SpaceX’s Starship spacecraft and Super Heavy rocket launch from Starbase on April 20, 2023. | Jonathan Newton/Washington Post via Getty Images Experts also viewed the
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It was a violent week in America. That’s become the norm.
Mourners attend a vigil at the First Baptist Church of Dadeville following the mass shooting in Dadeville, Alabama. | Megan Varner/Getty Images This week’s flurry
Alec Baldwin’s criminal charges dropped in Rust shooting — for now
Rust’s chaotic production resulted in the death of a cinematographer when Alec Baldwin’s prop gun accidentally discharged. | Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images Alec Baldwin
Tech companies are finally firing tech workers
At Meta and across tech, software engineer jobs aren’t looking as safe any more. | Getty Images Software engineers made up the biggest portion of
Florida is slimming down its plan to take on “woke” colleges — but not by much
Demonstrators protest as Gov. DeSantis appoints a new New College of Florida Board of Trustees. | Octavio Jones/Bloomberg via Getty Images Though less ambitious, two
7 big Earth Day wins for the planet
Over the past year, humanity has made some huge policy gains to protect the planet. | Carol Yepes/Getty Images The most important environmental policies advanced
Why so many top Republicans want to go to war in Mexico
A Mexican soldier secures an illegal marijuana plantation in the municipality of Cosala, state of Sinaloa, Mexico, on October 2, 2019. | Rashide Frias/AFP/Getty Images
The bizarre true story of the last time America raised its retirement age
Alan Greenspan (left) and Sen. Pat Moynihan (right) ham it up at a meeting of the National Commission on Social Security Reform in 1982. |
The wildly expensive, chaotic race for Dianne Feinstein’s California Senate seat, explained
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), speaks beside Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA), left, during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, DC, on February 23, 2022.
In a leaked Q&A, Mark Zuckerberg tells employees “we’re in a different world”
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaking at the virtual Meta Connect conference in 2022. | Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images The tech CEO addressed tough questions