Chicago’s skyline is seen from the 360 Chicago Observation Deck of the John Hancock Building with heavy smoke from the Canadian wildfires blanketing the city, on June 27, 2023, in Chicago, Illinois. | Kamil Krzaczynski/AFP/Getty ImagesCanada’s fire season is especially bad, and it could lead to smoke drifting southward for the rest of the summer. US cities are again experiencing air quality issues this week as wildfires continue to burn... Read more ›
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Vehicles drive through heavy flooding on roadways as water rises around houses in Hope Township, New Jersey, on July 16, 2023. | Kyle Mazza/Anadolu Agency/Getty ImagesClimate change is contributing to heavier precipitation, a major factor in flooding. Parts of the United States’s eastern seaboard have been hit with massive floods in recent weeks, a phenomenon that’s expected to grow more common — and worse — as climate change warms the... Read more ›
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Former President Donald Trump arrives for a roundtable rally with Latino supporters at the Arizona Grand Resort and Spa in Phoenix, Arizona on September 14, 2020. | Brendan Smialowski / AFP via Getty ImagesNone of the Republican presidential candidates have bothered to translate their websites into Spanish — except Ron DeSantis. That Latino voters will play a pivotal role in the 2024 presidential election is no secret. These traditionally Democratic... Read more ›
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Health workers in northern Israel put a crane that died of bird flu in a bag for disposal on January 2, 2022. | Ariel Schalit/AP13 questions about bird flu, answered. In the last two years, more than half a billion birds have died globally. The cause isn’t deforestation or climate change or the destruction of grasslands — all of which are contributing to the precipitous decline of wild birds —... Read more ›
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Newly appointed Justice Amy Coney Barrett stands with the man who put her on the Supreme Court. | Getty ImagesThe major questions doctrine, explained. In the less than three years since President Joe Biden took office, the Supreme Court has effectively seized control over federal housing policy, decided which workers must be vaccinated against Covid-19, stripped the EPA of much of its power to fight climate change, and rewritten a... Read more ›
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Ariel Davis for VoxThe founders of Anthropic quit OpenAI to make a safe AI company. It’s easier said than done. The scientists want the AI to lie to them. That’s the goal of the project Evan Hubinger, a research scientist at Anthropic, is describing to members of the AI startup’s “alignment” team in a conference room at its downtown San Francisco offices. Alignment means ensuring that the AI systems made... Read more ›
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Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) speaks to reporters at the US Capitol on July 10, 2023, about his decision to block hundreds of Pentagon promotions. | Drew Angerer/Getty ImagesSen. Tommy Tuberville is holding up Pentagon confirmations in a problematic protest. Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville has held up the confirmation of more than 260 generals for new command posts — including members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the head of... Read more ›
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So your CSA membership means you’re getting a little buried in vegetables. What should you do next? | Getty Images / CSA ImagesCommunity-supported agriculture is a great way to get a variety of local fruits and veggies, but it can be overwhelming to stare down all those leafy greens. My refrigerator’s vegetable drawer is stuffed with kale, peas, and turnips. I suspect my neighbors are in the same boat; up... Read more ›
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Striking Chicago public school teachers picket outside of George Westinghouse College Preparatory High School on September 17, 2012, in Chicago, Illinois. | Scott Olson/Getty ImagesWhat Oakland’s teachers union reveals about labor strikes in 2023. The school year ended in dramatic fashion in Oakland, California. Teachers went on strike on May 4, 2023, just three weeks before the last day of the academic calendar. The strike lasted seven school days. In... Read more ›
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Photo by -/AFP via Getty ImagesThe country’s three-month conflict is further destabilizing the region. The discovery of a mass grave containing 87 people n Sudan’s Darfur region is yet another atrocity in a brutal, three-month-long conflict in the country and an echo of infamous horrors of Sudan’s recent past. Just two years ago, Sudan seemed a tentative success story after years of conflict, the deaths of hundreds of thousands of... Read more ›
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Artificial intelligence systems like ChatGPT might disrupt or revolutionize many industries. But that doesn’t mean we understand what they’re doing. | Frank Rumpenhorst/Picture Alliance via Getty Images “We built it, we trained it, but we don’t know what it’s doing.” Artificial intelligence systems like ChatGPT can do a wide range of impressive things: they can write passable essays, they can ace the bar exam, they’ve even been used for scientific... Read more ›
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The grocery shelves are about to get that much more daunting. On July 14, the World Health Organization classified aspartame as “possibly carcinogenic to humans.” It’s in tons of food and beverages. | Getty ImagesWhat the WHO’s aspartame warnings mean for you. Diet soda. Chewing gum. Yogurt. Cereal. No, this isn’t someone’s grocery list — these are everyday consumer products that can contain the popular artificial sweetener aspartame. This week,... Read more ›
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Personnel cordon off the area after a suspect was arrested in the Gilgo Beach serial killings in Massapequa Park, Long Island, New York, on July 14, 2023. | Kyle Mazza/Anadolu Agency via Getty ImagesA surprise arrest after a 13-year investigation shocked the true crime community — and relieved New Yorkers. He murdered at least four people, likely 10, and possibly more. His victims, which included an unidentified toddler and her... 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 ImagesA new six-week ban puts further pressure on abortion providers in the Midwest. Iowa has enacted a ban on abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, before most women know they are pregnant. Signed by Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds on Friday, the ban has exceptions for cases where... Read more ›
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Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry testifies in a House hearing in March 2023. Landry is suing the Biden administration over alleged censorship on social media platforms. | Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty ImagesA court has temporarily stopped a judge’s order forbidding the White House from contacting social media companies from taking effect. Editor’s note, July 14, 4:30 pm ET: The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has... Read more ›
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Wisdom Cole, the national director of the NAACP Youth and College Division, leads a march from the Supreme Court of the United States to the White House after the nation’s high court stuck down President Biden’s student debt relief program on June 30, 2023 in Washington, DC. | Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty ImagesMore than 800,000 borrowers are now eligible for student loan forgiveness. Here’s what that... Read more ›
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US Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) speaks to reporters before the passage of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) at the Capitol on July 14, 2023, in Washington, DC. | Alex Wong/Getty ImagesThe GOP stacked the National Defense Authorization Act with controversial amendments on abortion and LGBTQ rights. On Friday, House Republicans narrowly passed their version of an annual defense bill 219–210, after stacking it with controversial amendments... Read more ›
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A promotional image for Sound of Freedom. The movie has been an unexpected box office hit thanks to word of mouth from conservatives. | Angel StudiosIs a movie still just a movie if it becomes a culture war battleground? Usually when the culture war comes to the movies, it’s in the form of conservative backlash to films they perceive as too liberal. Increasingly, however, conservative filmmakers, often working outside of... Read more ›
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Teamsters in Queens, New York, hold “practice” picket signs on July 7, ahead of a potential strike. | Timothy A Clary/AFP via Getty ImagesOur reliance on delivery gives the Teamsters union a lot more leverage in UPS negotiations. When UPS workers last went on strike in 1997, the New York Times reported that the labor stoppage “created myriad inconveniences, large and small, for companies and consumers across the nation” and... Read more ›
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A Google office in Canada in 2016, when relations between the company and the country were friendlier. | Cole Burston/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesThe companies are protesting Canada’s new “link tax” law by pulling news links off their platforms. Brodie Fenlon, the editor-in-chief of one of the largest news outlets in Canada, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, has a problem: He can’t see his own publication’s Instagram feed. On July 3, Fenlon... Read more ›
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