Shade at bus stops can be a rare occurrence, even in the hottest climates. Shade, like the tree a woman in Chicago sought out in a heat wave while waiting for a bus, can lower the temperature by 30 or 40 degrees. But shade is typically less common in communities that faced historical redlining. | E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune via Getty ImagesHow city design falls short to address the human... Read more ›
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Children look on as they sit along a staircase by the rubble and broken furniture of a destroyed flat in a building in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin on July 5, 2023, after the Israeli army declared the end of a two-day military operation in the area. | Ahmad Gharabli/AFP via Getty ImagesThe Israeli raid on Jenin appears over. But the next one could come at any time.... Read more ›
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Cristian Lazzari/Getty ImagesHow many fatalities will it take to get officials to take the problem seriously? How many deaths does it take to get the government to take a crisis seriously? That’s the question raised by the Governors Highway Safety Association’s latest preliminary report on pedestrian deaths in 2022. The annual overview of state data on pedestrian fatalities helps the public and policymakers get a better understanding of the overall... Read more ›
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg watching a UFC Fight Night event in October 2022. | Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLCMark Zuckerberg’s Twitter alternative is going live. Instagram’s much-hyped new Twitter-killer app, Threads, is here. And it looks a lot like Twitter. Which is exactly the point. Many social media users are ready — desperate even — for a solid Twitter replacement, as the app has been going through a particularly rough phase in... Read more ›
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A child runs through a fountain in Vilnius, Lithuania to cool off on June 21, 2023 amid a heat wave that brought temperatures nearing 90 degrees Fahrenheit. | Mindaugas Kulbis/APHeat waves like those in Texas and Europe are likely to get worse on the whole, not better. Surprise! This summer is extremely hot. How hot? July 4 was the hottest day on Earth since record-keeping began more than 40 years... 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 Trump-appointed judge just blocked the White House from fighting misinformation, citing free speech concerns. Conservatives have complained for years that they’ve been unfairly banned from social media platforms. Now a federal judge is banning parts of... Read more ›
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Electoral authorities review electoral records projected on a screen at the Electoral Process Operations Center in Guatemala City on July 4, 2023. | Orlando Estrada/AFP/Getty Images“[This] is a major, major threat to the country’s democracy.” This past weekend, Guatemala’s Constitutional Court paused the certification of its recent election results after 10 political parties disputed the outcome and called for a review of the returns. It’s an unprecedented move that could... Read more ›
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Traffic in the Midtown neighborhood of New York, on June 17, 2023. | Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesA plan starting in the spring will toll cars driving downtown. It’s a great idea — so why did it take so long? What if I told you there was a fairly simple policy initiative that would reduce auto traffic by 15 to 20 percent in the heart of America’s most congested city,... Read more ›
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Flowers for the slain 17-year-old teenage boy Nahel M. are seen at his grave in Mont-Valerien, near the Paris suburb of Nanterre where he was shot and killed by police, on July 5, 2023. | ZAKARIA ABDELKAFI/AFP via Getty ImagesFrance finds itself at the center of the global reckoning over police violence. Widespread protests appeared to ease Wednesday morning in France after police killed a 17-year-old in a Paris suburb... Read more ›
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Jon Cherry/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesThe factors that lead to tragedies like the Philadelphia shooting are deeply ingrained in US politics, culture, and law. A shooter randomly fired at passersby in Philadelphia Monday night, killing five people, including a 15-year-old boy, and injuring two more. The shooter was wearing a bulletproof vest and was armed with an AR-style rifle and a handgun. It’s not clear what their motive was, given that... Read more ›
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Aleksei Morozov/Getty ImagesTikTok isn’t the way I want the internet to work, but it’s where the internet is going. I was trying to find a TikTok video to show my mom when the realization hit me: I am becoming her. That is to say, I’ve aged out of the intended and desired audience for popular new apps. They’re no longer made with me in mind, and there’s a steeper learning... Read more ›
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About 30 percent of the US’s homeless population lives in California. A recent large study describes their lives. | Melina Mara/The Washington Post via Getty ImagesHow homeless people in California lost their homes, and how they cope. While unsheltered homelessness in the US has grown conspicuously worse over the last decade, understanding the experiences of those living without housing remains logistically difficult. So much of what researchers know about the... Read more ›
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Shala Waines uses her 2015 Hyundai Elantra to run her small business, to supplement her income making UberEats and DoorDash deliveries, and to get herself and her daughter to school, the store, and appointments. “It’s everything,” she says.For many working-class Americans, cars are a burden and a necessity. It was the third Saturday of the month, which meant that Shala Waines was up early. In a few hours, she had... Read more ›
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AI oracles are all the rage on TikTok. | John Lund/Getty Images TikTok users are turning AI filters into fortunetellers. Can an AI predict your fate? Can it read your life and draw trenchant conclusions about who you are? Hordes of people on TikTok and Snapchat seem to think so. They’ve started using AI filters as fortunetellers and fate predictors, divining everything from the age of their crush to whether... Read more ›
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A Miami-Dade County mosquito control inspector uses larvicide granules on plants where water has pooled in August 2016, in Miami Beach, Florida. | Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesAmericans shouldn’t take a malaria-free future for granted. Over the last month, five people in the US (four in Florida and one in Texas) have acquired malaria within the country’s borders. That’s pretty uncommon — at least, in this century; until the 1950s, malaria was... Read more ›
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It’s not your imagination: pasta salad is taking over social media. | Carlo A/Getty ImagesHere’s why the summer picnic staple is all over TikTok, Instagram, and food publications. Welcome to Noticed, Vox’s cultural trend column. You know that thing you’ve been seeing all over the place? Allow us to explain it. What is it: Glorious pasta salads. But these are not your random aunt’s mayo-filled macaroni creations you remember from... Read more ›
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A vendor sells T-shirts of presidential candidate and former Defense Minister Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi on the Tahrir Square before the presidential election in Cairo, Egypt, in 2014. | Amru Salahuddien/Anadolu Agency/Getty ImagesYasmine El Rashidi on how politics and art are inseparable in Sisi’s Egypt. Ten years ago, the combination of a military coup and a popular uprising overthrew Egypt’s first democratically elected president, Mohamed Morsi. The Egyptian military had long been... Read more ›
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Sam Altman, chief executive officer and co-founder of OpenAI, during a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee hearing in Washington, DC, on May 16, 2023. | Eric Lee/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesThere’s something missing in the heart of the conversation about AI. Recently, a number of viral stories — including one by Vox — described an Air Force simulation in which an autonomous drone identified its operator as a barrier to executing its mission... Read more ›
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Members of the Wagner group stand on the balcony of a building in the city of Rostov-on-Don, Russia, on June 24, 2023. | Roman Romokhov/AFP via Getty ImagesWagner’s businesses in Africa isolate and create dependent economies, not funding for private armies. The US Treasury Department on Tuesday sanctioned gold and diamond mining concerns connected to the Wagner group in Mali and the Central African Republic after Yevgeny Prigozhin, the mercenary... Read more ›
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Roman Romokhov/AFP via Getty ImagesWagner’s businesses in Africa isolate and create dependent economies, not funding for private armies. The US Treasury Department on Tuesday sanctioned gold and diamond mining concerns connected to the Wagner group in Mali and the Central African Republic after Yevgeniy Prigozhin, the mercenary group’s founder, attempted to stage a mutiny in Russia last weekend. The gold and diamond mining enterprises, as well as a UAE-based distributor... Read more ›
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