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 rally, in which a member of the crowd was killed and Trump was injured, no one was harmed […] Read more ›
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On 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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We all know someone — maybe it’s a friend, a co-worker, a family member — who always manages to be the voice of doom. The person who always knows that something is pointless or won’t succeed. If no one immediately springs to mind, I regret to inform you that it’s possible that you’re this person […] Read more ›
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At the 76th Emmy Awards, the biggest surprise was perhaps the most telling. At the end of a night in which The Bear, arguably not a comedy, swept most of the comedy categories, it lost the crucial trophy for Best Comedy Series itself. The winner ended up being Hacks, another long-time Emmys favorite that is […] Read more ›
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This past week, Republicans amplified a barrage of strange and racist claims about Haitian immigrants, including falsely suggesting that they’re consuming people’s house pets. The unfounded attacks came from official party social media accounts, lawmakers, and from both members of the GOP’s presidential ticket. Vice presidential candidate JD Vance said Monday that “Haitian illegal immigrants” […] Read more ›
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Fueled by a late-summer heat wave, several large wildfires have been burning across the Western US, forcing thousands of people to flee their homes and turning the sky in parts of Southern California an eerie orange. This is of course bad for pretty much everyone. Except for Melanophila beetles. These insects, which are roughly the […] Read more ›
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OpenAI, the company that brought you ChatGPT, is trying something different. Its newly released AI system isn’t just designed to spit out quick answers to your questions, it’s designed to “think” or “reason” before responding. The result is a product — officially called o1 but nicknamed Strawberry — that can solve tricky logic puzzles, ace math tests, and […] Read more ›
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In recent days, the Republican presidential ticket has decided to promote incendiary lies about a roughly 15,000-person immigrant community in one small Ohio city. Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance introduced this line of messaging Monday, when he declared that “Haitian illegal immigrants” are “causing chaos all over Springfield, Ohio,” and that “people have had […] Read more ›
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At 12:01 am on Friday, 33,000 Seattle and Portland area Boeing workers with the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) went on strike. It’s the first time since 2008 that workers at Boeing, one of the world’s two major commercial aircraft suppliers, have walked off the job. The strike won’t affect commercial air […] Read more ›
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When Donald Trump flew to Pennsylvania for a 9/11 anniversary event this week, he brought an unusual companion: a 9/11 conspiracist named Laura Loomer. Loomer has been a quasi-journalist on the fringe right for about a decade, with a penchant for saying things that make even hardened MAGA types recoil. She is a self-described “proud […] Read more ›
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Since it was attacked by Houthi rebels in Yemen three weeks ago, a tanker carrying roughly 1 million barrels of crude oil has been immobilized and on fire in the Red Sea. The MV Sounion is still intact, but may not be for long, and should it sink it could lead to one of the […] Read more ›
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Please cover your eyes if you aren’t prepared to be spoiled: The eponymous, beautiful pair at the heart of Netflix’s The Perfect Couple isn’t perfect, nor is the show specifically about said couple. To be clear, the series largely exists because if you squint and only pay half attention to it while scrolling your phone, […] Read more ›
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In the Purity Chronicles, Vox looks back at the sexual and gendered mores of the late ’90s and 2000s, one pop culture phenomenon at a time. Read more here. In an election year full of unprecedented events and weirdness, there’s been another notable oddity: Whenever a new hot girl enters the zeitgeist — say Sydney […] Read more ›
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It’s probably been a minute since you saw Larry David, Tom Brady, or Matt Damon on TV extolling the benefits of crypto. That’s because the era of feverish crypto hype — interrupted by a cascade of highly publicized scandals — has largely passed since its heyday in 2021.  But there’s one critical place where the […] Read more ›
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Billionaire Jared Isaacman and SpaceX engineer Sarah Gillis completed the first privately funded spacewalk Thursday — a critical aspect of a risky, somewhat troubled mission designed to test new SpaceX technology, gather valuable data about high-altitude space travel, and generally push the limits of space exploration. The mission, called Polaris Dawn, was supposed to launch in […] Read more ›
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Back in 2016, Vox asked 270 scientists to name the biggest problems facing science. Many of them agreed that the constant search for funding, brought on by the increasingly competitive grant system, serves as one of the biggest barriers to scientific progress. Even though we have more scientists throwing more time and resources at projects, […] Read more ›
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In October 2023, members of the World DanceSport Federation, or WDSF, learned breaking, the sport they’d been trying to make happen at the Olympics for years, would not be appearing at the 2028 Los Angeles Games. In response, the organization’s president, Shawn Tay, made a grand proclamation. “Ensuring the success of breaking’s Olympic debut at […] Read more ›
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Taylor Swift, always noted for her flair for dramatic timing, finally endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris in the presidential race Tuesday night. Moments after the first debate between Harris and former President Donald Trump, Swift posted her endorsement to Instagram, with a picture of herself posing with her now almost-equally famous cat. Meanwhile, Harris walked […] Read more ›
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Could we solve climate change if we just accepted being dramatically poorer, forever? As I’ve written before, the answer is 1) no, not really, and 2) we can also solve climate change without that, and that will be better for everyone — especially those who are already poor — so we should do that instead. […] Read more ›
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Do kids still play? Specifically, do they play in active, imaginative, kid-directed ways, off screens and in the real world? It’s a question I’ve gotten in many forms since I started this newsletter, from the reader who asked if kids are still learning “Ring Around the Rosie” to the dad who wondered if it’s possible […] Read more ›
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