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2042 episodes transcribedRussia’s invasion of Ukraine is the biggest in Europe since World War II.With the full-scale assault entering its second day on Friday, Ukrainians are...
After months of escalating tensions, President Vladimir V. Putin took to state television on Thursday to declare the start of a “special military oper...
At 10 p.m. in Moscow on Monday night, Russian state television interrupted its regular programming to air an address from President Vladimir V. Putin...
This episode contains strong language.On Monday night, as tensions deepened between Russia and Ukraine, President Vladimir V. Putin sent troops into t...
As hospitals in the United States battled another coronavirus wave in the past few months, another crisis was steadily growing more acute: a shortage...
Since the beginning of the standoff with Moscow over Ukraine, President Biden has been clear that he will not allow American troops to come into direc...
Canada has employed strict restrictions in its efforts to fight the coronavirus pandemic. But unlike in the United States, such measures have received...
Officials in the United States say that Russia could invade Ukraine as early as this week, which raises the question: Should an attack come, how will...
As the N.F.L. season comes to a close, we’re looking at a class-action lawsuit that Brian Flores, a former head coach of the Miami Dolphins, has filed...
There’s a working theory for the origins of Covid-19. It goes like this: Somewhere in an open-air market in Wuhan, China, a new coronavirus, growing i...
A mysterious letter detailing a supposed plot by Islamic extremists to take over schools shocked Britain in 2014. But who wrote it? From Serial Produc...
Joe Rogan, a comedian and host of the hit podcast, “The Joe Rogan Experience,” has come under scrutiny in recent weeks for promoting Covid-19 misinfor...
One by one, blue states across the United States have been rolling back their Covid-19 restrictions, going against C.D.C. guidelines that are still ba...
Birds Aren’t Real, a conspiracy theory with an apparently absurd premise, has become surprisingly popular in the past few years.But its followers were...
If Russia invades Ukraine, it would be the largest and potentially deadliest military action in Europe since World War II.So why is there so much divi...
This episode contains depictions of violenceAlmost two years ago, a shocking nine-minute video was released showing a Minneapolis police officer, Dere...
If you didn’t think poker and artificial intelligence could be bedfellows, think again. Keith Romer delves into the history of man’s pursuit of the pe...
Reporters from The Times are joining athletes from around the world as they descend on Beijing for the 2022 Winter Olympics, where they are encounteri...
A recent ISIS attack on a prison in northeastern Syria became the biggest confrontation between the terrorist group and the United States and its alli...
Since the storming of the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, a clearer picture has emerged of the steps that President Donald J. Trump and his allies took to tr...
