This article is part of the The DC Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox every weekday. As Emmy nominations came out this week, one couldn’t help but note one important absent category: Best Performance By a Politician. Surely the pantomimedContinue Reading
This article is part of the The DC Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox every weekday. Welcome back, Benghazi. Washington has hardly missed the rancor and disingenuous narratives about the 2012 terrorist attack on American outposts in Libya and theContinue Reading
As the threat of ransomware grows, companies have felt pressed to pay massive amounts to hackers holding systems hostage. One business decided not to give in to their attackers’ demands. Cyberattacks like the recent global attack that impacted multiple companies over the Fourth of July weekend, this spring’s disruptive attackContinue Reading
This article is part of the The DC Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox every weekday. The legislation seemed unstoppable. The political party in the majority in the state capitol was hellbent on pushing through a partisan policy that noContinue Reading
<em><strong>“More shots are being fired on our streets, so more bystanders are getting hit. It’s that simple.”</strong></em><em><strong>“No one’s exempt. My child was getting food at a taco truck.”</strong></em><em><strong>“It’s at the point where people are afraid to sit on their own steps.”</strong></em><em><strong>“Everything that goes on in this city is nothing butContinue Reading
This article is part of the The DC Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox every weekday. SHANKSVILLE, Pa. — It was just one page in his remarks. But on that sheet, read with the tone of a disappointed grandfather, formerContinue Reading
Scattered three miles deep along the floor of the central Pacific are trillions of black, misshapen nuggets that may just be the solution to an impending energy crisis. Similar in size and appearance to partially burned charcoal briquettes, the nuggets are called polymetallic nodules, and are an amalgamation of nickel,Continue Reading
Having an exceptionally productive month at work could ruin Chloe Morgan. A single mother to four boys under the age of ten, Morgan is a saleswoman in Dayton, Ohio, with a $30,000 base salary that is supplemented by a commission. Too big of a bonus would risk her family losingContinue Reading
Chuck Schumer’s flip phone has a two-tone ring: buzz-buzz, buzz-buzz; two low tones, two high ones. The Senate majority leader almost always knows who’s calling, even though he doesn’t program the numbers in. “Elizabeth, I’ll call you back,” he says, flipping the phone open in the middle of a recentContinue Reading
A Texas law that bans abortion as early as six weeks into pregnancy took effect at midnight on Wednesday after the Supreme Court failed to act on emergency requests from abortion providers. Courts could still rule on the Texas law in the coming days, but even if the ban isContinue Reading
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