The Supreme Court will decide if Oklahoma must execute a man it doesn’t want to kill
The state’s Republican attorney general took the rare step of asking the Supreme Court to set aside Richard Glossip’s capital ...
Your iPhone is probably a satellite phone. Here’s how it could help you.
You’ve probably seen a satellite phone in a movie. Usually they’re depicted as black bricks that let you phone home from ...
The profit-obsessed monster destroying American emergency rooms
Lots of for-profit models are a bad fit for health care, but of all of them, private equity is perhaps the worst, says Eileen ...
Get used to more absurdly hot Octobers
Other places in California, Arizona, and Wyoming have also experienced some of their hottest October temperatures ever, with ...
Florida criminalized homelessness. Then Hurricane Helene hit.
Disaster relief for people who were homeless prior to a hurricane has always been lacking, as FEMA, the main federal agency ...
Nitrous, one of the oldest mind-altering drugs, is back
But the innovation that brought nitrous back into style as a contemporary recreational drug was a little more mundane: ...
Kids’ political concerns are surprisingly grownup
Children have some concept of government as early as kindergarten, said Christopher Ojeda, a political science professor at ...
Megalopolis, explained as best we can
Francis Ford Coppola’s CGI ball of optimism is an incoherent mess. Maybe you should see it anyway. One mortgaged winery, $136 ...
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What’s going on in Asheville? The devastating fallout from Hurricane Helene, explained.
The scenes from North Carolina are shocking: roads and bridges washed away. Houses ripped from their foundations. Entire towns reduced to mud and debris. On Thursday night, Hurricane Helene ...
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The latest on the fallout of Hurricane Helene
Hurricane Helene ruined much of what it encountered in its 500-mile journey across the Southeast US, leaving Florida, Georgia ...
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Abortion groups are raising more money than ever. Where exactly is it going?
Rachel M. Cohen is a policy correspondent for Vox covering social policy. She focuses on housing, schools, homelessness, child care, and abortion rights, and has been reporting on these issues for ...
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A big fire at a lab near Atlanta spewed chemicals into the air. Here’s what we know.
Amid the devastation and mass flooding wrought by Hurricane Helene, the Atlanta metropolitan area had yet another disaster: A chemical fire released a massive plume of potentially toxic gasses ...