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TIME feted the 2023 TIME100 Next list on Oct. 24 in midtown Manhattan, celebrating rising leaders in health, climate, business, sports, the arts, and more. From top left, clockwise: country singer Kelsea Ballerini; actors Rachel Zegler and Maya Hawke

Within minutes of the Oct. 31 Israeli attack on the Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza, the victims began flooding the Indonesian Hospital a mile away. Dr. Marwan Sultan, the hospital’s medical director, says that most of the injured and dead were women an

A man grieves on Oct. 24 over bodies of Palestinian people killed in Israeli strikes in Khan Younis, a city located in the southern half of the Gaza Strip where the Israel Defense Forces had instructed residents to move for their own safety. The Pale

A mass shooting that left 18 people dead at a bar and a bowling alley in Lewiston, Maine, on Oct. 25 is putting a spotlight on the state’s legal laxity on gun safety. Specifically, Maine doesn’t have some measures that have been shown to reduce gun d

“When I die, I don’t want Friends to be the first thing that’s mentioned,” Matthew Perry said. The actor may have been best known for playing the goofy and lovable Chandler Bing in the juggernaut series, but his life was as defined by his struggles a

One word tore Choi Joung-Joo’s world apart. He first heard about crowd trouble in Seoul’s nightlife district of Itaewon on evening news bulletins, but it was a call from his wife that made panic set in. Their 21-year-old daughter, Yujin, had set off

Is the U.S. in a lawyer labor shortage? A new study from Statista and TIME shows that the majority of surveyed lawyers are finding it difficult to find and hire competent recruits. The survey, to determine America’s Top Law Firms of 2024, was sent to

There’s a sense, once a whisper, that’s growing louder every day. Glaciers are melting, children are being slaughtered, hatred runs rampant. Sometimes it feels like the world’s approaching a nadir. Or like you are. The antidote to any despair might b

“MAGA is ascendant,” crowed Representative Matt Gaetz on Oct. 25. He had reason to be happy. After weeks of chaos, House Republicans had settled on Mike Johnson as Speaker. Johnson is thoroughly in line with nationalist-populist Republicans who engin

There are many reasons why Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered a ground invasion of Gaza. He wants to ensure that Hamas can never again murder 1,400 Israelis. He needs to take bold action to restore the confidence of his people in their

It took him a beat longer than a lot of folks, but former Vice President Mike Pence got there eventually—and, maybe significantly, early enough to force his fellow Republicans to take a clear-eyed look at their party and its trajectory. “It’s become

On April 22 (Earth Day) of 1998, my co-authors and I published the now famous “hockey stick” curve. It was featured on the pages of the New York Times and other leading newspapers, helping it garner worldwide attention. Here was a simple graph, deriv

In August, I spent 10 days visiting my fiancée Erin and her son Andy in Maryland. Erin and I were celebrating our birthdays, and my soon-to-be stepson was about to start third grade. During my stay, Erin and I told Andy a series of collaborative bedt

Volodymyr Zelensky was running late. The invitation to his speech at the National Archives in Washington had gone out to several hundred guests, including congressional leaders and top officials from the Biden Administration. Billed as the main event

It’s unusual for a medication to become a household name; even more uncommon for its branding to become, like Advil, shorthand for an entire class of products; and rarest of all, for it to change not just U.S. medicine, but U.S. culture. Ozempic has

Max Verstappen is giggling like a third-grader while crashing a toy truck. The planet’s top Formula One driver, who’s won three straight world championships and crushed all comers during the 2023 season, is on the Austin campus of Oracle, the lead sp

In the third episode of showtime’s strange, riveting, and often hilarious new series The Curse, the married co-hosts of an in-development reality show watch a focus group respond to the pilot. “I like the lady,” says one woman. “I do wish that he had

Sheikh Hasina floats into the reception room of her official residence swathed in a luxurious silk sari, the personification of an iron fist in velvet glove. At 76 and silver-haired, Bangladesh’s Prime Minister is a political phenomenon who has guide

I can get it for you wholesale was a major Broadway show, written by Jerome Weidman, with music and lyrics by Harold Rome. Arthur Laurents, who wrote the book for West Side Story and Gypsy, was directing. The producer was David Merrick. They were all

If you’ve been watching movies for a while, David Fincher’s The Killer—which arrives Nov. 10 on Netflix—might be your 100th movie about a contract killer, or even your 500th. It’s a genre that springs eternal, yet modern directors often think they ne

A Murder at the End of the World is a tricky title. It might refer to a murder in a remote location or a murder amid the literal end times. In the case of FX’s smart, stylish new drama, it’s a true double entendre. The plot works on multiple levels t

Why write The Race to Be Myself now? You want to tell a story when you’re in a good state of mind, when you’re at peace. I thought it’s about time I support those who need me. It’s a reminder to those out there who feel rejected that they belong. The