Here’s What Robert Mueller Has Uncovered So Far, In His Own Words
When Robert Mueller was appointed special counsel in 2017, he was given several subjects to investigate: Russian meddling in the election, any coordination between Russia and the Trump campaign and any other crimes arising from the investigation. So far, he has delivered a lot of detail about the first and the last, but has not said much about any Trump coordination. ...
22m Dec 15, 2018
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Death of 7-Year-Old Girl in DHS Custody 'Preventable,' Says Pediatrics Group President
The head of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has called the death of a 7-year-old Guatemalan girl in Department of Homeland Security custody "preventable" and called for pediatricians to have oversight of detention centers that hold migrant children. Dr. Colleen Kraft says the Dec. 8 death of Jackeline Caal is part of a broader failure to meet children's basic n...
5m Dec 15, 2018
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The British Royal Family's Annual Christmas Cards Are Here
The British royal family have shared their annual Christmas Cards, featuring idyllic photos of the monarchy's most famous couples enjoying royal life. For their card, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, are shown from behind watching fireworks at their wedding reception, a previously unreleased shot of the big May event, according to Kensingt...
1m Dec 15, 2018
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How If Beale Street Could Talk Author James Baldwin Went From Literary Critic to Civil-Rights Icon
History changed around James Baldwin, but the glaring contradiction in American life that he so often highlighted still lurks within it. The author's work argued that white Americans who boast of the United States as a nation of freedom can only do so by glossing over, to some degree, its history of slavery, as well as myriad other injustices experienced by minority groups...
8m Dec 15, 2018
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Wisconsin’s GOP Governor Signs Controversial Bills Weakening Democratic Successor
(MADISON, Wis.) — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker signed a sweeping package of Republican-written legislation Friday that restricts early voting and weakens the incoming Democratic governor and attorney general, brushing aside complaints that he is enabling a brazen power grab and ignoring the will of voters. Walker signed the bills just 24 days before he leaves office duri...
5m Dec 15, 2018
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Here’s the Story Behind Netflix’s New True Crime Series The Innocent Man
This post contains spoilers for The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town. Netflix's latest addition to its arsenal of true crime stories visits a small town in Oklahoma rocked by two brutal murders in the 1980s. Based on John Grisham's bestselling 2006 nonfiction book The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town, the six-part series, The Innoc...
9m Dec 15, 2018
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Dutch Court Upholds Prison Sentence of Nearly 11 Years for Cyberbullying
(THE HAGUE, Netherlands) — A Dutch appeals court has upheld a prison sentence of nearly 11 years for a man convicted of cyberbullying dozens of young women and gay men around the world. Amsterdam Appeals Court on Friday confirmed the maximum 10 years and eight months sentence imposed in March last year on the man identified by Dutch authorities as Aydin C., who was conv...
1m Dec 15, 2018
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A 92-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor Was Killed by a Car While Crossing the Street
(PORTLAND, Ore.) — A 92-year-old man who survived Nazi concentration camps during the Holocaust was struck and killed by a car while crossing a street near his home in Oregon. Alter Wiener died Tuesday in Hillsboro and was pronounced dead at a hospital, The Oregonian/OregonLive reported . Wiener endured three years in concentration camps and later in life wrote an au...
3m Dec 15, 2018
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The Worst Movies of 2018
Lady Gaga's aspiring pop star in A Star Is Born isn't the only one who was "off the deep end" this year. Yet unlike Ally—who finds success, fame and an Orange Crush-inspired hairdo—the movies below never quite took off, let alone made it up for air. Here are TIME's picks for the worst movies of 2018. 10.
9m Dec 14, 2018
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Miss USA Under Fire for Mocking Miss Cambodia and Miss Vietnam During Miss Universe Competition
Sarah Rose Summers, Miss USA 2018, apologized via her Instagram account on Thursday after a video went viral of her making controversial comments about Nat Rern, Miss Cambodia and H'Hen Nie, Miss Vietnam for not speaking English during the Miss Universe competition.
2m Dec 14, 2018
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Police Are Investigating Bomb Threats Sent to More Than a Dozen Cities Across U.S.
Authorities are investigating bomb threats sent electronically to businesses, universities and government buildings in more than a dozen cities around the country on Thursday, prompting multiple evacuations. "We are aware of recent bomb threats made in cities around the country & remain in touch w/ our law enforcement partners to provide assistance," the Bureau of Alcoh...
4m Dec 14, 2018
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Here's Why Russian Bombers Are in Venezuela. And Why the U.S. Is So Angry About It
When two of Russia’s most modern, nuclear-capable bombers landed in Venezuela earlier this week, American officials quickly took note. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tweeted out a statement calling the move “two corrupt governments squandering public funds, and squelching liberty and freedom while their people suffer." The angry reaction may well have been the int...
6m Dec 14, 2018
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Why Wannabe Astronauts Shouldn't Get Too Excited About Virgin Galactic’s Flight to 'Space'
For the first time in a very long time, Sir Richard Branson has some good news to report from the spaceport he built in the Mojave desert: at 7:11 a.m. Pacific time Thursday, his Virgin Galactic company at last succeeded in launching honest-to-goodness astronauts into honest-to-goodness space. Sort of. Maybe. If you're grading on a really, really generous curve. But that's...
7m Dec 14, 2018
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Scientists Think They've Solved the Century-Old Mystery of Why a Navy Warship Suddenly Sank Off New York
(WASHINGTON) — A hundred years ago, a mysterious explosion hit the only major U.S. warship to sink during World War I. Now the Navy believes it has the answer to what doomed the USS San Diego: An underwater mine set by a German submarine cruising in waters just miles from New York City. That's the conclusion of an investigation by scientists, archaeologists and historia...
4m Dec 14, 2018
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Suspect in Strasbourg Christmas Market Attack Killed in Police Shootout, Authorities Confirm
A man killed during a shootout in connection with Tuesday's deadly Strasbourg Christmas market attack has been identified by Paris officials as the main suspect, according to the Associated Press. Charif Chekatt, 29, was shot by police after a gunman opened fire on officers in the Neudorf neighborhood of Strasbourg, AP reported. Police had been actively searching the Ne...
4m Dec 14, 2018
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These Tiny Island Nations Are Leading the Fight Against Climate Change
The ongoing negotiations on how to implement the Paris Agreement aren’t going well. The world’s largest economies and top greenhouse emitters remain mired in decades-old arguments about who is responsible for addressing climate change and its impacts. Now, a group of small island nations have stepped in to save themselves.
7m Dec 14, 2018
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Senate Votes to Recommend U.S. Stop Supporting Saudi-Led Yemen War in Wake of Khashoggi Slaying
(WASHINGTON) — Senators voted Thursday to recommend that the U.S. end its assistance to Saudi Arabia for the war in Yemen and put the blame for the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi squarely on Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, in a direct challenge to both the longtime Middle East ally and President Donald Trump's handling of the relationship.
6m Dec 14, 2018
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President Trump Is Said to Have Been in the Room During Hush-Money Meeting
Federal prosecutors said this week that at least one unidentified member of Donald Trump’s campaign joined his lawyer Michael Cohen and the publisher of the tabloid National Enquirer, David Pecker, in a 2015 scheme to kill unflattering news stories about the then-candidate as he sought the presidency. The other individual present was Donald Trump himself, according to a...
3m Dec 14, 2018
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One of Your Most Burning 'Love Actually' Questions Has Been Answered
With every holiday season comes the annual deluge of Love Actually screenings and with these screenings come the abundance of questions that viewers have about the multiple and very emotional storylines in the film. While fan theories abound, there's one Love Actually question that has finally been addressed by the film's script editor, Emma Freud, who has additional in...
2m Dec 14, 2018
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Netflix Is Testing a Feature That Will Replay Scenes For You. It's Distracting But Intriguing
I was watching Netflix's new movie Dumplin' — a cutesy, cheesy comedy about a teenage underdog coming to realize just how excellent underdogs can be — when I saw an unfamiliar prompt in the corner of my screen. The main character, a plus-size teen named Willowdean Dixon (Danielle Macdonald), had entered a beauty pageant in large part to antagonize her vain, former-pagea...
4m Dec 13, 2018
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China Detains Two Canadians for Endangering 'National Security'
(BEIJING) — China on Thursday confirmed it has detained two Canadian men, raising the stakes in a three-way international dispute over the case of a Chinese telecoms executive facing possible extradition from Canada to the United States. Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang said entrepreneur Michael Spavor and former Canadian diplomat Michael Kovrig were taken into custod...
6m Dec 13, 2018
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Why Slang Is More Revealing Than You May Realize
Jonathon Green is a scholar of slang, a man who has spent nearly 40 years treating a lowbrow subject with highbrow rigor. Surrounded by glutted bookshelves in his London flat, the 70-year-old can explain the mysterious machinations of etymology. He can also tell you a lot of words for "fart." In fact, a quick search of Green's database pulls up 84 such terms in just 0.002 ...
9m Dec 13, 2018
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Roosevelt Fellows: 2020 Matters for the Left. Here's Why 2022 Matters More
For progressives across America, 2020 can’t come fast enough. Fresh on the heels of the biggest blue sweep of congressional seats since Watergate, dozens of Democrats are readying potential presidential runs. Mere days after trouncing his Republican opponent in a Senate, Ohio’s Sherrod Brown announced he was “thinking” about a run. Ditto for Beto O’Rourke, who narrowly los...
10m Dec 13, 2018
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The Little-Known Way Pharma Companies Hook People On Their Costly Drugs
Kip Burgess was relieved last year when pharmaceutical giant Amgen overnighted him a $2,976 check to help pay for his go-to arthritis drug, Enbrel. The 36-year-old psychologist had run into an increasingly common problem: The copay coupon sent by Amgen couldn’t cover the drug’s more than $4,000 monthly price. “Nothing in the world gives me more anxiety than just getting...
7m Dec 13, 2018
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The Striking Similarities Between Why Trump’s and Nixon’s Personal Lawyers Were Sent to Prison
On Wednesday, a judge sentenced the President Trump's former personal lawyer Michael Cohen to three years in prison. The sentencing comes four months after Cohen pleaded guilty to campaign finance violations and admitted that, per Trump's "direction," he had directed payments to adult film actor Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal during the 2016 campaig...
8m Dec 13, 2018
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Analyst: Why Modi's Ruling Party No Longer Looks Invincible
More than 100 million voters in five states across India went to the polls in November and December. The results announced on Dec. 11 put the current governing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the defensive: they didn’t win a single state. With national elections to be held by May 2019, the narrative has shifted in India. For the first ti...
6m Dec 13, 2018
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Tabloid Tells Prosecutors About the Trump Team’s Early Campaign Plans
(Bloomberg) — The tabloid publishing company that killed damaging stories about Donald Trump is telling U.S. prosecutors about the plans hatched with members of Trump’s team in the earliest days of the campaign. At least one unidentified campaign member joined Trump lawyer Michael Cohen in an August 2015 meeting with David Pecker, the publisher of the National Enquire...
5m Dec 13, 2018
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French Protesters Won Concessions From Macron. Why They're More Successful Than American Demonstrators
After four weekends of watching chaos unfold on the streets of Paris, Emmanuel Macron decided he had to do something. In a televised address on Monday the French President announced a series of measures designed to placate the gilets jaunes or "Yellow Vests," whose protests against a planned fuel tax rise have escalated into a much broader rejection of his leadership. ...
8m Dec 13, 2018
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Nancy Pelosi Secures Votes of Rebel Lawmakers by Agreeing to Support Term Limits
Nancy Pelosi’s path to Speaker of the House effectively seemed secure on Wednesday after she agreed to comply with a proposal limiting her tenure as the top Democrat in the House of Representatives to three terms. The proposal to implement a new rule that would impose term limits was tentatively agreed upon Wednesday by seven members of the Democratic caucus who had sai...
3m Dec 13, 2018
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Inside a Bangladeshi Journalist’s Dangerous Journey From Photographer to Prisoner
It was only by chance that Shahidul Alam began taking photographs. A chemistry doctoral student in London, Alam purchased a Nikon FM for a friend while traveling in the United States and Canada in 1980. The friend couldn’t reimburse him, so he kept the camera. “I started using it,” Alam, 63, tells TIME in Dhaka. “It was when I recognized, working as a social activist, h...
7m Dec 13, 2018
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‘We Didn’t Just Go Viral. We Planned.’ Prankster on the Holiday Party Fail Video That Fooled a Bunch of People
The heartstrings of Twitter users were given a good tug earlier this month when Sydney Arlt posted a sad story about a kind-hearted professor who threw a party, that no one bothered to show up for. Her tweet included a video showing a nearly-empty classroom, a disheartened professor sitting at a desk filled with unclaimed holiday gift bags, and, of course, the tear drop an...
2m Dec 13, 2018
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‘They Can Be Like Geniuses.’ How Washington, D.C. Is Handling a Literal Rat Infestation
(WASHINGTON) — Andre Pittman and Gregory Cornes are on a mission to rid Washington of opportunistic vermin. But their target isn't corrupt officials or shady political fixers; it's Rattus Norvegicus, the common Norway Rat. The nation's capital is facing a spiraling rat infestation, fueled by mild winters and a human population boom. Washington's government is struggl...
7m Dec 13, 2018
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Fearless 102-Year-Old Woman Just Became the World’s Oldest Skydiver
An intrepid 102-year-old woman from Athelstone, Australia has just become the world's oldest skydiver after her latest jaunt in the sky. According to ABC News, Irene O'Shea has been skydiving every year since she turned 100, a milestone that she celebrated by skydiving for the first time.
1m Dec 13, 2018
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Google’s Biggest Problem? It Can Never Be as Transparent as We Need It to Be
Google CEO Sundar Pichai testified before the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday in a hearing that lasted more than three hours, yet only scratched the surface of the multiple controversies surrounding the global technology company.
10m Dec 12, 2018
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The 10 Best TV Episodes of 2018
Streaming TV may have ushered in an era of binge-friendly serialization, but it has also done surprisingly good things for the individual episode. By switching up storytelling formats—throwing in a long flashback, a bottle episode or even a show-within-the-show—series can hold viewers' interest for hours on end while also building in talking points for fans on social media...
13m Dec 12, 2018
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‘Please Have Mercy.’ The Wives of Reuters Journalists Jailed in Myanmar Speak Out
The last time Kyaw Soe Oo spoke with his wife before his arrest, he played a prank on her. The Reuters journalist was on a trip to Yangon, Myanmar’s former capital, but on Dec. 12, 2017, he told his wife he had returned early to their home in Sittwe, Rakhine State. “Come open the door,” he urged. “I’m right here.” She fell for it, stepping into the humid evening only to fi...
7m Dec 12, 2018
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The NIH Says It Will Spend Up to $20 Million to Find Alternatives to Human Fetal Tissue
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced Monday that it will soon embark on a major research effort to find scientific alternatives to human fetal tissue, a switch that may affect research ranging from basic science to drug trials. Human fetal tissue is commonly used by scientists to mimic human biology in order to understand normal development, study the effec...
6m Dec 12, 2018
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Always Forgetting Important Things? Here’s How to Fix That, According to Science
Most people, when tasked with remembering something important, jot down a note. But a study published recently in the journal Experimental Aging Research says there may be a better way to keep memories fresh: draw a picture.
5m Dec 12, 2018
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Where John Kelly’s Departure Fits in the History of Turnover Among Top Presidential Advisers
After announcing Saturday that his Chief of Staff John Kelly would be leaving at the end of the year, President Trump is on the hunt for someone new to fill the role. While this particular change sets a new record for most chiefs of staff within the first 24 months of an administration, the hiring phase is a position with which Trump is familiar, as the top levels of his A...
8m Dec 12, 2018
8m
How the Supreme Court Handled Its First Test of Abortion Rights Since Kavanaugh Joined
The U.S. Supreme Court declined its first opportunity to rule on abortion since the confirmation of Justice Brett Kavanaugh. The news on Monday may come as some consolation to abortion rights advocates who opposed Kavanaugh, fearing that the judge — who was replacing moderate retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy — would immediately work to restrict access to abortions. ...
6m Dec 12, 2018
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5 Detained as France Hunts Terror Suspect Who Launched a Lethal Attack on a Christmas Market
(STRASBOURG, France) — French authorities detained five people as they hunted Wednesday for a suspected extremist who sprayed gunfire at one of Europe's most famous Christmas markets in the eastern city of Strasbourg, killing three and wounding at least 13 and putting the whole country on edge anew. The government raised the security alert level and sent police reinforc...
5m Dec 12, 2018
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British Prime Minister Theresa May to Face a No-Confidence Vote Amid Brexit Chaos
(LONDON) — Conservative lawmakers in Britain will hold a no-confidence vote in Prime Minister Theresa May on Wednesday that will see her removed as party and government leader if she loses. Graham Brady, who heads a committee overseeing Conservative leadership contests, said he had received letters from at least 48 lawmakers asking for a vote.
2m Dec 12, 2018
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2 More Medical Schools in Japan Have Admitted to Discriminating Against Women
Two more medical schools in Japan have admitted to systematic discrimination against female students this week, the latest institutional scandal to hit the industry after Tokyo Medical University was accused of rigging examination results to suppress the number of women in the student body. Juntendo University and Kitasato University on Monday conceded that they had set...
3m Dec 12, 2018
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Person of the Year Runner-up: Meghan Markle
All of the things you need to know now from the editors of TIME
10m Dec 11, 2018
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TIME’s Person of the Year: The Guardians
All of the things you need to know now from the editors of TIME
42m Dec 11, 2018
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The True Story Behind The Favourite
With its acid-tongued wit and blunt physical comedy, Yorgos Lanthimos' The Favourite is anything but a typical stuffy period drama. The acerbic Oscar contender depicts the bitter rivalry between Abigail Masham (Emma Stone) and Sarah Churchill (Rachel Weisz) as they compete to influence an increasingly unhinged Queen Anne (Olivia Colman) during her early 18th-century rule. ...
6m Dec 10, 2018
6m
Review: Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Is Great for Hardcore Fans and Newbies Alike
It’s both incredibly easy and somewhat difficult to describe Nintendo’s fighting crossover game series, Super Smash Bros. In short, it’s a battle royale game that pits characters from different gaming franchises against each other. Dig deeper into the series’ latest entry, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, and you’ll find more than a fighting game that’s fun for parties. ...
8m Dec 10, 2018
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It’s Hard to Overstate How Big a Deal the Huawei CFO’s Arrest Could Be
Imagine, if you would, that the U.S. government had charged Apple with revamping its entire tech industry. Then imagine that Tim Cook had been arrested in China. And, for sake of comparison, that the U.S. government was a one-party autocracy with scant respect for rule of law or due process.
6m Dec 10, 2018
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Why Afghanistan Is Still the Worst Place in the World to Be a Woman
It was a sunny morning in early December last year when 23-year-old Khadija set herself on fire. She kissed her three-month old son Mohammed goodbye and said a short prayer. “Please God, stop this suffering,” she pleaded in the sun-soaked courtyard of her home in Herat, Afghanistan as she poured kerosene from a copper lamp over her small frame. She then struck a match....
18m Dec 10, 2018
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‘He Was Sent by God to Take Care of Us’: Inside the Real Story Behind Schindler’s List
For Rena Finder, Dec. 31, 1942, was not a day for celebrating New Year's Eve. It was the beginning of a new, terrifying chapter in the life of the Jewish 13-year-old in Krakow, Poland. That was when her father was accused of being a member of the resistance and arrested; she never heard from him again. "I was a little girl, and it seemed like overnight, I became an enemy o...
12m Dec 10, 2018
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