteen on Broadway Brought Broadway Out of Hibernation from 2021-06-29T08:52:29
The city that never sleeps is still a little sleepy, unsure of how to move its joints and muscles as it awakens from its forced hibernation. Altho...
Here’s How Much of Your Investing Portfolio Should Be in Crypto, According to 5 Experts from 2021-06-29T08:33:34
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Department of Justice Steps Into Voting Rights Fight, Filing High-Stakes Lawsuit Against Georgia from 2021-06-28T08:49:52
The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Friday that it would sue Georgia over the restrictions included in its new and expansive voting law, kno...
Unprecedented Heat Wave Builds in the Northwest U.S. as Temperature Records Fall from 2021-06-28T08:45:18
PORTLAND, Ore. — Intense. Prolonged. Record-breaking. Unprecedented. Abnormal. Dangerous.
That’s how the National Weather Service descr...
It’s More Than Just Rain and Snow. Climate Change Will Hit Air Travel in Surprising Ways from 2021-06-28T08:11:10
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The Ice Road Is an Overly Twisty Action Adventure That Has Its Charms, Chief Among Them Liam Neeson from 2021-06-28T08:04:34
How much plot is enough for a movie? It would be enough, maybe, just to follow three big rigs as they carry several super-heavy loads over treache...
Fox & I Is an Unnerving Memoir About Wildlife and Friendship from 2021-06-28T08:00:06
Several centuries ago, Voltaire declared that a dog is man’s best friend. At least, that’s what people remember best from his famous quote about t...
How the Biden Administration Can Make the U.S. a Global Leader on LGBTQ Rights from 2021-06-27T12:19:13
In this, the first Pride Month of the post-Trump era, U.S. embassies the world over have been told that they may once more fly the rainbow flag: a...
‘All Discrimination Comes from Ignorance.’ Meet the Chinese Ex-Cop Creating a Global LGBTQ+ Community from 2021-06-27T12:01:37
In the early 2000s, China's most famous gay lifestyle, health and dating blog was being run by a police officer.
By day, Ma Baoli patro...
Joe Biden is Caught in the Middle of a Catholic Church Debate Over Communion from 2021-06-27T11:43:01
A rift in the American Catholic Church widened in June, as U.S. bishops voted to draft instructions to the faithful on who should receive Communio...
How Republicans Have Packed the Courts for Years from 2021-06-27T11:38:48
While Republicans lately have been attacking Democrats for plotting to “pack” the federal courts with like-minded judges, their party has been doi...
Review: Netflix’s Steamy New Drama Sex/Life Is So Bad, It’s Funny from 2021-06-27T11:21:33
Have 30-somethings done something to offend the pop culture gods? Because lately, they can’t seem to stop roasting us. Last month, a rude Medium p...
Column: Today’s Crypto Fanatics Could Learn a Lot From Isaac Newton’s Money Mishaps from 2021-06-27T11:04:09
Since January, U.S. financial markets have been on a tear, a wild ride that began as the Biden administration completed its first full week in pow...
The So-Called Delta Plus Variant of COVID-19 Is Dangerous But Appears Unlikely to Be a Game-Changer from 2021-06-27T10:17:24
As if the already worrisome Delta variant, first identified in India, wasn’t concerning enough, now there’s Delta Plus. The latest variant of SARS...
Why Coalition, Not Allyship, Is the Necessary Next Step in the Racial Justice Movement from 2021-06-27T08:29:24
As Irish-Nigerian academic and broadcaster Emma Dabiri prepares for the U.S. release of her latest book, she reflects on the thinkers who have ins...
Facebook Tried to Ban Myanmar’s Military. But Its Own Algorithm Kept Promoting Pages Supporting Them, Report Says from 2021-06-27T08:06:19
Facebook promoted pages that shared pro-military propaganda in Myanmar, even after it banned accounts linked to the military from the platform due...
What’s the Point of Trying to Understand Ghislaine Maxwell? from 2021-06-27T07:39:57
People are curious about Ghislaine Maxwell. Who is the British socialite who allegedly enabled, coordinated and in some cases participated physica...
Derek Chauvin Was Sentenced to 22.5 Years. But America’s Law-Enforcement System Still Isn’t Set Up for Accountability from 2021-06-26T11:34:27
A Minneapolis judge on Friday sentenced former police officer Derek Chauvin, for the murder of George Floyd last May, to 22.5 years in prison—a ra...
Column: We've Been Saying the Olympic Games Are Dead for Decades. Here's Why They Keep Going from 2021-06-26T11:16:10
Are the Olympic Games dead?
It’s a reasonable inquiry. The Tokyo Olympics, already postponed for a year because of COVID-19, are sched...
Declared Insane for Speaking Up: The Dark American History of Silencing Women Through Psychiatry from 2021-06-26T10:58:38
On a hot summer’s night in June 1860, the heavy door of the insane asylum clanged shut behind Elizabeth Packard and she felt all hope desert her. ...
Stephen Breyer May Stay on the Supreme Court Just to Spite Politics from 2021-06-26T10:42:48
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This is the Queerest Congress Ever. Will It Advance LGBTQ Rights? from 2021-06-26T10:30:46
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Child Tax Credit Payments Start Next Month. These Letters From the IRS Will Tell You If You’re Eligible from 2021-06-26T10:22:39
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You Can Buy More Things Than Ever With Crypto. Here’s Why You Shouldn’t from 2021-06-26T08:03:20
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‘We Have a Deal.’ Joe Biden Gets His Bipartisan Moment on Infrastructure from 2021-06-25T08:54:55
President Joe Biden has long said he wants to show Americans that Washington can work to solve problems. In coming to a tentative agreement with a...
Nearly 100 People Remain Missing After South Florida Condo Collapse from 2021-06-25T08:34:21
(SURFSIDE, Fla.) — A beachfront condo building partially collapsed Thursday outside Miami, killing at least one person and trapping others in the ...
The U.S. COVID-19 Outbreak Is Still Bad—And it Could Get Worse from 2021-06-25T08:13:52
In many places across the United States, COVID-19 feels over. Unmasked citizens run rampant. New York City is planning an August mega-concert in C...
‘Someone’s Going to Be Left Holding the Bag.’ How Finance TikTok Is Navigating ‘Meme Stock’ Hype Among Young Investors from 2021-06-25T07:36:10
A growing cadre of Gen Z investors are anticipating a summer of meme stock mania, ready to capitalize on the next big short squeeze after a fatefu...
Accused of Being ‘Woke,’ Pentagon Pulled Into America’s Culture Wars from 2021-06-24T10:07:42
After weeks of political backlash over Pentagon's recent attempts to promote inclusion in the military, the nation’s top officer chided lawmakers ...
Security Software Tycoon John McAfee Found Dead in Spanish Prison After Extradition Ruling from 2021-06-24T10:03:36
John McAfee, the outlandish security software pioneer who tried to live life as a hedonistic outsider while running from a host of legal troubles,...
Last, Britney Spears Gets a Voice in Her Future—and We Have Her Fans to Thank from 2021-06-24T09:55:47
Britney Spears fans have been rallying under the #FreeBritney banner for years. But for a very long time, it was hard to tell how much freedom Bri...
Exclusive: Allyson Felix Launches Her Own Shoe Company Two Years After Breaking Up With Nike from 2021-06-23T08:46:28
After leaving Nike in a high-profile breakup in 2019, American track star Allyson Felix—the country's most decorated female track and field Olympi...
Biden Administration Unveils Plan to Combat Uptick in Gun Violence from 2021-06-23T08:31:05
President Joe Biden has largely relegated his public remarks on domestic policies to two topics: the COVID-19 pandemic and the economy. But rising...
After Weeks of Declining Vaccination Rates in the U.S., They Went Back Up in June. Will the Momentum Last? from 2021-06-23T08:21:09
On April 8, more than 4.3 million people in the U.S. received a COVID-19 vaccine dose. But after that peak, the numbers began to fall. By June 3, ...
Democrats Bring Popular Efforts to the Senate. Why Do They Keep Dying? from 2021-06-23T07:54:48
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Bennifer 2.0 Got You Pining For Your Ex? Therapists Say Forget It from 2021-06-23T07:40:01
The one that got away. The long lost soulmate. The what-could-have-been. The unlikely romantic rapprochement between Ben Affleck, 48, and Jennifer...
The U.S. Is Increasingly Diverse, So Why Is Segregation Getting Worse? from 2021-06-22T09:00:11
The integration battles of the Civil Rights era happened more than half a century ago, but the U.S. is getting more, not less, segregated, as that...
Why the NCAA Should Be Terrified of Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh’s Concurrence from 2021-06-22T08:41:19
For years, critics of the college sports business model—which tends to enrich schools and administrators, but not the actual players—have relished...
Preventing the Next Health Crisis Depends on Health Workers. We Need 18 Million More from 2021-06-22T08:04:57
Over 115,000 health and care workers died during the COVID-19 pandemic. As a physician who’s cared for patients with COVID-19, malaria and Ebola, ...
Carl Nassib Becomes First Active NFL Player to Come Out as Gay from 2021-06-22T07:56:54
Las Vegas Raiders defensive end Carl Nassib on Monday became the first active NFL player to come out as gay.
Nassib, who is entering hi...
Philippine President Duterte Threatens to Jail People Who Refuse COVID-19 Vaccine from 2021-06-22T07:39:04
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte threatened to jail those who refuse Covid-19 vaccines as the nation ramps up inoculations to prevent the spre...
Tokyo Olympics Will Allow Up to 10,000 Fans Per Event Despite COVID-19 Fears from 2021-06-21T07:53:54
(TOKYO) — The Tokyo Olympics will allow some local fans to attend when the games open in just over a month, organizing committee officials and the...
How COVID-19 Vaccination Became a Climate Metaphor from 2021-06-21T06:34:13
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Column: For the Good of Both Countries, U.S. Military Aid for Israel Must Be Conditional from 2021-06-21T06:26:17
When I served as a combat soldier in the Israeli military, I carried an American-made M-16. I drove American jeeps and fired American missiles.
Almost 25% of COVID-19 Patients Develop Long-Lasting Symptoms, According to a New Report from 2021-06-21T05:48:18
A year and a half into the pandemic, the condition known as Long COVID continues to stump doctors. A significant number of patients develop long-t...
Review: AMC’s Kevin Can F**K Himself Squanders a Thrillingly Subversive Premise from 2021-06-21T05:35:59
If they handed out Emmys for trailers, Kevin Can F**K Himself would make a pretty strong contender. Unveiled this past February, the 98-second pre...
The U.S. Government Placed a Big Bet on an Antiviral Pill to Fight COVID-19 from 2021-06-20T08:26:11
We’re not going to vaccinate our way completely out of this pandemic. With epidemiologists around the world increasingly accepting the reality tha...
How Biden Wrangled Europe’s Backing Ahead of His Meeting With Putin from 2021-06-16T08:53:33
The facade of unity President Joe Biden built with European allies ahead of his Wednesday summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin required so...
The Delta Variant Could Soon Become the Dominant COVID-19 Strain. Here’s What You Need to Know from 2021-06-16T08:40:39
The COVID-19 pandemic is increasingly becoming an arms race among the emerging variants of the virus, and at the moment, there’s no question which...
I Went to the Westminster Dog Show and All I Got Was This Lousy Positive View of Humanity from 2021-06-16T08:30:03
There is only one thing I know for sure about the Westminster Dog Show: there’s almost zero chance that I would have ever attended the event if no...
Miguel Patricio, CEO of Kraft Heinz, Says the End of the Ketchup Shortage Is in Sight from 2021-06-16T07:56:06
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Even Vaccinated People Are Nervous About Going Back to ‘Normal.’ Here’s How to Cope from 2021-06-15T09:01:57
Claudia Campos, 34, wanted there to be no doubt about why she continues to wear a face mask at the Florida car rental company where she works. She...
Gas Build Up in Nuclear Reactor Near Hong Kong Sparks Concern from 2021-06-15T08:52:14
The French utility that partly owns a nuclear power plant near Hong Kong is seeking more information on a gas buildup in a reactor, even as its Ch...
Facing a Stalled Agenda in Washington, Democrats Talk Up American Rescue Plan from 2021-06-15T08:47:17
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TikTok Is Collecting Your Biometric Data, Including ‘Faceprints.' Here’s What It Could Do With It from 2021-06-15T08:31:29
Recently, TikTok made a change to its U.S. privacy policy, allowing the company to "automatically" collect new types of biometric data, including ...
Surge in Shipping Costs Globally Could Cause Price Hikes From Coffee to Toys from 2021-06-15T08:18:40
(Bloomberg) — The skyrocketing price of shipping goods across the globe may hit your pocketbook sooner than you think — from that cup of coffee yo...
Some Patients Are Reporting Long COVID Recoveries—But Experts Still Don’t Fully Understand Why from 2021-06-14T08:53:30
A few months ago, Lana Lynch had resigned herself to never getting better. Months after testing positive for COVID-19, she still felt fatigued, st...
Israel’s Parliament Approves New Coalition, Ending Netanyahu’s Rule from 2021-06-14T08:38:28
(JERUSALEM) — Israel's parliament approved a new coalition government on Sunday that sent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu into the opposition af...
Can We Rein in the Power of the Presidency After Trump? from 2021-06-14T08:14:39
There are at least 81 million or so Americans who would like to forget all about Donald Trump and his presidency. Late-night television host Steph...
The Letter in Which Lincoln Debated the Morality of Slavery With Himself from 2021-06-14T08:10:52
Abraham Lincoln wrote countless private notes for his eyes only—scribbled words to capture ideas and insights about the myriad problems and issues...
In Europe, Joe Biden Tries to Reset Relationships After Trump from 2021-06-13T07:50:34
Former President Donald Trump often used his appearances at international summits to unload insults, badger world leaders and exert his dominance ...
Netanyahu’s Greatest Achievement Was Convincing Israel He Alone Transformed the State from 2021-06-13T07:37:47
There was a time when Benjamin Netanyahu knew how to exit the stage. On election night in 1999, after losing to Ehud Barak, Netanyahu congratulate...
Why We Turn to the Word ‘Surreal’ Whenever Something Terrible Happens from 2021-06-13T07:23:10
Following the terror attacks that took place Sept. 11, 2001, people across the country began searching Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary for the...
Column: How Whales Can Teach Us to Be Better Humans from 2021-06-13T07:05:29
For the last 23 years, I've traveled around the world as a wildlife photographer and photojournalist.
The pandemic ground all that to a...
If TV Is the New Film, We Need More Shows Like Lupin from 2021-06-13T06:50:15
Like an action hero swooping in to save the day, Lupin arrived at a dire moment. When the latest twist on Marcel Leblanc’s classic gentleman-thief...
In Netflix’s Tender and Exhilarating Skater Girl, a Shy Indian Teenager Takes Flight on a Board with Wheels from 2021-06-13T06:26:15
The assumption we should all live by, even if it’s sustainable only in a perfect world, is that women everywhere want the best for women everywher...
The G7 Want to Save the World from Climate Change. But Are They Willing to Pay for It? from 2021-06-12T12:32:47
The weather forecast is sunny this weekend in Cornwall, the picturesque corner of southwest England that will host the G7 summit from Friday to Su...
Column: What America's Plutocrats Today Should Learn From Past Generations from 2021-06-12T09:01:05
There’s an emerging consensus in America today that the accumulation of vast wealth by a handful of individuals is untenable for our democracy. Ba...
Brands Continue to Back Naomi Osaka, Showing an Evolution in How Sponsors Treat Athletes from 2021-06-12T08:35:17
Naomi Osaka is the world's highest highest-paid female athlete. She has earned some $60 million over the past 12 months, according to Forbes, and ...
As Germany Acknowledges Its Colonial-Era Genocide in Namibia, the Brutal Legacy of Diamond Mining Still Needs a Reckoning from 2021-06-12T08:23:08
Between 1904 and 1908, Germany's military and leadership oversaw the killing of at least 80,000 Africans in what is now the independent country of...
Review: In the Heights Is a Love Letter to a New York Neighborhood, Led by a Charismatic Star from 2021-06-12T07:58:34
Like flowers, trees and other living things, movies have seasons, and as originally conceived, they weren’t meant to be beamed into our climate-co...
With the Help of a World Full of iPhones, Apple’s AirTags Have Already Outsmarted the Competition from 2021-06-12T07:36:11
Recently, at a family member’s birthday party, my friend’s house keys went missing. We searched fruitlessly for an hour, killing the mood and endi...
Manchin Again at the Center of the Democrats’ Agenda Troubles from 2021-06-11T08:58:03
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Column: To Fix America's Broken Health Care System, We Must Rethink Who Counts as an Expert from 2021-06-11T08:54:31
Americans are emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic like survivors of a wildfire surveying an unfamiliar landscape. As we take stock of what’s left,...
How a Diplomatic Spat Shook Up Biden’s First Day in the U.K. from 2021-06-11T08:30:32
President Joe Biden’s first full day of his eight-day overseas tour got off to a wobbly start as a diplomatic row between the U.S. and U.K. over t...
Will Vaccine Prizes Improve Vaccination Rates in Hesitant Hong Kong? from 2021-06-11T07:28:03
For months, Hong Kong's leaders have fretted about the city's low COVID-19 vaccination rates. Despite vaccines being plentiful, free and available...
The Keystone XL Pipeline Has Officially Been Canceled After Opposition From Biden Administration from 2021-06-10T08:48:33
TC Energy has ended its 16-year quest to build the Keystone XL oil pipeline, a controversial cross-border project that became a litmus test for cl...
Senate Overwhelmingly Passes $250 Billion Tech Investment Bill Aimed at Countering China from 2021-06-09T08:53:53
The Senate overwhelmingly passed an expansive bill to invest almost $250 billion in bolstering U.S. manufacturing and technology to meet the econo...
It’s Eerily Like 2009 in Virginia’s Gubernatorial Primary from 2021-06-09T08:44:08
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Column: How Can We Escape the COVID-19 Vaccine Culture Wars? from 2021-06-09T08:29:50
On Friday, March 19, my wife and I got in our cars to drive an hour south of our home in Franklin, Tennessee, a prosperous suburb of Nashville. Th...
Bachelor Fans Respond to Chris Harrison’s Reported Eight-Figure Parting Deal With the Franchise from 2021-06-09T07:24:54
Chris Harrison, the longtime host of The Bachelor and The Bachelorette, is leaving the franchise permanently following a racism controversy—and ha...
5 Ways to Keep Your Brain Sharp As You Age from 2021-06-09T07:12:43
Important parts of the brain tend to atrophy as we get older—yet brain scans of some 70-year-olds resemble those of 20 to 30-year-olds. Emerging r...
Exclusive: Iran Steps up Efforts to Sow Discord Inside the U.S. from 2021-06-08T08:45:55
Iranian state actors are intensifying their disinformation campaign on social media to spread discord and anti-Semitic tropes inside the U.S., two...
Apple Doubles Down on Its Push for iPhone Privacy With Multiple New Features Aiming to Protect User Data from 2021-06-08T08:26:55
At Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) on Monday, the second virtual developer’s conference from Cupertino, Calif., CEO Tim Cook and ot...
How Kids Perceive Racism in the U.S., According to a New Study by Sesame Workshop from 2021-06-08T08:04:59
The majority of U.S. children believe that people of different races are not treated fairly in their country, according to a new study releasing t...
Column: Why Jeff Bezos Should Be Applauded for Going to Space from 2021-06-08T07:57:22
Give Jeff Bezos this: the guy knows how to make the most out of semi-retirement. On July 5, the richest man in the world will step down as Amazon ...
What Meghan and Harry’s New Daughter Needs to Know About Being a Second-Born from 2021-06-08T07:46:14
Lilibet 'Lili' Diana Mountbatten-Windsor, the new daughter of Meghan, Duchess of Sussex and Prince Harry, was born on Friday, June 4, weighing in ...
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Welcome Second Child from 2021-06-07T08:54:43
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — The second baby for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex is officially here: Meghan gave birth to a healthy girl on Friday.
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Column: The U.S. Has Failed to Persuade Americans to Get Vaccines. Here's How It Should Course-Correct from 2021-06-07T08:12:21
The U.S. still hasn’t reached a high enough level of vaccination to achieve “herd immunity” because vaccine demand is falling. While only months a...
As Shootings Continue to Surge in 2021, Americans Set to Face a Summer Plagued by Gun Violence from 2021-06-07T07:27:38
In the year and a half since the COVID-19 pandemic's onset, gun violence has skyrocketed across the U.S., even with nationwide lockdown procedures...
Column: How COVID-19 Is Revolutionizing Health Care Around the World from 2021-06-07T07:18:50
In 2020 alone, there were at least 3 million deaths from COVID-19, though the true figure is probably 2-3 times higher. In 2021, the COVID-19 pand...
With West African Roots and Japanese Influence, This Chef Is Changing the Flavors of French Cuisine from 2021-06-07T06:33:40
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Anna and Mizuki Nakajima on Making Games for Women, By Women from 2021-06-07T06:26
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The U.S. Can and Should Vaccinate Every Health Care Worker in the World from 2021-06-06T08:08:22
As the United States seems close to controlling a pandemic that has killed 600,000 Americans, we must recognize that in much of the rest of the wo...
Column: What's Really Changed for Transgender People Under Biden? from 2021-06-06T07:59:01
“No matter the result of this election, white supremacy will endure, patriarchy will endure, classism will endure, homophobia will endure, transph...
‘Gearhead From Birth’ Marco Greywe, Who Keeps Iconic VW Camper Vans Running, Says His Industry ‘Is Booming Again’ from 2021-06-06T07:43:31
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A Viral TikTok Accusing Converse of Stealing a Sneaker Shows the Difficulty of Design Protection from 2021-06-06T07:33:15
A TikTok accusing Converse of stealing designs that were submitted by an intern applicant has shed more light on alleged copying in the fashion wo...
Documentary All Light, Everywhere Examines the Limits of Police Body Cameras—and Our Own Perceptions from 2021-06-06T07:15:32
Near the beginning of Theo Anthony’s inquisitive and ambitious documentary All Light, Everywhere, an unseen narrator issues a caveat that both goe...
Review: Stephen King Adaptation Lisey's Story Is Mawkish, Dull and Too Long by Half from 2021-06-06T07:05:02
Apple TV+ has built a decent case, since launching in November 2019, for its existence. What's surprising is that it's done so not with the splash...
The U.S. Government’s Long-Awaited UFO Report Is Here. Its Findings? ¯\_(?)_/¯ from 2021-06-05T07:38:29
The U.S. Navy pilots flying maneuvers in their F/A-18 Super Hornets in 2015 did not have to wait for yesterday's leak of the classified government...
Why Kyrsten Sinema Could Control the Future of the Filibuster from 2021-06-05T07:29:26
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Why Biden Still Wins Infrastructure Negotiations, Even If They Fail from 2021-06-05T07:18:48
President Joe Biden entered the White House determined to restore the bipartisan work ethic that had been a hallmark of his three-decade Senate ca...
What Is Blockchain? The ‘Transformative’ Technology Behind Bitcoin, Explained from 2021-06-05T07:08:58
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The Debate Over Qualified Immunity Is at the Heart of Police Reform. Here’s What to Know from 2021-06-05T06:49:55
Civil rights advocates had been demanding an end to qualified immunity long before George Floyd’s murder sparked a mass movement against systemic ...
“We Owe It to Future Generations to Explain Why.” How Robert McNamara Came to Write His Memoirs About Vietnam from 2021-06-05T06:30:56
At Time Magazine’s gala celebration of its 75th anniversary on March 3, 1998. A few guests were asked to toast someone they especially admired. Jo...
The U.S. Vaccination Effort Is Leaving its Most Vulnerable Residents Behind from 2021-06-04T08:36:13
With every person who gets vaccinated, our communities become that much better protected against COVID-19. However, that bubble of protection isn'...
Biden Announces a Donation of 19 Million COVID-19 Vaccines to COVAX, With More to Follow from 2021-06-04T08:28:07
(WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden announced Thursday the U.S. will donate 75% of its unused COVID-19 vaccines to the U.N.-backed COVAX global vac...
Column: Renaming U.S. Army Bases Should Start with America’s Unrecognized Veterans from 2021-05-31T08:31:40
We remember and memorialize those who have served in the U.S. Armed Forces. One of the more permanent and public memorializations of our veterans ...
China Is Easing Birth Limits Further to Cope With Its Aging Society from 2021-05-31T08:20:11
BEIJING — China’s ruling Communist Party will ease birth limits to allow all couples to have three children instead of two to cope with the rapid ...
We Must Give All Prisoners Access to Resources to Pursue College Education from 2021-05-31T07:28:10
One of the lies that people tell about prison is that men and women and children inside don’t crave the wonders that can be found in a book. Some ...
Beyond Tulsa: The Historic Legacies and Overlooked Stories of America’s ‘Black Wall Streets’ from 2021-05-31T07:10:29
Between May 31 and June 1, 1921, as many as 300 people were killed in one of the deadliest race massacres in U.S. history. Riled up by rumors of a...
In the Noirish Modern Fairytale Undine, a Mermaid and a Man Find Happiness—for Now from 2021-05-31T06:48:19
If you’re in the mood for a noirish modern fairytale laced with introspective observations of both modern Germany and the Germany of the past, hav...
Column: I'm Tired of Trying to Educate White People About Anti-Asian Racism from 2021-05-30T08:40:59
As we continue to witness violence against Asian Americans--including, in the past month, the punching of a Bay Area father pushing his baby in a ...
100 Years After the Tulsa Race Massacre, Meet the Forensic Anthropologist Searching for Victims’ Remains from 2021-05-30T08:20:14
A century after the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, during which a white mob torched Black homes and businesses in the Oklahoma city's Greenwood area, w...
A Palestinian Doctor’s Account of Life Under Israeli Bombardment in Gaza from 2021-05-30T08:00:05
I grew up in the Gaza Strip in a small town called al-Qarara, and went to medical school in Cairo before returning home in 2016 to begin a family-...
Why I Have Hope for Israel’s Future from 2021-05-30T07:50:40
One Tuesday in May, my neighbor, Radwan, came to fit some shelves in my apartment. We chatted about what needed to be done, then I asked if he obs...
Review: Netflix's Army of the Dead Is a Heaping Dish of Turn-Off-Your-Brain Entertainment from 2021-05-30T07:47:10
In the Michelin roster of pop-entertainment filmmakers, Zack Snyder is the chef who never knows when to stop. If he thinks a dish needs more salt,...
Why ‘Breakthrough’ Infections Even After COVID-19 Vaccinations Shouldn’t Be Surprising from 2021-05-29T08:36:05
In a recent Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), researchers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) provide the first wide-scale l...
Republicans Sink Proposal for a January 6 Commission from 2021-05-29T08:25:57
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Inside the Israeli City That Sits on the Divide Between Jews and Arabs from 2021-05-29T08:17:08
It’s the Sabbath, and dozens of Jewish young men are strolling through a mostly Arab neighborhood wearing yarmulkes and white shirts, M-16s slung ...
Why Amazon’s MGM Purchase Could Put the Company in Washington’s Crosshairs from 2021-05-29T07:55:40
Imagine you invite friends over for a movie night on a new flatscreen TV purchased on Amazon Prime. The gathering is last minute, but the televisi...
A Woman Has Never Run New York City. Can Kathryn Garcia Change That? from 2021-05-29T07:37:46
Kathryn Garcia knows her shit. On a blustery spring morning, she's standing at the waterfront in Long Island City and squinting at a boat on the E...
Hulu’s Plan B Is an Imperfect Buddy Comedy With Its Heart in the Right Place from 2021-05-29T07:17:41
Sometimes you’re glad when even a not-so-great movie exists. Plan B, a teenage buddy comedy available on Hulu, isn’t wholly terrible, though much ...
How China’s Response to the COVID-19 Lab Leak Theory Means It Will Rumble On and On from 2021-05-28T08:26:35
Zhao Lijian isn’t one for pulling punches. So when asked Thursday about U.S. President Joe Biden’s decision to reinvestigate whether the coronavir...
The Growing Anti-Democratic Threat of Christian Nationalism in the U.S. from 2021-05-28T07:36:21
On January 6th, 2021, insurrectionists stormed the U.S. Capitol in order to “Stop the Steal” and delay the certification of President-elect Biden’...
‘Change is Coming.’ Activists Just Scored Big Wins Against ExxonMobil, Chevron and Shell from 2021-05-28T06:52:56
The questions about climate change for ExxonMobil Chairman and CEO Darren Woods came in rapid succession during Wednesday’s virtual meeting for sh...
From Cruella to Maleficent to the Joker: Is It Time to Retire the Villain Origin Story? from 2021-05-28T06:30:58
Even if the slogan “fair and balanced” has been retired by the conservative news network that used it for years, the damage caused by its shifty l...
Multiple People Killed in Shooting at San Jose Railyard from 2021-05-27T08:52:55
(SAN JOSE, Calif.) — Gunfire erupted Wednesday at a railyard in San Jose, and a sheriff’s spokesman said multiple people were killed and wounded a...
A Ceasefire Won’t Protect Palestinians From Looming Climate Threats—Or Israel From the Fallout from 2021-05-27T08:37:15
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The CDC’s New Mask Guidance May Be Motivating People to Get Vaccinated—But Not for the Reason You Might Think from 2021-05-27T08:04:16
As demand for vaccinations drops in the U.S., states are turning to increasingly dramatic measures—Dinner with the governor! Multi-million-dollar ...
A Quiet Place Part II Is Tense and Effective—But a Little More Breathing Room Would Have Gone a Long Way from 2021-05-27T07:39:20
The idea of edge-of-your-seat movie entertainment is something of an oxymoron, or at the very least an overrated advertising gimmick. While it’s e...
Child Tax Credit Payments Will Start July 15. Here’s How Much You’ll Get from 2021-05-27T06:39:08
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Column: India Is Demanding Social Media Remove References to the ‘Indian Variant’ of COVID-19 from 2021-05-26T08:32:52
The Indian government is demanding that social media companies remove all references to the "Indian variant" of COVID-19—saying the term is not sc...
Racist Slurs, Broken Glass, Then a Return to Business for an Asian-Owned Store Attacked Twice from 2021-05-26T08:06:27
Mun Sung and his wife watched helplessly on March 30 as a man wielding a metal pole smashed through glass, ripped down racks and hurled racial slu...
Moderna Says Its COVID-19 Vaccine Is Safe and Works For Teens from 2021-05-26T07:36:10
In a release on May 25, Moderna says its vaccine is safe and efficacious among 12- to 18-year olds.
The company reported results from i...
Our Eyes on the Virus: Why We Still Need Widespread Rapid Testing Even With Vaccines from 2021-05-26T07:19:54
The vaccines are here. Why do we still need testing? Testing is our eye on the virus. Without testing, we can’t see where it is or where it is goi...
On Anniversary of George Floyd’s Death, Biden Misses a Self-Imposed Deadline from 2021-05-26T07:02:35
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8 Questions with Theoretical Physicist Carlo Rovelli—Including Quantum and Cats from 2021-05-25T08:58:19
The United Kingdom didn’t think much about particles or waves or quantum nonsense when it blew up Helgoland in 1947. It only knew that there were ...
U.S. Puts Japan on ‘Do Not Travel’ List Over COVID-19 Spike Just 2 Months Before Olympics from 2021-05-25T08:44:59
(WASHINGTON) — U.S. health officials and the State Department on Monday warned Americans against travel to Japan because of a surge in coronavirus...
Japan Opens Mass Vaccination Centers in Attempt to Curb COVID-19 Wave 2 Months Before Olympics from 2021-05-25T08:39:14
(TOKYO) — Japan mobilized military doctors and nurses to give shots to elderly people in Tokyo and Osaka on Monday as the government desperately t...
A Blind Patient Regained Partial Sight in a Breakthrough Study, Offering Hope to Millions from 2021-05-25T07:31:07
The darkness descends slowly for people with retinitis pigmentosa (RP), a degenerative eye disease that affects 2 million people worldwide. The co...
How Olivia Rodrigo Became America’s Biggest New Pop Star from 2021-05-25T06:46:29
You don’t have to be a teenager to love Olivia Rodrigo’s music, but it certainly helps. Hitting play on Sour, the 18-year-old Disney star and hit ...
The CDC Says That The Fully Vaccinated Can Shed Masks—Both Indoors and Outdoors from 2021-05-14T08:38:58
In news everyone has been waiting for since last year, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said May 13 that people who are f...
ExxonMobil Wants You to Take Responsibility for Climate Change, Study Says from 2021-05-14T07:52:14
ExxonMobil is one of the world’s largest publicly traded oil and gas companies—and it wants you to take responsibility for climate change.
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Asia Is Home to 99 of the World’s 100 Cities Facing the Greatest Environmental Challenges from 2021-05-14T07:36:23
The many environmental challenges facing the world are far from evenly shared across regions. Of the 100 cities facing the greatest environmental ...
Rebuilding the U.S. Refugee Resettlement Program Is an Opportunity for Biden to Seize from 2021-05-14T07:14:48
The debate about President Biden’s recent decision to enact a big increase in the number of refugees allowed into America, has been proceeding fro...
India’s COVID-19 Disaster May Be Turning Into an Even Bigger Global Crisis from 2021-05-13T08:06:25
High in the thin air of the Mount Everest Base Camp in Nepal, Sherpas and climbers used to walk freely from one group of tents to another, holding...
Are Childcare ‘Infrastructure’? Nearly $2 Trillion for Families May Hinge on Congress’ Answer from 2021-05-13T07:34:55
Three weeks after Bethany Fauteux gave birth to her second child in 2013, she was spending her days surrounded by young children—except they weren...
Pipeline Hack Sets Off Scramble For Gasoline from 2021-05-12T08:25:37
After more than a decade of warnings about the vulnerability of U.S. energy infrastructure to hackers, a cyberattack on a major pipeline has left ...
The World Isn’t Getting Vaccinated Fast Enough. Here Are 4 Ways to Fix That from 2021-05-12T07:26:44
When this pandemic first began, it quickly became clear that we didn’t just need vaccines, we’d also needed vaccinations, and lots of them. Until ...
Why So Many House Members Are Heading for the Exits from 2021-05-12T07:18:15
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A New Study Points to MDMA as a Powerful Treatment for PTSD from 2021-05-12T06:59:23
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), will affect some 26 million Americans at some point in their lives, according to the Department of Veterans...
Suspect Indicted on Murder Charges in Atlanta Shootings as Prosecutor Plans to Seek Death Penalty from 2021-05-12T06:35:57
ATLANTA — A man accused of killing eight people, six of them women of Asian descent, in shootings at three Atlanta-area massage businesses was ind...
The U.S. Is Entering a New COVID-19 Vaccination Crisis from 2021-05-11T08:51:12
In the past three weeks, every adult in the U.S. has become eligible for COVID-19 vaccines, which are now widely available in most parts of the co...
Teens Aged 12 to 15 Can Now Get Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine in the U.S. from 2021-05-11T07:46:39
On May 10, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) extended authorization of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to 12- to 15-year-olds. It’s...
Free COVID-19 Vaccines Are Luring Visitors to Dracula’s Castle in Transylvania from 2021-05-11T07:33:46
Residents of Romania who find themselves in central Transylvania this May now have the option of getting vaccinated at a legendary location from h...
The Empire State Building’s Green Retrofit Was a Success. Will Other Buildings Follow Suit? from 2021-05-11T07:29:21
Underneath the Empire State building, a maze of pipes, gauges and steel valve wheels that comprise the building's chiller plant look as if they mi...
Scotland’s Nationalists Won a Big Election Victory. Could Scottish Independence Now Be on the Cards? from 2021-05-11T07:18:22
Scotland could be one step closer to becoming an independent country.
The British government has been forced to play defense on calls f...
The Joy of Seeing Art Live With Other Humans for the First Time in 2 Years from 2021-05-11T06:40:54
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The ‘America First’ Revival Tour Throws a Trump Rally Without Trump from 2021-05-10T08:12:52
For an hour and a half on Friday evening, it was as if the 2020 election had never ended.
"Tell me, who’s your president?" asked Rep. M...
The Facebook Oversight Board’s Decision Didn’t Change Much for Trump. But It Could Have Implications Far Beyond Him from 2021-05-10T07:24:06
Facebook’s new Oversight Board, a new, quasi-independent organization that acts as a kind of supreme court for Facebook’s moderation decisions, is...
The Story Behind the Declaration of Independence’s Most Memorable Line from 2021-05-10T07:11:27
The most remarkable features of the state constitutions that sprang to life in 1776 like so many daffodils up and down the continent were certain ...
The Real Biggest Myths About World War II, According to a Military Historian from 2021-05-10T06:20:24
More than 75 years after V-E Day—the German surrender on May 8, 1945, that ended the physical fighting on the Western Front in World War II—myths ...
Column: History Is Full of Mothers Who Changed the World While Taking Care of Their Children from 2021-05-09T07:47:09
The notion that mothers can simultaneously nurture their children and their careers is often seen as a modern phenomenon, an indication of how far...
The Invisible Labor Inside America’s Lactation Rooms from 2021-05-09T07:33:01
The Longworth House lactation suite is stately. Furnished with wood paneling and a patrician window curtain, it fits a refrigerator, a sink, a TV,...
Texas Was Already One of the Hardest States to Vote in. It May Get Even Harder from 2021-05-09T07:23:40
The Texas House of Representatives approved a spate of new voting restrictions Friday in a state that has long been considered one of the hardest ...
‘There’s No Easy Way Out of This.’ How Anti-Government Protests in Colombia Escalated into Deadly Clashes with Police from 2021-05-09T07:01:57
Projectiles fire out of an armored car and shoot down a Bogotá highway like fireworks, landing among a group of protesters as they run in the oppo...
Educating the Country: TFK Kid Reporter Interviews Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona from 2021-05-09T06:46:20
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Column: The Problem With Celebrating the Selflessness of Mothers from 2021-05-09T06:23:51
My mother has three children. She gave birth to my sister in Seattle, my brother in Stockholm, Sweden, and me in Albuquerque, N.M. One of the thin...
‘Needle Phobia’ May Be Keeping Some From Getting Their COVID-19 Vaccine. Here’s How to Cope from 2021-05-08T08:26:31
Alex Denley, a 23-year-old philosophy doctoral student at the University of Illinois at Chicago, doesn't seem like someone who would be vaccine he...
The U.S. Birth Rate Dropped Last Year, But Don’t Blame It All on the Pandemic from 2021-05-08T08:17:16
About 142,000 fewer babies were born in the U.S. in 2020 than in 2019, according to provisional figures from the Centers for Disease Control and P...
GOP Makes a Choice: Donald Trump Over Liz Cheney from 2021-05-08T08:11:10
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Column: Too Many Mothers Struggle to Afford Diapers from 2021-05-08T07:59:01
In 1907, Anna Jarvis held a memorial service for her mother, Ann Reeves Jarvis, a peace activist who created Mothers’ Day Work Clubs in the 1850s ...
The 3 Science-Backed Strategies That Can Help You Achieve Your Post-Pandemic Goals from 2021-05-08T07:50:51
With gyms, restaurants, and workplaces reopening, people from every part of my life are asking for expert advice on how to ingrain new and healthi...
On Their New Albums, Miranda Lambert and Ashley Monroe Find New Ways to Disrupt Country Music from 2021-05-08T07:33:53
A lot has changed in country music in the decade since the Pistol Annies, a country supergroup consisting of Miranda Lambert, Ashley Monroe and An...
The Best Credit Card Sign-Up Bonuses in May, Including an 80,000-Point Whopper From Chase from 2021-05-08T07:13
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Why Men Are Falling Behind in COVID-19 Vaccination from 2021-05-05T10:20
In the United States, COVID-19 has been more likely to kill men than women: about 13 men have died of the disease for every 10 women, according to...
Clash Coming: Joe Biden and Mitch McConnell Are Preparing for a Spending Standoff from 2021-05-05T10:18:50
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Marriage Therapists on Why Long-Term Couples Like Bill and Melinda Gates Get Divorced from 2021-05-05T09:32:39
To the wider world, Bill and Melinda Gates have always appeared to be the Mazda of married couples: not very glamorous, but very reliable and unli...
Uncovering the Daring Stories of Women Who Resisted the Nazis in Occupied France from 2021-05-05T08:36:45
Over lunch nearly 20 years ago, approaching the end of her life and feeling ready to speak of her experiences for the first time, my great-aunt Hé...
8 People Involved in Tokyo Olympic Torch Relay Infected With COVID-19 from 2021-05-04T09:15:44
Eight people who were involved in the the torch relay for the Tokyo Olympics have tested positive for COVID-19—the latest sign of trouble for Japa...
Biden Administration to Reunite 4 Families Separated at U.S.-Mexico Border Under Trump from 2021-05-04T09:04:15
(SAN DIEGO) — The Biden administration said Monday that four families that were separated at the Mexico border during Donald Trump's presidency wi...
The Overlooked History of Angel Island, Where the U.S. Enforced Rules Designed to Keep Asian Immigrants Out from 2021-05-04T08:32:45
For the last year, Russell Jeung, an Asian American Studies Professor at San Francisco State University, has been tracking the rise in discriminat...
‘Love It or List It’ Co-host David Visentin Has 4 Tips for Surviving This ‘Crazy’ Seller’s Market from 2021-05-04T08:14:57
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Column: What a New Survey Reveals About the Fight Over American History from 2021-05-03T09:04:03
What are Americans supposed to know about the history of their country? Whose stories should be taught in classrooms, whose should be omitted and ...
Column: America's 1% Got Way Richer During the Pandemic. We Need a Onetime Wealth Tax to Help Rebuild the Country from 2021-05-03T08:42:26
The coronavirus has been nothing less than a calamity. But more than a year into the pandemic, it is distressingly clear that although the virus a...
Column: We Need More Data in the Fight Against Cancer. Here's a Plan to Help Us Get There from 2021-05-03T08:30:01
For the first time in over a year, we are starting to see a light at the end of the tunnel from the devastation caused by COVID-19. While much wor...
100 Days, the Global Pandemic Edition from 2021-05-03T08:18:21
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Biden Says He Wants to Go Big On Health Care. But He Left Major Reforms Out of His Latest Plan from 2021-05-02T10:58:10
During President Joe Biden’s speech to Congress on Wednesday, he called for an ambitious health agenda that would allow the federal government to ...
How Liberal White America Turned Its Back on James Baldwin in the 1960s from 2021-05-02T10:35:45
In discussions about race relations today, the works of James Baldwin continue to speak to the present, even decades after they were written. So i...
Caster Semenya Is Barred From Her Best Race. But She Won’t Give Up On Tokyo from 2021-05-02T10:13:27
Caster Semenya's fight continues. In February, the South African runner filed an appeal to the European Court of Human Rights, for the right to ru...
Roy Andersson’s Quietly Gorgeous About Endlessness Explores Questions for Which There Are No Answers from 2021-05-02T09:59:01
Swedish director Roy Andersson’s About Endlessness is a scroll of 1,000 questions that would fit in a walnut shell, a seemingly unassuming movie t...
America’s Single, Fully-Vaccinated Seniors Are Looking for Love Again from 2021-05-02T09:42:10
A few Saturdays ago, a charming teacher asked Katherine Palmer, 64, on a date at a local tavern. After a year of staying six feet apart from other...
President Biden Made the Right Choice to Withdraw from Afghanistan from 2021-05-01T10:15:21
President Biden made a commendable decision to end the war in Afghanistan.
It wasn’t an easy decision. But it was the kind of decision ...
How the FDA’s Menthol Cigarette Ban Fits Into a New Era of U.S. Tobacco Regulation from 2021-05-01T10:02:47
It’s easy to forget that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) only gained the ability to regulate tobacco products in 2009, given how much ...
The Indian Government Is Silencing Critics Even As Its COVID-19 Crisis Surges from 2021-05-01T09:40:51
Chained to a hospital bed “like an animal” while suffering from COVID-19. Not allowed to visit the bathroom, and given a bottle in which to urinat...
Bipartisan Talks on Police Reform Advance—Delicately from 2021-05-01T09:27:25
A small bipartisan group of lawmakers in Washington are making an urgent push to get a police reform bill passed in Congress in the wake of a Minn...
Pfizer-BioNTech Will Start to Ship Smaller Packs of Its COVID-19 Vaccine from 2021-05-01T09:00:55
Now that every American adult is eligible to get vaccinated, vaccine makers are shifting their priorities to meet the changing needs of people wil...
The 5 Best New Shows Our TV Critic Watched in April 2021 from 2021-05-01T08:53:31
I've said it before, but I'll say it again: docu-mania is upon us. Faced with COVID-related challenges to producing scripted series, many platform...
Long Before Raiding Rudy Giuliani’s Home, Investigators Sought ‘Everything’ From His Associates from 2021-04-30T10:55:52
By the time federal investigators searched the Manhattan home of Rudy Giuliani on Wednesday, they had amassed a trove of evidence from his associa...
In His Speech to Congress, Joe Biden Sets Out a Vision for ‘Competition, Not Conflict’ With China from 2021-04-30T10:47:28
It was a speech heavy on domestic policy, detailing ambitious plans to revamp American infrastructure, education, jobs and healthcare. But at the ...
How School Closures Damaged Children's Mental Health During the Pandemic from 2021-04-30T09:59
Nobody ever believed the pandemic would go easy on children. The virus might target them less directly than it targets older people, but other cha...
A Major Rights Group Says Israel Is Guilty of Apartheid. It Might Fracture the Status Quo in Washington from 2021-04-30T09:26:13
On Tuesday, the U.S.-based rights organisation, Human Rights Watch (HRW), accused Israel of two crimes against humanity: the crime of apartheid, a...
Remembering Michael Collins, Apollo 11’s Third—and Essential—Man from 2021-04-30T09:03:55
Few people think about the time Michael Collins didn't go to the moon. Collins, who died of cancer on April 28 at age 90, is best remembered as Ap...
‘America Is On the Move Again.’ Joe Biden Delivers His First Major Presidential Speech from 2021-04-29T10:47:45
President Joe Biden has attended dozens of presidential addresses to Congress since he first came to Washington in 1973. But after nearly half a c...
The Supreme Court Is Taking Up a Case That Could Impact Gun Rights For Millions from 2021-04-29T10:34:32
The U.S. Supreme Court will take up a high-stakes Second Amendment case that experts say has the potential to expand gun rights and radically incr...
Why the COVID-19 Variants Spreading in India Are a Global Concern from 2021-04-29T10:10:13
As the numbers of COVID-19 cases and deaths in India continue to mount, public health officials are carefully watching yet another looming threat:...
To Solve Disordered Migration, Governments Need to Think About Climate Change from 2021-04-29T09:18:09
Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador made a tangible proposal at last week’s U.S.-led climate summit, a rarity in the world of climate ge...
Biden’s 100-Days Bet: Big Government Can Win the Post-Trump Moment from 2021-04-28T10:42:13
President Joe Biden was huddling with aides in the Oval Office in late April, preparing for a Zoom tour of Proterra, an electric bus and battery p...
Asia’s Economies Are Set to Rebound From COVID-19 Faster Than the U.S. or Europe – If They Can Step Up Vaccine Rollouts from 2021-04-28T10:15:36
Asia's reward for effectively tackling the COVID-19 pandemic will be some of the fastest economic growth in the world in 2021.
But, eco...
History's Warning for the U.S. Withdrawal From Afghanistan from 2021-04-28T09:24:59
When President Biden boldly defied his military advisors and announced on April 14 that the American military presence in Afghanistan will end on ...
What Biden’s Recognition of Armenian Genocide Means to Armenian-Americans from 2021-04-28T08:46:35
Armenian-Americans have welcomed President Joe Biden’s historic declaration that the killing and deportation of up to 1.5 million Armenians during...
U.S. to Share 60 Million Doses of AstraZeneca Vaccines Amid Global COVID-19 Surge from 2021-04-27T10:53:01
The U.S. announced Monday it would share its entire supply of AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine with other countries and readied an aid package for I...
How Countries Around the World Are Helping India Fight COVID-19—and How You Can Too from 2021-04-27T10:07:55
India is in the midst of a humanitarian crisis.
The country recorded 352,991 new cases of COVID-19 on Monday, breaking the record once ...
If I’ve Had COVID-19, Do I Still Need Two Doses of Vaccine? from 2021-04-05T09:14:33
While there are three safe and effective vaccines authorized in the U.S. to protect against COVID-19, there’s still a lot about vaccine immunity t...
What Counts as a Mass Shooting? Why So Much of America’s Gun Violence Gets Overlooked from 2021-04-05T09:06:51
In the past two weeks, two horrific mass shootings have made national news across the United States.
On March 22, a gunman killed 10 pe...
Idris Elba Brings a Regal Urban Cowboy to Life in Concrete Cowboy from 2021-04-05T08:47:34
Being a wonderful actor may be more of a blessing than being a great actor, and Idris Elba is a wonderful actor. In Concrete Cowboy, Elba plays a ...
What is the Point of Celebrating Easter During a Pandemic? from 2021-04-04T10:02:08
This time last year the talk was all about what we will have learned when the COVID-19 pandemic subsides, and allowing normal life to resume. Peop...
Should We Keep Wearing Masks Even After the Pandemic Ends? from 2021-04-04T09:52:55
Riding the New York City subway during cold and flu season used to test your stomach. The woman next to you was coughing. The guy behind her was s...
Space Can Take a Nasty Toll On An Astronaut’s Heart, Study Finds from 2021-04-04T09:32:39
It's perfectly fine that human beings want to travel in space. But we have to reckon with the fact that space doesn't want anything to do with us....
Morgan Jerkins Memorializes a Swiftly-Changing Harlem in Her New Novel Caul Baby from 2021-04-04T09:20:20
Morgan Jerkins delights in finding the fantastical within the familiar. In her new novel, Caul Baby, everyday life takes on a surreal glow: a bode...
Spent the Last Year in Sweatpants? The Creator Behind a New Netflix Show Has Some Ideas About Where Our Clothes Go From Here from 2021-04-04T09:07:22
What are you drawn to when you open up your closet? It’s a question at the center of artist and curator Emily Spivack’s work. In 2014, Spivack col...
What to Know About What’s Happening to Unaccompanied Minors at the Border from 2021-04-03T10:56:57
Heavy politicization of the U.S.-Mexico border has followed as thousands of unaccompanied migrant children have presented themselves to government...
Fully Vaccinated People Can Travel With Low Risk of COVID-19, CDC Says from 2021-04-03T10:34:05
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today announced the news many people have been waiting for: People fully vaccinated agai...
Companies Condemn Georgia’s Restrictive Voting Law Amid Pressure Campaign From Advocates from 2021-04-03T10:28:18
Corporations in Georgia and across the U.S. are taking forceful stances against the state’s new election law—which includes several voting restric...
Column: The Biden Administration Must Focus on Antitrust from 2021-04-03T09:55:52
President Biden faces challenges greater than any president since FDR. The country is struggling with a deadly pandemic that has shaken the econom...
Matt Gaetz Gets Headlines for the Scandals. He Should Worry About the Receipts from 2021-04-03T09:46:33
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The True Story of the Black Cowboys of Philadelphia Depicted in Concrete Cowboy from 2021-04-03T09:38:29
On a bus traveling through the Strawberry Mansion neighborhood of North Philadelphia, passengers are jolted out of their reveries by a resounding ...
'An Actor's Actor.' Remembering Jessica Walter's One-Liners, Memes and Comedic Legacy from 2021-04-03T09:24:25
Jessica Walter would love to know that she remained a meme sensation even after she passed—it goes to show what a powerhouse she really was, that ...
Here’s What Will Actually Convince People to Get Vaccinated from 2021-04-03T08:40:15
One of evolution's cleverest tricks was giving us a sense of shame. It's a miserable feeling—low, humbling, publicly discomfiting—but it's suppose...
Pfizer-BioNTech Report First Long-Term Study Results for COVID-19 Vaccine from 2021-04-02T10:26:44
On April 1, Pfizer-BioNTech released results from the longest study yet of their COVID-19 vaccine.
In a release, the companies reported...
Rep. Pramila Jayapal On How She Is Pushing President Biden to Be More Progressive from 2021-04-02T10:21:28
Representative Pramila Jayapal looks solemn. She is one of the top leaders of the progressive movement in Congress, and she's poised to finally ef...
Review: HBO Max's Offbeat Tech Satire Made for Love Goes Down Easy—Maybe Too Easy from 2021-04-02T09:58:41
The maverick tech mogul has, for reasons that should be obvious to anyone with a halfway decent internet connection, become a stock character.
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To See How Biden’s Infrastructure Plan Will Address Climate Change, Look at the Details from 2021-04-01T10:41:01
To understand how President Joe Biden’s new $2 trillion infrastructure plan announced Wednesday will shape the fight against climate change, it’s ...
Seven Hong Kong Democracy Leaders Have Been Convicted Over the City’s 2019 Protests from 2021-04-01T10:23:28
HONG KONG — Seven Hong Kong pro-democracy advocates were convicted Thursday on charges of organizing and participating in an unlawful assembly dur...
Facing Boycotts H&M and Nike Are Learning the New Price of Doing Business in China from 2021-04-01T09:57:21
No other country has done a better job of channeling the profit-maximizing drive of private corporations into geopolitical gains in recent years t...
The U.S. Death Rate Rose Significantly During the COVID-19 Pandemic from 2021-04-01T08:44:37
COVID-19 was the third-most-common cause of death in the U.S. in 2020, contributing to more than 375,000 deaths, and a 16% increase in the nationa...
Column: Georgia's New Voting Restrictions Are a Step Back Into Our State's Dark History from 2021-04-01T08:38:37
After a historic election with record-breaking participation by voters of color who turned Georgia Blue, Republicans wasted no time in changing th...
The Situation at the U.S.-Mexico Border Can’t Be ‘Solved’ Without Acknowledging Its Origins from 2021-04-01T08:28:31
With the U.S. “on pace to encounter more individuals on the southwest border than we have in the last 20 years,” as Homeland Security Secretary Al...
Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 Vaccine Works for Teens, According to a New Study from 2021-03-31T09:39:02
Pfizer-BioNTech says their COVID-19 vaccine is 100% efficacious in protecting adolescents aged 12 to 15 years from COVID-19 disease.
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Column: The Heartbreak and Horror of Being an EMT During the Pandemic—and Why I'm Still Working from 2021-03-31T09:29:51
When COVID-19 erupted in New York City last spring, it forced me to make a decision as to whether or not I would work the disaster as an emergency...
The Global Gender Gap Will Take an Extra 36 Years to Close After the COVID-19 Pandemic, Report Finds from 2021-03-31T09:18:33
The time it will take for the gender gap to close grew by 36 years in the space of just 12 months, according to the World Economic Forum’s 2021 Gl...
In a Break with Washington’s Usual Posture, the CDC Director Makes an Emotional Plea from 2021-03-31T09:09:48
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George Floyd Was 'Terrified' Says Witness Who Recorded Derek Chauvin Kneeling on His Neck from 2021-03-31T08:56:09
The teenage witness who took the famous video of George Floyd being crushed into the ground by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin described ...
Column: March Madness Exploits Black Athletes. The Supreme Court Should End the Injustice from 2021-03-31T08:46:19
The NCAA basketball tournament—commonly referred to as March Madness—is a beloved ritual in college athletics and the capstone of the athletic yea...
‘America’s Is on Trial’ as Derek Chauvin Faces Justice in the Death of George Floyd from 2021-03-30T10:39:38
Derek Chauvin’s murder trial began Monday in a landmark moment for the nationwide reckoning on race sparked by George Floyd’s death, with prosecut...
President Biden and the Director of the CDC Warn of a COVID-19 Rebound if the U.S. Lets Up from 2021-03-30T10:18:29
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden and a top health official warned Monday that too many Americans are declaring virus victory too quickly, appealin...
Vaccines Stop COVID-19 Infection, But Here’s Why You Still Need to Wear a Mask from 2021-03-30T09:26:07
In a report published today in the MMWR, scientists at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) report more good news from real-world studies of...
Trump Is Gone, But He’s Still Energizing The Resistance from 2021-03-30T08:39:03
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How the Giant Boat Blocking the Suez Canal Was Freed: Dredgers, Tugboats, and a Full Moon from 2021-03-30T08:26:20
The congregation of tugboats and dredgers that freed a skyscraper-sized container ship from Egypt's Suez Canal on Monday had help from an extremel...
The Draft of a WHO Report Says Animals Were the Likely Source of COVID-19 from 2021-03-29T10:17:06
BEIJING — A joint WHO-China study on the origins of COVID-19 says that transmission of the virus from bats to humans through another animal is the...
Derek Chauvin’s Trial Set to Begin Over the Death of George Floyd from 2021-03-29T10:09:21
The trial of Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) officer charged with the murder of George Floyd, is set to begin on Mar...
Column: Joe Biden Should Make National Service the Cornerstone of His Legacy. Here's How He Can Achieve That from 2021-03-29T09:33:17
In times of crisis, America’s leaders have historically relied on national service to recover and rebuild. During the Great Depression, President ...
‘Garbage Freaking Everywhere’ as Americans Venture Outdoors After a Year of Lockdowns from 2021-03-29T09:21:46
Across the country, as the weather improved and pandemic lockdowns were lifted, Americans ventured outside and noticed that their neighborhoods lo...
Review: With Six Minutes to Midnight, Eddie Izzard Spins an Unusually Gentle-Spirited Spy Tale from 2021-03-29T09:05:37
Six Minutes to Midnight, an espionage drama directed by Andy Goddard and starring Eddie Izzard and Judi Dench, has a gentle spirit that you don’t ...
Sesame Workshop Is Talking More Explicitly About Race—and Welcoming Two Black Muppets from 2021-03-28T10:34
Bradley Freeman Jr. was doing some Christmas shopping at Target when he got the email. Glancing down at his phone, all he could see was a preview:...
Spain Is Going to Trial a 4-Day Work Week. Could the Idea Go Mainstream Post-Pandemic? from 2021-03-28T10:17:22
It wasn’t long after her company switched to a four-day workweek that Pilar Meseguer began noticing the benefits. Absenteeism fell nearly 30% at D...
Meet 4 Latina Investors Changing the Face of the FIRE Movement from 2021-03-28T09:09:06
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Here’s Why Taylor Swift Is Re-Releasing Her Old Albums from 2021-03-28T08:44:19
If you pay close attention, you can hear it: there’s a new lushness in the opening banjo twangs, and an extra beat when she sings the lyric “Just ...
Georgia Has Enacted Sweeping Changes to Its Voting Law. Why Voting Rights Advocates Are Worried from 2021-03-27T09:33:48
Georgia enacted a sweeping overhaul of its election law on Thursday, making it the first 2020 battleground state to introduce new voting restricti...
After Mass Shootings, Joe Biden Faces Pressure to Act on Gun Control from 2021-03-27T09:01:07
In April 2013, Gabrielle Giffords was sitting with then-Vice President Joe Biden in his Capitol office as the bipartisan bill that would have expa...
Joe Biden Proved a Press Conference Doesn’t Have to Be a Spectacle from 2021-03-27T08:45:01
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Column: I Wear My Son's Jacket to Remind Me Of What's At Stake in Fighting Gun Violence from 2021-03-27T08:27:02
I wear my son’s jacket as I travel down to the Colorado State Capitol building. His jacket is a reminder of what I’ve lost and how much work we ha...
Review: Netflix's The Irregulars Isn't a Great Sherlock Holmes Spinoff—But It's Still a Lot of Fun from 2021-03-27T08:06:12
When you're trying to sell a script, the name Sherlock Holmes evidently helps. Benedict Cumberbatch, Robert Downey Jr., Ian McKellen and Jonny Lee...
Are You in the Middle Class? from 2021-03-27T07:55:17
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How The Massive Container Ship Stuck in the Suez Canal Is Costing the World Billions of Dollars from 2021-03-26T09:10
Rescuers are racing to dislodge a vast container ship stuck in the Suez Canal before tides shift next week, potentially stranding it there for wee...
Pfizer-BioNTech Have Started Testing Their COVID-19 Vaccine in Children Under 12 from 2021-03-26T09:10
Alejandra and Marisol Gerardo are nine years old but already making a little bit of history. The twin sisters are among the first young children t...
The Security Perimeter Around the Capitol Starts to Recede — and Washington Feels a Little More Normal from 2021-03-26T09:09:16
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Column: I Interviewed Hundreds of New Yorkers. Here's What They Taught Me from 2021-03-25T09:52:29
In 2014 I was given a unique assignment: move to New York and talk to people, hundreds of them, and then somehow create a book using their words t...
Why Joe Biden Should Stick to the May 1 Deadline to Bring Home Troops From Afghanistan from 2021-03-24T08:38:45
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s impromptu visit to Kabul over the weekend where he claimed the United States seeks a “responsible end” to the ...
How Social Lives Are Changing During the U.S. Vaccine Rollout from 2021-03-24T07:57:19
Andrea Norred wasn't too surprised to learn that many of her friends, as well as her 18-year-old son, have decided not to get vaccinated against C...
How to Claim the Unemployment Tax Break: It’s Complicated, and You May Need to Wait from 2021-03-24T07:31:04
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Facebook Acted Too Late to Tackle Misinformation on 2020 Election, Report Finds from 2021-03-23T09:52:21
Facebook could have prevented billions of views on pages that shared misinformation related to the 2020 U.S. election, according to a new report r...
10 People Dead in Mass Shooting at Colorado Supermarket from 2021-03-23T09:47:10
BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — A shooting at a Colorado supermarket killed 10 people Monday, including a police officer who was the first to respond to the...
AstraZeneca’s U.S. Study May Answer Some of the Lingering Questions About Its Vaccine from 2021-03-23T09:36:08
AstraZeneca announced the long-awaited results of the U.S. and South American study of its COVID-19 vaccine, and it was the first bit of positive ...
‘I Can Get Killed.’ A Leading Activist Talks About Her Role in the Fight Against Myanmar’s Junta from 2021-03-23T09:18:25
After the Myanmar military detained civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi and ousted her elected government in the Feb. 1 coup, democracy activist Thin...
Sorry. D.C. Statehood Isn’t Likely from 2021-03-23T08:35:03
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As More Americans Slip Into Long-Term Unemployment, They Face a New Set of Challenges from 2021-03-23T08:23:46
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Foster Families Step Up For Unaccompanied Children at the U.S.-Mexico Border from 2021-03-22T09:31:34
Jay and Leslie, a couple who live in the Philadelphia area, have so far fostered four children this year, three boys and one girl, all of them mig...
Column: What an Expert on Evangelicals and Sex Says About the Atlanta Shooter's Claim He Had a Sex Addiction from 2021-03-22T09:10:58
On March 16, a gunman shot nine people in three Asian spas in Georgia, and killed eight. The Atlanta Police Department said the shooter told them ...
Asian American Religious Leaders Reflect on the Atlanta Shootings from 2021-03-22T09:01:10
Anti-Asian hate crimes are on the rise in the United States. The most recent March 16 shootings in Atlanta, Ga., left eight people dead, many of t...
Column: American Democracy Can't Survive Unless the Far Right Is Marginalized. Here's How to Do It from 2021-03-22T08:18:07
As our nation comes to grip with the horrific events of January 6 and watches the Republican Party descend further into Trumpism as it pushes hund...
Mads Mikkelsen Can Do Anything. But He’s Stuck in the Boring Oscar-Nominated Another Round from 2021-03-22T07:45:26
Pointless films have their place in the world: Not every movie has to clue us in to some murky corner of human nature, or teach us about worlds di...
The Atlanta Shooting Highlights the Painful Reality of Rising Anti-Asian Violence Around the World from 2021-03-21T09:42:39
For Mai-Anh Peterson, hearing the news from Atlanta, Ga., that eight people, six of them Asian-American women, were killed at three spas on March ...
2020 Saw an Unprecedented Surge in White Supremacist Propaganda from 2021-03-21T09:02:49
Not even a once-in-a-century pandemic could prevent white supremacist groups from deluging American cities with extremist propaganda in 2020. Bann...
Why Germany’s Political Future Looks Increasingly Shaky as Angela Merkel Prepares to Leave from 2021-03-21T08:47:23
On Sept. 26, Germany's year of political change will culminate with the election of a new Chancellor, an event that will close the remarkable 16-y...
What to Know About Netflix’s Operation Varsity Blues—and the College Admissions Scandal That Inspired It from 2021-03-21T08:25:18
In March 2019, 50 people, including actors Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman, were charged in the biggest college admissions scheme the Departmen...
Everything You Need to Know About The Falcon and the Winter Soldier from 2021-03-21T08:10:18
In The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, streaming March 19 on Disney+, Captain America is gone. Or, at least the Steve Rogers who appeared in nearly...
5 Things You May Not Know Affect Your Car Insurance Rate from 2021-03-21T07:48:20
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The Story Behind TIME’s Cover on Anti-Asian Violence and Hate Crimes from 2021-03-20T09:26:38
New York-based artist and educator Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya calls the portrait which covers this week's issue of TIME "With Softness and Power." T...
The House Passes Two Immigration Bills. But Will Broader Immigration Reform Be Possible? from 2021-03-20T09:05:51
The House of Representatives passed two bills on immigration reform on Thursday that would provide a pathway to citizenship for millions of DREAMe...
It’s a ‘Nightmare Being Replayed’ as a Cop Faces Trial in George Floyd’s Death from 2021-03-20T08:48:27
There are stories that we tell. And there are stories that we keep, until we can't.
Keli Burns, 36, is a college administrator and marr...
Column: The Child Welfare System Hurts Black Families from 2021-03-20T08:19:56
Outraged calls for racial justice have come to a new battleground: child welfare. In the reckoning on racism triggered by George Floyd’s killing, ...
What the Resignations of 2 Academics in India Show About Freedom of Expression Under Modi from 2021-03-20T07:58:45
Two prominent academics stepped down from their positions at one of India’s most respected universities this week, shining a spotlight on the stat...
How Student Loan Borrowers Could Save Under Biden’s COVID-19 Relief Bill from 2021-03-20T07:47:30
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The Atlanta Shooter Killed Six Women of Asian Descent. Isn’t That A Hate Crime? from 2021-03-19T10:10:31
The 21-year-old white man who police say went on a shooting spree at three Atlanta-area massage parlors on Tuesday was charged with eight counts o...
March Madness Is Back. And It’s Going To The Supreme Court Too from 2021-03-19T10:09:39
On Thursday, the 2021 NCAA men's basketball tournament tips off in Bloomington, Ind. After COVID-19 felled last year's March Madness, this year's ...
I’m Vaccinated Against COVID-19, But My Kids Aren’t. What’s Safe for Us? from 2021-03-19T09:35:29
In March, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released its long-awaited guidance for people fully vaccinated against COVID-1...
Digital NFT Art Is Booming—But at What Cost? from 2021-03-19T09:07:27
In central Washington State, electric utilities are watching for homes with oddly high power usage after a recent surge in cryptocurrency prices c...
Here’s Why the U.S. Didn’t Sanction Mohammed bin Salman for His Role in the Jamal Khashoggi Killing from 2021-03-05T09:20:02
In newly declassified detail, the world can now read why the CIA believes Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman dispatched the 15-man hit squad t...
Pregnant Asylum-Seekers Needed Help at the Border. Inside the Makeshift Clinic That Provided Care from 2021-03-04T09:48:24
Xiomara was already having labor pains when she presented herself to U.S. Border Patrol officials to make a claim for asylum. She had fled gang vi...
Buckingham Palace Launches Bullying Investigation Against Meghan Markle from 2021-03-04T09:14:33
(LONDON) — Buckingham Palace said Wednesday it was launching an investigation after a newspaper reported that a former aide had made a bullying al...
Another Round of Stimulus Checks Is Coming, But Some Families May Fall Through the Cracks from 2021-03-04T09:04:34
With fewer than two weeks remaining before Congress' expanded federal unemployment benefits expire, lawmakers are racing to finish their latest CO...
Column: The White Fear That Drove the College Cheating Scandal Has Only Gotten More Acute from 2021-03-04T07:28:10
Two years ago, when the college admissions scandal, dubbed Operation Varsity Blues, crashed into headlines, it immediately became a showcase of wh...
Moxie Invokes Fierce, Riot Grrrl Spirit, Only to End in a Noncommittal Group Hug from 2021-03-04T07:11:37
Because time marches to its own backbeat, many riot grrrls are now riot moms, raising new generations of kids who have to invent their own rebelli...
Interpol Says Fake COVID-19 Vaccines Were Smuggled Across Continents from 2021-03-03T09:36
By the time police discovered the shipment of fake COVID-19 vaccines, the vials had travelled over 6,000 miles from China to South Africa, the wor...
Why a Debate on the Minimum Wage Could Spark a D.C. Meltdown from 2021-03-03T09:25:09
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The COVID-19 Pandemic’s Impact on Global CO2 Emissions Didn’t Last Very Long from 2021-03-03T08:33:20
It’s awfully hard to find any upside in a global pandemic that’s sickened nearly 115 million people and killed more than 2.5 million. But througho...
Why Democrats Can't Keep Their Promises in the Relief Bill from 2021-03-03T08:24:38
The Democratic party's unified control of Washington has put them within striking distance of fulfilling a key campaign promise: a coronavirus rel...
Twitter Cracks Down on COVID Vaccine Misinformation from 2021-03-02T09:48:56
SAN FRANCISCO — Twitter says it has begun labeling tweets that include misleading information about COVID-19 vaccines and using a “strike system” ...
Criminal Complaint Filed Against Saudi Crown Prince Over Khashoggi Killing from 2021-03-02T09:44:59
Press freedom organization Reporters without Borders (RSF) has filed a criminal complaint in Germany that seeks to have Saudi Crown Prince Mohamme...
Andrew Cuomo Was a ‘Resistance’ Icon. Now There’s ‘Blood in the Water’ from 2021-03-02T09:32:07
A little less than a year ago, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo was on top of the world. His daily press briefings about the coronavirus pandemic be...
In His Return to Politics, Donald Trump Uses Lies and Bullying to Threaten His Party from 2021-03-02T09:16:13
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Column: Why White Evangelicals Must Choose Between Reform and Extremism from 2021-03-02T08:23:04
In my small Pentecostal church, we all expected the guillotine to be set up in the parking lot, probably by the One World Government. It was Arkan...
How to Stay Social When You Never See Your Work Friends from 2021-03-02T07:16:02
One of the hardest parts of working remotely is losing the built-in social life an office environment provides. But just because you're not in the...
How the Texas Winter Storm Disaster Will Shape Joe Biden’s ClimateAgenda from 2021-03-01T09:09:15
President Joe Biden arrived in Texas Friday on a trip designed to highlight the region’s recovery after a deadly winter storm knocked out power in...
‘If This Task Was Urgent Before, It’s Crucial Now.’ U.N. Says World Has 10 Months to Get Serious on Climate Goals from 2021-03-01T08:20:27
The language of diplomacy rarely allows for a true sense of emotion or urgency. But reading between the lines of the latest report commissioned by...
Review: In the Gently Moving Minari, a Korean Family Finds Home in America's Heartland from 2021-03-01T07:48:14
Most stories about immigrants adjusting to America take place in cities, environs where a newcomer may already have family or friends, or at least...
These Are the 3 Credit Cards I’ve Been Using During the Pandemic from 2021-03-01T07:23:28
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FDA: Pfizer-BioNTech Vaccine Doesn’t Need Ultra-Cold Freezer Storage from 2021-02-28T08:43:20
When Pfizer-BioNTech’s vaccine became the first authorized for use in the U.S., the good news came with a catch: the vaccine, the first of its kin...
We’re in the Third Quarter of the Pandemic. Antarctic Researchers, Mars Simulation Scientists and Navy Submarine Officers Have Advice For How to Get Through It from 2021-02-28T08:35:11
McMurdo Station, an Antarctic research base 2,415 miles south of Christchurch, New Zealand, is a strange place to ride out the COVID-19 pandemic. ...
How a Belarusian Teacher and Stay-at-Home Mom Came to Lead a National Revolt from 2021-02-28T08:15:43
On a hot summer day last August, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya was pacing up and down her empty apartment in Minsk, the capital of Belarus in Central Eur...
Tiger Woods Once Beat Rocco Mediate On A Broken Leg. He Says Now: Don’t Count Tiger Out from 2021-02-28T07:46:58
When pro golfer Rocco Mediate heard the news that Tiger Woods was involved in a single-vehicle car accident in South California on Tuesday morning...
The 5 Best New Shows Our TV Critic Watched in February 2021 from 2021-02-28T07:27:19
February may be the shortest month of the year, but the 2021 edition certainly has dragged on, hasn't it? Maybe it's the cold and snow blanketing ...
Here’s Why Everyone Closes on Their Mortgage at the End of the Month from 2021-02-28T07:11:56
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My Family Is Still Being Careful About COVID-19. Why Does It Feel Like We’re the Only Ones? from 2021-02-27T09:21:43
Welcome to COVID Questions, TIME’s advice column. We’re trying to make living through the pandemic a little easier, with expert-backed answers to ...
Working From Home Is Driving Up Our Energy Costs. Should Employers Foot the Bill? from 2021-02-27T09:09:48
If you're one of the estimated 4.7 million Americans who shifted to remote work during the COVID-19 pandemic, you may have noticed an unexpected s...
Olympic Champion Caster Semenya Takes Her Case to the European Court of Human Rights from 2021-02-27T09:00:02
South African athlete Caster Semenya is bringing her legal fight to participate in women's sports to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), he...
The United States vs. Billie Holiday Is a Messy But Passionate Tribute to an American Legend from 2021-02-27T08:52:26
Almost everyone has feelings about Billie Holiday, many of them strong. But no one can own her, and if there’s any supreme conclusion to be drawn ...