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January will mark the second time Biden enters the White House amid serious economic turmoil

For many Americans, one of the more pressing domestic issues a Biden-Harris administration needs to tackle upon their inauguration in January is that of criminal justice and police reform. A hot-button issue during much of the presidential campaign, calls for action at the federal level have been at the front of public consciousness since the…

Bridenstine leaves with a track record of success

This article is part of the The DC Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox every weekday. President Donald Trump ran on his stewardship of the U.S. economy before the coronavirus pandemic hobbled almost every corner of the American marketplace and his promise to bring it…

As the United States is now fully engaged in a second week of post-election controversies, two realities are increasingly clear. First, Donald Trump is growing increasingly unhinged in his quest to retain his grip on power. Second, only conservative media can prevent vast segments of the GOP base from descending further into the miasma of…

The new Netflix drama about a former prostitute caring for a Senegalese orphan marks her first movie in more than a decade

A closer look into the lives of paleontologist Mary Anning and geologist Charlotte Murchison, played by Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan in the new romantic drama

"It's a reset moment for Johnson's government"

Hulu's 'I AM GRETA' goes beyond the headlines to look at the many dimensions of the world’s most famous teenager

The election of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris means the return of serious thought and action on the existential threat of climate change. Like so many issues in the past, the American military can, and should, lead the way. The Pentagon uses more fossil fuels than any other organization on earth consuming two percent of…

The freezer in your kitchen likely gets down to temperatures around -20° C (-4° F). “That keeps your ice cream cold, but it doesn’t turn your ice cream into an impenetrable block of ice,” says Paula Cannon, an associate professor of molecular microbiology and immunology at the University of Southern California’s Keck School of Medicine.…

The best toys of 2020 perfectly encapsulate this year’s events—from Monopoly House Divided, a state-of-the-nation take on the classic board game, to Playmobil’s Large Hospital play set, which introduces kids to what goes on inside a hospital. Other top toys serve as an escape from the chaos of 2020—think drawing with chocolate, creating illuminated woodland…

Experts say Biden needs to do more than get kids back into classrooms; he needs to address inequities in education that existed long before the pandemic

The Ethiopian has deployed troops on a restive populace, risking a regional escalation

The statement, by government and industry officials who coordinate election cybersecurity, amounted to the most direct repudiation to date of President Trump's efforts to undermine the integrity of the contest

“We respect the American people’s choice and extend congratulations to Mr. Biden and Ms. Harris,” Chinese Foreign Ministry Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said

Isolated Pacific island nations closed their borders early in the pandemic, but COVID-19 is beginning to creep in

The Tesla CEO also said on Twitter he was experiencing symptoms of a “typical cold. Nothing unusual so far”

What to know about the process by which Presidential election winners are made official—and the potential ways Trump could try to disrupt it

The Rohingya Muslim minority, to which I belong, was again disenfranchised during Myanmar’s election on Nov. 8. My community, which has faced violence and discrimination, is being even further erased from our country. Many ethnic Rakhine, Shan, Kachin, and Karen were also not able to vote. An election that excludes entire communities because of their…