A federal officer shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday, shortly after the Trump administration deployed thousands of immigration agents to the city. Although the full circumstances of the killing remain unclear, video of the shooting shows an officer opening fire on the woman as she drove away. Realistically, there’s virtually no chance […] Read more ›
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Dark patches of Sargassum seaweed can be seen in the water in Miami Beach, Florida, in March. | Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty ImagesIt’s a stinky ecological wonder. Florida is known for many things: amusement parks, warm weather, anti-LGBTQ politics, retirees, manatees. Oh, and increasingly, seaweed. This spring, large blobs of a Sargassum, a kind of algae, have been washing ashore in southeast Florida. It looks bad and smells... Read more ›
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Tucker Carlson, 2019. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesHere’s the math. Okay. We still don’t know why Tucker Carlson is out at Fox* but we know where he’s going. He’s setting up shop at Twitter, cheered on by Elon Musk. Next question: Can he make money there? To be clear, money isn’t the only reason Carlson wants to be on Twitter. And if he was most interested in money, he probably wouldn’t... Read more ›
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Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is threatening to force the United States to default on its debts unless President Joe Biden agrees to draconian spending cuts. | Tasos Katopodis/Getty ImagesWhat will the courts do if House Republicans push the United States into a default? The United States has a time bomb written into federal law, and no one knows whether it is constitutional or not. As anyone who has paid attention... Read more ›
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Coal, gas, and oil power plants account for a quarter of the nation’s greenhouse gas pollution. | Robert Nickelsberg/Getty ImagesBiden hopes the third time is the charm for the first-ever regulations for power plant climate pollution. The Environmental Protection Agency has finally proposed a suite of new regulations targeting carbon pollution from most of the nation’s 3,400 natural gas and coal plants, which are responsible for about 25 percent of... Read more ›
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Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesGet ready for Google AI in all your apps. Five months ago, a small San Francisco startup called OpenAI upended the tech industry — and the rest of the world — when it released ChatGPT. The app showed millions of people the immense capabilities of generative AI, how it can do everything from write original poetry to churn out working lines of code, all in a matter of... Read more ›
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New York Representative-elect George Santos speaks during the Republican Jewish Coalition Annual Leadership Meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada, on November 19. | David Becker/Washington Post via Getty ImagesThe Republican representative who allegedly made up his life story, explained. The biography of Congress member George Santos seemed quite impressive. The 34-year-old son of immigrants had graduated from Baruch College, a public college in New York, before going on to work at... Read more ›
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Free at-home Covid-19 tests will be a thing of the past with the end of the public health emergency. | Brontë Wittpenn/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty ImagesA hidden experiment in universal health care is about to end. The end of the federal Covid-19 public health emergency on Thursday marks the end of an era for the American health system. For more than three years, in a nation where patients usually... Read more ›
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Ben Affleck as Nike founder Phil Knight in Air. | Prime VideoScammers are over. It’s time to make some deals. Only Hollywood could make me cheer for a sneaker. Or a pocket-size email terminal. Or the legal rights to a video game landing in the hands of a slightly hapless, doggedly determined, bespectacled and genial guy. I rarely think about these things and barely care, but the job of a... Read more ›
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Black Lives Matter protesters march through the streets to demand justice for Jordan Neely on May 6, 2023, in New York City, New York. | Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty ImagesOn Today, Explained, WNYC reporters Matt Katz and Samantha Max explain the complexity of the incident. The killing of Jordan Neely on a New York City subway train last week has sparked protests about the police handling of the case, brought... Read more ›
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Ten-year treasury option traders at the Chicago Board of Trade, pictured in 2007. These people hold the fate of the country in their hands like a tiny bird. | Scott Olson/Getty ImagesThe president signaled he’s open to bypassing Congress to avoid default. There’s one major problem with that plan that people aren’t talking about. So it’s come to this: another debt ceiling crisis. This is the fifth standoff I’ve covered... Read more ›
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VoxToday, Vox editor-in-chief Swati Sharma and managing editor Natalie Jennings announced Bryan Walsh is being promoted to editorial director responsible for the Future Perfect, tech, climate, and world teams. His team will also include Adam Clark Estes, who is being promoted to senior editor managing our tech and climate coverage. “Since joining Vox as the Future Perfect Editor in 2021, Bryan has expanded the team, pushed the vertical in new... Read more ›
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Lewis Pullman and Eliza Scanlen in The Starling Girl. | Brian Lannin / Bleecker StreetLaurel Parmet on making a movie about a girl and her youth pastor that refuses easy answers. Five minutes into The Starling Girl, Laurel Parmet’s new film about a girl growing up in a fundamentalist Christian community, I needed to stop and take a breath. What I saw onscreen in the story of that girl, Jem,... Read more ›
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Tucker Carlson Tonight was one of the popular shows on Fox News. Now, a version of it will be on Twitter. | Jason Koerner/Getty ImagesThe former Fox News host says he has a new home, and it’s owned by Elon Musk. Two weeks after former Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s stunning firing from the channel, he seems to have figured out his next step: Twitter. Yes, really. Carlson posted a... Read more ›
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President Joe Biden and Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) talk as they depart the US Capitol following the Friends of Ireland Luncheon on Saint Patrick’s Day March 17, 2023. | Drew Angerer/Getty ImagesThat’s because his “no negotiations” stance was looking increasingly untenable. President Joe Biden met with Speaker Kevin McCarthy and other congressional leaders at the White House Tuesday and Biden reiterated that he wants the debt ceiling... Read more ›
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President Joe Biden shakes hands as he presents a copy of his speech to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy before he delivers his State of the Union address on February 7, 2023 in Washington, DC. | Jacquelyn Martin-Pool/Getty ImagesWhat is the debt ceiling? What happens if the US breaches it? And other questions you were too embarrassed to ask. This spring, Congress finds itself standing at a familiar precipice. Once again,... Read more ›
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US Rep. George Santos (R-NY) on April 4, 2023, in New York City. | Drew Angerer/Getty ImagesThe Republican Congress member’s indictment could make things a lot tougher for House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. Rep. George Santos (R-NY) pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to charges of wire fraud and money laundering in federal court in New York and was released on a $500,000 bond. Federal prosecutors charged Santos with defrauding campaign donors... Read more ›
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Getty ImagesHow a warming planet — and a graying population — could keep inflation high for years. The inflation surge of the past two years is a warning about what can happen when sudden changes in the things we want collide with massive disruptions in our ability to make them. While current inflation slowed to 4.9 percent in April according to Labor Department data released today, after more than a... Read more ›
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A child receives a shot during the launch of the extension of the worlds first malaria vaccine (RTS, S) pilot program at Kimogoi Dispensary in Kenya on March 7, 2023. | AFP via Getty ImagesFears of an AI future are taking up all our focus. But we shouldn’t forget present-day problems like global health and poverty How do you do the most good in the world? A few years ago,... Read more ›
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Sean Gallup/Getty ImagesWhy do we know so little about pregnancy — one of the most common experiences on Earth? Technically, pregnancy is one of the most ordinary things in the world. After all, every single person on Earth has firsthand experience with it (since we all had to come out of someone’s womb). And yet, even though it happens every day, pregnancy also remains extremely mysterious. Sometimes, it’s mysterious in... Read more ›
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The uncertainty around a baby’s due date is a big stressor for many families. | Denis Novikov via Getty Images/iStockphotoWhat causes labor is still a mystery, and it’s hurting birthing people and babies. Ashley Randolph was 34 weeks and five days pregnant, and she was afraid. Her first two children, Aiden and London, had been born premature, each at exactly 34 weeks. Her pregnancies had been difficult, marred by dismissive... Read more ›
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