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Sam Bankman-Fried, the fallen golden boy of crypto, is going on trial for what prosecutors are calling the largest financial fraud in recent history. David Yaffe-Bellany, a technology reporter for The Times, explains the case of the man who was ...

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10.03.2023 Sam Bankman-Fried Goes on Trial Sam Bankman-Fried, the fallen golden boy of crypto, is going on trial for what prosecutors are calling the largest financial fraud in recent history. David Yaffe-Bellany, a technology reporter for The Times, explains the case of the man who was ...
10.02.2023 Amazon’s Most Beloved Features May Turn Out to Be Illegal The U.S. government has filed a landmark antitrust lawsuit against Amazon, pointing to a set of familiar features that have made the internet retail giant so beloved by consumers. Karen Weise, a technology correspondent for The Times, explains why those ...
10.01.2023 The Sunday Read: ‘The Art of Telling Forbidden Stories in China’ As China strove for a larger role on the international stage at the turn of the century, the arrival of the internet and a relatively relaxed political environment spurred a boom in self-expression. Many writers tested the boundaries of Chinese ...
09.29.2023 Why the Government is About to Shut Down A showdown between House Republicans and their leader, Speaker Kevin McCarthy, is heading toward a government shutdown. Carl Hulse, chief Washington correspondent for The Times, explains the causes and consequences of the looming crisis. Guest: Carl Hulse, is chief Washington ...
09.28.2023 The Presidential Politics of the Autoworkers’ Strike Although one major strike, against Hollywood studios, was finally resolved this past week, another, against U.S. vehicle makers, is expanding. The plight of the autoworkers has now become a major point of contention in the presidential race. Jonathan Weisman, a ...
09.27.2023 Did Hollywood Writers Get Their Happy Ending? After 148 days on strike, writers of movies and television are returning to work on Wednesday with an agreement in hand that amounts to a major win for organized labor in Hollywood. John Koblin, a media reporter for The Times, ...
09.26.2023 Gold Bars, Wads of Cash and a Senator’s Indictment In one of the most serious political corruption cases in recent history, federal prosecutors have accused a senior U.S. senator of trading the power of his position for cash, gifts and gold. Tracey Tully, who covers New Jersey for The ...
09.25.2023 An Unexpected Battle Over Banning Caste Discrimination California is poised to become the first state to outlaw discrimination based on a person’s caste. The system of social stratification, which dates back thousands of years, has been outlawed in India and Nepal for decades. Amy Qin, a correspondent ...
09.24.2023 The Sunday Read: ‘The Kidnapped Child Who Became a Poet’ “The weird thing about growing up kidnapped,” Shane McCrae, the 47-year-old American poet, told me in his melodious, reedy voice one rainy afternoon in May, “is if it happens early enough, there’s a way in which you kind of don’t ...
09.22.2023 He Tried to Save a Friend. They Charged Him With Murder. Warning: This episode contains descriptions of rape, sexual abuse and death. As an epidemic of fentanyl use continues in America, causing tens of thousands of deaths each year, lawmakers and law enforcement agencies are holding one group increasingly responsible: drug ...
09.21.2023 Canada Confronts India Over Alleged Assassination Warning: This episode contains descriptions of violence. The relationship between two democratic allies fell to its lowest point in history this week, after Canada accused India of assassinating a Sikh community leader in British Columbia in June. Mujib Mashal, The ...
09.20.2023 Is College Worth It? New research and polling show that more and more Americans now doubt a previously unquestioned fact of U.S. life — that going to college is worth it. Paul Tough, a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, explains why ...
09.19.2023 Inside Ukraine’s Drone Attacks on Russia As Ukraine’s counteroffensive grinds on, it’s increasingly turning to a secret drone program that is hitting targets deep inside Russian territory. At least three different Ukrainian-made drones have been used in attacks inside Russia, including on Moscow, according to an ...
09.18.2023 The Ozempic Era of Weight Loss Drugs like Ozempic are revolutionizing the treatment of obesity. The medications, originally used to treat diabetes, keep gaining attention as celebrities and other influencers describe taking them to lose weight quickly. Dani Blum, a reporter for The Times, tells the ...
09.17.2023 The Sunday Read: ‘The Inheritance Case That Could Unravel an Art Dynasty’ Twenty years ago, a glamorous platinum-blond widow arrived at the Paris law office of Claude Dumont Beghi in tears. Someone was trying to take her horses — her “babies” — away, and she needed a lawyer to stop them. She ...
09.15.2023 The Republican Attempt to Impeach President Biden Speaker Kevin McCarthy has ordered an impeachment inquiry into President Biden, putting into motion the third formal attempt by Congress to remove a president in the past four years. Luke Broadwater, a congressional reporter for The Times, explains the unique ...
09.14.2023 An Armored Train and a Dangerous New Alliance In a rare move, the leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-un, traveled outside his country this week to meet with the Russian president, Vladimir V. Putin. Julian Barnes, a national security reporter for The New York Times, explains what Russia ...
09.13.2023 A New Covid Shot for a New Covid Era On Tuesday afternoon, the U.S. government recommended that almost every American begin taking a new annual vaccine for Covid, a milestone in the nation’s three-year battle against the virus. Apoorva Mandavilli, a science and global health reporter for The New ...
09.12.2023 A Breaking Point for the U.S. Auto Industry Later this week, as many as 150,000 U.S. autoworkers may walk out in a historic strike against the three Detroit automakers, General Motors, Ford and Stellantis. The United Auto Workers union and the Big Three are still far apart in ...
09.11.2023 U.S. v Google For years, the government has been trying to rein in Big Tech, pursuing some of the largest and most powerful companies on the internet. This week, the government takes on Google in the first monopoly trial of the modern internet ...
09.10.2023 The Sunday Read: ‘Wikipedia’s Moment of Truth’ In early 2021, a Wikipedia editor peered into the future and saw what looked like a funnel cloud on the horizon: the rise of GPT-3, a precursor to the new chatbots from OpenAI. When this editor — a prolific Wikipedian ...
09.08.2023 A Tragic Fire and Broken Promises in South Africa This episode contains descriptions of severe injuries. Last week, a devastating fire swept through a derelict building in Johannesburg that housed desperate families who had no place else to go. The authorities had been repeatedly warned that it was a ...
09.07.2023 Why One Drug Company Held Back a Better Drug For decades, drugmakers have argued that patents are critical to bringing new drugs to the market. But in 2004, when a promising H.I.V. treatment emerged, Gilead Sciences decided to slow-walk its release to maximize profit on the company’s existing patents. ...
09.06.2023 How 100,000 Migrants Became a Political Crisis in New York In New York, the arrival of more than 100,000 migrants seeking asylum over the past year has become a crisis for the city’s shelter system, schools and budget. As another critical election season begins to take shape, Nicholas Fandos, who ...
09.05.2023 Passenger Planes Nearly Collide Far More Than You Know A Times investigation found that U.S. passenger planes come dangerously close to crashing into each other far more frequently than the public knows. Sydney Ember, an economics reporter for The Times, explains why an aviation system known for its safety ...
09.01.2023 Arizona’s Pipe Dream A Times investigation revealed that in much of the United States, communities and farms are pumping out groundwater at alarming rates. Aquifers are shrinking nationwide, threatening supplies of drinking water and the country’s status as a food superpower. Christopher Flavelle, ...
08.31.2023 A Major Overhaul of Prescription Drug Prices A year ago, Congress overhauled the way drugs for older Americans get paid for, by giving Medicare the power to bargain with drug makers over prices in the biggest change to health care for more than a decade. This week, ...
08.30.2023 A Breakout Moment for Vivek Ramaswamy In the Republican presidential race, the battle for second place has been jolted by the sudden rise of a political newcomer whose popularity has already eclipsed that of far more seasoned candidates — Vivek Ramaswamy. Jonathan Weisman, who is a ...
08.29.2023 A Marriage, a Secret and a Crackdown in China Over the past decade, China has placed more and more restrictions on the lives of its citizens — tightening its hold over what people can do, read and say. When Bei Zhenying’s husband was arrested and sentenced to seven years ...
08.28.2023 A New Race to the Moon Last week, India landed its spacecraft Chandrayaan-3 on the moon, becoming the first country to land such a craft near the south pole, where scientists believe vital reserves of water could be found frozen. The landing also revealed just how ...
08.27.2023 The Sunday Read: ‘The Fight for the Right to Trespass’ The signs on the gate at the entrance to the path and along the edge of the reservoir were clear. “No swimming,” they warned, white letters on a red background. On a chill mid-April day in northwest England, with low, ...
08.25.2023 A Plane Crash, 10 Dead People and a Question: Was This Putin’s Revenge? The mysterious crash of a private jet outside Moscow is believed to have killed Yevgeny Prigozhin, the boss of the Wagner militia who led an armed rebellion against Moscow in June. Anton Troianovski, the Moscow bureau chief for The Times, ...
08.24.2023 A Fiery First Republican Debate — Without Trump Last night, Republicans held their first debate of the 2024 presidential cycle without the party’s dominant candidate onstage: Donald J. Trump. Maggie Haberman, a senior political correspondent for The Times, walks us through the debate and discusses how it might ...
08.23.2023 Ready or Not, Driverless Cars Are Here After a closely watched vote, driverless cars, once a Silicon Valley fantasy, have become a 24-hour-a-day reality in San Francisco. Are autonomous vehicles an interesting and safe transportation alternative? Or are they a nuisance and a traffic-blocking disaster waiting to ...
08.22.2023 Why the Coral Reef Crisis in Florida Is a Problem for All of Us A marine heat wave is warming the waters off the coast of Florida, pushing temperature readings as high as 101 Fahrenheit and endangering a critical part of sea life: the coral reef. Catrin Einhorn, who covers biodiversity, climate and the ...
08.21.2023 Inside the Sputtering Campaign of Ron DeSantis Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida began the race for the Republican nomination with high expectations and a clear argument: that he was a political fighter with a solid record of conservative achievements in his state. Now, he appears to be ...
08.20.2023 The Sunday Read: ‘The Ongoing Mystery of Covid’s Origin’ Where did it come from? More than three years into the pandemic with untold millions of people dead, that question about the origin of Covid-19 remains widely disputed and fraught, with facts sparkling amid a tangle of analyses and hypotheticals ...
08.18.2023 How a Paradise Became a Death Trap Warning: This episode contains descriptions of death. When fires swept West Maui, Hawaii, many residents fled for their lives — but soon discovered they had nowhere to go. Thousands of structures, mostly homes, have been reduced to rubble. Husks of ...
08.17.2023 Hunter Biden’s Legal Problems Keep Getting Worse A plea deal struck between the Department of Justice and Hunter Biden was supposed to bring his years of legal troubles to an end. Instead, that deal has unraveled and a special counsel has been named to take over the ...
08.16.2023 Why a Coup in Niger Has the World’s Attention In a region of Africa where authoritarianism has been rising, Niger seemed to be on a different path of democracy and partnership with the United States. Declan Walsh, chief Africa correspondent for The Times, explains how a military coup has ...
08.15.2023 A Law Used Against the Mafia — and Now Trump On Monday, former President Donald J. Trump and 18 others were indicted by an Atlanta grand jury, with Mr. Trump and some of his former top aides accused of orchestrating a “criminal enterprise” to reverse the results of the 2020 ...
08.14.2023 What Lahaina Lost in Hawaii’s Wildfires Last week, wildfires broke out on the Hawaiian island of Maui that became the deadliest in the United States in over a century. The town of Lahaina, once the royal capital of the kingdom of Hawaii, was one of the ...
08.13.2023 The Sunday Read: ‘The Silicon Blockade’ Last October, the United States Bureau of Industry and Security issued a document that, underneath its 139 pages of dense bureaucratic jargon and minute technical detail, amounted to a declaration of economic war on China. The magnitude of the act ...
08.11.2023 The End of An Era for U.S. Women’s Soccer A few days ago, when the U.S. team was eliminated from the FIFA Women’s World Cup, it marked the end of a history-making run. Rory Smith, chief soccer correspondent for The Times, argues that it also marked the end of ...
08.10.2023 Lives, Livelihoods, and the High Cost of Heat This summer, unrelenting heat waves have taken a devastating toll in many parts of the world, putting this year on track to be the hottest ever recorded. Coral Davenport, who covers energy and environmental policy for The Times, and Dana ...
08.09.2023 Elon Musk’s Quest to Own the Stars Satellites owned by Elon Musk’s Starlink orbit the earth and beam an internet connection to almost anywhere. In 2019, the company sent its first 60 or so satellites into orbit — today, it has some 4,500 circling the planet, with ...
08.08.2023 The Legal Strategy Behind the Latest Trump Indictment To win a conviction against former President Donald J. Trump for trying to subvert the results of the 2020 election, Jack Smith, the special counsel, is applying laws in ways that have never been used before. Charlie Savage, a Washington ...
08.07.2023 The Economy is on an Upswing. Should Biden Get Credit for It? The latest economic figures are some of the best of President Biden’s tenure so far. It appears increasingly likely that the United States has managed to tame high inflation without causing a recession. Jim Tankersley, who covers economic policy for ...
08.06.2023 The Sunday Read: ‘The Vanishing Family: Life in the Shadow of a Cruel Genetic Mutation’ When Barb’s father all but left, her mother turned inward, sitting quietly in front of the television, always smoking, often with a cocktail. Something had overtaken her, though it wasn’t clear what. Six years later, Barb was 20 and in ...
08.04.2023 Fighting Canada’s Unending Fires The wildfires sweeping Canada have become the largest in its modern history. Across the country, 30 million acres of forest have burned — three times as much land as in the worst American fire in the past 50 years. The ...

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Sam Bankman-Fried Goes on Trial

Amazon’s Most Beloved Features May Turn Out to Be Illegal

The Sunday Read: ‘The Art of Telling Forbidden Stories in China’

Why the Government is About to Shut Down

The Presidential Politics of the Autoworkers’ Strike

Did Hollywood Writers Get Their Happy Ending?

Gold Bars, Wads of Cash and a Senator’s Indictment

An Unexpected Battle Over Banning Caste Discrimination

The Sunday Read: ‘The Kidnapped Child Who Became a Poet’

He Tried to Save a Friend. They Charged Him With Murder.

Canada Confronts India Over Alleged Assassination

Is College Worth It?

Inside Ukraine’s Drone Attacks on Russia

The Ozempic Era of Weight Loss

The Sunday Read: ‘The Inheritance Case That Could Unravel an Art Dynasty’

The Republican Attempt to Impeach President Biden

An Armored Train and a Dangerous New Alliance

A New Covid Shot for a New Covid Era

A Breaking Point for the U.S. Auto Industry

U.S. v Google

The Sunday Read: ‘Wikipedia’s Moment of Truth’

A Tragic Fire and Broken Promises in South Africa

Why One Drug Company Held Back a Better Drug

How 100,000 Migrants Became a Political Crisis in New York

Passenger Planes Nearly Collide Far More Than You Know

Arizona’s Pipe Dream

A Major Overhaul of Prescription Drug Prices

A Breakout Moment for Vivek Ramaswamy

A Marriage, a Secret and a Crackdown in China

A New Race to the Moon

The Sunday Read: ‘The Fight for the Right to Trespass’

A Plane Crash, 10 Dead People and a Question: Was This Putin’s Revenge?

A Fiery First Republican Debate — Without Trump

Ready or Not, Driverless Cars Are Here

Why the Coral Reef Crisis in Florida Is a Problem for All of Us

Inside the Sputtering Campaign of Ron DeSantis

The Sunday Read: ‘The Ongoing Mystery of Covid’s Origin’

How a Paradise Became a Death Trap

Hunter Biden’s Legal Problems Keep Getting Worse

Why a Coup in Niger Has the World’s Attention

A Law Used Against the Mafia — and Now Trump

What Lahaina Lost in Hawaii’s Wildfires

The Sunday Read: ‘The Silicon Blockade’

The End of An Era for U.S. Women’s Soccer

Lives, Livelihoods, and the High Cost of Heat

Elon Musk’s Quest to Own the Stars

The Legal Strategy Behind the Latest Trump Indictment

The Economy is on an Upswing. Should Biden Get Credit for It?

The Sunday Read: ‘The Vanishing Family: Life in the Shadow of a Cruel Genetic Mutation’

Fighting Canada’s Unending Fires

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