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Student protests are testing US colleges’ commitment to free speech

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Columbia University students participate in an ongoing pro-Palestinian encampment on their campus following last week’s arrest of more than 100 protesters, on April 25, 2024 in New York City. | Stephanie Keith/Getty Images

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Mass graves at two hospitals are the latest horrors from Gaza

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Gazan teams, civil defense, crime scene investigation, and forensics continue to carry out investigation at the scene after Israeli siege and attacks that destroyed Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, Gaza, on April 17, 2024. | Dawoud…

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The wild past 24 hours of Trump legal news, explained

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Former US President Donald Trump exits his criminal trial for allegedly covering up hush money payments at Manhattan Criminal Court on April 25, 2024, in New York City. | Jeenah Moon/Getty Images

Thursday, Apr 25

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Donald Trump had a fantastic day in the Supreme Court today

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Then-President Donald Trump shakes hands with Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who Trump placed on the Supreme Court. | Getty Images

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How the Supreme Court weaponizes its own calendar

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Former President Donald Trump greets his own appointee, Justice Neil Gorsuch, ahead of the State of the Union address in the chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives on February 04, 2020. | Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images

Wednesday, Apr 24

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Bird flu in cows — and now in milk. How worried should we be?

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The highly pathogenic avian influenza, or HPAI, has affected tens of millions of farmed and wild birds in recent years. Over the last couple weeks, it’s begun to infect cattle — and one dairy farm worker. | Nathalie Laurence/Sunspiral…

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A new Supreme Court case seeks to make it much easier for criminals to buy guns

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Confiscated guns on display at Attorney General Letitia James’s announcement that the Attorney General’s Office, Drug Enforcement Administration, New York Police Department, and State Police took down ghost guns and narcotics trafficking…

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Students protested for Palestine before Israel was even founded

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Pro-Palestine student demonstrators march from the University of Colorado campus in Boulder to show solidarity and to protest the sale of US jets to Israel in this October 1973 photo. | Denver Post via Getty Images

The Supreme Court’s likely to make it more dangerous to be pregnant in a red state

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An activist with the Center for Popular Democracy Action holds a large photo of US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s head as the group blocks an intersection during a demonstration in front of the US Supreme Court on December 1, 2021,…

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Congress’s $95 billion Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan aid package, explained

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House Speaker Mike Johnson talks with members of the media following passage of a series of foreign aid bills at the Capitol on April 20, in Washington, DC. | Nathan Howard/Getty Images

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What the backlash to student protests over Gaza is really about

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The Columbia protests and the debate over pro-Palestinian college students, explained.

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A unionized Volkswagen plant in Tennessee could mean big things for workers nationwide

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On April 18, the United Auto Workers won the union vote at a Volkswagen assembly plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee. | Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images

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Ukraine is finally getting more US aid. It won’t win the war — but it can save them from defeat.

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Ukrainian soldiers fire artillery near Siversk, in Donetsk, Ukraine, on April 1, 2024. | Wolfgang Schwan/Anadolu via Getty Images

Tuesday, Apr 23

Can Canada stave off populism?

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Hundreds of “Freedom Convoy” supporters march in downtown Ottawa on Canada Day, July 1, 2022, in Ottawa, Canada. | Dave Chan/AFP via Getty Images

Monday, Apr 22

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The Supreme Court doesn’t seem eager to get involved with homelessness policy

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A homeless man takes a break from clearing his belongings along the Santa Ana River Trail in Anaheim, California, on January 29, 2018. | Paul Bersebach/Orange County Register via Getty Images

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On Earth Day, Vox Releases Home Planet, A Project Highlighting the Personal Dimensions of Climate Change in our Daily Lives

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Highlighting the unexpected ways our lives are connected with the natural world and how humans can deepen that connection and preserve our shared planet.

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Donald Trump already won the only Supreme Court fight that mattered

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Former President Donald Trump greets Justices Neil Gorsuch (R) and Brett Kavanaugh (L), both of whom owe their jobs to him. | Al Drago/Getty Images

Friday, Apr 19

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Israel and Iran’s conflict enters a new, dangerous phase

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A crowd carrying a model of Iran’s first-ever hypersonic missile, Fattah, past a mosque during a gathering to celebrate the IRGC UAV and missile attack against Israel, in Tehran, Iran, on April 15, 2024 | Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via…

Trump’s jury doesn’t have to like him to be fair to him

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Former President Donald Trump appears in Manhattan criminal court on April 19 for jury selection in his hush-money trial. Trump faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. | Curtis Means/Getty Images

Wednesday, Apr 17

Boeing’s problems were as bad as you thought

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The Senate hearings come months after a door plug in a Boeing 737-9 MAX plane blew out during an Alaska Airlines flight on January 5. | NTSB via Getty Images

Tuesday, Apr 16

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January 6 insurrectionists had a great day in the Supreme Court today

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Jacob Chansley, also known as the “QAnon Shaman,” screams “Freedom” inside the US Senate chamber after the Capitol was breached by a mob during a joint session of Congress on January 6, 2021, in Washington, DC. | Win McNamee/Getty Images

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The Supreme Court’s confusing new anti-trans decision, explained

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Activists for transgender rights gather in front of the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC, on April 1, 2023. | Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images

Monday, Apr 15

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The Supreme Court effectively abolishes the right to mass protest in three US states

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Demonstrators march from Baton Rouge City Hall to the Louisiana Capitol to protest the shooting of Alton Sterling by a police officer on July 9, 2016, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. | Mark Wallheiser/Getty Images

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How Trump’s hush money trial went from an afterthought to the main event

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Former President Donald Trump speaks to the media after a pretrial hearing on March 25, 2024, in New York City. | Justin Lane/Getty Images

Sunday, Apr 14

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The history of Arizona’s Civil War-era abortion ban

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A protester holds a sign reading “My body my choice” at a Women’s March rally where Arizona Secretary of State and then-Democratic gubernatorial candidate Katie Hobbs spoke outside the State Capitol on October 8, 2022, in Phoenix, Arizona.…

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Iran’s retaliatory attack against Israel, briefly explained

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Israel’s Iron Dome anti-missile system is seen here firing an interceptor missile in 2022. | Photo by Ilia Yefimovich/picture alliance via Getty Images

Saturday, Apr 13

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Don’t sneer at white rural voters — or delude yourself about their politics

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Signs supporting former President Donald Trump are displayed at a Second Amendment rally in Ionia, Michigan, on July 19, 2023. | Bill Pugliano/Getty Images

Friday, Apr 12

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“Civil War” has little to say about America — but a lot to say about war

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Cailee Spaeny (left) and Wagner Moura as journalists in Alex Garland’s Civil War. | Murray Close/A24

Thursday, Apr 11

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You can’t understand Israel-Palestine without understanding Arab Jews

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Jews from the Arab and Muslim world had a radical vision for Israeli-Palestinian peace.

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The Vatican’s new statement on trans rights undercuts its attempts at inclusion

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Pope Francis greets bishops during the weekly general audience at St. Peter’s Square in Vatican City on April 10, 2024. | Massimo Valicchia/NurPhoto via Getty Images