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President Donald Trump promised to set in motion his plan for mass deportations starting on his first day in office. But while he has begun to lay the legal groundwork to carry out the policy, it’s not clear that deportations are ramping up just yet — and they may not for a while. Trump issued […]

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Many Instagram users this week had their scrolling interrupted by the bearded visage of our newly elected Vice President JD Vance. Suddenly it seemed that on the week of their inauguration, everybody on the app was following or being suggested to follow the official accounts of President Donald Trump and Vance (@POTUS and @VP, respectively).  […]

On Tuesday, I was thinking I might write a story about the implications of the Trump administration’s repeal of the Biden executive order on AI. (The biggest implication: that labs are no longer asked to report dangerous capabilities to the government, though they may do so anyway.) But then two bigger and more important AI […]

Since Donald Trump’s rise to power, some liberals have developed a bad habit of seeing secret Nazi imagery everywhere on the right. Be it Laura Ingraham allegedly sieg-heiling at the 2016 Republican National Convention, a Justice Brett Kavanaugh clerk being called a covert white supremacist in 2018 because of her resting hand position, or concerns […]

Timothée Chalamet scored the second Oscar nomination of his young career this week, and he’s a favorite to take home the trophy. In many ways, his work as Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown is classic Oscars fare: an Academy darling who donned prosthetics and learned how to play the guitar for his turn as […]

As President Donald Trump’s first week in office comes to a close, his biggest accomplishments are things many of us anticipated: chaos and confusion.  Some of the many executive orders the president has signed do threaten democracy and others endanger the planet. But others simply endorse hypothetical policies with more spectacle than is necessary, like […]

There was never going to be a “winner” of the bloody conflict that has raged in the Middle East for the past 15 months — not considering how the war began or the destruction it has caused. But after a tentative ceasefire went into effect on Sunday, it’s hard to avoid the conclusion that Israel […]

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MALCOM, IOWA — When Carolyn Bittner moved to Malcom, Iowa, in 2008 to serve as a pastor at two churches, she had no idea the town was also home to millions of egg-laying chickens. Three miles from her home, those chickens — which now total around 7.5 million — are raised in massive warehouses on […]

After a surprisingly delightful, Barbenheimer-themed Oscars in 2024, this year’s nominations are a return to form. As per usual, the nominees are a mix of the past year’s most tasteful blockbusters, like Wicked: Part 1 and Dune: Part 2; a handful of smaller but buzzy films that the average moviegoer is at least partly familiar […]

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has a lot of controversial agenda items if he is confirmed as President Donald Trump’s Health and Human Services secretary: pharmaceuticals, vaccines, fluoride in the water … the list goes on.  But he also plans to go after a facet of American life that doesn’t have many full-throated defenders: school lunch.  […]

This story originally appeared in Kids Today, Vox’s newsletter about kids, for everyone. Sign up here for future editions. Last week, the Food and Drug Administration announced a ban on a food dye called Red No. 3, which has been linked to cancer in animal studies. The news comes on the heels of a bill that California […]

Three days before taking the oath of office, President Donald Trump launched his own crypto asset: $TRUMP. By the eve of his inauguration, Trump’s share of the so-called memecoin was worth $58 billion, making him, on paper, one of the richest people on the planet. Although the price of the Trump memecoin has fallen from […]

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The summer of 2023 has seen persistent spikes in dangerous air quality levels across the United States as smoke from ongoing wildfires in Canada is blown south. In early June, the smoke in New York City was so bad it officially had the worst air quality of any major city in the world, according to […]

We’re making this story accessible to all readers as a public service. At Vox, our mission is to help everyone access essential information that empowers them. Support our journalism by becoming a member today. It’s not enough to trust the senses to know when it’s a bad air day. Well before you can see or […]

This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Within hours of being sworn into office on Monday, President Donald Trump announced a spate of executive orders and policies to boost oil and gas production, roll back environmental protections, withdraw from the Paris climate accord, and […]

Donald J. Trump and JD Vance were officially sworn in as the 47th president and vice president of the United States on Monday, January 20, 2025, in Washington, DC. Their inauguration looks different from previous years, in part because it is being held inside the Capitol Rotunda, instead of outside the US Capitol, as a […]

On Monday, his first day back in office, President Donald Trump issued a wave of executive orders.  Some are ridiculous, such as an order purporting to rename the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America.” Others are ominous, such as an order seeking to drastically increase the number of federal civil servants who can be […]

The dizzying array of executive actions President Donald Trump issued on Monday, the first day of his second term, show that he is increasingly willing to push the envelope, challenging both laws and norms in an effort to get the government to do what he wants. His pardons of January 6 rioters are far more […]

Malaria kills more than a thousand children every day. Measures like antimalarial medications and insecticide-treated bed nets, which stop infected mosquitoes from transmitting the disease-causing parasite to people while they sleep, have saved millions of lives at a relatively low cost. Yet despite these interventions, which reduced mortality by about 29 percent, over 430,000 children […]

Donald Trump has never been on better terms with corporate America. Yet his ostensible trade agenda has never been more antithetical to the interests of big business. In recent weeks, tech billionaires who’d once projected ambivalence (if not hostility) toward Trump — including Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and Bill Gates — have paid him their […]

How many people are living in poverty in America? It depends on whom you ask. If it’s the US Census, the answer would be somewhere around 37 million people. But that number doesn’t necessarily capture everyone who might be considered poor, because measuring poverty largely depends on how we define it. And some definitions, including […]