The Headlines
The New York Times · Society & Culture
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Recent episodes
| Episode | Published | Length | Ad time | Breaks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trump’s Major Retreat on Greenland, and Why Texas Hit Pause on New Data Centers | 10:29 | 1:43 | 3 | |
| Why Xi Is Coming to Washington, and White House TV Feeds Go Dark | 8:56 | 0:10 | 1 | |
| How the Kremlin Gets the Election Results It Wants, and R.F.K. Jr. Rallies Vaccine Skeptics | 15:44 | 1:09 | 3 | |
| The Deadly Choice Facing Many Gazans, and a New Disclosure of “Concerning” A.I. Behavior | 11:04 | 0:33 | 1 | |
| Fuel Riots Spread Around the World, and Trump Approves $2.8 Billion Arms Sale to Israel | 12:08 | 1:06 | 2 | |
| New Poll Shows Democrats Have Midterms Momentum, and Trump Calls A.I. Fears ‘a Hoax’ | 11:22 | 1:21 | 3 | |
| The Escalating Warnings About A.I., and the Rise of a Deadly New Street Drug | 11:22 | 0:59 | 2 | |
| What JD Vance Knew About the War, and New Warnings About A.I. | 15:46 | 0:51 | 3 | |
| Trump Dangles $5,000 Payments if Republicans Win, and Deportees Are Stranded in Haiti | 12:05 | 0:50 | 2 | |
| Why Trump Is Gathering Republicans in Texas, and Iran Targets U.S. Warships | 10:37 | 1:09 | 2 | |
| Why the Pentagon Is Doing Polygraphs, and Officials Prepare to Release Huge Set of 9/11 Documents | 11:11 | 1:13 | 3 | |
| A Surge of Russian Sabotage Attacks in Europe, and Musk’s Political War Chest | 16:12 | 1:06 | 3 | |
| U.S. Attack Hits Iranian Wedding, and Influencers Are Being Quietly Paid to Talk Politics | 10:43 | 1:13 | 3 | |
| Russia’s New Push to Torment Kyiv, and a Whistle-Blower’s Warning on Mail-In Voting | 10:49 | 1:04 | 2 | |
| The Supreme Court’s Secret Documents, and an Unusual Order From the C.D.C. Director | 9:29 | 0:40 | 2 | |
| The Navy’s Supply Chain Struggle, and Trump’s Unusual Oil Deal in Venezuela | 10:01 | 0:38 | 1 | |
| Six Months of War, and Trump’s Push for ‘Lake America’ | 15:35 | 0:21 | 2 | |
| ICE Arrests Soar Across U.S., and Meta Agrees to Make Major Changes to Instagram and Facebook | 13:07 | 0:47 | 2 | |
| Hegseth’s Army Purge, and Polling Chaos in the Midterms | 14:14 | 0:50 | 2 | |
| An Alarming New Study About Brain Injuries in Football, and How States Are Paying Millions for Rain | 10:46 | 0:35 | 2 | |
| Canada Is ‘at War’ With U.S. Over Tariffs, and U.S.P.S. Publishes Plan to Restrict Ballots | 11:09 | 1:19 | 2 | |
| U.S.S. Lincoln Begins 13,000-Mile Journey Home, and the Shortage That Could Take Down the Grid | 16:39 | 0:44 | 2 | |
| $40,047,425,768,420 in U.S. Debt, and an Experimental Vaccine for Skin Cancer | 10:27 | 0:58 | 2 | |
| How Tech Executives Limit Their Kids’ Screen Time, and Trump’s Race to Finish His Ballroom | 10:54 | 0:58 | 2 | |
| Trump’s $47 Billion-Dollar Border Wall Plan, and Why a Tupac Murder Trial Is Starting After 30 Years | 10:37 | 1:07 | 2 |
Ad load varies by listener. Most podcast advertising is dynamically inserted, so figures reflect ad load as observed by YAPP's processing pipeline at the time each episode was fetched, not what any individual listener hears. Methodology
Listening to The Headlines with YAPP
The Headlines typically runs 2.1 ad breaks per episode, usually a pre-roll and one or two mid-rolls. Across the episodes we have processed, that comes to about 0.9 minutes per episode, or 4.4 minutes for every hour of listening.
YAPP maps each episode before you play it, so you get the show and not the rest of it. Because the ads are stitched in per listener, YAPP matches what you are actually hearing rather than replaying a fixed set of timestamps.
How these numbers are measured
YAPP transcribes each episode, classifies advertising segments, and refines their boundaries using audio fingerprinting. Figures cover the 38 episodes of this show that YAPP has processed. Because most podcast ads are dynamically inserted and vary by listener, these figures reflect what our pipeline observed rather than what every listener hears. Full methodology
Boundaries for 11% of detected segments were refined by audio fingerprinting; the rest rest on transcript timing and are less precise.
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