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2063 episodes transcribedIn the past decade or more, votes over increasing the U.S. debt ceiling have increasingly been used as a political tool. That has led to intense showd...
In a room in a modest concrete building in a leafy Minneapolis neighborhood is silence exceeding the bounds of human perception. Technically an “anech...
With mountains, intense mud, fast-running rivers and thick rainforest, the Darién Gap, a strip of terrain connecting South and Central America, is one...
Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, the United States and allies have held back from sending Kyiv their most potent arms.Over the past few week...
With little warning or regulation, companies are increasingly using facial recognition technology on their customers — as a security measure, they say...
For nearly three years, China had one of the lowest coronavirus death rates in the world, thanks to its strict yet effective “zero Covid” approach.But...
In states where abortion is severely limited or illegal, clinicians face imminent prosecution if they continue to provide abortions. What is much less...
The Justice Department is scrutinizing how both former President Donald J. Trump and President Biden came to have classified records after they left o...
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 st...
After Jair Bolsonaro lost October’s Brazilian presidential election to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, many believed that the threat of violence from the d...
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 o...
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 rou...
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 s...
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...
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 Time...
This episode contains strong language and descriptions of violence.When Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began, many believed the country’s arm...
This episode contains strong language. Republicans are set to take control of the House of Representatives for the first time in four years. The trans...
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.Kir...
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...
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...
