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2042 episodes transcribedMore than 26,000 fires have been recorded inside the Amazon rainforest in August alone, leading to global calls for action. But Brazil’s government ha...
At the Group of 7 summit in France, President Trump seemed determined to prove that he can wage a trade war with China without hurting the economy. Bu...
This episode contains descriptions of sexual assault. Nearly a decade before any police investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s predatory actions toward...
Four hundred years ago, in August 1619, a ship carrying more than 20 enslaved Africans arrived in the English colony of Virginia. No aspect of the cou...
Song playlists at presidential campaign rallies can be about more than music — they can reflect a candidate’s values, political platform, identity and...
For decades, American corporations have prized profits for shareholders above all else. Now, the country’s most powerful chief executives say it’s tim...
Al Franken resigned from the Senate more than 18 months ago over allegations of sexual harassment. New reporting about those allegations has revived t...
The New York Times investigated how Cordelia Scaife May, an heiress to the Mellon family’s banking and industrial fortune, used her wealth to sow the...
At least seven people were killed by a mysterious explosion in northern Russia, and U.S. officials believe it happened during the test of a prototype...
Under international pressure, China has said it has released a vast majority of the Muslim Uighurs it had placed in detention camps. We follow up with...
Protesters have flooded Hong Kong’s airport, paralyzing operations and escalating tensions between the semiautonomous territory and Beijing. The prote...
Federal prosecutors were confident that, this time, justice would be served in the case of Jeffrey Epstein. What happens to the case against him now t...
Since Democrats retook the House last November, the world has come to know the progressive and divisive vision of four freshmen congresswomen known as...
India has guaranteed a degree of autonomy to the people of Kashmir, a disputed territory between India and Pakistan, since 1947. Why did India unilate...
President Trump traveled on Wednesday to Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso, where mass shootings killed 31 people. Our colleagues described the scene in both...
In the years before his death, Osama bin Laden seemed to be grooming a successor to lead Al Qaeda: his own son. Here’s what we learned this week about...
At least three mass shootings this year — including one in El Paso — have been announced in advance on the online message board 8chan, often accompani...
In two days, in two cities — El Paso and Dayton, Ohio — two mass shootings have left at least 29 people dead. We look at two stories from one of those...
Twenty Democratic presidential candidates have appeared on the debate stage for the last time. That’s in part because the Democratic National Committe...
The United States economy is in the middle of a record-long expansion. So why is the government deploying an economic weapon it last used during the 2...
