Editor’s note, December 25, 8 am ET: This story is being republished for the holiday season. It was originally published in 2020. It might seem unbelievable given that the “Christmas creep” now begins before Halloween, but the true Christmas season actually starts on Christmas Day itself. That’s right: December 25 marks the official start of […] Read more ›
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Beyoncé’s new album, Cowboy Carter, includes her version of Dolly Parton’s classic song “Jolene.” | Beyoncé via Instagram A music scholar explains why hell hath no fury like a country diva. There’s a lot to parse through and digest on Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter. The 27-track album is a rich, sprawling tribute to various eras and genres of Southern music, from outlaw country to Louisiana’s zydeco to 1960s rock ‘n’ roll... Read more ›
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Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) is working with a very slim majority of House Republicans. | Kent Nishimura/Getty Images The GOP majority is quite small, but a Democratic takeover pre-election still seems extremely unlikely. The GOP’s majority in the House of Representatives was already very narrow — and it’s getting even narrower. But could it get narrow enough that Democrats actually take control this year — before the... Read more ›
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Will TruthSocial deliver the windfall Trump needs? | Anna Barclay/Getty Images Trump’s social network has made him one of the richest people in the world — at least on paper. Former President Donald Trump’s net worth has skyrocketed to about $7.5 billion since Trump Media, the parent company for his social network Truth Social, went public earlier this week. The question for Trump’s presidential bid — and his various legal... Read more ›
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US President Joe Biden appears with Barack Obama and Bill Clinton during a fundraiser at Radio City Music Hall in New York City on March 28, 2024. | Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images Also, why it might not. Joe Biden is swimming in cash, but short on voters’ support. The president has narrowed Donald Trump’s polling advantage in recent weeks but still trails his Republican rival both nationally and in... Read more ›
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Malorny/Getty Images Why AI agents that could book your vacation or pay your bills are the next frontier in artificial intelligence. ChatGPT and its large language model (LLM) competitors that produce text on demand are very cool. So are the other fruits of the generative AI revolution: art generators, music generators, better automatic subtitles and translation. They can do a lot (including claim that they’re conscious, not that we should... Read more ›
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Auggie enters the virtual reality game in 3 Body Problem. | Courtesy of Netflix Would you swear a loyalty oath to humanity — or cheer on its extinction? Stars that wink at you. Protons with 11 dimensions. Computers made of rows of human soldiers. Aliens that give virtual reality a whole new meaning. All of these visual pyrotechnics are very cool. But none of them are at the core of... Read more ›
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The coal, oil, and gas industries are embracing clean energy but preparing for more fuel demand. | Brandon Bell/Getty Images Coal, oil, and natural gas producers have found their vision for a low-carbon world. HOUSTON, Texas — In a video message projected onto massive screens in a packed conference hall, Sultan al-Jaber, the president of the COP28 climate conference held in the United Arab Emirates last year, graciously accepted a... Read more ›
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US journalist Evan Gershkovich, arrested on espionage charges, stands inside a defendants’ cage before a hearing. | AFP via Getty Images Russia’s year-long detention of Evan Gershkovich is one part of a very grim picture for journalism. This morning, Evan Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal reporter and the first American journalist to be arrested in Russia on espionage charges since the Cold War, woke up to his second year in... Read more ›
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A house for sale in Flushing, Queens, New York. | Lindsey Nicholson/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Can’t buy, won’t sell: Today’s housing market, explained. Buying a house just doesn’t feel possible right now. Home prices have doubled in the last decade, with much of that growth happening in just the last four years. By one measure, housing affordability has fallen to its lowest level since the 1980s. And high... Read more ›
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US journalist Evan Gershkovich, arrested on espionage charges, stands inside a defendants’ cage before a hearing to consider an appeal on his extended pre-trial detention, at the Moscow City Court on February 20, 2024. | Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP via Getty Images Evan Gershkovich’s case isn’t just about press freedom. It’s about geopolitics. Evan Gershkovich, the Wall Street Journal reporter detained in Russia on charges of spying, just had three months added... Read more ›
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Netanyahu addresses supporters on March 24, 2021. | Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images Netanyahu has till Sunday evening to present a fix to Israel’s controversial conscription law. If he fails, his government likely fails with him. This Sunday, Israel is scheduled for a political crisis. At midnight Israel time on April 1, the government will hit a deadline for changing its policy on the military draft. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) will... Read more ›
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Bachelor Joey Graziadei’s final three contestants, Rachel Nance, Daisy Kent, and Kelsey Anderson, during the season’s final rose ceremony. | Disney Instagram follower counts indicate Bachelor Nation doesn’t care as much about leads and contestants of color. The latest season of The Bachelor concluded with an emotional proposal and an exciting announcement: For the first time in the franchise’s more than 20-year history, there will be an Asian lead. While... Read more ›
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The cover image of Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter. | Beyoncé/Blair Cardwell via Instagram Her new album seems to have roots in her reception at the 2016 CMA Awards, but the country music establishment can’t stop Beyoncé. In the lead-up to Friday’s release of Cowboy Carter, Beyoncé gave us a small tidbit about its inspiration. She wrote on Instagram that the album was “over five years in the making” and “born out... Read more ›
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Candace Owens on the set of her show “Candace” on April 12, 2022. | Jason Davis/Getty Images Recent controversies surrounding Ronna McDaniel and Candace Owens show how the media struggles to handle the increasingly extreme right. Two of the biggest stories in the American media at this moment are about staffing choices: former Republican National Committee chair Ronna Romney McDaniel’s hiring and swift firing from NBC, and popular commentator Candace... Read more ›
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Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried arrives for a bail hearing at Manhattan Federal Court on August 11, 2023, in New York City. | Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images SBF vs. Bernie Madoff, Elizabeth Holmes, Allen Stanford, and Jeffrey Skilling. Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of the defunct crypto exchange FTX who was convicted on fraud and conspiracy charges last year, was sentenced to 25 years in prison Thursday in New York court.... Read more ›
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Sam Bankman-Fried attends court in July 2023 for a federal case that accused him of fraud, conspiracy, and other charges. | Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg via Getty Images The criminal conviction of the once-lionized cryptocurrency billionaire will have ripple effects on the entire industry. Last November, after just a few hours of deliberation, a New York jury convicted Sam Bankman-Fried of fraud and conspiracy in the public flameout of his cryptocurrency... Read more ›
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Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images From search efforts to how a ship can knock down a bridge, here’s what you need to know. The shocking collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge after it was hit by a cargo ship early Tuesday morning has the region reeling. Thus far, two people who were working on the bridge have been rescued and six are presumed dead by their employer, Brawner Builders,... Read more ›
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People lay flowers at Crocus City Hall in Moscow, the concert hall where a terror attack killed at least 140 people on March 22. | Sefa Karacan/Anadolu via Getty Images ISIS-K has become a global terror threat while the world has been distracted. The Islamic State — the notorious group known for building a brutal regime in Iraq and Syria — has claimed responsibility for Friday’s terror attack at a... Read more ›
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Paige Vickers/Vox; Getty Images The energy needed to support data storage is expected to double by 2026. You can do something to stop it. In January, the International Energy Agency (IEA) issued its forecast for global energy use over the next two years. Included for the first time were projections for electricity consumption associated with data centers, cryptocurrency, and artificial intelligence. The IEA estimates that, added together, this usage represented... Read more ›
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Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed after being struck by a cargo ship on March 26. | Scott Olson/Getty Images Twitter, now X, was once a useful site for breaking news. The Baltimore bridge collapse shows those days are long gone. Line up a few years’ worth of tragedies and disasters, and the online conversations about them will reveal their patterns. The same conspiracy-theory-peddling personalities who spammed X with posts... Read more ›
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