In the wake of multiple legal challenges, the Biden Administration late last month aimed to fortify the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program with a new rule that would shield more than 600,000 undocumented people brought to the U.S. by their parents. While proponents of the program welcomed the move and heralded it an…
An interview with Liu Hao, who works to unite adopted children with their birth parents in China
The night before Julie Rikelman was scheduled to argue before the Supreme Court for the first time, she hardly slept at all. But it wasn’t nerves that kept her up. It was a persistent fire alarm at the Washington, D.C. hotel where she was staying. It went off again and again for hours on end,…
When an established company becomes fraught with scandal, advisers will often suggest changing the subject to distract from its mistakes. It’s usually a last resort effort, but the kind of textbook public relations move that advisers crave. Facebook may be planning to do just that by unveiling a new name next week, according to a…
Republican Senator Bill Cassidy finally said something few dare to say aloud: some of the people who run American government may be too old for the job. “At some point, and statistically it’s in the 80s, you begin a more rapid decline,” Cassidy, a gastroenterologist, told Axios on HBO. “So anybody who’s in a position…
About a twenty-minute walk from the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, in a city of sites dedicated to heroes of the American Revolution, there’s a tribute to a hero of the city’s LGBTQ+ community at the Philadelphia FIGHT community health center. It’s dedicated to Kiyoshi Kuromiya, a gay civil rights activist and co-founder of the Gay…
Today, TIMEPieces, a recently launched web3 community initiative from TIME, announced that 12-year old NFT digital artist Nyla Hayes would serve as its first-ever “Artist-in-Residence.” Nyla Hayes is the creator of the Long Neckie Collection, which features diverse women with elongated necks inspired by her favorite dinosaur, the Brontosaurus. She is the founder of NFT…
The news comes as the board published the first of its quarterly transparency reports Thursday
Trump Media and Technology Group says it plans to start a social media company called Truth Social
Animal activists say Happy the elephant deserves more than the Bronx Zoo gives her, and the appellate court of New York state has agreed to hear the case
The decision means boosters are authorized for all three COVID-19 vaccines available in the US
Every day for more than two years now, Hilda Jorge Perez has been on pins and needles, waiting for a call, a letter in the mail or a knock at the door that will determine her family’s fate. On August 7, 2019, she and her husband Antonio Lopez Agustin were arrested, along with dozens of…
Revelations over a secret Chinese weapon test have stoked fresh fears in Washington that the two nations are approaching a strategic crossroads amid a sweeping build-up of Beijing’s nuclear arsenal. The Chinese military, in the midst of a complete modernization of its strategic forces, is expected to at least double its number of nuclear warheads…
