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"The Seine", says Emmanuel Gregoire, deputy mayor of Paris in charge of urban planning, "is the reason why Paris was born." Los Angeles, which will host the 2028 Olympics, has sent water and sanitation officials to Paris to study the Seine cleanup. Yet Gregoire is keen to point out that making the Seine swimmable could mean Paris' becoming the world's first giant urban area to have center-city bathing. [Extracted from the article]

Qatar's Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy, in charge of World Cup preparations, employed only 35,000 workers at its peak, accounting for less than 2% of the country's migrant labor force over the past decade. Three years after Qatar started construction on the World Cup stadiums in 2011, the International Trade Union Confederation published an exposé warning that some 4,000 migrant workers would likely die before the opening match as a result of the country's exploitative labor practices. Under the Sun World Not long after the Gulf nation of Qatar was awarded the rights to host the 2022 World Cup soccer championships, Surendra Tamang hatched a plan to go. That said, even if those deaths are included, World Cup construction-site fatality rates are far lower than Qatar's work-site fatality rate as a whole, demonstrating that workers can be protected when it is made a priority. [Extracted from the article]

Where Biden entertained possibly abandoning ICBMs during the 2020 campaign, the White House has endorsed the Air Force's controversial and complicated plan to replace the Minutemen III missiles with the Sentinel. IF A PIECE OF EQUIPMENT BREAKS INSIDE CAPTAIN Kaz "Dexter" Moffett's underground command center at the Alpha-01 Missile Alert Facility, it's marked with a paper tag that reads either WARNING or DANGER. The proposed new ICBM, known as the Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent until the Air Force formally named it the Sentinel in April, will include improved rocket boosters, composite materials, and new guidance systems, according to the military. Air Force commanders say it's an easier, less expensive way to support the missile's intended 50-year life cycle than pulling the missile apart by hand or painstaking nose-to-tail refurbishments. [Extracted from the article]

"It's a lot of responsibility, for sure", Boric says after arriving at his office in La Moneda, Chile's presidential palace. That thinking led Boric, in November 2019, to champion an agreement with Piñera and other politicians to hold a referendum on whether or not to launch a project to replace the Pinochet-era constitution. Gabriel boric climbs inTo The back of the gigantic black SUV waiting outside his house. It's true that Chile's Communist Party makes up a fifth of Boric's coalition in the lower house of Congress. [Extracted from the article]

"The demand for oil will continue growing", Saudi Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman - the far older half-brother of MBS - tells TIME over tea in his ofce in Riyadh. And yet, three years after Khashoggi's death, foreign investors were back in Saudi Arabia in force, packing MBS's Saudi Green Initiative conference last October, and drawn to the plethora of potential deals in one of the biggest energy plans anywhere. Aramco's engineers argue that the energy transition should focus on how to drill oil more cleanly, rather than cutting the amount of oil pumped. Oil-loving Saudi Arabia could also one day face falling revenues from its energy company as the world shifts to renewable energy. [Extracted from the article]

Tori F. had been building fan spaces online since the mid-2000s; and as an admirer of the actor Kelly Reilly (who plays Yellowstone's ruthless, damaged businesswoman Beth Dutton), she saw a lot of potential in this show. Tori F. admits that although most Yellowstone fans just want to hop online to talk about the Duttons, there are times and spaces - on Facebook especially - when the fandom "gets a little Wild West." Time Off Opener: Feature In March 2018 - three months before the hit Paramount Network drama Yellowstone debuted - an Alberta, Canada, woman who goes by the internet handle Tori F. began creating social media accounts under the heading "Yellowstone TV Fans.". [Extracted from the article]

The Brief ABOUT A WEEK AFTER THE CATASTROPHIC collapse of his city's water system, Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba gathers his advisers in a second-floor conference room at city hall. Lumumba and his allies say that would mean more hardship for residents in the long run: if the state or a private company takes over, residents could be locked into high water rates for decades. Lumumba - who once pledged to make Jackson "the most radical city on the planet" - had allowed the water system to fall apart out of sheer incompetence, Reeves seemed to claim on Sept. 5. [Extracted from the article]

For policymakers grappling with global energy shortages and households scrambling to pay record-high utility bills, some unwelcome news: this year's energy crisis is going to look mild compared with that of winter 2023 - 2024. Utilities can neither raise prices on consumers without regulatory approval nor buy fuel imports with unchecked debt under existing laws that prevent risky behavior by critical service providers. Notwithstanding a current drop in natural gas prices, Russian President Vladimir Putin is enjoying record energy revenues - over €200 billion since the start of the war on Feb. 24. [Extracted from the article]

Every vote is counted equally, whether it is cast early or on Election Day, in person or via a mail-in ballot. In states that don't offer ballot tracking, your local election administrator might be able to answer questions about your ballot status. Is it better to vote early, by mail, or on Election Day?. [Extracted from the article]

The belief that this period of inflation is so dangerous that it is worth the price of squashing the strongest job and wage market in a generation has taken hold in almost every central bank and every government in the developed world. ECONOMY INSIDE EMMANUEL MACRON'S DOMESTIC BATTLES CREATIVE READING OF POLLS THE ART OF PERSUASION IN AN AGE OF DIVISION The Fed's moves represent a broad consensus that high inflation imperils the stability of the system, erodes living standards, and must be brought down even at the risk of squashing growth and triggering a recession. Inflation as a statistic measures year-over-year price increases, which means that until October, all the high inflation was relative to depressed economic activity caused by pandemic shutdowns. [Extracted from the article]

In a country where a man's voice has historically been louder, the women of Iran now lead the fight for change. On top of all that, men and women are equally facing severe financial insecurity at the behest of the government", she explains, underscoring how Amini's death was a spark to an already inflamed society. In the weeks since the innocent death of 22-year-old Mahsa (Jina) Amini by the Iranian regime's morality police, the nation's ever present cry for change has been supercharged by the country's fearless women and girls calling for individual, social, civil, and economic reforms. [Extracted from the article]

In one of her many memorable moments from this season, Sydney's character Cassie is in a hot tub watching her best friend Maddy having a passionate fight with her boyfriend Nate, who is having an affair with Cassie. Stressed-out from guilt, jealousy, horniness, rage, and from being hammered, Cassie finally throws up in the middle of the hot tub. TIME 100 Next Phenoms 2022 is the year of Sydney Sweeney and I've had a front-row seat. [Extracted from the article]

Cho is a comedian and Emmy-nominated actor PHOTO (COLOR): JOEL KIM BOOSTER TIME 100 Next Advocates When we wrapped Fire Island, which Joel Kim Booster wrote, produced, and starred in, we were given a gift of shorts that said it's giving movie. [Extracted from the article]

Forests like those in the Leuser Ecosystem are one of the great lungs of the world, absorbing CO2 from the atmosphere and storing it in their leaves and trunks and the forest soils. Defending the ecosystem from industry, from development, from poachers, as Farwiza and her fellow activists are doing, is essential work. Goodall is a conservationist, a U.N. Messenger of Peace, and the founder of the Jane Goodall Institute PHOTO (COLOR): FARWIZA FARHAN. [Extracted from the article]

Watching Keke evolve as a young woman has been a joy. TIME 100 Next Innovators Keke Palmer is one of the most talented human beings I've ever met. Queen Latifah is a Grammy-winning musician and Oscar-nominated actor PHOTO (COLOR): PHOTOGRAPHED BY AB+DM FOR TIME IN LOS ANGELES. [Extracted from the article]

TIME 100 Next Artists SZA and I first met years ago in Minneapolis. Lizzo is a Grammy-winning musician PHOTO (COLOR): SZA We ended up taking a selfie together in the bathroom. [Extracted from the article]

Tuvalu and our Pacific neighbors have done nothing to cause climate change. Most societies see climate change as mainly about cutting carbon emissions or mitigating future impacts. Tuvalu is an acid test of leadership: If the international community allows an entire country to disappear from climate change, what hope will be left for anyone else?. [Extracted from the article]

Is King Charles III likely to run into trouble given his advocacy on the climate, and his history of trying to intervene in policy? AS ALL EYES TURN TO KING CHARLES III, journalist and famed royal watcher TINA BROWN offers some insights on what kind of monarch the longtime heir apparent is likely to be. The other thing that will be very helpful for Charles: he becomes King at a point when we have a very inexperienced and divisive Prime Minister [Liz Truss], who hasn't done this job before and who has not been elected by the whole country. [Extracted from the article]

Sealed with a kiss Eichner's love interest is played by Luke Macfarlane, who is best known for playing the lead in a number of Hallmark Christmas movies - a genre Bros lovingly spoofs with jokes about a network called Hallheart. Bros is conventional in the sense that all the action is built around the connection of its romantic principals, Eichner's museum director character Bobby and the more reserved Aaron, played by Luke Macfarlane. [Extracted from the article]

LIGHTBOX Spain's Carlos Alcaraz falls to the Arthur Ashe Stadium hard court, to celebrate his four-set U.S. Open men's final win over Casper Ruud of Norway on Sept. 11 in New York City. At age 19, he becomes the youngest No. 1-ranked men's tennis player since worldwide rankings were created in 1973. Photograph by Mike Segar - Reuters For more of our best photography, visit time.com/lightbox PHOTO (COLOR). [Extracted from the article]

The stakes are high for Afghanistan's women As justification for NATO's invasion of Afghanistan, American and other Western leaders spoke of restoring basic rights for Afghan women in the same breath as removing the Taliban. I Recently met a young afghan refugee in rome who had been months from qualifying as a doctor when the Taliban overthrew the Afghan government in August 2021. [Extracted from the article]

The new law includes a mix of policies that activists have been pushing for years. At its core are a slew of incentives for technologies that provide zero-carbon energy. The future will be determined not only by the market as it responds to the repricing of various technologies but also by a tug-of-war between industry, activists, and policymakers all gunning for their preferred approaches to the energy transition. [Extracted from the article]

This summer, Iran will turn into a de facto "threshold nuclear" state - one with enough highly enriched uranium for one nuclear device and the technology to make it a weapon. If Iran chooses to go nuclear - a decision that the Iranian regime alone will make - Turkey, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia will all feel compelled to go nuclear as well. In 2015, the U.S.-led agreement to delay Iran's program failed to go far enough, but in 2018, when the U.S. withdrew from that same agreement, the mullahs were some 17 months away from threshold status. [Extracted from the article]

And money: Hayes receives a nearly $60,000-a-year salary from an oil trading company; the Daily Mail ran an op-ed arguing against meteorologists' "doom-laden" heat warnings, written by an energy-company consultant. But that definition of freedom amounts to a distraction, argues Tom Burke, a veteran U.K. government adviser and co-founder of climate think tank E3G. That was the refrain from a small but powerful section of the British establishment, as temperatures in the U.K. - where summer highs rarely reach 30°C (86°F) - topped 40°C (104°F) for the first time in recorded history in mid-July. [Extracted from the article]

The View NATION By mid-June, the U.S. average price of gasoline reached a historic high of $5 per gallon. Democrats have been highly critical of private oil companies, arguing that the current high prices are the result of price gouging and corporate greed. Republicans, on the other hand, have framed high prices as a result of Biden's energy policies, such as canceling the Keystone XL pipeline, which they contend have cut into U.S. oil production. [Extracted from the article]

The jury awarded Carroll $5 million in damages after a twoweek civil trial in which she testifified that Trump sexually assaulted her over 25 years ago in a New York department store, and then defamed her after she spoke out about it in 2019. A 79-year-old former Elle magazine columnist, Carroll is one of over 20 women who have accused Trump of sexual misconduct since the 1980s. ON MAY 9, A MANHATTAN JURY FOUND FORMER President Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming writer E. Jean Carroll. [Extracted from the article]

One lucky ticket sold at Joe's Service Center in Altadena, Calif., brought some very good news on Nov. 8: it held the only set of winning numbers in what was the largest Powerball drawing in U.S. history, with a jackpot worth $2.04 billion. The game format has since undergone several changes to expand the number pool, lengthening the odds that any individual drawing results in a jackpot winner. [Extracted from the article]

TIME 100 Next Phenoms Carlos Alcaraz, the youngest men's tennis player to ever achieve the world's No. 1 ranking, is frighteningly good at his game. He deploys drop shots when opponents least expect them, angles winners to the far edges of the court, and chases down shots that he has no right to reach - then does it again. With his U.S. Open victory in September, Alcaraz has officially arrived, leading a young generation of talent. [Extracted from the article]

TIME 100 Next Phenoms Leah Thomas' mother made sure she was surrounded by stories centering brown and Black voices throughout her childhood in St. Louis. But at college, and while working as a National Park Service ranger, the self-proclaimed science nerd realized conversations about the environment and social justice didn't always take into account how the issues overlapped. Thomas and her friends launched a resource hub to help everyone from the public to major brands rethink their approaches to sustainability. [Extracted from the article]

TIME 100 Next Phenoms I'd been a fan of Maria Taylor's for a while before I met her. I think about my daughter and the people I want her to look up to, and it's women like Maria. Felix is a seven-time Olympic gold medalist in track and field PHOTO (COLOR). [Extracted from the article]

Scurry is a soccer player and two-time Olympic gold medalist PHOTO (COLOR) Her work rate defensively is so impressive too. TIME 100 Next Phenoms At 18, Trinity Rodman became the youngest player ever drafted into the National Women's Soccer League - but she has the wisdom of a player that you'd think had been in the league for quite a bit longer. [Extracted from the article]

Lauded for past projects such as his reverse chronological staging of Puccini's La Bohème, Sharon in July premiered a high-tech reimagining of a Wagner opera. Has long used unconventional settings in unexpected ways, but now, as the artistic director of the Detroit Opera, he is breaking new ground. TIME 100 Next Advocates To see the most innovative opera company in America, visit Motor City. [Extracted from the article]

TIME 100 Next Phenoms I was drawn to Raul Lopez as soon as we met. Clemens is a fashion designer and founder of the label TELFAR PHOTO (COLOR) His designs for his label, Luar, shape those experiences into something special and distinct. [Extracted from the article]

TIME 100 Next Phenoms Khaby Lame doesn't need to say a word - his videos will have you rolling in laughter in just seconds. There's magic in how his work - like the work of so many creators across social media - connects people from all over the world. D'Amelio is an entertainer and TikTok creator PHOTO (COLOR). [Extracted from the article]

Johnson is a four-time Olympic gold medalist in track and field PHOTO (COLOR) What's unique about athletes like Usain Bolt and Serena Williams is not just that they, at a very young age, had incredible talent and focus and attention. TIME 100 Next Phenoms I first heard about Erriyon Knighton during the 2021 high school season. [Extracted from the article]

TIME 100 Next Phenoms Tyler Mitchell and I first met in Brooklyn but - since we were both born and raised in Georgia, working from the influences of a Southern upbringing - we found that we were kindred in spirit. Tyler's photographs situate our lived experiences at the bounds of reality. Tyler's photographs, long celebrated and soon to be displayed in a solo exhibition in London, carry a visible admiration for their subjects and an expressive desire to see their interiority shine through. [Extracted from the article]

To be honest, I didn't have high expectations, because at the time she had no previous acting experience. TIME 100 Next Phenoms The first time I saw Hoyeon was in a video, after I had spent three tiring months in search of an actress to play the role of Sae-byeok in Squid Game. Her acting in the video was somewhat unfamiliar and stiff compared with other seasoned actors. [Extracted from the article]

TIME 100 Next Phenoms The climate crisis is an existential threat and a grave injustice that can feel insurmountable. Driven by the devastating impacts of climate change in Kenya, Elizabeth's Green Generation Initiative encourages young people to love nature while supporting communities to implement climate solutions. We must open our hearts, listen to those most affected by the climate crisis, and act, she told delegates at COP26. [Extracted from the article]

When you think about what he's already been able to do out of a teeny-tiny 100-sq.-ft. kitchen with one 8-ft. flat-top grill, just imagine the impact that lies ahead. TIME 100 Next Phenoms By Marcus Samuelsson When Chef Edgar took the stage to accept the James Beard Award for Best Emerging Chef this year, you could feel the room soar with emotion and pride. Here he came, a child of immigrants, bootstrapping it with his fiancée to bring their dream of opening a restaurant alive, to accept this incredible honor and recognition that all the sacrifice and sweat meant something. [Extracted from the article]