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ON JULY 28, PRESIDENT DONALD Trump signaled growing impatience with Vladimir Putin by telling reporters in Scotland that Russia’s President must halt the fighting in Ukraine within “10 or 12 days” to avoid sanctions and secondary tariffs, tightening a 50-day deadline he had set earlier in the month. But this latest threat is unlikely to change Putin’s plans.
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August 18, 2025
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China opens up to more tourists as Trump closes U.S. off
AS THE U.S. UNDER PRESIDENT DONALD Trump increasingly closes itself off from the world, denying entry to some tourists amid a crackdown on border controls and migration, its geopolitical rival China, which has long been known for its relative isolation, has loosened its travel restrictions to unprecedented levels.
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July 28, 2025
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In the Loop
RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN AI could mean that human-caused pandemics are five times more likely than they were just a year ago, according to a study of top experts.
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July 28, 2025
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WITH LOVE, MEGAN
Hacks breakout Megan Stalter enters the canon of rom-com heroines in Lena Dunham's Too Much
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July 28, 2025
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Micael Johansson
The Saab CEO on the lessons learned from Ukraine, Europe's defense needs, and the future of warfare
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July 28, 2025
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MAKING POPE LEO
How a kid from the Midwest became the leader of the Catholic Church
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July 28, 2025
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Clueless and the art of an openhearted outlier
HOW DO YOU MEASURE THE WORTH OF A FILMMAKER’S career? Do you tick off box-office returns, or the awards lined up on a shelf? Which is a better determination of success, a string of hits or a film that lives on in the cultural imagination for decades, and counting?
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July 28, 2025
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A Deadly Flash
SLOPING TERRAIN, THE REMNANTS OF A TROPICAL STORM, AND CLIMATE CHANGE MAKE FOR A DANGEROUS COMBINATION
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July 28, 2025
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Health Matters
IN A CHRISTMAS CAROL, EBENEZER Scrooge at first dismisses the ghosts that torment him as mere dietary disturbances: “You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato,” he says to one spectral visitor. “There’s more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!” Cartoonist Winsor McCay made his name in the early 20th century with “Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend,” in which his protagonists suffer bizarre dreams and nightmares they attributed to eating Welsh rarebit—a delicacy of spiced cheese on toast.
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July 28, 2025
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The Risk Report
THE 2015 MIGRANT CRISIS STILL hangs over Europe. The more than 1.3 million migrants—particularly from Syria, Afghanistan, and Iraq—who claimed asylum that year have been a boon for grievance-driven European populism and its most talented practitioners. The upshot is a cultural and economic anxiety that has transformed the continent's political landscape.
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July 28, 2025
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PRESSURE TEST
Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” is now law, and voters can expect to hear a lot about it during next year’s midterms
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July 28, 2025
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THE MOST INFLUENTIAL DIGITAL VOICES
TIME 100 CREATORS
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July 28, 2025
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Why are rural hospitals closing?
THOMASVILLE REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER WAS SUP- posed to be a game changer. Situated in the U.S. congressional district with the worst health outcomes in the country, the hospital opened in 2020 with state-of-the art equip- ment, including a 3D mammogram and an MRI scanner. But it closed less than five years later in September 2024.
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July 28, 2025
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A wigged-out modern western stuffed with ideas
HOW MANY TIMES HAVE YOU HEARD the expression “The pandemic broke our brains”? Particularly in less densely populated parts of America, plenty of people still hold a grudge over the way life was shut down. In some places, mask wearing is still treated as a sign of wimpiness. And the “lost” years of Zoom education overshadow the reality that COVID-19 killed a lot of people, and that some who survived still suffer. The pandemic is the global event we just can’t let go, a scapegoat for people’s anger over how and why their lives aren’t exactly as they’d like.
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July 28, 2025
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Ukraine's Lost Children
RUSSIA TOOK THOUSANDS OF UKRAINIAN KIDS. CAN PEACE TALKS BRING THEM HOME?
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July 28, 2025
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Michael Madsen
Sexy bad guy
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July 28, 2025
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5 criminally underrated healthy foods
SOME FOODS SIMPLY RADIATE STAR POWER. APPLES AND BANANAS? THEY'VE GOT THEIR OWN song. Blueberries, spinach, and salmon? These so-called superfoods basically come with capes.
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July 28, 2025
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A seismic moment for the left
The world's economic capital stands to have a democratic socialist at the helm.
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July 28, 2025
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Sean 'Diddy' Combs
In sex-crime trial with mixed verdicts
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July 28, 2025
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Recharging the green transition
THE MINERALS FOUND IN AN ELECTRIC-CAR BATTERY often travel thousands of miles around the world before the vehicles they will be in hit the road. Lithium mined in Chile or Argentina is shipped to China—where three-quarters of the world’s electric-vehicle (EV) batteries are currently made. The sea journey emits considerable amounts of CO₂ in the process. Yet, electrifying the transportation sector—which accounts for more than a third of global CO₂ emissions—is key for reaching net-zero emissions by 2050.
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July 28, 2025
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TRUMP'S IRAN SHAMBLES
The questions remaining over the damage to Iran's nuclear program include the fate of almost 900 lb. of highly enriched uranium, enough to make nine bombs. But we know that stockpile was accumulated after Donald Trump scrapped an agreement that had sidelined Iran's program, a pact that Tehran had been honoring. Trump's failed diplomacy got us into this mess.
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July 28, 2025
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A ZOMBIE MOVIE WITH BRAINS
28 Years Later revives a franchise, and a genre, that's about so much more than the walking dead
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July 07, 2025
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Caroline Fraser The Pulitzer Prize-winning author on her new book about serial killers, the Pacific Northwest, and toxic chemicals
Your last book was a biography of Little House on the Prairie author Laura Ingalls Wilder. How do you go from that to serial killers? I was born and raised in Seattle and remember growing up with the presence of Ted Bundy. Even though I wasn’t touched by the case directly, having it happen so close was a big deal. Bundy kidnapped and killed two women on the same Sunday afternoon from Lake Sammamish— just six miles from me. It was all anybody could talk about. And then there were so many others...
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July 07, 2025
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Social Justice
Caroline Koziol says Instagram and TikTok ruined her life. Now she's one of hundreds of plaintiffs fighting back
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July 07, 2025
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Moving forward from anguishwith laughs
AT THEIR BEST, MOVIES CAN BE SUBTLE EX-pressions of feelings we’ve had but can’t fully articulate. Besides, when it comes to feelings, articulation might be overrated: one of the functions of art is to explore the undefinable, and sometimes it’s a relief to let a movie do some of the emotional heavy lifting for us.
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July 07, 2025
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When religion was forced on Americans
BEFORE THE AMERICAN REVOLU-tion, many colonies had established churches supported with tax dollars or imposed religious restrictions on voting or holding office. There was no separation of church and state. In Virginia, the most populous colony, everyone paid a tax to support the Anglican Church, which controlled marriage, poor relief, and care of orphans, and enforced laws regarding profanity and church attendance. If religious dissenters died leaving young children, Anglican officials would often place them in an Anglican home. Dissenters who failed to attend Anglican services regularly were often fined.
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July 07, 2025
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U.S.Strikes Iran, Joining War
THE CONFLICT WILL AFFECT GREAT-POWER RIVALRIES, GLOBAL ENERGY MARKETS, AND THE SPREAD OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS
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July 07, 2025
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AI helped a couple get pregnant after 19 years
DOCTORS AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY FERTILITY CENTER have reported the first pregnancy using a new AI system, in a couple who had tried to conceive for nearly two decades.
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July 07, 2025
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Arms And the Man
FOR NATO CHIEF MARK RUTTE, GETTING EUROPE TO PAY MORE FOR ITS DEFENSE MAY BE THE EASY PART
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July 07, 2025
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The American Dream, glimpsed through skeptical British eyes
IN THE THIRD SEASON OF HBO’S THE GILDED AGE, A FROTHY costume drama set amid the robber barons and socialites of 1880s New York City, a servant suddenly comes into money. So much of it, in fact, that he’ll never have to work again. But instead of seizing his newfound freedom, the man keeps his windfall a secret and continues toiling below stairs. He simply can’t imagine leaving a household staff that has become his surrogate family.
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