'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 in prison for “smearing” the country’s political system, she was left to pick up the pieces of his life.'

#TheDaily A Marriage, a Secret and a Crackdown in China

https://open.spotify.com/episode/2i7w7B1wtNUp6gE1mJ1ZHU

'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 much the international space race has changed.'

#TheDaily A New Race to the Moon

https://open.spotify.com/episode/1cZ2lsVMZmUdF1fuGqNiOq

'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 influence the rest of the race.'

#TheDaily A Fiery First Republican Debate — Without Trump

https://open.spotify.com/episode/5s2VeDpUlLJb7oEHEb92CF

'After a closely watched vote, driverless cars, once a Silicon Valley fantasy, have become a 24-hour-a-day reality in San Francisco.'

#TheDaily Ready or Not, Driverless Cars Are Here

https://open.spotify.com/episode/6oz0SUg2S1PQ6ju1Tm4G1u

'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.'

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

https://open.spotify.com/episode/2E0c3Qix0sdpDCCqlxzRDA

'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.'

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

https://open.spotify.com/episode/1ZpFkvAYKulmkTAJJe5OVb

'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 in a downward spiral.'

#TheDaily Inside the Sputtering Campaign of Ron DeSantis

https://open.spotify.com/episode/3P339TtF6kZ5itcqpiIq4P

Wow-oh wow-Coral Reefs are sooo important. #NYTimes #TheDaily https://overcast.fm/+oIe9qnt4w

'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 like Christmas lights strung on a dark, thorny tree.'

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

https://open.spotify.com/episode/485pYbHRQHdkaF2kF5Yj6B

'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.'

#TheDaily How a Paradise Became a Death Trap

https://open.spotify.com/episode/7aKnUd7AST4zNpjFlMbP9x

How the Hawaii fires went down-heart breaking story-
#TheDaily #NYTimes https://overcast.fm/+oIe--Bw6w

'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 now put all of that in jeopardy and why Niger’s allies still think it’s possible to reverse that coup.'

#TheDaily Why a Coup in Niger Has the World’s Attention

https://open.spotify.com/episode/35fbQegqgfAMT7oY80Liwi

'On Monday, former President #DonaldTrump 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 election in #Georgia.'

#TheDaily A Law Used Against the #Mafia — and Now Trump

https://open.spotify.com/episode/3bSsMPwZtUARs46BdoUVSi

'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 places hit hardest — its historic center was decimated, including Waiola Church, the oldest on the island and a cherished meeting place.'

#TheDaily What Lahaina Lost in Hawaii’s Wildfires

https://open.spotify.com/episode/78Qg9hoo6IiiaJA5l14n7o

A public health service from #theDaily.
#HeatWaves #Health #Economy #ClimateChange

Lives, Livelihoods, and the High Cost of Heat - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/10/podcasts/the-daily/extreme-heat.html

'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 around 1.5 million customers across about 50 countries and territories.'

#TheDaily Elon Musk’s Quest to Own the Stars

https://open.spotify.com/episode/7f8BEf2gnlNe9bO3WnFdTj

'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 correspondent for The Times, explains Mr. Smith’s approach and previews Mr. Trump’s likely response.'

#TheDaily The Legal Strategy Behind the Latest Trump Indictment

https://open.spotify.com/episode/4DNYCorzKCM8sRfg6NyHHh

Nice day in the Hudson Valley of NY, USA. Perfect day for yard work. Banged out a bunch of episodes of The Daily from NY Times on my AirPods.
#Summer #TheDaily #NYTimes

'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 scale has forced an international response and a re-evaluation of how the world handles wildfires.'

#TheDaily Fighting Canada’s Unending Fires

https://open.spotify.com/episode/2Jf9xPcFTZNWQb5yMEAj9s

'With Donald Trump facing charges in three different criminal cases, the biggest questions in American politics are whether that creates an opening for his Republican rivals in the presidential race — and whether it disqualifies him in the eyes of general election voters.A new set of Times polls has answers to those questions.'

#TheDaily 43% vs. 43%: Why Trump and Biden Are Tied in Our New Poll

https://open.spotify.com/episode/2gSRr3Y81hR0R7e2PLFRvf