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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 [email protected] with any questions.[PHONE INTERNAL RINGING]belindaHello?astead herndonHi, my name’s Astead Herndon. I’m a politics reporter at “The New York Times” and hosting a new politics podcast from “The Times.” I’m looking for Belinda. Is this her?belindaIt is.astead herndonThank you for picking up. We are hoping that you had maybe 5, 10 minutes today for us to ask a few questions about how you’re feeling about politics right now, and then record that. Is that something you think we could do right now?belindaHow long have you been a reporter at “The New York Times?”...

Telecommunications giant AT&T announced Saturday that it had reset the passcodes of 7.6 million customers after determining that compromised customer data had been “released onto the dark web.”“Our internal teams are working with external cybersecurity experts to analyze the situation,” AT&T said. “As far as we know, the compromised data appears to be from 2019 or earlier and contains no personal financial information or call history.”The company said that "information varied by customer and account," but that it could include a person's full name, email address, postal address, phone number, Social Security, date of birth, AT&T account number, and passcode.In addition to these 7.6 million customers, 65.4 million former account holders were also affected.The company said it will “sepa...

The contest for the city hall presidency in Istanbul, Turkey's largest city and economic dynamo, is in many ways between one man who is on the ballot and another who is not.The first is incumbent Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, a rising star in the political opposition who won a surprise victory in 2019 and is widely seen as a potential presidential contender.The second is President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who decades ago was mayor of Istanbul and, after Imamoglu's victory, wanted to bring his hometown back under the control of the ruling Justice and Development Party.The outcome will be decided by Sunday's municipal elections, which in many ways will determine Turkey's political future.A victory for Erdogan's party would allow him to reclaim the political and financial clout of ru...

The phone woke Doug Nordman at 3 in the morning. A surgeon was calling from a hospital in Grand Junction, Colorado, where Mr. Nordman's father had arrived in the emergency room, incoherent and in pain, and then lost consciousness.Initially, staff thought he was suffering a heart attack, but a CT scan found that part of his small intestine had been perforated. A surgical team repaired the hole, saving his life, but the surgeon had some questions.“Was your father an alcoholic?” he asked. Doctors found Dean Nordman malnourished, with his peritoneal cavity "filled with alcohol."The younger Nordman, a military personal finance author who lives on Oahu, Hawaii, explained that his father, 77, had long been a classic social drinker: a scotch and water with his wife before dinner, which was...

“His music may be rigorous, but his gentle, quiet spirit gives his work its inimitable character and pathos,” says American opera director Yuval Sharon, who directed a 2016 production of the opera by Mr. Eotvos from 1998, "Tri Sestri". Vienna, he said in a note. Calling that opera, based on Chekhov's play “Three Sisters,” “undoubtedly one of the greatest works of our time,” Sharon said it was only while working with Eotvos that “he realized how much of his emotional feeling life is invested in work.”For the otherwise reserved Mr. Eotvos, music was the vehicle for expressing that inner life. “In everyday life I'm not a dramatic person at all,” she said in a 2020 documentary about him. “Perhaps this veiled dramatic trait can only come to the surface if it has a job to do.”In the ...

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 [email protected] with any questions.archived recording (joe biden)My fellow Americans, please, if you have a seat. Thank you.I speak to you tonight from sacred ground in America — Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This is where America made its declaration of independence to the world more than two centuries ago. It was an idea unique among nations — that in America, we’re all created equal.astead herndonIn early September, Joe Biden kicked off the midterms with a message for the country.archived recording (joe biden)Equality and democracy are the rock upon ...

First, OpenAI offered a tool that allowed people to create digital images simply by describing what they wanted to see. Then, he created similar technology that generated full-motion video like something out of a Hollywood movie.Now it has unveiled technology that can recreate someone's voice.The high-profile AI startup said Friday that a small group of companies was testing a new OpenAI system, Voice Engine, that can recreate a person's voice from a 15-second recording. If you upload a recording of yourself and a paragraph of text, you can read the text using a synthetic voice that sounds like your own.The text does not have to be in your native language. If you speak English, for example, it can recreate your voice in Spanish, French, Chinese or many other languages.OpenAI isn...

The huge rear gate of the Jordanian Air Force cargo plane slowly lowers like a rigid iron jaw, revealing a hazy blue sky and, far below, the battered landscape of northern Gaza.Inside the plane's cavernous hold, supplies delivered by the crew are lined up in neat rows: chest-high bundles of boxes stacked on wooden pallets, each bound with shrink-wrap and heavy straps and marked with images of the flag of Jordan.Now, as light and sound rush in, the bundles slide along rollers in the floor and disappear out the door, floating beneath billowing parachutes as a silent, and quite possibly inadequate, offering to the desperate populace below.With humanitarian groups and others sounding the alarm about a looming famine in northern Gaza and widespread hunger across the territory, airdrops are ...

By the numbers: an increasing mortality rate.The disease is caused by infection with a bacterium called Neisseria meningitidis. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 422 cases of invasive meningococcal disease were reported in the United States last year, the highest number since 2014.But as of Monday, 143 cases have been reported to the CDC this year, 62 more than the number of cases reported last year during the same period.The disease is extremely dangerous. Even with adequate treatment, 10 to 15 percent of patients who develop meningococcal disease will die. Many recent cases have been caused by an unusual strain of N. meningitidis called ST-1466. This strain caused 17 deaths among 94 patients whose outcomes are known, for a mortality rate of 18%.Survivors of...

Thirteen years ago, a poor fisherman in a small Turkish village was retrieving his net from a lake when he heard a noise behind him and turned to find a majestic being standing on the bow of his rowboat.Glittering white feathers covered its head, neck and chest, giving way to black feathers on its wings. He stood on thin orange legs that almost matched the color of his long, pointed beak.The fisherman, Adem Yilmaz, recognized it as one of the white storks that had spent the summer in the village for a long time, but he had never seen one so close up, much less hosted on his boat.Wondering if he was hungry, he tossed him a fish, which the bird devoured. He threw another. And another.Thus began an unlikely tale of man and bird that has captivated Turkey over the years - and a clever socia...