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How Africa Is Bracing for Trump’s Second Term
Experts on the continent tell the AP what to expect—and what not to expect—from the President-elect.
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Who Is Pete Hegseth? Trump Taps Fox & Friends Co-Host to Run Defense Department
Hegseth, a Fox News personality and military veteran, has lobbied Trump to release servicemembers accused of war crimes.
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Why California Takes So Long to Count Votes—and How Florida Does It So Fast
And how Florida does it so fast.
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Jury Awards Abu Ghraib Detainees $42 Million, Holds Contractor Responsible
A jury awarded $42 million to former detainees of Abu Ghraib prison, holding a military contractor responsible for contributing to their torture.
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Trump Said He’d Veto a National Abortion Ban. Voters Should Hold Him to His Word
Voters must remind U.S. political leaders of the truth in this election: that abortion is more popular than they are.
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Biden and Trump Prepare for the Most Cringe Meeting in Politics
Biden plans to offer Trump the grace that Trump never offered him
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The 2024 Election Was the Culmination of America’s Love Affair With Rolling the Dice
Americans love games of chance, but history shows they're a poor substitute for a robust investment in public goods.
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The Leaders of the World’s Top 13 Polluters Are Skipping COP29
The heads of the 13 biggest emitters, including the U.S., China, and France, will not be present at this year's U.N. climate change conference.
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St. Denis Medical Is the Most Promising Network Sitcom Since Abbott Elementary
'Superstore' creator Justin Spitzer's latest NBC sitcom does for health care what Quinta Brunson's show has done for education.
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TIME Reveals the 2024 TIME100 Climate List
Today, TIME reveals the second annual TIME100 Climate list, featuring the 100 most influential leaders driving business to real climate action. The 2024 TIME100 Climate list includes president of the World Bank Ajay Banga, founder of Travalyst Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, actor Rosario Dawson, founder of TerraPower Bill Gates, United States Secretary of Energy…
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Why I’ll Never Stop Sharing My Holocaust Story
Telling my story makes me feel empowered because what was taken from us Jews and so many others was our very humanity, writes Gidon Lev.
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35 Dead After Driver Rams Into Crowd in Chinese City
Police detained a 62-year-old male suspect in Zhuhai following the ramming, which also left 43 people injured.
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How We Chose the 100 Most Influential Climate Leaders in Business for 2024
The second annual TIME100 Climate 2024 list identifies 100 leaders driving measurable, successful, and equitable climate action
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Pilar Cruz
Ensuring that the United States’ largest private company, operating in over 70 countries with more than 160,000 personnel, meets its sustainability goals is a challenge. But Pilar Cruz has proven she is the right person for the job at food and beverage multinational Cargill since her role as chief sustainability officer was created in 2021.…
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Ryan Gilliam
Cement production is responsible for about 8% of all global emissions—and it’s a stubborn industry to decarbonize because it is so energy-intensive. That’s where Fortera comes in. As CEO and co-founder, Ryan Gilliam is working to make it easy for existing cement plants to become more sustainable by installing technology to capture up to 90%…
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Sandeep Nijhawan
In 2020, Sandeep Nijhawan co-founded Colorado-based Electra. Its mission: to decarbonize iron- and steelmaking. Iron production is a hot, energy-intensive process. Today, the steel industry is responsible for about 7% of all global carbon emissions (90% of which come from making iron). But through a novel electrochemical process, powered by renewable energy, Electra is trying…
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Tim Latimer
Tim Latimer is CEO and co-founder of Fervo Energy, a startup making geothermal energy a viable alternative to fossil fuels. By repurposing technology from the oil and gas industry, Fervo drills deep below the Earth’s surface to reach hot rocks and converts that heat into 24/7 clean energy. Google is already working with Fervo to…
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Colin Wessells
Colin Wessells is the founder and co-CEO of Natron Energy, a company making sodium-ion batteries to power clean technologies. Because sodium is more abundant and more affordable than lithium, sodium-ion batteries could help bolster battery supply chains and accelerate the energy transition. Thanks to Wessells’ vision, Natron is the first – and only – commercial…
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Bret Kugelmass
Bret Kugelmass, founder and CEO of Last Energy, has a bold vision: To become the first company to bring a small modular nuclear reactor online in the United States. And, as one of the fastest growing companies in this space, it’s working hard to make this a reality. It currently has commercial agreements for 80…
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Andrew Savage
Lime helped popularize the climate-friendly concepts of micro-mobility and bike shares that are now seen in many major metropolises around the world; the e-bike rental company operates in more than 280 cities. Last year, it boasted that about five e-bike trips were booked every second—that’s around 156 million trips globally. But beyond helping decarbonize our…
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Sarah Finch
When Sarah Finch learned in 2019 that her local government had approved an oil drilling project near her home in southeast England, she was shocked. “I always thought that was something that happened somewhere else,” says the climate activist. Adding to her alarm was the fact that this project had been approved without any consideration…
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Jennifer Granholm
Under Jennifer M. Granholm’s leadership, the U.S. Energy Department has quickly become a powerhouse of the clean energy transition. Across the country, she is helping bring the Biden Administration’s climate goals to life. This includes adding 800 new or expanded clean technology manufacturing facilities, and 60 GW of clean energy capacity this year alone—that’s equal…
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Mads Nipper
Mads Nipper is CEO of Orsted, the world’s largest developer of offshore wind power. In 2009, 85% of Orsted’s energy production came from fossil fuels, but over the last 15 years the company has transformed itself into a leader in renewables. Having already divested its oil and gas business in 2017, this year Orsted shut…
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Mary Jane Melendez
General Mills is consistently recognized as a leader in corporate sustainability efforts – from supporting ambitious climate policy to advancing regenerative agriculture. GM’s Chief Sustainability and Global Impact Officer Mary Jane Melendez is spearheading these efforts. Under her leadership, last year the company reduced its scope 3 emissions by 7% and scope 1 and 2…
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Damilola Ogunbiyi
Damilola Ogunbiyi is working to ensure the energy transition is not only swift, but also equitable and just. Originally from Nigeria, Ogunbiyi has acted as a liaison to bring leaders from the Global South into key climate conversations. Through her roles at the United Nations and Sustainable Energy for All, she has worked on global…
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Wanjira Mathai
Wanjira Mathai is the Managing Director for Africa and Global Partnerships at the World Resources Institute. In this role she is forging strategic alliances that advance nature-based climate solutions and climate justice in some of the most vulnerable communities. This year Mathai announced $17.8 million in funding for 92 local restoration groups as part of…
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Greg Jackson
In the race to curb emissions, Greg Jackson, founder and CEO of U.K.-based Octopus Energy Group, believes the answer lies not in asking consumers to pay more, but in harnessing technology to “align their interests with those of the planet.” At the heart of the group’s strategy is dynamic pricing, enabled by Kraken, its power-grid…
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Mary Powell
While many major residential solar companies have floundered recently, SunRun is not among them. Under CEO Mary Powell’s leadership, the company has become the largest developer of residential solar in the U.S., responsible for a fifth of all home systems installed. And this August, it became the first solar-plus-storage company to surpass one million customers.…
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Megan O’Connor
Megan O’Connor founded Nth Cycle in 2017 to address two problems: a growing volume of electronic waste, and a limited domestic supply of critical minerals needed for the energy transition. Fast forward to 2024, and her company has become the first in the United States to extract nickel and cobalt on a commercial scale from…
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