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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...

Jacob Chansley, also known as the “QAnon Shaman,” screams “Freedom” inside the US Senate chamber after the Capitol was breached by a mob during a joint session of Congress on January 6, 2021, in Washington, DC. Win McNamee/Getty Images The Supreme Court spent about an hour and a half on Tuesday morning arguing over ...

Tucker Carlson speaks in Florida on April 2, 2024. Ivan Apfel/Getty Images The New York Times once described Tucker Carlson’s Fox News hour as “the most racist show in the history of cable news.” In the past week, allegations of bigotry involving his new show on X have come from a rather different corner: his fellow...

Over the last 30 years, nearly every wealthy country in the world has made it much safer for people to have babies. Only one outlier has moved in the opposite direction: the United States, where the rate of people dying in childbirth continues, stubbornly and tragically, to rise. In 2021, 1,205 US women died from bi...

A brain coral off the coast of Cambodia releases bundles of sperm and eggs during a rare spawning event. Matt Glue/Fauna & Flora Coral reefs around the world are turning white and dying. Today scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration declared the world is currently experiencing its fourth ...

Demonstrators march from Baton Rouge City Hall to the Louisiana Capitol to protest the shooting of Alton Sterling by a police officer on July 9, 2016, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Mark Wallheiser/Getty Images The Supreme Court announced on Monday that it will not hear Mckesson v. Doe. The decision not to hear Mckesson...

Former President Donald Trump speaks to the media after a pretrial hearing on March 25, 2024, in New York City. Justin Lane/Getty Images When former President Donald Trump was indicted in New York for falsifying business records last March, many anticipated that would be the prologue to the main event: charges over ...

Explosions are seen in the skies of Israel’s capital, following the retaliatory attack from Iran over the weekend. Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu via Getty Images When Iran launched a large retaliatory drone and missile assault on Israel on Saturday night, it raised fears that the Middle East was on the precipice of a re...

Then-UK Prime Minister Tony Blair and comedian Dawn French with a £4.3 million Gift Aid subsidy check marking the conclusion of a charitable fundraiser in 2001. Michael Stephens/PA Images via Getty Images Imagine a charity comes to you with an offer. If you give them a donation now, they’ll get it at least partially...

On the Money is a monthly advice column. If you want advice on spending, saving, or investing — or any of the complicated emotions that may come up as you prepare to make big financial decisions — you can submit your questions on this form. Curious about what a financial expert would suggest about planning for the f...

A single dose of the BCG anti-tuberculosis vaccine. Nikolay Doychinov/AFP via Getty Images It’s 2024, and people are still dying from ... consumption. This ancient disease, known today as tuberculosis or TB, has plagued humanity for thousands of years, and as recently as a few hundred years ago, was thought to be re...

A protester holds a sign reading “My body my choice” at a Women’s March rally where Arizona Secretary of State and then-Democratic gubernatorial candidate Katie Hobbs spoke outside the State Capitol on October 8, 2022, in Phoenix, Arizona. Mario Tama/Getty Images Earlier this week, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled th...

Israel’s Iron Dome anti-missile system is seen here firing an interceptor missile in 2022. Ilia Yefimovich/Picture Alliance via Getty Images Iran launched a retaliatory strike Saturday night on Israel for its deadly attack on Iranian officers in the Islamic Republic’s embassy in Damascus after days of signaling it w...

Jorm Sangsorn for Getty Images What’s the point of philosophy? It’s an old question, maybe one of the oldest in the history of philosophy, and there has never been a consensus answer. Some people think the point of philosophy is to make the world make sense, to show how everything hangs together. For others, philoso...

Signs supporting former President Donald Trump are displayed at a Second Amendment rally in Ionia, Michigan, on July 19, 2023. Bill Pugliano/Getty Images White rural Americans are a “racist, xenophobic, anti-immigrant, anti-gay” authoritarian fifth column that poses an existential threat to our republic. Unless they...

President Biden promotes student loan Plan B in Wisconsin. Daniel Steinle/Bloomberg via Getty Images The Biden administration is canceling even more student debt. On Friday, the White House announced that an additional 277,000 borrowers will see their student loans eliminated, amounting to about $7.4 billion in forg...

Recently, psychologist Maytal Eyal has observed what she calls an “epidemic of self-hatred.” Both within her work as a therapist and in her wider community, Eyal noticed how the weight of self-criticism and self-loathing wears on people’s souls. “It’s become sort of normalized,” she says. “And when people feel that ...

Getty Images One of the most fascinating and frightening incidents in computer security history started in 2022 with a few pushy emails to the mailing list for a small, one-person open source project. A user had submitted a complex bit of code that was now waiting for the maintainer to review. But a different user w...

Students head to class on the campus of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe via Getty Images A report released earlier this year from the National Clearinghouse Research Center found that higher education is finally experiencing a reversal in enrollment declines for the first...

Cailee Spaeny (left) and Wagner Moura as journalists in Alex Garland’s Civil War. Murray Close/A24 You might think the new movie Civil War is a warning about America’s deepening political divide. The film’s trailer certainly suggests so, and director Alex Garland seemingly confirmed that was his intent in a recent i...

A pivotal scene from Netflix’s 3 Body Problem shows the violence of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Ed Miller/Netflix Netflix is banned in China — part of the government’s ongoing efforts to limit both foreign influence and Chinese citizens’ access to information about their own country. But that hasn’t stopped Chi...

The Zoomer tween in their natural habitat. Leon Neal/Getty Images The kids are not all right — and the device you are probably reading this on is to blame. So argues the social psychologist Jonathan Haidt. In his new book, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental I...

O.J. Simpson at a Buffalo Bills football game against the Denver Broncos at Rich Stadium on October 5, 1975, in Orchard Park, New York. George Gojkovich/Getty Images The news of O.J. Simpson’s death — of cancer at the age of 76 — falls uneasily. O.J. Simpson is an uneasy figure. Thinking of him, you think of the pow...

According to a study by the US Geological Survey, nearly half of the tap water in the United States is contaminated with “forever chemicals” that are considered dangerous to human health. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images The Environmental Protection Agency has set the country’s first federal limits on forms of PFAS in d...