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The Murdaugh Murders finally go to trial — but the case so far is thinner than you might think

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Alex Murdaugh and defense attorney Dick Harpootlian review evidence during his trial for murder at the...
Alex Murdaugh and defense attorney Dick Harpootlian review evidence during his trial for murder at the Colleton County Courthouse on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023, in Walterboro, South Carolina. Joshua Boucher/Pool/The State/Tribune News Service via Getty Images Alex Murdaugh, the alleged perpetrator at the center of one o...
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A day in the life at TikTok as it tries to win Americans’ trust

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The lobby of TikTok’s Culver City, Los Angeles, headquarters. Shirin Ghaffary This Tuesday, following its recent...
The lobby of TikTok’s Culver City, Los Angeles, headquarters. Shirin Ghaffary This Tuesday, following its recent charm offensive in Washington, DC, TikTok hosted journalists at its Los Angeles headquarters to unveil a new center it has created to woo American policymakers, regulators, and civil society leaders. “How...
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What do we want police body cams to do?

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Fullerton Police Sgt. Jon Radus wears his body camera high on his chest attached with a...
Fullerton Police Sgt. Jon Radus wears his body camera high on his chest attached with a magnetic device while on patrol in Fullerton, California, on February 16, 2017. Leonard Ortiz/Digital First Media/Orange County Register via Getty Images Not even the Memphis police chief could dismiss the video footage of 29-yea...
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Palm oil is actually not that bad (anymore)

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A palm oil plantation in Perak, Malaysia, on November 12, 2019. Joshua Paul/Bloomberg via Getty Images...
A palm oil plantation in Perak, Malaysia, on November 12, 2019. Joshua Paul/Bloomberg via Getty Images In the last two decades, palm oil has become an environmental boogeyman, an ingredient that conscious consumers should try to avoid. The oil, found in everything from baby shampoo to ice cream, earned its bad reput...
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What Andrea Riseborough’s controversial nomination reveals about the Oscars

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Andrea Riseborough at a Q&A following a To Leslie screening for SAG members on December 7,...
Andrea Riseborough at a Q&A following a To Leslie screening for SAG members on December 7, 2022. Jason Mendez/Getty Images Bright and early on the morning of January 24, 2023, as Riz Ahmed and Alison Williams named the Oscar nominees for Best Actress, the results were, more or less, as expected. Cate Blanchett for T...
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The 747 is out. Green airplanes are in.

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The FBI’s search of Joe Biden’s beach house, explained

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US President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden walk on Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, on November...
US President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden walk on Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, on November 7, 2021. Nicholas Kamm/AFP via Getty Images The latest development in the Justice Department’s classified documents probe of President Biden came in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, on Wednesday: FBI agents searched the president...
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Avian flu is really bad for birds. What about for us?

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Chickens at a farm in Sheffield, Illinois. Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty Images Maybe you’ve noticed: Eggs...
Chickens at a farm in Sheffield, Illinois. Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty Images Maybe you’ve noticed: Eggs are really expensive. By late last year, the average cost of a dozen Grade A large eggs had more than doubled since January. They’ve been so pricey — more than $10 at certain retailers — that some people are...
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How the 2011 debt ceiling crisis could bring the US to the edge of disaster again

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Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH), President Barack Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV),...
Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH), President Barack Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) sit down with other administration officials and members of Congress for a meeting in the Cabinet Room at the White House on July 14, 2011, in Washington, DC. ...
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GoodRx made money off your health data. The FTC is making it pay.

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Federal Trade Commission chair Lina Khan is finding new ways to take on an old problem:...
Federal Trade Commission chair Lina Khan is finding new ways to take on an old problem: digital privacy. Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images GoodRx has not been very good at your privacy. And now the Federal Trade Commission has written an expensive prescription: a hefty fine and an agreement to implemen...
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What should be kept off-limits in a virology lab?

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A Centers for Disease Control scientist in a protective airtight suit, handling influenza virus specimens, in...
A Centers for Disease Control scientist in a protective airtight suit, handling influenza virus specimens, in a biosafety level 4 laboratory, in Atlanta, Georgia, in 2005. Douglas Jordan/Centers for Disease Control/Getty Images Imagine you’re a virologist. You’re doing research into monkeypox, and in an effort to be...
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The AI boom is here, and so are the lawsuits

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Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images That was quick: Artificial intelligence has gone from...
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images That was quick: Artificial intelligence has gone from science fiction to novelty to Thing We Are Sure Is the Future. Very, very fast. One easy way to measure the change is via headlines — like the ones announcing Microsoft’s $10 billion investment in OpenAI, the ...
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Lucky girl syndrome and the endless rebranding of "The Secret"

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Dion Lee for Vox If 2020 was the year that TikTokers discovered The Secret — that...
Dion Lee for Vox If 2020 was the year that TikTokers discovered The Secret — that is, the idea that you can make anything you want happen if you believe in it enough — then the two years that followed are when they’ve tried to rebrand it into perpetual relevance. Its most recent makeover is something rather ominousl...
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Biden is ending the Covid public health emergency. Here’s what that means for you.

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Free at-home Covid-19 tests will be a thing of the past with the end of the...
Free at-home Covid-19 tests will be a thing of the past with the end of the public health emergency. Brontë Wittpenn/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images When the federal Covid-19 public health emergency ends on May 11, it will be the end of an era for the American health system. For more than three years, in a ...
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Insulin is way too expensive. California has a solution: Make its own.

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One in six Americans with diabetes (like Laura Marston, pictured here in 2016) who use insulin...
One in six Americans with diabetes (like Laura Marston, pictured here in 2016) who use insulin say they ration their supply because of the cost. Jorge Ribas/Washington Post via Getty Images There are few better emblems of the failures of the US system of medical care than its inability to consistently provide insuli...
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Remember the Stormy Daniels "hush money" case against Trump? It’s back.

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President Donald Trump greets people at a New Year event at his Mar-a-Lago home on December...
President Donald Trump greets people at a New Year event at his Mar-a-Lago home on December 31, 2022, in Palm Beach, Florida. Joe Raedle/Getty Images Amid the many investigations of former President Donald Trump that are going on right now, a new — or rather, an old — one has gained some unexpected momentum. This we...
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Clean energy is taking over the Texas grid. State officials are trying to stop it.

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Texas is the largest wind energy producer in the United States. Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images Clean energy...
Texas is the largest wind energy producer in the United States. Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images Clean energy is rapidly rising on the Texas power grid, but regulators in the Lone Star State are now considering a plan that could give fossil fuels a boost. The zero greenhouse gas emissions trio — wind, solar, and nucl...
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Avatar: The Way of Water made $2 billion worldwide. Wait, really?

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This is what Sigourney Weaver would look like as an angsty teen half-Na’vi. Weaver voices her...
This is what Sigourney Weaver would look like as an angsty teen half-Na’vi. Weaver voices her and her mother (a human biologist) in Avatar: The Way of Water. 20th Century Studios Much like how Sigourney Weaver plays both a bright blue, immaculately conceived Na’vi teenager and her own late human biologist mother in ...
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Ron DeSantis wants to make it much easier for the government to kill people

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks at a press conference in 2018. Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks at a press conference in 2018. Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Last week, Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis floated two unconstitutional proposals that would lead to the US executing more people. The first, which he suggested during an appearance before the ...
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How effective altruists ignored risk

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In May of this past year, I proclaimed on a podcast that “effective altruism (EA) has...
In May of this past year, I proclaimed on a podcast that “effective altruism (EA) has a great hunger for and blindness to power. That is a dangerous combination. Power is assumed, acquired, and exercised, but rarely examined.” Little did I know at the time that Sam Bankman-Fried, — a prodigy and major funder of the ...
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Your favorite tech giant wants you to know it’s a startup again

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When Meta’s head of people, Lori Goler, posted a memo to the company’s internal employee message...
When Meta’s head of people, Lori Goler, posted a memo to the company’s internal employee message board last summer asking employees to work with “increased intensity,” many workers pushed back. In internal comments Recode reviewed, some employees took issue with the idea that they weren’t working hard enough already...
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With coworkers like Marjorie Taylor Greene, what can Democrats do on oversight?

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Reps. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) scream “Build the Wall” as President Joe...
Reps. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) scream “Build the Wall” as President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union address in March 2022. Evelyn Hockstein/Getty Images Both congressional Democrats and Republicans have now finalized the lists of members who will sit on committees this Congre...
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How years of instability came to a head in Peru

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Peruvian demonstrators clash with riot police in Lima, Peru, on January 28, 2023, as protests against...
Peruvian demonstrators clash with riot police in Lima, Peru, on January 28, 2023, as protests against President Dina Boluarte continue. Klebher Vasquez/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images After an attempted self-coup ending in the arrest of former Peruvian President Pedro Castillo in December, long-standing political an...
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Hate winter? Try these tips.

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Getty Images Depending on where you live and your personal disposition, winter fills you with either...
Getty Images Depending on where you live and your personal disposition, winter fills you with either delight (Skiing! Warm beverages! Cozy sweaters!) or dread (dry skin, early sunsets, painful wind chills). Every season comes with its unique trappings, but for regions that experience freezing temps, winter tends to ...
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