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How you’re paying for big tech’s AI speculation

An Amazon Web Services data center in Virginia. | Nathan Howard/Bloomberg via Getty Images If you’ve noticed your electricity bill is higher t...

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No, your protein powder isn’t poisoning you

Americans’ love affair with protein powders may slowly be poisoning them with the known neurotoxin lead.  That, at least, is the implied con...

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The buzzy word that Democrats have pinned their hopes on

Boys holding campaign signs for Zohran Mamdani on October 19, 2025, in New York City. | Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images The buzziest politic...

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Global health is facing major cuts. We still scored some surprising wins.

Health care workers applaud outside a hospital in September 2021 in Cape Town. | Rodger Bosch/AFP via Getty Images It’s not an exaggeration to...

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What Young Republicans say when they think no one’s listening

"We have to really pay very close attention to how JD Vance speaks, because he may be speaking to his echo chamber, but he is expecting that cha...

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Why Gen Z can’t stop watching bad takes

After the release of Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl, TikTok had some expectedly strong takes.  One popular TikTok claims that Swift’s...

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Trump’s $230 million cash grab, briefly explained

President Donald Trump during a press conference in the Oval Office of the White House on October 15, 2025. | Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images This...

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A guy with a “Nazi streak” was Trump’s loyalty enforcer at DOJ

Paul Ingrassia (center), then-White House liaison to the Justice Department on January 20, 2025, in Washington, DC. | Pete Kiehart/Washington Po...

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When famous people die, we honor them with ugly bronze statues. Why?

Behold, the gloriously awful Tina Turner statue that’s meant to honor the late singer. Last month, in Tina Turner’s hometown of Brownsville, T...

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Why many transgender Americans are preparing to flee the country

GREELEY, CO – OCTOBER 30: Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump holds an LGBT rainbow flag given to him by supporter Max Nowak during a c...

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A data center that doesn’t even exist can raise your electricity bill

An Amazon Web Services data center in Manassas, Virginia. Virginia is home to the largest concentration of data centers in PJM, a power grid tha...

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Most animals on this island nation are found nowhere else on Earth. And now they’re vanishing.

A juvenile globe-horned chameleon in a nature reserve north of Antananarivo, Madagascar. Throughout the Western world, Madagascar is perhaps b...