Vox

Republican presidential candidate, former South Carolina governor and former US ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley delivers a speech against abortion on April 25, in Arlington, Virginia. | Alex Wong/Getty Images Haley is a political “chameleon.” Will Republican voters respond? Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley may look like a long shot for the nomination next to former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis: Together, the two men have the support of more than two-thirds of GOP primary voters. Now, as she tries to distinguish herself from the two frontrunners, Haley has increasingly been trying to carve out...

The weak return to the office won’t solve the office market’s problems. | Amir Hamja/Bloomberg via Getty Images More people are going to offices more of the time. Offices are still in trouble. The so-called “return to the office” has been underway for a while now, and it’s a bit of a mess. Sure, more people are going to the office more often than they were a year ago, but we’re still eons away from where we were before the pandemic. And despite the gains in office attendance, many office buildings themselves are in big trouble — some of which...

Former US Vice President Mike Pence speaks during the Federalist Society’s Executive Branch Review Conference at the Mayflower Hotel on April 25, 2023, in Washington, DC.  | Drew Angerer/Getty Images It’s not yet clear who exactly his Republican supporters would be. Former Vice President Mike Pence is once again taking on his former boss, this time as a challenger for the presidency. Pence has filed paperwork for a run, and is expected to officially announce his candidacy on Wednesday after doing swings through primary states like Iowa and New Hampshire. As part of his pitch, he’s set to frame himself...

Lincoln Memorial, the Washington Monument, and the US Capitol are seen as daily life continues in Arlington, Virginia, on May 5, 2023. | Celal Gunes/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images Fighter jets were deployed Sunday when a plane with an unresponsive pilot entered restricted airspace. On Sunday, two US fighter jets intercepted a plane with a non-responsive pilot flying over the Washington, DC, area, causing a sonic boom that startled residents in the city. The plane — a Cessna Citation, which can hold up to 12 people — left from Elizabethton, Tennessee, and was originally destined for Long Island, New York. At some...

Former Vice President Mike Pence joins Sen. Joni Ernst’s (R-IA) annual GOP fundraiser ahead of his presidential announcement. | Rachel Mummey/Bloomberg/Getty Images Former Vice President Mike Pence has joined the race. Former Vice President Mike Pence is the latest Republican to join a growing field of candidates challenging former President Donald Trump for the presidency in 2024. After months of speculation, Pence has filed paperwork for a run with the Federal Election Commission. He is expected to formally launch his campaign June 7 in Iowa, home to many of the Christian right voters he’s hoping to court. His biggest challenge...

California has experienced the costliest wildfires in the US in recent years. Some insurance companies are rethinking their business in the state. | David McNew/Getty Images “We’re steadily marching toward an uninsurable future.”  In a report published in April, California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara admonished the industry to better account for far-reaching risks like those wrought by climate change. “The insurance sector no longer has the luxury of thinking only of the year ahead,” he wrote. “Insurance companies, regulators, and consumers all must learn to consider and prepare for the long-term.” A couple of California’s largest insurers did just that...

Donald Trump greets supporters at a Team Trump leadership event on June 1, 2023, in Grimes, Iowa. | Scott Olson/Getty Images Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis could pursue charges using the state’s RICO law. The legal investigations against former President Donald Trump for his alleged attempt to interfere with the 2020 election results in Georgia are reportedly expanding to cover some actions in Washington, DC, and other states under Georgia’s broad Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) statute. The Georgia investigation is just one of three ongoing probes into Trump’s potentially criminal activities during his presidency. It focuses on...

Getty Images The desire to define ourselves, from love languages to Myers-Briggs types. Juanita Hernandez is a 25-year-old Miami-based anxiously attached Aries (Scorpio moon, Taurus rising), ENFJ, Enneagram Type Two. Until recently, she considered quality time her love language, but after listening to an episode of the podcast If Books Could Kill, she now thinks love languages are “kind of bullshit.” Her path toward inner omniscience first began with a foundation in astrology, which Hernandez says she discovered as a child. Then came Enneagram — a personality test labeling respondents with one of nine types — which predated learning her...

Rescue workers recover victims from the wreckage of a three-train collision near Balasore, India, on June 3, 2023. | Punit Paranjpe/AFP via Getty Images Decades of neglect cause disaster after disaster on India’s railways. A railway accident in the Indian state of Odisha on Friday has killed at least 275 people and injured more than 1,000 — the latest such tragedy to occur in a nation where trains are widely used but often lack up-to-date infrastructure. Prime Minister Narendra Modi traveled to Odisha Saturday and offered consolation for the victims and their families via Twitter on Friday, saying, “Distressed by...