Tag: New York Times

‘Modern Love Podcast’: Brittany Howard Sings Through the Pangs of New Love

Brittany Howard, the five-time Grammy Award-winning singer, makes vibrant, dynamic music about love. As the frontwoman of the band Alabama Shakes, she was celebrated for the power and emotionality of her voice. When she began her solo career in 2019 with “Jaime,” an album named after and dedicated to her older sister, who died at […]

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The Unhappy Voters Who Could Swing the Election

The Daily is made by Rachel Quester, Lynsea Garrison, Clare Toeniskoetter, Paige Cowett, Michael Simon Johnson, Brad Fisher, Chris Wood, Jessica Cheung, Stella Tan, Alexandra Leigh Young, Lisa Chow, Eric Krupke, Marc Georges, Luke Vander Ploeg, M.J. Davis Lin, Dan Powell, Sydney Harper, Mike Benoist, Liz O. Baylen, Asthaa Chaturvedi, Rachelle Bonja, Diana Nguyen, Marion […]

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For Democrats Pining for an Alternative, Biden Team Has a Message: Get Over It

When it comes down to it, a lot of Democrats wish President Biden were not running this fall. Only 28 percent of Democrats in a new survey by The New York Times and Siena College expressed enthusiasm about his candidacy and 38 percent said flatly that Mr. Biden should not be their nominee. But even […]

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Books by Black Authors We Can’t Wait to Read in March 2024

Photo: aquaArts studio (Getty Images) We’re only two months into the new year, and we’ve already seen so many amazing books by Black authors across all genres. March is shaping up to be no different, with all new collections of poetry, personal essays and cultural commentary. Advertisement Just in time for spring break, a thriller […]

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Trump Gets a Trial Date, and Fani Willis Fights Back

The New York Times Audio app is home to journalism and storytelling, and provides news, depth and serendipity. If you haven’t already, download it here — available to Times news subscribers on iOS — and sign up for our weekly newsletter. The Headlines brings you the biggest stories of the day from the Times journalists […]

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A Guilty Verdict for a Mass Shooter’s Mother

The Daily is made by Rachel Quester, Lynsea Garrison, Clare Toeniskoetter, Paige Cowett, Michael Simon Johnson, Brad Fisher, Chris Wood, Jessica Cheung, Stella Tan, Alexandra Leigh Young, Lisa Chow, Eric Krupke, Marc Georges, Luke Vander Ploeg, M.J. Davis Lin, Dan Powell, Sydney Harper, Mike Benoist, Liz O. Baylen, Asthaa Chaturvedi, Rachelle Bonja, Diana Nguyen, Marion […]

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Hey NYT, Taylor Swift’s Boo Travis Kelce Did NOT ‘Revolutionize’ the Fade Haircut

The ubiquitous Travis Kelce-Taylor Swift romance has finally gone too far. I’ve made (relative) peace with the fact that a news alert hits my phone every time those fools make a left turn together. But this New York Times piece about the “Travis Kelce Cut” is a bridge that extends into the depths of Hell. […]

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Shame NYT! Taylor Swift’s Boo Travis Kelce Did NOT ‘Revolutionize’ the Fade Haircut

The ubiquitous Travis Kelce-Taylor Swift romance has finally gone too far. I’ve made (relative) peace with the fact that a news alert hits my phone every time those fools make a left turn together. But this New York Times piece about the “Travis Kelce Cut” is a bridge that extends into the depths of Hell. […]

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Hubris Is Not Killing the Media. Tech Giants Are.

The Messenger was a particularly spectacular failure, but it also highlights how desperate the media industry has become to find a viable business strategy, especially at scale. Various pivots—notably to video via Facebook and YouTube, and audio via podcasting—led to brief windfalls. Both have dried up in recent years, thanks to tech companies’ dominance in advertising, […]

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The Messenger Didn’t Stand a Chance

The Messenger was a particularly spectacular failure, but it also highlights how desperate the media industry has become to find a viable business strategy, especially at scale. Various pivots—notably to video via Facebook and YouTube, and audio via podcasting—led to brief windfalls. Both have dried up in recent years, thanks to tech companies’ dominance in advertising, […]

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Charles Littlejohn, Who Leaked Trump’s Tax Returns, Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison

A former Internal Revenue Service contractor accused of leaking the tax documents of Donald J. Trump and other wealthy Americans was sentenced on Monday to five years in prison. The former contractor, Charles Littlejohn, known as Chaz, worked for the tax agency from 2017 to 2021, when he stole the tax records of thousands of […]

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U.N. to Study Reports of Sexual Violence in Israel During Oct. 7 Attack

A United Nations team has arrived in Israel to examine reports of sexual violence during the Hamas-led attack on Oct. 7 even as Hamas and some critics of Israel continue to reject evidence that such assaults occurred. Israeli officials have said that Hamas terrorists brutalized women throughout their incursion into southern Israel and have complained […]

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The Stable Genius Trump Just Got Hammered to the Tune of $400,000

South Africa has recognized the ongoing Nakba of the Palestinian people through Israel’s colonization since 1948, which has systematically and forcibly dispossessed, displaced and fragmented the Palestinian people, deliberately denying them the internationally recognized inalienable right to self determination and their internationally recognized rights of return as refugees to their towns and villages in what […]

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OpenAI Says New York Times Lawsuit Against It Is ‘Without Merit’

OpenAI said on Monday that a New York Times lawsuit against it was “without merit” and that it supported and created opportunities for news organizations, as it waded further into a debate over the unauthorized use of published work to train artificial intelligence technologies. The Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft on Dec. 27, accusing the […]

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Joseph Lelyveld, Former Top Editor of The New York Times, Dies at 86

The former Times columnist Russell Baker, in The New York Review of Books, wrote: “Among the Lelyvelds, confusion, misunderstanding, and too much silence at all levels were the makings of an obviously unhappy family, whose members, if asked, Lelyveld says, would have called themselves a happy family. His book is more like life than memoir.” […]

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The Times Sues OpenAI, a Debate Over iMessage and Our New Year’s Tech Resolutions

This transcript was created using speech recognition software. While it has been reviewed by human transcribers, it may contain errors. Please review the episode audio before quoting from this transcript and email transcripts@nytimes.com with any questions. kevin roose This podcast is supported by Givewell. With over 1.5 million nonprofits in the US, how do you […]

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Boom in A.I. Prompts a Test of Copyright Law

The boom in artificial intelligence tools that draw on troves of content from across the internet has begun to test the bounds of copyright law. Authors and a leading photo agency have brought suit over the past year, contending that their intellectual property was illegally used to train A.I. systems, which can produce humanlike prose […]

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Inside the News Industry’s Uneasy Negotiations With OpenAI

For months, some of the biggest players in the U.S. media industry have been in confidential talks with OpenAI on a tricky issue: the price and terms of licensing their content to the artificial intelligence company. The curtain on those negotiations was pulled back this week when The New York Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft […]

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The Best Sentences of 2023

Over recent days, I took on a daunting task — but a delightful one. I reviewed all the passages of prose featured in the For the Love of Sentences section of my Times Opinion newsletter in 2023 and tried to determine the best of the best. And there’s no doing that, at least not objectively, […]

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New York Times Sues OpenAI and Microsoft Over Use of Copyrighted Work

The New York Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement on Wednesday, opening a new front in the increasingly intense legal battle over the unauthorized use of published work to train artificial intelligence technologies. The Times is the first major American media organization to sue the companies, the creators of ChatGPT and other popular […]

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Four Rankings

This was the year when many Times readers began to care about artificial intelligence. It was also a year when they wanted their friends and family members to care about the subject. In today’s newsletter, we’re ranking the most popular Times articles of 2023 in four different ways. One of the rankings is based on […]

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Submit a New York Times Obit

Every day, editors on The New York Times Obituaries team scan news reports and dig through emails from readers to learn who died recently; they then decide whether to assign a reporter to write about one of those lives. The process can be challenging. We have only so many hands to report, write and edit […]

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Pentagon Starts Veteran Outreach Program on Blast Risks From Weapons Use

The Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs have begun an aggressive outreach campaign in the wake of growing evidence of the potential health risks that troops face from exposure to blasts from their own weapons. The government has reached out to thousands of veterans, notified veterans’ services offices in all 50 states about the potential […]

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Another one Gone: Iconic Black Actor and ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’ Star Dies

We’ve lost another iconic Black actor whose award-winning roles have helped increase Black representation in film. According to a Deadline report, two-time Emmy-winner André Braugher died Monday at age 61 after a brief illness. LL Cool J and Queen Latifah in A Grammy Salute to 50 Years of Hip Hop Is On TV This Week […]

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Silicon Valley Icon Keith Rabois Doubles Down on Claim That Elon Musk’s X Has Prevented Second Holocaust

Keith Rabois, general partner of Founders Fund LLC, speaks during a Bloomberg Technology television interview in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Friday, Feb. 22, 2019. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images. Famed investor and executive Keith Rabois defended his recent assertion that X, the platform previously known as Twitter, has “almost surely” prevented a […]

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Introducing: ‘DealBook Summit’

“DealBook Summit” includes conversations with business and policy leaders at the heart of today’s major stories, recorded live at the annual DealBook Summit event in New York City. As the annual DealBook Summit approaches, the DealBook founder and Business reporter Andrew Ross Sorkin looks back at the highlights from last year’s summit, including his interview […]

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Looking for Hamas at Gaza’s Biggest Hospital

Patrick Kingsley contributed reporting. The Daily is made by Rachel Quester, Lynsea Garrison, Clare Toeniskoetter, Paige Cowett, Michael Simon Johnson, Brad Fisher, Chris Wood, Jessica Cheung, Stella Tan, Alexandra Leigh Young, Lisa Chow, Eric Krupke, Marc Georges, Luke Vander Ploeg, M.J. Davis Lin, Dan Powell, Sydney Harper, Mike Benoist, Liz O. Baylen, Asthaa Chaturvedi, Rachelle […]

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