Here’s a sobering fact: Even if the entire world transitions away from fossil fuels, the way we farm and eat will cause global temperatures to rise 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels — the critical threshold set in the Paris Climate Agreement. The further we go above that limit, the more intense the effects of

President Donald Trump announced the latest addition to his personal branding empire this week: TrumpRx, a government website that claims it will offer deeply discounted drugs to many Americans. News of the website’s forthcoming launch was accompanied by an announcement from Pfizer that it would voluntarily reduce the prices it charges the Medicaid program. It

Chair of the Federal Communications Commission Brendan Carr on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. on May 21, 2025. Photo: Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images Jeremy Busby is a writer and activist incarcerated in Texas. In partnership with The Federal Communications Commission this week advanced a proposal for censorship that received far less attention than chair Brendan

On Taylor Swift’s highly-anticipated new album The Life of a Showgirl, track four, Father Figure, includes the late George Michael as one of the credited songwriters. But Swift’s song is not a cover of Michael’s 1987 hit of the same name. Rather, it is an “interpolation”. What does this mean, and how is it different

Perennial Nobel Prize contender Thomas Pynchon’s fourth novel, Vineland (1990) has been loosely adapted by Paul Thomas Anderson as a new film, One Battle After Another. The film is already considered an Oscar contender. Vineland, at its core, is preoccupied with the fate of America in the age of mass media and creeping authoritarianism. Pynchon’s

The federal government shut down on Wednesday as President Donald Trump threatened mass federal layoffs. Republicans are blaming Democrats for the shutdown, while Democrats are refusing to support a Republican spending bill without guarantees to extend Obamacare provisions set to expire and reverse GOP health care cuts earlier this year. “Democrats are … trying to

EL GUAYABO, Michoacán, Mexico — The armored vehicle, or what now remained of it, lay abandoned in the road where a landmine had blown it up. The bodies of the vehicle’s occupants, cartel sicarios who had been killed as they tried to flee, were nowhere to be found when we examined the incinerated wreckage several

Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr, who drew sharp criticism from both sides of the aisle over his threats related to Jimmy Kimmel’s show, will testify before the Senate Commerce Committee, a spokesperson for the committee told NBC News. The panel, which has jurisdiction over the FCC, is chaired by Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas

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Authorities believe they discovered the body of a missing woman behind a secret entry to an attic in a Northern California home. The woman was identified as Renia Lewis, 28, of Vallejo, the city’s police department said Wednesday. Douglas Irwin Shaw, 41, was arrested on suspicion of murder in connection with Lewis’ death, the department

Tyrese Gibson, the "Fast and Furious" and "Transformers" actor, has a warrant out for his arrest after his dogs killed another dog in his Atlanta neighborhood, according to court documents. The warrant citing cruelty to animals was issued out of Fulton County on Sept. 22. On Sept. 18, Gibson's four cane corso dogs were seen

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