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2293 episodes transcribedThe Biden administration said this week that it would end the public health emergency for Covid, a sign that federal officials believe that the pandem...
For the past 50 years, the race to become the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee has been shaped by the where the contest begins: Iowa.But that p...
The typical sales price of an existing family home in the United States in December: 372,700. The number of layoffs in the tech sector since the begin...
In the United States, 40 million people in seven states depend on water provided by the Colorado River.After 20 years of drought, the situation is dir...
This episode contains descriptions of violence and strong language.Tyre Nichols was a 29-year-old Black man who lived in Memphis. His mother described...
In the past half-century, 17 percent of the Amazon — an area larger than Texas — has been converted to croplands or cattle pasture. Less forest means...
This episode contains descriptions of violence and injury. In September, protests began in Iran over the death of a young woman, Mahsa Amini, at the h...
Recent advice from the American Academy of Pediatrics has recommended a bold approach to treating the millions of children in the United States who ar...
Nonprofit hospitals — which make up around half of hospitals in the United States — were founded to help the poor.But a Times investigation has reveal...
Over the weekend, F.B.I. agents found classified documents at President Biden’s residence in Wilmington, Del., after conducting a 13-hour search.The s...
In 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...
