A flesh-eating parasite that the United States spent decades eradicating, and even longer trying to keep at bay, has now shown up in Texas. Federal officials confirmed this week that New World screwworm, a fly whose larvae burrow into living tissue, had been found in a 3-week-old calf in Zavala County in Southwest Texas. It […] Read more ›
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A version of this story originally appeared in the Good News newsletter. Sign up here! Back in 2022, sunglasses-wearing U2 frontman and rock star philanthropist Bono gave one of those long interviews to the New York Times Magazine. In between talking about his band’s new albums and the challenge of staying relevant after nearly 50 years […] Read more ›
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The Trump administration has been arresting and detaining protesters who participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations. They have justified the action by calling those protesters — without evidence — “Hamas supporters.”  In so doing, the administration appears to be following Project Esther, a plan from the Heritage Foundation with the stated purpose of cracking down on antisemitism. Published in […] Read more ›
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The biggest movie in the world right now sends its characters on a journey through a building-block world full of zombies, talking pigs, and magical artifacts. A Minecraft Movie has raked in hundreds of millions of dollars in theaters around the globe since it opened last weekend, not only outperforming expectations by double but smashing […] Read more ›
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On Thursday, the Supreme Court ordered the Trump administration to bring back Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man it had sent to a notorious Salvadoran mega-prison in what the government has conceded was an “administrative error.” Not one of the justices dissented from that ruling. The justices sent the case back to the federal trial […] Read more ›
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For many years, Donald Trump has viewed unpredictability as one of his greatest negotiating assets. He believes deliberately acting “crazy,” as he reportedly told aides in 2017, is a highly effective way to win concessions in advance of a deal. As I’ve written, this is akin to what President Richard Nixon dubbed the “madman theory” […] Read more ›
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Pollen allergy season is getting longer and more intense as the climate changes, creating more misery for allergy sufferers. But it’s not the only type of allergy threat getting worse with warming. There are other allergens, like mold spores, whose spread coincides with higher temperatures and weather disruption. But one of the most insidious and […] Read more ›
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A version of this story originally appeared in the Future Perfect newsletter. Sign up here! We live in a consumerist society. But at least speaking for my own social circles, we also live in an anti-consumerist society: We purchase lots of things, and we also feel vaguely guilty about it and brag about all of the ways we […] Read more ›
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By the time Remi Bader, who built her career as a plus-size influencer with over 2 million followers on TikTok, went on Khloé Kardashian’s podcast to address her smaller body, it had been subject to nearly a year and a half of speculation. Fans were certain Bader had betrayed them, but exactly how and in […] Read more ›
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When you think about animal cruelty, you might think of chained-up dogs left to suffer in the cold, stray cats struggling to survive on the streets, or depressed polar bears at the zoo. As terrible as many cats, dogs, and zoo animals have it, the animals that are both the most numerous and that have […] Read more ›
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American negotiators are headed to Oman this weekend for a round of high-level talks with Iran over its nuclear program. President Donald Trump dropped the surprise announcement Tuesday during his Oval Office meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu. (Netanyahu was reportedly surprised by the news as well, one of a number of disappointments for the Israeli prime […] Read more ›
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The facts underlying Noem v. Abrego Garcia are shocking, even by the standards of the Trump administration’s treatment of immigrants. The Supreme Court just ruled that the immigrant at the heart of the case get some relief — but that relief is only partial In mid-March, Trump’s government deported Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia to El […] Read more ›
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This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: Economic chaos from President Donald Trump’s tariffs continues to dominate headlines, but today I want to focus on his continuing effort to rewrite the history of the 2020 election […] Read more ›
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For those of us with anxiety (hello!), the class of prescription drugs known as benzodiazepines, or benzos, can be a boon in times of crisis. Though they are addictive, they’re pretty good at chilling us out. But it turns out that by drugging ourselves with these pills, we are inadvertently drugging wild animals as well. […] Read more ›
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Let’s start with what should be obvious: The wolf pups are not dire wolves, and they haven’t been “de-extincted.” The fluffy white canines — Romulus, Remus, and Khaleesi — unveiled this week by Colossal Biosciences are closer to something like designer dogs. More precisely, they are genetically modified, hybridized modern wolves, gestated in the womb […] Read more ›
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The arrest of Rex Heuermann, allegedly the infamous Long Island serial killer, makes for riveting drama in Netflix’s latest true crime docuseries Gone Girls — but while the series focuses on the victims and sheds light on Heuermann himself, viewers may find themselves more fascinated by another important facet of the investigation: just how close […] 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. Having a baby is expensive. You need a car seat. A stroller. A high chair. You need the baby shampoo and then the different baby shampoo for when your baby is allergic to the baby shampoo (maybe just […] Read more ›
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Something unexpected happened recently as I was filing my taxes: AI helped. It even caught an error that my human accountant missed. This was surprising because when I decided to test out a free tax return chatbot, I expected it to tell me to, I don’t know, write off my dog as a business expense […] Read more ›
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Much has apparently changed in the last 24 hours in the US economy. The S&P 500 opened Wednesday more than 10 percent down since President Donald Trump announced his sweeping tariffs on American imports. Goldman Sachs had raised its recession odds to 45 percent. Investors believed they no longer had the ear of the president. […] Read more ›
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President Donald Trump has launched a global trade war, raising prices and tanking stocks in the process. His approval rating is in free fall. And yet, somehow, the Democrats are in disarray. Or at least, they are bitterly bickering over what their party’s stance on trade should be. Last week, as “Liberation Day” unraveled global […] Read more ›
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When President Donald Trump announced his tariffs last week, he also declared a national emergency. According to the White House, the emergency in question is “the large and persistent trade deficit,” or the fact that the United States imports more goods than it exports.  If you’re confused about why that’s an emergency, you’re not alone. […] Read more ›
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