For most of human history, night has been dark. Very, very dark—no hall light on, no streetlights streaming through the windows, no TV casting ambient light in the next room. Now, however, it’s rare to find yourself in total darkness.
The tip came in 2017 from Alma, Kansas, from a stay-at-home mother. Eileen Umbehr asked whether Joe Sexton, a veteran investigative journalist who worked at The New York Times and ProPublica, wanted to know the truth about a double homicide in Topeka. Karen Harkness, daughter of ...
David Sinclair, a professor at Harvard Medical School, has said that he thinks the first person who will live to the age of 150 is already alive today. During a panel discussion about longevity at the TIME100 Health Leadership Forum in New York City on Sept. 10, TIME executive ed...
On September 11, 2001, photography editors across the world, overcome with a deluge of devastating imagery, faced the daunting task of selecting photos that would go on to define a catastrophe like no other. A decade later, TIME asked a wide variety of the industry’s leading phot...
People around the world collectively spend billions of dollars each year on products and services designed to extend their lives. But if they funnel all that money, time, and energy into the pursuit of longevity—only to reach those extra years and realize they’re not exactly enjo...
Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels have reportedly captured the strategic Perim Island that sits in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait as they aim to tighten their grip on the critical maritime chokepoint.
Nicole Reda’s house is spotless. She has two young children and no hired help, but there isn’t a Tonka truck in sight. The one sign of clutter is basket after basket of warm, crisply folded laundry. You can see your reflection in her living-room floor.
From the moment they occurred, the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 were seen as inaugurating a new age of asymmetric violence and warfare. President George W. Bush described the war on terror that followed as a generational conflict.
Two decades ago, Osama bin Laden, the Al-Qaeda leader behind 9/11, laid out his attempted justification for the terror attack against the U.S. that killed nearly 3,000 people in his “Letter to America.”
There’s too much TV to keep up with it all, even for those of us who watch it professionally. But critics are obsessive types, and I’d feel remiss if I didn’t at least try to get a handle on the best shows released each year. Below, you’ll find the fruits of that search: a roughl...
The most widely seen images from 9/11 are of planes and towers, not people. Falling Man is different.
The Department of Homeland Security has proposed scrapping the policy allowing certain foreign workers—including H-1B visa holders—to remain in the U.S. for up to 60 days after losing their jobs to find a new sponsor, according to a government notice published Friday.
We don’t often look with suspicion at the plastic wrapping a block of cheddar, the waxed carton containing milk, or the plastic bottle of ketchup. We expect food packaging to be more or less inert—breakfast isn’t supposed to come with a side of chemicals, after all.
Only one in five women know that they’re more likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease than men, according to a recent survey. Maria Shriver wants that number to climb—and for women to start thinking about their brains decades before symptoms show up.
President Donald Trump has defended a 22-foot golden statue of himself that has spurred mixed reactions since its formal unveiling last week.
The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam will likely be viewed as one of the great African stories of our time.
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