Socialist Teacher Takes Lead in Peruvian Election
We get an update from Peru, where socialist candidate Pedro Castillo has pulled ahead of his right-wing rival Keiko Fujimori in the country’s presidential election on Sunday. Castillo is the…
Trump Calls On Nations To Ban Facebook, Twitter: ‘All Voices Should Be Heard’
“Who are they to dictate good and evil if they themselves are evil?” he asks.
Black Women Seek Out Black Obstetricians to Avoid Medical Racism
In South Florida, when people want to find a Black physician, they often contact Adrienne Hibbert through her website, Black Doctors of South Florida. “There are a lot of Black…
Civil Rights Leaders and West Virginia Miners Turn Up the Heat on Joe Manchin
As noted yesterday, West Virginia’s rock-in-the-road Sen. Joe Manchin is all but untouchable at the moment. Secure in his office until 2024, and with the threat of defection to the…
The FBI secretly launched an encrypted messaging system for criminals
Photo by JERRY LAMPEN/ANP/AFP via Getty Images An encrypted phone service called Anom was secretly run by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in a yearslong international sting operation. Law enforcement…
Clubhouse and its clones have an accessibility problem
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Clubhouse took off last year and spurred competitors to add their own voice chat rooms that can host hundreds if not thousands of…
Netflix’s live-action take on Cowboy Bebop is coming this fall
Netflix has announced that the long-awaited live-action adaptation of Cowboy Bebop will premiere this fall. The science fiction, noir, and Western-infused bounty hunting series will also feature new music from…
AOC Calls Out Kamala Harris for Telling Guatemalan Asylum Seekers, “Do Not Come”
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) has criticized Vice President Kamala Harris’s recent comments on immigration, calling them “disappointing.” During a visit to Guatemala on Monday, Harris issued a warning to…
Apple Raises Curtain on New OS Features at WWDC21
Apple on Monday revealed dozens of new features in the latest versions of its mobile and desktop operating systems at the kickoff of its annual Worldwide Developers Conference. “The emphasis…
Instagram chief explains how the service decides what you see
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Instagram chief Adam Mosseri shed some light on how the social network decides what you see in a new blog post published on…