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The Atlantic explores what Joe Manchin’s ”no” on the giant spending bill means for Biden’s economic agenda. Democrats in Georgia helped flip the U.S. Senate and turn the state blue. Politico reports on how Republican state lawmakers are trying to dilute those gains. The Omicron coronavirus variant is spreading. The Wall Street Journal explains how to decide whether to chang...

In the past year, more than a dozen women have accused Marilyn Manson — whose real name is Brian Warner — of psychological or sexual abuse. Four women have filed civil lawsuits. Warner has denied all of the allegations. For Rolling Stone , Jason Newman and Kory Grow spent nine months reporting on these claims and talked with several of the women who have come forward. They spoke with A...

The Washington Post explains why it’s looking unlikely that Democrats will pass the president’s nearly $2 trillion spending package ahead of the holidays. Waves of star athletes are testing positive for the coronavirus, disrupting games. ESPN reports on new COVID protocols being introduced by the NFL and NBA . Claudette Colvin was arrested in 1955 for refusing to give up her bus seat f...

The Apple Original podcast Hooked tells the story of Tony Hathaway. He went from working as a design engineer at the aerospace company Boeing to robbing 30 banks in a single year after becoming addicted to opioids.   In November, Shumita Basu spoke with Hooked host Josh Dean about the podcast when it was just getting started. Now that the final episode has aired, Basu and Dean are joined by H...

One year into her history-making role, Vice President Kamala Harris reacts to recent controversies and looks ahead to 2022, in an extensive interview with the San Francisco Chronicle . Vox looks at the good and bad news about the Omicron coronavirus variant so far. Pandemic student-debt relief is set to end in a few weeks. Business Insider reports on how some Democrats say the Biden administration...

A tornado destroyed a Kentucky nursing home. USA Today has the story of how all its residents survived. Bloomberg looks at the major risks to the economy over the next year. Many people named Alexa say Amazon’s voice assistant with the same name is changing the way people interact with them for the worse. Some are fighting back. The Washington Post talks to dozens of real-life Alexas. S...

Slate columnist Fred Kaplan, a longtime observer of military spending, asks whether anyone actually looked at the $778 billion U.S. defense budget before passing it. The January 6 panel recommended holding Trump’s former chief of staff in contempt, on a day of big revelations about the Capitol attack. CNBC has the key details. California plans to use a measure modeled on Texas’s contro...

Scientists are examining the role climate change may have played in the twisters that killed dozens of people in recent days. PBS NewsHour looks at what’s known and what’s not yet clear. Many parents of school shooters ignore glaring warning signs. The Washington Post has the story of one grandmother who didn’t. NASA is sending its new telescope to a very special parking spot a m...

For the New Yorker , journalist Ian Urbina traveled to Libya to report on an EU-funded shadow immigration system that holds migrants in brutal detention centers. While reporting this story, Urbina was kidnapped, beaten, and detained himself. Now safely back home, he spoke with Apple News Today host Shumita Basu about how this shadow system works and the horrific conditions inside the detention cen...

The Wall Street Journal reports on how the Starbucks union vote is about much more than Starbucks. BBC News is covering a deadly truck crash in Mexico that killed dozens of migrants from Central America trying to get into the U.S. Bloomberg explains how President Biden’s massive spending bill would increase the credits available to electric-car buyers. And the Washington Post looks at how Bl...

There’s a lot of money in Biden’s spending plan targeted at the affordable-housing crisis. Vox looks at why it may not do much about skyrocketing real-estate prices. The Senate and White House are backing arms sales to Saudi Arabia. Critics say this could worsen the deadly conflict in Yemen. Reuters has the story. Dozens of previously unrecognized U.S. soldiers will receive Purple Hear...

The case of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes may turn on her testimony. The Wall Street Journal looks at the moments that might sway jurors. Forbes explores how Biden’s massive spending plan would change tax policy. Chalkbeat reports on how the enhanced child tax credit has done a lot for families, but says Congress may not keep it. The recent Michigan killings are reigniting a debate over...

The Build Back Better bill touches many areas. Yahoo News explains how it would change the American immigration system. In a crucial week for President Biden’s foreign policy, CNN looks at why the stakes are high for his call with Putin today. And Time explains why he decided on a diplomatic boycott of China's Winter Olympics. A doctor shortage has made abortion services difficult to access...

The Washington Post looks at how the roughly $2 trillion spending bill Congress is debating would overhaul U.S. health care. A jail term is the latest twist in the complicated story of Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel Peace Prize winner who was later ousted as leader of Myanmar. BBC News reports. The pandemic turned Americans into super savers. The Wall Street Journal explains what to consider if you&r...

The pandemic exposed something every working parent in the U.S. already knew: This country’s child-care system is broken. Even after more than $50 billion in COVID-relief funding, the industry is still in crisis. Bloomberg Businessweek reporter Claire Suddath talks with Apple News Today host Duarte Geraldino about the fundamental issues that exist in the U.S. child-care system today, some po...

The Omicron variant of the coronavirus is getting lots of attention, but many hospitals are still struggling to deal with the effects of Delta. The Washington Post has the story. Alabama’s prisons are extremely dangerous and troubled. Politico reports on how the facilities are so unsafe that the federal government may take control. This week’s In Conversation is with the Bloomberg Busi...

The story of how Mississippi ended up with only one abortion clinic matters across America, regardless of how the Supreme Court rules in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization . The Washington Post visited the state to see what happened. CNN explains why the suspected Michigan school shooter has been charged with terrorism. A new California law aims to get people faster access to thera...

As the Supreme Court hears a major abortion case, Politico looks at how activists on both sides of the issue are already planning for a world where Roe v. Wade is overturned. New York City has introduced America’s first government-run drug-injection sites, in a new effort to reduce opioid-overdose deaths. NPR has the story. The Guardian reports on American librarians who say there’s a...

In an extensive investigation, the New Yorker takes a look inside the coastal patrols and brutal, secretive detention centers that Libyan forces use to keep migrants from Africa and the Middle East out of Europe. A little-known Supreme Court clerk quietly and single-handedly transformed American abortion law for decades. The Washington Post has the untold story of Roe v. Wade . The market for star...

There are lots of questions about the new Omicron variant of the coronavirus. The Atlantic breaks down what we know so far. And Fox News interviews National Institutes of Health director Dr. Francis Collins. Opening arguments begin today in the sex-trafficking trial of Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell. USA Today previews what it may reveal. A new book looks into how changes at Boeing ma...

Closing arguments have concluded in the trial of the three white men accused of killing Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man who was out jogging. The Washington Post reports that many people across the U.S. are viewing the jury’s decision as a test of the movement for racial justice.   Teachers have experienced intense burnout during the pandemic. Unlike workers in many other industri...

House Democrats passed President Biden’s $2 trillion spending plan to revamp the country’s health-care, climate policy, education, and tax laws. The Washington Post breaks it down.   Vox reports that more than 140,000 kids have lost a caregiver during the pandemic. Experts worry that the loss, combined with interruptions to social support systems, will result in a generation of tr...

The New Yorker ’s Jelani Cobb says conservatives weaponizing critical race theory aren’t acting in good faith. He speaks with Apple News Today host Shumita Basu about his recent piece for the New Yorker about the founder of the concept, Derrick Bell. Cobb says that Bell could have predicted today’s backlash and that real critical race theory can help us understand today’s d...

The House has approved a bill containing around $1.9 trillion in social spending. The key part of President Biden’s agenda faces obstacles in the Senate. CNN reports. There are big new developments in the unusual immigration fight playing out in Europe. The Washington Post breaks down what’s important to understand. There are new concerns about the safety of Peng Shuai, a Chinese tenni...

The House censured Rep. Paul Gosar after he posted an anime video depicting him killing Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The Washington Post has the story of the first vote of its kind in more than a decade. FiveThirtyEight reports on how the national shortage of school-bus drivers is hurting workers, students, and their families. Cryptocurrency fans are raising money to buy a rare copy of the U.S....