Partisan divides on climate change have grown over the past 20 years, as GOP leaders became more emboldened in denying the science. | Getty Images/iStockphotoThe GOP’s only “climate policy” is actually bad for the environment. When Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) questioned US climate envoy John Kerry at an oversight hearing in July — a month that became the hottest ever recorded — he sidestepped that the country was in the... Read more ›
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US Navy sailors stand guard aboard the USS Sirocco patrol ship while docked at the US 5th Fleet Command in Bahrain’s capital Manama on December 17, 2019. | Mazen Mahdi/AFP via Getty ImagesWhy the US is sending 3,000 Marines to secure the world’s oil. This week, thousands of US sailors and Marines landed in the Persian Gulf to pursue a widening mission to protect the strategic waterway, where about a... Read more ›
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Trinity Site plaque. | Bryan Walsh / VoxOppenheimer’s Trinity Site is where the end began. To reach the spot where the nuclear age was born and human history swung, turn off of Route 380 at Stallion Gate on the northern edge of the US Army’s White Sands Missile Range, not far from the tiny desert town of Socorro, New Mexico. Drive through the flat, dry, empty scrub the Spanish called... Read more ›
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Supporters of former National Assembly member and presidential candidate, Fernando Villavicencio, take part in a demonstration in Quito on August 1, 2023. | Rodrigo Buendia/AFP/Getty ImagesAn Ecuadorian presidential candidate took on corruption and cartels. He was just assassinated. Fernando Villavicencio, an Ecuadorian presidential candidate who ran heavily on an anti-corruption message, has been assassinated less than two weeks before the nation’s presidential elections. Villavicencio, a centrist candidat Read more ›
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Jb Reed/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesBut there are several other better studies that do. On Wednesday, the journal Neurology published an attention-grabbing study, reporting a possible link between taking heartburn medications like Prilosec and developing dementia. It generated scary-sounding headlines and reanimated a conversation about the safety of the medications — and, simultaneously, questions about how the general public should understand conflicting results from medical studies. The latest publication. Read more ›
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Despite unusually hot waters, forecasters expect a “near normal” hurricane season in 2023. | Michael Laughlin/Sun Sentinel/Tribune News Service via Getty ImagesOceans are at record high temperatures, but El Niño is keeping a lid on tropical storms in the Atlantic. Hot water is the fuel for tropical cyclones like hurricanes and typhoons, and the weather this year has boosted the octane rating of the world’s oceans, forcing forecasters to revise... Read more ›
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A photo of Lil Tay from 2018. | @Liltay/InstagramA former child influencer’s Instagram account announced she’d died. Except she didn’t. When the Instagram account belonging to the child influencer Lil Tay announced her death at age 16 on Wednesday, August 9, it’s telling that the immediate reaction from many of her followers was, “This seems suspicious.” For a three-month period in early 2018, the then-10-year-old Lil Tay took over the... Read more ›
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A photo of Lil Tay from 2018. | @Liltay/InstagramA former child influencer apparently died. Her followers don’t believe it. When the Instagram account belonging to the child influencer Lil Tay announced her death at age 16 on Wednesday, August 9, it’s telling that the immediate reaction from many of her followers was, “This seems suspicious.” For a three-month period in early 2018, the then-10-year-old Lil Tay took over the internet.... Read more ›
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Alicia Tatone for VoxWhy a supposedly good economy is making so many people miserable. If you’ve ever gotten completely lost — no GPS, off the map, which-way-is-up lost — you know how disorienting it can be. All of a sudden, nothing looks familiar and every available path seems like the right one. It can take a while to find your bearings and get back on track. In its own way,... Read more ›
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Taylor Swift performs onstage during “Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour” at SoFi Stadium on August 09, 2023 in Inglewood, California. | Kevin Winter/TAS23/Getty Images for TAS Rights ManagementAfter losing her masters to Scooter Braun, Taylor Swift is in the process of making new ones. Taylor Swift has just announced she’ll be rerecording 1989. In true Swiftian fashion, she announced it on August 9, the ninth day of the eighth... Read more ›
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Denis Novikov/Getty ImagesThe virus is surging again. Here’s how to be your own contact tracer if you get sick. Over three years since the emergence of Covid-19, the virus is once again gaining steam. Because testing for Covid-19 and reporting of positive cases remain inconsistent, wastewater surveillance is one of the best measures of the virus’s prevalence in the community, Vox’s Dylan Scott notes. As of late July, Covid-19 in... Read more ›
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Wildfires fueled by strong winds and drought have whipped across western Maui, Hawaii, this week, razing structures and forcing evacuations. | Zeke Kalua/County of Maui via APA large hurricane, drought, and perhaps even invasive grasses have fueled the devastating fires in Hawaii. Earlier this week several wildfires engulfed parts of the Hawaiian island of Maui, killing at least three dozen people, burning multiple homes and businesses, and forcing more than... Read more ›
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Paige Vickers/VoxThere are many, many ways to save for retirement, and not all of them involve stocks and bonds. On the Money is a new monthly advice column written by Nicole Dieker, a personal finance expert who’s been writing about money for over a decade. For Vox’s Money Talks interview column, she’s written stories about couples who run small businesses, navigate different relationships with spending, handle health insurance, and more.... Read more ›
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Ron DeSantis speaks at the Republican Party of Iowa’s annual Lincoln dinner on July 28 in Des Moines, Iowa. | Scott Olson/Getty ImagesEven after receiving backlash from fellow Republicans, the Florida governor is tripling down on the state’s controversial Black history standards. Despite strong backlash from Democrats and fellow Republicans, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is tripling down on his state’s newly approved social studies curriculum guidelines that erroneously teach students... Read more ›
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The journey across the Mediterranean is considered one of the most dangerous in the world, according to the UN’s International Organization for Migration. | Matias Chiofalo/AFP via Getty ImagesAt least 41 people are believed to have died after a boat capsized off of Italy this month. Less than two months after one of the deadliest shipwrecks in decades, a new shipwreck off the coast of Italy this past week has... Read more ›
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Former President Donald Trump speaks as the keynote speaker at the 56th Annual Silver Elephant Dinner hosted by the South Carolina Republican Party on August 5, 2023, in Columbia, South Carolina. | Melissa Sue Gerrits/Getty ImagesTrump and his lawyers are currently pursuing three lines of legal defense, centered around the First Amendment, to charges that he tried to overturn the 2020 election. How strong are they? Former President Donald Trump’s... Read more ›
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An injection pen containing semaglutide, sold by Novo Nordisk under the brand names Wegovy and Ozempic. | Photo by Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesA clinical trial suggests the drug could help people avoid the world’s leading cause of death. Diseases involving the heart and blood vessels are the leading cause of death globally and in the US. So anything that helps reduce deaths due to cardiovascular disease is a cause... Read more ›
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Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) arrives and takes her seat at a business hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill on May 11, 2023, in Washington, DC. | Drew Angerer/Getty ImagesAbsent a voluntary resignation, party leaders have few options to get Feinstein to step down. For weeks this spring, Sen. Dianne Feinstein was hammered over her extended absence because it meant that Democrats didn’t have the votes they needed... Read more ›
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Harvard University Library. | Getty Images/iStockphotoA Harvard professor accused of research fraud brings a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against the university and her accusers. What comes next? A few weeks ago, I wrote about Francesca Gino, a researcher on dishonesty who last month was placed on administrative leave from Harvard Business School after allegations of systematic data manipulation in four papers she co-authored. The alleged data manipulation appeared, in a few cases,... Read more ›
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Lizzo performs at the Roskilde Festival on July 1, 2023, in Roskilde, Denmark. | Rune Hellestad/Corbis/Getty ImagesMultiple former employees are accusing Lizzo of sexual harassment. She denies it. Lizzo, a pop star who has built her brand on both body positivity and empowering upbeat hits, is facing a new lawsuit that levels serious allegations, including claims that she created a hostile work environment and engaged in sexual harassment. Lizzo has... Read more ›
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