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The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Friday that it would sue Georgia over the restrictions included in its new and expansive voting law, known as SB 202, marking the federal agency’s first significant action against GOP-backed voting restrictions that numerous states have passed since the 2020 election. “Changes to Georgia’s election laws were enacted with…

The sentence does little to address a system that isn't set up to respond effectively to policing problems

Ethiopia stands at a crossroads. On June 21, the country finally held the first round of long-delayed elections for the country’s parliament and Regional State Councils. Voting in the remaining 69 of the country’s 547 constituencies will take place in a second round in September. It’s not clear when (or if) voting for the 38…

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. For many Americans, it’s all too easy to assume that the fight for LGBTQ rights has been won. After all, same-sex couples have enjoyed the same right to marriage…

(CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.) — Virgin Galactic finally has the federal government’s approval to start launching customers into space from New Mexico. Richard Branson’s rocketship company announced the Federal Aviation Administration’s updated license on Friday. It’s the final hurdle in Virgin Galactic’s yearslong effort to send paying passengers on short space hops. The company is working…

The first cruise ship to board passengers at a U.S. port in 15 months is set to sail Saturday from South Florida in a symbolic stride toward normalcy.

The COVID-19 virus is morphing into new versions, but not all of them carry the same immediate danger to your health

"Milkha Singh was a child of partition who came from poverty but he had a lot of faith in himself and the belief that if you work hard, you will be remembered. That, to me, is his legacy."

Mukesh Ambani unveiled an ambitious push into clean energy involving $10.1 billion of investment over three years

The missed deadline complicates broader negotiations in Vienna to revive a nuclear accord with world powers

On June 23, a group of scientists told the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices that mRNA vaccines (those made by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna) have a “likely association” with heart risks for younger people. Understandably, that’s still generating a lot of attention. Here’s what you should know about COVID-19…

The furor comes after Hungary’s parliament approved legislation last week outlawing content for children that can be deemed to “promote homosexuality”

How a gay lifestyle blog, run in secret by a Chinese policeman, morphed into an app with 63 million LGBTQ members worldwide