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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The meaning and method of acquiring that blue check keep changing. | Getty Images/iStockphotoTwitter is finally taking away those free blue “legacy” checks to give its paid Twitter Blue service a boost. It didn’t take long for Elon Musk to weaponize his shiny new $44 billion toy. In less than six months since he took over Twitter, he’s laid off thousands of people, cut Twitter’s valuation in half, released cherry-picked... Read more ›
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Glasses of water that may or may not taste like “mermaid.” | Getty ImagesBehind the TikTok miracle of making water taste like mermaids and gummy bears. “Mermaid” is Tonya Spanglo’s favorite flavor. The taste, as Spanglo assures me, is not meant to mimic actual aquatic humanoid flesh or even the salty oceans that mythical merpeople call home, but rather a combination of coconut, pineapple, and citrus. It comes in blue... Read more ›
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While some are embracing AI in the workplace, there are a lot of applications that people find distasteful. | Getty Images/iStockphotoAI is coming to the workplace, but most people think it won’t affect them much. AI is probably going to affect your job. We just don’t yet know when or how much — or how to feel about it exactly. Most Americans agree that AI will have a major impact... Read more ›
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Jonathan Majors, pictured at the European premiere of Creed III in London on February 15, 2023. | Jeff Spicer/Getty Images for Warner BrosThe Marvel star faces domestic assault charges, and now other allegations spanning years. Jonathan Majors, Emmy-nominated Lovecraft Country and Creed III star, was arrested on March 25, 2023, in Manhattan on misdemeanor charges of strangulation, assault, and harassment in a reported domestic dispute with his girlfriend. The charges... Read more ›
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In HOAs and condos, everybody’s a little bit hero, a little bit villain. | SIphotography via Getty Images/iStockphotoHow HOAs became an unnecessary necessary evil. There are few things more delicious than a homeowners association horror story. All over the internet, you can find tales of people getting fined for parking their vehicles in their own driveways or having a potted tomato plant on their back porches or leaving a bottle... Read more ›
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A woman with substance use disorder pauses under the bridge where she lives in the Kensington section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 21, 2017. Substance use disorder and homelessness are risk factors for syphilis. | Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesThe trend is likely a symptom of failed drug, education, and health policy. For a big chunk of the past two decades, sexual health experts generally thought of syphilis as a disease of... Read more ›
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Millie von Platen for VoxHow extreme weather is driving a deadly fungus further into the American West 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. On a cloudless day in March, Marieke Ramsey crouches against the mossy wall of a shallow gulch just inside the Phoenix city limits. She brandishes a kitchen spoon — “Nothing... Read more ›
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Mark Zuckerberg leaving a federal courthouse in San Jose in February 2022. | David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesThe company started notifying laid-off employees early Wednesday morning in the second recent round of mass cuts. Meta conducted its second round of mass layoffs in the past six months on Wednesday, ahead of another set of layoffs planned for May. The layoffs are a major cause for concern among Meta’s remaining... Read more ›
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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) answers questions during a press conference at the Capitol on July 29, 2022 in Washington, DC. | Win McNamee/Getty ImagesThe congressional game of chicken over defaulting on America’s debt begins now. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy jump-started the game of chicken over whether the United States will default on its debt when he announced the introduction of the Limit, Save, Grow Act, which is the current... Read more ›
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Supreme Court Associate Justice Samuel Alito poses for an official portrait at the East Conference Room of the Supreme Court building on October 7, 2022, in Washington, DC. | Alex Wong/Getty ImagesThe Court can’t seem to figure out how to decide one of the easiest cases it’s ever had to consider. Justice Samuel Alito handed down a short and confusing order about an abortion lawsuit on Wednesday, which briefly extends... Read more ›
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Sixteen-year-old Ralph Yarl was shot multiple times after ringing a doorbell at the wrong house. | Faith Spoonmore/GoFundMeWhat we know about the shooting of a Black Kansas City teen — and the charges the shooter faces. On April 13, Ralph Yarl, a 16-year-old Black teenager, was shot in Kansas City after going to the wrong house to pick up his two younger brothers. Following days of protest and outrage, Clay... Read more ›
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In a Wall Street speech this week, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy laid out his party’s plans for the upcoming federal debt-limit negotiations, likely to include a proposed Medicaid work requirement. | Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesThe flawed assumptions of the House GOP’s revived plan for Medicaid work requirements. The House Republican majority has released its demands for major government spending cuts in exchange for increasing the federal debt limit. And... Read more ›
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Fox host Tucker Carlson in 2019. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesRupert Murdoch’s company doesn’t like paying the $787 million settlement. But now it’s back to business as usual. The media trial of the century never happened, which has disappointed many people in my corner of the media world. They were hoping that Dominion’s defamation suit against Fox News, filed over lies the network told its viewers about the 2020 election, would... Read more ›
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Mourners attend a vigil at the First Baptist Church of Dadeville following the mass shooting at the Mahogany Masterpiece dance studio on April 16, 2023 in Dadeville, Alabama. | Megan Varner/Getty ImagesTwo teens have been charged in the mass shooting at a Sweet 16 party that left four dead and dozens injured. Two teens were charged Wednesday with reckless murder in the mass shooting at a 16th birthday party in... Read more ›
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Traffic on Sixth Avenue passes by advertisements featuring Fox News personalities, including Bret Baier, Martha MacCallum, Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham, and Sean Hannity, on the front of the News Corp building, March 13, 2019, in New York City. | Drew Angerer/Getty ImagesDominion is walking away with $787 million. That might not be enough to deter Fox News. Fox’s $787 million settlement with Dominion Voting Systems over its 2020 election lies... Read more ›
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis delivers remarks during the New Hampshire GOP’s Amos Tuck Dinner on April 14, 2023 in Manchester, New Hampshire. | Scott Eisen/Getty ImagesMultiple lawmakers from the governor’s own state declined to back him this week. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis made a trip to Washington, DC this week in a bid to rally congressional support. That trip, however, was overshadowed by another development: former President Donald Trump picking... Read more ›
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Jonathan Majors, pictured at the European premiere of Creed III in London on February 15, 2023. | Jeff Spicer/Getty Images for Warner BrosThe Marvel star faces domestic assault charges, and now other allegations spanning years. Jonathan Majors, Emmy-nominated Lovecraft Country and Creed III star, was arrested on March 25, 2023, in Manhattan on misdemeanor charges of strangulation, assault, and harassment in a reported domestic dispute with his girlfriend. The charges... Read more ›
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A taxi driver drinks water during afternoon heat in Kolkata, India, on April 18, as temperatures soared over 100 degrees Fahrenheit. | Debarchan Chatterjee/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesExtreme heat is dangerous. Extreme heat when you least expect it is even worse. A body adjusted to the heat knows how to sweat. To keep the internal organs cool, blood flows to the skin at a higher rate. There’s more sweat, and it’s... Read more ›
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Violeta Encarnacion for VoxWelcome to the population paradox of the 21st century. On November 15, 2022, according to the demographers at the United Nations Population Division, the 8 billionth person on the planet was born. That 8 billion mark is an estimate — there is no real-time census of everyone alive on Earth at every given moment, which means there’s a margin of error. But someone is or will be... Read more ›
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The exterior of Widener Library at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is pictured on October 5, 2018. | Craig F. Walker/The Boston Globe via Getty ImagesThe case for leaving some top college applications to chance. April is the cruelest month — at least for the 54,995 applicants who discovered a couple of weeks ago that they will not be part of Harvard’s class of 2027, to which just 3.41 percent... Read more ›
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