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  • Why All Eyes in Washington Are on Georgia’s Senate Races

    05/01/2021 Duración: 04min

    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. If you want to know what the next two years in Washington will be like, watch the next two days in Georgia. Tomorrow, voters in Georgia will decide if twin incumbent Republicans will keep their jobs in the Senate.

  • Ten Angry Men: What the Incredible Letter From Former Defense Secretaries Should Tell Americans

    05/01/2021 Duración: 06min

    The ten living American secretaries of defense collectively signed an extraordinary letter over the weekend, stating in the strongest possible terms that the U.S. election is over, the time for protests is past, and that there is no role for the U.S. military in resolving any controversy surrounding it.

  • Global Warming Already Baked In Will Blow Past Climate Goals, a New Study Says

    05/01/2021 Duración: 04min

    The amount of baked-in global warming, from carbon pollution already in the air, is enough to blow past international agreed upon goals to limit climate change, a new study finds. But it’s not game over because, while that amount of warming may be inevitable, it can be delayed for centuries if the world quickly stops emitting extra greenhouse gases from the burning of coal, oil and natural gas, the study’s authors say.

  • IRS Says Executors Undervalued Prince’s Estate by 50%

    05/01/2021 Duración: 02min

    MINNEAPOLIS — The ongoing controversy over the money left behind by Prince when he died without a will is heating up again after Internal Revenue Service calculations showed that executors of the rock star's estate undervalued it by 50%, or about $80 million. The IRS determined that Prince’s estate is worth $163.2 million, overshadowing the $82.3 million valuation submitted by Comerica Bank & Trust, the estate’s administrator.

  • How to Set Goals You’ll Actually Achieve

    05/01/2021 Duración: 04min

    Whether you want to run a marathon, eat more healthfully or just get off the couch a little more, “for the majority of people, setting a goal is one of the most useful behavior change mechanisms for enhancing performance,” says Frank Smoll, professor of psychology at the University of Washington. “It’s highly individual,” he says—there’s no one way to achieve a goal. But these goal-setting strategies will help you stay the course.

  • 2020 Was a Year of Climate Extremes. What Can We Expect in 2021?... and More Stories

    04/01/2021 Duración: 31min

    Included in this episode: 1. 2020 Was a Year of Climate Extremes. What Can We Expect in 2021? 2. U.K. Judge Refuses to Extradite Julian Assange to the U.S., Citing His Mental Health 3. All 10 Living Ex-Defense Secretaries Warn Trump Not to Involve Military in Election Fraud Claims 4. U.S. COVID-19 Death Toll Hits 350,000. Experts Fear Another Surge 5. Why Africa’s COVID-19 Outbreak Hasn’t Been as Bad as Everyone Feared .

  • 2020 Was a Year of Climate Extremes. What Can We Expect in 2021?

    04/01/2021 Duración: 10min

    2020 was a year of extreme weather around the world. Hot and dry conditions drove record-setting wildfires through vast areas of Australia, California and Brazil and Siberia. A record-breaking Atlantic hurricane season landed a double blow of two hugely destructive storms in Central America. Long-running droughts have destroyed agricultural output and helped to push millions into hunger in Zimbabwe and Madagascar. A super-cyclone unleashed massive floods on India and Bangladesh.

  • U.K. Judge Refuses to Extradite Julian Assange to the U.S., Citing His Mental Health

    04/01/2021 Duración: 05min

    Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, will not be extradited to face charges in the U.S., a British judge ruled on Monday. The judge, Vanessa Baraitser, said extradition would be “oppressive” because of his mental health, the Associated Press reported. Assange was at “real risk” of suicide, she said, adding that she was not satisfied that the U.S. prison system would be able to prevent him from ending his own life. The U.S. government is expected to appeal the decision.

  • All 10 Living Ex-Defense Secretaries Warn Trump Not to Involve Military in Election Fraud Claims

    04/01/2021 Duración: 04min

    (WASHINGTON) — In an extraordinary rebuke of President Donald Trump, all 10 living former secretaries of defense cautioned Sunday against any move to involve the military in pursuing claims of election fraud, arguing that it would take the country into “dangerous, unlawful and unconstitutional territory.

  • U.S. COVID-19 Death Toll Hits 350,000. Experts Fear Another Surge

    04/01/2021 Duración: 01min

    BALTIMORE, M.D. — The COVID-19 death toll in the United States has surpassed 350,000 as experts anticipate another surge in coronavirus cases and deaths stemming from holiday gatherings over Christmas and New Year's. Data compiled by Johns Hopkins University shows the U.S. passed the threshold early Sunday morning. More than 20 million people in the country have been infected. The U.S.