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In December, the Colorado Supreme Court issued a bombshell ruling that said Donald Trump was ineligible to be on the state’s ballot for the Republican presidential primary, saying he was disqualified under the 14th Amendment of the Constitution because he had engaged in insu...
Warning: this episode contains strong language and descriptions of violence.
A few days ago, for the first time, an American jury convicted a parent for a mass shooting carried out by their child.
Lisa Miller, who has been following the case since its beginning, explains wha...
El Salvador has experienced a remarkable transformation. What had once been one of the most violent countries in the world has become incredibly safe.
Natalie Kitroeff, the New York Times bureau chief for Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, discusses the cost of that ...
Late last month, an explosive allegation that workers from a crucial U.N. relief agency in Gaza had taken part in the Oct. 7 attacks stunned the world and prompted major donors, including the United States, to suspend funding.Patrick Kingsley, the Jerusalem bureau chief for ...
President Biden has struggled to sell Americans on the positive signs in the economy under his watch, despite figures that look good on paper. That could have important ramifications for his re-election hopes.
Nate Cohn, the chief political analyst for The Times, explains wh...
Of all the dozens of suspected thieves questioned by the detectives of the Train Burglary Task Force at the Los Angeles Police Department during the months they spent investigating the rise in theft from the city’s freight trains, one man stood out. What made him memorable w...
The Democratic presidential nomination process begins tomorrow in South Carolina, and President Biden is running largely uncontested. But his campaign is expending significant resources in the race to try to reach a crucial part of his base: Black voters.
Maya King, a politi...
For the past few weeks, Democrats and Republicans were closing in on a game-changing deal to secure the U.S.-Mexico border: a bipartisan compromise that’s unheard-of in contemporary Washington.
Karoun Demirjian, who covers Congress for The Times, explains why that deal is no...
In a major advance in science, DNA from Bronze Age skeletons is providing clues to modern medical mysteries.
Carl Zimmer, who covers life sciences for The Times, explains how a new field of study is changing the way we think about treatments for devastating diseases.
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Inside the Republican Party, a class war is playing out between the pro-Trump base, which is ready for the nomination fight to be over, and the anti-Trump donor class, which thinks it’s just getting started.
Astead Herndon, a political correspondent for The Times and the hos...
This episode contains strong language and audio excerpts of violence.
About a decade ago, police departments across the United States began equipping their officers with body cameras. The technology was meant to serve as a window into potential police misconduct, but that tr...
On April 26, 2019, a beluga whale appeared near Tufjord, a village in northern Norway, immediately alarming fishermen in the area. Belugas in that part of the world typically inhabit the remote Arctic and are rarely spotted as far south as the Norwegian mainland. Although th...
Across the United States, millions of families are confronting a seemingly impossible question: When dementia changes a relative, how much should they accommodate their new personality and desires?
Katie Engelhart, a writer for The New York Times Magazine, tells the story of...
The era of hybrid work has spawned a new kind of office culture — one that has left many workers less connected and less happy than they have ever been.
Emma Goldberg, a business reporter covering workplace culture for The Times, explains how mixing remote and office work ha...
On Tuesday, Donald J. Trump beat Nikki Haley in New Hampshire. His win accelerated a push for the party to coalesce behind him and deepened questions about the path forward for Ms. Haley, his lone remaining rival.
Jonathan Weisman, a political correspondent for The Times, di...
Nominations for the Oscars are announced on Tuesday and “Oppenheimer,” a film about the father of the atomic bomb, is expected to be among the front-runners.
Catie Edmondson, a congressional correspondent for The Times, explains how the film sent her on a quest to find...
In the International Court of Justice, South Africa is accusing Israel of committing genocide in Gaza.
Amanda Taub, a human rights lawyer-turned-journalist at The Times, walks through the arguments of the case, and the power that the rules of war have beyond any verdic...
Liz Flatt drove to Austin, Texas, mostly out of desperation. She had tried talking with the police. She had tried working with a former F.B.I. profiler who ran a nonprofit dedicated to solving unsolved murders. She had been interviewed by journalists and at least one podcast...
On its surface, the case before the Supreme Court — a dispute brought by fishing crews objecting to a government fee — appears to be routine.
But, as Adam Liptak, who covers the court for The Times explains, the decision could transform how every industry in the United State...
Attacks by Houthi militants on shipping in the Red Sea, a crucial global trade route, once seemed like a dangerous sideshow to the war in Gaza. But as the attacks have continued, the sideshow has turned into a full-blown crisis.
Vivian Nereim, the Gulf bureau chief for The T...
Concerned about the effect on diversity, many colleges have stopped requiring standardized tests. New research suggests that might be a mistake.
David Leonhardt, a senior writer for The Times, discusses the future of SATs and why colleges remain reluctant to bring them back....
At the Iowa Republican caucuses on Monday night, Donald J. Trump secured a runaway victory. The only real drama was the fight for second place.
Reid Epstein, who covers politics for The Times, takes us inside one of the caucuses, and Shane Goldmacher, a national political re...
Arrowhead Stadium, the home of the Kansas City Chiefs, the N.F.L.’s defending champions, is a very loud place. During a 2014 game, a sound meter captured a decibel reading equivalent to a jet’s taking off, earning a Guinness World Record for “Loudest crowd roar at a sports s...
On Monday, Iowa holds the first contest in the Republican presidential nominating process and nobody will have more on the line than Ron DeSantis. The Florida governor staked his candidacy on a victory in Iowa, a victory that now seems increasingly remote.
Shane Goldmacher, ...
A recent string of attacks across the Middle East has raised concerns that the war between Hamas and Israel is spreading, and might put pressure on other countries like Iran and the United States to get more involved.
Eric Schmitt, who covers national security for The Times,...
Donald Trump has consistently argued that as a former president, he is immune from being charged with a crime for things he did while he was in office.
Adam Liptak, who covers the Supreme Court for The Times, explains what happened when Trump’s lawyers made that case in fede...
Across the United States, hundreds of towns and cities are trying to get guns off the streets by turning them over to businesses that offer to destroy them.
But a New York Times investigation found that something very different is happening.
Mike McIntire, an investigative r...
Tonight, millions of Americans are expected to tune in to watch one of the biggest sports events of the year, college football’s national championship game. On the field, the game will be determined by the skill of the players and coaches, but behind the scenes, secretive gr...
Fifty years ago, eight Americans set off for South America to climb Aconcagua, one of the world’s mightiest mountains. Things quickly went wrong. Two climbers died. Their bodies were left behind.
Here is what was certain: A woman from Denver, maybe the most accomplished clim...
In a landmark ruling last summer, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned nearly 50 years of precedent and banned the use of affirmative action in college admissions.
The decision eliminated the most powerful tool for ensuring diversity on America’s college campuses and forced col...
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