Phenylephrine doesn’t work better than a placebo. So why is it still on shelves? If you’ve taken an over-the-counter decongestant in the past 20 years, you’ve probably taken something with phenylephrine as the main active ingredient. And you may have noticed that, despite taking it, you’re still congested. A Food and Drug Administration panel recently recommended that it be taken off shelves because it doesn’t work any better than a... Read more ›
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Then-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy walks through the Capitol on the eve of his ouster. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesHow McCarthy got into this mess, who’ll be speaker next, and more. Former President Donald Trump has endorsed Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), a conservative firebrand and the powerful chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, to be the next House speaker. In a Friday post on his social media platform Truth Social, Trump said... Read more ›
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People riding an escalator outside the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Unlike some parts of MGM’s business that were affected by the hack, the escalators remained operational. | AP/John LocherA “limited number” of customers’ Social Security numbers were taken. Did prominent casino chain MGM Resorts gamble with its customers’ data? That’s a question a lot of those customers are probably asking themselves after a cyberattack took down many of MGM’s... Read more ›
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Then-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy walks through the Capitol on the eve of his ouster. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesHow McCarthy got into this mess, who’ll be speaker next, and more. Former President Donald Trump has endorsed Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), a conservative firebrand and the powerful chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, to be the next House speaker. In a Friday post on his social media platform Truth Social, Trump said... Read more ›
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A Miami-Dade County mosquito control inspector uses larvicide granules on plants where water has pooled in August 2016, in Miami Beach, Florida. | Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesAmericans shouldn’t take a malaria-free future for granted. On October 4, the Arkansas Department of Health announced a case of local malaria transmission, making it the fourth state to do so this year. Details have not been released, and it’s not yet clear which species... Read more ›
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Julia Garner and Jessica Henwick in The Royal Hotel. | NeonThe movies have had it with bad men. Six years ago, almost to the day, I sat in a Toronto movie theater and watched Louis C.K.’s directorial debut, a winking Woody Allen tribute entitled I Love You, Daddy. The black-and-white film (an homage presumably to Allen’s Manhattan) starred John Malkovich as Leslie Goodwin, who starts wooing the barely legal teen... Read more ›
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Plenty has changed in the last 50 years of the Exorcist franchise. | Universal PicturesThe Exorcist: Believer shows how American religion and Hollywood movies have shifted. The identity of the titular, singular “exorcist” of The Exorcist has always been a little murky. In the 1973 original — which overcame studio skepticism to become one of the most successful and significant horror films of all time — there are a few... Read more ›
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Victoria Gladden leaves the condo in Kihei, where she was staying temporarily with her daughters, to take her 5-year-old daughter Kai Gladden-Broussard to school on August 30, 2023. | Tamir Kalifa/Washington Post via Getty ImagesAs tourism returns to Maui, those displaced by this year’s deadly fires face losing their homes again. Like many other families this August, Krizhna Bayudan, 23, a Lāhainā resident, recalls her family of six sleeping in... Read more ›
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After being paused in March 2020, student loan payments are back as of October 2023. | Getty Images / filoPeople aren’t only cutting streaming subscriptions and cooking at home — they’re dipping into 401(k)s and postponing retirement. This October, 28 million Americans are facing a monthly expense they haven’t seen in over three years: student loan payments. Three months after the Supreme Court struck down President Joe Biden’s student debt... Read more ›
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Travis Kelce. | Dustin Satloff/Getty ImagesWhat’s a tight end? And other burning questions about Taylor’s new fling. If you’re a football fan, you’ve probably heard more about Taylor Swift in the last two weeks than you have in your life to date. If you’re a Swiftie, you’ve probably heard more about tight ends, offensive linemen, and Kansas City than you ever dreamed you would. Arguably the two biggest monocultures left... Read more ›
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A group of Venezuelan migrants look for a path to cross the Rio Grande river along the border wall separating the US from Mexico on September 21, 2023 in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. | Michael Robinson Chávez/The Washington Post via Getty ImagesBiden is skeptical that a border wall works. He’s still building a new one. The Biden administration has authorized the construction of a new section of border wall in Texas’s... Read more ›
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The UN authorized a multilateral intervention in Haiti to help train and support the island nation’s police, pictured here in April, in combatting gang-related violence. | Richard Pierrin/AFP via Getty ImagesThe world is intervening in Haiti — again. Once again, the international community will intervene in Haiti, this time to stabilize the security situation in the capital of Port-au-Prince, where gangs have terrorized civilians for the past two years. The... Read more ›
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More than 75,000 Kaiser Permanente health care workers are on strike this week. | Jill Connelly/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesThe US health care system doesn’t value hospital support staff who are essential to patient care. The relationship between the workforce that treats America’s patients and the health systems that employ them is fraying, and the more than 75,000 Kaiser Permanente workers on strike this week are just the latest example. The... Read more ›
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A caged female breeding pig at a farm in Spain. | Jo-Anne McArthur/Lauren Veerslaat/We Animals MediaThe EU could backslide on its cage-free farming initiative and more. Billions of animals hang in the balance. Europe was on the cusp of an animal welfare revolution. In the summer of 2021, European Union policymakers promised to phase out cages for 300 million farmed pigs, egg-laying hens, rabbits, and other species, which Vox contributor... Read more ›
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Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman speak during a press conference after being awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine on October 2, 2023 in Philadelphia. | Mark Makela/Getty ImagesKatalin Karikó co-won a Nobel Prize this week for her groundbreaking work on mRNA vaccines — but she had to fight against professional science to do it. The Nobel Prize for Medicine was awarded on Monday to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman, for... Read more ›
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Paige Vickers/VoxThe baffling structure of rental car taxes and fees, explained. The experience of renting a car can give you some trust issues. You’re booking on some travel website, where you start at Price A. Then, by the time you get to the checkout, you’re at a higher Price B that wasn’t the one you saw prominently advertised — maybe it was in small letters, but you didn’t notice. When... Read more ›
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Paige Vickers/VoxCastor oil won’t dissolve cysts and tumors. Some creators on TikTok Shop are earning commissions by suggesting otherwise. For the past few weeks, TikTok creator Busy Belle has been telling her nearly 30,000 followers that castor oil, if applied to the belly button, can fight bacterial infections and dissolve tumors. She’s posted several videos to TikTok Shop, the platform’s new e-commerce tool, promoting Aliver Jamaican Black Castor Oil. One... Read more ›
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Jenna Lyons is not a Real Housewife. She is just on a show that is called Real Housewives. | Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images for NYFW: The ShowsThe former J.Crew president has no idea how to be on reality TV, and it’s fantastic reality TV. Jenna Lyons is the most reluctant Real Housewife that’s ever been on television. She doesn’t yell. She doesn’t dress in gaudy gowns. She doesn’t have a catchphrase.... 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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Protesters hold up cutouts of gerrymandered districts outside the Supreme Court. | Evelyn Hockstein/Washington Post via Getty ImagesThe justices may have stepped away from their unrelenting hostility toward voting rights plaintiffs. On October 11, the Supreme Court will hear a challenge to racially gerrymandered congressional maps in South Carolina that could tell us a lot about where the Court stands on voting rights. The lower court in this case, known... Read more ›
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