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Io Dodds

Io Dodds is a Silicon Valley-based reporter specialising in tech and culture coverage.

Americas

Tech bros love microdosing but legality of psychedelics is a grey area

US politics

What did Trump’s doorman say about his alleged lovechild?

Americas

Axed Tesla staffers say chaos will lead to quality getting ‘worse’

Travel

Inside Boeing: ‘These decisions will end with a hole in the ground’

<p>Unionised video game workers protest outside the Game Awards in Los Angeles in December 2023</p>
Tech

Video game creators scramble to unionize as AI threat looms

US politics

How Stormy Daniels became one of the most powerful people in politics

<p>Elon Musk’s deposition has been released </p>
Tech

Elon Musk admits he has two burner Twitter accounts in wild deposition

<p>Judge Juan Merchan, shown in a courtroom sketch</p>
US politics

Trump hush money judge extends gag order due to ‘vitriolic’ attacks

<p>Donald Trump attends a campaign rally in Waterford, Michigan, on 17 February</p>
US politics

Trump announces he’ll suspend his campaign as an April Fool’s Day joke

<p>Florida governor Ron DeSantis signed new abortion restrictions into law last year</p>
US politics

Abortion rights will be on the ballot in Florida, state court rules

<p>Dairy cattle feed near Vado, New Mexico, in March 2017</p>
Americas

Bird flu detected in person who had contact with dairy cattle in Texas

Tech

The ‘Neopets renaissance’: seminal 2000s game is ready for its revival

<p>Paul Manafort is escorted from a New York courtroom in June 2019</p>
US politics

Trump ‘may recruit Paul Manafort’ despite alleged ties to Russia

US politics

Trump ‘may recruit Paul Manafort’ despite alleged ties to Russia

<p>Paul Manafort is escorted from a New York courtroom in June 2019</p>
<p>Protesters demand the resignation of prime minister Ariel Henry in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 7 March 2024</p>
World

What we know about the armed gang takeover that has paralysed Haiti

<p>A protester outside the US Capitol in Washington, DC on 12 March, 2024</p>
US politics

How a US TikTok ban could clobber activists – and hurt Biden’s chances

<p>The 62-year-old, pictured here with long-time friend Jeffrey Epstein, appeals against her sex trafficking conviction in New York on Tuesday</p>
US Crime News

The Independent interview that helped spark Ghislaine Maxwell’s appeal

<p>Ashley Aune, a Missouri legislator, is trying to overturn her state’s ban on divorcing while pregnant</p>
US politics

Missouri’s ban on divorcing while pregnant puts women in danger

<p>Ashley Aune, a Missouri legislator, is trying to overturn her state’s ban on divorcing while pregnant</p>
US politics

Missouri’s ban on divorcing while pregnant puts women in danger

US politics

Judge rules against Michigan GOP chairwoman who refused to step down

<p>Donald and Melania Trump walk out of a polling station in Palm Beach, Florida, after voting in the 2022 midterm elections</p>
US politics

Donald and Melania Trump’s arguments detailed in new book

<p>A pregnant woman lies on her bed with monitoring devices placed on her belly as she gets ready before delivering her child at the maternity ward of a hospital in Paris on June 29, 2022</p>
US politics

Pregnant women can’t get divorced in Missouri

<p>Kristina Karamo, left, insists that she is still the chairwoman of the Michigan GOP, despite losing a leadership vote to Pete Hoekstra, right</p>
US politics

How a chaos among Michigan Republicans could swing 2024 election

<p>Ksenia Karelina, in a photo from her Facebook page</p>
Americas

‘We cannot let her die’, say family of LA woman jailed in Russia

<p> Displaced Palestinian women from Rafah walk next to their shelters in Deir Al Balah, southern Gaza, in February 2024</p>
Middle East

UN experts speak out about sexual abuse of Palestinian women by IDF

<p>Eric Trump, left, and Don Jr, right, wait in the White House grounds for a speech from their father in August 2020</p>
US politics

Don Jr and Eric Trump fined millions over Trump Organization’s fraud

<p>Former President Donald Trump leaves Trump Tower in New York on Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024</p>
US politics

Furious Trump responds after judge orders him to pay over $350m

<p> Displaced Palestinian women from Rafah walk next to their shelters in Deir Al Balah, southern Gaza, in February 2024</p>
Middle East

UN experts speak out about sexual abuse of Palestinian women by IDF

<p>Eric Trump, left, and Don Jr, right, wait in the White House grounds for a speech from their father in August 2020</p>
US politics

Don Jr and Eric Trump fined millions over Trump Organization’s fraud

<p>Former President Donald Trump leaves Trump Tower in New York on Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024</p>
US politics

Furious Trump responds after judge orders him to pay over $350m

<p>Genesse Moreno, top left, and police on the scene of the shooting, right.</p>
LiveUS Crime News

Lakewood shooting: Spotlight on Texas gun laws after megachurch attack

LiveUS Crime News

Lakewood shooting: Spotlight on Texas gun laws after megachurch attack

<p>Genesse Moreno, top left, and police on the scene of the shooting, right.</p>
<p>At least 22 people were injured when gunfire erupted on Wednesday </p>
US Crime News

Security guard speaks about ‘chaos’ of Kansas City Chiefs shooting

Tech

Tesla made the first best electric vehicle. But will it make the next?

<p>Houston police brief reporters about the Lakewood Church shooting on Monday 12 February 2024</p>
US Crime News

Ted Cruz and Don Jr boost false claim that Lakewood shooter was trans

<p>Police tape closes off Mount Eden Avenue station in New York City on 12 February 2024</p>
LiveUS Crime News

Bronx subway shooting – live: Six people shot at Mt Eden Ave station

<p>Police tape closes off Mount Eden Avenue station in New York City on 12 February 2024</p>
LiveUS Crime News

Bronx subway shooting – live: Six people shot at Mt Eden Ave station

<p>Tucker Carlson speaks to Vladimir Putin</p>
Americas

Inside Tucker Carlson's strange interview with Vladimir Putin

<p>The real Joe Biden in May 2023, emphatically not urging New Hampshire primary voters to stay home</p>
US politics

Fake Joe Biden AI calls traced to Texas company, says New Hampshire AG

<p>Clockwise from top-left: OpenAI boss Sam Altman, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, “Pharma Bro” turned AI entrepreneur Martin Shkreli, former OpenAI board member Elon Musk, and, in the centre, the pop star Grimes.</p>
Tech

How a sectarian split between AI builders could decide our future

<p>A vendor sells Bud Light at a baseball game in June 2023 in Washington, DC</p>
US politics

Trump urges conservatives to give Bud Light a ‘second chance’

<p>Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu greets US president in Tel Aviv, October 2023</p>
US politics

White House denies Biden called Netanyahu a ‘bad f***ing guy’

<p>Nikki Haley speaks at a campaign event in Spartanburg, South Carolina, 5 February 2024</p>
US politics

Nikki Haley requests Secret Service protection amid rising threats

Americas

The Epstein List: Full list of names revealed in unsealed records

<p>Elon Musk attends a symposium on antisemitism in Poland, January 2024</p>
Tech

Musk’s net worth may drop below Bezos after judge voids $56bn payout

<p>Little St James Island, one of the properties of financier Jeffrey Epstein</p>
US Crime News

Jeffrey Epstein’s island: What really happened there?

<p>Elmo poses at a photo booth in New York City</p>
Americas

Elmo deluged by existential dread after asking ‘how everyone is doing’

<p>James Cromitie after his arrest in May 2009</p>
US Crime News

Judge slams FBI as she frees man jailed for ‘fictitious’ terror plot

US Crime News

Judge slams FBI as she frees man jailed for ‘fictitious’ terror plot

<p>James Cromitie after his arrest in May 2009</p>
<p>A urine sample at France’s national anti-doping lab near Paris, 2015</p>
Science

We finally know why urine is yellow (ew sorry)

<p>Wilman Sandoval’s apartment complex in the outskirts of Houston, Texas</p>
US Crime News

Texas man who shot family members may have believed they were witches

<p>Melania Trump speaks during a naturalisation ceremony in December 2023</p>
US politics

Melania Trump’s mother dies aged 78

<p>Jean-Luc Brunel, right, rides with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell on Epstein’s private jet </p>
US Crime News

Epstein docs reveal creepy note about 16-year-old ‘Russian tutor’

<p>Jean-Luc Brunel, right, rides with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell on Epstein’s private jet </p>
US Crime News

Epstein docs reveal creepy note about 16-year-old ‘Russian tutor’

<p>Hunter Biden speaks to reporters outside the US Capitol in December 2023</p>
Health

Psychedelic drug could help treat traumatic brain injury, study shows

<p>Kristina Karamo attends a protest in Romulus, Michigan, February 2023</p>
US politics

Michigan GOP chair rejects vote to remove her: ‘I’m still chair’

<p>Sarah Ferguson attends the British royal family’s Christmas Day service at St Mary Magdalene’s Church, 2023</p>
Home News

Sarah Ferguson also visited Epstein’s Florida home, documents claim

<p>A person runs to avoid the flames of a wildfire in Gennadi village, on the Aegean Sea island of Rhodes, in summer 2023 </p>
Climate

Earth has just had its hottest year on record

<p>The worst affected company was Bud Light maker Anheuser Busch, which faced a conservative boycott over transgender rights</p>
Americas

American beer drinking falls to lowest level in 24 years

<p>Donald Trump appears in court to face hush money charges in 4 April 2023</p>
US politics

Ex-prosecutor says Trump’s chance of conviction is ‘extremely high’

<p>Wilted palm trees line a destroyed property in Lahaina, Hawaii, December 2023</p>
News

2023 costliest climate disasters reveal ‘global postcode lottery’

<p>Mr Califano himself attended the school where he now teaches </p>
Americas

LGBT+ teacher says he was fired ‘for not living a Catholic lifestyle’

<p>Herb Kohl waves to fans during a Bucks game in April 2014</p>
Americas

Herb Kohl, former Milwaukee Bucks owner and senator, dies at 88

<p>Pierce Brosnan attends the premiere of Netlix’s ‘The Out-Laws’ in Los Angeles in June 2023</p>
News

Pierce Brosnan cited for walking off path in Yellowstone National Park

<p>Kenneth Chesebro appears in court in Fulton County, Georgia, October 2023</p>
US politics

Trump team flew fake elector ballots to DC ahead of Jan 6, report says

US politics

Trump team flew fake elector ballots to DC ahead of Jan 6, report says

<p>Kenneth Chesebro appears in court in Fulton County, Georgia, October 2023</p>
<p>A screenshot from TikTokker Matthew Jacob, who found the seats on a beach last week</p>
Americas

Police dispel rumours about mystery wreckage washed up in New Jersey

<p>A booking photo of Lorna Green from March 2023</p>
US Crime News

Woman ordered to pay $300k for torching Wyoming’s only abortion clinic

<p>Trump revels in his supporters’ praise at a caucus rally in Iowa on 19 December 2023</p>
US politics

Trump shares word cloud poll with top second term goal of ‘revenge’

<p>A Cessna plane sinks through the ice on Upper Red Lake in Washkish, Minnesota, 19 December 2023</p>
Climate

Traditional Minnesotan Christmas thwarted by record high temperatures

<p>A Cessna plane sinks through the ice on Upper Red Lake in Washkish, Minnesota, 19 December 2023</p>
Climate

Traditional Minnesotan Christmas thwarted by record high temperatures

<p>A police sketch made in 1976 of the victim’s “probable likeness"</p>
US Crime News

Body found 47 years ago in Arizona desert is finally identified

US Crime News

Pornhub parent company admits it made money off sex trafficking

<p>Theresa Cachuela in October 2022</p>
US Crime News

Influencer shot dead by husband two days after restraining order

<p>Ron DeSantis speaks in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on 19 December 2023</p>
US politics

DeSantis refuses to join Ramaswamy’s Trump ballot protest

<p>Rudy Giuliani advertising vegetable supplements in December 2023</p>
US politics

Giuliani tries bizarre new marketing scheme in face of $148m verdict

<p>The view from inside an uncrewed Cessna Caravan above Hollister, California on 6 December 2023</p>
Americas

Commercial cargo plane makes unprecedented flight with no one on board

<p>Ron DeSantis during a meet and greet event in Iowa on 7 Dec 2023</p>
US politics

DeSantis says it’s more important for US to back Israel than Ukraine

<p>Joe Biden speaks at a fire station during his visit to Philadelphia on 11 Dec 2023</p>
US politics

Biden says world leaders keep telling him ‘You can’t let Trump win’

<p>A house inundated by flood waters in Granite Falls, Washington, on Tuesday 5 December 2023</p>
News

Atmospheric rivers bring ‘pineapple express’ rains to US Northwest

<p>A Tesla Cybertruck on display in California, December 2023</p>
US Crime News

Man arrested for threatening mass shooting at Elon Musk event in Texas

<p>A return visit to MIT in 2008</p>
Americas

How a trans woman changed computing in the modern world

<p>First Lady Jill Biden welcomes the 2023 National Christmas Tree</p>
US politics

White House Christmas tree is blown over by wind

<p>Donald Trump and Kevin McCarthy at Mar-a-Lago</p>
US politics

McCarthy visited Trump after Jan 6 because he was depressed: book

<p>The USS Mason sails the Atlantic Ocean in July 2021</p>
Middle East

US forces liberate Israeli-affiliated ship from hijacking off Yemen

<p>A TikTok video appears to show the unknown passenger being detained by airport staff</p>
Americas

Southwest Airlines passenger detained after climbing onto plane wing

<p>US senator Chris Murphy at a press conference in June 2022</p>
US politics

Democratic senator suggests putting conditions on funding for Israel

<p>The USS Mason sails the Atlantic Ocean in July 2021</p>
Middle East

US forces liberate Israeli-affiliated ship from hijacking off Yemen

<p>A TikTok video appears to show the unknown passenger being detained by airport staff</p>
Americas

Southwest Airlines passenger detained after climbing onto plane wing

<p>US senator Chris Murphy at a press conference in June 2022</p>
US politics

Democratic senator suggests putting conditions on funding for Israel

<p>Elon Musk in conversation with British prime minister Rishi Sunak in London, November 2023</p>
Tech

How Elon Musk’s antisemitic remarks pushed X advertisers over the edge

<p>Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, speaks during The Wall Street Journal's WSJ Tech Live Conference in Laguna Beach, California on 17 October 2023</p>
Tech

OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman ousted as CEO

<p>Marjorie Taylor Greene appears on Piers Morgan’s UK chat show on 14 November 2023</p>
US politics

Piers Morgan grills Marjorie Taylor Greene about infamous post

<p>Nikki Haley appears on Fox News on Tuesday 14 Nov, 2023</p>
US politics

Nikki Haley partially backtracks on push to verify social media users

US Crime News

Timeline of the Idaho college murders

<p>Traffic flows along Interstate 55 in June 2022 in St Louis, Missouri</p>
US Crime News

Driver foiled axe-wielding carjacker by asking him to pray, police say

<p>Jenna Ellis reads a repentant statement after pleading guilty on 24 October, 2023</p>
US politics

Trump official said ‘boss is not going to leave’ despite 2020 defeat

<p>A lost tool bag drifts through space after wandering off during a spacewalk on 1 November, 2023</p>
Space

Nasa astronauts lose tool bag during spacewalk

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