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Signage for the US government's humanitarian agency USAID is seen on a cargo container beside a tricycle in Manila on February 4, 2025. (JAM STA ROSA/AFP via Getty Images)

Tracking the Trump-Musk death toll

Tatyana Tandanpolie
Published 2 months ago

A researcher at Boston University is keeping tabs on deaths likely caused by dismantling U.S. foreign aid programs

A Secret Service member stands outside the perimeter prior to Super Bowl LIX on February 09, 2025 in New Orleans, Louisiana. ( Aaron M. Sprecher/Getty Images)

When the Secret Service reads your blog

Russell Payne
Published 2 months ago

Nicholas Decker, a student at George Mason University, published an essay with the title: "When Must We Kill Them?"

Stressed businessman feeling desperate on crisis stock market, investment concept (Getty Images/Nattakorn Maneerat)

Passive investing goes Hollywood

Daria Solovieva
Published 2 months ago

The premise of "Tune Out the Noise" might not work as well in today's economy, analysts say

A >5mm member of section Longisetae of the genus Mycena, so named for the long, hyaline spines (setae) which emanate from the pileus and stipe.  Some members of this group are bioluminescent. (Danny Newman)

Secrets of Ecuador’s weird rare shrooms

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Published 2 months ago

The real world analog of "Common Side Effects" underscores the loss of biodiversity before we even know what's gone

Bananas (Getty Images/Yulia Reznikov)

Enjoy spring with buttery banana cake

Bibi Hutchings
Published 2 months ago

Celebrate bright spring days with this nostalgic cake

Holding Fresh Herbs (Getty Images/istetiana)

As the weather warms, make pesto

Michael La Corte
Published 2 months ago

Pesto is the ultimate springtime sauce. But that doesn't only mean basil pesto

Penn Badgley as Joe Goldberg in "You" (Clifton Prescod/Netflix)

"You" and the illusion of change

Erin Qualey
Published 2 months ago

Joe's inner monologue manipulates viewers into empathizing with a man locked in a cycle of violence and control

A crest of the Federal Bureau of Investigation is seen inside the J. Edgar Hoover FBI Building in Washington, DC. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

FBI arrests Wisconsin judge

Tatyana Tandanpolie
Published 2 months ago

Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan was arrested Friday, FBI Director Kash Patel announced on X

U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks during a joint press conference with French President Emmanuel Macron in the East Room at the White House on February 24, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Trump is not invincible on immigration

Charles R. Davis
Published 2 months ago

Polls suggest Trump is losing his appeal on immigration, suggesting his opponents can shape public opinion

U.S. President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol on March 04, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Trump is ruining it for Republicans

Heather Digby Parton
Published 2 months ago

Trump sinks to bottom of the polls in 100 days, spoiling congressional Republicans' only political capital

Donald Trump | US Supreme Court building (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump tariffs flunk rational-basis test

David Coale
Published 2 months ago

There is nothing rational about Trump’s tariffs

Charlie Kirk, founder and executive director of Turning Point USA (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Desperate MAGA exploits a teen killing

Amanda Marcotte
Published 2 months ago

The racist exploitation of Austin Metcalf's killing shows how MAGA tears local communities apart

Scheme of parts of human brain with circuit board as brain anatomy. (Getty Images / Grafissimo)

Humans think — AI, not so much

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Published 2 months ago

New research is revealing how specialized neurons give our brains an edge artificial intelligence can only dream of

Woman purchasing clothes on a mobile app. (Getty Images/Alistair Berg)

Fast fashion's price hike is good for us

Leslie Vooris
Published 2 months ago

Instead of impulse buying on Shein and Temu, I'm rethinking my relationship with clothes

J. K. Rowling arrives for the Guinness Six Nations match at the Scottish Gas Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh. Picture date: Saturday February 24, 2024. (Andrew Milligan/PA Images via Getty Images)

"Loser": Pedro Pascal bashes JK Rowling

Alex Galbraith
Published 3 months ago

The "Last of Us" star called out Rowling's celebration of a UK ruling that could spell disaster for trans women

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth testifies during his Senate Armed Services confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill on January 14, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Paranoid Pete pushes Pentagon polygraphs

Alex Galbraith
Published 3 months ago

A new report from the Wall Street Journal shows Pete Hegseth lashing out as the walls are closing in

Mountain Dew cans (Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

FDA to phase out synthetic dyes

Joy Saha
Published 3 months ago

The latest initiative is part of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s ongoing efforts to “Make America Healthy Again"

Bowen Yang attends the Vulture Festival Presented By AT&T - Milk Studios, Day 1 at Milk Studios on May 19, 2018 in New York City. (Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images for Vulture Festival)

Yang calls Vance "Pope killer" on "View"

Alex Galbraith
Published 3 months ago

The "Saturday Night Live" star was commenting on his recent role as the vice president on the sketch series

Lisa Vanderpump in "Vanderpump Villa" (Disney/Andrea Miconi)

Reality TV has moved past "Housewives"

Coleman Spilde
Published 3 months ago

Lisa Vanderpump turned reality fatigue into an empire, one villa and valley at a time

The roast pork sandwich from Hector's in Melbourne (Hector's )

Melbourne's New (York) deli obsession

Katie Lockhart
Published 3 months ago

Deli counters, brisket stacks, pickles — Australia's culinary capital is thinking like a New Yorker

Tinned fish spread (Getty Images / Sveta Zarzamora)

A skeptic’s guide to loving tinned fish

Joy Saha
Published 3 months ago

Yes, tinned fish is an acquired taste, but it certainly doesn't have to be daunting

A person washing a head of lettuce (Getty Images)

Grower named in E. coli lettuce outbreak

Joy Saha
Published 3 months ago

This comes after the FDA and CDC withheld the grower's name in its report, according to Food Safety News

U.S. President Donald Trump and White House Trade Adviser Peter Navarro check out the new Endurance all-electric pickup truck on the south lawn of the White House on September 28, 2020 in Washington, DC. They bought the old GM Lordstown plant in Ohio to build the Endurance all-electric pickup truck, inside those four wheels are electric motors similar to electric scooters. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

Trump turns WH into a literal joke

Brian Karem
Published 3 months ago

If you can’t use a hook to yank the bad comic off the stage, then there is only one way left to end the show

A dedicated female nurse supports a young autistic boy using sensory toys to enhance motor abilities. (Getty Images / Dusan Stankovic)

A misguided search for a cause of autism

Megan Roberts
Published 3 months ago

Kennedy has proposed "dramatic change" to study autism but this misguided focus distracts from actual support

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