Budding Journalists: Here’s hoping you can take some time to recharge soon. It’s been a busy news cycle. Covering the news, while sometimes a sprint, is actually a marathon in the grand scheme. To recharge, I went on a photo walk today. Here’s a tree in our neighborhood in N.J.

This week on This American Life: A bright 8th grader in Texas learns an unsettling lesson not in a classroom or out of a textbook. But from how her principals see her. I got to produce this story by Talia Richman who originally reported it for Dallas Morning News. thisamericanlife.org/814/parents-ar…

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping signaled that China will send new pandas to the United States, calling them “envoys of friendship between the Chinese and American peoples.” 🐼🐼🐼 apnews.com/article/xi-jin…

IDF arrested Gaza's most prominent poet Mosab Abu Toha. He wrote this haunting essay about the war for the New Yorker. PEN America has called for his immediate release. newyorker.com/news/the-weeke…

In his memoir A FULL LIFE: REFLECTIONS AT NINETY, Jimmy Carter described “the worst threat” he and Rosalynn ever experienced to their marriage. It was when they tried to write a book together:

The War Turns Gaza Into a ‘Graveyard’ for Children nytimes.com/2023/11/18/wor…

I will never recover from this student email.

Huge thanks to our loyal Daily listeners, the miraculous, innovative and tireless Daily team and our amazing NYT colleagues for once again making the show the No 1 news podcast in the country.

any VA loan holders out there who lost homes before the pause in foreclosures? DM me? npr.org/2023/12/01/121…

We're walking off the job on Thursday. Here's why:

Damn, this place has real history. It was around before and during the 1968 riots; there's a famous WaPo photo of the owner, flanked by his family, standing inside the shop with a shotgun to protect it. herald-dispatch.com/i-still-see-th…

Almost exactly 10 years ago I heard This American Life for the first time. And this week I filled in for Ira Glass! thisamericanlife.org/832/that-other…

Ursula K. Le Guin's home will become a writers residency apnews.com/article/ursula…

The Ecstasy of Humidity - this this this this this this nytimes.com/2024/06/11/mag…

MICHAEL on MICHAEL🎙️ aka my husband (Michael C. Bender) makes his debut w my circa 2012 work husband (Michael Barbaro) on The Daily. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…

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the city is opening some outdoor pools for juneteenth (tomorrow) due to the heat wave ‼️

Met the incomparable Snoop Dogg. ✅ Both of us were born and raised in Long Beach, California, and graduated from Long Beach Polytechnic High School. LBC forever in our hearts. #Olympics #paris2024

I would give this season of Emily in Paris 1000000 out of 10 stars. absolutely bonkers outfits, no plot of which to speak. i don't think anyone who wrote the dialogue has spoken to a human person. Emily should be imprisoned for life. I need more and I need it now.