Getty ImagesFrom baseball to March Madness, how gambling is ruining sports. The 1919 World Series is famous for a few things, but most of all, it’s remembered as the worst gambling scandal in US sports history. Eight members of the Chicago White Sox were accused of taking money from gamblers to purposefully lose the World Series. Though some maintained their innocence, all eight were eventually banned from baseball for life.... Read more ›
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Jared Bartman for VoxUkraine’s drone innovations have changed how the US is planning for a war with China. It’s hard to overstate the level of hype currently surrounding military drones. Just in the past week, former senior US military commanders have penned commentaries comparing drones, in terms of their revolutionary potential, to the development of the phalanx formation that helped make Alexander the Great’s conquest possible, and suggesting they may... Read more ›
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A diamond-ring effect during a total eclipse of the sun on August 21, 2017, as viewed from the Cohen Recreation Center in Chester, Illinois. | Keith Gillett/Icon Sportswire via Getty ImagesThis will be the last total solar eclipse over the contiguous United States for 21 years. Don’t miss it! On April 8, 2024, millions of Americans will be able to see a rare celestial occurrence: a total solar eclipse. It’s... Read more ›
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Apple CEO Tim Cook takes a selfie with an attendee during an event on September 10, 2019, on Apple’s Cupertino, California campus. | Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesDoes Apple have a monopoly on smartphones? The Justice Department thinks so. The Biden administration filed a sweeping antitrust lawsuit against Apple Thursday that targets a product that has long been the major revenue driver for the company’s $2.76 trillion business: the iPhone. The Department... Read more ›
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Kate and Meghan stand on the balcony of Buckingham Palace during the annual Trooping The Colour on June 9, 2018, in London, England. | Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty ImagesAnd Diana, too. As intrigue mounted last week over a then-missing, now recently appeared Kate Middleton and her Photoshopped picture, British-owned tabloids directed their ire toward a familiar target: Meghan Markle. To an unpracticed observer, it would be difficult to blame the disappearance of... Read more ›
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There’s a reason so many of us don’t have enough retirement savings. By the standards of most financial experts, Americans are woefully behind on saving for retirement. The reason why is rooted in changes to the country’s retirement system that resulted in a flawed design for how people set aside money. In this video, we interviewed four people about their level of retirement preparedness and two experts about the state... Read more ›
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Xinmei Liu for VoxNeuralink has implanted a chip in its first human brain. But it’s pushing a needlessly risky approach, former employees say. Of all Elon Musk’s exploits — the Tesla cars, the SpaceX rockets, the Twitter takeover, the plans to colonize Mars — his secretive brain chip company Neuralink may be the most dangerous. What is Neuralink for? In the short term, it’s for helping people with paralysis —... Read more ›
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Packages of mifepristone tablets at a family planning clinic on April 13, 2023, in Rockville, Maryland. | Anna Moneymaker/Getty ImagesThe stakes in the Supreme Court’s mifepristone case go way beyond abortion. For more than a year, a specter named Matthew Kacsmaryk has loomed over abortion access in the United States. Kacsmaryk, a former lawyer for Christian right causes that Donald Trump appointed to the federal bench, attempted to ban the... Read more ›
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The subreddit r/wallstreetbets has thoughts on Reddit’s IPO. | Brent Lewin/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesReddit could become the next meme stock — or flop. Reddit, the launchpad for many meme stocks, could now become one: The social media giant makes its debut on Wall Street Thursday in one of the most highly anticipated initial public offerings of the year. The nearly 20-year-old company has reportedly raised $748 million in its IPO,... Read more ›
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Supporters of former US President and 2024 presidential hopeful Donald Trump hold images of Laken Riley before he speaks at a “Get Out the Vote” rally in Rome, Georgia, on March 9, 2024. Riley, a nursing student, has become the face of immigration reform after her murder allegedly by an illegal immigrant on February 22, 2024. | Elijah Nouvelage/AFP via GettyWas her death an unusual tragedy — or a policy... Read more ›
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The EPA has finalized new emissions rules for light-duty vehicles like cars and medium-duty vehicles like transit vans that will push automakers to make cleaner vehicles like electrics and plug-in hybrids. | John Keeble/Getty ImagesHere’s what the federal rules mean for car companies, the climate, and you. The Environmental Protection Agency has officially cemented new pollution rules for cars, pickup trucks, vans, and SUVs that the Biden administration called the... Read more ›
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Donald Trump speaks during a Buckeye Values PAC rally in Vandalia, Ohio, on March 16, 2024. | Kamil Krzaczynski/AFP via Getty ImagesTrump’s favorability has ticked up with many Americans and soared with some traditionally Democratic groups. Something confounding is happening in America: Donald Trump, once the least liked presidential officeholder and reviled by nearly two-thirds of the country by the time he left office, is getting more popular. For the... Read more ›
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Idrees Abbas/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty ImagesNobody wins when creators fight over who is helping a poor family the most. Trying to keep track of controversies in today’s splintered online world feels like trying to analyze each of the bubbles in a perpetually boiling pot of water. Drama and discourse rockets off the bottom of the pot, breaking through the surface tension and catching our attention just as the steam above... Read more ›
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Catherine, Princess of Wales, attends a Christmas morning service at Sandringham Church on December 25, 2023, in Sandringham, England. | Stephen Pond/Getty ImagesCoverage, analysis, and updates of the royal family scandal. The world seems to be tuned into where exactly Princess Kate is. On March 18, 2024, after weeks of questions from the public, TMZ published footage of her walking out of a farm shop with Prince William. The appearance... Read more ›
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Francine McCarthy, center, of Brock University monitors core removal at Crawford Lake on April 12, 2023, in Ontario. McCarthy is a member of the Anthropocene Working Group. | Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post via Getty ImagesThe battle proves that time is political, any way you cut it. Scientists have dealt the final blow in a long-running fight over one big question: Have humans messed up the Earth so badly that... Read more ›
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Justice Amy Coney Barrett (L) and Chief Justice John Roberts pause for photographs at the top of the steps of the west side of the Supreme Court following her investiture ceremony on October 01, 2021. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesIt is hard to believe that Justice Amy Coney Barrett actually agrees with her own opinion. The Supreme Court handed down a brief order on Tuesday allowing an unconstitutional Texas state immigration... Read more ›
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Protesters march on the Rankin County sheriff’s office in July 2023, calling for police accountability for violence against Michael Corey Jenkins and Eddie Terrell Parker. | Rogelio V. Solis/APSix former police officers tortured two Black men. They’re getting sentenced this week. Six white former police officers, who pleaded guilty to civil rights offenses related to the assault and torture of two Black men in Mississippi, are being sentenced this week.... Read more ›
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New roles at Vox will strengthen the brand’s growth and development. Vox Publisher and Editor-in-Chief Swati Sharma and Vox Chief of Staff Nisha Chittal announced today that Bill Carey has joined the brand as executive director of audience and membership and Elizabeth Price has joined as director of grant and foundation development. They will begin their new roles at the beginning of April and report to Chittal. “I am thrilled... Read more ›
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A realtors’ trade group has agreed to a major settlement that could mean lower fees for home sellers. | Getty ImagesWhat the National Association of Realtors settlement means for buyers and sellers. Are home prices about to fall? That’s the question many of us are asking after the National Association of Realtors, the trade group representing the industry, agreed to cough up $418 million as part of an antitrust lawsuit... Read more ›
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Piglets stand in their enclosure at a pig farm in western France. | Jean-Francois Monier/AFP/GettyImagesIt’s a lot sooner than you think. For years, climate scientists have called for a phase-out of fossil fuels to avoid catastrophic global warming. Now, according to a first-of-its-kind survey of more than 200 environmental and agricultural scientists, we must also drastically reduce meat and dairy production — and fast. Global livestock emissions should peak by... Read more ›
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