Carlos Alvarez/Getty ImagesShe spent her life at the mercy of toxic media narratives. Her new memoir, The Woman In Me, clears the air. If there’s a true, final boss villain of Britney Spears’s long-awaited memoir, The Woman In Me, it isn’t her alcoholic and abusive father, who made millions off her conservatorship and at one point claimed “I’m Britney Spears now.” Nor is it Lou Taylor, the architect of that... Read more ›
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Jared Bartman for VoxElectric school buses are better for kids’ health. The propane industry has other ideas. Last year, the popular children’s magazine The Week Junior advertised a contest called “Be Like Jack” that would award $2,000 to the preteens or teens who submitted the winning ideas for an environmental project. A few dozen kids from around the country participated, submitting proposals meant to boost sustainability in their elementary or... Read more ›
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Factory workers and UAW members on a picket line outside of Ford’s Kentucky Truck Plant in Louisville, Kentucky, on October 14, 2023. | Michael Swensen/Getty ImagesThe UAW strike isn’t over, but it might be soon. Forty days after the United Auto Workers went on strike against Detroit’s Big Three automakers, the union has reached a tentative agreement with one of the companies in question — Ford. It means deals with... Read more ›
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Hurricane Otis went from a tropical storm to a Category 5 hurricane in less than a day. | NOAAHurricane forecasts have improved, but Otis still surprised meteorologists with how rapidly it intensified. On the morning of October 24, Otis was a mere tropical storm with sustained winds of 70 miles per hour. Six hours later, the storm’s wind speed had nearly doubled and soon after it slammed into southwest Mexico... Read more ›
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Police search for the shooter in the Lewiston, Maine, killings, on October 25. | Robert F. Bukaty/APThe factors that lead to tragedies like the Lewiston shooting are deeply ingrained in US politics, culture, and law. At least 18 people have been killed and more than a dozen injured in a mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine, the northern state’s second-largest city. The shooter wasn’t immediately apprehended and appears to have opened... Read more ›
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A trio of large animatronic animals from Five Nights at Freddy’s | Universal/BlumhouseHow a collection of jump scares and killer animatronics shaped a decade of gaming culture. You might not think a story about a bunch of terrifying animatronic pizza joint robots who routinely kill children would make for a hot-ticket movie, but Five Nights at Freddy’s is finally getting a hotly anticipated theatrical release on October 27. The movie,... Read more ›
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A man views rifles for sale in Carpentersville, Illinois. | John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service/Getty ImagesThe factors that lead to tragedies like the Lewiston shooting are deeply ingrained in US politics, culture, and law. At least 16 people have been killed, and several dozen injured in a mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine — the northern state’s second largest city. The shooter wasn’t immediately apprehended, and appears to have opened... Read more ›
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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) hands the gavel to newly elected Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) after the House of Representatives held an election in the US Capitol on October 25, 2023, in Washington, DC. | Chip Somodevilla/GettyRight-wing hardliners ultimately triumphed by making Rep. Mike Johnson speaker. The winner of the game of House Speaker musical chairs is … Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA), who won the job... Read more ›
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Hurricane Otis went from a tropical storm to a Category 5 hurricane in less than a day. | NOAAHurricane forecasts have improved, but Otis still surprised meteorologists with how rapidly it intensified. On Tuesday morning, Otis was a mere tropical storm with sustained winds of 70 miles per hour. Six hours later, the storm’s wind speed had nearly doubled, and hours later it slammed into southwest Mexico as a Category... Read more ›
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Melissa Bell moves into advisory role, Nisha Chittal named Chief of Staff Today, Melissa Bell announced that she will be stepping down as publisher of Vox, and that editor-in-chief Swati Sharma will take on the expanded role of editor-in-chief and publisher of Vox, reporting to Vox Media president Pam Wasserstein. In addition, Nisha Chittal has been named chief of staff. Bell shared the following in a note to Vox staff:... Read more ›
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Medicine has historically been a high-stress profession, but the pandemic amplified that risk. | Getty Images/iStockphotoWhy doctors are so stressed out, depressed, and suicidal — and what can be done about it. Twice a week, Boston-area psychiatrist Elissa Ely volunteers at a US anonymous help line for physicians in crisis. The calls she takes are often from people in deep distress — physicians having panic attacks, abusing substances or alcohol,... Read more ›
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Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), here pictured in a transmission electron micrograph. | CDC/Science Photo LibraryThe broken US health care system is a long-term barrier to Beyfortus access. On October 13, the drug manufacturer Sanofi made a surprising announcement: Public demand for Beyfortus — the brand name of nirsevimab, the company’s new product aimed at protecting newborns from severe respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infections — had wildly outpaced supply. In some... Read more ›
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Jonathan Majors, pictured at the European premiere of Creed III in London on February 15, 2023. | Jeff Spicer/Getty Images for Warner BrosThe Marvel star faces domestic assault charges, and now other allegations spanning years. New allegations of abuse and domestic violence continue to surface against Jonathan Majors. The Emmy-nominated Lovecraft Country and Creed III star was arrested in New York in March 2023 on misdemeanor charges of strangulation, assault,... Read more ›
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 Melissa Bell moves into advisory role, Nisha Chittal named Chief of Staff Today, Melissa Bell announced that she will be stepping down as publisher of Vox, and that editor-in-chief Swati Sharma will take on the expanded role of editor-in-chief and publisher of Vox, reporting to Vox Media president Pam Wasserstein. In addition, Nisha Chittal has been named chief of staff. Bell shared the following in a note to Vox... Read more ›
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Twitter co-founders Evan Williams and Jack Dorsey in 2007, a year after the company’s launch. | Christina Koci Hernandez/San Francisco Chronicle by Getty ImagesTo find out who did, look all the way back to the start of the story. Twitter is a disaster. But you know that already. Why is Twitter a disaster? You probably think you know that, too: The usual suspect is Elon Musk, who has spent the... Read more ›
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A javelina, also known as a collared peccary. | mlharing/Getty ImagesPig-like animals called javelinas damaged a ritzy golf course in Arizona. Golf courses have done more damage. In the year 2023, you hear less about how nature is healing and more about how nature is fighting back. First, it was the orcas. A small pod of them became infamous last spring for ramming boats off the coast of Spain. Now,... Read more ›
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Jonathan Raa/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesThe battle over how large language models can use published works is just beginning. Copyright law isn’t ready. Four years ago, I published my first book: End Times: A Brief Guide to the End of the World. It did ... okay? I earned a Q&A with the site you’re reading now — thanks, Dylan! — and the book eventually helped get me the job of running... Read more ›
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The last seven weekends in New York City have looked like this. | Gary Hershorn/Getty ImagesYour local meteorologist is always going to be more accurate than a weather app. For the last seven weekends in New York City, it has rained. Never during the week. Never for just an hour. Never not inconvenient. At this point it feels like the inclement weather has gone fully sentient, and knows the exact... Read more ›
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Protesters stage a demonstration in support of a ceasefire against the Palestinians in Gaza in the Cannon House Office Building on October 18, 2023 in Washington, DC. Members of the Jewish Voice for Peace and the IfNotNow movement staged a rally to call for a ceasefire in the Israel–Hamas war. | Alex Wong/Getty ImagesIn recent weeks, tens of thousands of people have marched in rallies across the world. In light... Read more ›
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Palestinians stand around a crater caused by an Israeli strike in Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip. | Mohammed Talatene/Picture Alliance via Getty ImagesElon Musk and the other platform owners aren’t entirely to blame for misinformation around the Israel-Hamas conflict. Social media is a good place to get a lot of bad information. That’s not a new problem, but it’s particularly acute right now, during a war between Israel and... Read more ›
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