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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Despite years of drought, California is struggling to hold onto its rainwater. | Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty ImagesThe Golden State is struggling to save the water from its atmospheric rivers. Another atmospheric river is pouring over California this weekend, triggering flash floods and evacuations. Yet, despite the state being wedged between deluge and drought, most of the recent rain is washing away, doing little to alleviate the West’s stunning... Read more ›
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Breaking down the Oscar-nominated film’s sound design. One of the most exciting things about Top Gun: Maverick is its emphasis on practical effects. Most times, when you see the film’s actors struggling against high-level G-forces, that struggle is real. The actors spent months training to be in planes doing their own stunts, and the whole film feels grounded because of it. Most times, these sequences were shot practically, but not... Read more ›
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A homeless encampment outside City Hall in San Francisco, on May 22, 2020, at the height of the Covid-19 lockdown. | Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty ImagesHousing expert Matthew Desmond argues poverty has stagnated in America, but misses something big. Matthew Desmond, the acclaimed Princeton sociologist and author of Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, thinks that poverty has barely improved in the United States over the past 50... Read more ›
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A white face mask is seen laying on a street in New York, on October 25, 2022. | Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesThe fallout from a misinterpreted review on mask science only underscores the need for better protections. Two weeks ago, I wrote about some reservations I have about a Cochrane review meta-analysis finding mask-wearing in the community probably “makes little or no difference” against respiratory infections. While the overwhelming... Read more ›
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Transgender rights advocates stood outside of the Ohio Statehouse to oppose and bring attention to an amendment to a bill that would ban transgender women from participating in high school and college women sports. | Stephen Zenner/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty ImagesRepublicans are unleashing a torrent of anti-trans bills at the state level ahead of 2024. From Florida to Oklahoma, transgender rights are facing a fresh wave of attacks in Republican-controlled... Read more ›
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A Norfolk Southern train passes underneath a bridge in East Palestine, Ohio. | Michael Swensen/Getty ImagesThe Ohio train derailment has put a spotlight on freight companies, rail safety, and how to prevent the next environmental disaster. Railroads are a fixture of the American landscape: There are about 140,000 miles of track in the United States. But most people don’t think of the trains running through our towns and cities all... Read more ›
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The propane industry is working with Dean Sheremet, the host of Fox’s My Kitchen Rules, to combat gas stoves’ public image problem. | NBCUniversal via GettyHe’s on local TV blaming the user, not the product, for health concerns. At first glance, a local news station in San Diego seemed to be airing a soft news piece helping viewers achieve their new year’s resolutions. The host for San Diego Living, a... Read more ›
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Paige Vickers for VoxThe Florida governor’s career is full of opportunistic shifts toward whichever cause will benefit him most. If Ron DeSantis does end up challenging Donald Trump for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination, the media will be awash in attempts to explain who he “really” is. Is he an incipient authoritarian, or is he really just a typical Republican? In my view, he can be either — depending on... Read more ›
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New York Representative-elect George Santos speaks during the Republican Jewish Coalition Annual Leadership Meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada, on November 19. | David Becker/Washington Post via Getty ImagesThe Republican representative who allegedly made up his life story, explained. The biography of newly elected Congress member George Santos seemed quite impressive. The 34-year-old son of immigrants had graduated from Baruch College, a public college in New York, before going on to... Read more ›
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President Joe Biden campaigned on climate. | Jim Watson/AFP via Getty ImagesThe $6.8 trillion proposal reflects how his priorities have changed. A lot is squeezed into President Joe Biden’s new 182-page budget proposal, which the president describes as “a blue-collar blueprint to rebuild America in a fiscally responsible way.” Congress is unlikely to pass all, or even most, of the $6.8 trillion budget as written. Still, presidential budgets are important:... Read more ›
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Ukrainian servicemen travel inside an armored vehicle before being deployed to the frontline of Bakhmut, in Chasiv Yar, Ukraine, on March 9, 2023. | Ignacio Marin/Anadolu Agency via Getty ImagesIf Moscow takes Bakhmut, it may be a hollow victory. The costly, attritional battle of Bakhmut may be finally reaching its end, as Russia advances and as Ukraine shows hints of a possible withdrawal. After seven months, it’s not quite over... Read more ›
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The (re)call is coming from inside the house. | DigitalVision Vectors/Getty ImagesAmerica’s messy, screwed-up product recall system, explained. Fortune had it that when George Ball was looking to get a dehumidifier for his Indiana home, the house had one sitting in the basement from the previous owners. So he took it up to the bedroom, plugged it in, and went downstairs for dinner. A while later, he went back upstairs... Read more ›
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A protester walks past a banner depicting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at sunset outside the Knesset in Jerusalem on February 20, 2023. | Ahmad Gharabli/AFP via Getty ImagesIsraelis are revolting against Netanyahu. But a judicial overhaul isn’t the country’s only crisis. Hundreds of thousands of Israeli protesters have been demonstrating against the extreme-right government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu since January. The protests have become some of the biggest... Read more ›
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President Joe Biden’s budget proposal released Thursday includes a plan to address Medicare’s financial crunch. | Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesJoe Biden says he wants to save Medicare. Why is it in trouble? Over the past few weeks, policymakers have suddenly started sounding very worried about Medicare. President Joe Biden’s budget proposal being released Thursday includes a plan to “extend Medicare for another generation.” At the State of the Union, Biden got... Read more ›
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Then-House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) address reporters outside the White House after their Oval Office meeting with President Joe Biden on May 12, 2021 in Washington, DC. | Drew Angerer/Getty ImagesSenate Republicans are condemning Carlson’s downplaying of the insurrection. House leaders, not so much. Earlier this week, Fox News host Tucker Carlson aired a segment misrepresenting and downplaying the insurrection at the... Read more ›
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Matt Schlapp, chair of the American Conservative Union, speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in 2019. | Nelson Almeida/AFP via Getty ImagesA powerful Republican insider has been accused of groping a staffer on Herschel Walker’s Senate campaign. A Republican operative identified himself Wednesday as the man who filed a January lawsuit alleging sexual battery and defamation against Matt Schlapp and his wife Mercedes, two prominent... Read more ›
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Tucker Carlson speaks during the Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC) Feszt on August 7, 2021, in Esztergom, Hungary. | Janos Kummer/Getty ImagesThe Dominion-Fox lawsuit puts the lie to Tucker Carlson’s January 6 revisionist history. “We are very, very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights. I truly can’t wait.” “I hate him passionately.” “We’re all pretending we’ve got a lot to show for it, because admitting what a disaster... Read more ›
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A TikTok ban would surely upset many of the nation’s teens. | iStockphoto/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 pre-teens making cringey memes; then it had to make the case that it wasn’t responsible for the... Read more ›
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A white face mask is seen laying on a street in New York, on October 25, 2022. | Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesWe need better masks, and better approaches to using them. Two weeks ago, I wrote about some reservations I have about a Cochrane review meta-analysis finding mask-wearing in the community probably “makes little or no difference” against respiratory infections. While the overwhelming majority of the studies included in... Read more ›
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Ariana Madix, Tom Sandoval, Raquel Leviss, and Tom Schwartz — the cast of Vanderpump Rules and the core of the “Scandoval” cheating scandal | Araya Doheny/Getty ImagesTom Sandoval, Raquel Leviss, and Ariana Madix make for the reality TV version of Fleetwood Mac. Like Peter Pan’s Tinkerbell, the cast of Bravo’s Vanderpump Rules needs attention or they will die. If no one’s watching, they’re not living. And that overexposed way of... Read more ›
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