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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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2024 is the biggest global election year in history

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A voter casts her ballot while voting at a polling station during the 2023 local elections...
A voter casts her ballot while voting at a polling station during the 2023 local elections in the locality of Mnihla in Ariana province on the outskirts of Tunis on December 24, 2023. Fethi Belaid/AFP via Getty Images On January 1, Future Perfect published its predictions for 2024. The forecasts range from the numbe...
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How death threats get Republicans to fall in line behind Trump

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Stephen Richer should have been safe. In early 2021, Richer was an Arizona Republican official who...
Stephen Richer should have been safe. In early 2021, Richer was an Arizona Republican official who regularly attended local party events. At the time, he was the newly elected county recorder of Maricopa County. The job was a new level of prominence — he was now the most important election supervisory official in th...
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There’s more than one way to feel lonely

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Despite having a network of friends and acquaintances, Rohit Singla, an MD-PhD student in Vancouver, knows...
Despite having a network of friends and acquaintances, Rohit Singla, an MD-PhD student in Vancouver, knows no other existence than one of loneliness. “I think I associate myself with being baseline lonely,” the 31-year-old says. Beneath the exterior of a productive, competent scholar is a man who feels he is lacking...
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