Table of contents for May 16, 2016 in TIME Magazine

TIME has always been recognized for its power to convene the brightest minds, the most intriguing entertainers and all those whose impact you feel even if you've never heard their names. And there is no better showcase of influence and excellence than the TIME 100. Nearly 350 honorees and guests at this year's TIME 100 Gala on April 26 in New York City were treated to performances by Ariana Grande and Nicki Minaj. Toasts by actor and comedian Melissa McCarthy, Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton, Congolese physician Denis Mukwege, activist Caitlyn Jenner and Ford Foundation president Darren Walker amused, moved and inspired. This incredible evening would not have been possible without the support of five sponsors: Cadillac, Citi, AT&T, Marc Jacobs Beauty and Johnnie Walker. They are excellent partners, and…

On April 30, hundreds of protesters stormed Baghdad's Green Zone, the heavily fortified central area where Iraq's parliament sits, demanding government reform. The unrest threatens to destabilize the country even as it faces an external threat from ISIS. BROKEN PROMISES Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi had pledged to announce on April 30 a reform Cabinet of technocrats to fix the economy, after months of protests by Iraqis angry at energy and food shortages and endemic corruption. When the parliament postponed al-Abadi's vote, Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called for a "major popular revolution" that inspired his supporters to peacefully occupy the Green Zone. AL-SADR'S DEMANDS Protesters retreated on May 1 at the former militia leader's request, but he promised more unrest if the parliament fails to quickly appoint a new Cabinet. The…

The greatest soccer story ever told We were more likely to spot Elvis, alive, than to witness Leicester City winning the English Premier League championship. So said the oddsmakers who, going into the soccer season, gave the Foxes a 5,000-to-1 shot to take the title. (Elvis came in at 2,000 to 1.) Who can blame the bookies? Leicester City was nearly demoted to the second division a year ago, was rocked by a racially charged sex scandal and hired a coach who'd been fired by Greece after losing to the 187th-ranked Faroe Islands. And for the past two decades, the Premier League title has been won by just four gilded superclubs: Manchester United, Manchester City, Arsenal and Chelsea. But coach Claudio Ranieri's counterattacking style, carried out by unknowns like midfielder…

1 Cameras and indoor GPS allow the balloon to autonomously home in on targets--and avoid hitting humans. 2 An elastic gripper and rope winch allow it to reel in objects, much like how chameleons use their tongues to catch insects. 3 Eight propellers enable the drone to shift direction quickly, by rotating both forward and backward.…

Ali Wentworth to Elliott and Harper First let me just say, I'm sorry about your names. But Stephanopoulos is such a grand, Greek last name. You wouldn't want to be Athena Feta Mount Olympus Stephanopoulos, would you? Elliott is my grandmother (your great-grandmother's family name), and Harper was a gorgeous word I dreamt. I woke up one morning and shouted, "Harper!" and that's what we named you. Let me tell you, you are from a long line of very formidable, strong women. Your great-grandmother trekked across Mongolia. Your grandmother became the social secretary of the Reagan White House. And I, your mommy, have relentlessly pursued a career I was told I could never succeed in. I have jumped out of a plane, appeared on late-night talk shows, sometimes only in…

Jerrod Carmichael is an exciting new stand-up star making his name in the most archaic way possible. NBC's The Carmichael Show has the pointedly artificial-looking living room, the laugh track and the issue-driven format favored by series from All in the Family to The Cosby Show. As much of the rest of TV comedy grows more experimental, Carmichael is sticking with a format that feels like a step back in time. Yet it's hard to imagine the show working anytime but today. With The Carmichael Show, the North Carolina native puts the values of his parents' generation--the ones who thought Cosby's comedy was cutting-edge--into conversation with overconfident, tech-savvy millennials. Each episode follows a formula: protagonist Jerrod's parents (Loretta Devine and David Alan Grier) express an old-school perspective on an issue…

'I didn't expect this.' Donald Trump, Republican presidential candidate, after his victory in the Indiana primary forced Ted Cruz out of the race and prompted GOP chairman Reince Priebus to declare Trump the presumptive nominee Beyoncé just became the first woman to debut 12 tracks in the Billboard Hot 100. Here's how she stacks up against other musicians over time. [The following text appears within a chart. Please see hardcopy or PDF for actual chart.] Justin Bieber 17 The Beatles 14 Drake 14 Beyoncé 12 Taylor Swift 11 'All we wanted to do was get our show on.' Lin-Manuel Miranda, creator and star of the hit Broadway musical Hamilton, after it set a record with 16 Tony nominations 92 Age, in years, of McDonald's oldest employee, a fry cook in…

presented by DHL The latest round of talks on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) provoked angry protests in Europe, particularly in Germany--and almost total indifference in the U.S. That raises the question of why it's being negotiated in the first place. There is already plenty of trade flowing in both directions across the Atlantic. E.U. investment in the U.S. is about eight times the amount of E.U. investment in India and China combined, and U.S. investment in the E.U. is three times higher than U.S. investment in all of Asia. TTIP will not be the next major trade deal--and there are several reasons why. Proponents of TTIP point out that it would be the biggest bilateral trade deal ever negotiated, according to the European Commission, covering countries that…

You don't usually see a company fall as far and fast as Theranos has, even in Silicon Valley, where companies self-destruct all the time. But what's really worrying about the whole debacle isn't the money; it's that unlike a lot of Silicon Valley companies, Theranos was doing something that actually mattered: medical science. Theranos was founded in 2003 by a charismatic then 19-year-old Stanford dropout named Elizabeth Holmes. She pitched a technology that could test for a wide variety of diseases and conditions using a few drops of blood drawn by a minimally invasive finger prick, rather than by the conventional, more vampiric needle method. Over time, Theranos attracted $400 million in funding (by 2014 its valuation was $9 billion), an ultra-distinguished board of directors (a general, an admiral, two…

On a cold, gray morning in February, Irene Weiss waited patiently in the courtroom in Detmold, a small city in northern Germany. She had come a long way from her home in Virginia to testify in the trial of Reinhold Hanning, a former SS guard. The trial was off to a late start because Hanning, 94, was waiting for a wheelchair to take him into court. Because of his health and age, the trial was restricted to only two hours of court time, two days per week. Every delay meant the 85-year-old Weiss might have to stay in Germany longer than she had planned. And she had already been waiting for this moment for a very long time. Finally, Hanning was wheeled through the entrance in a jacket, glasses and…

Chris Evans as Captain America--with muscles the exaggerated proportions of a parade balloon and that retro-patriotic turtle-shell of a shield strapped to his back--looks completely ridiculous. Yet his very lack of embarrassment is what makes him so shiny and wonderful, and he sets the tone for Captain America: Civil War. It's the rare superhero movie that doesn't grind you down with nonstop action or, worse yet, a tiresome cavalcade of smart-aleck wisecracks. Directors Anthony and Joe Russo have reassembled much of the cast from Joss Whedon's leaden 2015 Avengers: Age of Ultron, including Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark/Iron Man and Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow, but here the movie around them is smarter and more intimate. What do superheroes talk about when we're not around? The script gives us…

Donald Trump began his day on May 3 with an absurd claim that linked rival "Lyin' Ted" Cruz with the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. He ended it by clinching the GOP's presidential nomination and forcing Cruz from the race altogether. What Trump does next is a question that has party elders, Trump's closest aides and even his family fretting. Does he emerge as this century's Ronald Reagan, who remakes the party's image for a generation, or as someone more akin to Barry Goldwater, the GOP's 1964 nominee, who loses 44 states? It is a question that Trump seems unready to answer. How Trump comports himself in the coming six months before Election Day stands to either remake U.S. politics or splinter an already deeply divided country. Trump earned…

Today you heard from a former inmate who is having trouble finding work. He did everything that we tell inmates to do: he got an education, he advanced up the job ladder. We need to focus on making sure that businesses recognize the value of the work he's done. How confident are you that the momentum that exists on criminal-justice reform will continue in, say, a Trump Administration? They'll work that out for themselves, whoever is in the White House. The goal is to have these issues be recognized and to seize this moment when there's bipartisan support but there's also uniformity of thought. There's a human cost and a financial cost to not helping former inmates find work. We hope that the practicality and the success of these programs…

Most of us prefer to avoid mosquitoes--but Nikos Vasilakis and Shannan Rossi are different. The two married scientists at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston have turned their tidy yellow house on America's southern doorstep into a giant mosquito trap. They've hung a small vacuum-like fan near their front door, sucking in the bugs and depositing them into a mesh container. They've also scattered cups of standing water throughout the grass--makeshift maternity wards for female mosquitoes. And those insects and eggs will be used by the scientists as part of their research into a mosquito-borne virus with a catchy name that few experts thought they'd ever need to worry about: Zika. "For us it's great," says Vasilakis. "The more we know about mosquitoes, the more we are astounded."…

If you are lucky, at some point in your life you will have the opportunity to witness a master at work--Bill Clinton wooing a crowd, LeBron James dunking, Yo-Yo Ma at the cello. DJ Khaled, 40, has Snapchat, the fast-growing social-messaging app. Khaled sends out missives--sometimes dozens--daily, locking his gaze into the front-facing camera of his iPhone and murmuring to his acolytes, who number in the millions. In these short bursts of footage, he provides a mix of confession and sermon. Right now he's filming himself while his beard is being blow-dried by a barber. "Fresh cut," he says into his phone, referring to the new haircut. He hits Send. Over the next 24 hours, the clip will be viewed by as many as 6 million fans. Fame is ephemeral,…

The Canadian former child actor Aubrey Graham has had a meteoric rise since debuting as the rapper Drake in 2006. His records sell by the boatload, and his blessing can make careers. He's not the best singer, and he's definitely not the best technical rapper, but Drake has a quality that's magnetic--making him an endlessly malleable subject for memes like the ones surrounding his feather-light 2015 single "Hotline Bling" and its hypnotic video. At a time when viral currency is the coin of the realm, Drake has become a quasi-mythical figure, one so beloved by millennials that his album release warranted a custom filter on the self-destructing-photo app Snapchat. Paparazzi photos depict him consistently enjoying life, smiling big while courtside at NBA games and with bold-faced names like Serena Williams…