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Reports say Robert Mueller could conclude his Trump-Russia investigation next week

Both NBC News and CNN are reporting this.

By Andrew Prokop

Why Trump is lowering expectations for next week’s Kim Jong Un summit

Maybe — finally — Trump is getting North Korea negotiations right.

By Alex Ward

The race to make the warmest winter clothes

Why winter coats from Canada Goose and Moncler are ready for the Arctic.

By Chavie Lieber

Hate crime or hoax? The claims that Jussie Smollett orchestrated his attack, explained.

Police are now investigating if the Empire actor filed a false police report.

By Amanda Sakuma and German Lopez

Why The Favourite is our favo(u)rite Best Picture nominee

Our roundtable discusses the Oscar chances for Yorgos Lanthimos’s wickedly funny tale of three women’s power games.

By Alissa Wilkinson, Aja Romano, and 1 other

Have smartphones really destroyed a generation? We don’t know.

But here’s how to find out: Scientists need to ask better questions — and big tech needs to help.

By Brian Resnick

Why the US Supreme Court’s new ruling on excessive fines is a big deal

The decision may make it harder for local and state police to seize and keep your stuff in the future.

By German Lopez

Lindsey Graham: Pulling troops from Syria is “the dumbest fucking idea I’ve ever heard”

Graham also told acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan that he would be the Trump administration’s "enemy" on Syria.

By Alex Ward

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Trump’s pick to chair new climate panel once said CO2 has been maligned like “Jews under Hitler”

By Aaron Rupar

The backlash to CNN’s decision to hire a GOP operative to coordinate 2020 coverage, explained

By Aaron Rupar

Tucker Carlson had a total meltdown when a guest criticized Fox News

By Dylan Matthews

These are the Trump associates who’ve pleaded guilty in the Mueller probe

By Alex Ward

Andrew McCabe claims Trump wanted war in Venezuela because “they have all that oil”

By Alex Ward

Giving housing to the homeless is cheaper than leaving them on the streets

By Matthew Yglesias

All 5 nominees for the Animated Feature Oscar are worth seeing. One stands above the rest.

By Todd VanDerWerff

CBD edibles are everywhere now. They also might be illegal.

By Gaby Del Valle

National Geographic hit 100 million Instagram followers. To celebrate, it wants your images for free.

By Kainaz Amaria

80 years ago, 20,000 New Yorkers cheered for Nazis at Madison Square Garden

By Alissa Wilkinson

Putin warns Trump: Don’t put new missiles in Europe — or else

By Alex Ward

Vice is in the running for Best Picture. But how good is its history, really?

By Alissa Wilkinson, Zack Beauchamp, and 1 other

Southwest Airlines has had to ground an unusually high number of flights

By Gaby Del Valle

Trump has lined up his pick for deputy attorney general

By Jen Kirby

Covington Catholic student’s family hits the Washington Post with $250 million lawsuit

By Emily Stewart

BlacKkKlansman is a searing indictment of American racism. Should it win Best Picture?

By Alissa Wilkinson, Todd VanDerWerff, and 2 others

Digital advertising in the US is finally bigger than print and television

By Kurt Wagner

Amazon’s $0 corporate income tax bill last year, explained

By Matthew Yglesias

Marco Rubio’s plan to fix the GOP tax cuts starts with stock buybacks

By Dylan Scott and Emily Stewart

Why we can’t look away from before-and-after pictures

By Cheryl Wischhover

Pramila Jayapal is Congress’s activist insider

By Ella Nilsen

CNN hires GOP operative with no journalism experience to coordinate its 2020 coverage

By Aaron Rupar

The Trump administration reportedly wants to push countries to decriminalize homosexuality

By Jen Kirby

How to make more Vox Video happen

By Joe Posner and Mona Lalwani

The FDA says buying young people’s blood won’t stop you from aging

By Chavie Lieber

House Dems reveal new info on a shady White House plan to sell nuclear tech to Saudi Arabia

By Alex Ward

Roma would be an unusual Best Picture winner. Here’s why it deserves the honor.

By Alissa Wilkinson, Nisha Chittal, and 2 others

Trump wants better AI. He also wants less immigration. He can’t have both.

By Sigal Samuel

Karl Lagerfeld’s long history of disparaging fat women

By Rebecca Jennings

Roger Stone appeared to threaten his judge on Instagram. She’s now ordered him back to court.

By Jen Kirby

This writer spent 4 years working as a fake violinist. Her memoir explains post-9/11 America.

By Constance Grady

Karl Lagerfeld lost 92 pounds using a diet he called a “sort of punishment”

By Julia Belluz

West Virginia teachers are on strike again. Here’s why.

By Alexia Fernández Campbell

Trump is exploiting the Venezuela crisis in order to win the 2020 presidential election

By Alex Ward

Watch the Today show interview newly elected Mayor Bernie Sanders in 1981

By Emily Stewart

Green Book is a Best Picture frontrunner. Should it be?

By Alissa Wilkinson, Todd VanDerWerff, and 1 other

Payless is closing all its US stores

By Gaby Del Valle

Trump says the “Radical Left” is behind state lawsuit over emergency declaration

By Emily Stewart

Amy Klobuchar doesn’t think America is ready for Medicare-for-all and free college yet

By Li Zhou

How one NPR host is changing the way we hear the news

By Anna North
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