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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. Donald Trump now has fewer than 24 hours to wield presidential power. By this time tomorrow, he will be in Florida — stripped of his unchecked right to issue…

Many of those accused of having taken part in repression in Xinjiang are already under U.S. sanctions

As the frenzied crowds climbed the walls of the U.S. Capitol on January 6, memories of another moment of national frenzy ran through my mind, those of November, 4, 1979. Then, too, I had stared disbelievingly into the television, watching the Students of the Imam Line climb the walls of the U.S. embassy in our…

It would be too much to say that if you’ve seen one Trump rally you’ve seen them all. But “they all follow a predictable pattern,” says Peter van Agtmael, who has been attending them since 2016. As a news photographer, “You have a lot of nice conversations, and maybe one or two people aren’t very…

In 2020, the world witnessed what happens when a global risk becomes reality. Confirmed cases of COVID-19 have now passed 95 million globally, with more than 2 million deaths. Millions more face the economic effects of the pandemic, with the world’s most vulnerable facing the worst consequences. Yet the pandemic – devastating in itself –…

The 11 miners say they are suffering from toxic fumes and rising water levels and are calling on rescuers not to give up.

But most nations in the Asia-Pacific region, including South Korea, won't begin vaccinating citizens until February or March.

A sweeping immigration bill is set to be introduced after Biden takes the oath of office Wednesday

The ruling followed a hastily set up hearing at a police precinct where he was being held since his arrest Sunday.

The speed of infection is stunning—the state only reached 2 million reported cases on Dec. 24.