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🌱 Environment

Jul 18, 2026

Photos: Wildfire Smoke Blankets Parts of North America

Large wildfires in Canada and Minnesota have been sending plumes of smoke into the atmosphere, turning the sky shades of yellow or orange from the U.S. Midwest to the East Coast, and prompting countless air-quality alerts

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🏥 Healthcare

Jul 18, 2026

Cyclosporiasis Is Solved! Right?

The federal government announced that iceberg lettuce at Taco Bell was to blame for the outbreak. But it still hasn’t answered some crucial questions

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🌱 Environment

Jul 18, 2026

Just Ask the Dinosaurs How Bad Air Quality Can Get

If an orange sky seems apocalyptic, imagine planet-wide fires against a black sky

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🏛️ Politics

Jul 17, 2026

Trump Dooms His Own Party

The president’s self-serving message will not serve the Republicans on the ballot

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🏛️ Politics

Jul 17, 2026

Trump Just Did More Damage to American Elections Than China

His speech was a mashup of charges that aren’t supported by the documents he released

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🏛️ Politics

Jul 17, 2026

Trump Still Hasn’t Found What He’s Looking For

The president’s prime-time speech was more notable for what it didn’t prove than what it did

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🎭 Culture

Jul 16, 2026

An Odyssey Deserving of the Biggest Screen Possible

Christopher Nolan successfully brings the epic into the IMAX era

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🌱 Environment

Jul 16, 2026

Photos: The Wonders of Ocean Life

Images of the incredibly wide variety of marine life on our planet, including seabirds, marine mammals, fish, corals, crustaceans, and much more

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📈 Economy

Jul 16, 2026

Social Security Is Running Out of Time

Maya MacGuineas on the looming exhaustion of the Social Security Trust Fund and whether America will ever have a responsible federal budget. Plus: another ICE shooting and A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel

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🌍 Geopolitics

Jul 15, 2026

The Bizarre Partnership Between the U.S. and Venezuela

Responding to the recent earthquakes pushed the two countries’ new relationship out into the open

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🏛️ Politics

Jul 15, 2026

Marco Rubio’s Disappearing Signal Chat

The State Department told a court last year that the secretary didn’t use disappearing messages. By this spring, it had dropped that claim

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🌍 Geopolitics

Jul 15, 2026

Who Really Controls the Strait of Hormuz?

Since the war began, Iran has only expanded its power over the waterway

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