Editorâs 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 âChristmas creepâ now begins before Halloween, but the true Christmas season actually starts on Christmas Day itself. Thatâs right: December 25 marks the official start of [âŠ] Read more âș
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Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP via Getty ImagesHezbollah and other Iran-backed groups support Hamas, but havenât opened new fronts In his first public statement about Israelâs war with Hamas, Lebanese Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah on Friday indicated that the Shia militant group â though supportive of Hamasâ bloody October 7 attack on Israel â wouldnât be opening up another front in the war just yet. Hezbollah, which the US and other countries have... Read more âș
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An Israeli army self-propelled artillery howitzer moves past waiting traffic while crossing a road along the border with the Gaza Strip in southern Israel on November 1, 2023 amid ongoing battles between Israeli forces and Hamas. | Menahem Kahana/AFP via Getty ImagesWhat history can â and canât â tell us about the hope for a Gaza ceasefire. The last time that Israel and Hamas engaged in hostilities that had the... Read more âș
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President Joe Biden speaks from the Rose Garden at the White House on September 1, 2023. | Anna Rose Layden/Getty ImagesBiden has a Plan B for student debt. Will it survive the Supreme Court? For as long as heâs been president, Joe Biden has been vexed by student loans. His primary opponents pushed him to endorse mass loan forgiveness legislation during the 2020 campaign, then pressured him in the days... Read more âș
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Julia Child prepared scallops in her kitchen in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on October 16, 1975, on her Garland gas stovetop. The gas range became almost as iconic as the chef herself, featured in a Smithsonian exhibit today. | Ulrike Welsch/Boston Globe via Getty ImagesDocuments reveal the untold story of how the natural gas industry infiltrated Americanâs kitchens through the beloved chef. For years on her popular cooking show, The French Chef,... Read more âș
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Spent shells fly out of an AK-47 fitted with a bump stock. The bump stock is a device that allows a semiautomatic to fire at a rapid rate much like a fully automatic gun. | George Frey/Getty ImagesThe justices will decide if bump stocks, devices that effectively convert a semiautomatic gun into an automatic weapon, are legal. The Supreme Court announced on Friday that it will hear Garland v. Cargill,... Read more âș
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Hezbollah supporters rally ahead of the 2022 elections, raising flags and a portrait of the groupâs leader Hassan Nasrallah. | AFP/Getty ImagesWhy would Hezbollah enter the fight against Israel? The leader of Hezbollah, an Iranian-backed Islamist militant organization and Lebanese political party, has not ruled out escalating its ongoing fight against Israel as that country expands its ground operations in Gaza. In a highly anticipated televised speech Friday, Hassan Nasrallah... Read more âș
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Jaz Sinclair as Marie Moreau, a superhero with gory powers, in Gen V. | Amazon StudiosGen Vâs season-long satire of college sports, superheroes, and capitalism comes to a wicked end. We love to send superheroes to school. The X-Men came together at Charles Xavierâs School for Gifted Youngsters. The Fantastic Fourâs Future Foundation and at least three academies â the short-lived Teen Titans, the magically inclined Strange, and the comic... Read more âș
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Sam Bankman-Fried attends court this summer in a federal case that accused him of fraud, conspiracy and other charges. | Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesThe criminal conviction of the once-lionized cryptocurrency billionaire will have ripple effects on the entire industry. After just a few hours of deliberation, a New York jury on Thursday convicted Sam Bankman-Fried of fraud and conspiracy in the public flameout of his cryptocurrency exchange FTX,... Read more âș
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Steve Jenkins/Esther the Wonder PigHow Esther the Wonder Pig put a face to factory farming. Esther the Wonder Pig â a world-famous pig who was one of the few of her kind to escape the fate of the factory farm and slaughterhouse to live life on her own terms â died peacefully last month, at 11 years old. Her life as a pet pig, extensively documented on social media, helped... Read more âș
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Getty ImagesA crisis of confusion is making health care more expensive for many Americans. Of all the culprits that make it harder for Americans to afford and access health care, the sheer confusion many patients experience when trying to select an insurance plan or when faced with an expensive medical bill may be the most overlooked. Thatâs according to a recent survey from research firm Perry Undem, which reveals the... Read more âș
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In the past few years, Airbnb prices â and guest complaints â have sharply risen. | Getty Images/iStockphotoFinancially, the sharing economy darling is thriving, but guests, hosts, and cities have had enough. Airbnb knows people are unhappy. Its CEO, Brian Chesky, has acknowledged the âtens of thousandsâ of complaints across social media about the platformâs growing costliness. It knows that hostsâ expenses â like home insurance, property taxes, and the... Read more âș
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House Speaker Mike Johnson and members of the Senate GOP caucus walk through the Capitol on November 1, 2023. | Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc./Getty ImagesMAGA Republicans took down the last GOP speaker. Now theyâve passed an aid package tailored to their goals. Although Rep. Mike Johnson was a relative unknown when he took the House speakership, one of the few things thatâs quickly become apparent is how closely aligned he... Read more âș
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Paige Vickers/VoxRetailers would rather complain about shoplifting than invest in fighting it. Jonathan wants me to guess how often retail workers see someone steal. Itâs a challenge he likes to make to friends, who always underestimate it. âItâs multiple times a day, maybe as often as once an hour. And thatâs the stuff you can see, like the really blatant ones,â he says. âA lot of people picture a scared... Read more âș
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Why Palestinians in Gaza have suffered for decades. On October 7, Hamas, a militant group based in the Gaza Strip, launched a deadly attack on Israel, killing more than 1,400 Israelis and kidnapping more than 200. In retaliation, Israeli airstrikes had killed more than 7,000 Palestinians when this video was published on October 27, and thousands more have been killed since in Gaza, where Palestinians have lived for decades under... Read more âș
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Dead bodies at the morgue of Nasser Hospital in Gaza on October 25, 2023. | Mustafa Hassona/Anadolu via Getty ImagesReal-time fatality counts from conflict zones like Gaza are almost never right. Pay attention to them anyway. At a press conference on October 25, PBS Newshour reporter Laura BarrĂłn-LĂłpez asked US President Joe Biden a stark question. More than 6,000 Palestinian deaths had been reported in Gaza since October 7, she... Read more âș
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Pro-Palestine supporters attend a demonstration in New York in 2018. | Atilgan Ozdil/Anadolu Agency/Getty ImagesSilencing criticism makes it harder for Israelâs leaders to think clearly. Eight years ago, I published a novel about a Montreal Jewish family with a dangerous mystical obsession. It had absolutely nothing to do with Israel. But that didnât stop a former Israeli combat soldier from trying to get me disinvited from a book event. He... Read more âș
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New Vox Crossword puzzles come out Monday through Saturday | Amanda NorthropFor the curious in all of us. Can you solve it? Welcome to the Vox crossword. Puzzles come out Monday through Saturday. Make sure to bookmark this page (or add to your phoneâs 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... Read more âș
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Courtesy of American UniversityNelson to lead policy, politics, and health and science. Today, Vox announced Libby Nelson has been promoted to editorial director for policy, politics, and health and science. In her new role, Nelson will be the senior newsroom leader overseeing the policy and politics teams and our coverage of the 2024 elections; and Voxâs health and science coverage. âLibby has been a part of building Vox since day... Read more âș
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Getty ImagesWhy green cities might not be the panacea we think they are. Des Fitzgeraldâs new book, The Living City: Why Cities Donât Need to Be Green to Be Great, reads like a provocation. The idea of green cities â urban spaces where trees and plant life are integrated to make the environment more sustainable and livable â is so prevalent that there are very few cities in the United... Read more âș
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Third grade students read a book during an English language arts class at their temporary school site in early October before campuses in LÄhainÄ re-opened. | AP/Mengshin LinHawaiâi education officials want to return to normal. But some parents want more time to heal. On October 15, a day before LÄhainÄâs public schools were set to reopen, the families of West Maui â still reeling from the deadliest wildfire in US... Read more âș
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