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What climate activists mean when they say "end fossil fuels"
Vox - Rebecca Leber
The bolder, narrower message of the climate movement, explained. “We are all here for one reason: to end fossil fuels around the planet,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) told a cheering crowd on Sunday. Some 75,000 were gathered from the New York March to End Fossil Fuels on Sunday, where …
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17 hours ago
The Supreme Court will decide if Alabama can openly defy its decisions
Vox - Ian Millhiser
Alabama’s racially gerrymandered maps are back before the Supreme Court, this time with a dollop of massive resistance. Alabama is back in the Supreme Court — to seek the justices’ permission to openly defy one of the Court’s recent orders. In June, the Supreme Court ordered Alabama to redraw its …
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17 hours ago
The wild allegations about India killing a Canadian citizen, explained
Vox - Zack Beauchamp
The killing of Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Canada has exposed a big problem for US foreign policy. On Monday, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau came forward with a shocking allegation: that “agents of the government of India” had assassinated a Canadian citizen on Canadian soil. The …
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1 day ago
What a defense ministry shake-up may say about Ukraine’s corruption problem
Vox - Jen Kirby
The removals come two weeks after the removal of the defense ministry and as Ukraine seeks to shore up global support. Ukraine is shaking up its defense ministry, removing all six deputy ministers, as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy travels to the United Nations and Washington to shore up support and …
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Maren Morris distancing herself from country music underscores its existential crisis
Vox - Li Zhou
“After the Trump years, people’s biases were on full display,” she told the Los Angeles Times. Maren Morris, a progressive chart-topping country and pop singer known for hits like “The Middle” and “The Bones,” has announced that she’s distancing herself from the genre of country music. Morris, an …
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2 days ago
The sexual assault allegations against Russell Brand, explained
Vox - Li Zhou
Four women have accused Brand of rape and sexual assault, all of which he denies. Comedian Russell Brand has been accused of rape and sexual assault by four women who detail incidents that took place over seven years, according to an investigation by the UK’s Sunday Times, the Times, and Channel 4’s …

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