--- description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Kate Brown ## Kate Brown Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close ## Kate Brown Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close *  Apr 26, 2016 ### [Chernobyl at 30: How Attempts to Contain the Radiation Failed](https://time.com/4305507/chernobyl-30-agriculture-disaster/) Trains full of contaminated meat roamed the USSR for years, leaving a trail of radioactivity, lookin... [HISTORY](/section/history/) *  Mar 3, 2015 ### [Only Part of the Story Is Being Told About the Police Shooting in Pasco](https://time.com/3729247/police-shooting-pasco-history/) A Washington State police-shooting case has a long history [HISTORY](/section/history/) *  Jan 21, 2015 ### [How the Atomic Age Left Us a Half-Century of Radioactive Waste](https://time.com/3672177/hanford-radioactive-waste-history/) Dealing with nuclear waste at a plant in Washington State has proved an intractable problem. Why? [HISTORY](/section/history/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/kate-brown/","name":"Kate Brown"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/kate-brown/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/kate-brown/"},"name":"Kate Brown","jobTitle":null,"description":"","url":"https://time.com/author/kate-brown/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```