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Last week, Speaker Kevin McCarthy persuaded Republicans to narrowly pass a bill to raise the U.S. debt ceiling, setting up high-stakes negotiations with the Biden administration.
Catie Edmondson, who covers Congress for The New York Times, explains the risks this might pose ...
In January 2022, Randi Schofield was a 34-year-old single mother who, not long before, left her full-time job of eight years as a personal bailiff to a local judge. She pulled $30,000 from her retirement savings and was planning to give herself all of 2022 to expand the smal...
This month, an anonymous producer jolted the music industry by using artificial intelligence to impersonate the singers Drake and the Weeknd, creating a fake track, “Heart on My Sleeve,” that quickly went viral.
Joe Coscarelli, a culture reporter for The Times, talks about h...
This month, India reached a notable milestone. The country’s population surpassed that of China, which had held the No. 1 position for at least three centuries.
Alex Travelli, who covers South Asia and business for The Times, examines whether India can use its immense size t...
President Biden has announced that he will seek another term in the Oval Office, despite the fact that he will be 81 on Election Day 2024.
Not everyone is overjoyed about that prospect — more than half of Democrats don’t want him to run again. Nonetheless, the party’s leader...
Less than a week after Fox News agreed to pay $787.5 million to settle the Dominion lawsuit, the network has abruptly fired Tucker Carlson — an anchor at the center of the case.
Jeremy W. Peters, who covers media and politics for The Times, explains why the network decided t...
Sudan was supposed to be moving away from military rule and toward democracy. But over the past week, the country has been thrown into violent chaos as two factions battle for control.
Declan Walsh, chief Africa correspondent for The Times, explains how an explosive rivalry ...
One Sunday in February, in a northern Italian town called Ivrea, the facades of historic buildings were covered with plastic sheeting and nets. And in several different piazzas, hundreds of wooden crates had appeared. Inside them were oranges. Oranges, the fruit.
Over the ne...
Last week, a 21-year old airman from Massachusetts, Jack Teixeira, was arrested under the Espionage Act and charged with violating federal laws by sharing top secret military documents with an online gaming group.
Dave Philipps, a military correspondent for The Times, explai...
At the very last minute, both Dominion Voting Systems and Fox News decided to settle their closely watched defamation lawsuit, rather than make their cases at trial.
Jeremy W. Peters, who covers media and politics for The Times, was inside the courtroom as it happened.
Guest...
In overturning Roe v. Wade last year, the Supreme Court’s message was that it was done with the issue of abortion. Now, dueling rulings on abortion pills will send the issue back to the highest court in the country.
Adam Liptak, who covers the Supreme Court for The Times, ex...
Earlier this month, the Internal Revenue Service unveiled an $80 billion plan to transform itself into a “digital first” tax collector focused on customer service and cracking down on wealthy tax evaders.
Today, on the day that taxes are due in the United States, Alan Rappep...
The posturing between the United States and China has been intensifying in recent weeks — China responded with condemnations and military drills after Taiwan’s president, Tsai Ing-wen, met the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy.
Today, Edward Wong, ...
In March 2017, an engineer at G.E. Aviation in Cincinnati received a request on LinkedIn. The engineer, Hua, is in his 40s, tall and athletic, with a boyish face that makes him look a decade younger. He moved to the United States from China in 2003 for graduate studies in st...
“The Phantom of the Opera,” the longest running show in the history of Broadway, will close its doors on Sunday after more than three decades.
We went backstage during one of the final performances before the show’s famous chandelier crashes down one last time.
Guest: Michae...
A week ago, the world discovered that dozens of classified documents from the American government had been leaked online, including highly sensitive information about Russia’s war in Ukraine and damaging revelations on American spying abroad.
David E. Sanger, a national secu...
In the week since Donald Trump was arraigned on 34 felony charges, debate about the strength of the case against him has only intensified.
Charlie Savage, a Washington correspondent at The Times, has closely studied the case and explains which side he stands on.
Guest: Charl...
Days after Russia invaded Ukraine, the Kremlin made it a crime to oppose the war in public. Since then, it has waged a relentless campaign of repression, putting Russian citizens in jail for offenses as small as holding a poster or sharing a news article on social media.
Val...
Last week, Tennessee’s Republican-controlled House expelled two of its members — both young Black Democrats.
Emily Cochrane, a national correspondent for The New York Times, explains the story behind the extraordinary ousting and what it tells us about this moment in A...
The Times reporter Astead W. Herndon and the team are back for a new season of “The Run-Up” and they’re looking ahead to the 2024 presidential election, which in many ways has already begun.
In this first episode, Astead heads to California for the Republican National Committee’s winter meeting to explore the tangled lines and scrambled allegiances that animated the effort to unseat Ronna McDaniel, the chair of the R.N.C.
This episode contains descriptions of severe injuries.
Tough new border policies introduced by the Biden administration have sharply reduced the number of migrants crossing into the United States. But the measures have also created a combustible bottleneck along the southern...
Vice President Kamala Harris’s visit to Africa last week was designed to send a simple message to its governments and people — China is not your friend. The United States is.
Abdi Latif Dahir, The New York Times’s East Africa correspondent, explains what the United States ha...
The line for reporters seeking to be in the courtroom for Donald J. Trump’s arraignment in Manhattan started forming at 2 p.m. on Monday, more than a day before the former president was scheduled to face a judge in a case centered on hush-money payments.
One of those who got...
Wisconsin will hold an election for a seat on its Supreme Court today, and it is no exaggeration to say that the result could end up reshaping U.S. politics for years to come.
The Times political correspondent Reid J. Epstein explains why the race to replace a single judge h...
After Donald J. Trump was indicted over his role in paying hush money to a porn star during the 2016 presidential campaign, he called the move an act of political persecution.
But his impending arrest could actually make Mr. Trump a stronger candidate for 2024, the Times cor...
Joe Faillace, 69, has been running the sandwich shop Old Station Subs alongside his wife, Debbie, for the last four decades. But as an epidemic of unsheltered homelessness began to overwhelm Phoenix, and many other major American downtowns, the Faillaces have been met with h...
A Manhattan grand jury has indicted Donald J. Trump for his role in paying hush money to a porn star, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The precise charges are not yet known, but the case against him has kicked off a historic moment in American politics.
The ...
Major League Baseball is putting in effect some of the biggest changes in the sport’s history in an effort to speed up the game and inject more activity.
As the 2023 season opens, Michael Schmidt, a Times reporter, explains the extraordinary plan to save baseball from the ty...
For months in Israel, the far-right government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been pushing a highly contentious plan to fundamentally change the country’s Supreme Court, setting off some of the largest demonstrations in Israel’s history.
On Monday, Mr. Netanyahu an...
This episode contains descriptions of violence
In a patch of woods southwest of Atlanta, protesters have been clashing with the police over a huge police training facility that the city wants to build there. This month, that fight came to a head when hundreds of activists br...