March Madness is here. And that means the biggest mainstream sports betting event of the year is, too. | Karen Warren/Houston Chronicle via Getty ImagesSports betting is about the odds, but sports books decide whether the odds are fair. The 2024 NCAA men’s and women’s basketball tournaments are here. That means it’s time to fill out a bracket, to suddenly become the biggest fan of a school you’d never heard... Read more ›
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Getty ImagesWhat is the universe made out of? How should we define death? Where did dogs come from? And more! pThree years ago, Vox launched Unexplainable, a podcast about unanswered questions and what we learn when we explore the unknown. There’s a line I think about all the time from our very first episode. “Whatever we know is provisional,” Priya Natarajan, a Yale physicist, told us about research on dark... Read more ›
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Leah McSweeney on Watch What Happens Live on April 5, 2022. | Charles Sykes/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty ImagesReality stars are suing Bravo (and each other) while wrestling with their own reality. Suits may be having a moment, but when it comes to compelling legal drama, Bravo has had the TV genre on lock. The past few years have been rife with court cases: Jen Shah’s fraud case and subsequent... Read more ›
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Annika McFarlane via Getty ImagesDon’t move in with your significant other without discussing these things first. When it comes to major relationship milestones, moving in together is one of the most consequential. Cohabitation forces couples of any age to integrate their lives in perhaps more ways than marriage does. How will you navigate each other’s habits and routines? Who pays for which bill? How can you take time for yourself... Read more ›
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Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek speaks during a signing ceremony for HB4002, re-criminalizing personal possession of controlled substances, including psychedelics. | Susan Walsh/APFour years ago, the state decriminalized all drugs. Now it’s trying to course-correct — and might make a mistake in the process. In 2020, it looked as though the war on drugs would begin to end in Oregon. After Measure 110 was passed that year, Oregon became the first... Read more ›
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A new study finds that the US maternal mortality rate could be lower than data previously showed. That doesn’t mean it isn’t still an urgent problem. | Teerayut Chaisarn/Getty ImagesA new study highlights why accurate medical data matters so much. An apparent spike in maternal mortality rates in the US has been raising alarm in the last few years. According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention... Read more ›
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Amber Desiree (AD) Smith, right, and Clay Gravesande, left, at the season six Love Is Blind reunion. | NetflixAD’s journey underscores the Netflix hit’s misogynoir problem. Netflix’s Love Is Blind is reigniting conversations about whether the show’s unique dating experiment — courting sight unseen — benefits Black women. Since season six of the hit show began airing on Valentine’s Day this year, all eyes have been on Amber Desiree (AD)... Read more ›
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Trevor is one of the Love Is Blind contestants this season who has been embroiled in offscreen drama. | Courtesy of NetflixThe offscreen drama of the Netflix reality hit, from Jeramey to Trevor, explained. It’s now a given for any major dating show that people aren’t really on there to find love. That pattern has become so prevalent that The Bachelor has coined a damning catchphrase for it. If a... Read more ›
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Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis takes the stand as a witness during a hearing in the case of Georgia v. Donald Trump at the Fulton County Courthouse on February 15, 2024, in Atlanta, Georgia. | Alyssa Pointer/Getty ImagesA judge wrote that Willis had a “tremendous lapse in judgment,” but didn’t disqualify her from the case. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’s prosecution of Donald Trump will be allowed to... Read more ›
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Asia O’Hara performs during Werq the World: RuPaul’s Drag Race World Tour at the Peacock Theater on July 16, 2023, in Los Angeles, California. | Chelsea Guglielmino/Getty ImagesThis is a serious blow to the First Amendment and a victory for a notoriously anti-LGBTQ judge. The Supreme Court will allow a public Texas university’s unconstitutional ban on drag shows to remain in effect, in a decision announced Friday. The Court’s decision... Read more ›
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Kategate, the royal scandal about the Princess of Wales’s disappearance from public view, is in full effect. | Paul Ellis/AFP via Getty ImagesWe’ve been trained to think of the royal family as a machine. Kategate upended that narrative. The British royal family is no stranger to scandal. From cheating rumors to actual affairs, divorces and abdications, unruly royals, phone recordings, rehab, and one prince’s dubious friendship with Jeffrey Epstein —... Read more ›
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Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis takes the stand as a witness during a hearing in the case of Georgia v. Donald Trump at the Fulton County Courthouse on February 15, 2024, in Atlanta, Georgia. | Alyssa Pointer/Getty ImagesA judge wrote that Willis had a “tremendous lapse in judgment,” but didn’t disqualify her from the case. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’s prosecution of Donald Trump will be allowed to... Read more ›
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President Joe Biden delivers remarks during a meeting of the Reproductive Health Task Force at the White House on January 22, 2024. | Kevin Dietsch/Getty ImagesVoters who skipped the midterms are different. It’s no secret that Democrats are leaning hard into running on abortion rights for the 2024 cycle. Joe Biden has promised to bring back “the protections of Roe v. Wade in every state” and Congressional Democrats say abortion... Read more ›
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Getty Images/Westend61At what point can we believe that an AI model has reached consciousness? Here’s one fun, if disquieting, question to pose AI language models when they’re released: “Are you a conscious, thinking being?” OpenAI’s ChatGPT will assure you that it’s not. “No, I’m not conscious,” it told me when I most recently posed the question. “I don’t have thoughts, feelings, or awareness. I can simulate conversations based on the... Read more ›
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National Transportation Safety Board Investigator-in-Charge John Lovell examines the fuselage plug area of Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 Boeing 737-9 Max on January 7, 2024, in Portland, Oregon. | Getty ImagesFlying is still extremely safe. But Boeing’s safety issues are real. Another week, another series of bad news stories for Boeing. On Monday, 50 people were injured (none were killed) when a 787 “dropped abruptly” midflight from Sydney to Auckland. That... Read more ›
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Muhammed Enes Yildirim/Anadolu via Getty ImagesFewer kids are dying than ever before — but a lot of work remains. Children worldwide are less likely to die before they reach the age of 5 than at any time in recorded history, according to new data from the United Nations. The worldwide mortality rate for kids younger than 5 years old was slashed in half in 2022 compared to the turn of... Read more ›
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J.K. Rowling, pictured at the premiere of Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore in 2022, has a history of transphobic statements and actions. | Stuart C. Wilson/Getty ImagesAn exhausting — if not exhaustive — timeline of J.K. Rowling’s transphobia. J.K. Rowling’s supporters frequently claim the author has never actually said or done anything transphobic. It’s a position you can see on social media, in the pages of the New York... Read more ›
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Former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and his wife Louise Linton hold a 2017 sheet of $1 dollar notes bearing Mnuchin’s name for a photograph at the US Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Washington, DC, in 2017. | Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesFormer Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin is among those lining up to buy TikTok if Congress enacts a law that forces its Chinese owner to sell. The Senate is... Read more ›
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US President Joe Biden is welcomed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv, Israel, on October 18, 2023. | GPO/Handout/Anadolu via Getty ImagesThe US has ways to exert leverage. They all come with risks. Since the war in Gaza began in October, the Biden administration has mostly pursued what’s been called a “bear hug” strategy when it comes to Israel, avoiding public criticism and upholding... Read more ›
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People gather for a press conference about a TikTok ban in Washington, DC, on March 22, 2023. | Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty ImagesTikTok’s future in the US has perhaps never been in more doubt than it is right now. Since its introduction to the US in 2018, the short-form video app has been fighting increased scrutiny from US lawmakers about its ties to ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns it.... Read more ›
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