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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. The legislation seemed unstoppable. The political party in the majority in the state capitol was hellbent on pushing through a partisan policy that no amount of reasoning, organizing or…

'There are a lot of conditions under which women are at increased risk for depression compared with men'

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was set to urge social media companies to take action to stamp out racial abuse on their platforms on Tuesday, after the profiles of Black England soccer players were bombarded with racist comments. Johnson was set to reiterate “the urgent need for action” by social media companies against “utterly disgraceful”…

Reports of side effects revealed a potential risk of Guillain-Barre syndrome among those vaccinated

"We don't see any changes in economic prospects"

The mystery surrounding the murder of Haiti’s President Jovenel Moïse deepened Monday as Haitian police arrested a U.S.-based evangelical pastor, placing him at the center of a murky plot surrounding an assassination that has stunned Haitians and international observers. Police claim that Christian Emmanuel Sanon, a Haiti-born 62-year-old who has been living in Florida for…

Less than a month after Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed into law a bill he described as “a strong move to abolish critical race theory in Texas”—which educators worry will limit how they can talk about the history of systemic racism and current events—the Republican leader put the issue back on the agenda for a…

When President Joe Biden took the stage in Philadelphia on Tuesday, he did what voting rights advocates have been urging for months: take aim at Republican-led legislatures that have been tightening voting restrictions throughout the country. Speaking at Philadelphia’s National Constitution Center, Biden decried these efforts as “the most significant test to our democracy since…

'There's no point going through this exercise involving dozens of scientists if it's something that you think no one's going to care about'

By the end of June, 29 Republican-led state legislatures had considered and nine had enacted laws to penalize schools or teachers teaching critical race theory (CRT). Whether or not such laws would stifle anything taught in public schools today is uncertain because existing legislative control over curricula is already extensive. But the war against CRT…

"It can only inspire the next generation," says out athlete Poppy Starr Olsen, who is competing for Australia.

“Any sort of stain of repression or crimes against humanity does not belong at the Olympic Games.”

Will Beijing's tough crackdown have serious consequences for investor confidence and the country's development goals?

“We are holding the line here in Texas,” says Texas House Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer, who was among those flying to D.C. “If Republicans are silencing our voices here, they’ll do it anywhere in America and we’re going to stand up to that.”

In a video posted to YouTube in February, a teenager named Alita panned her camera in a Havana grocery store to show aisle after aisle of neatly stacked, identical yellow bottles of cooking oil—and not much else. “Oil, oil, oil, oil,” she says behind her mask, laughing at the absurdity. “Since they didn’t have anything…