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How fan fiction went mainstream

Archive of Our Own, or AO3, is one of the most popular websites in the world, with over 10 million registered users. Its users spend their time both reading and writing many, many words about their favorite fictional characters. It’s a place that allows normi…

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It should be much easier to remove the president from office

The 25th Amendment is having a moment. According to a tally by NBC News, over 70 Democratic lawmakers called for President Donald Trump’s Cabinet to invoke an obscure constitutional provision that would allow them to temporarily prevent Trump from acting as p…

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How climate science is sneakily getting funded under Trump

This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. At the Department of Agriculture’s research division, everyone knows there’s one word they should never say, according to Ethan Roberts. “The forbid…

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Pam Bondi’s ouster makes Trump’s Justice Department even more dangerous

Early in the first Trump administration, the legal journalist Benjamin Wittes coined one of the best descriptions of how President Donald Trump governs: “malevolence tempered by incompetence.” Trump, as Wittes originally wrote, often issued executive orders t…

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Why Trump’s latest threat against Iran could be a war crime

For someone who claims to be unconcerned about the Strait of Hormuz, President Donald Trump seems increasingly desperate to open it. In a Truth Social post over the weekend that was extreme even be his standards, Trump instructed Iran to “open the fuckin’ st…

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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

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

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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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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…