Dueling Concerts and Blocked Humanitarian Aid: What to Know About the Showdown at the Venezuelan Border
The border between Venezuela and Colombia is set to become the stage of a showdown Saturday between Nicolás Maduro’s authoritarian government and the opposition. Juan Guaidó, the Venezuelan parliament leader who many countries now recognize as the country's interim president, has worked with the U.S.
7m Feb 23, 2019
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Why Food Could Be the Best Medicine of All
All of the things you need to know now from the editors of TIME
12m Feb 23, 2019
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Watch SpaceX Launch the First Private Lunar Lander Mission
SpaceX launched the first private lunar landing mission on Thursday evening, sending an Israeli spacecraft cratering toward the moon and taking a leap for commercial space missions. A Falcon9 rocket took off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida carrying a privately funded Israeli spacecraft that seeks to measure the magnetic field of the moon, according to T...
2m Feb 22, 2019
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Trump Wants ‘5G’ and ‘Even 6G’ Wireless Technology ‘As Soon As Possible.’ What’s He Talking About?
President Donald Trump on Thursday said he wants U.S. companies to more quickly implement what's called 5G wireless technology, the latest and greatest tech when it comes to mobile broadband. “I want 5G, and even 6G, technology in the United States as soon as possible,” tweeted Trump, who went on to imply the U.S. was falling behind due to policies preventing the adopt...
6m Feb 22, 2019
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Zion Williamson’s Exploding Shoe Is a Reminder That College Basketball Needs Serious Fixing
Zion? No!!! Please. Not Zion. Even if you're one of the biggest Duke basketball haters on the planet — we're aware there are many of you — there was only one proper response to what transpired 33 seconds into Wednesday night's clash between Duke and North Carolina at Cameron Indoor Stadium in Durham, N.C. And that's utter sadness. Duke freshman Zion Williamson is what ...
6m Feb 22, 2019
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The White House Says It Will Keep 200 U.S. Troops in Syria for Now
(WASHINGTON) — The Trump administration, which abruptly announced in December that it was pulling out of Syria, said Thursday that it will keep 200 U.S. troops in the country for now. "A small peace keeping group of about 200 will remain in Syria for period of time," White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said in a one-sentence statement. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S....
3m Feb 22, 2019
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How Trump's Allies Are Going Further Than Nixon's Ever Did to Fight Investigators
As the Watergate scandal unfolded, Republican allies of President Richard Nixon raised questions about the partisan leanings of investigators and sought to undermine some of their conclusions. One thing they didn't do: Investigate the investigators.
7m Feb 22, 2019
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How ISIS Returnees Are Stirring a Debate Over Citizenship, Security and Rule of Law
The question of whether two women who joined ISIS in Syria and Iraq—one British and another American-born—should be allowed to return to their respective countries has provoked fierce debate on how Western governments should treat citizens who left to join the caliphate. President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he has told the State Department to ban the return of Hoda ...
7m Feb 22, 2019
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Migrant Children Are Still Being Separated From Their Families: Report
The Trump Administration's family separation policy officially ended in June of 2018, but family separations continued at high rates well after that, according a report from a leading legal nonprofit. The Texas Civil Rights Project identified 272 adults separated from family members in or near McAllen, Texas during the six months that followed President Donald Trump's s...
4m Feb 22, 2019
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Remembering the Originality of Karl Lagerfeld
Humans who make beautiful things are not always beautiful people, at least not in the way we'd like them to be. But if Karl Lagerfeld, who died on Feb. 19 at 85, wasn't always kind--he was well known for his wicked, sometimes cruel quips--he was so exquisitely distinctive, as a personality and as a designer, that ignoring him was impossible.
2m Feb 22, 2019
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Jussie Smollett Released on $100,000 Bond After False Reporting Arrest
Empire actor Jussie Smollett staged a fake hate crime attack on himself because he was unhappy about his pay on the hit Fox show, Chicago police said Thursday. The actor turned himself into police early Thursday after he was charged Wednesday night with felony disorderly conduct in filing a false police report. He was released Thursday afternoon after posting a $100,000...
5m Feb 22, 2019
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Uses Pop Culture to Hit Back at a 'Billionaire-Funded' Billboard
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has hit back at a New York City billboard denouncing her criticism of Amazon's now-cancelled plan to open a new headquarters in Queens. After a conservative group called the Job Creators Network put up a digital ad in Times Square attacking Ocasio-Cortez for allegedly contributing to the loss of NYC jobs and wages, the 29-year-old congressw...
2m Feb 22, 2019
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The Message Behind Maria Ressa’s Cyber Libel Arrest
Maria Ressa spent New Year's Eve in Times Square, a guest of honor at a celebration of the free press. Little more than a month later, the Filipina journalist spent the night in a Manila jail over a "cyberlibel" charge brought by the government against her as executive editor of the news site Rappler.
4m Feb 22, 2019
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Ray Romano Hopes to Die in the Most Ray Romano Way Ever
The stand-up comedian and actor on money, family, success and death, as well as some important subjects After Everybody Loves Raymond ended in 2004, viewers didn't see you as often. But now with Get Shorty, your Netflix stand-up special and new movie Paddleton, our screens are wall-to-wall Romano. What happened? I've been working constantly since Raymond ended. It's jus...
4m Feb 22, 2019
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The Biggest Field Yet. No Frontrunner. A Divided Base. Welcome to the 2020 Democratic Primary
Almost a year before the first votes of the 2020 -presidential contest, Democratic candidates are all over the map. There’s Elizabeth Warren in a drafty warehouse in Des Moines, Iowa, boasting to more than 1,000 people about forcing out a bank CEO. In South Carolina, Cory Booker’s in a college auditorium bringing the crowd to tears with his tale of the murder of a young bo...
26m Feb 21, 2019
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Stonehenge’s Rocks Have Been Traced to 2 Quarries 180 Miles Away
A team of archaeologists may have unveiled one of the mysteries about Stonhenge, the iconic circular monument in southwest England. Rocks called bluestones that form an inner horseshoe and outer ring were traced to two precise quarries in west Wales, around 180 miles away from the towering stone circle.
2m Feb 21, 2019
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‘The Holy People of God Are Watching.’ Pope Francis Warns Bishops to Act Now at Vatican Sex Abuse Summit
(VATICAN CITY) — Pope Francis warned bishops and religious superiors summoned Thursday to a landmark sex abuse prevention summit that the Catholic faithful are demanding more than just condemnation of the crimes but concrete action to respond to the scandal. Francis opened the four-day summit by telling the Catholic hierarchy that their own responsibility to deal effect...
2m Feb 21, 2019
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Lady Gaga’s Reign as the Meme Queen of Awards Shows Just Keeps Going. Here’s the History
This may be the first year that Lady Gaga is nominated for an Oscar for her performance as Ally in A Star Is Born at the 91st Academy Awards, but the Fame Monster performer has been an awards show star for nearly a decade already. From the Grammys to the Golden Globes — and even the Oscars themselves in years past — Gaga has always made an impression, whether from her outl...
6m Feb 21, 2019
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How a Harry Potter Quiz Gave Back to Science
For all his triumphs, Harry Potter was seldom more than a "reasonably talented" student at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. So I'm pleased to report that he can now pad his curriculum vitae with a contribution to new, original research in the peer-reviewed Journal of Personality. This feather in Mr. Potter’s cap is the result of a partnership between TIME...
8m Feb 21, 2019
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El Chapo’s Lawyers Are Pushing for a New Trial After Report Jurors Read News Stories About Him
Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman’s defense lawyers plan to seek a retrial for the recently convicted kingpin following a report that multiple jurors violated a judge's orders and then apparently lied about it. The alleged and so-far-unverified misconduct claim Wednesday could threaten to undo the results of the three-month federal trial.
5m Feb 21, 2019
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Taiwan Proposes Asia’s First Same-Sex Marriage Law
Taiwan presented Asia's first same-sex marriage bill on Thursday, draft legislation that would grant similar legal protections to same-sex couples as heterosexual ones, Reuters reports. The bill is a first for Asia, a region not generally known for upholding LGBT rights. Last year, Taiwan's voters opposed marriage equality in a host of referendums, opting to define m...
2m Feb 21, 2019
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A Foldable Smartphone, AirPod Rivals, and More. These Are the 4 Biggest Things Samsung Just Announced
During its annual Unpacked event on Wednesday, Samsung unleashed a bounty of new smartphones and other gadgets, including a pricey foldable phone called the Galaxy Fold, the Galaxy Buds (a rival to Apple's wireless AirPod earbuds), and the Galaxy Fit, a fitness band. Here are the four biggest announcements from Samsung's 2019 Unpacked event.
7m Feb 21, 2019
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Doing Physical and Mental Exercise When You’re Younger May Help Ward Off Dementia
Dementia and Alzheimer’s disease generally strike late in life. But researchers say that what you do when you are younger — including activities like reading and gardening — can affect your risk of developing these conditions.
4m Feb 21, 2019
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House Democrats To File Resolution to Block Emergency Declaration
(WASHINGTON) — House Democrats plan to file a resolution as soon as Friday that's aimed at blocking President Donald Trump's declaration of an emergency at the Southwest border. That could set up a vote by the full House by mid-March. The clash is over a declaration that Trump is using to try spending billions of dollars beyond what Congress has authorized to start buil...
54s Feb 21, 2019
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U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May and E.U. Chief Conclude ‘Constructive’ Talks on Brexit
(BRUSSELS) — After the resignations of three of her party's lawmakers over Brexit, British Prime Minister Theresa May came away from more talks on preventing the U.K. from crashing out of the European Union with both she and the EU's chief deeming their meeting "constructive" Wednesday. No breakthrough was announced from the dinner meeting at EU headquarters in Brussels...
4m Feb 21, 2019
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U.S. Says Alabama Woman Who Regrets Joining ISIS Is Not a Citizen and Cannot Return
(WASHINGTON) — An Alabama woman who joined the Islamic State group in Syria won't be allowed to return to the United States with her toddler son because she is not an American citizen, the U.S. said on Wednesday. Her lawyer is challenging that claim. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Hoda Muthana, who is now in a refugee camp in Syria along with others who fled the re...
6m Feb 21, 2019
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Empire Star Jussie Smollett Is Now Suspected of Filing a False Police Report, Police Say
Empire actor Jussie Smollett is now a suspect in a criminal investigation for allegedly filing a false police report, Chicago police said Wednesday. On Jan. 29, Smollett told police that he had been attacked by two men who beat him in a racist and homophobic attack. At one point, he said, one of the attackers shouted “this is MAGA country” and tied a rope around his nec...
2m Feb 21, 2019
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Judge Agrees to Delay Michael Cohen’s Prison Entry Date by 2 Months
(NEW YORK) — A judge has agreed to postpone the start of ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen's prison sentence by two months to May 6. New York Judge William Pauley approved the delay Wednesday after Cohen's lawyers said he needed more time to recover from shoulder surgery and prepare for Congressional testimony. They noted prosecutors did not object.
56s Feb 21, 2019
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The Teen From the Lincoln Memorial Protest Is Suing the Washington Post for $250 Million
The family of a Kentucky teen who was caught up in a viral encounter with a Native American elder during a January rally has filed a defamation lawsuit against The Washington Post. The suit claims the newspaper falsely accused 16-year-old Nicholas Sandmann of racist behavior because of its "biased agenda against President Donald J. Trump.
2m Feb 20, 2019
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Major U.S. Airlines Will Soon Offer Passengers Non-Binary Gender Options on Tickets
Male, or female? U.S. airlines passengers may soon no longer be limited to these two gender choices when purchasing tickets, an airlines trade group announced Tuesday, according to Agence France-Presse. Starting on June 1, carriers represented by Airlines for America can give customers the options of "unspecified" and "undisclosed" in addition to the conventional choice...
2m Feb 20, 2019
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Burberry Apologizes After Its Hoodie With a Noose Knot Prompts Criticism
(NEW YORK) — The chief executive and chief creative officer of luxury fashion powerhouse Burberry have apologized for putting a hoodie with strings tied in the shape of a noose on their London Fashion Week runway. The knotted strings surfaced after Sunday's show when a model hired to walk (but not wear the outfit) complained both before the show and on Instagram, saying...
3m Feb 20, 2019
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Police Dismiss Tip That Jussie Smollett Was in Elevator With 2 Released Brothers
CHICAGO — Chicago police investigated but dismissed a tip that on the night "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett reported being attacked by two masked men he was in an elevator of his apartment building with two brothers later arrested and released from custody in the probe, a department spokesman said Tuesday. Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said a person who lives in the...
4m Feb 20, 2019
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Column: Yes, Bohemian Rhapsody and Green Book Are Problematic. Can We Love Them Anyway?
If you pay any attention to Rotten Tomatoes or social media, critics and other types of voluble movie enthusiasts will tell you that Bohemian Rhapsody, a biopic—more or less—about Freddie Mercury, the late lead singer of Queen, is a bad movie. What an epic embarrassment, they’ll say, that a film this lousy has been nominated for five Oscars and has made some $200 million, ...
11m Feb 20, 2019
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Inside One Man’s Trip to the Idaho Camp Where His Great-Grandparents Were Interned During World War II
On Feb. 19, 1942, President Roosevelt signed an Executive Order that allowed the internment of Japanese-Americans. Now, nearly eight decades later, one young man has documented his journey to visit the site where his family suffered. In total, the infamous Executive Order 9066 led to the rounding up of 120,000 Japanese-Americans, most of whom were U.S. citizens. ...
6m Feb 20, 2019
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Trump's National Emergency Faces These Four Legal Challenges
Less than a week since President Donald Trump declared a national emergency to divert funds to build a border wall, multiple groups are already challenging the move in court. During the Rose Garden speech announcing his plan, Trump detailed in a sing-song voice the path he expected the emergency declaration to take through the court system, all the way up to the Supreme...
11m Feb 20, 2019
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How Karl Lagerfeld Redefined Modern Fashion As We Knew It
All of the things you need to know now from the editors of TIME
2m Feb 20, 2019
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California’s Lawsuit Over Trump’s Border Wall Is the State’s Latest Act of Resistance
There has always been friction between the federal government and the wildly divergent states it represents. Though the national government is the 800-pound gorilla in the room, it still depends on states, and the power of those smaller governments is enshrined in the Constitution. When Obama was in the White House, no other state pushed back like Texas, which sued his adm...
8m Feb 20, 2019
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Using Young People’s Blood to Prevent Aging Has No Proven Clinical Benefits, FDA Warns
(Bloomberg) — Taking a young person’s plasma and infusing it into an older person to ward off aging -- a therapy that’s fascinated some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley -- has no proven clinical benefit, the Food and Drug Administration said.
3m Feb 20, 2019
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Alabama Woman Who Joined ISIS Says She Made a ‘Big Mistake’ and Wants to Come Home
(BIRMINGHAM, Ala.) — An Alabama woman who left home to join the Islamic State after becoming radicalized online realized she was wrong and now wants to return to the United States, a lawyer for her family said Tuesday. Hoda Muthana, 24, regrets ever aligning herself with the terrorist organization and is putting herself at risk by speaking out against it from a refugee ...
3m Feb 20, 2019
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Legendary Fashion Designer Karl Lagerfeld Dies at 85
Karl Lagerfeld, the iconic creative director of fashion house Chanel, has died in Paris aged 85, according to French media reports. The German designer joined Chanel in 1983 and is credited with revitalizing the label after the death of its founder Coco Chanel. He became one of the most prolific contributors to the label, and to the entire fashion world. Speculation ...
3m Feb 19, 2019
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Bernie Sanders Announces He's Running For President in 2020
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, whose insurgent 2016 presidential campaign reshaped Democratic politics, announced Tuesday that he is running for president in 2020. "Our campaign is not only about defeating Donald Trump," the 77-year-old self-described democratic socialist said in an email to supporters. "Our campaign is about transforming our country and creating a govern...
5m Feb 19, 2019
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Lightsaber Dueling Is Now Recognized As a Competitive Sport in France. No, Really
(BEAUMONT-SUR-OISE, France) — Master Yoda, dust off his French, he must. It's now easier than ever in France to act out "Star Wars" fantasies, because its fencing federation has borrowed from a galaxy far, far away and officially recognized lightsaber dueling as a competitive sport, granting the iconic weapon from George Lucas' saga the same status as the foil, epee and...
7m Feb 19, 2019
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What to Know About Absher, Saudi Arabia’s Controversial ‘Woman-Tracking’ App
Absher, a government-backed mobile app in Saudi Arabia, has come under sharp criticism amid claims that it reinforces the country's system of male guardianship — which requires women to seek approval for things like traveling and getting a job.
5m Feb 19, 2019
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This Olympic Champion’s Case Could Change Sports’ Gender Rules Forever
(LAUSANNE, Switzerland) — The longtime standoff between Olympic champion Caster Semenya and track and field's governing body over issues of gender, hormones and performance in sports reached a pivotal phase on Monday as a key tribunal began hosting a planned five-day hearing in a case that could have massive repercussions throughout sports.
4m Feb 19, 2019
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How This Politician Put Britain at the Forefront of the War Against Facebook
On a cold November day in London, a demonstrator wearing a large papier-mâché mask of Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg stood outside the U.K. parliament in silent protest, holding up a sign emblazoned with two words: “Where’s Mark?” That question was on the lips of many lawmakers in London that day. More than 20 politicians from nine countries, including Ireland and Canad...
9m Feb 19, 2019
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An 11-Year-Old Student Was Arrested in Florida After Refusing to Stand for the Pledge of Allegiance
A sixth grade student at a Florida school was arrested for disruption and resisting arrest after a confrontation with a teacher in which he refused to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance, reportedly saying the flag was racist and the pledge was offensive to black people. Spectrum Bay News 9 reports that the 11-year-old was removed from class on Feb. 4, suspended for thre...
3m Feb 19, 2019
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What Happened to Jussie Smollett? Here Are All of His Case’s Twists and Turns
In the weeks since Empire actor Jussie Smollett first told police that he had been the victim of a vicious hate crime, the truth about his case has become increasingly murky. Smollett told police that early on the morning of Jan. 29 in Chicago, two assailants berated him with racist and homophobic slurs, beat him and put a rope around his neck.
8m Feb 18, 2019
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‘Very Illegal Act.’ Trump Lashes Out at FBI Officials Involved in Russia Probe
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — President Donald Trump is suggesting that key officials involved in the Russia probe were engaged in "treasonous" behavior. Trump is lashing out on Twitter at former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, whose new book details his concerns about potential foreign influence over the president, and current Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who i...
2m Feb 18, 2019
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5 Americans Arrested and Held in Haiti on Criminal Conspiracy, Illegal Weapon Charges
Five Americans, one Russian and a Serb were arrested in Haiti and charged with a criminal conspiracy and illegal possession of weapons, the AFP news agency said, citing Haitian police. The group, which also included one Haitian, was arrested at a police checkpoint near the Haitian central bank with assault rifles, pistols, bulletproof vests and drones, the AFP cited the...
1m Feb 18, 2019
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Russia and China Are Driving a Wedge Between Estranged U.S. and Europe
During his speech to the Munich Security Conference in 2007, Russian President Vladimir Putin made a prediction that many in the West dismissed. He said the Western system of alliances -- with its "one master, one sovereign" sitting in Washington, D.C. -- would eventually “destroy itself from within." That speech has aged remarkably well. Twelve years on, as world leade...
5m Feb 18, 2019
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