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After about two years of dating, Matt Garville, 38, made some space in his closet for his girlfriend, Aloria Rucker, 31. At the time, Rucker was living with a roommate in Brooklyn but spending most nights with Garville at his roommate-less apartment in Hoboken, he says, so the move made sense. The couple agreed they...

A small tent encampment off of Broward Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Mike Stocker/South Florida Sun Sentinel/Tribune News Service via Getty Images On Monday, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments for the most consequential case in decades concerning the rights of people experiencing homelessness. In Gr...

Journalist Fareed Zakaria speaks during the Ellis Island Medals of Honor ceremony at the Ellis Island Honors Society meeting in New York on May 13, 2017. Kena Betancur/AFP via Getty Images What does it mean to say that we’re living in a revolutionary era? Even political scientists can’t agree on the meaning of a “re...

A crowd carrying a model of Iran’s first-ever hypersonic missile, Fattah, past a mosque during a gathering to celebrate the IRGC UAV and missile attack against Israel, in Tehran, Iran, on April 15, 2024 Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images Israel carried out a strike against Iran on Friday but, for now, appea...

Former President Donald Trump appears in Manhattan criminal court on April 19 for jury selection in his hush-money trial. Trump faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. Curtis Means/Getty Images As the Manhattan district attorney’s case against Donald Trump got underway this week — with the former pres...

House Speaker Mike Johnson is facing a tenuous balancing act over Ukraine aid. Bloomberg/Getty Images House Speaker Mike Johnson could be facing the most perilous threat to his leadership yet as Congress votes on a Ukraine aid package this weekend. Johnson has staunchly backed the decision to send more aid to Ukrain...

Taylor Swift performs during the Eras tour at the National Stadium in Singapore on March 2, 2024. Ashok Kumar/TAS24/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management Taylor Swift has spent the past two years on top of the world. Her worldwide Eras tour is the highest-grossing music tour of all time. It’s made her a billionaire...

Plastic covers the exterior of the fuselage plug area of Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 Boeing 737-9 MAX on January 7, 2024, in Portland, Oregon. Getty Images Is it just me, or does it seem like a lot of bad things keep happening to Boeing airplanes lately? Ever since the shocking January 5 incident in which a door plu...

Taylor Swift on her Eras Tour in Singapore. Ashok Kumar/TAS24/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management Taylor Swift has always been a pop culture Rorschach test. Every song Swift releases, every single she performs or awards show she attends, every candid photo of her is up for everyone’s interpretation. What people s...

President Joe Biden visits the groundbreaking of a new Intel semiconductor plant on September 9, 2022, in Johnstown, Ohio. Andrew Spear/Getty Images American workers’ wages have been rising faster than prices for more than a year now. Their nation’s economy, meanwhile, is the envy of the wealthy world: Since the Cov...

Jontay Porter of the Toronto Raptors fights for a rebound during the game between the Raptors and the Oklahoma City Thunder in Toronto, Canada, March 22, 2024. Zou Zheng/Xinhua/Getty Images The NBA has banned Toronto Raptors player Jontay Porter for life after an internal investigation found that he placed bets on b...

Asna Tabassum, a graduating senior at the University of Southern California majoring in biomedical engineering, is at the center of the latest firestorm on college campuses after the university named her valedictorian, then barred her from speaking at graduation. Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Camp...

Dev Patel as Kid in his directorial debut Monkey Man. Universal Pictures Monkey Man, a gripping, blood-soaked action film from first-time director Dev Patel, has garnered acclaim for its fight scenes — including, famously, when the main character cuts a man’s throat open by holding the knife in his mouth. Undergirdi...

Ludo Studio If you happen not to have children or have been living under a rock, let me introduce you to someone. Her name is Bluey. She’s a 7-year-old who lives with her younger sister Bingo and her dad Bandit and mom Chili in the bucolic Australian city of Brisbane. Also, she’s a dog — a blue heeler, to be precise...

The first time I did shrooms and actually felt something was probably my last time doing shrooms at all. The moment it hit I was in the middle of a round of Mario Kart and abruptly handed the controller to someone else and went downstairs, as far as possible from the screen that had suddenly become terrifying to me....

Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas testifies before the House Homeland Security Committee about the fiscal year 2025 budget on April 16, 2024. Allison Bailey/Middle East Images/AFP/Getty Images Republicans’ political impeachment stunt against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas came to a he...

The Senate hearings come months after a door plug in a Boeing 737-9 MAX plane blew out during an Alaska Airlines flight on January 5. NTSB via Getty Images Boeing went under the magnifying glass at not one, but two Senate hearings today examining allegations of deep-seated safety issues plaguing the once-revered pla...

At a protest in Rome in October 2023 calling for a ceasefire and aid into Gaza, a protester holds a sign calling for an end to “colonialism and displacement” in Palestine. Simona Granati/Corbis via Getty Images Is Israel a “settler colonial” state? That charge has been the subject of fierce debate in recent months a...

A kidney transplant team in Nice, France. BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty Images What if I told you there was a way that the US could prevent 60,000 deaths, save American taxpayers $25 billion, and pay a deserving group of people $50,000 each? Would you be interested? Would you wonder why I’m pitching this to ...

Menstruation has been understudied for decades. Scientists are trying to change that. the_burtons via Getty Images PMS, food cravings, “period flu”: Anybody who menstruates knows from experience that the monthly cycle can have a profound impact on the body and mind. But researchers are still only beginning to explor...

Unhoused people photographed in San Francisco in February of 2024. Photo by Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images The Supreme Court will hear a case later this month that could make life drastically worse for homeless Americans. It also challenges one of the most foundational principles of American criminal law — t...

Rapper Drake at “Lil Baby & Friends Birthday Celebration Concert” at State Farm Arena on December 9, 2022, in Atlanta. Prince Williams/WireImage To borrow a phrase from our foremost cultural observer, Azealia Banks, the boys are fighting. Since the explosive drop of producer Metro Boomin and rapper Future’s first jo...

Taylor Swift performs at Accor Stadium on February 23, 2024, in Sydney, Australia. Don Arnold/TAS24/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management Buying concert tickets is a drag, as Taylor Swift fans know all too well. When tickets first went on sale for her highly anticipated Eras Tour in November 2022, fans agonized ove...

Caitlin Clark and WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert pose for a photograph after Clark was selected first overall pick by the Indiana Fever during the 2024 WNBA Draft at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York. Mike Lawrence/NBAE/Getty Images Caitlin Clark, a college basketball phenom and the top pick at Monday’s W...