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MLK in VR Two TIME Studios projects offer new ways to experience Martin Luther King’s March on Washington via Meta Quest. View the 1963 event through The March 360—adapted from the immersive 2020 exhibit “The March,” and again made possible by American Family Insurance. And MLK: Now Is The Time brings the issues King enumerated that day into the present. Learn more at nowisthetime.time.com Exclusively on TIME.com Nearly a year after the Russian invasion, TIME continues to cover the events of the war in Ukraine. Correspondent W.J. Hennigan was the first to report that a former American Navy SEAL who had gone AWOL in 2019 had been killed during Russia’s assault on eastern Ukraine while fighting alongside Ukrainian forces. Read what we know at time.com/ukraine-seal TALK TO US SEND AN EMAIL: letters@time.com Please do not send attachments FOLLOW…

By the time former President Donald Trump left a Salem, N.H., high school auditorium on Jan. 28—his return to the campaign trail after an unusually sleepy start to his 2024 campaign—he had ricocheted off many of his standbys: indulging conspiracy theories, nursing conservatives’ fears about race and gender, and offering an alternative reality to his successor’s record. The hour-long diatribe suggested President Joe Biden should have thrown his son Hunter under the bus, that members of the Taliban did not fight at night because they lacked “binoculars,” and that wind turbines knock planes out of the sky. For a fragile front runner facing criticism over the shaky opening to his latest bid for the White House, Trump’s initial showing did little to calm the skittishness among Republicans and some former supporters…

President Joe Biden announced on Jan. 25 that the U.S. will provide 31 American-made M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine after weeks of debate among Administration policymakers and their European counterparts. The tanks are part of a long-term plan to strengthen the Ukrainian army with advanced weaponry to fight invading Russian forces, which occupy much of eastern and southern Ukraine. The policy turnaround is the latest sign the White House expects the conflict in Ukraine to last for many months and is prepared to support Kyiv for its duration. BATTLE TANKS The $400 million package includes funding for the Abrams tanks, ammunition rounds, support vehicles, and other equipment. The Abrams tank (below) weighs more than 60 tons with a 120-mm cannon that can hit targets a mile away. At around 45 m.p.h.,…

Bridgette Moore, a 40-year-old mother of five from Lake Park, Ga., has noticed that her family’s grocery bill is much higher these days—way over her $200 weekly budget. To keep her finances under control, she’s had to buy less and get more selective in her shopping for family meals. “I haven’t had to work since 2009, and now with five kids, it is becoming more and more difficult to afford basic necessities,” she says. “I didn’t expect to be in this situation, and it is a struggle to make ends meet.” Although overall inflation is starting to cool, shoppers like Moore haven’t seen much relief. Grocery prices were up 11.8% in December compared with those a year earlier. Grocery inflation declined from November to December, but prices have been rising sharply…

RESIGNED Jacinda Ardern Compassionate trailblazer Nearly six years after being sworn in as New Zealand’s youngest ever Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern announced her resignation Jan. 19 amid declining Labor Party poll numbers and a divided political legacy. The 42-year-old had ruled out the prospect of seeking re-election in the fall, citing a sensation familiar to people the world over—burnout—after leading the nation of 5 million people through major events such as the COVID-19 pandemic. The liberal leader became a household name after her swift and compassionate response to the March 2019 Christchurch mosque shootings, which left 51 people dead. That empathy was on display again in December of that year, when Ardern hugged first responders after a volcano erupted on Whakaari / White Island, killing 22 people. She also qualified as a role model…

When fellow skiers sent Amadeo Reale photos of churned mud and grassy slopes at their French and Swiss ski resorts in January, he shuddered in sympathy, but felt no sense of foreboding. As the president of Cortina d’Ampezzo’s historic Sci Club 18, he is confident that Italy’s premier ski resort in the Dolomites is pretty much immune to the no-snow-pocalypse that emptied out Europe’s prime ski destinations over the winter holidays. After all, most European resorts are 900 to 1,000 m (2,952 to 3,280 ft.) above sea level. Cortina d’Ampezzo starts at 1,600 m (5,249 ft.) and ascends to 2,362 m (7,749 ft.). Even if the lower slopes get a little slushy from above-average temperatures, as they did in mid-January, well, there is always manufactured snow—after five days of low…