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Major League Baseball is swinging in the culture and fashion department to reach the next generation of fans. MLB and Media Company Complex have partnered with contemporary artist Murakami Takahashi to release a limited edition collection of merchandise and trading cards, including his distinctive vibrant colors and floral artwork. Murakami-designed jerseys and trading cards will be provided through the league's retail partner, the Commerce and Collectibles of Fanatics division. The collaboration will be announced one month before the 2025 Tokyo Series (March 18th and 19th). This finds a pair of regular season games between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the…
For 10 years my wife's read receipt has been turned on without her knowing it. She kept checking her phone settings to see if they were turned off. But every time I texted her, I found out my message was delivered and what time she read it. It's enough to say, this has brought some nasty moments.Reading receipts is a painful place for many couples, friends, family and employers. In fact, anyone who sends and receives text messages these days. It wasn't always like this. Just a few years ago, you could send a text and not expect an unwelcome…
This story originally appeared Today's kidsVox newsletter about children. For future editions, please sign up here.In one of Sarah Doan's earliest memories, her mom asks her to sort the laundry. She is about six years old and as the first child in a conservative Catholic family, she has already stepped into her role as a housekeeper manager. Soon she cooks, cooks, and homeschools, but her mother takes care of her seven siblings, her dad works in an automated body restaurant for six days, and sometimes jumps into an elaborate home cooking lunch.”It was relentlessly difficult,” says Doan, now a professor…
German voters maintained some global trends over the weekend. They drove out the incumbent, and their youngster moved to the right, bringing another surprise. Their radical anti-immigrant party (alternative Für Deutschland, or AFD) finished second, and could have been boosted by some LGBTQ voters.The right-hand shift of gay, lesbian and bisexual voters is a dynamic performance in Western Europe. In the UK, France and now Germany, gay voters or their allies support far-right or naturalist parties in growth rates. But that strange shift doesn't seem to have happened in the US. During the 2024 election, LGBTQ voters were actually gained…
This story was originally published in The Highlight, Vox’s member-exclusive magazine. To get early access to member-exclusive stories every month, join the Vox Membership program today.Kylie Kelce was at the top of the charts. The former field hockey coach and NFL royalty had dethroned Joe Rogan in his own domain — and his fans could not believe it.It happened late last year: Kelce — whose marriage to former Philadelphia Eagles center Jason Kelce had pulled her into the limelight — had launched a podcast called Not Gonna Lie With Kylie Kelce, promoting it as a medium for her opinions on…
Elon Musk's cut-first, the federal run of the targets is based on the idea that the country's finances are in crisis and that spending should be significantly reduced to recover. But what the team at least one cut mask is planning is actually costing government money and exacerbating the fiscal crisis the Trump administration claims is a national emergency.It's a mask plan to cut jobs at the U.S. Internal Revenue Service.At the request of Musk's Government Efficiency Department team, the IRS is planning to fire up to 6,700 employees, with ull reportedly beginning last Thursday. Those affected include more than…
Logoff is a daily newsletter that helps you maintain information about the Trump administration without taking over your life to political news. Subscribe here.Welcome to logoff. Today, I focus on Donald Trump's mixed message about the fate of Medicaid, a low-income health insurance program that over 70 million Americans rely on.Trump says a lot. Why is this important now? This is because House Republicans passed the bill on Tuesday, calling for $2 trillion cuts over 10 years. The bill calls on the committee that oversees Medicaid and Medicare to identify $880 billion in savings. Given that Medicare (healthcare for the…
After a dramatic week of seeing both the third anniversary of the war in Ukraine and the gust of unprecedented diplomatic activities, it is becoming possible to see what an ideal agreement to end a bloody conflict is. But to know whether the agreement is actually achievable or realistic, we need to be in the minds of two of the most inexplicable men on the planet: Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. This week, Washington and Kiev signed a contract to utilize Ukraine's mineral resources. After the war ended, plans emerged that could lead to European peacekeeping forces being deployed in…
In the open grasslands of South Dakota, not far from the dramatic rock formations of Badlands National Park, lives one of the continent’s cutest, fiercest, and rarest animals: the black-footed ferret. Black-footed ferrets, weasel-like animals with distinctive dark bands around their eyes and black feet, are ruthless little hunters. At night, they dive into burrows in pursuit of juicy prairie dogs, their primary food source. Without prairie dogs, these ferrets would not survive. From as many as a million ferrets in the 19th century, today there are only a few hundred of these furry predators roaming the Great Plains, the…
The appropriate term for the Supreme Court session to listen to oral presentations by lawyers is “verbal discussion,” but Wednesday's hearing Amesv. OhioYouth Services Ministry It is rarely qualified for discussion. Everyone agreed that in every aspect of the case, the strange rules governing employment discrimination must administer litigation in some parts of the country.When Judge Neil Gorsuch removes it at some point, it appears there is a “radical consensus.”Aimes Rules existing in some federal courts of appeals include rules that require “majority” employment discriminatory plaintiffs to carry a slightly higher proof burden than plaintiffs who are part of minority…