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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SpaceX’s Starship spacecraft and Super Heavy rocket launch from Starbase on April 20, 2023. | Jonathan Newton/Washington Post via Getty ImagesExperts also viewed the test as a valuable way to see what works — and what doesn’t. SpaceX seemed to experience a setback this Thursday when the inaugural test flight of its Starship rocket ended in a fiery explosion. Four minutes after it lifted off, the rocket exploded after traveling... Read more ›
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Mourners attend a vigil at the First Baptist Church of Dadeville following the mass shooting in Dadeville, Alabama. | Megan Varner/Getty ImagesThis week’s flurry of mass shootings has put the US on track for record mass killings this year. It’s been a violent week in America. On Saturday night, four people died and another 32 were injured in a mass shooting at a 16th birthday party in Dadeville, Alabama. That... Read more ›
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Rust’s chaotic production resulted in the death of a cinematographer when Alec Baldwin’s prop gun accidentally discharged. | Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty ImagesAlec Baldwin faced an involuntary manslaughter charge for the 2021 shooting death of Halyna Hutchins on the chaotic movie set. By all accounts, it was an accident everyone saw coming, but the questions and chaos surrounding the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins have only grown more numerous in... Read more ›
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At Meta and across tech, software engineer jobs aren’t looking as safe any more. | Getty ImagesSoftware engineers made up the biggest portion of tech layoffs in 2023. If you were unlucky enough to have lost your job in the last 15 years, someone might have suggested — often unhelpfully — that you “learn to code.” It was shorthand for “do something actually useful that would have kept you from... Read more ›
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Joaquin Phoenix in Beau Is Afraid. | A24The myths, mess, and creepy magic of Ari Aster’s latest nightmare. Warning: Spoilers for Beau Is Afraid follow. Lots of spoilers. Proceed at your own risk! Spoilers! Beware!I have this recurring dream — a nightmare, really — where I’m trying to go somewhere, I must be there, I simply must, but people keep making me late, and no matter what I do, I... Read more ›
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Demonstrators protest as Gov. DeSantis appoints a new New College of Florida Board of Trustees. | Octavio Jones/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesThough less ambitious, two bills could still dramatically alter higher education in the state if signed into law. At the start of the year, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced sweeping plans to dismantle major areas of Florida’s higher education system: weakening tenure protections for professors, eliminating majors like gender studies,... Read more ›
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Over the past year, humanity has made some huge policy gains to protect the planet. | Carol Yepes/Getty ImagesThe most important environmental policies advanced since the last Earth Day. Earth Day will be here again on April 22, and since the last time our planet reached this part of its orbit, humanity has actually taken surprisingly big new steps to avert the gargantuan threats to life as we know it:... Read more ›
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A Mexican soldier secures an illegal marijuana plantation in the municipality of Cosala, state of Sinaloa, Mexico, on October 2, 2019. | Rashide Frias/AFP/Getty ImagesAn astonishingly bad idea that’s gotten popular very quickly. One of the hottest new ideas in Republican politics is, apparently, launching a war in Mexico. Three recent articles — in Rolling Stone, Politico, and Semafor — traced the rise of the proposal from obscurity to the... Read more ›
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Millie von Platen for VoxWildlife needs water, too. Part of the issue The 100-year-old-mistake that’s reshaping the American West from The Highlight, Vox’s home for ambitious stories that explain our world. Wedged between two vast stretches of farmland in Southern California, the Salton Sea doesn’t seem habitable. It smells foul, like rotting eggs. The shore is crusted with salt and littered with tires and old glass bottles. And the only... Read more ›
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Wyatt Hersey for VoxWhat happens if the Colorado River keeps drying up? You may have heard this before: The Colorado River, which supplies drinking water to seven states in the US and two in Mexico, is the lifeblood of the American West and beyond. It’s drying up at an alarming rate, threatening cities, industries, agriculture, and energy sources. As it shrinks, rich ecosystems across its 1,450 miles are also disappearing.... Read more ›
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Over 17 million workers lost their jobs in 2022, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. | Getty Images/mathisworksA brief history of engineered job insecurity in America. Mass layoffs at some of the world’s biggest, most successful tech companies have been sweeping headlines in the past year, with the industry slashing more than 170,000 jobs, according to the tech layoff tracker Layoffs.fyi. Meta (which includes Facebook and Instagram) laid off... Read more ›
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Alan Greenspan (left) and Sen. Pat Moynihan (right) ham it up at a meeting of the National Commission on Social Security Reform in 1982. | Diana Walker/Getty ImagesThe backroom shenanigans that saved Social Security in 1983 — and why we can’t rely on them again. The French people have been in the streets fighting over pensions for months now. Over a million people came out on January 19 to protest... Read more ›
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Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), speaks beside Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA), left, during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, DC, on February 23, 2022. | Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesThree Democrats are running to replace Sen. Feinstein. These three factors may determine who wins. Dianne Feinstein, 89, the longest-serving woman in the Senate, is still not back in Washington after being hospitalized with shingles earlier this year. Her absence... Read more ›
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaking at the virtual Meta Connect conference in 2022. | Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesThe tech CEO addressed tough questions from employees a day after mass layoffs. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is embracing a new reality. His company — which for over a decade has raked in more and more profit, users, and stock market gains year after year — isn’t growing as quickly anymore. “We’re... Read more ›
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Rust’s chaotic production resulted in the death of a cinematographer when Alec Baldwin’s prop gun accidentally discharged. | Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty ImagesAlec Baldwin faced an involuntary manslaughter charge for the 2021 shooting death of Halyna Hutchins on the chaotic movie set. By all accounts, it was an accident everyone saw coming, but the questions and chaos surrounding the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins have only grown more numerous in... Read more ›
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BuzzFeed founder and CEO Jonah Peretti in 2016, around the time of the media company’s peak. | AOP.Press/Corbis via Getty ImagesBuzzFeed used to be worth $1.6 billion; now it’s down to $100 million. Its peers aren’t looking so hot, either. First, my condolences: It’s lousy when people lose their jobs. And journalists feel an extra pang when they hear about other journalists losing their jobs, as the 60 people who... Read more ›
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Community members gathered to attend a rally for Ralph Yarl in front of the federal courthouse in Kansas City, on April 18. | Emily Curiel/Kansas City Star/Tribune News Service via Getty ImagesStudies show such policies lead to more violence. This week’s shootings fuel those concerns. In the last week, there’s been a disturbing trend of shootings involving people who were shot when they accidentally went to the wrong house or... Read more ›
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Concrete emits a ton of carbon. Here’s how we get it to net zero. Cement accounts for 8 percent of our global carbon emissions. It’s also an incredibly difficult material to do without: It’s the glue that holds together the rock, sand, and water in concrete. And concrete is the building block of the world: It’s in our buildings, our streets, our sidewalks, and our infrastructure. Aside from water, there’s... Read more ›
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis reacts after signing HB 7, the Stop WOKE Act, at Mater Academy Charter Middle/High School in Hialeah Gardens, Florida, on April 22, 2022. | Daniel A. Varela/Miami Herald/Tribune News Service via Getty ImagesFrom book bans to a hostile campus takeover, here’s a rundown of DeSantis’s conservative plan for Florida education. In 2020, Ron DeSantis’s administration declared him the “Education Governor” for how eager he was to... Read more ›
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Mickey and Minnie Mouse take part in a press conference for the European premiere of the “Disney 100” exhibition on April 17, 2023, in Munich. | Sven Hoppe/picture alliance via Getty ImagesThe Florida governor’s fight with Disney has become a political liability. But he can’t afford to retreat. Florida Republican Gov. DeSantis has been foiled by Disney once again. The new board DeSantis appointed to oversee the company’s Orlando theme... Read more ›
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