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Jose Luis Magana/AFP/Getty Images Trump reverses course on flavored vape ban; documents detail the disappearing of China’s Muslims. Vox Sentences is your daily digest for what’s happening in the world. Sign up for the Vox Sentences newsletter, delivered straight to your inbox Monday through Friday, or view the Vox Sentences archive for past editions. TrumpContinue reading “Vox Sentences: Vap ban’s up in smoke”

Carolyn Everson, vice president of global marketing solutions at Facebook, onstage at the 2019 Code Media conference in Los Angeles. | Tori Stolper for Vox Media Facebook is not getting better at answering questions about its political ads policy — or a lot of other political matters. Facebook has come under heavy scrutiny in recentContinue reading “Facebook says it legally can’t take down political ads. That’s not true.”

Tom and Greg scheme to get rid of incriminating evidence on HBO’s Succession. | HBO That’s what John Stankey, CEO of HBO parent company WarnerMedia, said today at Recode’s Code Media conference in Los Angeles. If the guy leading HBO’s parent company WarnerMedia has his way, the new HBO Max streaming video service won’t justContinue reading “HBO Max wants to be the next cable bundle instead of the next Netflix”

Ronna McDaniel, chair of the Republican National Committee, speaks at CPAC 2019 in February. | Ricky Carioti/Washington Post/Getty Images Trump expressed hope that the Senate would confirm one of his nominees. Days later, the RNC came calling for cash. Wealthy donors being rewarded with cushy ambassador gigs is not a new development in American politics,Continue reading “New investigation suggests Republicans took ambassadorial pay-to-play to new levels”

Mike Pompeo making the settlement announcement. | Drew Angerer/Getty Images What he said and why it matters. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on Monday that he is reversing a longstanding State Department legal opinion labeling Israel’s settlements in the West Bank at odds with international law. This new position sharply contradicts mainstream interpretationsContinue reading “Mike Pompeo’s big announcement about Israeli settlements, briefly explained”

Marketing images for ThirdLove feature models of many shapes and races. | Sarah Lawrence for Vox How a woke brand is made. Convincing 100 women to show up at a warehouse and take photos of their chests is no easy feat. Convincing them through a Craigslist ad is nearly impossible. But that’s what lingerie companyContinue reading “A pivot from tech to empowerment at bra startup ThirdLove”

President Donald Trump talks to reporters before boarding Marine One and departing the White House November 08, 2019 in Washington, DC. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images What happened over the weekend will impact this week’s impeachment hearings. This past weekend served as a fitting cap to a dramatic week of public impeachment hearings — and setContinue reading “The weekend in startling impeachment news, explained”

(Shutterstock) | Shutterstock Trump wants to make health care prices more transparent. How much good will it do? The Trump administration has grand plans to make health care prices more transparent, hoping a little bit of sunlight will help disinfect the high costs of US health care. In new regulations, the administration is requiring hospitalsContinue reading “The best-case and worst-case scenarios for Trump’s health care price transparency rule”

Strange Negotiations follows musician David Bazan on a solo tour — and during the 2016 election. | Brandon Vedder/Aspiration Entertainment The provocative Pedro the Lion frontman is the subject of the new documentary Strange Negotiations. David Bazan’s straightforward and bluntly honest brand of indie rock won him secular and Christian accolades alike starting in theContinue reading “David Bazan talks about his music and watching Christianity be “co-opted by authoritarianism””