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# May 12, 2025 | Vol. 205 No. 15 May 12, 2025 |  

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## Table of Contents

BusinessEntertainmentHealthHistoryIdeasPoliticsPress RoomScienceWorld

### Business

[Business](/section/business/)

### Exclusive: AI Outsmarts Virus Experts in the Lab, Raising Biohazard Fears

AI models could help fight disease—but they also pose a deadly risk if weaponized by non-experts.

### Entertainment

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### _The Four Seasons_ Reveals a Side of Tina Fey That's Been Hiding in Plain Sight

The comedy legend's new Netflix rom-com remakes Alan Alda's gentle 1981 movie—and casts her prickly humor in a different light.

### Health

[Health](/section/health/)

### How a New Weight-Loss Pill Could Transform Health

The first truly revolutionary oral drug for obesity, made by Eli Lilly, may soon be on the way

[Health](/section/health/)

### 10 Questions You Should Always Ask at Doctors’ Appointments

“If this were your family member, what would you do?”

[Health](/section/health/)

### How Having a Baby Is Changing Under Trump

Cuts to federal health institutions could alter newborn hearing and rare disease screening programs. 

[Health](/section/health/)

### Ex-FDA Official Is Worried About the FDA's New "Anti-Vaccine Tone"

Dr. Peter Marks, an ex-FDA vaccine official, is warning of a fundamental change at the agency—where vaccine skepticism now prevails.

### History

[History](/section/history/)

### Pope Francis, the ‘World’s Parish Priest’ Who Led in an Era of Crisis, Dies at 88

The reform-minded Roman Catholic leader guided the church through an era of crisis.

### Ideas

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### Why China-Taiwan Relations Are Getting So Tense

Taiwan's President has become more strident on cross-Strait questions, and Beijing is turning up the dial. 

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### How America Became Afraid of the Other

"Punishing assorted others quells empathy and dissent, for we do not want to be targeted ourselves," writes Viet Thanh Nguyễn.

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### Pope Francis’ Greatest Achievement Was Emphasizing Mercy

Pope Francis true legacy will be his emphasis on mercy, which he believed would create a Church in ‘God’s style.’ 

### Politics

[Politics](/section/politics/)

### Read Conservative Judge’s Full Opinion Rebuking Trump Administration Over Abrego Garcia Case

“This should be shocking,” wrote J. Harvie Wilkinson of the Administration’s defiance, warning that it is “all too possible to see in this case an incipient crisis.”

[Politics](/section/politics/)

### Elissa Slotkin: How Democrats Can Go on Offense Against Trump

The Michigan Senator talks to TIME about how the Democrats can devise a strategy to counter the President

[Politics](/section/politics/)

### How a New Pope Is Chosen—and Who It Could Be

Here’s what to know about how the process works and who some of the frontrunners are to succeed Francis.

### Press Room

[Press Room](/section/press-room/)

### TIME Unveils Special Report: “Five Years Later: America Looks for a Way Forward After George Floyd”

TIME Unveils Special Report “Five Years Later: America Looks for a Way Forward After George Floyd”

### Science

[Science](/section/science/)

### The Return of the Dire Wolf

Colossal Biosciences has genetically engineered the first dire wolf to live in over 10,000 years

### World

[World](/section/world/)

### Why China Laughs at the Idea of Americans Taking Their Manufacturing Jobs

Popular AI-generated videos satirizing fictitious American factory workers do get at a more serious economic reality.

[World](/section/world/)

### Meme-ing the Faith: Pope Francis’ Most Memorable Social Media Moments

Pope Francis, who died on April 21 at the age of 88, knew how to preach in the social media era.


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