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Return public lands to Indigenous people

Since the start of Donald Trump's second term, his Administration has fired thousands of federal workers across multiple public-lands agencies. The effects of this are vast: it's going to cause immeasurable harm to America's wildest places and devastate the economies built around them.

A COLD WAR MODEL FOR AI

The unveiling of DeepSeek R1, China's most advanced AI model to date, signals a dangerous inflection point in the global AI race. As President Donald Trump warned in response, this development represents a wake-up call for American leadership. What's at stake isn't merely economic competitiveness but also the most geopolitically precarious technology since the nuclear age.

TURNING BACK THE CLOCK THE NEW SCIENTIFIC SEARCH FOR YOUTH

LATER THIS YEAR, A HANDFUL OF PEOple with a rare eye condition will receive a novel injection that is designed to quite literally turn back time.

SETTING THE PACE

Donald Trump paused long enough for a campaign stop on Capitol Hill

Woolly mice are a first step in restoring the mammoth

Extinction is typically for good; when it comes to the woolly mammoth, however, that rule has now been bent.

What are abortion shield laws?

In the aftermath of the U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade in 2022, many states have moved to protect the right to abortion, and several have turned to a new tool to do so: abortion shield laws.

5 ways to clean your house safely

While cleanliness is a virtue, germ fixation is not. Cleaning your house too thoroughly, or with the wrong kinds of products, can be harmful to health.

Diana Taurasi

The WNBA’s all-time leading scorer discusses her decision to retire from basketball, lessons from Russia, and what she’ll miss about the game

Driving Force

With his move to Ferrari, Lewis Hamilton aims to cement his status as Formula One's greatest athlete ever

Gene Hackman

Everyman leading man

HOLLYWOOD FOLLIES

Seth Rogen's showbiz satire sends up a studio head's desperation in the era of streaming, austerity, and IP

Spy spouses face a potential breach of trust

Familiarity breeds contempt, maybe especially in marriages. How do you keep a close partnership fresh? Perhaps married spies, like the ones in Steven Soderbergh's silky spy caper Black Bag, have the answer.

The World's Greatest Places

OUR ANNUAL LIST OF THE MOST INTERESTING DESTINATIONS AROUND THE GLOBE TAKES YOU FROM THE SOUTH PACIFIC TO NORTHERN GREENLAND-AND EVEN TO A NINTENDO MUSEUM IN BETWEEN. FIND THE REST OF OUR TOP 100 PLACES TO STAY AND TO VISIT AT TIME.COM/WORLDS GREATESTPLACES

I'm a disabled woman.Is that my brand?

EVERY TIME I PICKED UP MY SON AT DAY CARE LAST YEAR, our reunion was punctuated by the same questions from the other 3-year-olds: “Why are you in that wheelchair? What happened?” I am used to questions. I’ve answered them all my life with little fanfare. But these interactions started to feel different with my son there to bear witness.

Michelle Trachtenberg

When Michelle Trachtenberg suddenly appeared among the already-familiar cast members of Joss Whedon’s much loved turn-of-the-21st-century TV show Buffy the Vampire Slayer, at the start of Season 5, no one knew what to make of her.

The next view into the cosmos

The giant, 40-ft. space telescope resting in the airtight, climate-controlled clean room at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., wants nothing to do with the microscopic dust particles clinging to your clothing.

How Trump's cuts are hurting his voters

CLARKSBURG, W.VA., HAS LEAD PIPES SCATTERED THROUGH- out the city, which has caused elevated levels of lead in some children’s blood, resulting in health issues like developmental delays.

NIH budget cuts are causing chaos

THE U.S. NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH (NIH) IS THE largest funder of biomedical research in the world, and its grants create the foundation of basic science knowledge on which major health advances are built.

Zero Day's uncannily apolitical Washington

IN AN EARLY SCENE OF THE NETFLIX THRILLER ZERO DAY, a former U.S. President is visiting the site of a deadly Manhattan subway crash when an onlooker starts shouting about crisis actors.

For the love of voice notes

SOMEWHERE IN THE BLUR OF 2020, AS I SLIPPED OUTside with a mask and running shoes in the early morning to walk around the block, the lilting drawl of a friend's \"Hiiiiii\" nearly stopped me in my tracks.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.As the U.S. Health Secretary

THE SENATE CONFIRMED ROBERT F. Kennedy Jr., one of country's most notorious vaccine skeptics, to run the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Feb. 13, sparking outrage among public-health experts who worry that Kennedy will harm public health and further erode trust in science and medicine.

THE RISE OF GERMANY'S FAR RIGHT

Alice Weidel's AfD party is making gainswith a boost from the Trump Administration

Net Zero Is Not Enough

AUSTRALIAN MINING BILLIONAIRE ANDREW FORREST'S GREEN CRUSADE

How will your new company, Respin, help women in menopause?

Halle Berry The Oscar-winning actor says there’sa desperate need to inform women about menopause. Her new company aims to fill that education and empathy gap

How we talk about the Holocaust now

VICE PRESIDENT J.D. VANCE ARRIVED AT THE DACHAU concentration camp under low, gray clouds.

South Korea's political drama will produce waves overseas

SOUTH KOREA'S political crisis continues. After President Yoon Suk-yeol was impeached and arrested following his aborted imposition of martial law last December, the country's Constitutional Court will now decide his future. Legal experts say Yoon will soon be removed from office and sent to prison.

WOMEN of the YEAR

13 extraordinary leaders fighting for a more equal future

The end of the penny Deemed "wasteful"

\"For far too long the United States has minted pennies which literally cost us more than 2 cents.

FACING THE ABYSS

Michelle Zauner's new album with Japanese Breakfast explores the many ways in which sadness pervades modern womanhood

Capturing the humanity that war threatens to destroy

WAR HAS A WAY OF ATTRACTING STORY tellers, different kinds at different phases of the story.