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The staff of the Capital Gazette, on Dec. 9, 2018, in Washington.

One Year After Surviving a Mass Shooting, the Capital Gazette Journalists Refuse to Be Silenced

Rachael Pacella had been doing better. No longer did any little sound—the b...

Rachael Pacella had been doing better. No longer did any little sound—the buzz of a cell phone, a door opening—cause her, to twitch. She wasn’t freezing in crosswalks. The therapy and medication helped. So did...

Me and my wig, which I used to wear during treatment.

I Hadn't Planned to Be the Subject of My Own Photos. Then I Was Diagnosed With Breast Cancer at 29

After photographer Alyona Kochetkova was diagnosed with an aggressive form ...

After photographer Alyona Kochetkova was diagnosed with an aggressive form of breast cancer in July 2017, she decided to turn the camera on herself and document her treatment. She completed medical treatment in March 2018....

Matthew Poblano, 17, of Bay Shore, N.Y.: I applied for Naval ROTC and didn't get accepted. I still wanted to be an officer. My recruiter told me that I could enlist and then go to college as a reservist and become an officer afterward ... All Marines know that they're war fighters. You join knowing that if you have to go to war, you go.

A New Generation Enlists for a War Older Than They Are

This week's special report on the U.S. military, as a new generation joins ...

This week's special report on the U.S. military, as a new generation joins its longest war, is the latest in nearly a century of TIME coverage of American armed forces and the allies fighting alongside...

Scenes from in and around Jacobabad, which may well be the hottest city in Pakistan, in Asia and possibly in the world.

What It’s Like Living in One of the Hottest Cities on Earth—Where It May Soon Be Uninhabitable

It’s just after 7 in the morning in the Pakistani city of Jacobabad, and do...

It’s just after 7 in the morning in the Pakistani city of Jacobabad, and donkey-cart driver Ahsan Khosoo is already drenched in sweat. For the past two hours, the 24-year-old laborer has been hauling jugs...

Renell Medrano’s Peluca Finds Beauty in Her Roots

At the opening night of photographer Renell Medrano’s show, Peluca, chopped...

At the opening night of photographer Renell Medrano’s show, Peluca, chopped cheese sandwiches and snow cones were passed around as a hair stylist sewed in a woman’s weave, the focal point of a single salon...

Smoke rises amid destroyed trees near Realidade on Aug. 26.

Bearing Witness as Brazil's Amazon Burns

A crimson fire, shadowed by billows of dark smoke, lights up the night hori...

A crimson fire, shadowed by billows of dark smoke, lights up the night horizon of the Amazon rainforest as a wooden crucifix and a lone tree trunk resist the blaze. The scene was captured by...

An antigovernment protester is arrested near the Tsim Sha Tsui police station in Kowloon, Hong Kong, on Aug. 11.

Arrests, Tear Gas and Uncertainty: Scenes From Hong Kong's Summer of Unrest

It has been a long, volatile summer in Hong Kong, where anti-government pro...

It has been a long, volatile summer in Hong Kong, where anti-government protests are well into their third month with no clear end in sight. Stakes are ratcheted higher each week as police and protesters...