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On TIME.com, read more about two of the most striking pictures to come out of the 2024 Games: above, James Lang’s photo of American Noah Lyles (lane 7) winning the 100-m final, and at right, Jerome Brouillet’s of Brazilian surfer Gabriel Medina appea

Online misinformation about a triple murder sparked Britain’s worst riots in 13 years, and an international debate about the failure of social media platforms to police hate speech and false reports. The attacks targeted immigrants, and broke out in

Sheikh Hasina Wazed was proud of her house. When the Bangladeshi Prime Minister welcomed TIME to her Ganabhaban official residence in Dhaka last fall, she spent half an hour giving a personal tour of the manicured grounds, stippled with pomelo trees

Though President Joe Biden did the honors when it came time to announce the news, the historic Aug. 1 swap that resulted in the release of more than 20 Russian-held prisoners—including Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and two other Ameri

One of the first checks ever recorded was written in the 11th century in a marketplace in Basra, in what is today Iraq. There, a merchant issued a sakk: written instructions to his bank to make a payment from his account. A thousand years later, this

Every morning when Libbey Castle wakes up, she strips her bed and chucks her sheets into the washing machine. It doesn’t matter if it’s a weekday or the weekend, if she has a light or a busy day ahead, if she slept well or tossed and turned all night

MEN’S 100 M Sprinter Noah Lyles after his heat of the men’s 100 m on Aug. 3, the day before he won the gold medal in the final MEN’S TRIATHLON Competitors appear as a tangle of arms and swim caps in the Seine during the swimming portion of the July 3

When Richard Nixon resigned, 50 years ago this August, he became the first and (so far) only U.S. President driven from the nation’s highest office. His departure was the result of the political establishment coming together in the wake of Watergate.

If the Upper Midwest is the fail-safe for Democrats’ Blue Wall, then they reached to Minnesota Governor Tim Walz in search of a new break-in-case-of-emergency tool. Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris selected Walz, a popular former Congres

The internet is aging. As soon as the 2060s, there may be more dead than alive users on Facebook. Many of the platforms that are now part of society’s basic infrastructure face a similar prospect. What happens when they—and their users—die will be a

Dementia is one of the scariest diagnoses in medicine, in part because it seems impossible to prevent. But recent research suggests that’s not the case. In fact, a new report based on an analysis of hundreds of studies says almost half of dementia ca

In 2022, it was hard to walk around Washington without seeing Sam Bankman-Fried’s face. While the press often praised him for his humility, the founder and CEO of the crypto exchange FTX plastered ads of himself all over the city, and particularly in

For the past 10 months, Benjamin Netanyahu has refused to apologize for leaving Israel vulnerable to Hamas’ Oct. 7 terrorist attack. After the deaths of 1,200 people and the abduction of hundreds more, a traumatized Israeli public heard abject admiss

The soundtrack suggested a Beyoncé concert. The light-up bracelets evoked the Eras Tour. And the exuberant crowd—more than 14,000 strong, lining up in the rain—resembled the early days of Barack Obama. Inside a Philadelphia arena on Aug. 6, Vice Pres

Nick Cammarata has always been unusually happy. The 31-year-old AI safety researcher had a good childhood, but it wasn’t just that; situations that made others depressed seemed to roll off him. “I think I was probably happier than 99% of people. It’s

Six months after being ousted as the supervisor of Green Charter Township in rural western Michigan, Jim Chapman is sitting at the dining table in his son’s house, a haven from the dirty looks and death threats that continue even now. A self-describe

Check the furthermost part of the bookstore. On the left, all the way to the back, down the stairs, past mythology and social sciences. It’s the shelf on the end, the one filled with paperback spines as bright and colorful as conversation hearts. Or

Heman Bekele whipped up the most dangerous of what he called his “potions” when he was just over 7 years old. He’d been conducting his own science experiments for about three years by that point, mixing up whatever he could get his hands on at home a

At the height of his modeling career in the ’80s, Fabio Lanzoni, better known simply as Fabio, says he was shooting up to 10 romance-book covers a day. With his blond tresses flowing and his shirt unbuttoned or off altogether, his goal was to be read

It was perhaps inevitable that the cast of Industry would find themselves on a yacht. The show, which follows a group of Gen Z bankers working in the City, London’s Wall Street, focuses as much on its characters taking designer drugs in Berlin clubs

You just announced you’re leaving the foundation, at what you say is a critical time in its history. What do you mean by that? If you are a philanthropy committed to the idea that democracy is the best form of government, and that the full participat