Comment on Maui wildfires: New report puts the economic toll at up to $6 billion—and it’s still rising

TIME Editor-in-Chief Sam Jacobs had a wide-ranging conversation with the leader named TIME’s 2024 CEO of the Year, Lisa Su, chair and CEO of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) on Dec. 11 over dinner in New York City. Coinciding with the rollout of TIME’s Person of the Year issue, the “Year in TIME” event also featured a conversation with TIME’s 2024 “Athlete of the Year,” WNBA star Caitlin Clark, and a performance by the 2024 Icon of the Year, the EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony) award-winning musician Elton John. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Semiconductors, or chips, power computers, phones, cars, internet services, and artificial intelligence programs.

Connections: Sports Edition is a new version of the popular New York Times word game that seeks to test the knowledge of sports fans. Like the original Connections, the game is all about finding the "common threads between words." And just like Wordle, Connections resets after midnight and each new set of words gets trickier and trickier—so we've served up some hints and tips to get you over the hurdle.

Jared Isaacman is leading a series of SpaceX missions called the Polaris Program. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP/Getty ImagesThe billionaire Jared Isaacman said his Polaris missions with SpaceX are "a question mark" now. Donald Trump nominated Isaacman for NASA Administrator months after he did SpaceX's first spacewalk. Space experts doubt Isaacman will fly during his NASA term, due to job demands and safety risks.

Kusch explored the United Arab Emirates with her kids. Jennifer KuschIn May 2023, Jennifer Kusch relocated to Dubai for a job opportunity. Her teen sons were initially against the move and said she was "ruining" their lives. But she says the experience of living abroad has brought them closer together.

Over the first six months of the food and trash recycling at Denver International Airport, more than two-thirds of the waste generated at 19 participating concessionaires was diverted from landfills. The efforts at DIA kept 69.2 tons of food and other recyclable waste out of landfills, DIA officials announced. A waste diversion rate of 71% among those concessionaires was three times higher than the overall airport-wide diversion rate, airport officials said, and four times Colorado’s 16% statewide rate of diverting waste from landfills. DIA officials launched the Zero Waste Valet program in June – a pilot project run by the Colorado-based company Scraps, which specializes in reducing waste sent to landfills. It started in DIA’s Concourse B, which contains the most passenger traffic. “We are making significant and meaningful strides toward reducing landfilled waste and carbon emissions while demonstrating our commitment to becoming the greenest airport in the world,” airport chief executive Phil Washington said. A $495,000 grant from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment helped launch the project. A team of recyclers oversees food waste collection for composting and recycling, managing signs and coordinating the separation of waste from kitchens for composting, mixed recycling, and trash.

Your small children being on YouTube is inevitable at this point. From experience, I know kids master how to swipe and scroll on touchscreens at just months old. This is why YouTube launched a YouTube Kids app for iPhone and Android devices back in 2015. Now, for the first time since that launch, YouTube Kids has received a complete redesign.