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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Bud Light sent beers to a trans influencer is the new M&Ms are girls. | Patrick McDermott/Getty ImagesBud Light sent a handful of beers to a trans influencer and all hell broke loose. In early April, Bud Light sent an influencer named Dylan Mulvaney a handful of beers. Mulvaney, in turn, posted a video of herself dressed like Holly Golightly from Breakfast at Tiffany’s, using said beers to celebrate both... Read more ›
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Travelers walk past a sign advertising Walt Disney World at Orlando International Airport on July 2, 2021. | Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty ImagesDisney’s plans to scrap a $1 billion investment in Florida could cost DeSantis’s 2024 presidential campaign. Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, reportedly on the precipice of announcing his 2024 presidential campaign, has achieved what he may not have thought possible: He’s driving Disney’s business out of the... Read more ›
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Michael Hanschke/picture alliance via Getty ImagesThe new breast cancer screening recommendations for women over 40 are surprisingly fraught. On May 9, the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) released a draft of their new guidelines on who should be screened for breast cancer. The biggest change: recommending that women with average breast cancer risk start getting mammograms every two years beginning at 40, instead of starting at age 50. According... Read more ›
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US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen listens during an open session of a Financial Stability Oversight Council meeting at the Department of the Treasury on April 21, 2023, in Washington, DC. | Alex Wong/Getty ImagesThe showdown will cause a global crisis — and that has real implications for US influence. In case you haven’t heard, the United States is in the middle of a perilous debt-ceiling showdown. Congress needs to expand... Read more ›
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The original 1989 Ursula (voiced by Pat Carroll) in all her glory. | © 1989 Walt Disney Studios. All rights reserved.The live-action Little Mermaid is a reminder of what movies like Encanto and Frozen II don’t have: a bad guy. When Disney’s live-action remake of The Little Mermaid is released on May 26, audiences will finally get to see Melissa McCarthy’s take on one of the most iconic villains of... Read more ›
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At least 363,000 people lost Medicaid last month. That number is going to grow. | Getty Images/iStockphotoMedicaid’s “Great Unwinding” is even worse than experts expected. Hundreds of thousands of Americans lost their Medicaid benefits in April, as emergency pandemic provisions that kept people enrolled over the past few years began to end. The coverage losses are going to only grow. In Florida, nearly 250,000 people lost Medicaid coverage in April,... Read more ›
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Cristina Spanò for VoxIs it possible to be truly original anymore — in your own life, in commerce, in art? We’re in a cultural moment where it feels like so much is being rehashed, repackaged, and resold to a captive audience. This is certainly the case in entertainment, where the Hollywood reboot machine is the driving force behind what makes it to our screens; even “original” programming is frequently built... Read more ›
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Cristina Spanò for VoxSelf-improvement is old. What’s new is the bootstrapping mythos and toxic positivity of the very rich. Part of the issue Everything old is new again from The Highlight, Vox’s home for ambitious stories that explain our world. For a time, Steve Jobs liked to relieve stress by soaking his feet in toilet water. He bathed only once a week, convinced that his vegan, fruit-heavy diet meant he... Read more ›
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Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom has created a new app called Artifact with fellow Instagram co-founder Mike Kriefer. | Callaghan O’Hare/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesArticles “may not make you laugh as much” but they’re “enormously important,” Kevin Systrom says. Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom thinks that the social media industry is ready for something new. Major social media platforms have become better than ever at capturing our attention by optimizing their algorithms to... Read more ›
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Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images“It’s a time of great anxiety and uncertainty,” said executive Nick Clegg at a company-wide meeting. Meta is going to start laying off employees next week in its latest round of mass cuts, the company’s executives announced in a Q&A with employees on Thursday. While Mark Zuckerberg had previously announced that there would be another round of layoffs in May, the exact timing of the layoffs... Read more ›
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Jason Momoa in Fast X (Fast & Furious 10). | Peter Mountain/Universal PicturesIs Dominic Toretto’s “family” a cult? And other burning Fast X questions, answered. As the nation readies itself for the release of Fast X, “the beginning of the end of the road” for the Fast and Furious franchise, you may have questions. Not necessarily about the plot — plot is incidental in a Fast film — but about... Read more ›
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Tom Sandoval and Ariana Madix in July 2022, one month before his affair with Raquel Leviss began. | Amanda Edwards/Getty ImagesOn the Vanderpump Rules finale, the cameras finally capture Tom Sandoval and Ariana Madix at the most dramatic moment of their lives. Reality TV has always been at its best when it acknowledges it’s a construction, and on last night’s Vanderpump Rules finale, viewers got one of the most riveting... Read more ›
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Supporters of trans rights rally on the steps of the Texas Capitol ahead of an advocacy day of meetings with state representatives. | Julia Robinson for The Washington Post via Getty ImagesTwo sweeping bans on gender-affirming care for trans teens could have devastating implications. Two of the largest red states are set to adopt new bans on gender-affirming health care for trans children. The Texas legislature passed a ban Wednesday... Read more ›
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Justice Clarence Thomas, who authored the Court’s opinion in Twitter v. Taamneh. | Drew Angerer/Getty ImagesClarence Thomas did something right, for a change. The Supreme Court handed down two high-stakes tech decisions on Thursday — cases that, if handled ineptly, could have destroyed much of the internet and subjected social media companies to devastating liability. The good news is that none of that will happen. Both Justice Clarence Thomas’s unanimous... Read more ›
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Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket/Getty ImagesIt’s the first state to do so. Now it faces challenges with enforcement. On Wednesday, Montana became the first state in the United States to ban TikTok, amid concerns lawmakers have raised over its parent company’s relationship with the Chinese government. The move — which comes as the federal government and other states have vocalized national security worries about the app — goes much further than existing... Read more ›
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A supporter holds up a sign that read “Keep TikTok” during a news conference on TikTok in front of the US Capitol on March 22, 2023. | Alex Wong/Getty ImagesSo you heard TikTok’s being banned. Here’s what’s actually happening. Since its introduction to the US in 2018, TikTok has been fighting for its right to exist. First, the company struggled to convince the public that it wasn’t just for preteens... Read more ›
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Relieved you finally escaped that job you hate? Think again. | Erhui1979 via Getty ImagesFrom non-competes to non-disparagement agreements, your employer has plenty of ways to lock you down even after you leave. You’d think that when a job is over, it’s over. You quit or you’re fired or laid off and then that’s that. Except that’s not always what happens. A lot of the time, even after you’ve cut... Read more ›
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Soumyabrata Roy/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesThis painful, mosquito-borne virus could spread even more if new innovations can’t scale. Break-bone fever. Break heart fever. Seven-day fever. They are all names for the painful — often debilitating and sometimes deadly — mosquito-borne disease called dengue fever. Dengue can cause high fever, nausea, rash, body aches, and stiff movements, and can leave patients suffering from depression and fatigue in its wake. Dengue has been... Read more ›
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Cristina Spanò for VoxIs it possible to be truly original anymore — in your own life, in commerce, in art? We’re in a cultural moment where it feels like so much is being rehashed, repackaged, and resold to a captive audience. This is certainly the case in entertainment, where the Hollywood reboot machine is the driving force behind what makes it to our screens; even “original” programming is frequently built... Read more ›
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Cristina Spanò for VoxWhen you democratize finance, you get the good and the bad. Part of the issue Everything old is new again from The Highlight, Vox’s home for ambitious stories that explain our world. FTX was too big to fail, or at least that’s what Dario believed. So he didn’t think about it too hard when he parked $28,000 — about 85 percent of his savings — on the... Read more ›
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