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What we know about the Uvalde elementary school shooting

Police walk near Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on May 24, after a gunman killed 14 students and a…

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Meet the new subvariants, your summer bummers

A Covid-19 testing site in Times Square in New York City on May 17. New York City has raised its…

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Welcome to the May issue of The Highlight

Illustration by Julia Kuo for Vox In this issue: The anti-abortion movement’s post-Roe future, the plant peddlers of Appalachia, the…

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The complicated tension of telling the truth at Cannes

The Cannes Film Festival 2022 poster paying tribute to The Truman Show is displayed at the Palais des Festivals in…

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How the internet gets people to plagiarize each other

It should be noted that none of these dogs are guilty of plagiarism. | Getty Images Are you “hopping on…

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To kill or not to kill: Butterflying during the “insect apocalypse”

Amanda Northrop/Vox Is it still ethical to collect butterflies for science? Part of the May 2022 issue of The Highlight, our…

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The blood-hungry parasite that threatens big fish and business in the Great Lakes

The mouth of a sea lamprey. | T. Lawrence/Great Lakes Fishery Commission More than a century after they arrived, invasive…

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Quantum computers could change the world — provided they can work

The inside of an IBM System One quantum computer. | Bryan Walsh/Vox Qubits, decoherence, and superposition: a guide to the…

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What we know so far about monkeypox

An electron microscopic image depicting a monkeypox virion, obtained from a clinical sample associated with the 2003 prairie dog outbreak.…

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The Supreme Court just condemned a man to die despite strong evidence he’s innocent

The US Supreme Court at dusk in October 2021. | J. Scott Applewhite/AP The Court effectively overruled two of its…

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