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Our parents, if we’re lucky enough to still have them around, are growing older. And, most likely, they are also the happy owners of a mountain of stuff, precious only to them. Guess who will have to eventually take care of all that stuff? It’s crucial to talk with our beloved elders about death cleaning—the […]

More than half of 17.5 million users who responded to a poll that asked whether billionaire Elon Musk should step down as head of Twitter voted yes when the poll closed on Monday. There was no immediate announcement from Twitter, or Musk, about whether that would happen, though he said that he would abide by […]

This article is part of The D.C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. For a brief moment, there seemed to be a lull in the politicization of a plague. Sure, there were still the anti-vaxxers showing up at school board meetings—and sometimes running them—and the […]

Comment on this story Comment Thirty-one people are missing after a Royal Thai Navy warship sank in choppy waters and heavy winds in the Gulf of Thailand late Sunday, Thai officials said Monday. Footage shared by the navy’s Twitter account showed a ship loaded with armaments, identified as HTMS Sukhothai, listing heavily as a separate […]

KYIV, Ukraine — Multiple explosive drones attacked Ukraine’s capital before dawn Monday, local authorities reported, as Russian President Vladimir Putin prepared to visit ally Belarus, which provided the Kremlin’s forces with a launch pad for its invasion of Ukraine almost 10 months ago. The drone attack came three days after what Ukrainian officials described as […]

Comment on this story Comment JOHANNESBURG — South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has been reelected as the leader of the ruling African National Congress party. Ramaphosa beat his rival, former Health Minister Zweli Mkhize by 2,476 votes to 1,897 votes from a total of 4,386 votes cast by party delegates from across the country. Ramaphosa’s […]

Comment on this story Comment COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Sweden’s top court on Monday rejected a request to extradite a man wanted by Turkey, saying the crime the person is alleged to have committed is “not criminalized” in the Scandinavian country. In a statement, the Supreme Court said that there were “obstacles to extradition because it […]

ZAGREB, Croatia — Croatian police said Monday that they have pulled 10 migrants from freezing waters on the border with Bosnia. Police were alerted on Sunday around 6 p.m. that a group of people were stuck in a flooded area around the Sava River after their small boat had ruptured. The migrants previously had crossed […]

Comment on this story Comment AMMAN, Jordan — Three police officers were killed in a restive area of southern Jordan on Monday while trying to arrest suspects in last week’s slaying of a police commander. The main suspect was also killed in the gunbattle, authorities said. The shootout took place near the town of Maan, […]

COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Norway’s King Harald V has been admitted to a hospital due to an infection and is being treated with intravenous antibiotics, the Norwegian palace said in a brief statement Monday. The 83-year-old king is in stable condition and will remain at Rikshospitalet for a few days, the palace said. Rikshospitalet is part […]