Peloton is cutting around 400 jobs worldwide as part of a restructuring effort and its CEO Barry McCarthy is stepping down after two years as the company continues to work on turning around its business. Shares edged down about 2% in morning trading, to $3.16. Peloton has been working on a significant rebranding since last […]
In the finale of Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar, Mallikajaan (Manisha Koirala), who reigns over the courtesans in the titular neighborhood in pre-Independence India, receives word that the British Army has arrested her daughter, Bibbojaan, for her rebellion in colluding with Indian freedom fighters. “All these years, we were just tawaifs [courtesans], but now we have […]
When Afghanistan fell to the Taliban, returning the country to the fundamentalist group’s control after two transformative decades, many Afghan women felt compelled to flee. Those who remained faced a reality in which they could no longer be who they are: journalists deleted evidence of their work, artists destroyed their creations, and graduates set fire […]
Artists from Universal Music Group, which include Drake, Adele, Bad Bunny and Billie Eilish, will be returning to TikTok as the two parties have struck a new licensing agreement following an earlier disagreement. The two sides said Thursday that they are “now working expeditiously to return music by artists represented by Universal Music Group and […]
Across social media, iPhone users have been reporting waking up to the frightening realization that they had missed their alarm. “In the past six days of school, I’ve accumulated seven tardies,” said one user. “I could have sworn it was because my alarm wasn’t going off.” “I was literally late to work the other day […]
BEIJING — The death toll from a collapsed highway in southeastern China climbed to 48 on Thursday as searchers dug for a second day through a treacherous and mountainous area. Twenty-three vehicles fell down a steep slope after one side of the four-lane highway in the city of Meizhou gave way about 2 a.m. on […]
President Ronald Reagan strongly believed in 1986 that if Nicaragua’s “Sandinistas” remained in power, “terrorists and subversives” would have sanctuary “just 2 days’ driving time from the United States.” During the 1980s, Reagan gave more speeches on the Central American country than about almost any other foreign policy issue. Congress voted countless times on his […]
The U.K.-based nonprofit Medical Aid for Palestinians was founded 40 years ago to improve health care for all Palestinian people. So when war between Israel and Hamas broke out in the fall of 2023, CEO Melanie Ward knew her group would need to respond. “This is what the organization was built for,” she says. Ward […]
Polio eradication has largely been a global vaccination success story. The disease, which can lead to paralysis or death, mostly in children, now circulates only in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Leading the efforts to stamp it out is Dr. Shahzad Baig, national coordinator of Pakistan’s polio-eradication program. In 2019, polio disabled or killed 147 people in […]
After suffering a motorbike accident in 2011 that left Gert-Jan Oskam unable to walk, Dr. Jocelyne Bloch, a neurosurgeon at Lausanne University Hospital in Switzerland, inserted a device on his spine in 2018 that could send out electrical impulses, enabling him to walk with a walker after intensive training, though the movement was awkward and […]
In the next decade, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) aims to replace all the country’s lead pipes. Few did more to bring about the change than Ronnie Levin, who published a cost-benefit analysis in 2023 on cutting lead in drinking water, calculating the monetary costs of problems like impaired cognitive function and increased risk […]
Dr. Stuart Orkin did not set out to develop a historic treatment for sickle cell disease 45 years ago when he decided to study how blood cells formed. He became a researcher at Harvard Medical School just as scientists learned how to copy, or make duplicates of, genes. “Everybody was talking about how we could […]
In recent years, the new immune-based therapy CAR T has dramatically improved outcomes for patients with certain blood cancers that involve B cells, like leukemia and lymphoma. Dr Georg Schett, a rheumatologist at the University Hospital Erlangen in Germany, saw the potential of the treatment for autoimmune diseases like lupus, in which immune B cells […]
Powerful new weight-loss drugs became one of the biggest health stories over the past year—and Drs. Jens Juul Holst, Joel Habener, Svetlana Mojsov, and Daniel Drucker played key roles in making these medications possible. The scientists conducted early research starting in the 1970s on glucagon-like peptides, or GLPs, which first transformed diabetes treatment and now […]
In 2018, Gates contributed to a special issue of TIME dedicated to the power of progress. Gates’ view, shared by many of the issue’s contributors, was that people tend to focus on when things go wrong and when they don’t work. Sometimes this attention distracts us from the moments when advancements are being made. Journalists […]
Sometimes all it takes is a cold email to spark a revolution. Dr. Alex Oshmyansky, a radiologist who had become frustrated by the skyrocketing prices of prescription drugs, decided to email billionaire and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, who famously makes his contact info public. He included a business plan for a small company he […]
LOS ANGELES — Police removed barricades and began taking apart a fortified encampment of pro-Palestinian demonstrators early Thursday at the University of California, Los Angeles, after hundreds of protesters disobeyed orders to leave. Some people were detained, with their hands bound with zip ties. The action came after officers spent hours threatening arrests over loudspeakers […]
The British royal family is celebrating Princess Charlotte’s 9th birthday with a new portrait taken by her mother, Kate Middleton. The image—shared to the official and accounts of the Prince and Princess of Wales on Thursday morning—shows Charlotte in a garden, smiling beside a pink flower bush. “Happy 9th Birthday, Princess Charlotte!,” the caption reads. […]
This article is part of The D.C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up to get stories like this sent to your inbox. Across nearly every faith and in all but five states, a majority of Americans support at least some access to abortion. That’s a major conclusion of a new massive survey of 22,000 people […]
; individuals aged 65 and older increased from 39.6 million in 2009 to 54.1 million in 2019 (a 36% increase) and is projected to reach 94.7 million by 2060. This has come about as a result of advances in modern medicine and improved living conditions. However, over the last few years, reports not only in […]