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It’s been a difficult four years for Nelly Munyasia. In 2016, Munyasia’s organization, Reproductive Health Network Kenya (RHNK), which helps Kenyans access health services and information including about abortion, got all of its funding through Planned Parenthood Global. When Donald Trump took office and reinstated the Mexico City policy, which bans U.S. aid to groups…

The UN Food Systems envoy spoke to TIME about the future of farming and why eating insects will likely remain a fringe idea.

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. In Washington, there’s a pretty set playbook for when politicians or their aides find themselves with an onslaught of negative headlines filling the inbox and hostility knocking at the…

Unequal distribution could undermine the push toward herd immunity

Online violence leads to real world violence. The January 6th storming of the U.S. Capitol and the role of social media in helping coordinate the riots was not a surprise and the emerging details show this could have been mitigated, if not prevented, if Facebook had taken years of warnings seriously. Buzzfeed reported that for…

We need a new relationship between Big Tech and its users, built on mutual cooperation, revenue sharing and a shared purpose

The collective push by hyper-online investors also sought to fight back against a system that they feel deserves a reckoning

Researchers could be seen leaving quarantine and boarding a bus Thursday but it wasn’t clear where they were headed

The Department of Homeland Security did not cite any specific plots, but pointed to “a heightened threat environment”

Mel Brooks called Leachman “insanely talented” and irreplaceable

Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry wants the world to know the U.S. is humble as it rejoins the international conversation on climate change. In his Jan. 21 remarks to the international business community hosted by the G20 group, Kerry used the world “humility” to describe America’s reentry to climate talks five times. But…

The Biden Administration announced its plan to return to an Obama-era initiative to put Harriet Tubman’s face on the U.S. $20 bill. Her image would replace Andrew Jackson, the notoriously racist President, known both for owning hundreds of slaves and for his brutal and genocidal policy of Indian removal. Based on current designs, a statue…

As the Trump Administration drew to a close, Republican legislators and aides were forced to choose a side. They could either distance themselves from a twice-impeached President who instigated an insurrection at the U.S. Capitol Building after claiming, baselessly, that his electoral victory was stolen, or they could continue to embrace Donald Trump’s brand of…