Culture

The welcome sign at the main building of the Googleplex, Google's headquarters at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway in Mountain View, California, photographed in 2006.

Google will switch off Search for K-12 students at schools that decline its AI tools

Lima's Teatro Municipal, host of the 2026 gala, pictured in 2015.

Lima hosts The World's 50 Best Restaurants gala on Wednesday, the first ever held in Peru

Pope Leo XIV during an audience with the media in May 2025.

Apostolic journey

Leo XIV lands in Montevideo on Friday to open an 11-day journey through Uruguay, Argentina and Peru

The Harris County Criminal Justice Center, the county's criminal court building, in Houston, Texas.

Immigration enforcement

A Houston grand jury indicts an ICE officer who struck a Mexican construction worker with his SUV

The west facade of the United States Supreme Court Building in Washington, D.C., at dusk, in 2011.

Supreme Court hears the Denver archdiocese's challenge to Colorado's universal preschool program

Pope Leo XIV during an audience with the media at the Vatican in May 2025.

Pope Leo XIV becomes the first pope to vote in a U.S. general election

The sign outside the Hubert H. Humphrey Building, headquarters of the US Department of Health and Human Services, in Washington, DC, in October 2026.

Health coverage

Obamacare sign-ups open for 2027 with premiums up about 13% and refugees and TPS holders cut off from subsidies

Sixth-graders work on their laptops during class in Stockport, Ohio, in February 2015.

Children and AI

Two in three American children aged 9 to 17 have used an AI chatbot, and 37% of users have talked to one about their feelings

The John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse in Boston, seat of the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts, in September 2024.

A federal judge strikes down the narrower "medically frail" test for the Medicaid work requirements that start on January 1

Colourised scanning electron micrograph of Ebola virus particles (in green) budding from an infected cell, in a 2014 image.

Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo reaches 9,704 cases and 4,687 deaths, with cases now in Kenya and Nigeria

The West Virginia State Capitol on Kanawha Boulevard East in Charleston, seat of the state government and of the attorney general's office, photographed in November 2022.

Technology and childhood

West Virginia sues TikTok after a test account registered to a 13-year-old girl repeatedly drew sexually suggestive videos

Dartmouth Hall, on the Dartmouth College campus in Hanover, New Hampshire, photographed in 2007.

Academic integrity

Dartmouth's provost resigns after a faculty review finds he used AI to "meaningfully alter" his writing without disclosing it

Leo XIV during an audience with the media at the Vatican on 12 May 2025.

Pope Leo XIV's first South American tour begins on 6 November: 12 days, 10 cities and three countries

Colombia's current Palacio de Justicia, on Bogotá's Plaza de Bolívar, in June 2024. The 1985 building was destroyed during the siege and the recapture.

Netflix premieres "Palacio" on 6 November, an eight-part series on the siege of Colombia's Palace of Justice

California Governor Gavin Newsom in his official portrait, released in March 2026.

Anthropic asks California to let courts suspend risky AI models, going further than OpenAI

The headquarters of the World Meteorological Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, in 2014.

WMO logs another greenhouse gas record as CO2 reaches 426.8 ppm in 2025, or 153% of pre-industrial levels

A cutaway rendering of SPARC, the compact tokamak Commonwealth Fusion Systems is building in Massachusetts, released in 2020.

Industrial policy

Washington is taking equity in fusion companies in exchange for CHIPS awards, starting with $175 million for Helion and $85 million for Commonwealth

Crews load a GOES-U weather satellite — the last of the current GOES-R series, which GeoXO is meant to replace — onto an Air Force C-5M at Buckley Space Force Base, Colorado, in January 2024.

Weather satellites

NOAA's next generation of weather satellites falls from six craft to four, and the GAO cannot say whether the new $13 billion price is right

The front of the Veterans Administration Building at 810 Vermont Avenue NW, headquarters of the Department of Veterans Affairs, in Washington in March 2025.

Veterans health

The VA picks ten sites for its first psychedelic therapy rollout, with 2.1 million veterans in the eligible pool

An Aedes aegypti mosquito, which transmits dengue, in a macro image taken in 2023. File photo.

Climate and health

Epidemic-level dengue now reaches 292 Brazilian microregions, and Fiocruz calls the spread irreversible