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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Ian Maule/Getty Images Should we take current polls seriously? Or are there good reasons to expect a Biden comeback? Is Joe Biden in deep reelection trouble, or is there good reason to think he’s headed for a comeback? The question has divided the political world for months. The case that Biden’s on track for defeat is pretty simple: He’s trailed Trump in a large majority of the national and swing... Read more ›
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Photo by Michael Bocchieri/Getty Images Wildfire risk is increasing everywhere, especially in the East and South. Here’s a major reason why. Lucas Aguayo Araos/Anadolu via Getty Images Smoke rises over the forest during a wildfire in Viña del Mar, Chile, on February 3, 2024. Last month, a heat wave persisted for days in the Chilean coastal city of Viña del Mar. The landscape, already affected by an El Niño-supercharged drought,... 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, will be sentenced Thursday in New York court. Prosecutors are seeking a... Read more ›
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The oil tanker Nobel waiting to transfer crude oil from Russia, on March 5, 2023, near Ceuta, Spain. | Antonio Sempere/Europa Press via Getty Images The world’s next big maritime catastrophe could involve sanctions-dodging rustbuckets. On March 2, just as it was rounding the northern tip of Denmark, an oil tanker called the Andromeda Star collided with another ship. Thankfully, the 700,000-barrel capacity Andromeda Star was empty at the time,... Read more ›
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Jenn Tran, the franchise’s first Asian American lead, will helm the next season. | Disney Jenn Tran, a physician assistant student from Miami, has been named the new Bachelorette. Editor’s note, March 27, 5 pm ET: Jenn Tran has been named the first Asian American Bachelorette in the franchise’s 22-year history. For the first time in years, The Bachelor franchise had not one, not two, but multiple contestants of Asian... Read more ›
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Venezuelan migrants, Lenin Diaz, 11, left, Maria Inojosa, 43, and Diaz’s mother Euglimar Ramos, 30, walk outside a shelter on December 19, 2023, in Chicago. | Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service/Getty Images They point to much deeper holes in US immigration policy. Chicago’s decision to move forward with a controversial migrant eviction proposal is underscoring ongoing gaps in immigration policy that continue to exist across the country — and... 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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Yemen’s Houthis say they’re avenging Gaza. But there’s a lot more to it. After the Israel-Hamas war broke out on October 7, 2023, the Houthis, a Yemeni rebel group, began attacking ships passing through the Red Sea. The Houthis pledged to attack any ship in these waters that does business with Israel, to protest Israel’s war in Gaza and to show solidarity with Palestinians there. But as the attacks have... Read more ›
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Getty Images How happy are you? Are you sure about that? We know that America is really unhappy. And Finland is the happiest country. Right? Well, that’s what it says in the World Happiness Report, a wide-ranging survey on global happiness levels released last week. But before you pack your bags and move to Northern Europe, you might want a sneak peek at how the experts figure out who’s happy... Read more ›
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The cargo ship Dali sits in the water after running into and collapsing the Francis Scott Key Bridge. | Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images From drought in the Panama Canal to the Houthis in the Suez to pirates off Somalia, we’re all paying the price. Baltimore woke up yesterday to horrific images of the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsing into the harbor after the cargo ship Dali lost power and collided with... Read more ›
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Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images From search and rescue 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 as authorities continue to search for survivors who may have fallen into the Patapsco River. Thus far, two people who were... Read more ›
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. hosts a fireside chat with rapper and producer Eric B. at The Gentleman’s Factory on February 18, 2024, in New York City. | John Nacion/Getty Images The Kennedy conspiracy theorist, his VP pick Nicole Shanahan, and their potential to upend the 2024 presidential election, explained. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has named Nicole Shanahan, a Silicon Valley lawyer and ex-wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, as his... Read more ›
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Sean “Diddy” Combs, pictured at Howard University in October, was accused of trafficking and rape a month later by singer Cassie in a civil lawsuit that later inspired other women to come forward. | Shareif Ziyadat/Getty Images for Sean “Diddy” Combs The accusations are part of a larger reckoning in music — one that some say is long overdue. Especially in the 1990s and 2000s, Diddy was a figure of... Read more ›
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Demonstrators gather in front of the Supreme Court as the Court hears oral arguments in the case of the FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine on March 26, 2024. | Anna Rose Layden/Getty Images The lawsuit challenging mifepristone should have never been heard by any court. The Supreme Court appeared listless, even bored, during Tuesday’s oral arguments in FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, the case asking the courts to... Read more ›
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. hosts a fireside chat with rapper and producer Eric B. at The Gentleman’s Factory on February 18, 2024, in New York City. | John Nacion/Getty Images The Kennedy conspiracy theorist and his potential to upend the 2024 presidential election, explained. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is expected to name Nicole Shanahan, a Silicon Valley lawyer and ex-wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, as his running mate in... Read more ›
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NYT Why a really great word game makes you feel smart, and also stupid. What do the words “loo,” “condo,” “haw,” “hero” have in common? Unless you’re extremely into ornithology, it’s impressive if you were able to pick out the fact that if you added another letter to each of them, you’d spell the name of a bird. But if you’re a regular player of the New York Times game... Read more ›
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Beyoncé spotted during New York Fashion Week on February 13, 2024, in New York City. | James Devaney/GC Images A century of history of Black country music, explained by Alice Randall. If you somehow haven’t heard: Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter, her eighth studio album and the much-anticipated sequel to Renaissance, drops on Friday. Its lead single “Texas Hold ‘Em” made history when it debuted at the top of the country charts... Read more ›
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Caleb Luke Lin for Vox And how it could fizzle. Artificial intelligence is already making people rich. Jensen Huang, the co-founder and CEO of chip company Nvidia, which controls 80 percent of the data-center AI chip market, has seen his net worth explode from a mere $4 billion five years ago to a staggering $83.1 billion as of March 24 on the back of bottomless demand for his company’s product.... Read more ›
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US Sen. Tammy Duckworth speaks during a February news conference, on protections for access to in vitro fertilization. From left to right. Sens. Tammy Baldwin, Amy Klobuchar, Chuck Schumer, and Patty Murray look on. | Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images What the debate over IVF regulation misses. Earlier this month the Atlantic ran an opinion piece describing the American fertility industry as “strangely undeveloped” from a regulatory perspective. The two... Read more ›
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Displaced Palestinians collect food donated by a charity before an iftar meal, the breaking of the fast during Ramadan, in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, on March 22, 2024. | Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto via Getty Images Everyone in Gaza is facing crisis levels of hunger. It’s entirely preventable. Every resident of Gaza is at risk of crisis levels of food insecurity — and half are at risk of famine.... Read more ›
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