TIME The Year In Review 2025
The Year in Review 2025
A City Aflame
DONALD TRUMP’S DISRUPTION IS BACK • The president returned to the White House and set out to “make America great again.”
Jimmy Carter’s Funeral
No Kings Days
Sarah Inama
Luigi Mangione
PREPARING FOR A HIGH COURT VACANCY • The White House is sifting through résumés and legal briefs in case a new justice needs to be nominated.
A Rise in Political Violence
School Phone Bans
Return of Confederate Statues
Pulse Memorial Crosswalk
George Santos
The End of the Penny
The Battle at Universities
Democratic Party Reboot
Annunciation Catholic School Shooting
A Deadly Year for Flying
Jeffrey Epstein
Texas Floods
Washington Slept Here
HOPE FOR PEACE AFTER TWO YEARS OF WAR • Hamas released the remaining Israeli hostages, Palestinians returned to their shattered communities, and Israel pulled back its forces in Gaza.
Pope Leo XIV
The NATO Alliance
Feeding the Animals
The Rise of the Right
A New Liberal Voice
A Jailed President
World Briefs
UKRAINE’S MISSING CHILDREN • During the nearly four-year-long war in Ukraine, Russians have taken more than 20,000 children, the largest abduction of youths since World War II.
Dismantling USAID
Spreading Electricity
War and Death
The Dalai Lama Will Live On
President Yoon Removed from Offce
A Government Falls
Hiroshima 80 Years Later
GOLDEN AGE OR EXISTENTIAL RISK: HOW WILL AI TRANSFORM SOCIETY? • Leaders in the field of artificial intelligence disagree on the impact the technology will have.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Cuts to the Sciences
Oh Boy, It’s Hot Outside
Richard Thompson
Science Briefs
Protecting Polynesia’s Waters
Interspecies Transplants
Domestic Violence
King Thutmose II’s Tomb
Life on Another Planet?
Protecting Rhino Horns
Hope for Starfish
The Return of Lost Species
ALEX OVECHKIN PASSES THE GREAT ONE • The Washington Capitals captain broke Wayne Gretzky’s 26-year-old goal-scoring record.
Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner
The Dodgers Win Their Second-Straight World Series
Bubba Wallace’s Indianapolis Win
Sports Briefs
Paige Bueckers
Rory McIlroy
The Return of Venus Williams
The Eagles Soar
A SUPER DUO • Look up in the sky! It’s a bird! it’s a plane!—it’s Superman and his superdog, Krypto!
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
My Mom Jayne
Movie Briefs
Sinners
The War on Comedy
1923
Adolescence
Dying for Sex
Taylor’s Big Year
Sean Combs’ Conviction
Music Briefs
Kendrick Lamar
KPop Demon Hunters
Audra McDonald
Books Briefs
John Proctor Is the Villain
The Kennedy Center
The Louvre Is Robbed
Anna Wintour
Labubu
Los Angeles’s Loss
ROBERT REDFORD • The actor, director, and champion of indie filmmaking was also an activist who sought to protect the environment.
Brian Wilson
Diane Keaton
David Lynch
Sly Stone
Dick Cheney
Sandra Grimes
Athol Fugard
Carolyn McCarthy
Jim Lovell
Marianne Faithfull
David Souter
Malcolm-Jamal Warner
Hulk Hogan
Jane Goodall
Claudia Cardinale
Ricardo Scofidio
Michelle Trachtenberg
Connie Francis
Ozzy Osbourne
Nina Kuscsik
George Wendt
Cecile...