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Julia Bellus is a senior health correspondent for Vox.
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FROM Julia Belluz
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InfoWars and the politics of health conspiracies Alex Jones is the host of Info Wars , a far-right YouTube channel famous for conspiracy theories. President Trump has shared links, making it more influential. One overlooked element is the site's "health and medicine" news. Julia Belluz, who covers health and science for Vox , watched many hours of Info Wars and joins us for the first installment of our series, "The Emotional States of America."
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Should we 'hack the climate' to fight global warming? The Paris Agreements won't be enough to reverse global warming, whether President Trump pulls the US out or not. Is it time to try altering the atmosphere by what's called "geoengineering?" We hear about unintended consequences, international relations… and ethics.
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Trump plays scolder-in-chief with NATO allies At the opening of NATO’s dramatic new headquarters in Brussels today, President Trump acknowledged that Article 5 — promising that “an attack on one nation is an attack on all” -- has only been invoked one time: in the aftermath of September 11. But the President failed to provide what 27 other Alliance members have been waiting for: a re-commitment by America’s new leader to Article 5. Instead, they got a scolding.