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21+ min ago   (1630+ words) President Trump is expected to meet with oil industry executives today to discuss their cooperation with his plans to take over Venezuela's oil industry. Representatives from Chevron, Exxon, ConocoPhillips, and Continental Resources are expected to attend. Oil Change International U.S. program…...

1+ hour, 2+ min ago   (163+ words) On The New Yorker Radio Hour, the historian Daniel Immerwahr says that Trump's embrace of imperialist adventuring is not just about business interests'it's an appeal to masculinity which "seems to sell." U.S. intervention in other countries, whether overt or covert, is…...

1+ hour, 2+ min ago   (201+ words) On The New Yorker Radio Hour, the staff writer Jennifer Wilson explores why prenuptial agreements have boomed in popularity among millennial and Gen Z couples. Prenups have gone from a tool of the ultra-wealthy, carrying a whiff of scandal, to…...

1+ hour, 7+ min ago   (841+ words) In the hubbub and widespread criticism that accompanied the CDC's new recommended childhood vaccine schedule, released this week, one subtle change has gone mostly under the radar. It concerns the HPV vaccine, which protects against nine strains of HPV and…...

1+ hour, 18+ min ago   (739+ words) As someone who grew up in fandom, the People We Meet On Vacation screenwriter Yulin Kuang knows the importance of a good book-to-screen adaptation more than most. As a teen, she would journal pages of angst about how upcoming adaptations…...

1+ hour, 19+ min ago   (475+ words) Bill Hader and Ali Wong have called it quits after a two-year relationship, but there seems to be more to the story than just an "amicable" split. People confirmed the news on January 7 with the message that their "busy schedules…...

1+ hour, 20+ min ago   (279+ words) WASHINGTON'Circulating a new advisory that highlighted what it called the "worst of the worst," the Department of Homeland Security released a watchlist Friday warning Americans about the presence of mothers driving cars. "Please be on the lookout for the following…...

1+ hour, 23+ min ago   (631+ words) The right is waging, and winning, a war on empathy. The country is poorer, and more dangerous, for it. The videos of Renee Nicole Good's killing are the stuff of nightmares. On Wednesday, according to footage shot by bystanders, Immigration…...

1+ hour, 31+ min ago   (260+ words) Henry, a BookTok phenomenon whose works have sold more than ten million copies, talks about "the readers" like a Beatle might talk about "the fans." She was anointed by Reese Witherspoon's book club; five of her six romance novels have…...

1+ hour, 32+ min ago   (470+ words) Trump-Run DOJ Is Going to Investigate the ICE Shooting, Huh? David Kurtz: The top officials at the Justice Department and the FBI have shown themselves again and again to be beholden to the president, spending most of their days fawning…...