Getty ImagesHow a warming planet — and a graying population — could keep inflation high for years. The inflation surge of the past two years is a warning about what can happen when sudden changes in the things we want collide with massive disruptions in our ability to make them. While current inflation slowed to 4.9 percent in April according to Labor Department data released today, after more than a... Read more ›
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A child receives a shot during the launch of the extension of the worlds first malaria vaccine (RTS, S) pilot program at Kimogoi Dispensary in Kenya on March 7, 2023. | AFP via Getty ImagesFears of an AI future are taking up all our focus. But we shouldn’t forget present-day problems like global health and poverty How do you do the most good in the world? A few years ago,... Read more ›
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Sean Gallup/Getty ImagesWhy do we know so little about pregnancy — one of the most common experiences on Earth? Technically, pregnancy is one of the most ordinary things in the world. After all, every single person on Earth has firsthand experience with it (since we all had to come out of someone’s womb). And yet, even though it happens every day, pregnancy also remains extremely mysterious. Sometimes, it’s mysterious in... Read more ›
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The uncertainty around a baby’s due date is a big stressor for many families. | Denis Novikov via Getty Images/iStockphotoWhat causes labor is still a mystery, and it’s hurting birthing people and babies. Ashley Randolph was 34 weeks and five days pregnant, and she was afraid. Her first two children, Aiden and London, had been born premature, each at exactly 34 weeks. Her pregnancies had been difficult, marred by dismissive... Read more ›
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Getty ImagesHow pharmacy benefit managers found themselves the targets of a bipartisan push on drug prices. Democrats, Republicans, and pharmaceutical companies don’t always agree on everything about high prescription drug prices. But over the past few years, they’ve increasingly found common ground on one thing: pharmacy benefit managers are part of the problem. Pharmacy benefit managers are companies that, behind the scenes, determine what patients have to pay for medications.... Read more ›
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Daria Filippova for VoxThe war in Ukraine How Russia’s invasion transformed one Ukrainian city Story by Jen Kirby Graphics by Jan Diehm, Hesham Eissa, and Lindsey Poulter from The Pudding May 10, 2023, 6 am ET In Kharkiv, you hear the boom first. Later, the air-raid siren blares. The city is about 40 kilometers from the Russian border, and missiles can land faster than the warning sound. "No one actually... Read more ›
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Tucker Carlson Tonight was one of the popular shows on Fox News. Now, a version of it will be on Twitter. | Jason Koerner/Getty ImagesThe former Fox News host says he has a new home, and it’s owned by Elon Musk. Two weeks after former Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s stunning firing from the channel, he seems to have figured out his next step: Twitter. Yes, really. Carlson posted a... Read more ›
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AR-15 build kits seen for sale at the Durkin Tactical display during the National Rifle Association’s Annual Meetings & Exhibits at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis on April 15, 2023. | Jeremy Hogan/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty ImagesA case on the Court’s “shadow docket” could strike down state and local bans on AR-15s and similar weapons. The Supreme Court could hand down a decision any day now in National Association... Read more ›
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E. Jean Carroll arrives for her civil trial against former President Donald Trump at Manhattan Federal Court on May 9, 2023 in New York City. | Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesThe columnist won a fraught victory in her civil case against the former president. Donald Trump has just been found liable for sexual battery against journalist E. Jean Carroll. After a civil trial that lasted two weeks and under three hours of... Read more ›
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Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan addresses his supporters during an anti-government march toward Islamabad, demanding early elections, in Gujranwala on November 1, 2022. | ARIF ALI/AFP via Getty ImagesThe former prime minister’s arrest has escalated the country’s political crisis at a delicate moment. Imran Khan, Pakistan’s former prime minister, was arrested by paramilitary troops Tuesday on corruption charges, escalating the country’s political crisis ahead of national elections later this... Read more ›
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President Joe Biden and Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) talk as they depart the US Capitol following the Friends of Ireland Luncheon on Saint Patrick’s Day March 17, 2023. | Drew Angerer/Getty ImagesHere’s his most plausible path forward. President Biden is set to meet with Speaker Kevin McCarthy and other congressional leaders at the White House today, and Biden is expected to reiterate that he wants the debt... Read more ›
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A staffer with the Republican leadership holds a guide to Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s debt ceiling package during a news conference on April 26, 2023. | J. Scott Applewhite/APThe White House and Congressional Republicans are at a standoff over how to raise or suspend the debt ceiling, which caps the total amount of money that the US can borrow to fund the federal government. If a deal isn’t reached soon, the... Read more ›
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Bloomberg via Getty ImagesWhy Meta is cautiously following the hype. At a high-profile White House summit on AI last Thursday, CEOs from some of the most important technology companies in the world sat together in a rare joint meeting. Vice President Kamala Harris and several senior administration officials hosted the event. President Joe Biden even dropped by. It was a critical moment for the future of AI technology, but one... Read more ›
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President Joe Biden walks with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy as he departs following the annual St. Patrick’s Day luncheon on Capitol Hill on March 17, 2023, in Washington, DC. | Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post/Getty ImagesWhere Democrats and Republicans stand ahead of a major meeting at the White House. With a June default date looming, President Joe Biden is meeting with Democrat and Republican leaders on Tuesday to discuss the urgent... Read more ›
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The field heads to the first turn during the 149th running of the Kentucky Derby on May 6, 2023. | Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty ImagesThe horse racing industry is egregiously cruel. We should end it yesterday. Amid the ostentatious hats and mint julep parties, a dark cloud hung over the 149th running of the Kentucky Derby this Saturday. Seven horses were dead before the main event. It started with Wild... Read more ›
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There are at least four parking spaces for every car in the United States, meaning that the parking stock is never more than 25 percent full at any given time. | Andrii Chagovets/iStock/Getty ImagesIt’s fueling the affordable housing crisis, worsening flooding, and driving us nuts. Most Americans, especially those living outside of major cities, need to drive to get around, and so the need to put one’s car somewhere when... Read more ›
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President Joe Biden greets union workers after a visit to a semiconductor manufacturer on March 28, 2023, in Durham, North Carolina. His focus on “made in America” manufacturing has important, often hidden, costs. | Melissa Sue Gerrits/Getty ImagesWhy an ex-Biden official is “deeply disappointed” in his Buy American policies. In everything from climate change to the courts to foreign policy, the Trump and Biden presidencies could not be less alike.... Read more ›
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A pelican that likely died from avian influenza on a beach in Lima, Peru, on December 1, 2022. | Ernesto Benavides/AFP via Getty ImagesScientists have never seen anything like it. In the past two years, a viral disease has swept across much of the planet — not Covid but a type of avian flu. It’s devastated the poultry industry in the US, Europe, and elsewhere, sickening millions of farmed birds,... Read more ›
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Smoke billows in Khartoum amid ongoing fighting between the forces of two rival generals in Sudan on May 6, 2023. | AFP via Getty ImagesHow two generals pushed Sudan to war. Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, is a war zone. “Things get worse every day and day,” said Mohamed Fath Alrahman, a doctor and general manager of Al-Nada Hospital in Khartoum. Artillery shelling and airstrikes are the norm. The streets... Read more ›
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People pray as they visit a memorial set up near an entrance to the Allen Premium Outlets mall in Allen, Texas, after a mass shooting occurred there on May 8, 2023. | Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesTexas Gov. Greg Abbott wants more mental health resources after the Allen mall mass shooting. It’s not a real solution. Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott is calling for more resources for mental health following a mass... Read more ›
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