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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Former President Donald Trump waves after announcing his 2024 presidential campaign in November. | Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesSpecial counsel Jack Smith’s two investigations may be nearing completion. The political world has been anxiously awaiting news on whether Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg will charge Donald Trump with a crime related to hush money paid to Stormy Daniels. But the feds may be closing in, too. Special counsel Jack Smith is overseeing... Read more ›
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Budrul Chukrut/SOPA Images/LightRocket/Getty ImagesBinance is the latest crypto exchange to get into hot water with regulators. Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, is dealing with some major uncertainty after getting hit with a lawsuit from the US’s Commodity Futures Trading Commission, or CFTC. It’s the latest example of the increased federal scrutiny the industry has been under following a wave of scandals in the last few years. The lawsuit, which... Read more ›
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Adnan Syed | Lloyd Fox/Baltimore Sun/Tribune News Service via Getty ImagesA wildy rare appeal is sending Adnan Syed back to court — this time with Hae Min Lee’s family in the room. Thanks to a rare plea brought directly by the family of Hae Min Lee, a Maryland appeals court has reinstated the conviction of her ex-boyfriend and true crime cause célèbre, Adnan Syed. The new ruling is mainly procedural,... Read more ›
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People place candles outside of the Migration Institute after a fire broke out at the facility killing at least 39 migrants in the Mexican northern border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on March 28, 2023. | Christian Torres/Anadolu Agency via Getty ImagesA deadly fire that killed 38 migrants has led to international calls for an investigation. At least 38 migrants died in a fire Monday at a migrant detention center... Read more ›
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US soldiers patrol the town of al-Qahtaniyah in Syria’s northeastern Hasakeh province near the Turkish border on March 14, 2022, | Delil Souleiman/AFP via Getty ImagesIt’s a significant symbolic move, but US troops are still there, and other parts of the forever war continue. The Senate, 20 years later, has repealed the outdated legal authorizations for the US’s wars in Iraq. It’s mostly symbolic, but it has some real-world implications.... Read more ›
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Starbucks founder Howard Schultz will testify before the Senate this week about his company’s union-busting. | Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesLongtime CEO Howard Shultz testified before a Senate committee as the company’s labor violations stack up. When it was clear that some of the first Starbucks might begin unionizing in late 2021, the company brought in the big guns. Starbucks’s longtime chair and CEO Howard Schultz personally conducted captive audience meetings, where... Read more ›
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SOPA Images/LightRocket via GettInside the labs that helps evaluate AI safety for models like GPT-4 About six months ago, I decided to make AI a bigger part of how I spend my time as a reporter. The world of AI is evolving very, very fast. New releases seemingly every week are changing what it means to be a programmer, an artist, a teacher, and, most definitely, a journalist. There’s enormous... Read more ›
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Getty ImagesBuy now, pay later — and maybe more than you bargained for. The thing about buy now, pay later is that the later part always comes. Sometimes, the pay ends up being more than you think you’re signing up for, and often for stuff you shouldn’t have bought in the first place. The buy now, pay later — or BNPL — trend has been on the rise for years,... Read more ›
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Sen. Mark Warner announces the RESTRICT Act with some of the bill’s sponsors. | Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty ImagesSens. Mark Warner and John Thune have a bipartisan bill to deal with TikTok and beyond. There might be a new way to deal with TikTok in DC: a bipartisan bill from Sens. Mark Warner (D-VA) and John Thune (R-SD) that isn’t a TikTok ban — though it could lead... Read more ›
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Elon Musk speaks onstage during the the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai on August 29, 2019. | Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty ImagesWe got GPT-4. We could stop there for now, placing a moratorium on new AI systems more powerful than that. Some of the biggest names in AI are raising the alarm about their own creations. In an open letter published Tuesday, more than 1,100 signatories called for a... Read more ›
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Nashville police respond to a shooting at Covenant School and Covenant Presbyterian Church on March 27, 2023. | Metro Nashville Police Department/APA shooting on Monday has left at least three students and three adults dead. Three children and three adults were killed in a shooting at the Covenant School, a private Christian school, in Nashville on Monday, according to police. Law enforcement also killed the suspect after confronting them inside... Read more ›
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is among the Republicans who have made anti-trans statements after the shooting. | Getty ImagesMultiple far-right lawmakers and commentators responded to the shooting with transphobic statements. After the horrific shooting at a school in Nashville on Monday, a group of prominent conservative lawmakers and commentators have released statements using the shooter’s purported trans identity to reinvigorate their ongoing efforts to erode trans rights. The comments follow... Read more ›
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AFP via Getty ImagesThe case for and against TikTok as a cultural force. You’ve likely heard that the US government is trying to ban TikTok. Lawmakers want to force TikTok to divest from its China-based parent company, ByteDance, and become a fully US-based company; if that doesn’t work (the Chinese government has said it would oppose this), a ban could come in the form of an executive order forbidding business... Read more ›
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Refrigerators have gotten a lot better over the decades — without sacrificing their utility. | James W. Welgos/Welgos/Getty ImagesThe underrated way energy efficiency has made life better, and climate progress possible. Consumer tech news tends to focus on the latest gadget like a new smartphone camera, but the boring old refrigerator ought to get its share of credit — when we weren’t looking, the fridge got really good. Since the... Read more ›
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Getty Images/EyeEmBuilding a longtermism that works for the people of tomorrow — and the people of today. What do you call someone who’s not a longtermist? It might sound like the first half of a joke, but it’s a question that at first glance would seem to lack a satisfactory answer. The proponents of longtermism — an offshoot of effective altruism (EA) — make their case based on three premises:... Read more ›
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Spanish personnel rest on a Leopard 2E tank during a training exercise for the Ukrainian military at a base outside Zaragoza on March 13, 2023. | Paul Hanna/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesThe debate around which weapons to send to Ukraine, explained. In January, all of Washington seemed rapt with the question of whether the US and Europe would send tanks to Ukraine. Should they? Would they? Why weren’t they? Was it... Read more ›
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Jason Sudeikis as Ted Lasso. | Apple TV+The Jason Sudeikis-Olivia Wilde breakup changed the way watching Ted Lasso feels. On the just-premiered third season of Ted Lasso, Apple TV+’s feel-good hit comedy, the big theme is about handling the bad things people say about you. Each character is facing cruel gossip and slander from former friends. The underdog British soccer club at the center of the show has to weather... Read more ›
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The features that make your voice unique. Most of us use our voices every day to communicate one way or another, but the way we produce sound is so much more than the words we say. Our voices are about as unique as fingerprints — similar on the surface, but with endless variations. As humans, we each essentially produce sound in the same physiological way, but it’s not as simple... Read more ›
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Gwyneth Paltrow claims that she did not ski into a retired 76-year-old optometrist. | Rick Bowmer/Getty ImagesCountersuing an optometrist for a ski slope collision is basically Gwyneth Paltrow’s White Lotus audition. This week marked the return of one of the most riveting shows featuring affluent white people, the limits of their kindness, the destruction they’re capable of, and the power they wield. No, it’s not that one. Or that one.... Read more ›
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Sold-out water section in a Giant Supermarket in the Fairmount neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on March 26, 2023. | Thomas Hengge/Anadolu Agency/Getty ImagesCity officials say it’s safe to drink following a chemical spill and previous recommendations to use bottled water. This weekend, Philadelphia became the latest US city to navigate uncertainty about its drinking water following a chemical spill in the Delaware River from a nearby latex manufacturer. Currently, Philadelphia’s... Read more ›
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