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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Twitter alternative Bluesky is catching on. | Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesThe invite-only, decentralized new social network, explained. As Elon Musk continues to make drastic changes to Twitter, a new competitor called Bluesky is rising up — and an invite to it is the hottest social media ticket in town. Originally started by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, Bluesky has recently taken off with an influential crew of media and celebrities.... Read more ›
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Does an ass-kicking, pants-wearing Princess Peach mean The Super Mario Brothers Movie is too woke for conservative media? | AaronP/Bauer-Griffin/GC ImagesFrom Super Mario to the Little Mermaid, websites like the Daily Wire and the Washington Examiner sure have a lot of opinions. Is the blockbuster success of The Super Mario Bros. Movie a victory for the “anti-woke”? Well, according to right-wing media pundits like Charlie Kirk, Steven Crowder, and Alex... Read more ›
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Residents at the Food Bank for New York City in 2013. People ages 50-55 on food stamps will be heavily affected by House Republicans’ proposed work requirements. | John Moore/Getty ImagesSome more people might get jobs. What about those who don’t? House Republicans want to cut spending as a condition for raising the debt ceiling — but they have proven unwilling to make major cuts to the three biggest components... Read more ›
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David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesWhat happens next depends on Amazon, the workers, and the interpretation of outdated US labor law. Amazon delivery drivers unionized and negotiated their first contract with the Teamsters union last week — a huge feat for workers at a company that has used its enormous size and strength to fight off worker organizing. On Friday, they unanimously ratified the contract, which will bring their wages... Read more ›
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Rufus Sewell and Keri Russell star in The Diplomat. | Alex Bailey/NetflixNetflix’s The Diplomat asks what high-powered political games look like when they’re played by a woman with impostor syndrome. A remarkable thing about Netflix’s latest limited series hit The Diplomat is that at the end of it, a diplomat makes a speech about how diplomacy never works. His point is that the niceties of diplomacy are just window-dressing for... Read more ›
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iStock/Getty Images PlusArtificial intelligence is suddenly everywhere — or at least, that’s what it seems like to us at Vox. Even in its current form and with its limitations, the tech is already shaping everything from text and image generation to how we live and work. Generative AI tools, like ChatGPT, Stable Diffusion, and DALL-E, are systems designed to produce something new based on its previous experience. Some of these... Read more ›
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks to a crowd at the North Charleston Coliseum on April 19, 2023, in North Charleston, South Carolina. | Sean Rayford/Getty ImagesThis legislative session has been all about Ron DeSantis. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has leaned heavily on the Florida legislature this session to give him a launchpad for a 2024 presidential bid, which he is expected to announce in the coming weeks. Most recently, Republican... Read more ›
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Want to inspire a Vox story? Share your ideas with us. Vox turned 9 on April 6! And nine years in, explanatory journalism is still as core to our mission as ever. To celebrate, we’re launching a new way for you, our loyal audience, to ask us for an explainer when you need one. Ever since we started Vox, we’ve had a channel on Slack, the messaging app we use... Read more ›
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Tucker Carlson Tonight was one of the popular shows on Fox News. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesThe network’s ratings plummeted in the days after Carlson got fired. In a stunning announcement, Fox News said on April 24 that it has ended Tucker Carlson’s reign as the host of the network’s highest-rated primetime show (and one of the highest-rated shows on basic cable, period), effective immediately. The news comes less than a... Read more ›
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The US Pentagon building in Arlington, Virginia, on April 21, 2023. | Tom Brenner/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesHow it’s legal to work as a corporate consultant and a Pentagon adviser at the same time. An array of new federal intelligence and military offices have been launched in recent years with one overriding goal: to connect the slow-moving federal bureaucracy to private, venture capital-backed companies doing cutting-edge work. Several military services and... Read more ›
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Matthew Kacsmaryk, a Trump-appointed federal judge who has largely acted as a rubber stamp for right-wing causes. | Courtesy of Senate Judiciary CommitteeThere is a solution to America’s Matthew Kacsmaryk problem. The United States has a Matthew Kacsmaryk problem. A longtime activist for the Christian right, Kacsmaryk is the Trump-appointed judge who tried earlier this month to ban mifepristone, a drug used in more than half of all abortions in... Read more ›
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Livia Giorgina Carpineto for VoxHow geopolitics and technological advances are making this a riskier world for bioweapons. GENEVA — Venomous Agent X is a deadly nerve agent, though you likely know it by another name: VX. It’s an amber, oil-like liquid that targets the body’s nervous system. A single drop on the skin can kill within minutes. In 2017, North Korea is believed to have used VX to assassinate Kim... Read more ›
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In 2005, Texas Governor Greg Abbott, then the state’s attorney general, discusses a Supreme Court decision to allow a Ten Commandments monument to be displayed outside the state capitol. | Getty ImagesWhy religion in public schools is making a comeback. This month, Texas Senate Republicans passed three bills about religion in schools that have historians feeling déjà vu. The first, SB 1515, would require public schools to display the Ten... Read more ›
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David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesWhat happens next depends on Amazon, the workers, and the interpretation of outdated US labor law. Amazon delivery drivers unionized and negotiated their first contract with the Teamsters union last week — a huge feat for workers at a company that has used its enormous size and strength to fight off worker organizing. But that victory is a bit complicated. The 84 California delivery drivers... Read more ›
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Glen Powell and Sydney Sweeney looking at each other but reportedly not “seeing” each other. | Ethan Miller/Getty ImagesWhy everyone suddenly cares about the stars of the yet-to-be-released rom-com Anyone But You. Since the dawn of moviemaking, extremely attractive people — called actors — have fallen in love with each other on set. Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, Clark Gable and Carole Lombard, Goldie Hawn... Read more ›
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The real modern warfare might be Big Tech’s fight against antitrust regulators around the world. | Michael Ciaglo/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesThe future of the Microsoft-Activision Blizzard deal is looking dark, thanks to the UK. Microsoft’s massive $69 billion acquisition of video game giant Activision Blizzard was dealt a major and possibly game-ending blow this week. The United Kingdom’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced on Wednesday that it has decided... Read more ›
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Magazine Columnist E. Jean Carroll leaves after the first day of her civil trial against former President Donald Trump at Manhattan Federal Court on April 25, 2023 in New York City. | Michael M. Santiago/Getty ImagesThe case could send a big message about the long history of sexual misconduct allegations against Trump. Former President Donald Trump is the subject of another court case this week, this time centering on allegations... Read more ›
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Former President Donald Trump, left, and current President Joe Biden during the final presidential debate on October 22, 2020. | Brendan Smialowski, Jim Watson/AFP via Getty ImagesIt’s looking like neither Trump nor Biden will have to participate in a presidential debate in 2024. Neither President Joe Biden nor former President Donald Trump, the leading presidential candidates for their respective parties, seems to have any plans to participate in primary debates... Read more ›
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We can’t truly switch to renewable energy without a breakthrough. In the past few decades, solar and wind energy have made remarkable progress; they’re now satisfying significant portions of our energy demand. But there’s a problem holding us back from relying on them even more: They can’t be stored very well. Solar energy is only generated while the sun is up, and wind energy while the wind is blowing. But... Read more ›
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Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH), President Barack Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) sit down with other administration officials and members of Congress for a meeting in the Cabinet Room at the White House on July 14, 2011, in Washington, DC. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesDemocrats and Republicans took different, sometimes contradictory, lessons from the last standoff. If the 2023 debt... Read more ›
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