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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Mollie Burkhart and her sisters are targeted for their land in Killers of the Flower Moon. | AppleTV+Scorsese’s latest film looks to the past, but misses the larger picture. Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, a three-and-a-half-hour historical film, centers on a wave of brutal murders against members of the Osage Nation, a Native American tribe based in northeast Oklahoma. As depicted in the movie, a great number of... Read more ›
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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (left) shakes hands Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani during their meeting in Lusail on October 13, 2023. | Jacquelyn Martin/AFP via Getty ImagesThe tiny Gulf state maintains ties with the parties in the conflict. That has made its diplomacy essential — which is exactly what the Qataris want. Late Tuesday, Qatar formally announced a deal between Israel and Hamas that would temporarily... Read more ›
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Israeli soldiers apprehend a young Palestinian boy in the West Bank town of Hebron on June 20, 2014. | Thomas Coex/AFP/Getty Images150 Palestinian prisoners are being released as part of Israel and Hamas’s recent hostage deal. But thousands more remain behind bars. On October 12, in the West Bank village of Wadi al-Seeq, Israeli soldiers and settlers detained three Palestinians and spent hours abusing them. The Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported... Read more ›
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Bats don’t just host deadly diseases — they can tolerate them shockingly well. Bats get a bad rap in all forms of media — and it’s not entirely unwarranted. Whenever they hit the news, it’s typically paired with some deadly disease that they’ve somehow unleashed on humans: from Ebola to Hendra virus to Nipah virus to various coronaviruses such as SARS, MERS, and even Covid-19. Bats are just really good... Read more ›
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He’s back! | Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesSam Altman is back at OpenAI. What happens to its safety mission? So, OpenAI had a weird week. The hottest company in tech just saw the removal, replacement, and reinstatement of its superstar CEO, Sam Altman in the span of five days. It also saw, as a result of that Altman drama, the removal and replacement of most of its board of directors. In the... Read more ›
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Sam Altman, the poster boy for AI, was ousted from his company OpenAI. | Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty ImagesThe alternative — a mass exodus of OpenAI’s top talent to Microsoft — would have been worse. The seismic shake-up at OpenAI — involving the firing and, ultimately, the reinstatement of CEO Sam Altman — came as a shock to almost everyone. But the truth is, the company was probably always going... Read more ›
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A demonstration to bring the Israeli hostages held in Gaza by Hamas back home, organized by the Hostages and Missing Families Forum. | Faiz Abu Rmeleh/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty ImagesHere’s what the reported hostage deal does — and doesn’t — mean for war in Gaza. Late Tuesday, the Israeli government and Hamas reached a deal that will bring the first pause in hostilities in over six weeks — and... Read more ›
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Inside a farm that raises turkeys for Jennie-O, the second largest US turkey producer. | Photo courtesy of Kecia DoolittleHow the meat company behind the White House turkey pardon — and the rest of the industry — really treats its birds. Late into the night on November 2, a few animal rights activists opened an unlocked barn door and stepped foot into a sea of turkeys living in gruesome conditions.... Read more ›
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Israeli artillery train their guns toward the Gaza Strip on November 21, 2023 in southern Israel. | Christopher Furlong/Getty ImagesThe agreement is a pause, not a ceasefire. That distinction matters — a lot. For anyone concerned about the people of Israel and Gaza, the just-announced deal for a break in the fighting between Israel and Hamas should be considered good news. Per the agreement, Hamas will release 50 women and... Read more ›
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2023 saw some of the hottest temperatures ever recorded, and they’re eating into food production. | MHJ/Getty ImagesAre your holiday meals pricier this year? Blame the record-breaking heat around the world. It’s the time of year when many are thinking about food. A lot of food. Thinking a lot about a lot of food. In 2022, Americans spent an additional $2.8 billion on food for Thanksgiving compared to a typical... Read more ›
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The signing of the Oslo Accords between then-Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and then-Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat at the White House, on September 13, 1993. | J. David Ake/AFP/Getty ImagesA timeline of the decades-long peace negotiations that came before the Israel-Hamas war. Even though Israel has approved a temporary ceasefire in its unprecedented assault on Gaza following Hamas’s October 7 attack, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has made... Read more ›
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A Demonstration to bring the Israeli hostages held in Gaza by Hamas back home, organized by the Hostages and Missing Families Forum. | Faiz Abu Rmeleh/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty ImagesHere’s what the reported hostage deal does — and doesn’t — mean for war in Gaza. On Tuesday, the Israeli government reportedly approved a deal with Hamas that the state of Qatar brokered and that has been more than a... Read more ›
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Sam Altman, the poster boy for AI, was ousted from his company OpenAI. | Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty ImagesTo the victor — Microsoft — go the spoils? The seismic shake-up at OpenAI has come as a shock to almost everyone. But the truth is, the company was probably always going to break. It was built on a fault line so deep and unstable that eventually, stability would give way to... Read more ›
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Photographer Evgeniy Maloletka picks his way through the aftermath of a Russian attack in Mariupol, Ukraine, February 24, 2022. | AP Photo/Mstyslav ChernovA conversation with a Ukrainian journalist who documented the siege of Mariupol. The first weeks of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine unfolded in a rush: Russian tanks rolling through streets, tens of thousands fleeing, bombs over cities like Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Mariupol. Mariupol, in particular, became a symbol of... Read more ›
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Malte Mueller/Getty ImagesIn his new book, Stanford professor Robert Sapolsky argues that free will is a myth. There are many ways to think about the history of humanity. One of them is to say that we’ve gradually lifted ourselves out of ignorance as we’ve learned more about the natural world. No one is burning witches anymore, thankfully, and no one seriously believes that demons are the cause of diseases; if... Read more ›
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Former US President Donald Trump attends the UFC 295 event at Madison Square Garden on November 11, 2023, in New York City. | Sarah Stier/Getty ImagesThe “unitary executive” is back, and it could supercharge Trump’s plans to fill the government with his own loyalists. Last year, a federal appeals court dominated by Trump appointees and MAGA sympathizers ruled that the system the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) uses to protect... Read more ›
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Janna Morton for VoxStartups are selling grief tech, ghostbots, and the end of mourning as we know it. In the spring of 2023, Sunshine Henle texted her mother. She asked where she had gone, told her that she missed her, and soon received a response: “Honey, I wish I could give you a definite answer, but what I do know is that our bond and our love transcends physical boundaries.... Read more ›
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Sam Altman, former (and future?) CEO of OpenAI, just 11 days before his surprise firing. | Justin Sullivan/Getty Images9 questions about OpenAI’s wild weekend, answered. So, OpenAI had a weird weekend. The hottest company in tech is imploding after the shocking removal of its superstar CEO Sam Altman under still-mysterious circumstances. And now the maker of ChatGPT is on the verge of losing most — if not all — of... Read more ›
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Simone Noronha for VoxCompassionate ways to let a friend or family member know you’re looking out for them. After her father had a transient ischemic attack, also known as a mini-stroke, Lisa McCarty snapped into action. She had taken a prominent role in his life and was knowledgeable about his health, so she offered to make a follow-up appointment with the cardiologist. Her dad, on the other hand, responded with... Read more ›
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Israeli forces’ flares light up the night sky in Gaza City, Monday, Nov. 6, 2023. | Abed Khaled/APLooking to understand the Israel-Hamas war? Start with these Vox podcast episodes. The Israel-Palestine conflict goes back decades, but this latest war has taken an unprecedented toll in terms of the number of people killed, and represents a significant step back from any hopes of securing a two-state solution and a permanent peace.... Read more ›
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