Top European Union Court Says Britain Can Reconsider Brexit
(BRUSSELS) — The European Union's top court ruled Monday that Britain can change its mind over Brexit, boosting the hopes of people who want to stay in the EU that the process can be reversed. The European Court of Justice ruled that when an EU member country has notified its intent to leave, "that member state is free to revoke unilaterally that notification. ...
2m Dec 10, 2018
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Pence Aide Out of Running to Replace John Kelly as Trump Chief of Staff
(WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump's top pick to replace chief of staff John Kelly, Nick Ayers, is no longer expected to fill the role. Ayers, who is chief of staff to Vice President Mike Pence, was seen as the favorite for the job when Trump announced Saturday that Kelly would leave around year's end.
2m Dec 10, 2018
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Column: How the U.S. Became the Top Climate Leader — Despite Trump’s Denialism
Europeans prefer to view themselves as sober climate realists — as the world’s most committed actors when it comes to fighting climate change. They pride themselves on leading global treaties like the Paris accord and decry Trump’s announcement that America will pull out.
6m Dec 10, 2018
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The Best Gifts Above $500 To Give This Holiday Season
It's the holiday season, and you're the kind of person for whom money is no object — or you just want to see how the other half gifts. Sound like you? Then check out our favorite gift options from $500 and above this year, from Dyson's latest haircare innovation to a wildlife safari for charity.
7m Dec 10, 2018
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The DRC Ebola Outbreak Has Spread to a Major City. Here’s What to Know
A worsening Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which the World Health Organization (WHO) called the second worst ever, has reached a populous city in the country's North Kivu province, sparking concerns about further spread. The DRC outbreak is still far less sweeping than a West African outbreak that killed 11,000 people between 2014 and 2016...
8m Dec 10, 2018
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We Know How to Solve Climate Change. We Just Need the Ambition to Do It
The prospect of solving climate change often prompts grand metaphors of moonshots and the Manhattan Project, with top scientists dedicating time and energy to come up with a breakthrough that will solve global warming. But that may not be necessary. A wide range of scientists, engineers and thinkers agree that we have the technological capacity to stem warming, keepi...
6m Dec 10, 2018
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Every Major Moment of John Kelly’s Rise and Fall in Trump’s White House
President Donald Trump put an end to speculation about Chief of Staff John F. Kelly's future Saturday afternoon. Speaking to reporters on the White House lawn before traveling to Philadelphia for the Army-Navy football game, Trump said that Kelly would leave his position at the end of the year. The former Marine general has had an intense tenure in the Trump Administ...
14m Dec 09, 2018
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Paris Police Clash Again With Yellow Vest Protestors
(PARIS) — Crowds of yellow-vested protesters angry at President Emmanuel Macron and France's high taxes tried to converge on the presidential palace Saturday, some scuffling with police firing tear gas, amid exceptional security measures aimed at preventing a repeat of last week's rioting.
6m Dec 09, 2018
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Barry Jenkins Wants You To Read James Baldwin
Barry Jenkins doesn't just love James Baldwin--he calls the 20th century literary lion his "personal school of life." But Baldwin's work was long out of reach for storytellers like him because the writer's family has been, since his death in 1987, reluctant to grant the rights to adapt his work. Not so any longer.
13m Dec 09, 2018
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The Best Gifts Between $250-$500 To Give This Holiday Season
It's the holiday season, you're on the hunt for something that'll really wow your partner, parent or other loved one, and you've got some budget to play with. But what to get? These are our favorite gift options between $250-$500 this year, from a killer pair of headphones to Nintendo's best video game console in years. Nintendo Switch Nintendo’s versatile Switch con...
5m Dec 09, 2018
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Mexico’s New President Takes Office, Promising Radical Change
When the new Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (known by his initials AMLO) took office on Dec. 1, he promised to "transform" Mexico into a more equal, less corrupt country. "I have no right to fail you," he said at his inauguration. But the left-wing leader has his work cut out for him. Interior Violence López Obrador began his term with a focus on law and...
2m Dec 09, 2018
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Why Lin-Manuel Miranda Could Never Finish Watching Mary Poppins as a Kid
The creator of Hamilton on dancing through Mary Poppins Returns, raising boys and returning to the stage in Puerto Rico Did you watch Mary Poppins as a kid? I had the VHS cassette and loved the first two-thirds, but "Feed the Birds" would always make me too sad and then I would turn it off.
3m Dec 09, 2018
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TIME’s 25 Most Influential Teens of 2018
To determine TIME’s annual list, we consider accolades across numerous fields, global impact through social media and overall ability to drive news. In the past, we’ve recognized everyone from singer Lorde to Olympic champion Simone Biles to political activist Joshua Wong.
25m Dec 09, 2018
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Mueller's Latest Filing Includes a Clue on More Russian Outreach to Trump
Questions about how people in Donald Trump's orbit reached out to Russians during the 2016 election have often overshadowed equally interesting questions about how Russia reached out to Trump. A sentencing memo filed by special counsel Robert Mueller's team Friday night added one more interesting clue on the latter.
7m Dec 08, 2018
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Sheriff’s Deputy Who Confronted Borderline Bar Shooter Was Killed by Friendly Fire
The heroic sheriff's deputy who confronted the mass shooter at Borderline Bar in Thousand Oaks, Calif., last month was killed by "friendly fire" from the California Highway Patrol officer who entered the bar with him, authorities revealed Friday. At the news conference on Friday, authorities painted a clearer picture of the events leading to Ventura County Sheriff's Sgt...
3m Dec 08, 2018
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U.S. Stocks Lost $1 Trillion In Less Than A Week
(Bloomberg)—How bad has the start to December been for U.S. stock investors? Almost $1 trillion has been wiped from the value of stocks in just four days of trading. The Russell 3000 has plunged 4.9 percent this week as of 3 p.m. Friday in New York, as the six-week rout in American stocks deepened amid concern global growth is slowing and the Trump administration will...
1m Dec 08, 2018
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The Best Gifts Between $50-$250 To Give This Holiday Season
It's the holiday season, and you're likely looking for some great gifts for your family, friends, significant other and so on. If you're hunting for options in the $50-250 range, these are some of our favorite gadgets, games, and services (doggy DNA tests, anyone?) to gift someone this year.
5m Dec 08, 2018
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Chinese Tech Exec Faces 30 Years in Prison in U.S., Canadian Prosecutor Says
(VANCOUVER, British Columbia) — A top Chinese telecommunications executive facing possible extradition to the United States appeared in court Friday as she sought bail in a case that has rattled markets and raised doubts about the U.S. being able to reach a truce in its trade war with China. A prosecutor for the Canadian government urged the court not to grant bail, say...
8m Dec 08, 2018
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The Biggest Questions We Have About Avengers: Endgame After Watching the Trailer
The most-anticipated movie trailer of the year is finally here. The next Avengers movie will be called Avengers: Endgame and will see the heroes left after Thanos' culling reckoning with the fact that half the universe has disappeared. But the new trailer—which we already broke down second-by-second—begs more questions than it offers answers. We see Tony Stark adrift in...
11m Dec 08, 2018
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The Yellow Vests Expose How Fragile Emmanuel Macron's Hold on France Really Is
In November, French President Emmanuel Macron stood under the Arc de Triomphe in Paris and told world leaders on the centennial of World War I that they needed to work together to solve global problems. Less than a month later, the French leader is trying to find the right phrase to unite his own citizens amid perhaps the worst street violence in Paris in 50 years. ...
6m Dec 07, 2018
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He Saved the Largest Venomous Snake in the Americas. Now, He Hopes It Could Save Human Lives
All of the things you need to know now from the editors of TIME
21m Dec 07, 2018
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USA Gymnastics Declares Bankruptcy. What Happens to the Sexual Abuse Survivors Now?
USA Gymnastics' announcement Wednesday that it was filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection was in some ways expected. The embattled organization is currently under investigation by Congress and under threat of losing its status as the national governing body for gymnastics by the US Olympic Committee (USOC).
4m Dec 07, 2018
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Police Give the All-Clear After a Bomb Threat Evacuated CNN’s Offices in New York
(NEW YORK) — Police have given the all-clear after a phoned in bomb threat forced the evacuation of CNN's offices in New York. Police said a man with a southern accent called CNN just after 10 p.m. Thursday and said five bombs had been placed throughout the facility inside the Time Warner building at Columbus Circle. Police said the building was evacuated and buildin...
1m Dec 07, 2018
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Fewer Students Are Majoring in History. But That's Not All
From debates over Confederate monuments to battles over America’s leadership in the world, understanding today’s contemporary challenges requires historical knowledge and historical perspective. Yet a new report by Benjamin Schmidt and the American Historical Association has revealed that a much smaller percentage of American college students are majoring in history than d...
7m Dec 07, 2018
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Why Officials Miscounted the Victims of the Camp Fire – and Why Some Victims Have Still Not Been Identified
Authorities in California announced this week that the team searching for Camp Fire victims had mistakenly counted the remains of three people twice – lowering the death toll from 88 to 85. This discovery underscores how difficult has been to identify the victims of the deadliest American wildfire in a century. Anthropologists who helped recover the remains of victims i...
3m Dec 07, 2018
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How Trump Changes His Story on the Russia Investigation
President Donald Trump has called special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation a "witch hunt" that's found no evidence of wrongdoing by his presidential campaign. But facts uncovered by the probe, intelligence community reports and news stories have forced Trump at times to acknowledge that some of his blanket denials in the past were wrong. When doing so, however,...
5m Dec 07, 2018
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K-Pop Sensation BTS Wins Reader’s Poll for TIME Person of the Year
Korean boy band BTS has won the online reader's poll for TIME's Person of the Year, beating out other artists, world leaders and politicians among those who voted. The seven-member K-Pop band — which includes members RM, Jin, Suga, J-Hope, Jimin, V and Jung Kook — held on to their long lead in the poll. Planet Earth narrowly trailed BTS in the poll. With millions of ...
2m Dec 07, 2018
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More People Are Naming Their Dogs Meghan, Harry, and Cardi Now
The current crop of popular dog names is definitely a reflection of the current cultural zeitgeist. According to Rover.com's sixth annual report on the year's top dog names and naming trends, dogs named after the Royal Family are up 11% in 2018. Following Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's much-anticipated Royal Wedding and the announcement of her pregnancy this past year...
2m Dec 07, 2018
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Pantone Announces Living Coral Is the 2019 Color of the Year
Pantone has announced that Living Coral is the 2019 color of the year. The color authority has bestowed the honorable title on a special hue every December for the past 20 years, taking into account fashion, decorating, design and cultural trends, as well as "how colors can embody our collective experience and reflect what is taking place in our global culture at a moment ...
4m Dec 06, 2018
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A Culture of Clerical Immunity in Myanmar Is Putting Children at Risk of Abuse
In a whisper, barely audible above the monsoon rain hammering her family’s hut, Aye Chan May (whose name has been changed to protect her and her family) describes an ordeal that she and three other children endured at the hands of a monk in Pathein, a city of nearly 300,000 people in southern Myanmar.
8m Dec 06, 2018
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Column: Trump's Trade Haggling Won't Dent China's Long-Term Plans
It’s still not clear what exactly Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping agreed to in Buenos Aires during the G-20 summit in early December. Although Trump said the two had made a “big leap forward” in resolving the trade dispute, both the substance and the timing of next actions remain in doubt. The U.S. accounts of the results of the meeting were significantly more speci...
4m Dec 06, 2018
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China Demands the Release of Huawei Executive Arrested in Canada
(BEIJING) — China on Thursday demanded Canada release a Huawei Technologies executive who was arrested in a case that adds to technology tensions with Washington and threatens to complicate trade talks. Huawei's chief financial officer, Meng Wanzhou, faces possible extradition to the United States, according to Canadian authorities. The Globe and Mail newspaper, citing ...
8m Dec 06, 2018
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Forget Gold, This Precious Metal Is Going Crazy Amid the Stock Slump
(Bloomberg) — Gold just got left behind by one of its sister metals. After a demand-fueled rally over the past four months that’s seen prices hit successive records, palladium topped gold. Palladium, which hasn’t traded at a sustained premium to gold in 16 years, has gained as buyers scramble for supplies of the metal used in vehicle smog-control devices.
3m Dec 06, 2018
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Allegations of GOP Election Fraud Leave North Carolina Race in Limbo
The call came at 9:38 p.m. on Election Day. The Associated Press projected Republican Mark Harris had won his race in North Carolina’s heavily gerrymandered Ninth District, a slice of the state that offered Republicans a roughly eight-point advantage. The district last had a Democratic Congressman in 1963 and most models predicted that would continue past the vote tallies ...
7m Dec 06, 2018
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Mikhail Gorbachev: George H.W. Bush and I Ended a War Together. But Peace Is Now in Jeopardy
On the day when I learned of the passing of George Bush, I recalled my meetings with him that marked turning points in our personal relationship and in the relations between our countries. Our first serious conversation took place in December 1987, when I was on an official visit in Washington. George was then Vice President and running for President. The visit culmi...
7m Dec 06, 2018
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USA Gymnastics Files For Bankruptcy in Wake of Sex Abuse Scandal
USA Gymnastics is turning to bankruptcy in an effort to ensure its survival. The embattled organization filed a Chapter 11 bankruptcy petition on Wednesday as it attempts to reach settlements in the dozens of sex-abuse lawsuits it faces and to forestall its potential demise at the hands of the U.S. Olympic Committee. USA Gymnastics filed the petition in Indianapolis,...
3m Dec 06, 2018
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Princeton a Cappella Group Cuts Little Mermaid Song After Complaint Performance Promotes ‘Toxic Masculinity’
(PRINCETON, N.J.) — An all-male a cappella group at an Ivy League university has pulled a Disney movie song from its act following a student newspaper column that suggested the lyrics helped promote "toxic masculinity." The Princeton University Tigertones have performed "Kiss the Girl," a song from "The Little Mermaid," for years. During the performances, a female audie...
3m Dec 06, 2018
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Fortnite Creator Is Launching a Rival for Apple and Google’s App Stores
(Bloomberg) — Epic Games Inc., maker of the monster hit Fortnite, announced a new online store this week that could eventually put pressure on Apple and Google to relinquish some control over their own app stores. Epic’s new store will charge developers a commission of just 12 percent, less than half of what Apple Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s app stores do.
2m Dec 06, 2018
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Chanel Becomes the Latest in Luxury Fashion to Ban Fur and Exotic Animal Skins
Luxury French fashion brand Chanel has announced that fur and exotic skins will no longer be used in their collections, making it the latest high-end label to shun animal pelts in its designs. Joining other fashion houses such as Gucci, Versace and Michael Kors, Chanel will no longer use animal fur or skins such as crocodile, lizard, snake and stingray in the production...
2m Dec 05, 2018
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Suspected Murder of American Tourist in Costa Rica Is Latest in Rising Tide of Violence in the Country
The disappearance of American tourist Carla Stefaniak in Costa Rica – and the grim discovery of a body in the backyard of her AirBnB – is shedding light on the growing violence in the Central American country, which had long been considered safe. Authorities are awaiting an autopsy to confirm that the remains, found on Tuesday, are those of Stefaniak. The 36-year-old Fl...
5m Dec 05, 2018
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Roger Stone Invokes the Fifth Amendment and Declines to Provide Documents to Democrat Senate Judiciary Inquiry
President Donald Trump's longtime associate Roger Stone has invoked the Fifth Amendment in response to a request for documents from the highest ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary committee. In a letter to Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Stone's attorney, Grant Smith, wrote that his client is declining to provide the documents because the scope of the request is too broad, ...
2m Dec 05, 2018
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The Cultural History Behind Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas’ Hindu Wedding Ceremony
Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas's multicultural wedding has brought into focus the rich cultural history behind Hindu wedding rituals and how they are often integrated with Western ceremonies. Chopra, a Hindu, and Jonas, a Christian, married in two different wedding ceremonies that honored the couple's distinct backgrounds.
5m Dec 05, 2018
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The First Baby Has Been Born After a Uterus Transplant From a Deceased Donor
The world's first baby born by a uterus transplant from a deceased donor is healthy and nearing her first birthday, according to a new case study published Tuesday in the Lancet. Uterus transplants have become more common in recent years, resulting in 11 live births around the world. But all of the other successful deliveries so far have been made possible by living don...
5m Dec 05, 2018
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Robert Mueller’s Latest Filing Hints at More Trouble for Trump
Over the past year, Michael Flynn sat down with federal investigators 19 times, answering questions and providing evidence. On Tuesday, Special Counsel Robert Mueller shared just a small amount of what he told them in a legal filing that should spook the White House. A year and three days since President Donald Trump’s former national security advisor pleaded guilty to ...
7m Dec 05, 2018
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U.S. Soldier Who Tried to Help Islamic State Terrorists Gets 25-Year Sentence
(HONOLULU) — A soldier based in Hawaii was sentenced Tuesday to 25 years in prison for trying to help the Islamic State group. Sgt. 1st Class Ikaika Kang, 35, pleaded guilty in August to four counts of attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization. He provided classified military documents, a drone and other help, he said. "Your honor, I ...
4m Dec 05, 2018
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Threats to Journalists Worldwide Are at a 10-Year High, Report Says
A new report has found that journalists face more danger than at any other time over the past 10 years, with 78 journalists killed and a further 326 imprisoned while doing their job or for their work in 2017. Article 19, a U.K.-based human rights NGO working to advance freedom of expression and information, released the report on Wednesday showing that journalists aroun...
3m Dec 05, 2018
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Sen. Lindsey Graham Says There's 'Zero Chance' Saudi Prince Wasn't Involved in Khashoggi Killing
(WASHINGTON) — Senators leaving a briefing with CIA Director Gina Haspel on Tuesday said they are even more convinced that Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman was involved in the death of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker, R-Tenn., said he believes if the crown prince were put on trial, a jury would find him guil...
5m Dec 05, 2018
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Calls on Washington to Pay Congressional Staff Higher Salaries
Congressional representative-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has called on her fellow lawmakers to follow her lead and increase the wages of their staff in Washington, D.C. On Monday, Ocasio-Cortez, who became the youngest woman elected to Congress in last month's midterms, tweeted about her experience of meeting service staff in a D.C. restaurant who were simultaneously...
3m Dec 05, 2018
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How Steam from Power Plants in Nebraska Caused 2 Inches of Snowfall Throughout the State
Two power plants in Norfolk, Neb. caused two inches of snowfall throughout parts of Nebraska, including some flakes that were up to an inch wide. The National Weather Service Omaha tweeted on Tuesday that steam exhaust from industrial plants east of Norfolk caused snow the Omaha Metro area, with snow falling over towns as far as 100 miles away. https://twitter. ...
2m Dec 05, 2018
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Pop Star Calls Out Victoria's Secret For 'Lack of Inclusivity' After Performing at the Fashion Show
Halsey was the featured performer at this year's Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, but the singer wants to be clear that she does not support the comments parent company L-Brand's chief marketing officer Ed Razek made about transgender models. In an Instagram statement posted on Sunday night when the fashion show was aired, Halsey wrote that her performance "was supposed ...
2m Dec 04, 2018
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