Time - USA (2020-11-02)

8 Time November 2/November 9, 2020

‘I thought I had muted the Zoom video.’

JEFFREY TOOBIN,

New Yorker staff writer and CNN legal analyst, in a statement to Vice published Oct. 19, after he

was suspended from the New Yorker following reports he had exposed himself during a video call

‘What we

have to

have is

a civil

union

l a w.’

POPE FRANCIS,

speaking on rights for

same-sex couples in a

documentary released on

Oct. 21—his first explicit

expression of support on

the issue as Pontiff

$25,

Prize money awarded

Oct. 14 to 14-year-old Anika

Chebrolu as part of the

3M Young Scientist

Challenge, for research that

could lead to a potential

treatment for COVID-

‘As a nation, we

can listen and we

can debate. After

all, we are too

small to lose sight

of other people’s

perspective.’

JACINDA ARDERN,

New Zealand Prime Minister, after winning

re-election by a landslide vote on Oct. 17

17,000 m.p.h.

Orbital speed of an old Chinese rocket booster and a

defunct Soviet satellite that narrowly missed hitting each

other in orbit on Oct. 15. A collision could have created a

huge debris field, exacerbating a worsening space-junk

problem that threatens satellites and spacecraft

‘You can

hold me

responsible.’

RODRIGO DUTERTE,

Philippine President, speaking on

television Oct. 19, on the nearly

6,000 killings reported by police

since he launched a drug war after

taking office in 2016

‘WHEN PEOPLE TRY TO SUPPRESS

SOMETHING, IT’S NORMALLY BECAUSE

THAT THING HOLDS POWER. THEY’RE

AFRAID OF YOUR POWER.’

LIZZO,

musical artist, accepting an honor at the Billboard Music Awards on Oct. 

with a speech calling on U.S. viewers to vote in the 2020 elections

For the Record

GOOD NEWS

of the week

Twelve-year-old

Nathan Hrushkin

discovered the

fossilized bones of a

69 million-year-old

hadrosaur duck-

billed dinosaur,

the Nature

Conservancy of

Canada announced

on Oct. 

ILLUSTRATIONS BY BROWN BIRD DESIGN FOR TIME

SOURCES: NPR; THE WASHINGTON POST; AP; CNN; BILLBOARD; VICE