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In states where abortion is severely limited or illegal, clinicians face imminent prosecution if they continue to provide abortions. What is much less clear is what happens if providers in blue states offer telemedicine abortions to women in states where that’s against the l...
The Justice Department is scrutinizing how both former President Donald J. Trump and President Biden came to have classified records after they left office.
Attorney General Merrick B. Garland appointed a special counsel after the discovery of two batches of classified docum...
For weeks, a string of major storms have hit California, causing extreme flooding. While it might seem as if rain should have a silver lining for a state stuck in a historic drought, the reality is far more complicated.
Today, how California’s water management in the past ha...
After Jair Bolsonaro lost October’s Brazilian presidential election to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, many believed that the threat of violence from the defeated leader’s supporters would recede. They were wrong.
Mr. Bolsonaro had spent years sewing doubt and undermining B...
Air travel was a mess over the holidays — in the last 10 days of December, 30,000 flights were canceled.
While every airline was affected, one stood out: Southwest, which over the past few decades has transformed how Americans fly, melted down. In the last 10 days of t...
Representative Kevin McCarthy’s bid to become speaker of the House turned into a rolling disaster last week, played out over five long days and 15 rounds of voting.
Today, the inside story of how it went so wrong — and what he was forced to give up in order to finally ...
On Christmas Eve in 1971, Juliane Diller, then 17, and her mother boarded a flight in Lima, Peru. She was headed for Panguana, a biological research station in the belly of the Amazon, where for three years she had lived, on and off, with her mother, Maria, and her father, H...
The current level of biodiversity loss is extraordinary in human history: The global rate of species extinction is at least tens to hundreds of times higher than the average over the past 10 million years.
At the end of 2022, countries around the world came together in...
George Santos, the Republican representative-elect from New York, ran for office and won his seat in part on an inspiring personal story.
But when Times reporters started looking into his background, they made some astonishing revelations: Almost all of Mr. Santos’s story wa...
This episode contains strong language and descriptions of violence.When Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began, many believed the country’s army would quickly crush the Ukrainian forces. Instead, Russian military failures have defined the war.
Today, we hear from Russ...
This episode contains strong language. Republicans are set to take control of the House of Representatives for the first time in four years. The transition is shaping up to be chaotic.
Today, the 118th Congress will gather for the first time in the Capitol, yet th...
This week, The Daily is revisiting some of our favorite episodes of the year and checking in on what has happened in the time since they first ran.
Kirill, 24, worked at a nonprofit for homeless people in the Moscow region. He does not support the policies of President Vladi...
This week, The Daily is revisiting some of our favorite episodes of the year and checking in on what has happened in the time since.
In May, the United States was stunned by the leak of a Supreme Court draft opinion that previewed the end of Roe v. Wade. After, we spoke to p...
This week, The Daily is revisiting some of our favorite episodes of the year and checking in on what has happened in the time since they first ran.
In July, NASA released new images captured from a point in space one million miles from Earth. Ancient galaxies carpeting the s...
This week, The Daily is revisiting some of our favorite episodes of the year and checking in on what has happened in the time since they first ran.
This year, we explored the story of Christian Smalls and Derrick Palmer, two Amazon workers at a warehouse in New York City, wh...
This week, The Daily is revisiting some of our favorite episodes of the year and checking in on what has happened in the time since they first ran.
This episode contains strong language.
This year, in response to Russia’s increasingly brutal campaign against Ukrainian towns ...
During his time as a restaurant critic for The Times, Pete Wells has become both feared and revered in the world of dining — crowning those at the top and dethroning those whose time has passed.
But when the pandemic arrived, handing out stars to fancy restaurants made no se...
A few weeks ago, when President Pedro Castillo of Peru attempted an illegal power grab and ended up in jail, the response was unexpected: Thousands of protesters took to the streets to support him, and some died.
Why does such a divisive leader have such fierce backing? And ...
This episode contains descriptions of violence.
At the end of every year, The New York Times Magazine devotes an issue to remembering those who have died in the past year.
This year’s focus is gun violence, which is now the leading cause of death for American children,...
Every step of the way, the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol has been groundbreaking.
As it wraps up its work, the panel referred former President Donald J. Trump to the Justice Department and accused him of four crimes, including ...
For weeks, much of the globe has been riveted by the highs and lows of the World Cup in Qatar. On Sunday, the soccer tournament culminated in a win for Argentina and its star, Lionel Messi, against France.
Here’s how the thrill of the game eclipsed the tournament’s tainted b...
“On his first night at the Brooklyn homeless shelter, Tin Chin met his best friend.”
So begins an unforgettable story of deceit and friendship, and the loneliness of starting life anew in a foreign country.
The journalist Sam Dolnick traces how two men came to find themselve...
This episode contains strong language.In the past few weeks, a major breakthrough in the world of artificial intelligence — ChatGPT — has put extraordinary powers in the hands of anyone with access to the internet.
Released by OpenAI, a San Francisco-based company, ChatGPT c...
This fall, as Russia’s losses mounted in Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin announced a draft. Almost immediately, hundreds of thousands of men fled the country, though many more stayed.
Valerie Hopkins, an international correspondent for The Times, spoke to Russians at a dra...
When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade this year, it appeared to be an unvarnished victory for the anti-abortion movement.
But as the year draws to a close, the realities of a post-Roe America are turning out differently than anyone predicted.
Guest: Kate Zernike, a n...
Three thousand security officers fanned out across Germany this past week, raiding 150 homes, arresting 25 people and putting more than 50 others under investigation for plotting to overthrow the national government in Berlin.
The target of the counterterrorism operation, on...
Companies like Meta and Twitter have said that they will be cutting jobs. Google and Amazon have announced that they are putting a freeze on any new hiring.
Are tech layoffs a sign of things to come across other sectors? Is this the opening bell for the bad news on the...
Shortly after the war in Ukraine began, terrified civilians from across the country made their way to their cities’ main train stations.
The stations became scenes of great panic, with people jostling to be admitted onto the crowded trains. Compartments were filled 10 times ...
On one level, the case brought before the Supreme Court is about gerrymandering. But on a broader level, it’s about a theory that would completely reorient the relationship between the federal and state governments and upset the ordinary checks and balances.
Guest: Adam Lipt...
This episode contains descriptions of distressing scenes.
Haiti is unraveling. Gangs control much of the capital, thousands have been displaced and hundreds more are dead.
In recent weeks, the government has taken the extraordinary step of asking for an armed intervent...
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