Karen Ramey-Torres, a retiree from Colorado, was overweight and concerned about her health after setbacks including a small stroke. Then she heard about a type of intermittent fasting called time-restricted eating, where you eat in a shortened time window each day, without necessarily trying to cut calories.
The time limit was more appealing to her than diets requiring constant calorie counting.
Jacques Audiard’s audacious musical Emilia Pérez, about a Mexican drug lord who undergoes gender affirming surgery to become a woman, led nominations to the 82nd Golden Globes on Monday, scoring 10 nods to lead it over other contenders like the musical smash Wicked, the papal thriller Conclave and the post-war epic The Brutalist.
The week before the 2024 election, a gut-wrenching advertisement created by a progressive campaign fund went viral. A young woman lays curled up on her living room floor, sobbing. Her frantic partner is on the phone, begging a doctor to tell him what to do. An authoritative male voice answers: “She needs an abortion or she’s going to die from the pregnancy.” An older white man wearing a red tie suddenly appears and says: “Sorry, that’s not happening.
Songs show up everywhere these days: appended to sports highlights and TikToks, piped into political rallies and Paneras, interpolated during sermons. This ubiquity often trivializes music, but it also draws attention to all the elements that make great songs stand out.
I’m not just thinking about earworm melodies, sick beats, and killer hooks, though those are generally pluses.
On Thursday, TIME will announce the 2024 Person of the Year.
Since 1927, TIME has named a person, group, or concept that had the biggest impact—for good or for ill—on the world over the previous 12 months. In 2023, TIME selected pop superstar Taylor Swift as Person of the Year. Other previous selections include Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and the “spirit of Ukraine” in 2022, tech titan Elon Musk in 2021, the Ebola fighters in 2014, and former U.
President-elect Donald Trump’s string of controversial nominations continued this past weekend, when he announced his intention to fire his own FBI Director, Chris Wray, and replace him with Kash Patel, a loyalist who shares Trump’s desire to use the bureau as a political tool. If past is prologue, Patel may face an uphill climb to even get the entirety of his own party on board.