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San Francisco Moves to Lead Fight Against Deepfake Nudes
City Attorney David Chiu has filed a lawsuit seeking to permanently shutter 16 popular...
Harvard Names Conservative Legal Scholar as Permanent Provost
John F. Manning has served as interim provost since March, and is considered a top...
Susan Lorincz Found Guilty of Manslaughter in Fatal Shooting...
Susan Lorincz, who is white, shot Ajike Owens last June through the door of her...
Supreme Court, for Now, Blocks Protections for Transgender...
The order maintained halts by lower courts on federal rules prohibiting discrimination...
Finding Summer Heat Relief in Your Hairstyle
On a hot day, getting hair off the back of your neck is often the simplest way to...
From ‘Perfect Candidate’ to Sudden Exit: Inside the Fall...
Nemat Shafik was vilified on almost all sides for her handling of the protests over...
Harris to Lay Out Economic Message Focused on High Cost...
The vice president’s plans represent more of a reboot of President Biden’s economic...
How to Watch the First Harris-Trump Debate
ABC News will broadcast the debate next month, which former President Donald J....
Harris Lays Out Her Economic Vision, Casting Trump’s as...
In her first major policy speech, the vice president argued that her Republican...
JD Vance’s Plane Makes Emergency Landing in Milwaukee
A problem with the door seal on the Boeing 737 forced the chartered plane to return...
Abortion Rights Advocates Hit the D.N.C.: Free Vasectomies...
This convention is likely to be a head-on display of a new, unbridled abortion politics.
What Minnesota’s Law on Free Tampons in Public Schools...
Conservatives have criticized Gov. Tim Walz over the law, but schools have not taken...
Inmate Captured in North Carolina After Escape
Law enforcement officers captured Ramone Alston, who had been serving a life sentence...
Trump Pulls in Tulsi Gabbard for Debate Prep
Tulsi Gabbard, the former Democrat who has rebranded herself as a celebrity among...
Trump’s Message: Prices (Plus Gangs, A.I. and ‘Bird Cemeteries’)
Former President Donald J. Trump was supposed to focus on the price of groceries...
Trump Says Civilian Award Is ‘Much Better’ Than Medal of...
The former president said Thursday the reason was because those given the nation’s...
The Next Stop for Denver Campus Protesters Is the Democratic...
Students in Denver behind one of the longest-running encampments in protest of the...
The Confidants Guiding Kamala Harris’s Campaign Against...
The vice president’s brain trust is younger, more racially diverse and larger than...
Trump Transition Team to Include Howard Lutnick and Linda...
The appointment of Linda McMahon and Howard Lutnick is notable, as neither has been...
Deploying on U.S. Soil: How Trump Would Use Soldiers Against...
The former president’s vision of using the military to enforce the law domestically...
Kamala Harris Puts Four Sun Belt States Back in Play, Times/Siena...
Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are in close races across Arizona, Georgia, Nevada...
This Georgia Republican Defied Trump. Now He’s Fighting...
The secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, has spent $500,000 defending himself...
Ahead of DNC in Chicago, Locals Have Mixed Feelings About...
About 50,000 people are expected in the nation’s third-largest city for the Democrats’...
Teamsters Union Says Harris Has Accepted Offer to Meet...
The head of the union, which has not backed a presidential candidate this year,...
Fact-Checking Trump’s and Harris’s Attacks on Each Other’s...
We examine the two candidates’ criticisms of each other’s policies, promises and...
Kamala Harris and the Return of ‘Tough on Crime’
Over her career, her rhetoric has tracked the national mood. So do Americans now...
City Illegally Fined Woman Over Profane Political Yard...
A federal judge in Tennessee said that it was unconstitutional for the City of Lakeland,...
The Messages From Biden That Are Understood, and Not
A president who long delighted in public speech is now sometimes hard to understand....
What Is Project 2025, and Who Is Behind It?
The Biden campaign has attacked Donald J. Trump’s ties to the conservative policy...
A Furious Start to California’s Fire Season
Some 207,000 acres have burned so far this year, more than five times the average.
How New Hampshire Could Be Slipping From the Democrats
The state has voted for the Democratic nominee for president for two decades. But...
Project 2025, Explained
A set of conservative policy proposals called Project 2025 has put into words what...
Is the Bogus Fire for Real? Fire Officials Have a Way With...
Wildfire designations may seem random, but firefighters and dispatchers have their...
Trump Is Expected to Meet With Hungary’s Orban
The meeting would come after Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who has long been aligned...
How to Watch Biden’s News Conference at the NATO Summit
President Biden will be under intense scrutiny when he takes questions from reporters...
Peter Welch Is the First Democratic Senator to Call on...
‘It’s a catastrophe,’ said the senator from Vermont, becoming the first Democrat...
Why Trump Supporters Keep Avoiding Convictions on Election...
Frustrated prosecutors and alarmed election officials are finding that it’s not...
Biden’s High-Stakes Moment: Tonight’s NATO News Conference
The president’s allies, doubters and enemies will be watching for any evidence of...
How a Teamster Leader’s Flirtations With Trump Have Divided...
The Teamsters’ president, Sean O’Brien, will address the Republican convention next...
House Defeats Measure to Fine Garland Over Refusal to Share...
Four Republicans opposed the bid to fine the attorney general $10,000 a day for...
NATO on the Edge: Biden Praises and Trump Denigrates a...
As leaders gathered in Washington to mark the anniversary of the organization, they...
Once a G.O.P. Rallying Cry, Debt and Deficits Fall From...
Fiscal hawks are lamenting the transformation of the party that claimed to prize...
What to Know About the Wildfires in California
The state has had more than 3,500 wildfires this year, and the peak of the annual...
The Embattled Biden Campaign Tests Kamala Harris’s Strength...
The campaign is quietly carrying out a head-to-head survey of voters between the...
Dylcia Pagan, 77, Dies; Puerto Rican Nationalist Who Spent...
She was among 10 members of the F.A.L.N., a terrorist group, who were convicted...
Gun Ammunition Vending Machines Installed at Grocery Stores...
The vending machines, sold by a company called American Rounds, sell ammunition...
Biden Campaign Has Long Fed Softball Questions to Friendly...
A review of President Biden’s interviews shows he is often asked the same few questions...
Pentagon to Dismantle Temporary Pier Built for Gaza Aid...
The $230 million short-notice project has struggled to overcome rough seas and other...
Some Biden Advisers Are Discussing How to Convince Him...
Close allies of the president are developing a case for why he should end his re-election...
Fraud Case Against Rich Exile Who Riled Beijing Goes to...
Guo Wengui fled China and allied with the American right in a quixotic quest to...
U.S. Uncovers Russian Plot to Assassinate C.E.O. of German...
The company produces artillery shells and tanks that Ukraine has used in its war...
Trump’s Trials and The Republican Convention
As Donald Trump heads to the Republican convention, his criminal cases look a lot...
Utah’s Gerrymandered House Map Ignored Voters’ Will, State...
The Republican-run State Legislature was wrong to flout a voter-approved measure...
Police Arrested Man at Capitol in Theft of Congressional...
The man, who had been arrested days earlier on the Capitol grounds, was accused...
Flash Flooding Leads to Evacuations and Rescues in Central...
The downpour took place exactly a year after a storm caused devastating flooding...
Ocasio-Cortez Loses the Democratic Socialists’ Endorsement...
The New York congresswoman was blamed for not being supportive enough of the Palestinian...
Trump’s Team Plans to Go After Kamala Harris at Republican...
His advisers are eager to define the vice president and drive down her approval...
Biden Blames Elites, but Voters May Be His Bigger Problem
Even if President Biden can stem high-level Democratic defections, many Americans...
Hotel Workers Fired After D’Vontaye Mitchell’s Death at...
D’Vontaye Mitchell, 43, died last month outside the hotel after he had been held...
Kamala Harris Says Biden Is a ‘Fighter’ at North Carolina...
At a time when the president’s vigor is an issue, his vice president said he was...
Schumer Is Open to Replacing Biden, Some Officials Say
The majority leader has been caught in an awkward spot as he balances his role as...
Milwaukee’s Mayor, No Fan of Trump, Is Thrilled to Host...
Cavalier Johnson, the Democratic mayor of Milwaukee, was one of the biggest cheerleaders...
Wisconsin Radio Show Says It Edited Biden Interview at...
“The Earl Ingram Show” cut two segments from an interview with the president that...
Biden Takes the Stage as Campaign Doubts Spread Among His...
Biden takes the stage in Washington as doubts about his candidacy spread among his...
Las Vegas Heat Breaks Records and Stuns Even the Forecasters
A brutal heat wave that has gripped the West for days will shift eastward on the...
Biden’s Debate Rattles Even the Most Faithful Democrats
The most loyal, longstanding Democratic voters were perhaps the most shaken by President...
The Historical Echo Biden Has Tried to Suppress
Democrats have rebuffed comparisons between 2024 and 1968. Recent events show they...
Why U.S. Schools Are Facing Their Biggest Budget Crunch...
Federal pandemic aid helped keep school districts afloat, but that money is coming...
A Plummeting Murder Rate Stuns Boston. But Can It Survive...
Only four homicides have occurred in the city this year. Although luck has played...
Biden Says He ‘Fell Asleep on the Stage’ During Debate...
President Biden blamed his international travel schedule for his disjointed performance,...
Big Donors Turn on Biden. Quietly.
Some of the president’s past supporters want a new candidate, but they are leery...
Special Counsel Is Said to Be Planning to Pursue Trump...
Jack Smith plans to continue two criminal cases against Donald J. Trump until Inauguration...
Who Is Lloyd Doggett? Texas Democrat Calls for Biden to...
The veteran congressman, once a prominent voice for his party’s left flank on Capitol...
Architects of the Trump Supreme Court See Culmination of...
For Donald F. McGahn II, the former White House counsel, and Senator Mitch McConnell,...
New Haitian Leader Visits Washington Seeking Additional...
Haiti’s newly selected prime minister, Garry Conille, met with Democrats on Capitol...
Biden’s Team Scrambles to Contain First Democratic Defections
Leading Democrats have lent legitimacy to questions about the president’s mental...
Biden Campaign Memos Show Efforts to Calm Concerns
A pair of memos highlighted internal polling that showed a close race and strong...
Think Twice Before Lighting Fireworks This July 4
Fireworks touch off blazes in California that cause millions of dollars in damage...
Heritage Foundation Head Refers to ‘Second American Revolution’
Kevin Roberts, president of the group that has coordinated the Project 2025 policy...
Biden to Hold Crisis Meeting With Democratic Governors...
The president is trying to reassure his supporters that he can still win in November...
In Supreme Court Immunity Decision, Clashing Views of the...
The Supreme Court’s conservative majority largely embraced Donald Trump’s dark view...
U.S. Deports Chinese Migrants in First Large Flight Since...
The Department of Homeland Security said it was working with Chinese authorities...
A Group of Business Leaders Call on Biden to Step Aside
As Democratic donors increasingly warm to a change, a coalition of politically active...
Trump Widens Lead After Biden’s Debate Debacle, Times/Siena...
Donald Trump is ahead of President Biden by six percentage points among likely voters...
Two Vulnerable House Democrats Say Biden Will Lose Against...
Representatives Jared Golden and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, who are in tough re-election...
Biden Tells Allies He Knows He Has Only Days to Salvage...
The president’s conversations are the first indication that he is seriously considering...
Democrats’ Anxiety on Display as Jill Biden Opens Michigan...
The first lady said President Biden would press ahead despite concerns about his...
Democrats in Congress Weigh Whether to Stick With Biden
The private message from congressional leaders was that members should feel free...
Nearly All Democratic Governors Plan to Attend Biden Meeting
Gavin Newsom, Gretchen Whitmer and Andy Beshear will be among those attending Wednesday’s...
26,000 Evacuate as Wildfire Spreads in Northern California
The fire has burned more than 3,000 acres and threatened residents of Oroville,...
Raúl Grijalva Is Second House Democrat to Call for Biden...
His remarks came a day after Representative Lloyd Doggett, a Texas Democrat, became...
Some Californians Found Dream Homes Inland. But It Sure...
Residents moved to Mountain House, Calif., to escape soaring housing costs near...
Netflix Co-founder Becomes One of the Biggest Democratic...
A public declaration from a megadonor is another crack in the armor in the president’s...
Biden Awards Medal of Honor to 2 Union Soldiers
Family members of Pvt. Philip G. Shadrach and Pvt. George D. Wilson received the...
Should Biden Quit? Democrats Weigh Potential Rewards and...
Picking a new nominee could give Democrats a jolt of energy. But it could bring...
6 Critical Days Following the Biden-Trump Debate
I said this election wouldn’t be boring, but I didn’t think it would turn upside...
San Francisco Celebrates Its New Public Toilet
The town threw a party for the opening of a $1.7 million public restroom.
Ocasio-Cortez and Others Rally With Summer Lee Ahead of...
Summer Lee, the first Black woman to represent Pennsylvania in the House, got help...
What’s Killing Endangered Sawfish in Florida?
First, fish off the Florida Keys started swimming in spirals or upside down. Then,...
Biden Earth Day Event Will Try to Reach Young Voters, a...
At a national park in Virginia on Monday, the president will point to investments...
