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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Banners of Fox News stars line News Corp’s New York City headquarters in 2021. | Ted Shaffrey/APDominion and Smartmatic’s lawsuits might finally hold Fox accountable for promoting 2020 election lies. After Joe Biden was declared the winner of the 2020 presidential election, Fox News opinion show hosts subsequently elevated voices who falsely accused two voting software and hardware companies of rigging the vote against former President Donald Trump. Those companies,... Read more ›
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EPA administrator Michael Regan said the agency’s new pollution rules for cars and trucks were the “strongest ever.” | Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty ImagesThe regulations would be a cinder block on the gas pedal for EVs. The Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday announced its proposals to slash pollution from just about every vehicle on the road. EPA administrator Michael Regan called the new rules “the strongest ever federal pollution standards... Read more ›
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Portrait of anti-sex activist Anthony Comstock, 1913. | Gado/Getty ImagesAnthony Comstock, the 19th-century scourge of art and sex, is suddenly relevant again thanks to Donald Trump’s worst judge. The Comstock Act, an 1873 federal law signed by President Ulysses S. Grant, is a relic of an era when free speech, medical privacy, and other rights that modern-day Americans take for granted effectively did not exist. Nearly every word of this... Read more ›
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Bud Light sent beers to a trans influencer is the new M&Ms are girls. | Patrick McDermott via Getty ImagesBud Light sent a handful of beers to a trans influencer and all hell broke loose. In early April, Bud Light sent an influencer named Dylan Mulvaney a handful of beers. Mulvaney, in turn, posted a video of herself dressed like Holly Golightly from Breakfast at Tiffany’s, using said beers to... Read more ›
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Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) speaks to a reporter as he walks through the during a series of votes on Capitol Hill on February 16, 2022 in Washington, DC. | Anna Moneymaker/Getty ImagesSen. Tim Scott has officially announced an exploratory committee — likely adding to the competition against Trump. On April 12, Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) took his first formal move toward a presidential run, announcing the establishment of an exploratory... Read more ›
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Office of Management and Budget Director Shalanda Young speaks during a daily news briefing at the White House on March 10, 2023 in Washington, DC. | Alex Wong/Getty ImagesThe White House’s consequential decision to set a lower “discount rate,” explained. Last week, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) — the White House office in charge of implementing the president’s vision — made a little-noticed policy move that could have... Read more ›
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Steven Yeun, Ali Wong, and Ali Wong’s wig — the three fantastic actors in Netflix’s Beef, an absolutely perfect show | COURTESY OF NETFLIXNetflix and A24’s Beef is astounding, anti-ambient TV I have a simple test when it comes to good television: did it make me put my phone down? I partake in what’s known as ambient TV, where there’s something on while I’m folding laundry or cleaning up my... Read more ›
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“You are Balenciaga, Harry.” | YouTube/DemonFlyingFoxIf Balenciaga Harry Potter is the future of entertainment, could Wes Anderson Lord of the Rings be its next chapter? (Spoiler: No!) In the past month, not one but two pieces of AI-generated content featuring the fashion brand Balenciaga went viral. The much bigger deal was the photo of Pope Francis in a white puffer coat (and absolutely dripping in swag) that a lot of... Read more ›
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Daveed Diggs in Extrapolations. | Apple TV+Extrapolations’ Dorothy Fortenberry on God, Laudato si’, and the climate crisis. Climate change presents us with an unusual apocalyptic moment — and not just because various natural catastrophes and cataclysms are part of its effects. “Apocalypse” means a moment of revealing, when the curtain blows aside and we see the world as it really is. We see ourselves as we really are. That’s what... Read more ›
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Back in 1995, Microsoft’s new operating systems were a big deal. | Torsten Blackwood/AFP via Getty ImagesThey stayed true through Zunes, Windows Phones, and the original Bing. Now Microsoft’s fans are enjoying its big AI moment. It’s too early to tell how Microsoft will ultimately fare in the AI search war it started with Google. Both companies have now rolled out their AI-infused search offerings, though Microsoft’s new Bing, the... Read more ›
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Photo by KENA BETANCUR/AFP via Getty ImagesOf course pregnancy isn’t a disease. Anti-abortion activists have been using a deeply misleading refrain to squash access to mifepristone, a drug approved in 2000 by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to safely end pregnancies. “Pregnancy is not an illness,” declared Erik Baptist, the lead counsel for the coalition of anti-abortion groups Alliance Defending Freedom, in a hearing before Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk... Read more ›
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Bouquets of flowers lie at the entrance of the Old National Bank for the victims of the mass shooting on April 11, 2023 in Louisville, Kentucky. | Michael Swensen/Getty ImagesThe Louisville shooting is the latest such incident, which remain rare. Monday’s mass shooting at Old National Bank in Louisville, Kentucky, is the latest instance of horrific gun violence in a workplace. According to CNN, the shooter, a bank employee, had... Read more ›
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UltraViolet advocates urging pharmacists to affirm mifepristone’s safety at the American Pharmacists Association Annual Conference in Phoenix on March 25, 2023. | Chris Coduto/Getty Images for UltraVioletIt’s controversial politically, not medically. On April 7, Texas district judge Matthew Kacsmaryk suspended the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) 23-year-old approval of mifepristone, a drug used to provide more than half of US abortions. In the days since, there’s been a lot of... Read more ›
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A person wears a campaign button while waiting for President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in November 2019 in Sunrise, Florida. | Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesThree Democratic lawmakers in Louisiana and North Carolina switched parties recently. Should Democrats worry? Three state lawmakers have now switched from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party in the last month. It’s part of a decades-long trend that’s helped the GOP consolidate power in... Read more ›
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It could learn them all. But will it? Large language models are astonishingly good at understanding and producing language. But there’s an often-overlooked bias toward languages that are already well-represented on the internet. That means some languages might lose out in AI’s big technical advances. Researchers are looking into how that works — and how to possibly shift the balance from these “high resource” languages to ones that haven’t yet... Read more ›
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Law enforcement officers respond to an active shooter at the Old National Bank building on April 10, 2023, in Louisville, Kentucky. | Luke Sharrett/Getty ImagesBiden has called for an assault weapons ban after recent mass shootings. Why hasn’t Congress acted? The gunman who killed at least five people and injured eight more in Monday’s mass shooting at a bank in Louisville, Kentucky, was reportedly armed with an AR-15-style semi-automatic rifle,... Read more ›
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State Rep. Justin Jones of Nashville raises his fist after being reinstated to his seat on April 10, 2023, in Nashville, Tennessee. | Seth Herald/Getty ImagesJones was unanimously reinstated by the Nashville Metropolitan Council on Monday. Rep. Justin Jones, a Democrat who was recently expelled from the Tennessee legislature over his participation in a gun control protest, was reinstated 36-0 by the Nashville Metropolitan Council on Monday. Following the vote,... Read more ›
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Vox; Chris McGrath/Getty ImagesWhat you need to know about those top-secret files that got posted on Discord. On Friday, news organizations realized something quite remarkable: A trove of 100 secret US military and intelligence documents had been posted in the far-flung corners of the internet. The files reveal closely held information about US operations, like a suggestion there are up to 100 NATO special operations officials in Ukraine, and details... Read more ›
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Law enforcement officers respond to an active shooter near the Old National Bank building on April 10, 2023, in Louisville, Kentucky. | Luke Sharrett/Getty ImagesThere were multiple casualties in a shooting at a downtown bank. On Monday, at least five people were killed and eight were injured in a shooting in Louisville, Kentucky, according to police. The shooter is also dead, officers said. Here’s what we know so far:Calls came... Read more ›
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Austin Butler at the UK Elvis premiere. | Neil Mockford/FilmMagicCan a movie role change an actor forever? Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis follows the King from the cradle to the grave. We meet him as a teenager in Memphis, dressed in grandiose hot pink leisure suits, issuing a slew of rockabilly hits on acetate discs at the very dawn of pop music history. Two hours later, the audience finds a rotund, greasy,... Read more ›
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