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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Bethenny Frankel wants to start a reality television union ... maybe | Photo by Arturo Holmes/WireImage,Bethenny Frankel’s reality TV star union is easier said than done. To this day, there’s probably no Bravolebrity — a portmanteau of Bravo and celebrity that denotes the network’s crop of reality stars — who has benefited more from their association with that brand of reality TV than former Real Housewife of New York Bethenny... Read more ›
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Google’s office in New York City. | Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesWhich search engine do you use, and why is it Google? A judge will soon decide. The first big trial of the modern Big Tech antitrust movement is here: On September 12, the Department of Justice’s lawsuit against Google’s search engine monopoly begins. What’s at stake? Oh, nothing much — just the future of the internet. Or maybe the future of... Read more ›
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Morocco’s deadliest earthquake in decades has killed at least 2,000 people and caused widespread damage. | Fadel Senna/AFP via Getty ImagesA massive quake near Marrakesh on Friday night has killed more than 2,100. More than 2,100 people are dead, including four French nationals, after a powerful earthquake with a magnitude of at least 6.8 hit Morocco Friday night near the city of Marrakesh, the largest such quake to hit the... Read more ›
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Desirey Minkoh/Afrikimages Agency/Universal Images Group via Getty ImagesNot all coups are the same — but they do have some important commonalities. A recent coup in the Central African nation of Gabon is the latest nondemocratic transition of power on the continent, following a July coup in Niger and 2022 coups in Burkina Faso and Mali. But Gabon’s putsch is quite different from a series of coups in Africa’s Sahel region,... Read more ›
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Fadel Senna/AFP via Getty ImagesA massive quake near Marrakesh on Friday night has killed more than 2,000. More than 2,000 people are dead after a powerful earthquake with a magnitude of at least 6.8 hit Morocco Friday night near the city of Marrakesh, the largest such quake to hit the country in decades. A 3.9-magnitude quake, likely an aftershock, followed Sunday morning, according to the US Geological Survey. The death... Read more ›
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Vox; Getty ImagesThe right’s leading culture warrior has invented a leftist takeover of America to justify his very real power grabs. Christopher Rufo might be the future of the Republican Party. A journalist and activist, Rufo is largely responsible for the rise of “critical race theory” as a major concern for the GOP. He has played a crucial role in Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s attempt to transform Florida’s universities, spearheading... Read more ›
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Getty Images/CSA Images RFIf your friends have started throwing lavish, time-intensive birthday celebrations, here’s how to navigate. The celebration was threefold: a dinner, a boozy art class, and a day party, held over the course of a weekend last October. Ashlee Kelly, 35, had committed to attending every festivity during the multi-day function, all in honor of a friend she’d known since high school. To get there, Kelly, a college... Read more ›
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Fadel Senna/AFP via Getty ImagesA massive quake near Marrakesh on Friday night has killed more than 1,000. More than 1,000 people are dead after a powerful earthquake with a magnitude of at least 6.8 hit Morocco Friday night near the city of Marrakesh, the largest such quake to hit the country decades. The death toll is rapidly climbing as rescue workers search the towns and villages around the epicenter in... Read more ›
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Morocco just experienced its most severe earthquake in more than a century. | Fadel Senna/AFP via Getty ImagesA massive quake in Morocco killed more than a thousand people. Here are eight things to know about these seismic events. A powerful magnitude 6.8 earthquake rocked Morocco Friday night, the largest tremor to hit the country in at least 120 years. Officials report more than 1,000 people have died and expect the... Read more ›
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The Rt Hon Theresa May MP: Saied Dai’s official portrait of the former prime minister. | Saied DaiIf she looks like an enigma, that’s on purpose. Maybe you’ve seen it already: that portrait of former British Prime Minister Theresa May, standing stoic, a bit steely even, with a military-esque blue coat draped over her shoulders. One hand, with red-painted fingernails, rests across her body. The other peeks out from beneath... Read more ›
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São Paulo, Brazil experienced 90-degree temperatures last month, during winter. | Cris Faga/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesBrazil, Argentina, South Africa, and Australia had heat waves in the past few months. Now spring begins. It’s been a hot, brutal, record-breaking summer across much of the world, and it’s not quite ready to let go as late-season heat waves bake parts of the United States, the United Kingdom, North Africa, and the Middle... Read more ›
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An oil refinery in France is one example of the kind of infrastructure that would need to transition to clean energy or capture its carbon emissions to meet global climate goals. | AFP via Getty ImagesThe first international climate change stocktake says trying is not enough. Just about every country in the world committed to keeping climate change in check in 2015. This week, the United Nations issued its first... Read more ›
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Gabriel Macht as Harvey Specter in Suits. | Shane Mahood/USA Network/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty ImagesSuits is half comfort watch, half reckoning — and America can’t stop streaming. It’s 2023, and everyone is watching Suits. The question is, which Suits are they watching? In one corner, we have Suits, seasons one through four, the absurdist morality play. The concept: a high-powered Manhattan law firm and the cutthroat corporate lawyers who... Read more ›
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The Rt Hon Theresa May MP: Saied Dai’s official portrait of the former prime minister. | Saied DaiIf she looks like an enigma, that’s on purpose. Maybe you’ve seen it already: that portrait of former British Prime Minister Theresa May, standing stoic, a bit steely even, with a military-esque blue coat draped over her shoulders. One hand, with red-painted fingernails, rests across her body. The other peeks out from beneath... Read more ›
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Matthew Horwood/Getty ImagesCovid shots are — and are not — like your annual flu vaccine. The fall season may finally bring a needed reprieve from the summer heat, but it also creates the perfect conditions for viruses — like SARS-CoV-2 — to thrive. When the weather gets colder, people spend more time close together indoors (and some research suggests our frontline immune system responses get worse), which means virus-laden respiratory... Read more ›
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Drilling for oil in Alaska is extremely expensive and potentially catastrophic for local ecosystems. | Sylvain Cordier/Gamma-Rapho via Getty ImagesCompanies like ConocoPhillips are banking on a future filled with oil. The Biden administration can’t make a move in the Arctic without a political mess. This week, the administration infuriated the oil industry by canceling seven of the remaining leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge sold by the Trump administration,... Read more ›
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Nadine Young, paternal grandmother of Ta’Kiya Young, looks at photographs of her granddaughter and family members at the law offices of the family attorney in Columbus, Ohio, on September 6, 2023. | AP Photo/Patrick OrsagosTa’Kiya Young’s fatal shooting — and bodycam footage — renews scrutiny of police violence. Ta’Kiya Young, an aspiring social worker and 21-year-old pregnant Black woman, was killed by Ohio police outside a Kroger grocery store in... Read more ›
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Beef cattle stand in a barn at a feedlot in Illinois, on April 5, 2011. | Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesTyson Foods refuses to explain how it has cut emissions for its new “climate-smart” beef. One species accounts for around 10 percent of all global greenhouse gas emissions: the cow. Every few months, like clockwork, environmental scientists publish a new report on how we can’t limit planetary warming if people... Read more ›
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President Joe Biden arrives at Fort Lesley J. McNair army post in Washington, DC, on June 25, 2023. | Julia Nikhinson/Sipa/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesYes, things may change. But there are reasons to expect a close race. Donald Trump may be facing 91 criminal counts across four separate indictments, but polls continue to show an extremely close 2024 contest between him and President Joe Biden. A CNN poll released Thursday showed... Read more ›
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Janik Söllner for VoxMeet wage access apps — or payday loans by another name. If you’re one of the more than a third of Americans who couldn’t afford to cover a $400 emergency, waiting a week or two or longer for a paycheck is a pain, especially if an emergency upends your already tight budget. For some cash-strapped workers, the solution can be found in an earned wage access app... Read more ›
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