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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Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and Chinese President Xi Jinping arrive to pose for a photograph during their meeting in Beijing, on February 4, 2022. The two are meeting in Moscow this week. | Alexei Druzhnin/Sputnik/AFP via Getty ImagesChina wants to use Russia to improve its image as a diplomatic leader. This week, Chinese President Xi Jinping is visiting Russian President Vladimir Putin for the first time since the latter... Read more ›
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Tyler Comrie for VoxInside this issue: For the March issue of The Highlight, Vox examines pervasive, unearned pessimism. For the March issue of The Highlight, Vox examines pervasive pessimism. The present feels bleak, but the issue will argue that for all of the challenges of modern life, we also happen to be living in a time of unparalleled health and prosperity in human history. Social progress is undeniable – for... Read more ›
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President Donald Trump greets people at a New Year event at his Mar-a-Lago home on December 31, 2022, in Palm Beach, Florida. | Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesNew York prosecutors are pursuing charges related to the Stormy Daniels payment. But how strong is their case? The first-ever indictment of a president — sitting or former — reportedly may be imminent: Former President Donald Trump may soon face indictment and arrest because of... Read more ›
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Tyler Comrie for VoxIt’s boom times for doom times, but from artificial intelligence to climate change to food supplies, there’s plenty of reason to be optimistic that the future will be better — if we make it so. From climate change to politics, a sense of pessimism about the direction of the world takes hold. To take just one example, according to one major international poll, a majority of young... Read more ›
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Banners of Fox News stars line News Corp’s New York City headquarters in 2021. | Ted Shaffrey/AP PhotoDominion and Smartmatic’s lawsuits might finally hold Fox accountable for promoting 2020 election lies. Though Fox News was the first network to make the tipping-point call that Joe Biden won Arizona on election night 2020, hosts of the network’s opinion shows subsequently promoted a number of former President Donald Trump’s baseless allegations that... Read more ›
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Pumping the brakes on artificial intelligence could be the best thing we ever do for humanity. “Computers need to be accountable to machines,” a top Microsoft executive told a roomful of reporters in Washington, DC, on February 10, three days after the company launched its new AI-powered Bing search engine. Everyone laughed. “Sorry! Computers need to be accountable to people!” he said, and then made sure to clarify, “That was... Read more ›
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Tyler Comrie for VoxThe necessity of progress. If I wanted to convince you of the reality of human progress, of the fact that we as a species have advanced materially, morally, and politically over our time on this planet, I could quote you chapter and verse from a thick stack of development statistics. I could tell you that a little more than 200 years ago, nearly half of all children... Read more ›
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Abortion rights advocates gather in front of the J. Marvin Jones Federal Building in Amarillo, Texas, on March 15, 2023. | Moises Avila/AFP via Getty ImagesIf a law is blocked by a court, is it possible to break it? Until very recently, nearly everyone accepted some basic ideas about the American legal system. If a state passes a law, and that law is challenged in court, we should act as... Read more ›
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Sean Rayford/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty ImagesWith abortion access already limited, some states are trying to impose extreme penalties for the procedure. Wyoming on Friday became the first US state to outlaw mifepristone, commonly known as the abortion pill, outside of an overall abortion ban. Wyoming’s ban is just one of several new efforts across the nation to ban access to abortion — or severely punish those who seek abortion care.... Read more ›
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Getty Images/CSA Images RFNo, you don’t need a fancy pair of binoculars to get into bird-watching, according to avid birders. Sharon Stiteler once spent two decades tracking down a stout bird known as the spruce grouse. For Stiteler, the fowl, with its black and white feathers and a striking red eyebrow, is what’s referred to in the birding world as a nemesis bird: an elusive creature that always seems to... Read more ›
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An employee at an athletic apparel store in New York on October 11, 2022. A report found that, in the US, more than 650,000 retail jobs are at risk for “degree inflation” — requiring more education than workers really need to succeed on the job. | Lanna Apisukh/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesEmployers are finally tearing down the “paper ceiling” in hiring. When President Joe Biden recently touted the hundreds of billions... Read more ›
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A John Birch Society billboard in Stratton, Colorado, calls for the impeachment of Chief Justice Earl Warren, December 1962. | Denver Post via Getty ImagesThe John Birch Society pushed a darker, more conspiratorial politics in the ’50s and ’60s — and looms large over today’s GOP, argues historian Matthew Dallek. On December 8, 1958, a group of 12 well-to-do businessmen gathered in the living room of an upscale, Tudor-style home... Read more ›
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Trump supporters gather in front of Trump Tower during the St. Patrick’s Day Parade up 5th Ave. on March 17, 2023 in New York City. | John Lamparski/Getty ImagesThe former president told his followers to “protest” ahead of a likely indictment, summoning the specter of January 6. Former President Donald Trump on Saturday alleged via his Truth Media platform that he will be arrested on Tuesday, calling for his followers... Read more ›
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NurPhoto via Getty ImagesAn AI safety expert on why GPT-4 is just the beginning. On Tuesday, OpenAI announced the release of GPT-4, its latest, biggest language model, only a few months after the splashy release of ChatGPT. GPT-4 was already in action — Microsoft has been using it to power Bing’s new assistant function. The people behind OpenAI have written that they think the best way to handle powerful AI... Read more ›
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Luis Robayo/AFP via Getty ImagesShips, noise, and climate change are killing whales. Here’s how to change that. It has been a bad winter for the whales. While the total number of whales washed ashore — beached — on the East Coast since January is lower than in recent years, the quick succession of deaths over the past few months is “unusual,” the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the body... Read more ›
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The US is struggling to deploy fast-charging stations as electric cars grow more popular. | Julian Stratenschulte/Picture Alliance via Getty ImagesElectric car owners are finding out how hard it can be to charge EVs at public charging stations. A loud pop echoed through the Walmart parking lot, an alarming sign that something was wrong. Cass Tippit had plugged his 2017 Chevrolet Bolt into an Electrify America public charging station in... Read more ›
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A worker organizes food on shelves at the West Alabama Food Bank in Northport, Alabama, on March 28, 2022. | Andi Rice/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesThe Republican fight over SNAP benefits has deep historical roots. At the onset of the pandemic, as tens of millions of Americans found themselves suddenly out of work and food bank lines stretched for miles, Congress passed lifeline legislation to keep people in distress fed. The... Read more ›
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An eyewear market above the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan, China, on February 6, 2023. | Qilai Shen/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesA new analysis on Covid-19 origins has promise, but only the Chinese government can end the debate. There’s one entity that is best poised to answer one of the most important scientific questions of our time: How did the Covid-19 pandemic originate? And it’s not the virologists scouring genetic data... Read more ›
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Asian Americans gathered at the Times Square to protest Asian hate in New York City on March 16, 2023. | Fatih Aktas/Anadolu Agency via Getty ImagesThe FBI’s supplemental hate crimes data for 2021 shows bias-motivated attacks rose to the highest level on record. A new FBI report on hate crimes this week had disturbing news: The number of such crimes reported in the United States rose between 2020 and 2021,... Read more ›
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Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers speech during the congress of Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSSP) on March 16, 2023, in Moscow, Russia. Putin met top Russian businessmen and billionaires to talk about economic problems resulting from the sanctions brought about by the military invasion of Ukraine. | Contributor/Getty ImagesIt alleges he is responsible for the unlawful transfer of Ukrainian children to Russian territory. The International Criminal Court has... Read more ›
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