Barricades are placed near the Unification Bridge, which leads to Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone on July 19, 2023 in Paju, South Korea. | Chung Sung-Jun/Getty ImagesThe soldier is likely the first American to be in North Korean custody in five years. A US soldier is now likely in North Korean custody after making an unauthorized crossing into the country, according to the Department of Defense. The development could force... Read more ›
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Getty Images/Science Photo LibraryWhat to know about the new RSV antibody shot. One way to assess a civilization, the Atlantic’s Derek Thompson wrote earlier this year, is its performance on a simple metric: How well does it keep its children alive? Compared to peer countries, the US isn’t doing so well. But on Monday, the FDA approved a new preventative treatment for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), a disease that is... Read more ›
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The Turkish bulk carrier TQ SAMSUN, loaded with Ukrainian agricultural products as part of the Grain Initiative, leaves the Port of Odesa, southern Ukraine, on July 16. | Yulii Zozulia/Ukrinform/Future Publishing via Getty ImagesRussia quit a deal made to avert a global food crisis and has now launched strikes against the key port city of Odesa. Russia has suspended its participation in a deal that let Ukraine ship its grain... Read more ›
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The Anopheles mosquito can infect a person with the malaria parasite. | Paul Starosta/Getty ImagesThe cases, identified in Florida and Texas, raise a lot of questions. In late May, Sarasota County, Florida, health officials confirmed they had identified a case of locally transmitted malaria. In mid-June, they confirmed the second. On June 26, after an additional two cases were confirmed, Florida health officials issued a statewide mosquito-borne illness advisory. So... Read more ›
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Naomi ElliottEntitlement and endless optimization have turned travel into an unfun bloodsport. It’s sort of a cliché to remark that Americans make bad tourists, but on the other hand, it’s hard to argue with the evidence. In the past week, two videos of American tourists complaining about Europe have gone viral: In one, a traveler says that Paris “smells like piss, cheese, and armpit” and that its food “looks grimy... Read more ›
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Getty ImagesIt turns out there was an “unlikely” chance the first atomic bomb could have ignited the atmosphere — which didn’t stop the Manhattan Project. In one trailer for Oppenheimer, the movie about the making of the atomic bomb releasing on Friday, Maj. Gen. Leslie Groves (Matt Damon) asks Manhattan Project leader J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy): “Are we saying there’s a chance that when we push that button we... Read more ›
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General outside view of the Isar 2 nuclear power plant during dusk on April 13, 2023, in Essenbach, Germany. | Johannes Simon/Getty ImagesCan a country be a climate leader without nuclear power? FREIBURG, Germany — Earlier this spring, the German government closed down the country’s three remaining nuclear power plants — the last vestiges of what was once a large domestic fleet. While not everyone in Germany supported the closures,... Read more ›
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Companies need a head of AI but even those with that title disagree on just what they do. | Getty Images/fStopAmerica’s biggest companies are hiring AI leadership as fast as they can. If AI is coming for our jobs, many Americans are hoping to get out in front of it. Regular people are using AI at work, and tech workers are rebranding themselves as AI experts. And those in leadership... Read more ›
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The FCC will oversee a program to certify connected devices that meet certain cybersecurity criteria. | Getty ImagesIs your baby monitor secure? The Biden administration now has a logo for that. From chastity belts to baby monitors and everything in between, pretty much anything can be a connected device these days — but “smart” devices aren’t so clever when it comes to cybersecurity. Over the years, we have seen plenty... Read more ›
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Campaign literature for Republican presidential candidate North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum sits on a table while he speaks during a campaign stop on June 9, 2023, in Ankeny, Iowa. | Scott Olson/Getty ImagesIt’s everything from gift cards to a sweepstakes for Messi soccer tickets. In a bid to get on the debate stage this August, Republican presidential candidates are being nothing if not creative. The range of tactics employed underscores... Read more ›
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Former US President Donald Trump speaks at the Turning Point Action conference as he continues his 2024 presidential campaign on July 15, 2023 in West Palm Beach, Florida. | Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesWith a third potential indictment to come, the walls continue to close in on Trump. When it comes to his legal issues, this week has brought nothing but bad news for former President Donald Trump. Trump said Tuesday that... Read more ›
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Here’s how US train travel went from excellent to mediocre. If you’ve taken the Amtrak recently, you might have no idea that the United States used to have the largest and wealthiest rail system in the world. How did the US go from having luxurious, widely used passenger trains to the Amtrak system we have today? Video producer Dean Peterson makes a 72-hour journey on Amtrak from LA to NYC... Read more ›
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Abortion rights activists march to the US Supreme Court on June 24, 2023 in Washington, DC. | Sha Hanting/China News Service/VCG via Getty ImagesIf upheld, the ban could put further pressure on abortion providers in the Midwest. Iowa’s new ban on abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, before most people know they are pregnant, has been temporarily blocked in court. An Iowa judge ruled Monday that the state must preserve... Read more ›
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Sen. Joe Manchin, a Democrat from West Virginia, during a community listening session at Piketon High School in Piketon, Ohio, in 2022. | Gaelen Morse/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesJoe Manchin is giving Democrats another headache. Democratic West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin didn’t rule out the possibility of running as a third-party presidential candidate in 2024 at an event hosted by the centrist group No Labels in New Hampshire Monday. He said... Read more ›
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Doubleday BooksThe two-time Pulitzer winner is using his Harlem Shuffle trilogy to tell the history of New York. Colson Whitehead has had a big decade. He won back-to-back Pulitzers for his novels The Underground Railroad (2016) and The Nickel Boys (2019). Then he saw The Underground Railroad get adapted into one of the most critically acclaimed TV series of 2021. Now, he’s following it all up with his new novel... Read more ›
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Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania operators in 1945. By that point, the process of automating telephone operation was well underway. | Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania/Federal Communications Commission/PhotoQuest/Getty ImagesHow automation wiped out a whole career for young women — and how young women adapted. If you were a young (white) woman looking for work in the early 1920s, you could do worse than becoming a telephone operator. In the early... Read more ›
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G/O Media CEO Jim Spanfeller at a 2022 conference. | Piaras Ă“ MĂdheach/Sportsfile for Collision via Getty ImagesWhy G/O Media thinks we should have more stories written by bots. In early July, managers at G/O media, the digital publisher that owns sites like Gizmodo, the Onion, and Jezebel, published four stories that had been almost entirely generated by AI engines. The stories — which included multiple errors and which ran... Read more ›
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Diego Mallo for VoxThe Canadian, biracial, Jewish, middle-class, former child actor has reshaped rap, pop, and the masculinity wars. At Chicago’s United Center arena earlier this month, Drake perched comfortably on a couch and read aloud from his new poetry book, Titles Ruin Everything. The book may have been released by Phaidon, the well-respected arthouse publisher, but this was no typical poetry reading. It was the first night of Drake’s... Read more ›
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Senator Joe Manchin, a Democrat from West Virginia, during a community listening session at Piketon High School in Piketon, Ohio, on October 20, 2022. | Gaelen Morse/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesJoe Manchin is giving Democrats another headache. Democratic West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin is scheduled to speak at an event hosted by No Labels in New Hampshire Monday, fueling speculation that he might be the centrist group’s pick to launch a... Read more ›
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Microsoft may soon become Activision’s new owner. | Eric Thayer/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesSony signed a 10-year deal to keep Call of Duty on PlayStation, signaling that it believes Microsoft will soon acquire the game franchise. Microsoft’s $69 billion merger with Activision Blizzard seems all but inevitable now: Sony is finally playing along. Microsoft’s main rival and opposition to the acquisition just signed a deal to keep Activision’s Call of Duty... Read more ›
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