Editor’s note: President Donald Trump announced early on Saturday, January 3, that the United States had captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife after a “large scale strike” on the country, a significant escalation of US involvement in the region. Since the early fall, the US has been building up its military forces in […] Read more ›
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US Rep. Will Hurd (R-TX) questions Gordon Sondland, the US ambassador to the European Union, during a hearing before the House Intelligence Committee in the Longworth House Office Building on Capitol Hill November 20, 2019, in Washington, DC. | Samuel Corum/Getty ImagesFormer Texas Rep. Will Hurd is joining the race. Former Texas Rep. Will Hurd is the latest Republican to join a growing field of candidates challenging former President Donald... Read more ›
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Joe Rogan at a UFC event in Jacksonville, Florida, on April 9, 2022. | James Gilbert/Getty ImagesHow to have better conversations about contentious scientific subjects. Last week, Joe Rogan aired a conversation on his podcast with longtime vaccine misinformation spreader and current not-inconsequential Joe Biden primary challenger Robert F. Kennedy Jr. According to an article in Vice, the three-hour episode was “an orgy of unchecked vaccine misinformation, some conspiracy-mongering about... Read more ›
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Roman Polanski at the Netia Off Camera film festival on May 2, 2018 in Krakow, Poland. | Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesTalking Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma with Claire Dederer. We’ve known for a long, long time that a lot of our culture’s most beloved artists have done some pretty messed-up things. Picasso was terrible to women. Hemingway beat his wife. Roman Polanski raped a child. For just as long, most... Read more ›
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The Environmental Protection Agency’s Program to Photographically Document Subjects of Environmental Concern, Chester HigginsThe history of American air pollution, explained. The toxic air pollution that wafted over the Northeast earlier this month may have shocked some Americans unaccustomed to the smoky conditions that regularly plague Western states. But the air in cities like Washington, DC, and New York hasn’t always been as clean as it generally is today. In the... Read more ›
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Sarah Jessica Parker as Carrie Bradshaw, a podcaster, in And Just Like That. | Craig Blankenhorn/MaxIn season two, the Max series learns to laugh at itself, and at Charlotte. The first two episodes of And Just Like That’s second season are available to stream on Max on June 22, 2023. Most conversations regarding television shows these days, particularly those precious prestige projects, are all about who’s going to win. Every... Read more ›
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks during a protest against coronavirus-related restrictions and government policy on August 29, 2020, in Berlin, Germany. | Sean Gallup/Getty ImagesKennedy, an anti-vaxxer of storied Democratic pedigree, isn’t a serious challenger to Biden — but he’s getting some traction. President Joe Biden is all but assured to win the Democratic presidential nomination in 2024 as the incumbent. But one of his Democratic challengers, anti-vaxxer Robert F.... Read more ›
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A scene from HBO’s Insecure. | HBONetflix set out to become HBO. Now it’s going to stream actual HBO shows. Goodbye, streaming wars? If you missed Insecure, a dramedy that ran for five seasons on HBO, you’re in luck: All of the show’s episodes are still available on Max, the streaming service owned by Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD). But if you don’t subscribe to Max, you may still be in... Read more ›
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OceanGate’s Titan submersible has taken two groups of tourists to the Titanic shipwreck twice. The third went missing on June 18. | OceanGate Handout/Anadolu Agency via Getty ImagesThe Coast Guard is still looking for the sub, despite the detection of “banging noises” near where it went missing. Time is running out for the search and rescue effort to recover a submersible vessel that was lost during an expedition down to... Read more ›
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An Amazon delivery truck advertising its Prime service. The FTC says it’s too easy to sign up for Prime and too hard to cancel it. | David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesJust in time for Prime Day! Have you ever tried to cancel your Amazon Prime subscription? It’s pretty tough, right? And yet you likely found it very easy to sign up for Prime. So easy, in fact, that you... Read more ›
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A lab at Ginkgo Bioworks in Boston, Massachusetts. | Bloomberg via Getty ImagesNew research highlights how language-generating AI models could make it easier to create dangerous germs. Here’s an important and arguably unappreciated ingredient in the glue that holds society together: Google makes it moderately difficult to learn how to commit an act of terrorism. The first several pages of results for a Google search on how to build a... Read more ›
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Justice Samuel Alito sits during a group photo of the justices at the Supreme Court in Washington, DC, on April 23, 2021. | Erin Schaff/Getty ImagesA new ProPublica report renews questions about justices’ disclosure of gifts that could pose a conflict of interest. Justice Samuel Alito is the latest Supreme Court judge to face scrutiny over his acceptance of luxury travel and gifts, raising new questions about the Court’s impartiality... Read more ›
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Demonstrators protest at the entrance of the gated community where Supreme Court Justice Thomas Clarence lives in Fairfax, Virginia, after the Supreme Court struck down the right to abortion on June 24, 2022. | Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty ImagesA year after the end of Roe v. Wade, Democratic voters are still angry. Abortion continued to prove a motivating issue for Democratic voters in Tuesday night’s primaries in Virginia, suggesting that... Read more ›
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Cell-cultivated chicken from startup Eat Just on a grill in Singapore. | Eat JustIn a milestone for the nascent industry, meat grown in a lab will soon land at restaurants in DC and San Francisco. Today, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) granted approval to two California-based startups — Upside Foods and Good Meat — to sell their lab-grown or “cell-cultivated” chicken, a historic first in the US. The... Read more ›
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Baton Rogue police arrest protesters on July 9, 2016 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Alton Sterling was shot by a police officer in front of the Triple S Food Mart in Baton Rouge on July 5th, leading the Department of Justice to open a civil rights investigation. | Mark Wallheiser/Getty ImagesA rogue federal court has spent years harassing a prominent civil rights advocate. For more than four years, a rogue federal... Read more ›
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Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping enter the hall at the Grand Kremlin Palace on July 4, 2017, in Moscow, Russia. | Mikhail Svetlov/Getty ImagesA strategic friendship, with the US caught between. Fifty years ago, President Richard Nixon traveled to China as a way to weaken the Soviet Union and keep the two countries from getting too close. Now America is grappling with a new Cold War in which Russia and... Read more ›
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President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India chat ahead of a working session on food and energy security during the 2022 G20 Summit in Indonesia. | Leon Neal/Getty ImagesNarendra Modi’s war on India’s democracy, explained. This week, President Joe Biden will host Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for a state dinner — only the third foreign leader to receive such an honor at the Biden White House,... Read more ›
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Richard A. Chance for VoxThe debate has long tapped into American resentments and anxieties. Its fate once again lies in the hands of the Supreme Court. When Clarence Thomas started his first semester of law school during the summer of 1971, a familiar fear set over him: He knew he could succeed academically, but he was intimidated by his new surroundings on Yale’s tree-lined urban campus — and also terrified... Read more ›
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Julie Rikelman, then the Senior Litigation Director at the Center for Reproductive Rights, speaks to the media after arguing before the US Supreme Court in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, December 1, 2022. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesJulie Rikelman, the abortion rights movement’s top Supreme Court litigator, will serve on the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. Julie Rikelman is arguably the nation’s preeminent attorney representing the cause of... Read more ›
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Former President Donald Trump sat down for a Fox News interview addressing his latest indictment. | Getty ImagesThe former president offered a confusing, and likely damaging, defense of his latest indictment. In a tense Fox News interview on Monday, former President Donald Trump offered a confusing defense in response to his recent indictment, touting his right to keep sensitive documents and effectively admitting that he held onto them even after... 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. Naturally, the right is furious — that he wasn’t charged with more. Hunter Biden has struck a deal with federal prosecutors in which he’ll plead guilty to... Read more ›
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