Across the U.S., there has been a sharp surge of harassment, attacks, and violent threats targeting civic and public officials and their families. @VeraMBergen investigated threats in all 50 states. Here's what we learned: ti.me/3WJpYJM There were more than 9,600 recorded threats against members of Congress last year, a jump of nearly tenfold from 2016, according to Capitol Police records

The greatest female athlete of all time—check that: perhaps the greatest athlete of all time—is hanging up her racket for good.

After 27 years of professional tennis, @serenawilliams plays her last match at the 2022 #USOpen ti.me/3CG4cir It’s been too long a road for Williams to shy away from what she’s done. She owns it. Deservedly. Unapologetically. And it’s rooted in what she knows she and her sister have meant to the sport they both shaped and were shaped by

Get ready for an impressive crop of new books this fall. Beloved authors return and exciting debuts are on the way. Here are 10 releases to look out for ⬇️
ti.me/3CzD5pb On the Rooftop, Margaret Wilkerson Sexton (Sept. 6)

Set in the 1950s, Vivian wants her three daughters to make it big in the music world. But as the girls turn into women, they begin pursuing paths that will lead them away from music and their mother’s dreams

There are signs that people are now chasing the mental-health benefits of exercise even more than the physical ones, @Jamie_Ducharme reports ti.me/3bHQRuF According to a 2022 trends report from Mindbody, the top two reasons that Americans work out are now to reduce stress and feel better mentally 🧠

With Roe v. Wade overturned, anti-abortion pregnancy centers’ vast databases expose new legal risks.

📝 @abbyabrams and @VeraMBergen ti.me/3OuXYVk A sprawling national network of unregulated, faith-based anti-abortion nonprofits now outnumbers abortion clinics 3 to 1.

Many of the millions of women who visit these pregnancy centers stumble into them by accident ti.me/3OuXYVk

With Roe v. Wade hanging in the balance, anti-abortion pregnancy centers’ vast databases expose new legal risks ti.me/3OButBl

📝 @abbyabrams and @VeraMBergen A sprawling national network of unregulated, faith-based anti-abortion nonprofits now outnumbers abortion clinics 3 to 1.

Many of the millions of women who visit these pregnancy centers stumble into them by accident ti.me/3OButBl

Photographer Annie Flanagan spent a year documenting gender-expansive young people across the U.S. as they experience adolescence at a fraught political and cultural time ti.me/3Ol7kCT For trans and gender-expansive American adolescents, the past school year has been a paradox.

Never before have diverse gender identities and expressions been celebrated so openly and inclusively

They star on TV shows. They cut major deals with big brands. Peloton instructors are parlaying fitness fame into fortune.

@edockterman spoke to some of Peloton's most popular personalities about their lucrative side hustles ⬇️ ti.me/3O0Md9k Robin Arzón (@RobinNYC) has welcomed riders not only into her home but into her life. She’s shared her journey with IVF, her pregnancy, and her experiences as a new mom. In recent years, she’s evolved her brand to center more on motherhood ti.me/3O0Md9k

Being middle class in America isn’t only about how much you make; it’s about what you can buy with that money.

Experts say what really matters is whether you feel that you can comfortably afford the “three H’s”—housing, health care, and higher education ti.me/3Lxq6py 🏠 In the past year alone, home prices are up 20% and rents are up 17%.

💊 Per capital annual health care costs rose about $9000 from 1980 to 2020.

🎓 And average college tuition is up 64% since 2001

For two weeks in April, TIME correspondent Simon Shuster (@shustry) went inside Volodymr Zelensky’s compound in Kyiv, interviewing the President and nearly a dozen top aides and observing the way they were experiencing the war ti.me/3kmGf5f Zelensky sees his mission as making the free world experience this war the way Ukraine does—as a matter of its own survival.

“People see this war on Instagram, on social media,” he says. “When they get sick of it, they will scroll away”

A new strain of Omicron, called XE, is spreading in the U.K., and a few cases have been identified elsewhere in the world.

Here’s what we do—and don’t—know about the variant, writes @mandyoaklander ti.me/365ISFh XE is a hybrid of the two now-familiar strains of Omicron: BA.1 (the original Omicron strain) and BA.2 (the more infectious related strain that’s now dominant in the U.S. and other countries) ti.me/3uz4W4t

“We’re always just trying to care for kids.”

Pediatricians who serve trans youth face increasing harassment. Lifesaving care could be on the line, @maddiecarlisle2 reports ti.me/3oSCSGa Dr. Gina Sequeira first saw the protesters on a bright clear morning last September.

Nothing had prepared her to see people outside her office, waving signs and handing out flyers warning of the “dangers” of the work she does

“The work that we do is a kind of mental torture.”

Inside Facebook's African outsourced content moderation hub, where some workers toil for as little as $1.50 per hour. @billyperrigo reports ✍️ ti.me/3JnTM7g In a drab office building on the outskirts of Nairobi, nearly 200 young men and women sit at desks glued to computer monitors, where they must watch videos of murders, rapes, suicides, and child sexual abuse

COVID Questions: I'm vaccinated, boosted and had COVID-19. Can I go back to normal now?

Thread 👇 ti.me/3rSdOPW Unfortunately, the virus that causes COVID-19 is, like other coronaviruses, able to infect the same person multiple times, writes @Jamie_Ducharme

1/Tomorrow, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the most significant abortion case since Roe v. Wade.

@abbyabrams explains what you need to know ti.me/3EkCSEc 2/The case, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, centers on a Mississippi law that bans nearly all abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy—a direct challenge to the central holding of Roe v. Wade.

Three men were found guilty of murder in Ahmaud Arbery’s death. Even with the verdicts in, other questions remain unanswered in Glynn County, Ga.

What does it mean for this place that this happened here? ti.me/3D4zxb8 Glynn County remains a place of stark inequality.

Nearly 40% of Latino residents and nearly 29% of Black residents in Glynn County live in poverty compared to just 12% of white people living in the area.

1/ NEW: A TIME investigation reveals how an online pharmacy was able to capitalize on the pandemic—backed by PPP loans—by partnering with right-wing groups to sell millions worth of ivermectin to vaccine skeptics ti.me/3FF9fil 2/ For online pharmacies, the pandemic presented an opportunity: loosened rules for telehealth and long-distance prescription writing combined with massive demand for unproven COVID-19 treatments pushed by anti-vax groups could mean big money ti.me/3FF9fil

1/ Who is behind the recent ivermectin craze? A TIME investigation looked at one of its biggest promoters: a right-wing anti-vaccine group that has been selling access to the bogus COVID-19 "treatment" — and failing to deliver.

Here’s what to know ⤵️ ti.me/2WyE9aj 2/ “America’s Frontline Doctors” describes itself as a “non-partisan” group of medical professionals, but it was created as a dark-money backed pro-Trump organization, with no evidence any of them have spent significant time treating patients with COVID-19.

Across the U.S. children are heading back to school, despite spiking COVID-19 cases.

For TIME, author and illustrator @aubreyhirsch created a comic on the nightmare parents face as kids head back to classrooms this fall ti.me/2XOUtE1

Perhaps no category of literature is more impactful than YA. These are the books introduced to us at a pivotal point in our lives: when our grasp on the world is changing just as we begin to claim a place in it.

Here are the 100 best YA books of all time ti.me/3xNYsNH To develop our list, we recruited a panel of celebrated YA authors: Elizabeth Acevedo (@acevedowrites), @kacencallender, @jennyhan, @JasonReynolds83, @AdamSilvera, @angiecthomas and @NicolaYoon ti.me/37yFy2t

Four civilian astronauts. Three days in orbit. The Inspiration4 crew prepares for one giant leap ti.me/3lLPSfT .@jeffreykluger on who the Inspiration4 members are, how they were selected to make their improbable journey and what they hope to accomplish while aloft ti.me/2VzovLv