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3 winners and 2 losers from the fifth Republican debate

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Republican presidential candidates Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley participate in the...
Republican presidential candidates Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley participate in the CNN Republican Presidential Primary Debate in Sheslow Auditorium at Drake University on January 10, 2024, in Des Moines, Iowa. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images If you somehow avoided watching the Ron DeS...
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All the Republicans running for president in 2024, explained

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Donald Trump remains the overwhelming favorite of GOP primary voters. But that hasn’t stopped several other...
Donald Trump remains the overwhelming favorite of GOP primary voters. But that hasn’t stopped several other candidates from staying in the race for the Republican nomination in the hopes that they can somehow dethrone him. The former president, who announced his candidacy in November, has been increasingly dominant ...
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Is Nikki Haley for real?

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Former US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley speaks during a campaign event to launch her...
Former US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley speaks during a campaign event to launch her presidential bid, at the Charleston Visitor Center in Charleston, South Carolina, on February 15, 2023. Logan Cyrus/AFP via Getty Images Donald Trump leads polls overwhelmingly, Ron DeSantis has gone down in flames, and various o...
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The Stanley water bottle craze, explained

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According to professional hockey players, the Stanley Cup is the be-all and end-all. Winning the cup...
According to professional hockey players, the Stanley Cup is the be-all and end-all. Winning the cup is the highest possible accomplishment — proof of hard work and teamwork coupled with enormous fortune. It’s the achievement of a lifetime that only a select few get to experience. According to the internet, the Stan...
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Want to understand American views on Israel? Take a look at this 1958 novel.

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When I was 12 or 13, I found a copy of Leon Uris’s 1958 novel Exodus...
When I was 12 or 13, I found a copy of Leon Uris’s 1958 novel Exodus in my synagogue’s library. I stood amid the shelves, surreptitiously reading a sex scene (did the book just fall open right to it, the way every copy of Judy Blume’s Forever did at Chapter 12?) in which the passionate, long-legged, redheaded Jordan...
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Why so many kids are still missing school

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When schools reopened their doors after the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic, eager to “return to...
When schools reopened their doors after the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic, eager to “return to normal,” millions of students didn’t show up. Teachers prepared their classrooms to welcome children back to in-person learning, but millions of desks were unfilled. With an eye toward pandemic recovery, the government all...
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Are $18 Big Macs the price of falling inequality?

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A McDonald’s customer receives his order at a drive-through in Houston, Texas. Brandon Bell/Getty Images Over...
A McDonald’s customer receives his order at a drive-through in Houston, Texas. Brandon Bell/Getty Images Over the holidays, extremely online progressives debated the most important theoretical question facing the American left today: Is grousing about the price of a Big Mac counterrevolutionary? For months now, poli...
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The shocking Boeing 737 incident, briefly explained

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In this National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) handout, an opening is seen in the fuselage of...
In this National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) handout, an opening is seen in the fuselage of Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 Boeing 737-9 MAX on January 7, 2024, in Portland, Oregon. NTSB/Getty Images On Friday, January 5, the door plug of a commercial Boeing 737 Max 9 came off as the plane was climbing, opening a...
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Yes, everyone is sick right now. So what can you do about it?

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CSA Images via Getty Images Does it feel like everyone you know is sick right now?...
CSA Images via Getty Images Does it feel like everyone you know is sick right now? It’s not your imagination: It’s been a particularly fierce season for all kinds of respiratory infections, from mild colds to more serious bugs. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), health care visits for...
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Behind Iraq’s call to remove US-led forces

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Iraq’s Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani attends a press conference with Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez...
Iraq’s Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani attends a press conference with Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez (not pictured) in Baghdad on December 28, 2023. Thaier Al-Sudani/AFP via Getty Images Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani announced Friday he will remove about 900 US-led coalition forces from ...
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The shoplifting scare might not have been real — but its effects are

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New York City Mayor Eric Adams speaks during a press conference on reducing shoplifting. Barry Williams/NY...
New York City Mayor Eric Adams speaks during a press conference on reducing shoplifting. Barry Williams/NY Daily News via Getty Images Over the last couple of years, it seemed that America was experiencing a shoplifting epidemic. Videos of people brazenly stealing merchandise from retailers often went viral; chains ...
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What Houthi attacks in the Red Sea mean for global shipping — and conflict

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A cargo ship crosses the Suez Canal, one of the most critical human-made waterways, in Ismailia,...
A cargo ship crosses the Suez Canal, one of the most critical human-made waterways, in Ismailia, Egypt, on December 29, 2023. Fareed Kotb/Anadolu via Getty Images Houthi rebels based in Yemen launched another attack on commercial vessels transiting the Red Sea Thursday, sending an explosive, unmanned vessel near a U...
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Will Gypsy-Rose Blanchard really benefit from this media circus?

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Gypsy-Rose Blanchard and Ryan Anderson on January 5 in New York City. Raymond Hall/GC Images When...
Gypsy-Rose Blanchard and Ryan Anderson on January 5 in New York City. Raymond Hall/GC Images When a prisoner leaves the carceral system, questions related to their stability and support are paramount: Can they find steady work? Can they secure adequate housing? Can they reintegrate themselves into a positive social ...
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Why Taiwan is 2024’s first big election to watch

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Taiwanese vice president and presidential candidate Lai Ching-te on the campaign trail in Taipei on January...
Taiwanese vice president and presidential candidate Lai Ching-te on the campaign trail in Taipei on January 3, 2024. Sam Yeh/AFP via Getty Images Even amid a historically packed global election calendar in 2024, next week’s presidential contest in Taiwan will be one of the most closely watched and significant. The p...
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The Supreme Court’s new, nightmare abortion cases, explained

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Abortion rights activists hold signs alongside anti-abortion activists participating in the “March for Life,” an annual...
Abortion rights activists hold signs alongside anti-abortion activists participating in the “March for Life,” an annual event to mark the anniversary of the 1973 Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion in the US, outside the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC, January 18, 2019. Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty I...
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On the Money

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The Epstein "list," explained

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Court documents featuring Epstein’s associates were unsealed this week. Kypros/Getty Images On Wednesday and Thursday, a...
Court documents featuring Epstein’s associates were unsealed this week. Kypros/Getty Images On Wednesday and Thursday, a judge unsealed new sets of filings from a court case tied to deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, a tranche that’s been colloquially — and misleadingly — referred to as “the list.” Even before t...
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The culture war came for Claudine Gay — and isn’t done yet

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Claudine Gay, former president of Harvard University, testified before the House Education and Workforce Committee on...
Claudine Gay, former president of Harvard University, testified before the House Education and Workforce Committee on December 5, 2023, in Washington, DC. The committee held a hearing to investigate antisemitism on college campuses. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images Days after the resignation of Claudine Gay, the first Bla...
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You thought 2023 was a big year for AI? Buckle up.

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2024 will be the biggest election year in history. Moor Studio/Getty Images Every new year brings...
2024 will be the biggest election year in history. Moor Studio/Getty Images Every new year brings with it a gaggle of writers, analysts, and gamblers trying to tell the future. When it comes to tech news, that used to amount to some bloggers guessing what the new iPhone would look like. But in 2024, the technology m...
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You don’t need everything you want

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I am tired of talking about money. I recognize how that sounds, given that I talk...
I am tired of talking about money. I recognize how that sounds, given that I talk about money for a living. Still, it feels like an inordinate number of conversations I’m involved in lately end up about how much more expensive everything is now (which is true) and how much the economy sucks (which is false). Can you...
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The Fifth Circuit just made it even more dangerous to be pregnant in a red state

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Abortion-rights activists march to the US Supreme Court on June 24, 2023, in Washington, DC. Anna...
Abortion-rights activists march to the US Supreme Court on June 24, 2023, in Washington, DC. Anna Rose Layden/Getty Images On Tuesday, a notoriously right-wing federal appeals court attempted to rewrite a federal law that, among other things, requires most US hospitals to provide abortions to patients who are experi...
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Pregnancy care deserts are growing. Indigenous babies are at risk.

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In mid-July, in the basement of Monument Health’s flagship hospital in Rapid City, South Dakota, neonatologist...
In mid-July, in the basement of Monument Health’s flagship hospital in Rapid City, South Dakota, neonatologist Kimberly Balay searches her phone for a photograph. The image is of a slide from a presentation she makes often, but wishes she didn’t have to: a graph that shows her hospital’s congenital syphilis cases ro...
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Israel’s Supreme Court just overturned Netanyahu’s pre-war power grab

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A protest against Netanyahu’s judicial overhaul in Tel Aviv on March 11, 2023. Amir Levy/Getty Images...
A protest against Netanyahu’s judicial overhaul in Tel Aviv on March 11, 2023. Amir Levy/Getty Images If it weren’t for the war, the latest ruling by Israel’s Supreme Court would be the biggest news in the country in quite some time. The ruling, released on New Year’s Day, annulled the single biggest piece of legisl...
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The Supreme Court arguments for (and against) removing Trump from the ballot, explained

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Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump speaks to guests at a campaign event on...
Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump speaks to guests at a campaign event on December 19, 2023, in Waterloo, Iowa. Scott Olson/Getty Images Shortly before Christmas, the Colorado Supreme Court dropped a bombshell opinion ruling that former President Donald Trump must be removed from th...
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