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Then-President Donald Trump shakes hands with Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who Trump placed on the Supreme Court. Getty Images Thursday’s argument in Trump v. United States was a disaster for Special Counsel Jack Smith, and for anyone who believes that the president of the United States should be subject to prosecution ...

Dairy cows at an operation in Lodi, California, in 2020. Jessica Christian/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images Bird flu has had a busy couple of years. Since 2022, it’s ravaged the US poultry industry, as more than 90 million farmed birds — mostly egg-laying hens and turkeys — have either died from the viru...

Members of the US Army National Guard patrolling Penn Station in New York City. Kena Betancur/AFP via Getty Images When it comes to public safety, lawmakers have two primary jobs: enacting policies that curb crime and making their constituents feel safe. It might seem like those two things go hand-in-hand; after all...

Former President Donald Trump greets his own appointee, Justice Neil Gorsuch, ahead of the State of the Union address in the chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives on February 04, 2020. Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images Today, the Supreme Court will hear what might be one of its least consequential arguments in...

The world might soon see a sustained decline in greenhouse gas emissions. Eric Yang/Getty Images Earth is coming out of the hottest year on record, amplifying the destruction from hurricanes, wildfires, heat waves, and drought. The oceans remain alarmingly warm, triggering the fourth global coral bleaching event in ...

Photo illustration by Joe Raedle/Getty Images The bill to require TikTok to separate from its Chinese parent company or face a nationwide ban made it to President Joe Biden’s desk on Wednesday as part of a huge foreign aid package that passed through Congress this week. And Biden, as he previously promised, signed t...

The world has become a much safer place to be a young child in the last 50 years. Since 1974, infant mortality worldwide has plummeted. That year, one in 10 newborns died before reaching their first birthday. By 2021, that rate had fallen by over two-thirds. A lot of factors drove this change: lower poverty and bett...

Getty Images It’s a sneezy, snotty, itchy-eyed time for many Americans — perhaps more so than ever before. Seasonal allergies are the effects of the immune system’s overreaction to pollen spewed into the air by trees, grasses, and ragweed, most commonly in the spring (although really, year-round). Climate change is ...

Pro-Palestine student demonstrators march from the University of Colorado campus in Boulder to show solidarity and to protest the sale of US jets to Israel in this October 1973 photo. Denver Post via Getty Images Last week, the country watched one of the biggest escalations in campus unrest this year unfold, when do...

An activist with the Center for Popular Democracy Action holds a large photo of US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s head as the group blocks an intersection during a demonstration in front of the US Supreme Court on December 1, 2021, in Washington, DC. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images A federal law requires most US...

Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images Protests over the war in Gaza erupted on Columbia University’s campus last week and have sparked demonstrations at other universities across the country. The demonstrations have resulted in some intense crackdowns and political scrutiny, all coming in the wake of recent congressi...

A coyote in the El Capitan meadow area at sunrise in Yosemite National Park. Mark Boster/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images A red fox killed with a cyanide bomb. A gray wolf gunned down from an airplane. A jackrabbit caught in a neck snare. These are just a few of the 1.45 million animals poisoned, shot, and trapped...

On April 18, the United Auto Workers won the union vote at a Volkswagen assembly plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images The Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, has about 5,500 employees. On April 19, almost three-quarters of them voted to join the United Auto Workers. It’s the latest ...

Ukrainian soldiers fire artillery near Siversk, in Donetsk, Ukraine, on April 1, 2024. Wolfgang Schwan/Anadolu via Getty Images Ukrainian forces are having their best week in months, and it’s coming not on the muddy battlefields of the Donbas, but across the Atlantic. On Saturday, after months of delay, the US House...

Trump speaks at an event in Pennsylvania on April 13. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images Donald Trump is currently leading the 2024 presidential race, in no small part because voters trust him to combat inflation. This is a bit strange since Trump has for months now been advertising plans to drastically increase consumer pr...

Finnish activist Aiski Ryökäs at a My Voice, My Choice press conference. Varja Jovanovič An unprecedented effort to expand abortion rights throughout Europe launches today, led by groups that were already fighting for reproductive freedom at the national level in their eight home countries. The My Voice, My Choice c...

Hundreds of “Freedom Convoy” supporters march in downtown Ottawa on Canada Day, July 1, 2022, in Ottawa, Canada. Dave Chan/AFP via Getty Images Canada has a growing populism problem. Even Prime Minister Justin Trudeau thinks so. Like many other countries — including the United States — Canadians have spent the last ...

In February, America’s most prominent conservative activist declared his opposition to having sex for fun. In a post on X, the “anti-woke” crusader Christopher Rufo wrote, “‘Recreational sex’ is a large part of the reason we have so many single-mother households, which drives poverty, crime, and dysfunction. The poi...

A new study found that empathy among young Americans is rebounding after having reached worrying lows a decade ago. Getty Images/iStockphoto Think back to the United States as it was a year ago, a decade ago, a generation ago. Is the US a more caring or less caring nation now than it was back then? If you think Amer...

House Speaker Mike Johnson talks with members of the media following passage of a series of foreign aid bills at the Capitol on April 20, in Washington, DC. Nathan Howard/Getty Images After months of uncertainty, the House has greenlit a $95 billion package with substantial aid for Ukraine, as well as funds for Isra...

A homeless man takes a break from clearing his belongings along the Santa Ana River Trail in Anaheim, California, on January 29, 2018. Paul Bersebach/Orange County Register via Getty Images The Supreme Court’s ultimate decision in Grants Pass v. Johnson probably isn’t going to end well for homeless people. The case,...

Rachel Hillis for Vox Today, on Earth Day, Vox launches a new editorial project, Home Planet, from the Climate, Even Better, and Future Perfect teams. Home Planet is a collection of feature stories that celebrate the unexpected ways our lives intertwine with the natural world and how humans can adapt to preserve our...

Water being sampled for PFAS testing in Salindres, France, in April 2024. Pascal Guyot/AFP via Getty Images In 1992, Sandy Wynn-Stelt and her husband Joel bought a house they loved in a wooded area near Grand Rapids, Michigan. Twenty-four years later, Joel abruptly died of liver cancer; the year after that, state au...

Former President Donald Trump greets Justices Neil Gorsuch (R) and Brett Kavanaugh (L), both of whom owe their jobs to him. Al Drago/Getty Images On Thursday, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Trump v. United States, the case where former President Donald Trump claims that he is immune from prosecution f...