BREAKING: Kamala Harris has been elected vice president, Decision Desk projects.
She makes history as the first woman, first Black person, and first South Asian American person to be elected vice president of the United States. #Election2020
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If the two Georgia seats go to the Democrats, the Senate will be split 50-50, but the Democratic half will represent 41,549,808 more people than the Republican half.
This is America’s anti-democratic Senate, by the numbers:
In 1921, white mob destroyed an American neighborhood called “Black Wall Street,” murdering an estimated 300 people in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Today marks the 98th anniversary.
BREAKING: Raphael Warnock is projected to win Georgia’s special election Senate runoff, defeating Republican Kelly Loeffler, per . vox.com/2021/1/5/22213
BREAKING: Joe Biden is projected to win the #2020Election, per Decision Desk.
The former two-term vice president and 36-year Senate veteran will be the 46th president of the United States. vox.com/2020/11/6/2153
After Sandy Hook, we said never again. And then we let 1,518 mass shootings happen.
The former Stanford University student who sexually assaulted a woman was just released from prison after 12 weeks.
Steve Jobs's widow Laurene Powell Jobs plans to give away her $28 billion in assets.
"It's not right for individuals to accumulate a massive amount of wealth that's equivalent to millions and millions of other people combined," she said.
Democrats have spent 2 weeks building their case. Fiona Hill did it in 2 minutes.
After research on gun violence in the 1990s found that firearms do not make people safer, the NRA backed a federal funding freeze on gun policy research.
It's still in effect today. bit.ly/2CTDArE
If the two Georgia seats go to the Democrats, the Senate will be split 50-50, but the Democratic half will represent 41,549,808 more people than the Republican half.
This is America’s anti-democratic Senate, by the numbers:
Pope Francis refused to meet with Mike Pompeo so as not to boost Trump
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and are proposing a new bill that would foster the creation of public banks across the country — with the aim of encouraging investments in public resources such as affordable housing and renewable energy projects.
Amy Coney Barrett was confirmed by a slim 52-48 vote.
The 48 senators who voted against Barrett represent 13.5 million more people than the 52 senators who voted for her.
BREAKING: Jon Ossoff is projected to win the Georgia Senate runoff, defeating Republican David Perdue, per . vox.com/2021/1/6/22213
At first glance, this moment in Fiona Hill's testimony seems like she's immunizing Trump.
She's actually damning him.
Joe Biden cited a horrific statistic to argue that President Trump has not been good for Black Americans: 1 in 1,000 Black Americans have died in the Covid-19 pandemic.
The most remarkable thing about Biden’s statement? It was true.
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. may have had just 60 seconds to speak at the #DemConvention, but she gamely used that time to make a bold call for systemic change.
Brock Turner has been released from jail after serving only three months. Here's what he missed.
Aerial images reveal a stark difference in crowd size at Trump's #inauguration versus Obama's in 2009.
Watch the breathtaking rendition of "Stand by me" performed at the #RoyalWedding by Karen Gibson and The Kingdom Choir.
At least 14 children and one teacher were killed in a shooting Tuesday afternoon at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. This story is developing.
It is the latest tragic reminder of America's unconscionable legacy of gun violence.
80 percent of those who died of Covid-19 in Texas county jails were never convicted of a crime, a new report finds
A new report says that Trump urged his team to violate the law and redirect Puerto Rico's disaster assistance money to Texas and Florida instead.
Exclusive: House Democrats are rolling out a resolution calling for Joe Biden to forgive up to $50,000 of borrowers’ student debt.
Reps. , , , and are leading the charge.
BTS keeps coming for American charts — whether they get radio play or not.
Measles is so contagious that an infected person can cough in a room, leave, and hours later, if you’re unvaccinated, you could catch the virus from the droplets in the air that person left behind.
No other virus can do that.
Nancy Pelosi sarcastically claps at President Trump after he calls for Americans to “reject the politics of revenge, resistance, and retribution, and embrace the boundless potential of cooperation, compromise, and the common good." #SOTU
"If there’s any family that should sit out attacking others for alleged corruption, it’s the Trumps," writes .
Regardless of what you think about Kanye West, he's one of the most innovative producers in music.
If Biden names Deb Haaland as secretary of the interior, it would be a historic move: She would become the first-ever Native American Cabinet member
Sen. Cornyn reads a rule stating that Booker could be dismissed from the Senate if he releases the #Kavanaugh emails.
Booker’s response: “Bring it.”
MTV added a K-pop award to the VMAs. But fans of think it’s a way of excluding the band from the major awards.
BREAKING: Bernie Sanders wins the New Hampshire Democratic primary, giving the Vermont senator significant momentum heading into Nevada and South Carolina.
A white mob destroyed an American neighborhood called “Black Wall Street,” murdering an estimated 300 people in Tulsa, Oklahoma, nearly 100 years ago.
Today, the city still has a lot of questions.
In a symbolic gesture, Kamala Harris, Michelle Obama, and Hillary Clinton all featured purple in their outfits on #InaugurationDay.
Traditionally thought of as the color of bipartisanship, purple sends a message of unity during this historic presidential transition of power.
Hillary Clinton’s three debate performances left the Trump campaign in ruins
Here are some of the most climate-vulnerable foods we could lose:
- coffee
- wine grapes
- olives
- berries, citrus and stone fruits
- almonds
- avocados
- alfalfa that feed cattle
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Rush Limbaugh, one of America’s most prominent racists, just received the Presidential Medal of Freedom at the #SOTU
A white woman called the police on a black real estate investor. They told her to leave him alone.
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Joe Biden has just won Pennsylvania and its 20 electoral votes, Decision Desk reports.
With it, he has 273 electoral votes and is projected to win the #2020Election.
Explore the live electoral map here: vox.com/21551153/presi
Raphael Warnock just made history as the first Black senator to be elected in Georgia, reports. vox.com/2021/1/5/22213
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Oregon just voted to decriminalize all drugs, according to the New York Times and the AP. It’s a major step toward ending the war on drugs.
It’s official: March for Our Lives was one of the biggest youth protests since the Vietnam War
Joe Biden is projected to win the #2020Election, per Decision Desk.
The state of Pennsylvania, which Hillary Clinton lost in 2016, has been called for Joe Biden clinching the electoral win in a tightly contested vote that drew historic turnout. vox.com/2020/11/6/2153
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. and have a deceptively simple proposal that would transform the credit card industry and virtually eliminate payday loans: cap interest rates on consumer loans at 15% per year.
Bernie Sanders released a plan to legalize marijuana (at 4:20 pm)
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To be clear, 's speech was not an endorsement of Bernie Sanders in some ongoing contest with Biden, but rather part of standard practice at the #DemConvention.
Any candidate that’s secured enough delegates is eligible to get “nominated” to the party’s ticket.
Here's the rundown that shows J.K. Rowling's growing embrace of transphobic, even extremist rhetoric.
The Supreme Court just ruled that at least some federal prisoners who are completely innocent must serve out their entire sentence, with no meaningful way to challenge their unlawful conviction.
Michelle Obama’s raw response to Donald Trump and misogyny in this election: “it has shaken me to my core."
BREAKING: New York City has voted to switch to a ranked-choice voting system.
NYC is the most populous place in the US yet to adopt ranked-choice voting. 20 other cities have already adopted ranked-choice voting. More on how it works here: bit.ly/2JUaBdQ
BREAKING: Andrew Gillum has won the Democratic governor’s primary in Florida. #FLGov
Mike Pence interrupted Kamala Harris 16 times during the #VPdebate based on the NBC data.
Harris repeatedly made clear that she wouldn’t stand by as it happened. “Mr. Vice President, I’m speaking,” she said on multiple occasions. vox.com/2020/10/8/2150
The past year of research has made it very clear: Trump won because of racial resentment
BREAKING: Attorney General Andy Beshear (D) has unseated incumbent Gov. Matt Bevin (R) in the Kentucky governor race.
The race shows a Democrat can win in a deep-red state despite President Trump’s overwhelming popularity. bit.ly/2NLfnLv
98 years ago a white mob destroyed a thriving Tulsa neighborhood known as “Black Wall Street.” An estimated 300 people were murdered.
Today, the Tulsa Massacre often remains a footnote in textbooks, if it’s even mentioned at all.
The estimated crowd at President Trump's #inauguration yesterday: 250,000
At #WomensMarch today: 500,000+.
Knock Down the House, which starts streaming on Netflix today, is about more than . It’s about hope in American politics.
Photos: the crowd at Donald Trump’s inauguration vs. Barack Obama’s vox.com/policy-and-pol
This year, late-night comedians often did a better job covering the Trump administration than serious news networks did.
Insulin has become so expensive that as many as one in four people with diabetes are now skipping lifesaving doses.
In a speech to the CIA today, President Trump said the inaugural crowd "looked like a million and a half people."
Images suggest otherwise:
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Anime brings in more than $19 billion a year.
But many of the animators behind the onscreen magic are broke, and face grim working conditions that can lead to burnout and even suicide.
A 10-day UPS strike would cost the economy more than $7 billion and be the costliest work stoppage in at least a century, according to a new study by Anderson Economic Group, which researches labor disruptions.
It's official: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is going to Congress. The rising star is the youngest woman ever elected to the body at 29 years old. #ElectionNight
A picture of Trump’s face by a photographer named William Moon is making waves for the stark tan line it seems to reveal.
BlacKkKlansman wins the Oscar for Adapted Screenplay.
This is Spike Lee's first Oscar win. He's also nominated tonight for Best Director and Best Picture.
#Oscars2019
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Women of color in leadership are routinely silenced. , , and are just the latest examples.
Donald Trump has been impeached. That doesn’t mean he’s automatically removed from office. Next, the Senate will hold a trial to assess the House’s charges.
So far, no president has ever been removed from office by the Senate.
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Raphael Warnock’s win in the Georgia Senate runoff, as reported by , is a historic one.
He’s the first Black senator to be elected in Georgia and only the 11th Black candidate elected to the Senate.
CNN’s new political editor, Sarah Isgur, once referred to her future employer as the “Clinton News Network,” and has used false claims and conspiracies to demean Democrats.
She’ll coordinate the network’s 2020 coverage on TV and online.
Trump is blaming Obama, who left office in 2017, for leaving him with “broken tests” for a virus that didn’t exist until 2019. Yes, really.
"It is plainly obvious from Trump’s words that this is not a man fit to be president, that he is not well or capable in some fundamental way." —
Hamilton tweets are a shiny object distracting people from Trump’s fraud settlement and corruption
What McCain did was hard. What Murkowski and Collins did was much harder.
BREAKING: President Trump has been impeached by the House of Representatives.
It’s now up to the Senate to decide whether to convict or remove Trump from office.
If you don’t know anything else about Mitch McConnell, know this:
He’s arguably the most ruthless political operator in American politics and has almost single-handedly broken the Senate.
Neuralink, the neuroscience company backed by Elon Musk, is building a brain-machine interface as well as a little robot that installs it into your skull.
The company is showing a demo of the technology on a livestream.
Trump’s claim that only immigrants with “the lowest IQ” show up for court proceedings was unconscionable. It was also false: Almost all immigrants show up for hearings. vox.com/2020/10/22/215
A clear picture of the results of the 2020 election came into view on Friday, days after Election Day.
Joe Biden has won Pennsylvania and with it the 2020 Election, Decision Desk projects. vox.com/2020/11/6/2153
If you’re not scared for American democracy, you’re not paying attention.
It's official: has won the #NHprimary2020.
After the chaos of the Iowa caucuses, the straightforward win matters more than ever.
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Andrew Johnson was impeached in 1868.
Bill Clinton was impeached in 1998.
Today, Donald Trump became the third US president on that list.
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“We have to do something. Doctors took on the auto industry and Big Tobacco on behalf of our patients. We didn’t choose this fight, but we if we have to, we can take on the NRA.” — Dr. Judy Melinek
The Senate confirmed Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court in a 53-47 vote.
It’s a historic moment. Jackson is not only the first Black woman to serve on the Court, but also the first justice since Thurgood Marshall with significant experience as a public defender.
It’s becoming a very real possibility that Cruz could lose reelection in Texas to a Democrat — seriously imperiling Republicans’ hold on the Senate majority.
This tweet perfectly captures why it's appalling to blame refugees for the Paris attacks vox.com/2015/11/13/973
Australia confiscated 650,000 guns. Murders and suicides plummeted.
Alex Jones has been ordered to pay $965 million in damages to the families of eight Sandy Hook shooting victims.
It's a historic amount for damages in a defamation lawsuit.
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White American men are a bigger domestic terrorist threat than Muslim foreigners
To reckon with Thanksgiving is to understand how it helped set off a painful history of trauma — massacres, abuse, and negligence — that Native Americans still carry 400 years later:
"The boomers inherited a rich, dynamic country and have gradually bankrupted it."
On this day 52 years ago, Fred Hampton was murdered by police in his bed. He was 21 years old. Learn more about the life, death, and legacy of the revolutionary Black Panther Leader.
Congress is set to make it illegal for the IRS to create free tax preparation software — software that could save Americans billions of dollars spent on TurboTax, H&R Block, and other tax preparers.
Both Ford and Kavanaugh fielded questions from lawmakers and prosecutor Rachel Mitchell. But only Ford made an effort to actually answer every question. bit.ly/2N9dp5o #KavanaughConfirmation
The US is facing an election unlike any other, and Americans have a lot of questions.
, and narrate our new series Whose Vote Counts, Explained, available on Monday, September 28.
