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new video loaded: Why Trump Removed Venezuela’s MaduroDavid E. Sanger, our national security correspondent, describes the implications of President Trump’s launching of the attack that captured the Venezuelan president, and Trump’s declaration that the United States would “run the country.”By David E. Sanger, Alexandra Ostasiewicz, Leila Medina and June KimJanuary 3, 2026

new video loaded: How We Tracked Abuses in the Russian ArmyPresident Vladimir Putin has claimed that the Russian society can tolerate the high human cost of the war in Ukraine. But we’ve analyzed more than 6,000 official complaints by soldiers and their loved ones that paint a very different picture. Our international correspondent Paul Sonne explains how the documents offer rare insight into a violent military apparatus willing to abuse its own men to keep up the assault in Ukraine.By Paul Sonne, Nikolay Nikolov, Rebecca Suner, David Jouppi, Alina Lobzina, Milana Mazaeva, Nataliya Vasilyeva, Nikita Pavlov and Arijeta LajkaDecember 31,…

New York Times editors across the newsroom share their biggest questions as we leave 2025 behind and look ahead to 2026.By Richard W. Stevenson, Mohammed Hadi, Nestor Ramos, Nikita Stewart, Michael Mason, Gilad Thaler, David Seekamp, Lauren Pruitt, Luke Piotrowski and Edward VegaDecember 31, 2025

new video loaded: The ‘Trump Effect’ on Global ElectionsPresident Trump has become a common theme in races around the world. Our Canada bureau chief, Matina Stevis-Gridneff, gives a rundown of some of the results.By Matina Stevis-Gridneff, Melanie Bencosme, Karen Hanley, Laura Salaberry and James SurdamDecember 30, 2025

new video loaded: Lagos’s Month of Partying Is Getting PricierDetty December means a month of “back to back to back” partying in Nigeria’s megacity. Ruth Maclean, the West Africa bureau chief for The New York Times, attends for the first time.By Ruth Maclean, Taiwo Aina, Karen Hanley and Christina ThornellDecember 26, 2025

new video loaded: Former Roomba C.E.O. Reminisces on 2008’s Viral ‘Shark Cat’ MemeIn conversation with Kevin Roose and Casey Newton on the “Hard Fork” podcast, the former Roomba C.E.O. Colin Angle shares how YouTube’s viral shark cat brought him joy in 2008.By ‘HARD Fork’December 23, 2025

Hey, Jim Cameron here. I’m the director of “Avatar: Fire and Ash.” So this is Varang, played by Oona Chaplin. And she’s sharing with Quaritch, now that he’s in this altered state of consciousness, her backstory about how the volcano erupted. She doesn’t use the term “volcano.” She says the fire came from the mountain. We can fill that in for ourselves, destroyed her homeland, she says, “burned our forests.” And she talks about the plight of her people. So this is Oona imagining flame. There’s no flame. And we even went back and did a pickup on this line…

new video loaded: It’s a Hard Forkin’ Christmas!transcriptBacktranscriptIt’s a Hard Forkin’ Christmas!The “Hard Fork” co-hosts Kevin Roose and Casey Newton sing an original, tech-inspired rendition of “The Twelve Days of Christmas.”On a Hard Forkin’ Christmas, my true love gave to me 12 A.I. bubbles, 11 chimpanzinis, 10 Signal war chats, nine Meta reorgs, eight MechaHitlers, seven White House memecoins, six Roblox scandals, five Bum Bum creams, – Bum, bum bum four Humane pins, three code reds, two robot pants, and a bot trained on all our I.P. – That’s “intellectual property.” – Can Ezra Klein do that? I don’t think…

new video loaded: What Parents in China See in A.I. ToystranscriptBacktranscriptWhat Parents in China See in A.I. ToysA video of a child crying over her broken A.I. chatbot stirred up conversation in China, with some viewers questioning whether the gadgets are good for children. But the girl’s father says it’s more than a toy; it’s a family member.This video of a girl crying over her broken A.I. chatbot went viral in China. Xiaozhi A.I. is powered by artificial intelligence and it can have long conversations with six-year-old Shisan Hu. The gadget and similar chatbot toys are part of a multi-billion…

new video loaded: Is Australia’s Social Media Ban for Kids a Good Idea?On the “Hard Fork” podcast, the hosts Kevin Roose and Casey Newton discuss a new law in Australia barring kids under 16 from social media.By ‘HARD Fork’December 23, 2025