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Why gossip is just so irresistible

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The Supreme Court hands Trump a loss in his bid for legal immunity

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By a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court handed a largely symbolic, but still politically significant, loss...
By a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court handed a largely symbolic, but still politically significant, loss to President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday evening. Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett, both Republicans, voted with all three of the Court’s Democrats. The case, known as Trump v. New York, involves Trump’s felony convictions for […]

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Are gadgets getting good again?

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LAS VEGAS — When I stepped on the showroom floor in Las Vegas at CES, the largest...
LAS VEGAS — When I stepped on the showroom floor in Las Vegas at CES, the largest tech industry trade show in the world, earlier this week, I felt a sense of dread. I’ve been coming to the show, off and on, for a decade, and the story is always the same: The industry made new […]

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An explosive Fox Sports lawsuit has turned into a salacious, sexist mess

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Fox isn’t exactly known for fostering ethical work environments. However, a new lawsuit against Fox Sports,...
Fox isn’t exactly known for fostering ethical work environments. However, a new lawsuit against Fox Sports, marquee commentator Skip Bayless, and network executive Charlie Dixon has sent shockwaves through the sports broadcasting industry, emphasizing a bleak reality for women in the field. On January 3, a former hairstylist for the network, Noushin Faraji, filed a […]

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How factory farming took over America — and why it isn’t going away anytime soon

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A Vox reader asks: Why is factory farming still around? Factory farming — the intensive confinement...
A Vox reader asks: Why is factory farming still around? Factory farming — the intensive confinement of chickens, pigs, and cows on a massive scale — developed in the second half of the 20th century to feed a growing, and increasingly prosperous, post-World War II America. It was made possible by a “set of economic, […]

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Live updates: Wildfires spread across Los Angeles

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Wildfires are raging across Los Angeles, turning the skies red, destroying homes and businesses, and blanketing...
Wildfires are raging across Los Angeles, turning the skies red, destroying homes and businesses, and blanketing the region with smoke and debris. The largest fire is in Pacific Palisades, which has grown to over 17,000 acres as of Thursday morning and forced hundreds of thousands of people to evacuate. Four other major fires have engulfed […]

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California overhauled its insurance system. Then Los Angeles caught fire.

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate...
This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On Tuesday, after a ferocious Santa Ana windstorm blew through Southern California, a severe brush fire broke out in the wealthy Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, burning at least 1,000 structures and forcing hundreds of thousands of residents to evacuate […]

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What happens when a wildfire reaches a city?

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Multiple major wildfires, fanned by unusually strong seasonal winds, are currently burning through the Los Angeles...
Multiple major wildfires, fanned by unusually strong seasonal winds, are currently burning through the Los Angeles area, leaving devastation in their wake. Thus far, those fires have led to at least five fatalities, massive evacuations, and significant damage to more than 2,000 buildings. Though destructive fire seasons have become increasingly common in California, it’s still […]

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The unusually strong force behind the apocalyptic fires in Los Angeles

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Sustained powerful winds reaching nearly 100 miles per hour are driving fast-moving wildfires near Los Angeles,...
Sustained powerful winds reaching nearly 100 miles per hour are driving fast-moving wildfires near Los Angeles, spewing smoke, destroying homes, closing roads, and forcing thousands of people to evacuate. The Palisades fire along the coast near the Santa Monica mountains has burned more than 17,000 acres as of Thursday morning. The Eaton fire near Pasadena […]

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Siri’s listening to you — but is it spying?

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$95 million is a headline-making number, especially when it comes as a result of a proposed...
$95 million is a headline-making number, especially when it comes as a result of a proposed class action lawsuit settlement in which claimants accused Apple of unlawfully surveilling them through Siri and other Apple devices. If the settlement is approved by the district court in Oakland, California, overseeing the case, people who owned a Siri […]

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How long should you meditate?

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A scientific narrative about what meditation does can offer a helpful lens on what is happening...
A scientific narrative about what meditation does can offer a helpful lens on what is happening when you take your seat on the cushion. But no matter the story, there’s no substitute for actually doing the practice. Which raises the question: If you’re interested in exploring deeper meditation, how long will it take you to […]

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Why we shouldn’t ban kids from social media

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Grown-ups around the world have spent the last year desperately trying to get kids to put...
Grown-ups around the world have spent the last year desperately trying to get kids to put down their phones. Worries about kids’ screen time are far from new (you could argue that they are nearly a century old), but in recent months, high-profile experts have raised the concern that social media use among young people […]

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The madman theory of Trump and tariffs

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Is Donald Trump going to risk throwing the global economy into crisis by enacting the gargantuan...
Is Donald Trump going to risk throwing the global economy into crisis by enacting the gargantuan tariffs he’s proposed? Or is he just pretending he’s willing to do that to strike a better deal? On trade and many other issues, it’s clear Trump enjoys being seen as an unpredictable and dangerous figure and believes that […]

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Are North Carolina Republicans trying to steal a state supreme court seat?

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North Carolina’s supreme court has temporarily prohibited the state’s Board of Elections from certifying the election...
North Carolina’s supreme court has temporarily prohibited the state’s Board of Elections from certifying the election of sitting Democratic Justice Allison Riggs to the bench on Tuesday, despite her 734-vote victory over Republican challenger Jefferson Griffin. The court’s decision is not an out-and-out bar on the certification of the election’s results; it’s a stay, meaning […]

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College athletes were ready to unionize before Trump’s election. What now?

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In March, Dartmouth basketball players made history with a 13-2 vote to unionize and be classified...
In March, Dartmouth basketball players made history with a 13-2 vote to unionize and be classified as college employees — the first successful union election by student-athletes in US history. After Dartmouth rejected the bid, the two sides began litigating the path forward. But last Tuesday, well before any contract was reached, the players ended […]

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Trump wants “one big, beautiful bill.” Can he get it?

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With President Donald Trump’s second administration just weeks away, congressional Republicans are gearing up to execute...
With President Donald Trump’s second administration just weeks away, congressional Republicans are gearing up to execute on a wide-ranging legislative agenda touching on everything from taxes to immigration to fossil fuels. In a Monday interview with radio host Hugh Hewitt, Trump noted that his preference for doing so was “one big, beautiful bill,” but said […]

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Why is this cold snap so extreme? The jury is still out.

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Bitter cold has lashed its icy fingers across the United States, bringing a frigid start to...
Bitter cold has lashed its icy fingers across the United States, bringing a frigid start to the new year. Dubbed Winter Storm Blair, the tempest has triggered winter weather alerts for more than 60 million people this week in a swath from Illinois to New Jersey. The ongoing storm has already dropped up to a […]

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Justin Trudeau is resigning. Here’s what comes next.

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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said today that he’d step down as head of the country’s...
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said today that he’d step down as head of the country’s Liberal Party, after weeks of speculation that his time in leadership was coming to an end. In Canada, the head of the party with the highest number of seats in Parliament leads the country. Though Trudeau will no longer […]

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Biden’s DOJ just asked the Supreme Court to do a huge favor for Donald Trump

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In what is likely to be one of her final actions as the federal government’s top...
In what is likely to be one of her final actions as the federal government’s top Supreme Court litigator, Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar asked the justices last week to significantly diminish the power of lower court judges to block federal laws and policies. Should the Court take her up on this invitation, the biggest immediate […]

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Gigantic SUVs are a public health threat. Why don’t we treat them like one?

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With an annual toll of 40,000 American lives, the deadliness of secondhand smoke is now common...
With an annual toll of 40,000 American lives, the deadliness of secondhand smoke is now common knowledge. But it was only a few decades ago that puffing on a cigarette was defended as an act that affected only the smoker. In the 1980s, researchers for the first time demonstrated that smoking can kill people who […]

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Does my health insurance cover therapy?

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One in three Americans has resolved to make 2025 the year they get therapy. If you’re...
One in three Americans has resolved to make 2025 the year they get therapy. If you’re one of them, brace yourself: Figuring out how to get your insurance benefits to cover therapy can take some legwork. The drudgery of figuring out whether and how your insurance plan covers therapy — or choosing between plans in […]

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How ayahuasca became the ultimate “bro” drug

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When former Buffalo Bill Jordan Poyer heard New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers extol the benefits...
When former Buffalo Bill Jordan Poyer heard New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers extol the benefits of ayahuasca on The Pat McAfee Show in 2023, he was suspicious — but intrigued. Poyer had been struggling with his marriage and his recovery from alcoholism, and after hearing Rodgers discuss “plant medicine” — as the psychoactive brew […]

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The perils of trying to optimize your morality

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This story was originally published in The Highlight, Vox’s member-exclusive magazine. To get early access to...
This story was originally published in The Highlight, Vox’s member-exclusive magazine. To get early access to member-exclusive stories every month, join the Vox Membership program today. I am a recovering optimizer. Over the past several years, I’ve spent ages agonizing over every decision I made because I felt like I had to do the best […]

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3 things to know about this year’s Golden Globes

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It always seems like everyone wins and no one really loses at the Golden Globes. The...
It always seems like everyone wins and no one really loses at the Golden Globes. The event has historically been known as more of a boozy party than a serious awards show, a casual hangout with Hollywood’s most charming celebrities rather than a cutthroat winner-take-all situation — even if it’s had its fair share of […]

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