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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 --- # Melissa Hellmann ## Melissa Hellmann Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close ## Melissa Hellmann Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close *  Aug 22, 2014 ### [Mo'ne Davis Draws Record Little League Viewership](https://time.com/3157491/mone-davis-espn-record-viewership-ratings-taney-dragons/) Nearly 5 million viewers in all tuned in [WORLD](/section/world/) *  Aug 21, 2014 ### [There's Life Beneath the Antarctic](https://time.com/3152633/scientists-microbes-subglacial-antarctic-lake-west-antarctic-ice-sheet/) It could help point to the possibilities of life on other planets [SCIENCE](/section/science/) *  Aug 21, 2014 ### [Blood Transfusions May Help Kids With Sickle-Cell Anemia](https://time.com/3152607/blood-transfusions-sickle-cell-anemia-children-strokes/) The risk of a stroke can be cut by more than half [HEALTH](/section/health/) *  Aug 20, 2014 ### [Mark Wahlberg May Star in BP Oil Spill Movie](https://time.com/3147499/mark-wahlberg-bp-oil-spill-deepwater-horizon-lionsgate/) He would play the part a manager who rescues his crew members [ENTERTAINMENT](/section/entertainment/) *  Aug 20, 2014 ### [Protesters Demand Ouster of Pakistan's PM](https://time.com/3147394/pakistan-demonstration-protests-islamabad-nawaz-sharif-resignation-imran-khan-tahir-ul-qadr/) Political opponents claim that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was fraudulently elected [WORLD](/section/world/) *  Aug 19, 2014 ### [Good Neighbors May Reduce Your Risk of Heart Attacks](https://time.com/3142543/heart-disease-risk-neighborhood-university-of-michigan/) A study finds that participants who rate their communities the highest have an almost 70% reduced ri... [HEALTH](/section/health/) *  Aug 18, 2014 ### [Gunmen Rob Saudi Prince's Motorcade](https://time.com/3134572/gunmen-250000-euros-saudi-prince-paris/) "It's quite an unusual attack," a police source told the AFP news agency [WORLD](/section/world/) *  Aug 18, 2014 ### [Twitter Experiments With Timeline Changes](https://time.com/3134407/twitter-users-angry-favorite-social-media-tweet-microblog/) Basically, tweets that you favorite are no longer semi-private, but will be treated like retweets [BUSINESS](/section/business/) *  Aug 15, 2014 ### [This Robot Army Can Organize Itself](https://time.com/3115507/robots-harvard-kilobots-robotics-michael-rubenstein/) Expect the future to be overrun with millions more like it [BUSINESS](/section/business/) *  Aug 14, 2014 ### [Flightless Ladybugs: Japan's Alternative to Pesticides](https://time.com/3110016/ladybug-biopesticide-pesticide-aphid-japan-agriculture/) Ladybugs can do the work that nasty chemicals used to [SCIENCE](/section/science/) *  Aug 13, 2014 ### [Google Invests in a Superfast Cable Across the Pacific](https://time.com/3106467/google-cable-system-faster-transpacific-nec-telecom-infrastructure/) It will deliver speeds of 60 terabytes per second. That's crazy huge [BUSINESS](/section/business/) *  Aug 12, 2014 ### [The U.S. Will Increase Its Military Presence in Australia](https://time.com/3102616/us-military-presence-australia/) The move comes at a time when China has been testing the waters in the region [WORLD](/section/world/) *  Aug 11, 2014 ### [Antibacterial Soap Ingredients Could Put Fetuses at Risk](https://time.com/3099901/ingredients-in-antibacterial-soap-could-put-fetuses-at-risk/) Researchers say pregnant women and fetuses exposed to common ingredients found in antibacterial soap... [HEALTH](/section/health/) *  Aug 8, 2014 ### [Ebola Is a Global Public Health Threat, WHO Declares](https://time.com/3091143/world-health-organization-emergency-ebola-west-africa/) No restrictions yet on general trade or travel [HEALTH](/section/health/) *  Aug 7, 2014 ### [U.S. to Spend $110M Annually on Peacekeeping in Africa](https://time.com/3088069/us-africa-leaders-summit-security-governance-initiative-peacekeeping-un-funding/) The plan is to help fund African rapid-response forces that will deal with armed Islamist groups [POLITICS](/section/politics/) 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/melissa-hellmann/","name":"Melissa Hellmann"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/melissa-hellmann/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/melissa-hellmann/"},"name":"Melissa Hellmann","jobTitle":null,"description":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-hellmann/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```