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It's another big step in the commercialization of space

Robert Aaron Long is accused of killing eight people, six of them women of Asian descent, on March 16

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. Credit for honesty where it’s due: four months into this current Congress’ two-year term, a dozen members of the House are already dropping all pretense and saying they won’t…

When this pandemic first began, it quickly became clear that we didn’t just need vaccines, we’d also needed vaccinations, and lots of them. Until people in all corners of the world—not just those that could afford it—were protected, the virus would continue to rage. In an unprecedented show of global solidarity, the world came together…

From club drug to therapeutic

Three weeks after Bethany Fauteux gave birth to her second child in 2013, she was spending her days surrounded by young children—except they weren’t her own. A single mother whose cash reserves were quickly depleting, she felt she had to return to her job as a preschool teacher in Massachusetts while her Caesarean-section scar was…

When Dionne Monsanto was pregnant, she decided that she wanted to find a name that means “blessing” for her daughter. Though Monsanto—a Black American—has no specific ties to South Africa, she chose the name Siwe, an adaptation of the Zulu name Busisiwe. Siwe grew to be a talented artist. “She was brilliant. She was beautiful.…

The video of Derek Chauvin’s kneeling on George Floyd’s neck traveled from a Minneapolis street to every corner of the world. Black activists in the U.K. spoke of their visceral reactions to the footage, while Floyd’s dying words, “I can’t breathe,” brought back painful memories in France and Australia of Black and Aboriginal people killed…

The Israeli military said 15 of the dead were militants. Gaza militants fired more than 250 rockets toward Israel, injuring six Israeli civilians

The number of working-age people in China fell over the past decade as its aging population barely grew, a census showed

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association came under fire earlier this year for its lack of diversity, including having no Black members

Seychelles health officials said the number of active cases had more than doubled since last week, and 37% of patients have received two vaccine doses

The U.S. FDA extended authorization of Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine to 12- to 15-year-olds on May 10.