The Daily

This is how the news should sound. Twenty minutes a day, five days a week, hosted by Michael Barbaro and Sabrina Tavernise and powered by New York Times journalism. Contact us: thedaily@nytimes.com.

The Sunday Read: ‘What Does the U.S. Space Force Actually Do?’
Inside the highly secretive military branch responsible for protecting American interests in a vulnerable new domain.
By Jon Gertner, Adrienne Hurst, Diane Wong, John Woo, Sophia Lanman and Zachary Mouton
Two Superpowers Walk Into a Garden
President Biden and Xi Jinping, China’s top leader, met at a moment of tension between their two countries. Here’s how it went.
By Sabrina Tavernise, Shannon Lin, Luke Vander Ploeg, Sydney Harper, M.J. Davis Lin, Brendan Klinkenberg, Marion Lozano, Dan Powell and Alyssa Moxley
Biden’s Electric Car Problem
Examining the real effect of a law meant to supercharge the production and sale of electric vehicles.
By Michael Barbaro, Clare Toeniskoetter, Michael Simon Johnson, Lexie Diao, Marc Georges, Diane Wong, Marion Lozano and Alyssa Moxley
A Strategy to Treat Big Tech Like Big Tobacco
More than three dozen states have come together in a lawsuit against Meta, the company behind Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp.
By Michael Barbaro, Alex Stern, Will Reid, Carlos Prieto, Stella Tan, John Ketchum, Michael Benoist, Marion Lozano, Dan Powell and Alyssa Moxley
Hamas’s Bloody Arithmetic
The group’s leaders say they believe a permanent state of war is the only way to revive the Palestinian cause.
By Michael Barbaro, Mary Wilson, Asthaa Chaturvedi, Rob Szypko, Paige Cowett, Devon Taylor, Dan Powell, Rowan Niemisto, Pat McCusker and Alyssa Moxley
The Doctors of Gaza
Doctors working inside the Gaza Strip tell their stories of survival.
By Sabrina Tavernise, Lynsea Garrison, Rachelle Bonja, Jessica Cheung, Lisa Chow, Liz O. Baylen, Ben Calhoun, Rowan Niemisto, Pat McCusker, Dan Powell and Alyssa Moxley
What Adidas Knew About Kanye
The runaway success of the Yeezy collaboration came at a heavy price.
By Michael Barbaro, Clare Toeniskoetter, Shannon Lin, Rikki Novetsky, Michael Benoist, Brendan Klinkenberg, Ben Calhoun, Dan Powell, Chelsea Daniel and Alyssa Moxley
The Supreme Court Tests Its Own Limits on Guns
Justices who have pushed against restrictions on gun ownership seemed sympathetic to limits for people under domestic violence restraining orders.
By Sabrina Tavernise, Rob Szypko, Will Reid, Mooj Zadie, M.J. Davis Lin, Patricia Willens, Marion Lozano and Alyssa Moxley
The Trumps Take the Stand
Former President Donald J. Trump and some of his children have given testimony in his civil fraud trial in Manhattan.
By Michael Barbaro, Diana Nguyen, Olivia Natt, Rachel Quester, Brendan Klinkenberg, Dan Powell and Alyssa Moxley
The Growing Republican Battle Over War Funding
Speaker Mike Johnson, who has opposed continued funding for Ukraine, is now insisting on separating it from aid to Israel.
By Sabrina Tavernise, Rob Szypko, Carlos Prieto, Stella Tan, Asthaa Chaturvedi, Devon Taylor, Paige Cowett, Dan Powell, Marion Lozano and Alyssa Moxley