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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Mary Atieno, a 17-year-old mother to be from Kibera Slum, poses dressed in her school uniform on October 10, 2022, in Nairobi, Kenya. | Donwilson Odhiambo/Getty ImagesHow do we ensure no person dies as a result of bringing life into this world? In 2018, a hospital in Kenya admitted Ashley Muteti, who was 25 at the time, for a month. Muteti, who was over six months pregnant with what was... Read more ›
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Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesA list circulated in January by the distributor to Walgreens and CVS underscores the uncertainty surrounding abortion pills in the post-Roe era. Earlier this month, Politico broke news that Walgreens, the nation’s second-largest pharmacy chain, assured 21 Republican attorneys general that it would not dispense abortion pills in their states should the company be approved to dispense them. The decision was met with sharp protest by Walgreens customers,... Read more ›
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HBOIs it ever justified to kill one person to save many others? The season finale of HBO’s The Last of Us — based on the video game of the same name — thrust a longstanding philosophical question into the cultural spotlight: Is it ever ethical to kill one person for the well-being of many others? If you haven’t seen the show or played the game, a real species of fungus... Read more ›
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A woman equipped with a brain-computer interface, one form of neurotechnology. | Florian Voggeneder/Guger Technologies/APNeurotechnology is upon us. Your brain urgently needs new rights. If you’ve ever wished your brain was more user-friendly, neurotechnology might seem like a dream come true. It’s all about offering you ways to hack your brain, getting it to do more of what you want and less of what you don’t want. There are “nootropics”... Read more ›
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Judy Unger/Getty ImagesTwo new books, Jenny Odell’s Saving Time and Pooja Laksmin’s Real Self-Care, offer a framework for thinking about the world beyond capitalism. One of the peculiarities of life during lockdown was that time seemed to melt and become liquid. Days expanded to last for years; weeks rippled like stones were skipping across their surface. The chronological markers that we were used to vanished in those years indoors, and... Read more ›
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Carol Berman speaks with pedestrians about Medicare Advantage benefits during the Coalition for Medicare Choices’ Medicare Advantage Food Truck stop in Washington on March 9, 2015. | Bill Clark/CQ Roll CallThe enormous success of Medicare Advantage — and the potential risks — explained. Medicare is undergoing a subtle but fundamental transformation from government program to public benefit provided by private companies, a shift with major implications for both patients and... Read more ›
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Getty ImagesPrices at the supermarket keep rising. So do corporate profits. Ordinary Americans have been watching their grocery bills climb to new heights as prices rise on cereals, meat, dairy, fruits, and vegetables — virtually everything we eat. According to the US Department of Agriculture, the price of food for home consumption rose by 11.4 percent last year — the highest yearly percent change since 1974 – and it’s expected... Read more ›
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella during the company’s Ignite Spotlight event in Seoul, South Korea, on November 15, 2022. | SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesMicrosoft and Google are rolling out AI features to write your memos and emails for you. But they’re far from perfect. Microsoft is adding new AI features to its popular apps like Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. The new set of tools, called Microsoft 365 Copilot, will let... Read more ›
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Shazam (Zachary Levi) and the Shazams. | Warner Bros. PicturesThe future for the hero is in DC Studios’ hands. This article contains spoilers for Shazam! Fury of The Gods. Billy Batson learns what it takes to become a hero in Shazam! Fury of The Gods, but does he have a future in the DC comic book universe? One of the credits scenes seems to hope so, but it’s extremely complicated.... Read more ›
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People rally in front of the US Supreme Court during the 50th annual March for Life on January 20, 2023, in Washington, DC. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesThe federal courts are dominated by Republicans, so the appeals process could be rough. If you’ve followed the fight over where and whether abortion should remain legal in the United States, you’ve probably heard the name “Matthew Kacsmaryk.” Kacsmaryk is a former lawyer for... Read more ›
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Your money is very likely safe in the bank, whatever the size. | Altayb/Getty ImagesTurns out you don’t have to be that big to be too big to fail. Turmoil in the financial system set off by the failure of Silicon Valley Bank has many people feeling a bit uneasy over where they’ve got their money parked. They’re wondering whether their banks could go the way of SVB or New... 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 is moving forward with a vote to repeal the outdated legal authorizations for the US’s wars in Iraq. It’s mostly symbolic, but it has... Read more ›
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The fate of TikTok in the US may be in President Biden’s hands. | Chip Somodevilla/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 making cringey memes; then it had to make the case that it wasn’t... Read more ›
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Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesBut layoffs that last months are worse, as Mark Zuckerberg may soon find out. When Meta, formerly Facebook, laid off 11,000 workers in November, it was in the shadow of Elon Musk’s brutal and chaotic firing spree at Twitter. By comparison, the way Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg conducted layoffs — saying he took responsibility for growing the company too fast, showing what other cuts the company made first,... Read more ›
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Illustrations by Shyama Golden for VoxHow the quest to own the nation’s most popular, most Instagram-worthy pup has bred a world of problems. Part of The Animals Issue of The Highlight, our home for ambitious stories that explain our world. In 2022, the French bulldog, commonly known as a Frenchie, became the most popular dog breed in America, dethroning the lowly Labrador retriever for the first time in 31 years.... Read more ›
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J.K. Rowling, pictured at the premiere of Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore in 2022, has a history of transphobic statements and actions. | Stuart C. Wilson/Getty ImagesAn exhausting — if not exhaustive — timeline of J.K. Rowling’s transphobia. J.K. Rowling’s supporters frequently claim the author has never actually said or done anything transphobic. It’s a position you can see on social media, in the pages of the New York... Read more ›
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A Russian jet approaching a US drone, from a screenshot of video released by US European Command. | US European CommandThe US released video footage of the encounter. A Russian warplane forced down a US drone over the Black Sea, the US says, another reminder of the potential escalation risks tied to the Ukraine war. According to US officials, an MQ-9 drone was conducting “routine” reconnaissance operations at about 7... Read more ›
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Fans walk past a Fanduel sports betting location at Footprint Center before Game Five of the Western Conference First Round NBA Playoffs between the Phoenix Suns and the New Orleans Pelicans on April 26, 2022, in Phoenix, Arizona. | Christian Petersen/Getty ImagesThe unfortunate consequences of the huge growth of sports betting, explained. The United States is in the midst of a sports gambling boom, and it may be a generational... Read more ›
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This bird is just as confused at the definition of life as we humans are. | Mark Ralston/AFP via Getty ImagesScience writer Carl Zimmer explains why this question has been so hard to answer. We know life when we see it. Flying birds are clearly alive, as are microscopic creatures like tardigrades that scurry around in a single drop of water. But do we, humans, know what life fundamentally is?... Read more ›
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Fish caught in a net in Poland. People catch or farm billions of fish for food each year. | Andrew Skowron/We Animals MediaMy year as a pescetarian did more harm than good. When I decided to stop eating animals for ethical reasons five years ago, I wanted to make sure I could stick with it. Following a path where, I thought, each step brought me closer to the most moral... Read more ›
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