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Li Zhou @ Vox · 08/09/2023 14:00 EDT

The allegations against Lizzo, briefly explained

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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Rachel DuRose @ Vox · 08/09/2023 12:40 EDT

The US has a new Covid-19 variant on the rise. Meet Eris.

Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesWhat “Eris” tells us about the future of the pandemic. In the latest data published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Covid-19 hospitalizations rose 12.5 percent between July 23 and July 29. Overall, they have been increasing since July 1. And in the last week, there was a 10 percent increase in locations reporting their highest levels of SARS-CoV-2 ever in sewage wastewater (and that’s... Read more ›

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Rachel DuRose @ Vox · 08/09/2023 10:20 EDT

Half the world is at risk of dengue. Why is there no universal way to prevent it?

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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Rachel M. Cohen @ Vox · 08/09/2023 09:14 EDT

What the Ohio election results mean for abortion rights

People cast their votes at a polling place in student union of Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, on November 8, 2022. | Sarah L. Voisin/Washington Post via Getty ImagesVoters rejected new restrictions on ballot measures — with implications for November and 2024. On Tuesday, Ohio voters rejected a Republican proposal known as Issue 1 that would have made it harder for citizens to put issues on the ballot or... Read more ›

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Fabiola Cineas @ Vox · 08/09/2023 09:12 EDT

Megan Thee Stallion, Me Too, and hip-hop’s cycle of misogynoir

Megan Thee Stallion performs during the Amazon Music Live Concert Series on November 3 in Los Angeles, California. | Jerritt Clark/Getty Images for Amazon MusicThe outcome of the Tory Lanez shooting trial won’t erase Megan Thee Stallion’s pain. From the moment Megan Thee Stallion came forward with the news that she was shot in 2020 — and that fellow MC Tory Lanez had fired the gun — critics have doubted... Read more ›

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Allie Volpe @ Vox · 08/09/2023 08:00 EDT

You don’t need to be rich to work with a financial planner

Getty Images/iStockphotoWhat to know about the people who can help manage and grow your money — including how they get paid. My relationship with money has been one of intimacy. From the moment I began earning it, I preferred to keep my precious dollars where I could see them: easily accessible in my wallet or a bank, no cent left unaccounted. I probably would’ve stored all of my money in... Read more ›

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Rachel DuRose @ Vox 2 place · 08/09/2023 07:30 EDT

The US has a new Covid-19 strain on the rise. Meet Eris.

Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesWhat “Eris” tells us about the future of the pandemic In the latest data published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Covid-19 hospitalizations rose 12.5 percent between July 23 and July 29. Overall, they have been increasing since July 1. And in the last week, there was a 10 percent increase in locations reporting their highest levels of SARS-CoV-2 ever in sewage wastewater (and that’s... Read more ›

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Sara Morrison @ Vox · 08/09/2023 07:00 EDT

Is Zoom using your meetings to train its AI?

A vaguely worded terms of service update made a lot of people think their private meetings were being used to feed Zoom’s AI machine. | David Espejo/Getty ImagesZoom returns to the office — and to its problematic privacy ways. The week isn’t even half over and it’s already been a bad one for Zoom, the videoconferencing service that boomed during the pandemic. It’s facing yet another privacy scandal, this time... Read more ›

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Rachel M. Cohen @ Vox · 08/08/2023 21:05 EDT

What the Ohio election results mean for abortion rights

People cast their votes at a polling place in The Ohio Union, a student activity center at the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio on November 8, 2022. | Sarah L. Voisin/the Washington Post via Getty ImagesVoters rejected new restrictions on ballot measures — with implications for November and 2024. On Tuesday, Ohio voters rejected a Republican proposal known as Issue 1 that would have made it harder for citizens... Read more ›

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Peter Kafka @ Vox · 08/08/2023 19:05 EDT

Disney used to hate gambling. Now it’s doing a $2 billion sports betting deal.

Kansas City’s Patrick Mahomes in the 2023 Super Bowl. | Focus on Sport/Getty ImagesWhat Disney’s ESPN/Penn Entertainment tie-up tells us about sports, pop culture, and the media business. Here’s a story that would have been very, very hard to imagine a few years ago: ESPN, Disney’s sports behemoth, is doing a $2 billion deal with Penn Entertainment, a gambling company you’ve probably never heard of. It’s a striking about-face for... Read more ›

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Benji Jones @ Vox · 08/08/2023 15:20 EDT

New York’s shark-infested waters are a good thing. Yes, really.

A sand tiger shark off the coast of North Carolina. | Gregory Sweeney/Getty ImagesNature is healing. In most past summers, New York beaches were, at their worst, crowded, dirty, and loud. Now, however, beachgoers must contend with something slightly more unsettling: sharks. Along the south shore of Long Island, on some of New York’s most popular beaches, shark attacks appear to be on the rise. Last month, over the long... Read more ›

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Li Zhou @ Vox · 08/08/2023 15:00 EDT

Why thousands of LA service workers are on strike

Los Angeles city workers walk off the job for a 24-hour strike in Los Angeles, California, on August 8, 2023. The walkout is the first major city worker strike in at least 15 years, and it means residents will face an array of service disruptions, from trash-pickup delays to swimming-pool closures. | Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty ImagesAirport employees, sanitation workers, and more have authorized their first strike in 40 years. More... Read more ›

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Li Zhou @ Vox · 08/08/2023 14:20 EDT

Everything to know about the first Republican presidential debate

Republican presidential candidate and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis delivers remarks at the Faith and Freedom Road to Majority conference at the Washington Hilton on June 23, 2023, in Washington, DC.  | Drew Angerer/Getty ImagesIt’s set to kick the GOP primary off in earnest later this month. On August 23, the Republican primary will get underway in earnest as the party holds its first official presidential debate. Poised to be a... Read more ›

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Ian Millhiser @ Vox · 08/08/2023 14:10 EDT

The Supreme Court just handed gun groups a rare defeat

Supreme Court Associate Justices Amy Coney Barrett, left, and Ketanji Brown Jackson visit before President Joe Biden delivers his State of the Union address during a joint meeting of Congress in the House Chamber of the US Capitol on February 7, 2023, in Washington, DC. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesThe Court blocked a lower court order that would have made it easy for criminals to obtain so-called ghost guns. The Supreme... Read more ›

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Whizy Kim @ Vox · 08/08/2023 11:35 EDT

What a trucking company bankruptcy tells us about labor tensions in America

Yellow Corp. trucks are parked at a facility in Hayward, California, on August 2. The nearly 100-year-old freight shipping company announced that it had filed for bankruptcy and was ceasing operations. | David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesThe freight trucking company Yellow struggled for years. It’s blaming its union, anyway. Stories of supply chain snarls have been making headlines since the start of the pandemic. They’ve caused delays, driven up... Read more ›

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Edward Vega @ Vox · 08/08/2023 10:40 EDT

How airplane legroom got so tight

And why it isn’t regulated — yet. When you’re flying, there’s one thing you want to be above all else — comfortable. (Well, besides safe, of course!) Whether you’re comfortable is determined by a slew of factors, but none draws more ire than seat pitch — the fancy term used to describe the distance between where your seat begins and the seat in front of you ends. You probably know... Read more ›

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Oshan Jarow @ Vox · 08/08/2023 07:30 EDT

How the pandemic messed with our perception of time

Getty ImagesA neuroscientist explains how history, mood, and surprise can make life feel like a slog — or go by in a blur. It’s tempting to imagine memory as a videotape that stores and plays back the past just as it happened. But the workings of the mind are not so simple. Memory is more of a creative act, reconstructing the past under the often hasty and biased influences of... Read more ›

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Jen Kirby @ Vox · 08/08/2023 06:00 EDT

What went wrong in Ukraine’s counteroffensive

Soldiers of the 128th Brigade of Ukraines Territorial Defense force walk across a field beside a camouflaged vehicle after they receive training to counter Russian mines that litter Russia’s built-up defense lines in the Zaporizhzhia region on August 2, 2023. | Scott Peterson/Getty ImagesAnd what’s changed now. At the very end of July, Ukrainian forces liberated Staromaiorske, a tiny village in southeastern Ukraine. It wasn’t a full breakthrough — at... Read more ›

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Alex Abad-Santos @ Vox · 08/07/2023 18:10 EDT

The right-wing backlash against the US women’s national soccer team, explained

Megan Rapinoe and Alex Morgan, two stalwarts on the US Women’s National Soccer Team, have probably played in their last World Cup. | Carmen Mandato/USSF/Getty ImagesThe real reason why the US women’s national soccer team lost. Headed into the Women’s World Cup, the US women’s national soccer team (USWNT) was aiming to make history and become the first team — men or women — to win three consecutive world cups.... Read more ›

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Li Zhou @ Vox · 08/07/2023 16:40 EDT

The vital importance of a new pill for postpartum depression

The FDA has approved the first pill to specifically treat postpartum depression. | David H. Wells/Corbis/Getty ImagesPostpartum depression has long been overlooked. A new pill expands potential treatment options. The FDA has approved the first pill that can be used specifically to treat postpartum depression, a move that will give patients more convenient access to fast-acting medication that addresses severe cases. The announcement marks a vital step in the treatment... Read more ›

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