Cassandra Peterson, Sarah Silverman, and John Mulaney at John Mulaney Presents: Everybody’s in LA for the Netflix is a Joke Festival at the Sunset Gower Studios on May 8, 2024, in Los Angeles, CA. | Ryan West/Netflix Everybody’s in LA’s week-long stint is over. It still might point toward the streamer’s future — and the comedian’s. John Mulaney’s new, just-concluded Netflix comedy limited series, Everybody’s in LA, felt experimental in... Read more ›
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Getty Images The spiritual possibilities of alien encounters. If you’re into UFOs and aliens, the last five years or so have been fantastic. There’s been a big shift in the public discourse around UFOs and alien life, thanks in large part to a 2019 story published in the New York Times about reports of UFOs — also known as unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) — off the East Coast a decade... Read more ›
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An Israeli reserve combat soldier takes part in a training drill on May 8, 2024, in the Golan Heights. | Amir Levy/Getty Images Israel and Hezbollah are trying to keep their fighting contained. But the conflict keeps escalating. If not for the ongoing carnage in Gaza, there’s a good chance the spiral of violence between Israel and the Lebanon-based military group Hezbollah would be the Middle Eastern conflict dominating the... Read more ›
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Chantemekki Fortson, mother of Roger Fortson, a US Air Force senior airman, holds a photo of her son during a news conference with attorney Ben Crump on May 9, 2024, in Fort Walton Beach, Florida. | Gerald Herbert/AP Photo Fortson’s shooting deepens longstanding scrutiny of police violence. The police killing of a Black Air Force service member in his own home is drawing renewed scrutiny to the deadly violence that... Read more ›
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Miss USA Noelia Voigt attends the 72nd Miss Universe Competition on November 15, 2023, in San Salvador, El Salvador. | Hector Vivas/Getty Images The allegations surrounding the Miss USA pageant, explained. Over the course of a week, Miss USA Noelia Voigt and Miss Teen USA UmaSofia Srivastava both relinquished their titles, marking an unprecedented period of turbulence in the pageant’s history. Since Miss USA was established in 1952, no title... Read more ›
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Vox’s daily news explainer podcast is available on public radio stations across the US as well as on podcast platforms. You can listen to Today, Explained on many local public radio stations across the US, with more being added all the time. We have partnered with WNYC to bring our daily news podcast to stations all over the country. We’ll continue dropping episodes Monday through Friday on your favorite podcast... Read more ›
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Macklemore performs at Spark Arena on May 9, 2024, in Auckland, New Zealand. | Dave Simpson/WireImage “Hind’s Hall” was electrifying because it was so unexpected. One of the things that made Macklemore’s Gaza protest rap “Hind’s Hall” so electrifying when it dropped on May 6 is how unexpected it was. It wasn’t just that Macklemore, who hasn’t really seemed culturally relevant since his notorious Grammy win over Kendrick Lamar a... Read more ›
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Bambie Thug, Ireland’s entry to Eurovision this year, calls themself a “ouija popstar” and a witch. | Jens Büttner/Picture Alliance via Getty Images Eurovision doesn’t want to be about Israel-Palestine, but amid protests and boycotts, it might not have a choice. For taxonomic purposes, Eurovision is an international song contest. Technically, the European Broadcast Union (EBU) created the event in 1956 to foster post-WWII European unity, but has largely expanded... Read more ›
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A lab at Ginkgo Bioworks in Boston, Massachusetts, in September 2022. | Bloomberg via Getty Images New regulations are a win for safe synthetic DNA. In the past, if you were a researcher who wanted to study a specific strand of DNA or RNA, you’d have to go through the laborious process of coaxing some bacteria to produce it for you in the lab. Not anymore: These days, you can... Read more ›
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Stormy Daniels leaves Manhattan Criminal Court on May 9, 2024, in New York City. | Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images What we learned from Daniels’s testimony. A New York case against former President Donald Trump, once considered the least important of the four criminal suits he faces, could now be the only one to have a direct impact ahead of the election. This case, which centers on whether Trump falsified business... Read more ›
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Refugees fleeing fighting in Darfur arrive at the border between Sudan and Chad on April 22, 2024, in Adre, Chad. | Dan Kitwood/Getty Images International impunity helped allow a power struggle in Sudan to spiral into ethnic violence. Twenty years ago, American celebrities like George Clooney and Ryan Gosling urged us all to “Save Darfur” from the brutal conflict and ethnic cleansing campaign occurring under Sudanese leader Omar al-Bashir. Bashir... Read more ›
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Japan relies on coal power more than any other G7 country, but it’s aiming to make big cuts. | Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg via Getty Images If a wealthy, advanced economy is having a hard time getting off coal, what does it mean for the rest of the world? Coal is the dirtiest fossil fuel by far, producing more particulate air pollution and global warming gasses than any other, per unit of... Read more ›
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Israeli forces’ flares light up the night sky in Gaza City on November 6, 2023. | Abed Khaled/AP Looking to understand the Israel-Hamas war? Start with these Vox podcast episodes. The Israel-Palestine conflict goes back decades, but this latest war has taken an unprecedented toll in terms of the number of people killed, and represents a significant step back from any hopes of securing a two-state solution and a permanent... Read more ›
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Jessica Gunning as “Martha” in Baby Reindeer. | Ed Miller/Netflix As a woman named Fiona Harvey claims to be the real-life stalker, the paradox of true crime as entertainment strikes again. As a medium, autofiction has long been a source of controversy, but rarely has an autobiographical work of fiction come with as many built-in issues as Netflix’s hit Baby Reindeer. The show, a seven-episode limited series from British comedian... Read more ›
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A piece of GOOD Meat’s cell-cultivated chicken cooks on a grill at the company’s California office in July 2023. | Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Bans on cell-cultivated, “lab-grown” meat are about protecting Big Ag. Last week, Florida became the first US state to ban the production and sale of lab-grown, or “cell-cultivated” meat. “Take your fake lab-grown meat elsewhere,” Gov. Ron DeSantis said before signing SB 1084 into law. “We’re not... Read more ›
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Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) walking the halls of Congress. | Nathan Howard/Getty Images Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis banned cell-cultivated or “lab-grown” meat. Why did Democratic Sen. John Fetterman lend his support? Last week, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill into law to ban cell-cultivated or “lab-grown” meat from the Sunshine State. “Take your fake lab-grown meat elsewhere,” DeSantis said. “We’re not doing that in the state of Florida.” Then,... Read more ›
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Palestinians walk around the rubble of buildings destroyed after an Israeli attack on the As Salam neighborhood in Rafah, Gaza, on May 6, 2024. | Abed Rahim Khatib/Anadolu via Getty Images The US has offered unconditional military aid to Israel throughout the war in Gaza. As of this week, that might be changing. Israel’s operation in Rafah, the southernmost city in Gaza that houses more than a million displaced Palestinians,... Read more ›
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We set out to solve why a forest in the middle of Uruguay looked like that — and wound up discovering something much bigger. Deep in the geographic center of Uruguay, there’s a peculiar group of trees just a few kilometers down the road from the small town of San Gregorio de Polanco. From the ground, it looks like any other forest, with tall trees reaching deep as far as... Read more ›
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Photo Illustration by Omar Marques/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Was this book the reason TikTok is getting banned in the US? No, but ads saying so sold a lot of copies. If you’ve spent enough time scrolling through TikTok, you might have seen a video from an account like @tybuggyreviews, a handle with half a million followers that exclusively posts videos selling products through the TikTok Shop. The creator, whose... Read more ›
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Franco Zacha for Vox Because of one law, the internet has no legal duty of care when it comes to hate speech. Just take a look at what happened in Myanmar. Just after the clock struck midnight, a man entered a nightclub in Istanbul, where hundreds of revelers welcomed the first day of 2017. He then swiftly shot and killed 39 people and injured 69 others — all on behalf... Read more ›
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