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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Could Silicon Valley Bank’s failure become a cautionary tale? | John Brecher/Washington Post via Getty ImagesA regional bank helped the tech industry grow. Now it might need to shrink. The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank was a big deal. It didn’t just impact Silicon Valley businesses — or the many non-Silicon Valley-based businesses that banked there, including Vox’s parent company Vox Media. The end of SVB created ripple effects throughout... Read more ›
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Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) applauds during President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address on February 7, 2023. | Win McNamee/Getty ImagesHow the controversial senator could win — even after leaving the Democratic Party. Though she hasn’t formally announced a decision, all signs continue to suggest that Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, who left the Democratic Party and became an independent in December, will run for reelection in 2024. She is fundraising... Read more ›
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Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert attends a demonstration against the Israeli government’s controversial judicial overhaul bill, in Tel Aviv on March 1, 2023. | Jack Guez/AFP via Getty ImagesFormer Israeli Prime Minister Olmert: “The government of Israel is the enemy of the state of Israel.” It’s significant when a former prime minister joins the protests against a sitting government. Ehud Olmert served as prime minister of Israel from 2006... Read more ›
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Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesA list circulated by the distributor in January 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, abortion rights activists, and... Read more ›
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Former White House strategist Steve Bannon, right, greets fugitive Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui on November 20, 2018 in New York. | Don Emmert/AFP via Getty ImagesThe charges against the pro-MAGA exiled Chinese billionaire, explained. Some call him Miles Guo. Others call him Guo Wengui. To top Trump allies like Steve Bannon and Jason Miller, he is an ally and a business partner. But, to federal authorities, he is an alleged... Read more ›
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The bank is closed. | Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesTech’s favorite bank just failed. What does that mean for you? If you work in tech, you had probably heard of Silicon Valley Bank before now. If you’re not familiar with this seemingly regional bank, nobody’s blaming you. It had billions of dollars in deposits, but fewer than two dozen branches, and generally catered to a very specific crowd of startups, venture capitalists,... Read more ›
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A group of chemicals called PFAS, which are found in all kinds of products and drinking water, have been linked with a number of health problems including cancer. | Getty ImagesA chemist explains how PFAS can harm us — and what to do about them. Right now, you likely have something unnatural lurking inside your body. It was made by a large corporation and could potentially harm you. That something... Read more ›
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks to Iowa voters gathered at the Iowa State Fairgrounds on March 10, 2023 in Des Moines, Iowa. | Scott Olson/Getty ImagesIn recent statements, DeSantis is the latest GOP leader to break sharply from the party’s support for Ukraine. The Republican Party is divided on whether the US should continue to support Ukraine in its war with Russia, and this week, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis made... Read more ›
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OpenAI co-founder and President Greg Brockman speaking onstage at SXSW Conference with journalist Laurie Segall on March 10, 2023 | Photo by Errich Petersen/Getty Images for SXSWWhat you need to know about GPT-4, the latest version of the buzzy generative AI technology. When ChatGPT came out in November, it took the world by storm. Within a month of its release, some 100 million people had used the viral AI chatbot... Read more ›
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Sebastian Ghiorghiu/YouTubeYouTube and TikTok are plagued with 20-something “passive income” bros who want your attention — and your money. Sebastian Ghiorghiu hates excuses. He’s only 24, yet runs a “seven-figure marketing agency.” He owns multiple “dream cars” and is currently building his “luxury dream house” in Scottsdale, Arizona. Ghiorghiu is productive, he says, for 98 percent of every day. He went from “skinny fat” to “jacked.” He believes in God.... Read more ›
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The Milky Way seen from Thung Salang Luang National Park Phetchabun in Thailand. | Getty Images/JackyenjoyphotographyEarth, for all we know, is the only planet with life on it. But how did it start? The defining feature of our world is life. For all we know, Earth is the only planet with life on it. Despite our age of environmental destruction, there’s life in every corner of the globe, under its... Read more ›
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Elon Musk speaks at the World Government Summit in Dubai, 2023. | Karim Sahib/AFP via Getty ImagesConcerning! Twitter has been a disaster since Elon Musk bought the company last fall: Advertising dollars vanished, the site breaks all the time, and it’s now explicitly a home for the worst people on Earth. And there’s no reason to think any of this will change as long as Musk owns the thing. Because... Read more ›
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The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston doesn’t insure deposits (that’s the Depositors Insurance Fund), but it does look cool. | Paul Marotta/Getty ImagesDon’t want to lose your bank deposits? Simple: Bank in Massachusetts. In Michael Mann’s 1995 movie masterpiece Heat, bank robber Neil McCauley (Robert De Niro) explains to panicked bank customers that he has no intention of hurting them: “We’re here for the bank’s money, not your money. Your... Read more ›
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An MQ-9 Reaper drone with Customs and Border Protection (CBP) awaits the next mission over the US-Mexico border on November 4, 2022, at Fort Huachuca, Arizona. | John Moore/Getty ImagesThis is an “unsafe and unprofessional act by the Russians,” the US said. 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... Read more ›
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Fed Chair Jerome Powell speaks during a House Financial Services Committee hearing on Wednesday, March 8, 2023, days before Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse. | Samuel Corum/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesSVB’s collapse is the price of the Fed’s interest rate gambit. It turns out the Federal Reserve has been moving fast and breaking things, but few people noticed until the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank. Over the past year, the Fed has... Read more ›
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks to Iowa voters gathered at the Iowa State Fairgrounds on March 10, 2023 in Des Moines, Iowa. | Scott Olson/Getty ImagesIn recent statements, DeSantis is the latest GOP leader to break sharply from the party’s support for Ukraine. The Republican Party is divided on whether the US should continue to support Ukraine in its war with Russia, and this week, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis made... Read more ›
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The US Capitol dome in Washington, DC, on March 2, 2023. | Stefani Reynolds/AFP via Getty ImagesIf its spirit were more rigorously enforced. Congressional hearings are an important part of the lawmaking process. Experts from outside government sit in front of committees and help them consider issues of national concern. But money does shape ideas in Washington. In 1997, House Republicans implemented a “truth in testimony” rule that required congressional... Read more ›
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Scream VI’s core four friends. | Philippe BosséLive fast, die young, final girls don’t do it well. There are some light spoilers for Scream VI in this article The only thing Scream movies love more than painstakingly explaining the rules of the horror genre is showing you how it breaks them. One main killer who’s invariably a dude, the taboo against sex and drugs, “I’ll be right back” as the... Read more ›
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The bank is closed. | Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesTech’s favorite bank just failed. What does that mean for you? If you work in tech, you had probably heard of Silicon Valley Bank before now. If you’re not familiar with this seemingly regional bank, nobody’s blaming you. It had billions of dollars in deposits, but fewer than two dozen branches, and generally catered to a very specific crowd of startups, venture capitalists,... Read more ›
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Silicon Valley Bank logo | Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via GettyA bailout is the worst option, except for all the others. The old saw about democracy is that it’s the worst form of government, except for all the others. At the moment, the same holds true about bailouts aimed at averting economic panic — like we saw with Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) this weekend. There is semantic dispute about whether the US... Read more ›
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