Новости за 18.11.2020

Fans of BTS who run translation accounts, hashtag planning and philanthropic projects talk to TIME about their devotion

For Central America, this year’s storm season has been relentless. Already struggling under the economic toll of COVID-19, the developing region was battered by Hurricane Eta in early November and had little time to regroup before Hurricane Iota—the 30th named storm in a record-breaking hurricane season in the Atlantic— made landfall in Nicaragua on Nov.…

This year on my mother’s birthday, in October, I woke up from one of many dreams I’ve had about her since her death. I’d been sitting with family and friends in my grandmother’s backyard, our lawn chairs scattered across a carpet of sun-dappled grass. We were all talking, sharing memories of my mom. I don’t…

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. More than anyone in the Cabinet or elsewhere on the West Wing seating chart, one figure above everyone else will determine the success of the incoming Biden Administration: Sen.…

Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro has resisted global attempts to slow deforestation

A COVID-19 vaccine request to the FDA would be a dramatic milestone in the pandemic

Attorney General William Barr said the DOJ would drop its case so Salvador Cienfuegos “may be investigated and, if appropriate, charged, under Mexican law”

President Donald Trump’s abrupt order to reduce U.S. troops numbers to a mere 2,500 each in Afghanistan and Iraq has triggered howls from senior Republicans on Capitol Hill. But it has also elicited sighs of relief in some military quarters, from those who feared the embittered incumbent would vent his rage over losing his re-election…

The Detroit-area officials later reversed course and unanimously certified its presidential election results

As a deadly new wave of COVID-19 infections surges in 46 states, President Donald Trump hasn’t attended a coronavirus task force meeting in months. The President has been largely silent about the renewed strain on hospitals. He hasn’t added his voice to pressure more state governors to require masks and distancing — moves his own…

“Sadly there was an unspoken norm that sexual abuse of children would occur in the Boy Scouts"

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BTS speaks a language that millions of fans don’t understand, but the band’s music and message have transcended boundaries

The idea of a truly universal library, a single place where the entire knowledge of the world was stored, has inspired writers as well as librarians

Barack Obama knows how to tell a good story. He published his first memoir, Dreams from My Father, about his upbringing as the son of a Kansas-born mother and Kenyan father, at the age of 33. He entered the national political stage at the 2004 Democratic National Convention with a rousing speech on the promise…