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—Taylor Hill—FilmMagic/Getty Images, Dave Kotinsky—NYCWFF/Getty Images At a TIME100 Talks event in New York City on Sept. 21, chefs and food industry experts discussed the challenges our communities face in making food healthier, more accessible, and more…

Law enforcement secures an entrance to the United Nations during the start of the General Assembly in New York City on September 21, 2026.

—LAW Ho Ming—Getty Images The U.S. is in the midst of a temperance boom.

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with the head of the Federal Customs Service in Moscow on Sept. 21, 2026.

Computer illustration of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) —Kateryna Kon/Science Photo Library—Getty Images In 2023, two new vaccines against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), which kills thousands of older adults annually in the U.S., hit the market.

—Getty Images When you’re asleep, your brain is still keeping tabs on the world outside.

President Donald Trump takes questions from the media during a press briefing at the White House on Jan. 20, 2026.

TIME's Chief Business Officer Viktoria Degtar sent the following note to staff on Monday: Team, I’m excited to share that Mike Duffy will return to TIME as Managing Director, APAC, beginning September 21.

BTS performs at SoFi Stadium during their "ARIRANG" World Tour on Sept. 1, 2026 in Inglewood, CA.

—Megane Adam—Getty Images Earlier this year I stood in a draughty sports hall, facing rows of 10-year-olds sitting cross-legged on the scuffed floor.

—leolintang—Getty Images This summer of disasters has shown us that climate impacts are not political, and it is past time we stopped talking about them as if they were.

Supporters of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) wave German flags as they attend an election campaign rally ahead of state elections in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in Neubrandenburg, Germany, on Sept. 18, 2026.

Smoke emanating from burnt soil and vegetation during a wildfire at the Hautes Fagnes (High Fens) nature reserve near Baelen, south east of Brussels, on Aug. 17, 2026.

Texas State Troopers block traffic at the site of a shooting in North Austin on Sep. 20, 2026.

Work continues on the White House ballroom on Sept. 20, 2026, in Washington, D.C.

—Courtesy Circle Circle is known to many as the issuer of the $74 billion digital currency USD Coin, or USDC.

—Malte Mueller—Getty Images Concussions in children are alarmingly frequent, affecting over a million children in the U.S. each year.

On Sept. 15 and 16, Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh presided over his third Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting, the body responsible for setting the interest rates that shape the American economy.

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President Donald Trump walks on his way to attend a dinner in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, D.C.

In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Russia's President Vladimir Putin gives a speech during a ceremony to present state awards in the defence industry sector at the Kremlin in Moscow on September 18, 2026.

Ella Beatty in Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story —Netflix This article discusses the full season of Netflix’s Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story is about female rage and repression.

President Donald Trump announced on Friday he was banning CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House, setting up a new test of the First Amendment’s protection of a free press as his Administration moves to punish news organizations whose coverage he…

Austin Abrams in Resident Evil —Dušan Martinček—Sony Pictures If Zach Cregger’s career tells us anything, it’s that starting out as a comedian might be the best training for becoming a horror filmmaker.

John Wilson goes deep in The History of Concrete, but not just on the building material —Courtesy of Magnolia If you know anything about filmmaker John Wilson, you’ll intuit that his new documentary The History of Concrete is barely about concrete at all.

Nana as Hui-yeon, Ji Chang-wook as Cho Won —Courtesy of Netflix It’s not easy to adapt a classic novel across cultures, but The Scandal does it beautifully.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries speaks to reporters outside of his office at the U.S.

Austin Abrams as Bryan in Resident Evil.

Maitreyi Ramakrishnan and Priyanka Kedia in Best of the Best —Courtesy of Netflix Maitreyi Ramakrishnan wants to make this clear: She had to audition for Best of the Best, the coming-of-age comedy playing out against the world of collegiate Bollywood dance

The building housing the headquarters of Chinese AI startup DeepSeek in Hangzhou, in China's eastern Zhejiang province on January 14, 2026.

Sharon Horgan in Youth —Colin Hutton—HBO There are plenty of shows that could have been titled Youth.

—Photo-Illustration by TIME (Source Image: Olga Yastremska—Getty Images) If you’ve always worn the same size shoe but your sneakers and boots feel tighter now that you’re in, say, your 40s or beyond, you’re not alone.

Zoe Kazan —Ruvèn Afanador—Netflix In June 2024, Zoe Kazan boarded a flight to New Zealand.

Tom Cullen and Lola Petticrew in Trespasses —Wildgaze Films and All3Media International In an early scene of the exquisitely devastating miniseries Trespasses, two strangers in a pub ruminate on the relationship between art and pain.

At a time when companies are racing to deliver commercial fusion energy and promising a new generation of geothermal wells across the U.S., three-wheel electric vehicles may not seem like the most exciting clean energy technology.

Fans visit a Dolly Parton mural in Chicago on Aug. 26, 2026.

Six months after an alleged U.S. strike hit a school, families visit the graves of victims in Minab, Hormozgan province, Iran, on September 11, 2026.

Boxes Of Mifepristone A box of Mifepristone combined with misoprostol tablets is stored in a medicine storage facility in Tehatta, West Bengal, India, on May 17, 2026.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio (2nd R) and his wife Jeanette Dousdebes are welcomed by by Colombia's President Abelardo de la Espriella and his wife Ana Lucia Pineda upon their arrival in Barranquilla, Colombia, on September 8, 2026.

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Colin Kaepernick speaks onstage during The Gordon Parks Foundation Awards Dinner and Auction on May 19, 2026 in New York City.

President Donald Trump pauses as he walks alone along an ivy-covered wall during his final departure from Aras an Uachtarain in Dublin, Ireland, on September 12, 2026.

—Douglas Sacha—Getty Images Smoking is one of the biggest contributors to lung cancer, but anywhere from 10-20% of cases in the U.S. each year are diagnosed in people who never smoked.

Ella Beatty in Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story —Courtesy of Netflix After she was acquitted for the murders of both of her parents, Lizzie Borden did not adopt a pseudonym and disappear into obscurity.

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