ORTN - Télé Sahel/AFP via Getty ImagesPresident Mohamed Bazoum has refused to resign despite Wednesday’s military takeover. Gen. Abdourahmane Tchiani, the head of Niger’s presidential guard, with other members of Niger’s armed forces, on Friday declared himself head of a transitional government he called “the National Council for the Safeguard of the Homeland,” while international leaders and organizations including the African Union and the Economic Community of West African States... Read more ›
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John Wilson’s eponymous show premieres for its third and final season on July 28. | HBOThe wonderfully weird HBO series returns for its final season. There’s a delightful specificity to How To With John Wilson, the HBO series that’s beginning its third and final season on July 28. “Hey, New York,” Wilson says in voice-over at the beginning of every episode, generally over a shot of something mildly amusing on... Read more ›
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Paige Vickers / VoxThe borax challenge was never just a dangerous TikTok trend. Disclaimer: This article is for informational purposes only; the writers are not recommending drinking Borax. Just don’t. The video has all the emblems of someone sharing their recipe for a nutritious smoothie: ingredients laid out on the counter, captions touting their health benefits. But Leah Anduiza, who posts on TikTok as @thetruthaboutparasites, is not telling her 47,000... Read more ›
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A “soft landing” from last year’s inflation crisis appears increasingly plausible. | Getty ImagesIs it time to celebrate the economy’s “soft landing” yet? The US economy is looking good. A “soft landing” — getting last year’s skyrocketing inflation under control without a recession — appears increasingly plausible. All of its structural inequities largely persist, of course, but wages are strong, unemployment is low, and the economy is still growing. The... Read more ›
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The female lone star tick sports a distinctive white dot on its back. | Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty ImagesWhy cases of alpha-gal syndrome are on the rise. Very little can stop the average American from eating beef — and quite a lot of it. On a per-capita basis, Americans eat nearly 60 pounds of red meat a year, equivalent to more than one quarter-pound hamburger every other... Read more ›
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Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky, OpenAI President Greg Brockman, Meta President Nick Clegg, Inflection AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Google’s President of Global Affairs Kent Walker, and Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith at the White House. | Getty ImagesCompanies like OpenAI and Google could make unthinkable profits from successful AI. Will they share the wealth? There’s a lot of money in AI. That’s not... Read more ›
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Vox/Udo Schmidt/Wikipedia/Getty ImagesTinder for these insects is actual tinder. For Melanophila beetles, forest fires aren’t just hot. They’re hot. As flames start ripping through forests, as they often do in the late summer, most animals flee or take refuge for obvious reasons: They don’t want to die. But Melanophila beetles flock to the flames and start looking for sex. While the wood is still smoldering, they find a mate and... Read more ›
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BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty ImagesWhat to make of the uptick of Covid-19 this summer — and what to expect this winter. Don’t call it a comeback — because it’s not, really — but Covid-19 appears to be in the midst of another summer uptick, a reminder that the virus that caused so much economic and social turmoil in the past few years has not been completely eliminated as a... Read more ›
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Then-President George W. Bush holds Baron Mosima Loyiso Tantoh, son of South African HIV-AIDS activist Kunene Tantoh, during a White House visit on PEPFAR in 2007. | Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty ImagesA program that’s saved 25 million lives is at risk of losing its congressional authorization for the first time. You may not have heard of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). But you should: It has saved more lives... Read more ›
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Paige Vickers/Vox; Getty ImagesThe AI debate splitting the tech world, explained. Last week, Meta made a game-changing move in the world of AI. At a time when other leading AI companies like Google and OpenAI are closely guarding their secret sauce, Meta decided to give away, for free, the code that powers its innovative new AI large language model, Llama 2. That means other companies can now use Meta’s Llama... Read more ›
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Former US President and 2024 presidential hopeful Donald Trump speaks at the Turning Point Action USA conference in West Palm Beach, Florida, on July 15, 2023. | Giorgio Viera/AFP via Getty ImagesTrump allegedly tried to destroy evidence in the federal case involving classified documents. Special prosecutor Jack Smith unexpectedly filed a new indictment against former President Donald Trump on Thursday night — a totally different indictment from the one many... Read more ›
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Former US President Donald Trump watches from a box on the 18th green during day one of the LIV Golf Invitational - DC at Trump National Golf Club on May 26, 2023, in Sterling, Virginia. | Rob Carr/Getty ImagesHere’s what you need to know about the new charges in the classified documents case against Trump. Former President Donald Trump is facing new federal charges over his alleged refusal to return... Read more ›
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Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) reached out to help Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) after McConnell froze and stopped talking at the microphones during a news conference after a lunch meeting with Senate Republicans at the US Capitol on July 26, 2023, in Washington, DC. | Drew Angerer/Getty ImagesWhat happens if Mitch McConnell has to retire? Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell appeared to experience a health episode during a press... Read more ›
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Qin Gang’s meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in June was one of his last high-level international public meetings before he disappeared from public view. | Leah Millis/AFP via Getty ImagesWe still don’t really know what happened to Qin Gang. After a month of rumors and speculation, one of the most intriguing stories in Chinese politics came to a resolution this week — well, kind of. Qin Gang,... Read more ›
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BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty ImagesMore states are stepping up, and on a bipartisan basis. When federal lawmakers expanded the child tax credit (CTC) in 2021 as part of President Joe Biden’s pandemic relief program, some 35 million parents across the US began receiving hundreds of dollars monthly. With the expanded credit, nonworking and extremely poor families were eligible for the credit’s full value for the first time since its... Read more ›
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Naomi Elliott for VoxDo not click on that travel website (probably). Kathy could have sworn she called Qatar Airways to change her flight last spring. Looking through her call records now, she clearly didn’t. Instead, she wound up talking to a third-party booker called Infinity Travels. She has paid Infinity thousands of dollars she may never get back, even after spending countless hours trying. Her labyrinth of a saga is... Read more ›
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Columbia Pictures; Universal PicturesThe bomb has haunted pop culture since the Cold War. But it’s different now. Before the bomb, the destruction of humanity was strictly the purview of the non-human. Whole civilizations told stories of floods or plagues sent by the gods designed to wipe everyone out. People could imagine mass weather events or catastrophes that might end the human race, but in those stories, our role in our... Read more ›
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Getty ImagesAI systems train on your data. What can you do about it? When the White House revealed its list of voluntary safety and societal commitments signed by seven AI companies, one thing was noticeably missing: anything related to the data these AI systems collect and use to train this powerful technology. Including, very likely, yours. There are many concerns about the potential harm that sophisticated generative AI systems have... Read more ›
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A wildfire burns north of Fort St. John, British Columbia, on July 2, 2023. | Noah Berger/APWildfires can be devastating, but for some animals, they’re an opportunity. Summer is only halfway over and wildfires in Canada have already burned roughly 12 million hectares of forest (about 30 million acres). That’s an area larger than Ohio and close to double the previous record. These rampant fires are clearly bad for human... Read more ›
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An automated fermenting machine is seen at the Ginkgo Bioworks Inc. facility in Boston, Massachusetts. | Bloomberg via Getty ImagesCongress is grappling with the security concerns of the DNA synthesis revolution. If you wanted to send some money to the government of North Korea, you’d find it pretty difficult. Banks are required to check who their customers are, and when they learn theirs is a foreign government subject to economic... Read more ›
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