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Trump Says Iran Mistakenly Downed Drone. Iran Disagrees

By W.J. Hennigan and John Walcott

President Trump Cancels Rule Requiring U.S. to Report Civilians Killed in Drone Strikes

By Margaret Talev / Bloomberg

DJI's New Mavic 2 Drones Have Major Camera Upgrades

By Alex Fitzpatrick

TIME Special Report: The Drone Age

By Alex Fitzpatrick
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Watch as Nearly 1,000 Drones Come Together to Make TIME's New Cover

TIME worked with Intel's Shooting Star drones for this week's unique cover

By Alex Fitzpatrick

TIME's Drones Issue: Go Behind the Cover

To create the first TIME cover shot by a drone, we worked with Intel’s Drone Light Show team, Astraeus Aerial Cinema Systems and L.A. Drones—plus 958 drones set to display a precise shade of red,...

How Drones Are Revolutionizing the Way Film and Television Is Made

'It takes us out of our body in a certain way, kind of giving us an overlaid perspective'

By Stephanie Zacharek

Drones Are Easy to Fly. But These Videos Prove They're Also Easy to Crash

These drone pilots could've used a little more practice

By Alex Fitzpatrick and Anne Most

Flying Over the Line

Perhaps no geographic location in North America is more laden with drama than the border between the United States and Mexico. Spanning approximately 1,900 miles, it follows the Rio Grande from the Gulf of Mexico...

Drones Are Changing How We See the World

Whenever I fly on an airplane, I always try to get a window seat. My favorite moments are takeoff and landing, when I’m down below 500 feet, so low that I can see the world...

Aerial Photography’s Surprising Role in History

Drones are often celebrated for their ability to capture a new vantage point on the world, revealing the beauty of our planet from high above. But they are only the latest development in a long...

Drones Are Here to Stay. Get Used to It

When Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico last September, it ravaged the island’s electrical grid and communications systems. For weeks, many of the approximately 5 million Puerto Ricans living in the mainland U.S. were unable to...

Experts Say Drones Pose a National Security Threat — and We Aren’t Ready

Officials say they’re in a race against time

By W.J. Hennigan

Zipline's Drones Are Saving Lives

For several days, Delphine Twese Hamwe’s 2-year-old daughter Ghislane had been screeching in pain as fever wracked her tiny body. A nurse at the local clinic in central Rwanda told her that an acute form...

By Aryn Baker

How Drones Are Helping Scientists Study and Protect Endangered Whales

Science and art come together again

Drones Are Helping Catch Poachers Operating Under Cover of Darkness

Catching a wildlife poacher in the act is a tricky business. Just ask the officials and groups who have spent decades and millions of dollars searching for criminal animal hunters and traders operating covertly from...

Aerial Photography Has Changed the World. Drones Are Just the Latest Example

Drones are often celebrated for their ability to capture a new vantage point on the world, revealing the beauty of our planet from high above. But they are only the latest development in a long...

These Drone Photos Capture Life at the U.S.-Mexico Border

Perhaps no geographic location in North America is more laden with drama than the border between the United States and Mexico. Spanning approximately 1,900 miles, it follows the Rio Grande from the Gulf of Mexico...

How 'No-Drone Zones' Are Being Enforced With Software, Gadgets and Shotguns

Some see drones as a security risk, and they're deploying measures to keep them away

Maria's Shadow

Tarps cover damaged homes in Loiza on Puerto Rico’s northeastern coast on Jan 23, 2018. Maria's Shadow Puerto Rico's Recovery is Slow and Painful Text by Justin Worland | Photos by Ricardo Arduengo for TIME...

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