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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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis answers questions from the media in the Florida Cabinet following his “State of the State” address during a joint session of the Florida Senate and House of Representatives at the state capitol in Tallahassee, Florida, on March 7, 2023. | Cheney Orr/AFP via Getty ImagesA bill wants to restrict when students can discuss “human sexuality” at school. While many of the controversial education bills in Florida... Read more ›
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TikTok CEO Shou Chew faces photographers during a break in his testimony before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Capitol Hill. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesTikTok, and its CEO Shou Chew, never really stood a chance. The House Energy and Commerce Committee’s much-hyped hearing on TikTok, featuring CEO Shou Chew, took place Thursday without many fireworks. But over the course of five hours, lawmakers grilled Chew not only about TikTok’s... Read more ›
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President Barack Obama answers a question during his first primetime press conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, February 9, 2009. | Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty ImagesRepublicans just got a painful reminder that political stunts can backfire. On Wednesday, a judge in the deep-red state of Wyoming temporarily blocked a state law that would make performing nearly any abortion in that state a felony. She... Read more ›
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A utility worker walks near an uprooted tree after a rare tornado touched down and ripped up roofs in a Los Angeles suburb on March 22, 2023. | Mario Tama/Getty ImagesThe tornado adds to the latest bout of extreme weather California is experiencing. In a rare turn of events, a town southeast of Los Angeles was hit by a tornado on Wednesday, marking the latest extreme weather the region has... Read more ›
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The director of the National Reference Centre for Invasive Fungus Infections, Oliver Kurzai, holding in his hands a petri dish holding the yeast candida auris in a laboratory of Wuerzburg University in Wuerzburg, Germany, January 23, 2018. | Nicolas Armer/picture alliance via Getty ImagesWith potential vaccines still in development, prevention is key. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) sounded the alarm earlier this week over the recent, rapid... Read more ›
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The Branch Davidian compound explodes in a burst of flames on April 19, 1993, ending the standoff between David Koresh and his followers and the FBI near Waco, Texas. | Shelly Katz/Getty ImagesNearly 30 years later, the siege of David Koresh’s Branch Davidians challenges our definition of “cult.” A new Netflix documentary premiered this week, recounting one of the strangest and most tragic incidents in American religious history just before... Read more ›
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Sandy Smith holds a photo of her late son, 19-year-old Stephen Smith, on June 24, 2021. | Kacen Bayless/The State/Tribune News Service via Getty ImagesA former classmate of Buster Murdaugh died eight years ago in a hit-and-run. The suspicious death is now officially a homicide. South Carolina authorities now believe the death of Stephen Smith, part of the byzantine web surrounding the Murdaugh murders, is a homicide. This benchmark comes... Read more ›
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People gather for a press conference about a TikTok ban in Washington, DC, on March 22, 2023. | Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty ImagesTikTok’s future in the US has perhaps never been in more doubt than it is right now. Since its introduction to the US in 2018, the short-form video app has been fighting against increased scrutiny from US lawmakers about its ties to ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns... Read more ›
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American labor leader, US presidential candidate, and prominent socialist Eugene Debs waves to supporters following his release from prison in 1921. | PhotoQuest/Getty ImagesThe socialist leader was jailed for opposing World War I. It didn’t stop his presidential campaign. If there is any American politician who Donald Trump resembles the least, it’s Eugene Debs. Debs ran for president five times for the Socialist Party in the early 20th century, and... Read more ›
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A supporter holds up a sign that read “Keep TikTok” during a news conference on TikTok in front of the US Capitol on March 22, 2023. | Alex Wong/Getty ImagesSo you heard TikTok’s being banned. Here’s what’s actually happening. Since its introduction to the US in 2018, TikTok has been fighting for its right to exist. First, the company struggled to convince the public that it wasn’t just for preteens... Read more ›
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Rick, seemingly at peace for once, on Rick and Morty. | WarnerMediaCo-creator Justin Roiland parted ways with Adult Swim over domestic violence charges, and the show will never be the same. That’s okay, it was never the same to begin with. Justin Roiland, who has voiced both Rick and Morty on Adult Swim’s sci-fi comedy cartoon Rick and Morty since 2013, won’t be doing that anymore. Adult Swim fired Roiland... Read more ›
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Ahead of your post-World Cup vacation to Argentina, you might want to give this story a little scan. | Ricardo Ceppi/Getty ImagesI went to Argentina and the US did a bank run. I’ve been in Buenos Aires, Argentina, for the last month, including through the recent turmoil in the banking industry in the United States and Europe. It’s a coincidence that has, um, given me some things to think about.... Read more ›
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Jay Armstrong Johnson, center, as reporter Britt Craig, with the company of Parade. | Joan MarcusHow Parade deconstructs the multi-layered tragedy of the lynching of Leo Frank. When the Broadway musical Parade began its previews this February, it was met with neo-Nazi protesters. As ticket-holders lined up outside the door, about a dozen masked figures waved signs and tried to distribute antisemitic pamphlets. “You’re about to pay $300 to go... Read more ›
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The Netherlands’ hyper-efficient food system is both a triumph and a cautionary tale. An hour north of Amsterdam, some of the world’s largest seed conglomerates — the first step in a long journey that brings food from the farm to our plates — occupy what the industry calls “Seed Valley.” It’s a play on Northern California’s famous tech hub, but there is no actual valley here — the Netherlands is... Read more ›
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TikTok creators want you to know that you’re doing it wrong. | Paige Vickers for VoxWhy advice-peddling influencers are so into shaming you right now. Are you still drinking almond milk? If so, a big subset of wellness influencers on TikTok and Instagram want you to know what a huge mistake you are making. “Stop consuming almond milk thinking it’s healthier!” commands Ashley Brooke, who describes herself as an entrepreneur,... Read more ›
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Paige Vickers for Vox Elon Musk is still the problem. There’s no getting around it. Twitter’s survival in the coming months depends on how its new owner, Elon Musk, manages his relationship with a key group of people: advertisers. It’s been a rocky pairing since October, when Musk officially took over and many big-name advertisers paused spending on the platform. Almost five months later, the company’s standing with the advertisers... Read more ›
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FTC chair Lina Khan wants you to be able to click to cancel. | Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesThe FTC wants to make it easier for you to cancel that gym membership, among other things. Everything is a subscription these days. And sometimes, those subscriptions are really hard to cancel — intentionally so. Sneaky companies know that the harder it is to stop paying for their services, the more money... Read more ›
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Muslims wait to break their fast on the 21st day of the holy month of Ramadan at Jama Masjid on June 6, 2018, in New Delhi, India. | Burhaan Kinu/Hindustan Times via Getty ImagesWhat is Ramadan? How does fasting work? Your questions, answered. Ramadan is the Muslim holy month, and most of the world's estimated 1.9 billion Muslims will observe it in some form. Which means there's a good chance... Read more ›
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Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell ahead of his March 2023 Senate testimony. | Win McNamee/Getty ImagesIt announced a quarter-point increase to the interest rate this week, despite recent banking woes. Wednesday, the Federal Reserve announced that it intends to raise interest rates by another quarter of a percentage point in its latest bid to curb inflation. It’s a somewhat contentious move given the recent banking failures the US has experienced,... Read more ›
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The Villa Serbelloni overlooking Lake Como in Italy, home to the Bellagio Center, as it looked in 1910. | Universal Images Group via GettyFor more than 60 years, the Rockefeller Foundation has hosted scientists, academics, and artists for a unique summer program. In the annals of ostentatious philanthropic giving, it’s hard to beat Helena Holbrook Walker, an American heiress turned Italian noble. In 1959, shortly before her death, Walker gifted... Read more ›
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