Time Magazine International Edition June 9, 2025

New leaders are eager to see impact—and see it now In May, Partners of the Gates Foundation gathered in Manhattan to announce that the organization would spend $200 billion over the next 20 years and then close its doors in 2045. Supporters, including Michael Bloomberg, were on hand to mark the occasion. The scene, staged at Carnegie Hall, a venue built by one of America’s great 19th century philanthropists, paid tribute to a long tradition of American giving, while pointing to new ways of thinking that are shaping the 21st century. For those reasons, we include Bloomberg, the U.S.’s single largest recorded donor in 2024, and Mark Suzman, set to lead the next chapter of the Gates Foundation, in our inaugural TIME100 Philanthropy list. We launched the annual TIME100 21…

TIME hosted an event on May 13 to celebrate the 2025 list of leaders in health, including a panel on the latest cancer research featuring, from left, TIME correspondent Alice Park, Novartis U.S. president Victor Bulto, CNN’s Sara Sidner, and Memorial Sloan Kettering’s Vinod Balachandran. Read more at time.com/time100health Road to Justice Following the cover package marking the fifth anniversary of George Floyd’s murder, TIME hosted a dinner on May 20 in Washington with the Center for Policing Equity. At right, Tarana Burke, founder of the #MeToo movement, offered a toast “to truth as our foundation. To hope as our strategy. And to liberation as our destination.” time.com/georgefloyd Become a Kid Reporter TIME for Kids is searching for its next class of junior journalists, like Evelyn Peng on assignment with…

Coming out of his Two-Hour call with Vladimir Putin on May 19, Donald Trump made an unusual concession: only Russia and Ukraine should be involved in talks to end the war between them, he wrote on social media, “because they know details of a negotiation that nobody else would be aware of.” The admission of ignorance seemed out of character for a President who often claims to know more than anyone else about a great variety of subjects, and it may have set the peace process on a new and uncertain course. For Putin, the gaps in Trump’s knowledge about the war have always offered an advantage. One of the Russian leader’s favorite negotiating tactics is to overwhelm his interlocutors with a torrent of historical theories. Ukrainian officials and their…

Famine, which has loomed over the Gaza Strip for much of Israel’s 19-month war with Hamas, is now imminent, say international aid groups. They cite a complex formula known as the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, released May 12, which found that the whole of Gaza qualified as an “Emergency,” or at critical risk of famine, and 470,000 people (22% of the population of 2 million) had reached “Catastrophe,” defined as “starvation, death, destitution and extremely critical acute malnutrition levels.” SOARING PRICES Food prices tell the same story of scarcity. “No one can afford to buy,” says Reham Alkahlout, 33, a psychological counselor and mother of four working at a school housing the displaced. “Sometimes we are forced to purchase small amounts just to feed our children.” The cost of…

President Trump first posed the idea of overhauling the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) while visiting North Carolina in January in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene. “I’d like to see the states take care of disasters, let the state take care of the tornadoes and the hurricanes and all of the other things that happen,” he said. “I think you’re going to find it a lot less expensive.” One of his first Executive Orders was establishing a council to assess the effectiveness of the disaster-response agency. At the end of April, Trump appointed 13 people—including Texas Governor Greg Abbott and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem—to review FEMA. The group is expected to submit a report to the President within 180 days of its first meeting, according to the Executive…

DIED George Wendt Beloved barfly No matter who was slinging drinks, a happy hour at Cheers didn’t start until Norm Peterson crossed the bar’s threshold in pursuit of a hearty welcome and a frosty beer. As portrayed by a merrily cynical George Wendt in the iconic sitcom that dominated television for 11 seasons beginning in 1982, Norm was Cheers’ ideal regular, a barfly but not a drunk, who could shrug off work woes and marital tiffs as long as there were mugs to be drained, sports to be watched, trash to be talked. Sure, Sam and Diane’s roller-coaster romance drove the plot at first. But Cheers was really a show about community. And as its co-creator and director, James Burrows, reflected in his 2022 memoir, Norm “was the anchor for…