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2293 episodes transcribedOn a major night of elections across the United States on Tuesday, the Republican Glenn Youngkin claimed an unexpected victory over his Democratic opp...
In a giant conference hall in Glasgow, leaders from around the world have gathered for the Conference of Parties to the United Nations Climate Change...
Inflation in the United States is rising at its fastest rate so far this century. At 4 percent, according to one index, it is double the Federal Reser...
This episode contains strong language and scenes of violence. Over the past five years, police officers in the United States have killed more than 400...
Over the past decade, the waters around Cape Cod have become host to one of the densest seasonal concentrations of adult white sharks in the world. Ac...
President Biden and Democratic leaders say they have an agreement on a historic social spending bill that they have spent months negotiating. But libe...
In the coming days, a trial will begin to determine whether the fatal shooting of Amaud Arbery, an unarmed Black man, by two armed white men is consid...
As congressional Democrats dramatically scale back the most ambitious social spending bill since the 1960s, they’re placing much of the blame on moder...
When Democrats first set out to expand the social safety net, they envisioned a piece of legislation as transformational as what the party has achieve...
Every once in a while a company grows so big and messy that governments fear what would happen to the broader economy if it were to fail. In China, Ev...
On June 24, 2015, Dawn Dorland, an essayist and aspiring novelist, did perhaps the kindest, most consequential thing she might ever do in her life. Sh...
Before the Arab Spring, Seif al-Islam el-Qaddafi, the second son of the Libyan dictator Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, was establishing himself as a serious...
Chicago is in the midst of a crime wave — but there is also a question about whether police officers will show up for work.That’s because of a showdow...
The Clean Electricity Program has been at the heart of President Biden’s climate agenda since he took office.But passage was always going to come down...
Colin Powell, who in four decades of public service helped shape U.S. national security, died on Monday. He was 84.Despite a stellar career, Mr. Powel...
In 2020, Virginia epitomized the way in which Democrats took the White House and Congress — by turning moderate and swing counties.But President Biden...
When the Hirshhorn Museum told Laurie Anderson that it wanted to put on a big, lavish retrospective of her work, she said no.For one thing, she was bu...
Throughout the pandemic, businesses of all sizes have faced delays, product shortages and rising costs linked to disruptions in the global supply chai...
This episode contains strong language and descriptions of violence.A Times investigation has uncovered extraordinary levels of violence and lawlessnes...
This episode contains descriptions of violence and a suicide attempt.When the Taliban took over Afghanistan in August, our producer started making cal...
