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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Personnel cordon off the area after a suspect was arrested in the Gilgo Beach serial killings in Massapequa Park, Long Island, New York, on July 14, 2023. | Kyle Mazza/Anadolu Agency via Getty ImagesA surprise arrest after a 13-year investigation shocked the true crime community — and relieved New Yorkers. He murdered at least four people, likely 10, and possibly more. His victims, which included an unidentified toddler and her... Read more ›
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Abortion rights activists march to the US Supreme Court on June 24, 2023 in Washington, DC. | Sha Hanting/China News Service/VCG via Getty ImagesA new six-week ban puts further pressure on abortion providers in the Midwest. Iowa has enacted a ban on abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, before most women know they are pregnant. Signed by Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds on Friday, the ban has exceptions for cases where... Read more ›
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Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry testifies in a House hearing in March 2023. Landry is suing the Biden administration over alleged censorship on social media platforms. | Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty ImagesA court has temporarily stopped a judge’s order forbidding the White House from contacting social media companies from taking effect. Editor’s note, July 14, 4:30 pm ET: The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has... Read more ›
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Wisdom Cole, the national director of the NAACP Youth and College Division, leads a march from the Supreme Court of the United States to the White House after the nation’s high court stuck down President Biden’s student debt relief program on June 30, 2023 in Washington, DC. | Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty ImagesMore than 800,000 borrowers are now eligible for student loan forgiveness. Here’s what that... Read more ›
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US Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) speaks to reporters before the passage of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) at the Capitol on July 14, 2023, in Washington, DC. | Alex Wong/Getty ImagesThe GOP stacked the National Defense Authorization Act with controversial amendments on abortion and LGBTQ rights. On Friday, House Republicans narrowly passed their version of an annual defense bill 219–210, after stacking it with controversial amendments... Read more ›
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A promotional image for Sound of Freedom. The movie has been an unexpected box office hit thanks to word of mouth from conservatives. | Angel StudiosIs a movie still just a movie if it becomes a culture war battleground? Usually when the culture war comes to the movies, it’s in the form of conservative backlash to films they perceive as too liberal. Increasingly, however, conservative filmmakers, often working outside of... Read more ›
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Teamsters in Queens, New York, hold “practice” picket signs on July 7, ahead of a potential strike. | Timothy A Clary/AFP via Getty ImagesOur reliance on delivery gives the Teamsters union a lot more leverage in UPS negotiations. When UPS workers last went on strike in 1997, the New York Times reported that the labor stoppage “created myriad inconveniences, large and small, for companies and consumers across the nation” and... Read more ›
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A Google office in Canada in 2016, when relations between the company and the country were friendlier. | Cole Burston/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesThe companies are protesting Canada’s new “link tax” law by pulling news links off their platforms. Brodie Fenlon, the editor-in-chief of one of the largest news outlets in Canada, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, has a problem: He can’t see his own publication’s Instagram feed. On July 3, Fenlon... Read more ›
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Coca-Cola and Coca-Cola Zero can boxes stacked in a Canadian grocery store in March 2015. | Roberto Machado Noa/LightRocket via Getty ImagesGet ready for an earful about the health risks of Diet Coke, Trident gum, Equal, and other sugar-free items. On July 14, two World Health Organization (WHO) groups released the results of a fresh review of safety data on aspartame, along with consumer guidance on what to do with... Read more ›
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Roger Kingbird/We Animals MediaRaising the consequences for animal testing experiments gone wrong. Last December, in the wake of animal cruelty allegations against Elon Musk’s brain chip startup Neuralink, Vox’s Kenny Torrella wrote about a concept he called “the moral math of animal testing”: the view held by many people that trading some amount of animal suffering is worth it if it can save enough human lives by advancing medicine. Experimentation... Read more ›
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Elon Musk at the VivaTech conference in Paris in June 2023 | Nathan Laine/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesMusk promised a while ago Twitter would share ad revenue with creators. Now the company is actually doing it. “Breaking: Twitter revenue share has begun!” tweeted anti-Trump commentator Ed Krassenstein on Thursday afternoon, who followed up with a screenshot of $24,877 that he said had been deposited in his account. His twin brother Brian... Read more ›
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Tom Cruise defies death once again in the latest Mission: Impossible film. | Paramount PicturesIn Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One, Tom Cruise once again leads a franchise that’s all about trickery, subterfuge, and the nature of reality itself. In the very first scene of the very first Mission: Impossible film, Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) is interrogating a Russian guy. We don’t know it’s Hunt, though, because — in... Read more ›
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A gathering from the 1968 Poor People’s March organized by Martin Luther King Jr. to demand economic aid to low-income communities across the US. | Arnold Sachs/AFP via Getty ImagesPoverty contributes to hundreds of thousands of American deaths a year, a recent study finds. “We need a whole new scientific agenda on poverty and mortality,” said David Brady, a professor of public policy at the University of California Riverside, whose... Read more ›
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The living room of Modern Family, where nary a mess appears. | ABCFrom Jerry’s apartment to Lucifer’s penthouse, TV sets keep getting neater and neater. Once upon a time, TV houses were cluttered. They weren’t necessarily messy, but there was stuff in the homes of our TV friends. Jerry left cereal boxes out on the counter on Seinfeld. Monica let dishes dry on the rack next to her sink on... Read more ›
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WGA strikers during the 2007-08 strike. | David McNew/Getty ImagesIt’s been 15 years since the last WGA strike, and the stakes are far greater. Editor’s note, July 13: SAG-AFTRA — the Screen Actors Guild and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists — has voted to order their own strike, joining the Writers Guild of America on the picket line. You can read more about Hollywood’s first double strike in... Read more ›
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Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty ImagesHollywood is in the midst of a double strike as SAG-AFTRA (the Screen Actors Guild and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists) voted on July 13 to approve a strike. They join the WGA (Writers Guild of America), which has been on strike since May 2. What SAG-AFTRA wants is similar to what the WGA wants, most of which is driven by technology and... Read more ›
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FBI Director Christopher Wray testifies during a Senate Judiciary hearing about the Inspector General’s report on the FBI’s handling of the Larry Nassar investigation on Capitol Hill on September 15, 2021, in Washington, DC. | Graeme Jennings - Pool/Getty ImagesRepublicans’ war on the FBI is really about protecting Trump. Republicans grilled FBI Director Christopher Wray about the agency’s investigations into former President Donald Trump during a hearing Wednesday, offering a... Read more ›
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SAG-AFTRA members are about to join the WGA on the picket line after talks with the AMPTP broke down. | Mario Tama/Getty ImagesSAG-AFTRA will join the WGA on the picket line. What does that mean for viewers? For the first time in 63 years, Hollywood looks to have a double strike on its hands. The contract between SAG-AFTRA (the Screen Actors Guild and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists,... Read more ›
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Opill, a birth control pill that has been around for 50 years, will soon be available for sale over the counter. | Bettmann ArchiveThe FDA has signed off on selling a birth control pill over the counter without a prescription. The United States reached a major milestone in reproductive health care on Thursday: The FDA approved a birth control pill for over-the-counter sale without a prescription. The medication, known as... Read more ›
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Marketers would like a word with you (via text). | Paige Vickers/Vox/Getty ImagesWhat you give and what you get when a company has your phone number. I have a new text bestie, and it’s the brands. Scrolling through my phone recently, I was surprised to see just how many of my incoming messages were not from friends or family but instead from companies. The package update from UPS made sense,... Read more ›
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