Today, Explained

Boomers are the wealthiest generation ever. And they're funneling trillions to their adult... more

Kremlin defender Tulsi Gabbard is the US’s new spy chief, while the US and Russia are hold... more

The Trump administration’s effort to purge government websites is accelerating digital dec... more

Russell Vought is the architect and legal scholar behind the Trump administration’s attemp... more

Funding cuts and research censorship have shaken the foundations of America’s health and s... more

Sephora revolutionized high-end beauty and turned tiny brands into household names. Now, c... more

President Trump is offering to resettle white South Africans in the US, and his white Sout... more

The prices of all kinds of things have stayed stubbornly high even as inflation has cooled... more

Elon Musk promised to feed "USAID into the wood chipper." The way he's dismantling the age... more

The Trump administration has begun detaining migrants at Guantanamo Bay. For more than 40 ... more

Kendrick Lamar is celebrating his latest album, GNX, on the biggest stage in American musi... more

The Democratic Republic of the Congo is at war. Again. Sixty-five years of mismanagement b... more

NBC News reporter Sahil Kapur and Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) try to explain if the Democrats ... more

The first battles have now been fought in the new North American trade war. President Dona... more

LA Times reporter Liam Dillon assesses the damage now that the fires are fully contained. ... more

Turkey has become the hair transplant capital of the world. And it's part of a global boom... more

The emergence of DeepSeek — a Chinese AI model that was developed for a fraction of the co... more

RFK Jr. adviser Calley Means explains why so many Americans are suspicious of food and pha... more

Trump is remaking the federal government in his name, says Vox’s Andrew Prokop. Efforts at... more

President Donald Trump pardoned Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht and launched his own memec... more

TikTok's uncertain future has driven a flood of users to a fully Chinese social media app ... more

Donald Trump says he wants Greenland for America. Greenlandic government minister Naaja Na... more

RFK Jr. is the latest in a long line of reformers who have tried to clean up school lunch.... more