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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Denis Novikov/Getty ImagesThe virus is surging again. Here’s how to be your own contact tracer if you get sick. Over three years since the emergence of Covid-19, the virus is once again gaining steam. Because testing for Covid-19 and reporting of positive cases remain inconsistent, wastewater surveillance is one of the best measures of the virus’s prevalence in the community, Vox’s Dylan Scott notes. As of late July, Covid-19 in... Read more ›
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Wildfires fueled by strong winds and drought have whipped across western Maui, Hawaii, this week, razing structures and forcing evacuations. | Zeke Kalua/County of Maui via APA large hurricane, drought, and perhaps even invasive grasses have fueled the devastating fires in Hawaii. Earlier this week several wildfires engulfed parts of the Hawaiian island of Maui, killing at least three dozen people, burning multiple homes and businesses, and forcing more than... Read more ›
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Paige Vickers/VoxThere are many, many ways to save for retirement, and not all of them involve stocks and bonds. On the Money is a new monthly advice column written by Nicole Dieker, a personal finance expert who’s been writing about money for over a decade. For Vox’s Money Talks interview column, she’s written stories about couples who run small businesses, navigate different relationships with spending, handle health insurance, and more.... Read more ›
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Ron DeSantis speaks at the Republican Party of Iowa’s annual Lincoln dinner on July 28 in Des Moines, Iowa. | Scott Olson/Getty ImagesEven after receiving backlash from fellow Republicans, the Florida governor is tripling down on the state’s controversial Black history standards. Despite strong backlash from Democrats and fellow Republicans, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is tripling down on his state’s newly approved social studies curriculum guidelines that erroneously teach students... Read more ›
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The journey across the Mediterranean is considered one of the most dangerous in the world, according to the UN’s International Organization for Migration. | Matias Chiofalo/AFP via Getty ImagesAt least 41 people are believed to have died after a boat capsized off of Italy this month. Less than two months after one of the deadliest shipwrecks in decades, a new shipwreck off the coast of Italy this past week has... Read more ›
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Former President Donald Trump speaks as the keynote speaker at the 56th Annual Silver Elephant Dinner hosted by the South Carolina Republican Party on August 5, 2023, in Columbia, South Carolina. | Melissa Sue Gerrits/Getty ImagesTrump and his lawyers are currently pursuing three lines of legal defense, centered around the First Amendment, to charges that he tried to overturn the 2020 election. How strong are they? Former President Donald Trump’s... Read more ›
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An injection pen containing semaglutide, sold by Novo Nordisk under the brand names Wegovy and Ozempic. | Photo by Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesA clinical trial suggests the drug could help people avoid the world’s leading cause of death. Diseases involving the heart and blood vessels are the leading cause of death globally and in the US. So anything that helps reduce deaths due to cardiovascular disease is a cause... Read more ›
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Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) arrives and takes her seat at a business hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill on May 11, 2023, in Washington, DC. | Drew Angerer/Getty ImagesAbsent a voluntary resignation, party leaders have few options to get Feinstein to step down. For weeks this spring, Sen. Dianne Feinstein was hammered over her extended absence because it meant that Democrats didn’t have the votes they needed... Read more ›
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Harvard University Library. | Getty Images/iStockphotoA Harvard professor accused of research fraud brings a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against the university and her accusers. What comes next? A few weeks ago, I wrote about Francesca Gino, a researcher on dishonesty who last month was placed on administrative leave from Harvard Business School after allegations of systematic data manipulation in four papers she co-authored. The alleged data manipulation appeared, in a few cases,... Read more ›
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Lizzo performs at the Roskilde Festival on July 1, 2023, in Roskilde, Denmark. | Rune Hellestad/Corbis/Getty ImagesMultiple former employees are accusing Lizzo of sexual harassment. She denies it. Lizzo, a pop star who has built her brand on both body positivity and empowering upbeat hits, is facing a new lawsuit that levels serious allegations, including claims that she created a hostile work environment and engaged in sexual harassment. Lizzo has... Read more ›
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Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesWhat “Eris” tells us about the future of the pandemic. In the latest data published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Covid-19 hospitalizations rose 12.5 percent between July 23 and July 29. Overall, they have been increasing since July 1. And in the last week, there was a 10 percent increase in locations reporting their highest levels of SARS-CoV-2 ever in sewage wastewater (and that’s... Read more ›
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Soumyabrata Roy/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesThis painful, mosquito-borne virus could spread even more if new innovations can’t scale. Break-bone fever. Break heart fever. Seven-day fever. They are all names for the painful — often debilitating and sometimes deadly — mosquito-borne disease called dengue fever. Dengue can cause high fever, nausea, rash, body aches, and stiff movements, and can leave patients suffering from depression and fatigue in its wake. Dengue has been... Read more ›
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People cast their votes at a polling place in student union of Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, on November 8, 2022. | Sarah L. Voisin/Washington Post via Getty ImagesVoters rejected new restrictions on ballot measures — with implications for November and 2024. On Tuesday, Ohio voters rejected a Republican proposal known as Issue 1 that would have made it harder for citizens to put issues on the ballot or... Read more ›
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Megan Thee Stallion performs during the Amazon Music Live Concert Series on November 3 in Los Angeles, California. | Jerritt Clark/Getty Images for Amazon MusicThe outcome of the Tory Lanez shooting trial won’t erase Megan Thee Stallion’s pain. From the moment Megan Thee Stallion came forward with the news that she was shot in 2020 — and that fellow MC Tory Lanez had fired the gun — critics have doubted... Read more ›
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Getty Images/iStockphotoWhat to know about the people who can help manage and grow your money — including how they get paid. My relationship with money has been one of intimacy. From the moment I began earning it, I preferred to keep my precious dollars where I could see them: easily accessible in my wallet or a bank, no cent left unaccounted. I probably would’ve stored all of my money in... Read more ›
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Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesWhat “Eris” tells us about the future of the pandemic In the latest data published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Covid-19 hospitalizations rose 12.5 percent between July 23 and July 29. Overall, they have been increasing since July 1. And in the last week, there was a 10 percent increase in locations reporting their highest levels of SARS-CoV-2 ever in sewage wastewater (and that’s... Read more ›
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A vaguely worded terms of service update made a lot of people think their private meetings were being used to feed Zoom’s AI machine. | David Espejo/Getty ImagesZoom returns to the office — and to its problematic privacy ways. The week isn’t even half over and it’s already been a bad one for Zoom, the videoconferencing service that boomed during the pandemic. It’s facing yet another privacy scandal, this time... Read more ›
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People cast their votes at a polling place in The Ohio Union, a student activity center at the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio on November 8, 2022. | Sarah L. Voisin/the Washington Post via Getty ImagesVoters rejected new restrictions on ballot measures — with implications for November and 2024. On Tuesday, Ohio voters rejected a Republican proposal known as Issue 1 that would have made it harder for citizens... Read more ›
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Kansas City’s Patrick Mahomes in the 2023 Super Bowl. | Focus on Sport/Getty ImagesWhat Disney’s ESPN/Penn Entertainment tie-up tells us about sports, pop culture, and the media business. Here’s a story that would have been very, very hard to imagine a few years ago: ESPN, Disney’s sports behemoth, is doing a $2 billion deal with Penn Entertainment, a gambling company you’ve probably never heard of. It’s a striking about-face for... Read more ›
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A sand tiger shark off the coast of North Carolina. | Gregory Sweeney/Getty ImagesNature is healing. In most past summers, New York beaches were, at their worst, crowded, dirty, and loud. Now, however, beachgoers must contend with something slightly more unsettling: sharks. Along the south shore of Long Island, on some of New York’s most popular beaches, shark attacks appear to be on the rise. Last month, over the long... Read more ›
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