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At time.com/uniforms, catch a video preview of the Ralph Lauren Team USA uniforms athletes will wear for the Summer Olympics, which kick off July 26. The looks for the opening and closing ceremonies feature recycled polyester, and the polos are made without plastics via a low-carbon process. If athletes like them, Ralph Lauren plans to incorporate the processes into all its lines. SUBSCRIBE History newsletter Get the stories behind the news, plus a curated selection of highlights from our archives. For more, visit time.com/history-newsletter See all the newsletters Find all TIME’s email lists at time.com/newsletters Reimagining the Future of Healthcare TIME correspondent Alice Park led a TIME100 Talks panel on June 25 in NYC that addressed the latest research on heart attack and stroke prevention. Participants included (from right) Mayo Clinic’s…

RELEASED Julian Assange After a 14-year battle against extradition Julian Assange is free after more than a decade spent holed up in a London embassy, then in British custody, largely to avoid extradition to the U.S. On June 26, the WikiLeaks founder appeared in a federal court in Saipan, a U.S. territory in the Pacific, following a plea deal with American prosecutors. Assange pleaded guilty to a felony for conspiring to obtain and disclose classified national-defense information, in violation of the Espionage Act. In return, he was allowed to return to his native Australia without serving any more prison time. “I hope you will start your new life in a positive manner,” U.S. District Chief Judge Ramona Manglona told Assange. U.S. authorities had pursued Assange since WikiLeaks published hundreds of…

It wasn’t so long ago that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called his country’s relationship with China “a marriage made in heaven.” And when President Joe Biden told reporters in March 2023 that he wasn’t inviting Netanyahu to Washington given his plans to undermine Israel’s independent judiciary, Netanyahu planned a visit to President Xi Jinping in China instead. For Israel, the trip was a reminder to Washington that there are other superpowers looking to deepen their ties with Israel. For China, it was an opportunity to raise the costs of the U.S.’s pivot away from the Middle East to Asia by signaling that Beijing could fill some of the void. Netanyahu’s ploy may have worked. Biden reneged in September and invited him to the White House. That dynamic was upended…

Four years ago, amid reinvigorated public debate about historical monuments, statues began coming down across the country. Columbus and Confederates were at the top of the list. New monuments were also created, adding American heroes such as Harriet Tubman and Barbara Johns to the commemorative landscape. Today, however, public opinion on the topic is still divided—and many monuments remain in limbo. Consider Philip Schuyler, a Revolutionary War hero who was also a slaveholder. In 2023, Albany, N.Y., Mayor Kathy Sheehan ordered the removal of a bronze monument honoring him. Some welcomed the decision, while others accused Sheehan of “erasing history.” Is it unfairly modern to consider Schuyler’s slaveholding against his achievements? Hardly. Many in his lifetime asserted the evil of slavery. Yet Schuyler’s decisions contributed directly to the patriot victory…

In January 2021, in the turbulent wake of the last presidential contest, a former professor named Todd Rose asked some 2,000 people a question. The survey was, at least on the surface, designed to deduce what kind of country Americans would like future generations to inherit. Each person was presented with 55 separate goal statements for the nation—“People have individual rights” was one; “People have high-quality health care” was another—and asked to rank them in order of importance. Each person was also asked how each goal would be ranked by “other people.” When the results were tallied, the surprise was not that “People have individual rights” came in first, or that “People have high-quality health care” finished second. The surprise was the third highest priority: “Successfully address climate change.” We…

When French historian Pierre de Coubertin founded the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the governing body of the modern Olympic Games, in the late 19th century, he billed the competition as a peace movement that could bring the world together through sport. “Wars break out because nations misunderstand each other,” he said. Competition, the reasoning went, would foster greater understanding and reconciliation between adversarial countries. More than a century later, Coubertin’s vision hasn’t exactly borne out. Far from bringing an end to wars, the Olympics have been embroiled in and even canceled by them. For while the Games are ostensibly apolitical, the world in which they operate is not. Indeed, authoritarians past and present have used the spectacle of the Olympics for their own political propaganda. And despite Olympic officials’ insistence…

Arriving home a world champion in the summer of 2023, Hungarian water-polo player Vince Vigvari got a taste of the rock-star life. After a long flight from Fukuoka, Japan, Vigvari and his teammates hopped on a bus to a victory rally at a Budapest pool. A few weeks later, he attended a music festival at Lake Balaton. “At least 50 people came up to me to take a picture,” says Vigvari, 21. “Young girls and guys, middle-aged women, men. I can’t lie. It was a good feeling.” Water polo, a sport that receives scant attention in most countries, is a national pastime for Hungarians. Hungary has won nine men’s Olympic gold medals, more than twice as many as the next most successful country, Britain (four, most recently in 1920). It…

Smoke from the South Fork fire in southern New Mexico blots out the sun in Lincoln National Forest, casting the area in an alarming orange glow on June 17. After the fire’s discovery that day, officials in nearby Ruidoso implemented a mandatory evacuation order for thousands of residents. By June 24, responders had contained 37% of the blaze, which had burned more than 17,550 acres and left two people dead. The FBI offered a $10,000 reward for information about its origins. ▸ For more of our best photography, visit time.com/lightbox Photograph by Kaylee Greenlee Beal—Reuters…

Almost 250 years ago, four weeks before the battles of Lexington and Concord, Patrick Henry rose in St. John’s Church in Richmond, Va., to urge Americans to arm for a war that he saw as inevitable. He famously concluded his call to arms: “Give me liberty, or give me death.” Patriots embraced the refrain, and militia members sewed it into their shirts. Since then, his words have echoed through the centuries. In 1845, Frederick Douglass referenced Henry when he wrote of the enslaved battling for freedom. In 1989, when thousands gathered for liberty in Tiananmen Square, his words were invoked. But they have also been embraced by some as a radical call for opposition to almost any government action. In 2020, signs attacking health regulations demanded, rather confusedly, “Give me…

The sport of breaking—competitive breakdancing—will make its Olympic debut in Paris. “Breaking is awesome because it’s part of hip-hop culture, and [in] hip-hop culture, it doesn’t matter what color you are, who you are, where you’re from, it’s inclusive,” says U.S. breaker Victor Montalvo. Here’s a primer on the sport. When’s the competition? The B-girls battle on Aug. 9 starting at 10 a.m. E.T. The B-boys go the next day, also at 10 a.m. E.T. Where will breaking be held? At the Place de la Concorde, the largest public square in Paris, which is also hosting BMX freestyle, skateboarding, and 3x3 hoops. How will it work? Unlike many Olympic sports, breaking is pretty easy to follow! On both the men’s and women’s sides, 16 breakers face off in a one-day…

Out of sight, out of mind is how most Americans probably think about incarcerated individuals—until an acquaintance or a loved one lands in a correctional facility, after plotting a crime or perhaps just acting impulsively in a heated moment. It’s easy, and comfortable, to pass judgment. But Greg Kwedar’s true-to-life prison drama Sing Sing asks more of us: If we believe in our own capacity for growth and change, how can we not extend that good faith to other individuals who have made mistakes? Colman Domingo stars as John “Divine G” Whitfield, serving time at the infamous New York prison Sing Sing for a crime he didn’t commit, though he’s hopeful that an upcoming clemency hearing might clear his name. In the meantime, he’s become deeply invested in a prison…

Today’s generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools often confidently assert false information. Computer scientists call this behavior “hallucination,” and it has led to some embarrassing public slip-ups. In February, Air Canada was forced by a tribunal to honor a discount that its customer-support chatbot had mistakenly offered to a passenger. In May, Google made changes to its new “AI overviews” search feature, after it told some users that it was safe to eat rocks. And in June 2023, two lawyers were fined $5,000 after one of them used ChatGPT to help him write a court filing. The chatbot had added fake citations to the submission, which pointed to cases that never existed. But at least some types of AI hallucinations could soon be a thing of the past. New research, published…

For all the hype surrounding status water bottles—looking at you, Stanley and Owala—it turns out many of us aren’t drinking nearly enough H₂O. “It’s a struggle,” says Vanessa King, a registered dietitian nutritionist with Queen’s Health System in Hawaii. “We see thousands of people a month, and drinking enough water comes up all the time.” Exactly how much you need to drink every day depends on a variety of factors, including your age, activity level, medications, how much you sweat, and your health status. King says to get the number of ounces a person needs each day, divide your weight in pounds by two. Besides feeling thirsty or dry-mouthed, there are ways to tell you’re not getting enough water. Your pee will become darker than normal. You might get a…

Whenever the growing pile of plastic waste in front of her door takes up too much space, Asinate Lewabeka has a simple solution. She sets it on fire. She prefers to do so at dawn when the air is still so that the smoke rises in a black column. She says any later in the day, the coastal breeze risks blowing the acrid fumes straight into her home, a modest shack built on the edge of the Vunato dump site in Lautoka, Fiji’s second largest city. Lewabeka watches in satisfaction as flames consume the haphazard pile of empty water bottles, travel-size tubes of shampoo, juice cartons, wads of food packaging, a broken plastic fan, and coils of copper wire coated in PVC insulation, reducing it all to carbonized lumps. “Plastic…

Noah Lyles should be a miserable human on this suffocatingly hot May morning near Orlando. Two nights earlier, the U.S. sprint star was up until 3 a.m. in the Bahamas, waiting on a delayed drug test after a race. You can still spot fatigue under his eyes. Lyles, however, can summon social energy on command, and today he’s yapping away between stretches and sprints: about his love of anime, how he needs a pedicure, how he’s the most fashionable guy in all of track and field. He had been absent from the past few practices while running in Nassau, where he and his 4 × 100-m relay team took first place. “We did miss you,” one of Lyles’ training partners, Paralympic sprinter Nick Mayhugh, tells him. “But did we enjoy…

There are two main features any athlete earning the Greatest of All Time title needs to possess—longevity and ability. Think Michael Jordan’s six NBA championships over 15 seasons, Tom Brady’s seven Super Bowl rings across 23 seasons, and Michael Phelps’ 23 gold medals over five Olympics. Then there is Simone Biles, who is not only training for her third Olympic Games as the most decorated gymnast in history—with 30 world-championship medals, nine national all-around champion titles, and seven Olympic medals—but also changing the sport itself. Though Biles could at this point just continue competing with the skills she’s perfected over her storied career, she keeps raising the stakes. She’s had five gymnastics moves named after her because she was the first to perform them in international competitions. Her latest, also…

It’s one of the most indelible images in recent cinema: “Please, I’m a star!” wails the title character of Ti West’s 2022 cult horror film, Pearl, after she’s been rejected for a role at an audition. But the actor behind Pearl cuts the precise negative of that widely memed viral image inside a Manhattan production studio one evening in mid-June. “I don’t feel famous at all,” says Mia Goth. This despite having worked with auteurs like Luca Guadagnino and Lars von Trier (2013’s Nymphomaniac was her debut); despite a bevy of accolades for her alternately fragile and furious work in Pearl; and despite the paparazzi shots of her walking in L.A. with the father of her child, Shia LaBeouf, published days earlier. All of which is to say nothing of…

“There is no war so hateful to the gods as a war between kin,” a wise character observes in the second season of HBO’s House of the Dragon. “And no war so bloody as a war between dragons.” Sadly, by the time those words are uttered, both kinds of war have come to seem inevitable. King Viserys I Targaryen (Paddy Considine) is dead, and his bratty son Aegon (Tom Glynn-Carney) has usurped an Iron Throne that rightfully belonged to his older half-sister, Rhaenyra (Emma D’Arcy). Season 1 ended with the spilling of first blood, when Aegon’s brother Aemond (Ewan Mitchell) watched his dragon, Vhagar, devour Rhaenyra’s son Lucerys (Elliot Grihault). It doesn’t matter that Aemond didn’t intend to kill the boy. Lucerys’ death, which came so soon after that of…