Giving to charity is great, not just for the recipients but for the givers, too. But it can be intimidating to know how to pick the best charity when there are thousands of worthy causes to choose from, and especially when so many are suffering around the world. Yet that suffering makes it all the […] Read more ›
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Vox reader Gunnar Colleen writes: “So are all the bugs really disappearing? If so, why does it seem like nobody is doing anything about it? Is there anything I can personally do to help out the little guys at the very base of our ecosystems? I’ve been thinking about this a lot and it seems […] Read more ›
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As I’ve been thinking about Donald Trump and JD Vance’s reckless lies about Haitians eating cats in Ohio, I keep coming back to one question: What makes this different from all the other things they’ve said about immigrants? Trump blaming crime on immigrants is, after all, the foundation of his political identity: His 2016 campaign […] Read more ›
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If you need something explained, Vox is the place to go. Now, we’re bringing that ethos to our latest franchise, Explain It to Me, which launches Wednesday, September 18, and focuses on answering your questions through a weekly podcast, a weekly newsletter, and a video series. Every week, we’ll tackle a question from a listener […] Read more ›
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On September 6, the Missouri health department announced it had recently identified a new human case of bird flu. This case was different from the other 15 human cases previously identified in the US in that the patient denied having contact with animals, raising the possibility that the illness had already begun spreading among humans. […] Read more ›
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The Murdochs — the real-life media family that inspired HBO’s Succession — are currently navigating a court case that could rival any fictional drama. The family, led by 93-year-old patriarch Rupert Murdoch, controls a vast, global news organization that includes the Wall Street Journal and the Times of London, as well as Fox News in […] Read more ›
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A horrifying sexual assault case playing out in France is adding to a larger French reckoning over abuse toward women. The case centers on 71-year-old Dominique Pelicot, who is accused of drugging and raping his wife, Gisèle Pelicot, and inviting dozens of other men to sexually assault her while she was unconscious. Dominique Pelicot — […] Read more ›
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Hundreds of pagers exploded simultaneously in Lebanon and Syria on Tuesday in an attack that apparently targeted members of Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Islamist militant organization and Lebanese political party. It comes amid rising tensions between Hezbollah and Israel as the war in Gaza rages on without any end in sight. At least nine people were […] Read more ›
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Now that inflation has cooled, the Federal Reserve is expected to cut interest rates by at least 0.25 percentage points this week. That should be welcome news for all Americans in need of a loan: business owners, college students, and anyone looking to buy a home. Until March 2022, the US enjoyed historically low interest rates. […] Read more ›
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The rapper and mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs was arrested in Manhattan on Monday, the latest development in a nearly year-long saga spawned by numerous sexual assault and violence allegations against him. He has been indicted on charges of sex trafficking, racketeering, and transportation to engage in prostitution, and accused of running a “criminal enterprise” that […] Read more ›
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For 20 years, experts have sounded the alarm on the decline of charitable giving in the US. Then came the pandemic, which led to a wave of new donations and volunteers to nonprofits. For some leaders, this was a sign that perhaps the retreat from philanthropy was reversing course. But it’s clear now, according to a […] Read more ›
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Just two months after a man tried to assassinate former President Donald Trump, the Secret Service says it stopped what appeared to be a second assassination attempt against the former president. Unlike the July 13 shooting at Trump’s Pennsylvania rally, in which a member of the crowd was killed and Trump was injured, no one was […] Read more ›
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In 2021, the US cut child poverty by as much as 40 percent using one of the most effective anti-poverty tools the country had ever devised: the expanded child tax credit (CTC). By sending unconditional monthly checks of up to $300 per child to the nation’s poorest families — including those with little to no income […] Read more ›
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In recent years, there’s been a growing appreciation for Indigenous land stewardship and traditional knowledge. But what gets overlooked is that successfully managing those lands means that Indigenous people have already survived severe climate events and extreme weather. Now, Indigenous communities are leading the way in climate adaptations — from living alongside rapidly melting ice to confronting rising seas and creating […] Read more ›
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This story is the second feature in a Vox special project, Changing With Our Climate, a limited-run series exploring Indigenous solutions to extreme weather rooted in history — and the future. There’s a modest hill in Seneca Bowen’s yard that gently slopes upward, away from an inlet that leads into southeastern Long Island’s Shinnecock Bay and […] Read more ›
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When former President Donald Trump told 67 million Americans last week that immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, were eating people’s pets, he was repeating a racist conspiracy theory that was years in the making — if not even longer. Since 2020, thousands of Haitian immigrants moved to the Rust Belt town in southwestern Ohio to take […] Read more ›
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A presidential election is coming up and people are mad at Nate Silver again. In itself, that’s nothing new: Silver’s election forecasts have drawn at least some controversy in every presidential cycle since he started doing them in 2008. The current anger is about how Silver’s forecast has shown Trump as the slight favorite to […] Read more ›
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Linkin Park may have been one of the most popular rock bands of the turn of the millennium, but now it’s facing a backlash wedded to the modern era, including a Me Too controversy and allegations about Scientology. On September 5, after a seven-year hiatus, Linkin Park announced a comeback and aired a livestreamed performance […] Read more ›
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The Murdochs — the real-life media family that inspired HBO’s Succession — are currently navigating a court case that could rival any fictional drama. The family, led by 93-year-old patriarch Rupert Murdoch, controls a vast, global news organization that includes the Wall Street Journal and the Times of London, as well as Fox News in […] Read more ›
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Fresh waves of green and purple auroras may shimmer in the night sky tonight over parts of the continental United States, visible as far south as Iowa, Pennsylvania, and Oregon as a strong geomagnetic storm strikes Earth. It’s the latest display in an already rambunctious year for space weather. NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center issued […] Read more ›
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Last Tuesday in Shine, North Carolina, a barn holding over 1,000 pigs caught on fire. Multiple fire departments were called to put out the blaze, but only 200 pigs survived. The cause of the fire is under investigation and hasn’t yet been determined. This is not an isolated incident. Three weeks ago, 1,100 pigs died […] Read more ›
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