When a president gives a primetime televised speech, it is typically about something of serious import: to make the case for a major new policy or to announce the beginning of a war. President Donald Trump’s speech on Wednesday night had no grave significance. In fact, there didn’t seem to be much of a point […] Read more ›
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It has been a meme-heavy election so far this year, with a fire hose of content about Kamala Harris’s “Brat” summer and J.D. Vance’s undeniable weirdness. But another meeting of politics and the internet has flown a little more under the radar, in the form of a Senate race that includes, for the first time, […] Read more ›
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As the Gaza war escalates in Lebanon and Tehran, Israel has been thrown into a new domestic crisis: a collapse of the rule of law that threatens to tear Israeli society apart. The crisis centers on grave allegations of torture: that Israeli soldiers at the Sde Teiman base in southern Israel had physically and sexually […] Read more ›
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When word of massive, star-studded Zoom fundraisers for white Kamala Harris supporters spread across the internet, it certainly raised eyebrows. Fundraisers from groups like Win With Black Women and South Asian Women for Harris were perhaps to be expected, since Harris is a biracial Black and South Asian woman. A fundraiser for Win With Black […] Read more ›
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The Supreme Court’s recent decision that former President Donald Trump was allowed to commit crimes while he was in office is one of the most alarming decisions in the Court’s history. As Justice Sonia Sotomayor warned in dissent, it could even have allowed Trump to escape prosecution if he had ordered “the Navy’s Seal Team […] Read more ›
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Like so many wares branded with Donald Trump’s name, his 2024 campaign is a shoddy product in glossy packaging. Trump-Vance 2024 has benefited from savvy marketing. This time around, Trump has enlisted the aid of two of the Republican Party’s premier operatives: Susie Wiles, who masterminded the GOP’s conquest of Florida, and Chris LaCivita, who […] Read more ›
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Two prominent Americans held by Russia — Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and former Marine Paul Whelan — will return to the US as part of a massive, multi-country prisoner swap, the State Department announced Thursday.  That swap will feature the freeing of 16 prisoners including citizens of Germany as well as Russian political […] Read more ›
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The US government has reached a plea agreement with three defendants accused of planning the September 11 , 2001 terror attacks, including Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind. It’s the most significant development in the 9/11 case in years — one that may finally bring a sense of closure to some survivors and families of 9/11 […] Read more ›
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2024 was supposed to be the year MDMA, perhaps better known as “ecstasy” or “molly,” got its big break. Until this summer, it was on track to rise out of the underground and into mainstream mental health care. Amid a lack of novel treatments for PTSD and staggering rates of veteran suicide, results from late-stage […] Read more ›
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Simone Biles and Team USA are golden again. At the 2024 Paris Olympics, Team USA won the gold medal in the team final on July 30. Biles, along with teammates Suni Lee, Jade Carey, Jordan Chiles, and Hezly Rivera, compiled a score of 171.296 and defeated Italy (165.494) and Brazil (164.497) who won silver and […] Read more ›
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Welcome to the Vox crossword. Puzzles come out Monday through Saturday. Make sure to bookmark this page (or add to your phone’s home screen) to find new ones each day. You can also get a weekly email reminder by signing up for our crossword newsletter. Puzzles are constructed by these great people and edited by […] Read more ›
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Technology is on its way to getting a little bit safer. The US Senate on Tuesday passed a pair of bills — the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) and the Children and Teens’ Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA 2.0) — designed to protect kids online. It’s shockingly bipartisan: The vote to approve the package of […] Read more ›
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Look around and you might see it: the telltale signs that the #Resistance has been born again. A-list celebs are rallying for and endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris; Zoom calls of Black, Latino, female, and young voters are reaching capacity; the coconut-tree and brat memes keep coming. Even cringe and earnest #Resist merch is back […] Read more ›
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Despite being a time when people from all over the world come together in equality and peace, the Olympics are still uncertain territory for transgender athletes. There are no transgender women athletes participating at this year’s Games. Transgender women who transitioned after puberty aren’t allowed to compete in major sports on a college level. Athletes […] Read more ›
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Nearly two months after launch and almost 50 days after they were initially supposed to return to Earth, two astronauts stuck at the International Space Station finally appear to be closer to their homeward voyage. That they were trapped by troubles with their Boeing Starliner spacecraft has only raised fresh doubts about the company’s technological and engineering […] Read more ›
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The conversation went off the rails within the first few minutes. Speaking Wednesday to three Black female reporters at the National Association of Black Journalists’ annual convention, former President Donald Trump was expected to make an appeal to Black voters, contrast his appearance with Vice President Kamala Harris’s absence from the event, and, of course, […] Read more ›
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Joyce Poole and Michael Pardo recently published a groundbreaking study on elephant communication: Using a machine learning model, they were able to show strong evidence that African savannah elephants have unique names for one another. The statistical model they used — known as a random forest model — is nothing new or snazzy. It’s been […] Read more ›
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Over the past few months, events in the Middle East have been giving the world a crash course in escalation management — or, more accurately, the failure to manage escalation. Despite the ongoing carnage in Gaza, the region is not quite in the state of all-out war that many have feared since last October. But […] Read more ›
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Editors note: In July 2024, while speaking at the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) conference, former President Donald Trump questioned Vice President Kamala Harris’s racial identity, saying: “She was always of Indian heritage. She was only promoting Indian heritage, I didn’t know she was Black until a number of years ago when she happened […] Read more ›
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Kamala Harris has reportedly narrowed her list of potential running mates down to three: Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly, and Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro. All these contenders have their upsides. Walz is a Midwestern veteran who plays a great no-nonsense, folksy dad on TV and repeatedly won a Republican-leaning, rural congressional district […] Read more ›
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Following President Joe Biden’s exit from the 2024 presidential race, and Vice President Kamala Harris becoming the Democratic Party’s presumptive presidential nominee, one of the next big questions that’s emerged is who could potentially be her running mate.  Historically, vice presidents have been selected to complement the main candidate. Biden, for instance, named Harris […] Read more ›
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