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An AI Company Scraped Billions of Photos For Facial Recognition. Regulators Can't Stop It
May 29, 2022 15:13 - 9 minutes - 16.7 MBMore and more privacy watchdogs around the world are standing up to Clearview AI, a U.S. company that has collected billions of photos from the internet without people's permission. The company, which uses those photos for its facial recognition software, was fined £7.5 million ($9.4 million) by a U.K. regulator on May 26. The U.K. Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said the firm, Clearview AI, had broken data protection law. The company denies breaking the law.
Chasing Nostalgia in New York City With Sloane Crosley
May 29, 2022 14:47 - 5 minutes - 9.94 MB"That’s totally the guy!” Sloane Crosley yelps, coming to an abrupt halt. She gestures at a gray-haired man exiting a graffiti-adorned brick building. For the past 20 minutes, we’ve been booking it through Manhattan’s Chinatown, past bustling produce stands and purse vendors, to find this former synagogue tucked away on a quiet stretch of Rivington Street—a source of inspiration for the author as she wrote her novel, Cult Classic, coming June 7.
U.S. Plastic Recycling Rates Are Even Worse Than We Thought
May 28, 2022 14:29 - 4 minutes - 8.78 MBIt’s well established that the state of U.S. plastics recycling is dismal. But plastic waste experts, who have long cautioned that the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) purported recycling rate was overestimated, now say that the country is poised for a reckoning.
School Shootings Are Raising Anxiety and Panic in U.S. Children
May 28, 2022 14:29 - 7 minutes - 13.5 MBThe May 24 mass shooting in a Uvalde, Texas elementary school, in which a gunman killed 19 young children and two teachers, was the third-deadliest school shooting in U.S. history. But it was also just the latest of an increasingly common type of U.S. tragedy—one that experts say is saddling American schoolchildren, even the youngest, with rising levels of anxiety and other mental-health problems.
With Summer Travel Heating Up, Airlines Brace For Turbulence
May 28, 2022 14:29 - 7 minutes - 13.2 MBThinking about flying this summer? You’re not alone—and you might face some delays. With COVID-19 restrictions loosening up, more Americans are expected to travel in the next six months than at any time since the start of the pandemic. An estimated 60% of the nation is planning to take a vacation over the summer, according to the U.S. Travel Association, and Google searches related to travel have skyrocketed, reaching levels higher than in 2019.
Review: Baz Luhrmann's Elvis Is an Exhilarating, Maddening Spectacle—But One Made With Love
May 28, 2022 14:09 - 10 minutes - 18.9 MBBaz Luhrmann’s movies—even the great ones, like his 1996 Shakespeare-via-Tiger Beat romance Romeo + Juliet, or The Great Gatsby, from 2013, a fringed shimmy of decadence and loneliness—are loathed by many for what they see as the director’s garishness, his adoration of spectacle, his penchant for headache-inducing, mincemeat-and-glitter editing.
Column: Why We Can't Let Turkey's Authoritarian Leader Bully NATO
May 28, 2022 13:53 - 4 minutes - 8.33 MBAs Russia bullies and blisters Ukraine, two small but pivotal Nordic nations are getting belligerent treatment from Turkey as they attempt to join the security alliance NATO in the quest for a safer world. It should come as no surprise that Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan is putting his own interests ahead of both human lives and the interests of the people of Turkey by thuggishly opposing Sweden and Finland’s NATO membership.
What You Need to Know about Trump, Alfa Bank and the Durham Case against Michael Sussmann
May 28, 2022 13:52 - 8 minutes - 16.1 MBRussia’s efforts to help Donald Trump win the 2016 election are well established. Special Counsel Robert Mueller concluded that Russia tried to damage Hillary Clinton and help Trump win, as did the bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee panel that investigated the election. Russian operatives used social media accounts to sow discord and disinformation among the U.S. population and set in motion real-life rallies that helped Trump’s campaign.
‘We Never Thought This Would Happen Here.’ Uvalde Residents Reckon With Gun Violence in Their Quiet Town
May 27, 2022 12:40 - 4 minutes - 7.59 MBIn the Town Square in Uvalde, Texas, 21 crosses stand in rows, each bearing the name of someone killed by the gunman who stormed Robb Elementary School on May 24. They're about two feet high, with baby blue, heart-shaped plaques glued to the top. Sharpie pens are attached to each of them on a string, so members of the community can write messages of condolence and love.
Gov. Greg Abbott, After Yet Another Texas Mass Shooting, Praises Police
May 27, 2022 11:56 - 7 minutes - 13 MBTexas Gov. Greg Abbott made a point to hail the “quick response” of “valiant local officials” in the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, this week. But as new details about the police response emerged Thursday, and questions about why it took officers 14 minutes to enter the building, that praise became more complicated—underscoring a dynamic that was in plain view at the governor's press conference the day before.
Mask Mandates Are Returning to Schools as COVID-19 Cases Surge
May 27, 2022 11:14 - 5 minutes - 10.5 MBOn April 11, public schools in Providence, R.I, made face masks optional instead of mandatory for students and teachers—celebrating the move as a “positive milestone” brought about by declining COVID-19 cases among students and community support for a more lenient policy.
China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi Is Visiting the South Pacific This Week. Here’s What’s at Stake
May 27, 2022 10:33 - 5 minutes - 9.68 MBBEIJING — China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi is visiting the South Pacific with a 20-person delegation this week in a display of Beijing's growing military and diplomatic presence in the region. The U.S. has traditionally been the area's major power, but China has been pursuing inroads, particularly with the Solomon Islands, a nation less than 2,000 kilometers (1,200 miles) from Australia.
Texas’ Gun Laws Have Become Looser in Recent Years. The Uvalde School Shooting Likely Won’t Change That
May 26, 2022 11:30 - 8 minutes - 15.2 MBTexas' gun laws—among the most permissive in the country—have come under heightened security after an 18-year-old gunman shot and killed at least 19 children and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas on Tuesday. Six mass shootings have occurred in Texas since 2016, and the gun control advocacy group Giffords: Courage To Fight Gun Violence rates Texas as having some of the weakest gun laws in the country, giving the laws an F grade on its Annual Gun Law Scorecard for 2021.
What Trump’s Bad Night in Georgia Really Means
May 26, 2022 10:59 - 4 minutes - 9.11 MBA raft of candidates backed by former President Donald Trump were shellacked at the polls on Tuesday, suggesting his grip on the party may not be as strong as some had thought. But that doesn’t mean that Republican voters are souring on the former president — just that Trump doesn’t control them. "A very big and successful evening of political Endorsements," Trump claimed in a post to his Truth Social account on Wednesday. It was demonstrably not.
The NRA’s Power is Waning. Opposition to New Gun Laws Isn’t.
May 26, 2022 10:21 - 7 minutes - 14.1 MBFor years, proponents of tougher gun restrictions have placed much of the blame for America's crisis of gun death on the National Rifle Association. So it was no surprise that in the aftermath of the mass murder at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, President Biden and former President Obama both pointed to the "gun lobby" as one of the culprits blocking change.
At Least 20% of People Who Get COVID-19 Develop Lingering Conditions, CDC Study Says
May 26, 2022 10:02 - 4 minutes - 7.49 MBBy now, it’s abundantly clear that COVID-19 is not always an illness that clears quickly and leaves no trace. Millions of people in the U.S., and even more around the world, have Long COVID, the name for symptoms that last months or even years after an infection. Now, a new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) helps quantify just how often COVID-19 is linked to subsequent health issues. Among U.S.
‘When in God’s Name Are We Going to Stand Up to the Gun Lobby?’ Biden, Anguished, Reacts to Texas School Massacre
May 25, 2022 11:27 - 3 minutes - 6.87 MBJoe Biden's walk was notably slow and deliberate as he stepped off the presidential helicopter and made his way into the White House Tuesday evening. During the 17-hour flight back from Japan aboard Air Force One, news had reached him of the devastating shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. "I had hoped when I became President I would not have to do this—again. Another massacre,” Biden said in remarks to the nation from the Roosevelt Room in the West Wing.
Trump Rebuked with Stinging Losses in Georgia’s Republican Contests
May 25, 2022 10:41 - 7 minutes - 14.2 MBATLANTA — Gov. Brian Kemp of Georgia easily dispatched Donald Trump's hand-picked challenger on Tuesday in a Republican primary that demonstrated the limits of the former president and his conspiracy-fueled politics in a critical swing state. Kemp will face Democrat Stacey Abrams this fall in what will be one of the nation’s most consequential governor’s races.
Column: How the CIA's Hunt for a Russian Mole Blinded It To Putin's Rise
May 25, 2022 10:19 - 8 minutes - 15.2 MBWar, by nature, tends to have winners and losers. The war in Ukraine, a universal disaster, seems to have more losers than winners, though. But before this conflict, few might have expected one of its few winners to be a much tarnished organization thousands of miles away. The CIA, along with other American intelligence agencies, has dazzled the world over the past several months. First, in the months leading up to the invasion, the U.S.
As Starbucks Exits Russia, Another Symbol of American Capitalism Fades
May 25, 2022 09:59 - 5 minutes - 9.74 MBStarbucks joined McDonald’s in announcing a permanent end to its operations in Russia this week, having previously suspended trading in Russia in March. The news comes amid an exodus of Western businesses from Russia, including tech giant Apple and furniture retailer IKEA.
N.Y. Will Soon Require Businesses to Post Salaries in Job Listings. Here’s What Happened When Colorado Did It
May 24, 2022 14:04 - 9 minutes - 17.1 MBJob hunting can be exhausting and full of unknowns. Over the past year, Alaina, a 31-year-old biotech sales associate in Denver, Colo., started looking at job listings online, but she was able to scratch out at least one unknown: salary. In Jan. 2021, Colorado took the unusual move of instituting a law, the Equal Pay for Equal Work Act (sponsored by four female Democrats in the General Assembly), that requires online job listings to include compensation information, right there on the p...
A Runoff Between Texas Democrats Becomes a Battle Over Abortion Rights
May 24, 2022 13:48 - 4 minutes - 8.96 MBOnce she was his intern; now she's his opponent. But that's not the only thing that makes the battle between Jessica Cisneros and Rep. Henry Cuellar in south Texas among the most intriguing of May 24's Democratic primaries. When Cisneros first challenged Cueller in 2020, she was a 26-year old immigration lawyer, and the race was heralded as a contest between progressive and moderate, young and old. The progressive movement positioned Cisneros in the vein of Rep.
Mike Pence Is Road-Testing His 2024 Pitch in Georgia
May 24, 2022 13:43 - 7 minutes - 14.6 MBThis article is part of The D.C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. KENNESAW, Ga.—It’s sometimes easy to forget how effective Mike Pence can be when he zeroes in on a political foe. The former Vice President on Monday joined Gov. Brian Kemp for a rally in the northern Atlanta suburbs, where Kemp’s bid for re-nomination against David Perdue has emerged as a marquee race in Tuesday’s Georgia primaries.
A New Study Explores Why the Gym Can Be a COVID-19 Spreading Hotspot
May 24, 2022 13:30 - 5 minutes - 10.2 MBCOVID-19 has been frustrating for gym rats. Even before scientists knew much about this particular virus, it was pretty clear that breathing heavily in a confined space with lots of other people around doing the same was an easy way to catch a respiratory illness, and gyms were among the first businesses to close early in the pandemic.
Anthony Albanese Is Australia’s New Prime Minister. Here’s What to Know About Him
May 23, 2022 12:11 - 6 minutes - 12 MBMore than 17 million voters will head to the polls on May 21 to decide who Australia's next prime minister will be: incumbent Scott Morrison of the center-right Liberal Party or Anthony Albanese, leader of the center-left Labor Party. The campaign is largely being fought over the economy and the cost of living, but healthcare, climate change, and relations with China will also be on voters' minds. It has been a closely fought contest, with plenty of backbiting.
‘Short Term Band-Aid.’ Afghans in the U.S. Can Now Apply for Temporary Protection
May 23, 2022 11:51 - 5 minutes - 10.7 MBThe Biden Administration will now allow Afghans in the U.S. to apply for Temporary Protected Status (TPS), a designation that would protect them from deportation for 18 months, grant them a work permit, and give them authorization to travel. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) estimates that 72,500 Afghans already in the U.S. will qualify for TPS. This won't affect Afghans trying to access the U.S. who remain abroad, and doesn't guarantee permanent stay in the U.S. for those wh...
Parents of Trans Kids in Texas Fear Family Protective Services Will Target Them
May 22, 2022 15:36 - 7 minutes - 13.6 MBParents of transgender youth in Texas are stuck in limbo after a new statement issued by the Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) on Thursday suggested the Department will continue investigating parents who may have provided gender-affirming care to their children.
What the Buffalo Tragedy Has to Do With the Effort to Overturn Roe
May 22, 2022 15:17 - 12 minutes - 22.7 MBIn the week since a gunman killed 10 people in a grocery store in Buffalo, N.Y., countless articles and television spots have unpacked the racist conspiracy he shared in a hate-filled manifesto before his shooting spree. The conspiracy—the so-called great replacement theory—is the idea that Democratic lawmakers and other elites are working to force white people into a minority in the United States, usually by increasing immigration.
The Small, Local Election With Potentially Major Climate Change Significance
May 22, 2022 14:56 - 6 minutes - 12 MBNext week’s primary election in Georgia has made national news as a potential bellwether of how voters view former President Donald Trump and his false claims that the 2020 presidential election in the state, which he lost, was stolen. Far from the national news, lower down the ballot, that same election on May 24 will also help shape where and how the state gets its electricity—and by extension whether the U.S. meets its goals of cutting the emissions that cause climate change. ...
Column: The Three Factors That Drive Violent Extremists
May 22, 2022 14:49 - 11 minutes - 21.1 MBBy some counts, the horrific attack at a Buffalo supermarket was the second terrorist attack, and the 202nd mass shooting, that happened in the United States this year. Given Americans’ easy access to weapons, growing political divisions, racism, and rates of mental illness, there will almost certainly be more. So understanding why this is happening is critical. In the aftermath of a bloodbath, it is hard to have a nuanced discussion.
How Celebrity Cases Like the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard Trial Have Shaped the National Conversation About Abuse
May 22, 2022 14:32 - 11 minutes - 20.2 MBAs a defamation trial between actor Johnny Depp and his ex-wife actor Amber Heard continues in Fairfax, Va., the headline-making case is raising awareness of domestic violence, as the two accuse one another of abuse.
Biden’s Moves on NATO Come Amid Fear Russian War Will Expand Past Ukraine
May 22, 2022 14:11 - 5 minutes - 10.2 MBVladimir Putin’s name barely came up as Joe Biden stood with the leaders of Finland and Sweden on Thursday under a bright May sun and praised their newfound interest in joining the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. But the question of how the Russian President would react to the development loomed large over the proceedings in the White House Rose Garden.
Racism Against Chinese Australians Is Being Made Worse by Anti-China Election Rhetoric
May 21, 2022 14:53 - 8 minutes - 15.4 MBPolitics can be cutthroat, but Australian businessman Jason Yat-sen Li wasn't expecting to have his loyalty to his country questioned when he ran for a seat in the New South Wales legislative assembly in a mid-February by-election. His sister-in-law and several others told him that they had been approached at polling stations by voters bandying rumors. “They’d say, ‘Jason is associated with the Chinese Communist Party,’ and things like that,” he tells TIME.
‘I’m Sorry. I’ve Got Your Sister.’ A Family Grieves After the Buffalo Shooting
May 21, 2022 14:28 - 9 minutes - 17.1 MBKatherine Massey had a list. She needed to get meat, fruit, paper towels. The 72-year-old Buffalo native usually went to the grocery store every two weeks, and when she did, she stocked up. On Saturday, May 14, she asked her brother, Warren, to drive her. The three Massey siblings—Kat, Warren, and Barbara—all lived on the same street in Buffalo's Fruit Belt neighborhood, a tight-knit, predominantly Black and working-class community on the city's East Side.
Column: How I Lost Myself to Motherhood
May 21, 2022 14:21 - 8 minutes - 15.3 MBIt’s impossible to gauge the depth of a hole you’re in until you begin to climb out. I’ve felt this way in the most challenging times of my life, usually when suffering loss: death, divorce. I remember the worst moments in discordant flashes—sobbing in a closet, inhaling a scarf; dive-bar gin and curvy roads; lying beside my bulldog, whispering “I’m sorry” in his ear.
Alcohol-Related Deaths Have Soared During the COVID-19 Pandemic
May 21, 2022 14:08 - 4 minutes - 7.77 MBThe pandemic and its attendant anxiety, boredom, and loneliness have not been good for people who struggle with alcohol use. According to a new study published in JAMA Network Open, alcohol-related deaths among U.S adults ages 25 and up increased 25% in 2020, and 22% in 2021, compared to average annual deaths from 2012 to 2019. Led by Dr. Yee Hui Yeo, an internal medicine physician at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, the study relied on a massive database maintained by the...
The History of Native American Boarding Schools Is Even More Complicated than a New Report Reveals
May 21, 2022 13:57 - 10 minutes - 18.8 MBLast week, the U.S. Department of the Interior released a more than 100-page report on the federal Indigenous boarding schools designed to assimilate Native Americans in the late 19th and the early 20th centuries. Between 1819 and 1969, the U.S. ran or supported 408 boarding schools, the department found.
Column: Treat Your Kids Like the Little Philosophers They Are
May 21, 2022 13:50 - 7 minutes - 14.5 MBThe world is a dark place right now, and kids have big questions about it. During the 2020 protests over police violence, our younger son, Hank (then seven), wanted help understanding why “good guys” sometimes do bad things. Lately, we’ve been talking about war. And that’s led to conversations about religion, as we’ve wondered whether the awfulness in the world provides grounds for doubt that God exists. I’m a philosopher. My kids are still in grade school.
Signs Are Pointing to a Slowdown in the Housing Market—At Last
May 20, 2022 13:01 - 9 minutes - 17.9 MBJust about everyone agrees that the reason home prices have shot up 34% in the last two years is that there is a lot of demand for housing, but not enough supply. But the U.S. may be at a crucial juncture, at which a lot of properties are coming onto the market just as demand slows, analysts say. That means prices could level off—and, depending on demographics, even start to decline. To be sure, prices are still rising.
Here’s What to Know About Joe Biden’s First Trip to Asia as U.S. President
May 20, 2022 12:16 - 7 minutes - 13.8 MBJoe Biden makes his first trip to Asia as U.S. President against a tumultuous backdrop. Among other issues, his administration has been dealing with China’s refusal to condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and tensions with Beijing over Taiwan. Then there's the ramping up of missile tests by North Korea even as it locks down major cities in response to its first COVID-19 outbreak—or at least the first one that Pyongyang has admitted to.
Column: White Supremacy Is Deadly. Guns Make It Deadlier
May 20, 2022 12:03 - 6 minutes - 11.8 MBHere we are again. A white man radicalized by racist rhetoric carrying an assault rifle just massacred Black people going about their daily lives, causing lifelong trauma and suffering.
What Is Monkeypox and Should You Be Worried?
May 20, 2022 11:23 - 3 minutes - 6.57 MBA case of the rare and potentially dangerous monkeypox has been confirmed in the U.S., with two news cases appearing in the U.K., bringing the total number there to nine. The infected Massachusetts man had recently traveled to Canada and is now receiving treatment in hospital, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The Department of Health said the case poses no risk to the public. It’s the first reported infection in the U.S.
As the Virus Evolves, COVID-19 Reinfections Are Going to Keep Happening
May 19, 2022 12:54 - 6 minutes - 11.8 MBAfter the Omicron variant caused massive numbers of infections this past winter, lots of people looked on the bright side, hoping it would be “a free shot for the country,” says Eli Rosenberg, deputy director for science at the New York State Department of Health’s Office of Public Health. Even though lots of people got infected with the highly contagious variant, at least they would then have immunity against the virus, protecting them from getting sick in the future. In theory. ...
Column: What We Get Wrong About Life Before Modern Baby Formula
May 19, 2022 12:21 - 4 minutes - 8.72 MBAs families around the United States grapple with the infant formula shortage, some social media commentators have been asking: why don’t people just breastfeed? Isn’t that what everyone did before infant formula? As a historian who studies the feeding of infants and children, I can tell you that breastfeeding has never been possible for everyone and people have always needed substitutes for breast milk.
The Supreme Court Has Been Engaged in a Rollback of Rights. Abortion Would Just Be the Latest
May 19, 2022 12:04 - 8 minutes - 14.9 MBThe leaked draft of a Supreme Court opinion overruling Roe v. Wade was a shock, but the content of the draft should not have been a surprise. Overruling Roe has been a stated goal of the Republican party, repeated in its presidential platforms in every election since the decision was handed down in 1973. With a 6-3 Republican majority in firm control of the Court, the end of Roe should have been expected. Yet people were surprised.
The U.S. Women’s Soccer Team Has Signed a Historic Equal Pay Agreement. Here’s How It Happened
May 19, 2022 11:17 - 6 minutes - 12.2 MBThe chants followed the U.S. women's national soccer team everywhere they went that summer three years ago, from the World Cup stadium in Lyon, France, where the team won its second straight title, to the streets of New York City, where the players were feted with a ticker-tape parade. "Equal pay! Equal pay!" Earlier in 2019, the U.S. women had filed a gender equity suit against their own employer. Millions rallied around their cause.
Washington Politicians Helped Create the Baby Formula Shortage. Can They Solve It?
May 18, 2022 11:43 - 9 minutes - 16.5 MBAs parents across the country frantically search for baby formula amid a nationwide shortage, many have heard that the source of the problem is in Sturgis, Mich. That's where Abbott, the multinational healthcare giant that sells formula under the Similac, Alimentum, and EleCare brands and controls 40% of the U.S. infant formula market, shut down its largest baby food plant in February after a type of bacteria linked to the hospitalization and death of several babies was found in the pla...
Column: Don’t Use Racial Equality to Justify Stripping Women of Their Right to Choose
May 18, 2022 11:04 - 4 minutes - 8.45 MBSixty-eight years ago today, the Supreme Court issued the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision, which overturned prior precedent and outlawed segregation in public schools. The ruling catalyzed racial progress across the nation, dismantling discriminatory barriers well beyond our education system and opening up new opportunities for all Americans. It was a momentous decision for our country. But today, it’s being used as a weapon to justify the potential overturning of Roe v. ...
Column: Finland and Sweden Joining NATO Is Big Loss for Putin
May 18, 2022 10:48 - 5 minutes - 9.73 MBThat distant boom you heard last week was Vladimir Putin’s head exploding as he heard the news of a formal request from both Finland and Sweden to join NATO. These are two highly capable and professional militaries, whose nations have scrupulously maintained neutrality for decades, and they will add significant firepower and geopolitical advantage to NATO.
Congress is Finally Taking UFOs Seriously, 50 Years After Its Last Hearing on the Mysterious Subject
May 18, 2022 10:19 - 6 minutes - 12.6 MBThe House Intelligence Committee’s Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence, and Counterproliferation subcommittee would like to make one thing very clear: They did not spend 90 minutes this morning conducting public hearings into the existence of UFOs.