Since the early fall, the US has been building up its military forces in the Caribbean and launching airstrikes on alleged drug boats, fueling speculation that it is planning a major military operation against the government of Venezuela. This week, the situation escalated dramatically with the US seizing a sanctioned oil tanker off the Venezuelan […] Read more ›
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Throughout the Western world, Madagascar is perhaps best known as a hot spot for wildlife, home to lemurs, chameleons, and other animals — a reputation popularized by movies like Madagascar and shows like Planet Earth. And it’s true that the country has an impressive array of creatures and plants that you can’t find anywhere else. […] Read more ›
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The carnage in the Sudanese city of El Fasher has become so severe that the blood stains can be seen from space. The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) — which attacked the capital of Khartoum two years ago, kicking off a brutal civil war — finally took over El Fasher last week. The RSF’s capture […] Read more ›
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It’s that time of year again: open enrollment. With it comes a lot of questions: Do I go with an HMO or a PPO? Do I need an FSA or an HSA? What’s my deductible again? It’s very confusing, but one thing is clear: The cost of your health insurance is likely going up. Premiums […] Read more ›
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The longest government shutdown in modern American history is about to end, after a handful of Democratic senators this weekend decided to provide Republicans enough votes to pass a short-term funding plan that would keep the government running until the end of January 2027. While there’s not much for Democrats to write home about in […] Read more ›
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On a cloudless morning in September, sunlight poured through the canopy of a banyan tree near the banks of the Onilahy River, which runs from southwest Madagascar to the Indian Ocean. The tree grew on the edge of a small karst cliff. Its roots spilled over the side like melting candle wax. I scrambled up […] Read more ›
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The Supreme Court announced on Monday that it will hear Watson v. Republican National Committee, a case claiming that, for many decades, states have been counting ballots that should have been tossed out entirely. The premise of the GOP’s argument in Watson is that an 1872 law providing that federal elections shall take place on […] Read more ›
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After forcing the longest US government shutdown in history, Senate Democrats threw in the towel Sunday night. Eight Democratic senators voted with the Republicans Sunday to advance a deal to reopen the government, even though the deal includes no significant concessions from the GOP or President Donald Trump. The turnabout came as a shock to […] Read more ›
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It’s hard to imagine a more clear cut violation of a federal law than what happened to Damon Landor. Landor is Rastafarian and does not cut his hair as part of his religious practice. While serving a five month prison sentence on drug charges, however, Louisiana prison officials handcuffed him to a chair, held him […] Read more ›
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If Good News had a patron saint, it would be the Swedish professor of global health Hans Rosling. Rosling, who died in 2017, was a wizard at using data and storytelling to challenge misconceptions around global development and progress. With statistics in hand, Rosling could convince the most determined pessimist that the world was, on […] Read more ›
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This story originally appeared in Kids Today, Vox’s newsletter about kids, for everyone. Sign up here for future editions. What does the president do? Kids might learn the answer to that question in school, but they also learn it from life — from eavesdropping on grown-ups, from snatches of news on TV or TikTok, from arguments on […] Read more ›
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If you are a woman of a certain age, there’s a new wonder drug that is flooding your feeds: testosterone. The hormone — which both men and women naturally have, but produce less of as they grow older — is being touted as a cure to low libido, low energy, and other symptoms. The Real Housewives […] Read more ›
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In addition to lifting Democrats’ spirits, last week’s elections, in which the party beat expectations and regained much of the support among young and nonwhite voters that it had lost in 2024, changed the calculus for what may become one of the defining fights of the second Trump presidency: the so-called redistricting war. What is […] Read more ›
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For the first time in history, we have an opportunity to stop the next pandemic. From the earliest thinking of the Greek physician and philosopher Claudius Galen to the 19th-century British “father of epidemiology” John Snow to the years before the Covid-19 pandemic, recurring, widespread, and uncontrollable illness has been beyond the grasp of the […] Read more ›
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In March, I visited the Lowell Observatory — the astronomical research site where Pluto was first discovered — in Flagstaff, Arizona. I stood in line to squint through telescopes at Jupiter and the surface of the moon before the night turned cloudy and drove me inside the Astronomy Discovery Center museum. And like all museum […] Read more ›
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The pop music landscape is currently a loud reminder that love does not always last. And that the heartbreak that follows a split, while painful, can render great art — or at least art that will get the internet talking if you give the people enough juicy details. And this year is shaping up to […] Read more ›
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Welcome to The Logoff: The FAA has ordered flight cancellations at airports around the country, starting today — and while the impacts aren’t too dramatic yet, the cuts will get more stringent soon. What happened? Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says that because of the government shutdown’s strain on air traffic controllers, who have been going […] Read more ›
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For the past two and a half years, events in war-torn Sudan have been characterized by wild swings — not only between which side in the conflict has the upper hand, but between moments of tentative hope and outright despair. Could that be the case this week, as one of the war’s darkest moments was […] Read more ›
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You’ve probably noticed that Democrats are talking a lot less about climate change. But connecting clean energy to household bills proved to be a successful way to win voters in the elections across the US on Tuesday. This off-year election was a pressure test of Democrats’ broad message on affordability and who voters hold accountable […] Read more ›
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If you own a cellphone, there’s a good chance you’ve gotten The Text: a random recruiter, sending a friendly message with an incredible job opportunity to make a lot of money for just a little bit of work. If it seems too good to be true, that’s because it is. It’s an employment scam. If […] Read more ›
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For as long as AI has existed, humans have had fears around AI and nuclear weapons. And movies are a great example of those fears. Skynet from the Terminator franchise becomes sentient and fires nuclear missiles at America. WOPR from WarGames nearly starts a nuclear war because of a miscommunication. Kathryn Bigelow’s recent release, House […] Read more ›
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