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It appears that the United States may be at a turning point in the pandemic. The contagiousness of the Omicron variant has many people resigned to the fact that they probably will be infected; this variant is, relative to its predecessors and in most cases, milder; and there...
When allegations first emerged in November about parties held at 10 Downing Street, the residence and offices of the British prime minister, during a strict Covid lockdown, Prime Minister Boris Johnson waved them away.
Yet in the weeks since, the scandal has only grown...
This episode contains strong language.
Marieke Vervoort was a champion Paralympic athlete from Belgium. In 2016, Vervoort, who had a progressive disease, announced her retirement from professional sports and spoke of her desire to undergo euthanasia.
Today, we hear Ver...
What is “disgust”? Molly Young, a journalist with The New York Times, considers the evolutionary and social uses of this “universal aspect of life” to identify the impact of disgust in its physical, psychological and linguistic manifestations.
Young explains the different fo...
Novak Djokovic, the world No. 1 player in men’s tennis, had a lot at stake going into this year’s Australian Open. A win there would have made him the most decorated male tennis player in history.
But he arrived in the country without having had a Covid-19 vaccination,...
Microsoft announced this week that it was acquiring Activision Blizzard, the maker of video games such as Call of Duty and Candy Crush, in a deal valued at nearly $70 billion.
Microsoft, the owner of Xbox, said the acquisition was a step toward gaining a foothold in the meta...
It’s a big week in the Senate for voting rights. Democrats have two bills that include measures to bolster and protect elections.
But the bills are almost certain to fail.
Why has it proved almost impossible to pass legislation so integral to the agenda of President Biden an...
Four years ago, Azmat Khan, an investigative reporter for The Times Magazine, told us the story of Basim Razzo, whose entire family was killed in a U.S.-led airstrike in Iraq. His story helped reveal how American air wars were resulting in a staggering number of civilian dea...
Elizabeth Weil, the author of today’s Sunday Read, writes that, in her marriage, there was a silent third spouse: California.
“The state was dramatic and a handful,” Weil writes. “But she was gorgeous, and she brought into our lives, through the natural world, all the treasu...
Sidney Poitier, who was Hollywood’s first Black matinee idol and who helped open the door for Black actors in the film industry, died last week. He was 94.
For Wesley Morris, a Times culture critic, it is Mr. Poitier — not John Wayne, Cary Grant or Marilyn Monroe — who is th...
As the highly infectious Omicron variant surged, a high-stakes battle played out between Mayor Lori Lightfoot of Chicago and the city’s teachers’ union about how to keep schools open and safe.
We chart this battle on the ground in Chicago, speaking with teachers, parents and...
The diplomatic talks in Geneva this week are of a kind not seen in a long time: an effort to defuse the possibility of a major war in Europe.
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia has amassed military equipment and personnel on the border with Ukraine.
President Biden has wa...
The Omicron variant of the coronavirus has a reputation for causing mild illness, yet it’s fueling a staggering rise in hospitalizations across the country.
In some of the early hot spots for the variant, emergency rooms are filling up, hospitals are being floode...
This year’s Golden Globes ceremony was muted. Instead of a celebrity-filled evening, broadcast on NBC, the results were live tweeted from a room in the Beverly Hilton.
It was the culmination of years of controversy for the awards and the Hollywood Foreign Press Associa...
In her new book, “The Myth of Closure: Ambiguous Loss in a Time of Pandemic and Change,” Pauline Boss considers what it means to reach “emotional closure” in a state of unnamable grief.
Hard to define, these grievances have been granted a new name: ambiguous loss. The death ...
After the election on Nov. 3, 2020, President J. Donald Trump and his allies tested the limits of the U.S. election system, launching pressure and legal campaigns in competitive states to have votes overturned — all the while exposing the system’s precariousness.
Although th...
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In the aftermath of the 2020 election, Representative Liz Cheney of Wyoming was the only Republican leader calling on President Donald Trump to move on from his efforts to overturn the results. Then, after the storming of the Capi...
Who exactly joined the mob that, almost a year ago, on Jan. 6, breached the walls of the U.S. Capitol in a bid to halt the certification of President Biden’s election victory?
Members of far-right extremist groups were present but so too were also doctors, lawyers, substitut...
About a decade ago, companies began offering pregnant women tests that promised to detect rare genetic disorders in their fetuses.
The tests initially looked for Down syndrome and worked well, but later tests for rarer conditions did not. An investigation has found that the ...
The Omicron variant is fueling record-breaking cases across the world and disrupting life. But it may not present as great a danger of hospitalization and severe illness as earlier variants. We explore why this is and what it means for the next stage of the pandemic.
Guest: ...
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With most natural disasters, the devastation is immediately apparent. But when a winter storm hit Texas, some of the damage was...
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.
The Good Shepherd Nursing Home in West Virginia lifted its coronavirus lockdown in February.
For months, residents had been con...
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.
Dogecoin started out as a kind of inside joke in the world of cryptocurrency. However, e...
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.
When Officer Harry Dunn reported for work at the Capitol on the morning of Jan. 6, he expected a day of relatively normal prote...
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.
Bartenders, sous chefs, wait staff — back in August, managers in the U.S. hospitality in...
A year that started with the mass introduction of Covid vaccines and the astonishing scenes of rioting at the Capitol is ending with concern about new virus variants and fears about the effects of a warming climate.
As we approach the end of the year, we listen back to more ...
By the end of last year, if you needed a coronavirus test, you could get one. But when vaccines arrived, focus shifted.
Many of the vaccinated felt like they didn’t need tests and demand took a nosedive. Testing sites were closed or converted into vaccination sites. And Abbo...
Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia was always going to be the last Democrat to get on board with President Biden’s $2.2 trillion climate, social spending and tax bill. But the White House was confident that a compromise could be reached.
On Sunday, that confidence was shat...
This episode contains references to suicide and abuse that may be upsetting to some listeners.
A few months ago, we told the story of N, a teenager in Afghanistan whose family was trying to force her to marry a member of the Taliban. Her identity has been concealed for her s...
Nearly a decade after the devastation of Hurricane Sandy, which destroyed piers and damaged riverside social housing projects, residents of Lower Manhattan are still vulnerable to floods.
Michael Kimmelman, The Times’s architecture critic, explores the nine-year effort to re...
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