Time - USA (2020-11-02)

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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

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