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The 2024 TIME100 Next Gala, gathered emerging leaders worldwide to celebrate on Manhattan’s Pier 59. The annual franchise recognizes leaders to watch in health, climate, business, sports, entertainment, and more. At the waterfront soiree, Grammy nominee Sabrina Carpenter performed and select 2024 TIME100 Next honorees gave toasts at the dinner to the people and causes significant to them, including Maryland’s Democratic Governor Wes Moore, Emmy winner Anna Sawai (Shōgun), and Boston Celtics guard Jaylen Brown.

For Molly Duane, senior staff attorney at the Center for Reproductive Rights, the country must prepare for the realities of what could happen to abortion rights after November’s presidential election. On the red carpet at the 2024 TIME100 Next Gala at Pier 59 in Manhattan on Wednesday, Duane urged voters to take the risks of a second term for Donald Trump “seriously.” [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] “This is a thing I really want people to understand: a Trump win would mean a national abortion ban,” Duane said.

Bridgerton actor Nicola Coughlan donned an “Artists for Ceasefire pin” on the red carpet of the 2024 TIME100 Next Gala in Manhattan on Wednesday night, as the collective calls for a permanent ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war. Coughlan said she wore the pin as a call for U. S. President Joe Biden and U.

Hurricane Milton plowed into Florida as a Category 3 storm Wednesday, bringing misery to a coast still ravaged by Helene, pounding cities with winds of over 100 mph (160 kph) after producing a barrage of tornadoes, but sparing Tampa a direct hit. The storm tracked to the south in the final hours and made landfall in Siesta Key near Sarasota, about 70 miles (112 kilometers) south of Tampa.

For Adam Met, bassist and founding member of multi-platinum indie pop band AJR, building a movement is not unlike building a following as an artist—it comes down to bringing people together. An estimated 250,000 people attended the summer leg of the band’s recent Maybe Man tour promoting their fifth studio album.

My introduction to the Amazon came in 1990 when I was a research assistant, fresh out of college and living elbow-to-elbow with a team of scientists aboard a floating raft on the Amazon River. Every day brought the promise of new discoveries, and many mornings I found myself waiting impatiently for the first glimmer of dawn to peek through the canopy, fading from deep indigo to soft gold as it filtered through the leaves and revealed a slumbering world come to life.