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Did Trump accidentally do something woke for global health?

A surprising quirk of the Trump administration is that every so often, it tries so hard to be anti-woke that it accidentally does something woke. See, for example, the efforts of Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who oversaw USAID’s demise — directives that ha…

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How the Iran war came for elevator rides, street lights, and even butter chicken

Butter chicken has disappeared from some restaurant menus in India. Sri Lanka declared every Wednesday a public holiday. Laos cut its school week to three days. Egypt ordered shops and cafes to close by 9 pm. In Thailand, government workers were told to take …

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The crisis in American air travel

I’m scheduled to take my 1-year-old on a three-hour flight just over a week from now. Probably a headache, under normal circumstances, but a bona fide nightmare amid the recent airport bedlam. I was thus relieved — overjoyed, really — to learn that the securi…

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How a capybara took over the Scholastic Book Fair

This story originally appeared in Kids Today, Vox’s newsletter about kids, for everyone. Sign up here for future editions. The Scholastic Book Fair is a big deal at my older kid’s school. A couple of times a year, the auditorium gets transformed into a kid-fr…

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What happened when they installed ChatGPT on a nuclear supercomputer

If there’s anything that makes people more uncomfortable than highly advanced AI or nuclear weapons technology, it’s the combination of the two. But there’s been a symbiotic relationship between cutting-edge computing and America’s nuclear weapons program sin…

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Seven dead, several injured as rain, flood lash parts of Balochistan

According to the PDMA report, fatalities and injuries were reported in Harnai, Kohlu, Turbat, Jaffarabad, Loralai, and Kachhi districts

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Security forces neutralise eight Khwarij of Indian proxy in North Waziristan: ISPR

Weapons and ammunition were also recovered from the Indian-sponsored killed Khawarij

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America is going back to the moon

I have yet to see Project Hail Mary, the buzzy space blockbuster starring Ryan Gosling. But who needs science fiction when you have…science reality? At 6:24 pm Eastern, NASA is scheduled to launch four astronauts on a 10-day journey around the moon. The laun…

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The 45-year fight against HIV is one of humanity’s greatest victories. It’s also in danger.

On June 5, 1981, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published a brief, clinical report in its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report about five young men in Los Angeles who had developed a rare and deadly form of pneumonia. The write-up, barely a …

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The End of HIV

Since it first began in 1981, the HIV epidemic has killed more than 44 million people. For a generation, a diagnosis was essentially a death sentence, and for much of the world it remains a daily threat, with some 1.3 million people newly infected in 2024 alo…

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Trump’s gas prices problem

This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: President Donald Trump’s war with Iran has pushed US g…

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Sindh strengthens waste governance with innovative models

Officials outlined three proposed operational frameworks, the Hybrid Model, Hybrid Plus Model and Local Model, designed to introduce flexibility in how sanitation services are managed

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The fight for paid parental leave is more winnable than you think

The United States is one of the only countries on Earth that doesn’t guarantee new parents paid leave after a child is born — time to recover, bond with a newborn, and get on your feet as a new family. Only about one in four private-sector workers has access …

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Trump’s moving Iran deadline, briefly explained

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The contradiction at the heart of OpenAI

Big changes are happening at OpenAI. On Wednesday, the company announced that it would be shutting down their AI video creation app Sora only a couple months after its launch. In October, OpenAI completed a massive restructure of its organization that shakes …

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When war becomes a meme

Since the war with Iran began, the White House has been posting videos featuring the US military bombing targets in Iran, interspersed with clips from video games, sports highlights, and Hollywood movies. The White House says the videos are meant to highlight…