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With stunning speed, the status of trans youth has become the rallying cry of the Republican Party, from state legislatures to presidential campaigns.

Adam Nagourney, who covers West Coast cultural affairs for The New York Times, explains how that came to be, and why it?s proving such a potent issue.

Guest: Adam Nagourney, a West Coast cultural affairs correspondent for The New York Times.

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Since 2016, the cardinal rule of Republican politics has been to defend Donald J. Trump and his allies at all costs, no matter the allegation. That appeared to change last week, when Texas lawmakers issued 20 articles of impeachment against their state?s attorney general, Ken Paxton, a powerful Trump supporter.

J. David Goodman, the Houston bureau chief for The New York Times, explains what the escalating conflict in Texas indicates about tensions within the party.

Guest: J. David Goodman, the Houston bureau chief for The New York Times.

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As the world begins to experiment with the power of artificial intelligence, a debate has begun about how to contain its risks. One of the sharpest and most urgent warnings has come from a man who helped invent the technology.

Cade Metz, a technology correspondent for The New York Times, speaks to Geoffrey Hinton, who many consider to be the godfather of A.I.

Guest: Cade Metz, a technology correspondent for The New York Times.

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This weekend, we?re bringing dispatches from Times critics and writers on great music, TV, movies, recipes and more. They?re all part of a new series called ?NYT Shorts,? available only on NYT Audio, our new iOS audio app. It?s home to podcasts, narrated articles from our newsroom and other publishers, and exclusive new shows. Find out more at nytimes.com/audioapp. 

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Top White House officials and Republican lawmakers are racing to reach an agreement as the date when the United States is projected to default on its debt approaches.

Jim Tankersley, who covers the White House for The New York Times, looks at the state of the negotiations and explains what it will take to win over enough votes in Congress to avoid an economic disaster.

Guest: Jim Tankersley, a White House correspondent for The New York Times.

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A New York Times investigation has found that a group of Republican operatives used robocalls to raise $89 million on behalf of veterans, police officers and firefighters.

David A. Fahrenthold, an investigative reporter for The Times, explains how they actually spent the money and the legal loophole that allowed them to do that.

Guest: David A. Fahrenthold, an investigative reporter for The New York Times.

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After almost a year of deadly battle, Russia has claimed victory in the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut. But what happens now is uncertain.

Eric Schmitt, who covers national security for The New York Times, explains what this moment in the war means, and why the next few months could be critical for Ukraine.

Guest: Eric Schmitt, a national security correspondent for The New York Times.

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A few days ago, the Supreme Court tried to answer a question that has long bedeviled the world of art: When is borrowing from an earlier artist an act of inspiration, and when is it theft? 

Adam Liptak, who covers the court for The Times, explains a case that could change how art is made.

Guest: Adam Liptak, who covers the United States Supreme Court for The New York Times.

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Voters in the 2022 midterms seemed to send a clear message ? a rejection of Trumpism and extremism. And yet it appears increasingly likely that he will win the Republican nomination for the 2024 presidential election. 

Astead W. Herndon, a national political correspondent for The Times and the host of the politics podcast The Run-Up, explains what has shifted in Republican politics so that Mr. Trump?s nomination could start to seem almost inevitable.

Guest: Astead W. Herndon, a national political correspondent for The New York Times.

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This weekend, we?re bringing you something a little different: dispatches from Times critics and writers on great music, TV, movies, recipes and more. They?re all part of a new series called ?NYT Shorts,? and they?re available only on NYT Audio, our new iOS audio app. It?s home to podcasts, narrated articles from our newsroom and other publishers, and exclusive new shows. Find out more at nytimes.com/audioapp.

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The James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful ever made, has revolutionized the way we see the universe. The name was chosen for James E. Webb, a NASA administrator during the 1960s. But when doubts about his background emerged, the telescope?s name turned into a fight over homophobia.

Michael Powell, a national reporter for The Times, tells the story of Dr. Hakeem Oluseyi, an astrophysicist whose quest to end the controversy with indisputable facts only made it worse.

Guest: Michael Powell, a national reporter covering free speech and intellectual debate for The New York Times.

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It?s been more than five years since the #MeToo movement, driven by reporting at publications like The New York Times, toppled powerful and abusive men. Behind that essential journalism were sources, many anonymous, who took enormous risks to expose harassment and sexual violence.

Today, Rachel Abrams, a producer and reporter at The Times, speaks to Ali Diercks, a lawyer who provided crucial information for a major #MeToo story. Ms. Diercks has waived her anonymity to discuss the costs of her coming forward and what she thinks about her decision years later.

Guest: Rachel Abrams, a senior producer and reporter for ?The New York Times Presents? documentary series. 

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For two decades, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has loomed large over Turkish politics. But skyrocketing inflation and a devastating earthquake have eroded his power and, in a presidential election over the weekend, he was forced into a runoff.

Ben Hubbard, The Times?s Istanbul bureau chief, discusses how Turkey?s troubles have made Mr. Erdogan politically vulnerable.

Guest: Ben Hubbard, the Istanbul bureau chief for The New York Times. 

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For weeks, officials have feared that the end of Title 42 would create a crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border that would strain and possibly cripple America?s immigration system.

Natalie Kitroeff, the New York Times bureau chief for Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, reports from the border about what actually happened when the pandemic-era policy expired.

Guest: Natalie Kitroeff, the New York Times bureau chief for Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean.

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A little over a decade ago, a small Israeli company created what would become the world?s most powerful and notorious hacking tool.

Mark Mazzetti, who is a Washington investigative correspondent for The Times, explains the surprising story of the NSO Group and why, despite banning its technology, the United States kept trying to use it.

Guest: Mark Mazzetti, a Washington investigative correspondent for The New York Times.

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In the final days of Marleny Mesa?s pregnancy, she could not shake the feeling that something was wrong. She could barely breathe, for one thing. For another, her anxiety and physical discomfort were approaching what felt like an unbearable peak. A week or so later, she delivered a tiny, squirming boy with jet black hair and soft, curious eyes. She and her husband, Andrés Noscue, named him Eliad. Marleny thought he was perfect, but her mother, a retired midwife, insisted that the placenta contained a hint of trouble. It was far too big, she said, and Eliad was too small, probably because he did not have enough room in her womb to grow. His grandmother thought he might need an incubator. Marleny thought he was fine, but when the baby was a few days old, she and Andrés traveled from the Jerusalén-San Luis Alto Picudito Indigenous reservation in Putumayo, Colombia, to take him to Villagarzón for a checkup, just to be safe.

This proved harder than they expected. The baby could not be seen at the hospital there until he had a civil identification or registration number, which he could not get without a birth certificate, which the hospital could not provide because the baby was born at home. Go to the registrar?s office, the nurses told Marleny and Andrés. But the registrar?s office only sent Andrés back to the hospital, where a different nurse told them to try the notary?s office instead. By then it was almost noon. The only bus of the day would be heading back to San Luis soon; if Andrés and his family missed it, they would have to cough up more money for room and board in town than they normally spent in a week. So they went home.

The problem of inadequate registries is most pressing in the low-income nations of Africa and Southeast Asia. But it is not confined to those regions. In Colombia, birth and death registration is especially spotty in Indigenous and Afro-descendant communities, where the national government tends to have little presence and registrars and notaries tend to apply the rules arbitrarily. A program known as Colombia Rural Vital was created to simplify and democratize this process.

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In a high-stakes showdown this week, President Biden and the leaders of congress met face to face in an effort to avoid the United States defaulting on its debt for the first time in history.

Jim Tankersley, a White House correspondent for The Times, explains how close the country is to financial calamity, and the radical step Biden might take to avoid it.

Guest: Jim Tankersley, a White House correspondent for The New York Times.

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Last year, Times reporting revealed the many lies that the freshman Republican congressman George Santos had told about his life and career. Now he is facing legal consequences.

Michael Gold, who covers politics in New York for The Times, explains the charges against Mr. Santos and what they mean for his role in Congress.

Guest: Michael Gold, a New York politics correspondent for The New York Times.

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A jury in Manhattan has found former President Donald J. Trump legally liable for sexually abusing and defaming the writer E. Jean Carroll.

Ben Weiser, who covers the Manhattan federal courts for The Times, tells the story of how a nearly 30-year-old case reached this moment.

Guest: Benjamin Weiser, a correspondent for The New York Times covering the Manhattan federal courts.

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For the past three years, the United States has relied on Title 42, a pandemic restriction that has allowed the swift expulsion of many migrants at the southern border. But by the end of the week, that rule will expire.

Miriam Jordan, who covers immigration for The Times, explains what that will mean on both sides of the border.

Guest: Miriam Jordan, a national correspondent covering immigration for The New York Times.

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Debate about ethical standards for Supreme Court justices has intensified after a series of revelations about undisclosed gifts, luxury travel and property deals. 

Adam Liptak, who covers the court for The Times, reviews the allegations of misconduct and the growing calls to do something about it.

Guest: Adam Liptak, a correspondent covering the United States Supreme Court for The New York Times.

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Lakishia Fell-Davis is aware that at this point, in 2023, most people are treating the coronavirus pandemic as a thing of the past. For her, though, Covid still poses a real threat: Fell-Davis has Type I diabetes, putting her at higher risk of hospitalization and long-term complications from illness. As such, her experience during the pandemic has shaped how she thinks about her daily life, especially at Ninety-Fifth Street Elementary School, where she has worked on and off for more than a decade as a substitute teacher and teaching assistant.

She felt much more comfortable when schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District were online during the first year and a half of the pandemic and her kids, Makayla and Kevin, were attending virtually. Sure, they missed their friends, but they were shy and soft-spoken children who had never really strayed far from home. They didn?t seem to mind the arrangement. And back then, Fell-Davis?s mother, who was paralyzed on her left side after surviving stomach cancer and two strokes, could visit them with relative peace of mind despite her poor health.

Fell-Davis cried when she learned that in the fall of 2021, the school district would require students and teachers to return to in-person learning. Her home ? a cozy two-bedroom apartment in a calm neighborhood ? had become her haven, the place where she had more control over her family?s health than she had anywhere else.

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This week, thousands of writers went on strike against Hollywood studios over what they say is an existential threat to their livelihoods.

John Koblin, a media reporter for The New York Times, explains how streaming turned the most prolific era in American entertainment into an industry-changing labor dispute.

Guest: John Koblin, a media reporter for The New York Times.

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In the face of an escalating opioid epidemic, the F.D.A. recently approved over-the-counter sales for Narcan ? a lifesaving nasal spray that can reverse an opioid overdose. 

Jan Hoffman, who covers health law for The Times, explains why the new availability of Narcan could change the trajectory of the epidemic.

Guest: Jan Hoffman, a health law correspondent for The New York Times.

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For the past few months, a single lawmaker has prevented Democrats from carrying out their agenda in Congress. For now, there is no simple solution in sight. 

Annie Karni, a congressional correspondent for The Times, explains the issue surrounding Senator Dianne Feinstein.

Guest: Annie Karni, a congressional correspondent for The New York Times.

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On Monday morning, the federal government took over a third failing bank ? this time, First Republic.

Jeanna Smialek, an economy correspondent for The Times, discusses whether we are at the end of the banking crisis, or the start of a new phase of financial pain.

Guest: Jeanna Smialek, an economy correspondent for The New York Times.

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Last week, Speaker Kevin McCarthy persuaded Republicans to narrowly pass a bill to raise the U.S. debt ceiling, setting up high-stakes negotiations with the Biden administration.

Catie Edmondson, who covers Congress for The New York Times, explains the risks this might pose to his job and the country?s economy.

Catie Edmondson, a congressional correspondent for The New York Times.

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In January 2022, Randi Schofield was a 34-year-old single mother who, not long before, left her full-time job of eight years as a personal bailiff to a local judge. She pulled $30,000 from her retirement savings and was planning to give herself all of 2022 to expand the small catering business she had always dreamed about. This would be the year she bet on herself. Then, that month, she received the news that medics were pulling her father out of his car.

The collision splintered the bone in his left thigh down to his knee; three days later, a metal rod held the broken pieces together. Until his leg recovered from the surgery, he would not be able to walk without assistance. In hindsight, there were warning signs that her father?s health could upend Schofield?s life. But he was also youthful and spirited, and it was easy to believe that everything was fine, that he was fine and that if she were to take care of him some day, it would be occasional and in a distant future. She didn?t see this day coming the way it did, so abruptly and so soon.

Increasing numbers of adult children are taking care of their parents, often shouldering the burden with no pay and little outside help ? making their meals, helping them shower, bandaging their wounds and holding them up before they can fall. The social-work scholar Dorothy A. Miller once described this as the ?peculiar position? in the modern American nuclear family, between the care people give to their aging parents and to their children. Today?s ?sandwich generation? is younger than the version Miller described four decades ago, but it faces the same ?unique set of unshared stresses? that she warned of then: acute financial strain, a lack of reciprocated support and ?fatigue from fulfilling the demands of too many roles.?

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This month, an anonymous producer jolted the music industry by using artificial intelligence to impersonate the singers Drake and the Weeknd, creating a fake track, ?Heart on My Sleeve,? that quickly went viral.

Joe Coscarelli, a culture reporter for The Times, talks about how the song?s rise and fall could presage widespread changes in the way music is made.

Guest: Joe Coscarelli, a culture correspondent for The New York Times.

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This month, India reached a notable milestone. The country?s population surpassed that of China, which had held the No. 1 position for at least three centuries.

Alex Travelli, who covers South Asia and business for The Times, examines whether India can use its immense size to become an economic superpower.

Guest: Alex Travelli, a South Asia business correspondent for The New York Times.

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President Biden has announced that he will seek another term in the Oval Office, despite the fact that he will be 81 on Election Day 2024.

Not everyone is overjoyed about that prospect ? more than half of Democrats don?t want him to run again. Nonetheless, the party?s leaders are increasingly confident about his chances. Jonathan Weisman, a political correspondent for The Times, explains why.

Guest: Jonathan Weisman, a political correspondent for The New York Times.

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Less than a week after Fox News agreed to pay $787.5 million to settle the Dominion lawsuit, the network has abruptly fired Tucker Carlson ? an anchor at the center of the case.

Jeremy W. Peters, who covers media and politics for The Times, explains why the network decided to cut ties with one of its biggest stars.

Guest: Jeremy W. Peters, a media and politics correspondent for The New York Times.

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Sudan was supposed to be moving away from military rule and toward democracy. But over the past week, the country has been thrown into violent chaos as two factions battle for control.

Declan Walsh, chief Africa correspondent for The Times, explains how an explosive rivalry between two generals turned into a catastrophic conflict.

Guest: Declan Walsh, the chief Africa correspondent for The New York Times.

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One Sunday in February, in a northern Italian town called Ivrea, the facades of historic buildings were covered with plastic sheeting and nets. And in several different piazzas, hundreds of wooden crates had appeared. Inside them were oranges. Oranges, the fruit.

Over the next three days, 8,000 people in Ivrea would throw 900 tons of oranges at one another, one orange at a time, while tens of thousands of other people watched. They would throw the oranges very hard, very viciously, often while screaming profanities at their targets or yowling like Braveheart. But they would also keep smiling as they threw the oranges, embracing and joking and cheering one another on, exhibiting with their total beings a deranged-seeming but euphoric sense of abandon and belonging ? a freedom that was easy to envy but difficult to understand.

The Battle of the Oranges is an annual tradition in Ivrea and part of a larger celebration described by its organizers as ?the most ancient historical Carnival in Italy.? Several people in Ivrea told the writer Jon Mooallem that as three pandemic years had passed in which no oranges were thrown, they grew concerned that something bad would happen in the community ? that without this catharsis, a certain pent-up, sinister energy would explode. And on that day in February, three years of constrained energy was due to explode all at once.

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Last week, a 21-year old airman from Massachusetts, Jack Teixeira, was arrested under the Espionage Act and charged with violating federal laws by sharing top secret military documents with an online gaming group.

Dave Philipps, a military correspondent for The Times, explains why so many low-level government workers have access to so much classified material.

Guest: Dave Philipps, a military correspondent for The New York Times.

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At the very last minute, both Dominion Voting Systems and Fox News decided to settle their closely watched defamation lawsuit, rather than make their cases at trial.

Jeremy W. Peters, who covers media and politics for The Times, was inside the courtroom as it happened.

Guest: Jeremy W. Peters, a media and politics correspondent for The New York Times.

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In overturning Roe v. Wade last year, the Supreme Court?s message was that it was done with the issue of abortion. Now, dueling rulings on abortion pills will send the issue back to the highest court in the country.

Adam Liptak, who covers the Supreme Court for The Times, explains the case that is forcing the court to weigh in on abortion all over again.

Guest: Adam Liptak, who covers the Supreme Court for The New York Times.

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Earlier this month, the Internal Revenue Service unveiled an $80 billion plan to transform itself into a ?digital first? tax collector focused on customer service and cracking down on wealthy tax evaders.

Today, on the day that taxes are due in the United States, Alan Rappeport, who covers economic policy for The Times, explains how the plan could result in the agency repeating a set of old mistakes.

Guest: Alan Rappeport, an economic policy correspondent for The New York Times.

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The posturing between the United States and China has been intensifying in recent weeks ? China responded with condemnations and military drills after Taiwan?s president, Tsai Ing-wen, met the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy.

Today, Edward Wong, who covers foreign policy at The Times, explains why China is so fixated on Taiwan, and how the U.S. got in the middle of it.

Guest: Edward Wong, a diplomatic correspondent for The New York Times.

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In March 2017, an engineer at G.E. Aviation in Cincinnati received a request on LinkedIn. The engineer, Hua, is in his 40s, tall and athletic, with a boyish face that makes him look a decade younger. He moved to the United States from China in 2003 for graduate studies in structural engineering.

The LinkedIn request came from Chen Feng, a school official at the Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, in eastern China. Days later, Chen sent him an email inviting him to the university to give a research presentation. Hua arranged to arrive in May, so he could attend a nephew?s wedding and his college reunion at Harbin Institute of Technology. There was one problem, though: Hua knew that G.E. would deny permission to give the talk if he asked, which he was supposed to do. He went to Nanjing, and flew back to the United States after the presentation. He thought that would be the end of the matter.

Many scientists and engineers of Chinese origin in the United States are invited to China to give presentations about their fields. Hua couldn?t have known that his trip to Nanjing would prove to be the start of a series of events that would end up giving the U.S. government an unprecedented look inside China?s widespread and tireless campaign of economic espionage targeting the United States, culminating in the first-ever conviction of a Chinese intelligence official on American soil.

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?The Phantom of the Opera,? the longest running show in the history of Broadway, will close its doors on Sunday after more than three decades.

We went backstage during one of the final performances before the show?s famous chandelier crashes down one last time.

Guest: Michael Paulson, a theater correspondent for The New York Times.

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A week ago, the world discovered that dozens of classified documents from the American government had been leaked online, including highly sensitive information about Russia?s war in Ukraine and damaging revelations on American spying abroad.

David E. Sanger, a national security correspondent for The Times, explains the contents of the leak and what it might mean for the war.

Guest: David E. Sanger, a White House and national security correspondent for The New York Times.

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In the week since Donald Trump was arraigned on 34 felony charges, debate about the strength of the case against him has only intensified.

Charlie Savage, a Washington correspondent at The Times, has closely studied the case and explains which side he stands on.

Guest: Charlie Savage, a Washington correspondent for The New York Times.

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Days after Russia invaded Ukraine, the Kremlin made it a crime to oppose the war in public. Since then, it has waged a relentless campaign of repression, putting Russian citizens in jail for offenses as small as holding a poster or sharing a news article on social media.

Valerie Hopkins, an international correspondent for The Times, tells the story of Olesya Krivtsova, a 19-year-old student who faces up to 10 years in prison after posting on social media, and explains why the Russian government is so determined to silence those like her.

Guest: Valerie Hopkins, an international correspondent for The New York Times, covering Russia and the war in Ukraine.

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Last week, Tennessee?s Republican-controlled House expelled two of its members ? both young Black Democrats. 

Emily Cochrane, a national correspondent for The New York Times, explains the story behind the extraordinary ousting and what it tells us about this moment in American politics.

Guest: Emily Cochrane, a national correspondent for The New York Times covering the American South.

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