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Donald Trump speaks during an RNC fundraising event at Mar-a-Lago on October 16, 2026. | Eric Lee/Getty Images This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news…

On October 22, Vox is co-hosting a panel and reception honoring the 2o26 L’Oréal-UNESCO for Women in Science 2026 Award recipients, our second year celebrating this group of scientists.

Christina Applegate at the 2023 Screen Actors Guild awards. | Valerie Macon/AFP via Getty Images Christina Applegate, the actor who has been one of the most visible faces of multiple sclerosis since her 2021 diagnosis, made a stunning revelation this week:

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Update, October 21, 11:45 am ET: The Supreme Court released a brief order on October 21, which ruled against the Trump administration’s request to deny gender-affirming care to transgender prisoners.

It’s now possible to create AI chatbots of loved ones to interact with after their death.

Are you mad about everything?

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The most recent Ebola epidemic has killed thousands in Congo.

A man clears debris at the site of an air attack in Kyiv on October 19, 2026, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. | Oleksii Filippov/AFP via Getty Images This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most comp…

The plaintiffs in the case K.M.K. v.

Samuel Alito Jr., associate justice of the US Supreme Court. | Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images Justice Samuel Alito’s new book, So Ordered: An Originalist’s View of the Constitution, the Court, and Our Country, isn’t going to set the world on fire with

Kyla Scanlon, New York Times bestselling author and economic commentator, and Vox today announced the launch of Best of Luck, a new weekly video interview podcast premiering October 27.

USDA workers disinfected a work crew at a Jennie-O turkey farm in Eden Valley, Minnesota, during the 2015 bird flu outbreak. | Glen Stubbe/Star Tribune via Getty Images If egg prices surge this winter, one of the main drivers will likely be H5N1, or bird…

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According to a Washington Post-ABC News poll, including a substantial minority of Republicans, almost two-thirds of Americans believe President Donald Trump is using the presidency for personal profit. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images This past January, wh…

A golfer plays on the course at East Potomac Golf Links in Washington, DC, on October 19, 2026. | Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without lett…

A protester holds a smoke flare and French flag during a demonstration at Paris’s Place de la Republique on October 17, 2026. | Kiran Ridley/AFP via Getty Images This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most

Flames burn at a facility belonging to Saudi oil giant Aramco south of Riyadh on October 3, 2026. | AFP via Getty Images As the US-Iran war drags on, the damage is being felt regionally: Saudi Arabia experienced the worst attack in over a decade earlier t…

If there’s one thing a busy person doesn’t need, it’s more information.

Chinstrap and macaroni penguins nesting on the volcanic slopes of Zavodovski Island. | Nicole Richters via British Antarctic Survey This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei told the UN that if “managed poorly,” AI models “could be a risk to humanity as a whole.” | John Lamparski/Bloomberg via Getty Images Silicon Valley has long warned that its favorite technology might get us all killed.

Amazon Web Services data center in Stone Ridge, Virginia. | Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compelling news and stories of the day.

Scientists in the US and Europe are exploring whether an experimental surgery can treat Alzheimer’s disease. | Fiordaliso/Getty Images The videos are astonishing.

Across the country, civic paralysis has compelled a legion of guerrilla urbanists to take their city’s matters into their own hands. | Carlin Stiehl/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Jonathan Hale was ready to lay down his paint rollers.

Products containing kratom from the brand Feel Free on sale at a tobacco store in Huntington, New York. | Alejandra Villa Loarca/Newsday RM via Getty Images They have fun names like Feel Free, Smurphs, and Hazy Tabz.

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Most of America’s major cities have made little to no progress reducing racial segregation in their public schools over recent decades.

Israelis visit the Nova music festival memorial site to mark the third anniversary of the October 7, 2023 attacks. | Saeed Qaq/Anadolu via Getty Images This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compelli…

What can an economist teach us about misery?

A person sits on the lawn outside the Karya Siddhi Hanuman Temple in Frisco, Texas, on October 22, 2022. | Andy Jacobsohn/Associated Press For many Texans, the second weekend of September was a moment for the state to shine.

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An angler reels in a ladyfish from the Atlantic Ocean at the Dania Beach pier in Florida. | Joe Raedle/Getty Images This story is part of a series supported by Animal Charity Evaluators, which received a grant from EarthShare.

Donald Trump holds up a signed executive order on diesel access at a rally in in Grand Island, Nebraska, on October 5, 2026. | Win McNamee/Getty Images This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump admi…

A researcher at a BSL-4 in Hungary during the Covid-19 pandemic. | Akos Stiller/Bloomberg via Getty Images A woman’s death last week near a Russian facility studying the plague immediately put the world on alert.

House Democrats rally on the steps of the US Capitol on November 12, 2025, in support of renewing Affordable Care Act tax credits. | Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images With 28 days until the midterms, polling suggests that Democrats have an e…

An activist protests the merger of Paramount and Warner Bros.

A redwood tree grove at Roberts Regional Recreation area in Oakland, California. | Smith Collection/Gado via Getty Images A grove of coast redwood trees is a forest of forests.

President Donald Trump speaks on stage at the Butler-Vandalia Student Activity Center on October 3, 2026, in Vandalia, Ohio. | Roberto Schmidt/Getty Images This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump…

People stroll along the river in Irkutsk, Russia, where the recent death of a lab technician prompted quarantines. | Hao Jianwei/Xinhua via Getty Images This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compel…

Justice Neil Gorsuch and Chief Justice John Roberts. | Win McNamee/Getty Images Inside Chief Justice John Roberts are two wolves.

A while back, I was at physical therapy, and the topic of tennis came up.

Congress has a new bipartisan plan to lower your power bill. | David Paul Morris/Bloombe There’s no place like Kansas, a state whose howling winds are so fierce that in the 1800s, the roaring soundscape drove local farmers into madness.

Zohran Mamdani, then-New York City mayoral candidate, and Letitia James, far left, New York's attorney general, carry a banner across the Brooklyn Bridge in New York on November 3, 2025. | Adam Gray/Bloomberg via Getty Images Socialism is breaking through…

Editor’s note, October 4, 8 am ET: We’re bringing you some of our best-loved Your Mileage May Vary columns while Sigal Samuel is on parental leave.

Think about what you’re wearing right now.

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Anthropic’s Christopher Olah shakes hands with Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on May 25, 2026. | Alberto Pizzoli / AFP via Getty Images This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compelling news and stories…

“In what world,” New York Gov.

There’s a lot to be anxious about as AI agents and bots get more integrated into every aspect of our lives.