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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Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) reached out to help Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) after McConnell froze and stopped talking at the microphones during a news conference after a lunch meeting with Senate Republicans at the US Capitol on July 26, 2023, in Washington, DC. | Drew Angerer/Getty ImagesWhat happens if Mitch McConnell has to retire? Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell appeared to experience a health episode during a press... Read more ›
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Qin Gang’s meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in June was one of his last high-level international public meetings before he disappeared from public view. | Leah Millis/AFP via Getty ImagesWe still don’t really know what happened to Qin Gang. After a month of rumors and speculation, one of the most intriguing stories in Chinese politics came to a resolution this week — well, kind of. Qin Gang,... Read more ›
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BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty ImagesMore states are stepping up, and on a bipartisan basis. When federal lawmakers expanded the child tax credit (CTC) in 2021 as part of President Joe Biden’s pandemic relief program, some 35 million parents across the US began receiving hundreds of dollars monthly. With the expanded credit, nonworking and extremely poor families were eligible for the credit’s full value for the first time since its... Read more ›
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Naomi Elliott for VoxDo not click on that travel website (probably). Kathy could have sworn she called Qatar Airways to change her flight last spring. Looking through her call records now, she clearly didn’t. Instead, she wound up talking to a third-party booker called Infinity Travels. She has paid Infinity thousands of dollars she may never get back, even after spending countless hours trying. Her labyrinth of a saga is... Read more ›
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Columbia Pictures; Universal PicturesThe bomb has haunted pop culture since the Cold War. But it’s different now. Before the bomb, the destruction of humanity was strictly the purview of the non-human. Whole civilizations told stories of floods or plagues sent by the gods designed to wipe everyone out. People could imagine mass weather events or catastrophes that might end the human race, but in those stories, our role in our... Read more ›
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Getty ImagesAI systems train on your data. What can you do about it? When the White House revealed its list of voluntary safety and societal commitments signed by seven AI companies, one thing was noticeably missing: anything related to the data these AI systems collect and use to train this powerful technology. Including, very likely, yours. There are many concerns about the potential harm that sophisticated generative AI systems have... Read more ›
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A wildfire burns north of Fort St. John, British Columbia, on July 2, 2023. | Noah Berger/APWildfires can be devastating, but for some animals, they’re an opportunity. Summer is only halfway over and wildfires in Canada have already burned roughly 12 million hectares of forest (about 30 million acres). That’s an area larger than Ohio and close to double the previous record. These rampant fires are clearly bad for human... Read more ›
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An automated fermenting machine is seen at the Ginkgo Bioworks Inc. facility in Boston, Massachusetts. | Bloomberg via Getty ImagesCongress is grappling with the security concerns of the DNA synthesis revolution. If you wanted to send some money to the government of North Korea, you’d find it pretty difficult. Banks are required to check who their customers are, and when they learn theirs is a foreign government subject to economic... Read more ›
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Swedish activist joined other youth climate protesters in front of the US Supreme Court on 2019, demanding action on climate change. | AFP via Getty ImagesThe future of climate change will be litigated. Humans now have left undeniable fingerprints on extreme heat, drought, wildfires, and flooding experienced around the world. As these disasters intensify, they push questions the world has grappled with for over 30 years to the forefront: Who... Read more ›
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Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome Powell testifies during a hearing before Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee on June 22, 2023, in Washington, DC. | Alex Wong/Getty ImagesThe Fed is looking to slow but not stop its aggressive approach to inflation. The Federal Reserve raised interest rates by a 0.25 percentage point Wednesday to further fight inflation, bringing an end to a brief pause to rate hikes last month.... Read more ›
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Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden, and Valerie Biden, sister of President Biden, board Air Force One on April 11, 2023. | Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesThe president’s son planned to plead guilty to two tax charges and admit unlawfully buying a gun. Then things took a turn. Hunter Biden’s legal drama isn’t over yet. On Wednesday, the president’s son went to court, expected to plead guilty to failing... Read more ›
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Parts of Mexico like Guadalajara saw record-breaking heat this month. | Ulises Ruiz/AFP via Getty ImagesHeat domes, heat islands, mega-droughts, and climate change: The anatomy of worsening heat waves. It’s been a hot, smoky, sticky summer across much of the US, with temperatures climbing up to ranges never measured before. Scientists say these record highs align with their expectations for climate change, and warn that more scorchers are coming. There’s... Read more ›
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KTSDesign/Science Photo LibraryThe ultimate “whoa, if true.” Especially the “if true” part. The headline is a bold one. “Intelligence officials say US has retrieved craft of non-human origin,” last month’s story in the publication The Debrief read. The phrase “whoa, if true” was coined for a situation like this. Especially the “if true” part. Here’s what seems true enough at this point: a former government official named David Grusch, who... Read more ›
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Getty Images/iStockphotoHeat records will keep falling. Our guide on why it’s so hot, how to stay cool, and climate solutions. Record-breaking heat is scorching different parts of the globe. Fueled by climate change and a global weather event called El Niño, this summer is especially hot. Oceans all around the world have seen extraordinarily high average temperatures. And as summer sets in, the temperature will continue to climb. June 2023... Read more ›
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Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell testifies during a hearing before Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee on June 22, 2023 in Washington, DC. | Alex Wong/Getty ImagesThe Fed is looking to slow but not stop its aggressive approach to inflation. The Federal Reserve is expected to raise interest rates by a 0.25 percentage point Wednesday to further fight inflation, bringing an end to a brief pause to rate... Read more ›
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Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich shakes the hand of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a press conference at the prime minister’s office in Jerusalem on January 25, 2023. | Ronen Zvulun/AFP via Getty ImagesThe far-right faction behind Israel’s judicial overhaul wants one big thing: Palestinian land. Despite ongoing, widespread demonstrations, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government on Monday passed the first piece of legislation of a radical overhaul to... Read more ›
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Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden, and Valerie Biden, sister of President Biden, board Air Force One on April 11, 2023. | Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesThe president’s son will plead guilty to two tax charges and admit unlawfully buying a gun. The right is furious — that he wasn’t charged with more. Hunter Biden is going to court. The president’s son is expected to plead guilty to failing... Read more ›
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Twenty-eight-year-old New Jersey coal-fired power plant Logan Generating Station was demolished last year in pursuit of cleaner electricity. | Hannah Beier/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesThere’s hidden climate potential in overlooked fossil fuel infrastructure. The International Energy Agency expects the world to invest about a billion dollars a day into solar in 2023, marking the first time the renewable has surpassed global investment in oil production. It’s astonishing growth for an industry... Read more ›
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Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer. | UniversalIs Oppenheimercore on the way? There’s a moment in Oppenheimer that seems almost like something out of a superhero movie or an Indiana Jones flick. Standing in his office at Los Alamos, J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy) puts on a hat and picks up a pipe, each item lingered on by director Christopher Nolan’s camera. Nolan films these actions from behind like Oppenheimer... Read more ›
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Biologist Auke-Florian Hiemstra with a massive magpie nest made using anti-bird pins. | Alexander Schippers/NaturalisHumans install spikes so birds will go away. Birds steal them and do this instead. Humans are so cute. They think they can outsmart birds. They place nasty metal spikes on rooftops and ledges to prevent birds from nesting there. It’s a classic human trick known in urban design as “evil architecture”: designing a place in... Read more ›
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