How We Connected One Billion Lives Through Digital Technology

President Donald Trump made clear during his campaign that he wanted little to do with Project 2025, the sweeping and controversial conservative policy blueprint created by the Heritage Foundation. But just days into his second term, many of Trump’s early actions align with the Project 2025 agenda. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] An analysis by TIME found that nearly two-thirds of the executive actions Trump has issued so far mirror or partially mirror proposals from the 900-page document, ranging from sweeping deregulation measures to aggressive immigration reform.

On the eve of Saturday, Jan. 18, TikTok went dark in the U. S. in response to a federal ban, after the U. S. government raised concerns about the app’s China-based owner ByteDance and the access it might have to U. S. data. But the social media platform restored service to its U.

Warning: This post contains spoilers for The Night Agent Season 2. When The Night Agent premiered on Netflix in 2023, it didn’t take long to find an audience. The undercover spy thriller, based on the eponymous Matthew Quirk novel, became the most viewed series on the streamer for the first half of the year.

Everything is negotiable, as the saying goes—and that includes medical bills. Although many people assume their health care bills are binding, there’s often more wiggle room than one would think. “Never pay any bill right away,” says Caitlin Donovan, a senior director at Patient Advocate Foundation (PAF), a nonprofit that helps patients afford medical care.

(To get this story in your inbox, subscribe to the TIME CO2 Leadership Report newsletter here.) At President Donald Trump’s inauguration on Monday, leaders from some of the world’s most powerful companies looked on from the dome of the Capitol Building as he promised, among other things, to cancel the “Green New Deal” and “drill baby drill.” [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Here in Davos, where the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) wrapped up on Friday, the world’s biggest companies are singing a different tune about climate change.

Dan Fogelman loves a bait-and-switch. In its premiere, his signature show This Is Us—the smash-hit NBC tearjerker that revived the family-drama format amid a broadcast landscape dominated by procedurals—introduced four characters all turning 36 on the same day. By the end of the episode, viewers learned that three of them were siblings (two fraternal twins and one adoptee).