It’s easy to feel trapped in the unending cycle of news coverage devoted to US politics. But photography is a useful reminder that the world is a much bigger place. So in celebration of #WorldPhotographyDay, here are some of our favorite photo stories 1/
Every weekend in countries around the world, men and women don elaborate costumes, adopt assumed identities, and meet up to enact fantastical scenes set in alternate realities. Photographer Boris Leist has captured it here. #WorldPhotographyDaywired.trib.al/C908Kl8 2/
As a child, Rachael Talibart spent her summers on her father’s sailboat, both frightened and fascinated by the sea. Now she’s a professional photographer, and is exploring that tension through her photo series, 'Sirens'. #WorldPhotographyDaywired.trib.al/T61R6GX 3/
Vladimir Antaki has photographed over 250 small shopkeepers from around the world, including this portrait of Jainul Abedin at his bodega in a New York City subway station. #WorldPhotographyDay wired.trib.al/Qu8AcvC 4/
Photojournalist Park Jongwoo was granted rare access to the two-mile-wide swath of land between North and South Korea—an area called the Korean Demilitarized Zone. This is what he saw. #WorldPhotographyDaywired.trib.al/pPRaOdz 5/
The Svalbard Satellite Station sits inside the Arctic Circle just 745 miles from the North Pole. That means the sun doesn’t set in summer or rise in winter. Photographer Reuben Wu captured its beauty. #WorldPhotographyDay wired.trib.al/xVJ1INz 6/
In 2016, the California City Correctional Facility launched a pilot program that paired inmates, many of them convicted of violent offenses, with rescue dogs. Known as Pawsitive Change, it proved wildly successful
📸Shayan Asgharnia #WorldPhotographyDaywired.trib.al/aNITkuc 7/
The first step to taking a halfway decent photograph is making sure you're holding the camera right-side-up—that is, unless you’re photographer Arnau Rovira Vidal. #WorldPhotographyDaywired.trib.al/vpH0bki 8/
Robin Friend rappelled five stories down to capture this scene at the abandoned Gaewern Slate Quarry in Ceredigion, Wales. #WorldPhotographyDay wired.trib.al/9t2fgwp 9/
The district of Kowloon, Hong Kong, is a crowded place, and apartments can be amazingly small. So residents often escape to the tops of buildings to walk their dogs, hang laundry, or just take a catnap.
📸 Romain Jacquet-Lagrèze. #WorldPhotographyDaywired.trib.al/GiIRwaU 10/
Dmitry Markov’s photographs depict a Russia you won't see sightseeing in Moscow or St. Petersburg. In his gritty images, all taken with an iPhone, Markov documents ordinary life in small towns. #WorldPhotographyDaywired.trib.al/GJJ2VIm 11/
You can find all of our photo galleries showcasing incredibly talented photographers here. wired.trib.al/4nrIH5d
EXCLUSIVE: An analysis of 3.6 billion coordinates reveals the detailed movements of US military and intelligence workers, moving from nuclear bases to brothels, a WIRED analysis with @BR_Presse and @netzpolitik_org reveals. wired.trib.al/B3fHoSG
The findings provide vivid examples of the significant risks the unregulated sale of phone location data by US data firms and how they can pose a risk to the integrity of its military and the safety of its service members and their families overseas. wired.com/story/phone-da…
Experts caution that this poses a risk as it could give access to foreign governments that could use this data to identify individuals with access to sensitive areas, give criminals the ability to see where US nuclear weapons are least guarded and more. wired.com/story/phone-da…
EXCLUSIVE: Canvassers for California representative Michelle Steel are suing the congresswoman's campaign, America PAC, and others, alleging that they were promised hourly wages, then told pay would depend on how many doors they knocked.
The named plaintiffs were canvassers for Steel in October of this year, according to the suit, which alleges that they weren’t paid agreed-upon wages. America PAC is named because it provided campaigning services for Steel. wired.com/story/elon-mus…
These allegations are different from those WIRED reported earlier this week, when canvassers in Michigan said they were tricked and threatened as part of Elon Musk and America PAC’s get-out-the-vote effort for Donald Trump
NEW: Constitutional sheriffs are duly elected lawmen who believe they answer only to god. They've spent the last 6 months preparing to stop a "stolen" election.
It's a warning: 10 days out from the election, they'll do anything to make sure Trump wins. wired.com/story/constitu…
“Sheriffs are really beholden to nobody,” says Pelfrey. “Once elected, a sheriff has tremendous power, and there have been sheriffs who have been convicted and still hold office."
In nearly one in three US counties, sheriff departments are the largest law enforcement agency, meaning sheriff’s offices are the primary law enforcement agency for 56 million people. wired.com/story/constitu…
EXCLUSIVE: JD Vance's financial policy adviser Aaron Kofsky posted on Reddit for years about the use of cocaine, 'gas station heroin,' and other drugs.
Posts also show he instructed users on how to transport drugs through TSA.
Aaron Kofsky has for years posted extensively on Reddit about using a variety of drugs, including cocaine and opiates, under the username PsychoticMammal.
According to his LinkedIn, Kofsky has been advising JD Vance since this past May.
These drug-related posts have continued while Kofsky has been employed by the Senate. In May 2022, for example, PsychoticMammal responded to a post in the r/Cocaine subreddit, giving advice on how to smuggle drugs past airport security.
NEWS: A software update from cybersecurity company Crowdstrike appears to have inadvertently disrupted Microsoft IT systems globally. wired.trib.al/cvUpRaS
Banks, airports, TV stations, hotels, and countless other businesses are all facing widespread IT outages, leaving flights grounded and causing widespread disruption, after Windows machines have displayed errors worldwide. wired.com/story/microsof…
In the early hours of Friday, companies in Australia running Microsoft’s Windows operating system started reporting devices showing Blue Screens of Death (BSODs). wired.com/story/microsof…
NEW: J.D. Vance, a Republican US senator and Trump’s running mate left his Venmo account public, exposing his list of “friends,” from fellow Yale Law grads to tech executives—precisely the elites he rallies against. wired.com/story/jd-vance…
WIRED found that more than 200 people appear on Vance’s Venmo “friends” list. This includes Amalia Halikias, a director at the Heritage Foundation—the force behind Project 2025.
Vance’s Venmo friend’s list also includes media personalities like Bari Weiss and Tucker Carlson, as well as tech executives from Anthropic and AOL. wired.com/story/jd-vance…