Prosecutors have been repeatedly caught between the president’s insistence that they undertake weak or baseless cases and the necessity of having to go to court.Senators Elissa Slotkin and Mark Kelly were among the Democratic lawmakers targeted by federal prosecutors after recording a video informin
Plus, Brad Pitt vs. Tom Cruise?Stephen Colbert said he had to drop an interview with a Democratic candidate for a U.S. Senate race because of new F.C.C. guidance that targeted political interviews.
Legislation that would require proof of citizenship to register to vote was only the beginning as the G.O.P. presses to sharply limit voting in line with President Trump’s false claims of widespread fraud.Ballots being counted in Los Angeles County in 2024. Representative Bryan Steil, Republican of
Dan Helmer, a Democratic state lawmaker, played a key role in putting redrawn congressional maps before state voters.An Army veteran of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Dan Helmer, 44, entered state politics in 2019 on a platform of gun control and abortion rights.
A proposed ballot measure to give Democrats more seats for the 2028 and 2030 elections signals that the nation’s gerrymandering fight is likely to persist for years.Voters in Oak Creek, Colo., in 2024. A ballot measure backed by a Democratic-allied group in the state would ask voters to suspend the
Moderna said it had held further discussions with regulators and announced that the agency would accept the company’s application for approval of its flu vaccine that uses mRNA technology.Moderna’s vaccine production facility in Laval, Quebec.
We asked experts about how the technology works, its safety and its potential in medicine.
Six Russian athletes and four Belarusians will be allowed to represent their nations, officials said. The decision could pave the way for a Russian team to compete at the 2028 Summer Games in Los Angeles.Russian athletes carrying their national flag at the closing ceremony for the Winter Games in So
The Beatles’ beloved collaborator died at 59 in 2006. A new documentary, “That’s the Way God Planned It,” explores what he long kept hidden.
The Beatles, the Stones and Clapton shared the stage with him. He made solo hits, too. A documentary by Paris Barclay explores his success and his difficult life.
Across the country, Democratic-led states are accelerating their initiatives to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Their role just became much more important.Shoppers measured the width of an electric vehicle at the Colorado Auto Show in Denver last year. Colorado legislators plan to introduce a bill tha
Environmental and health groups sued the E.P.A. over its elimination of the endangerment finding. The matter is likely to end up before the Supreme Court.The E.P.A. last week erased the scientific finding that gave it the authority to regulate greenhouse gases. Cars are a top emitter of the gases, w
The latest round of talks ended with no indication of progress, but negotiators are bargaining over who will control land in eastern Ukraine if they reach a settlement.Soldiers monitor the sky for Russian drones in the Donetsk region of Ukraine in December.
The discussions in Geneva were expected to focus on territorial issues, a major sticking point, but the short duration suggests major progress was not made.Russia’s lead negotiator, Vladimir Medinsky, in Geneva on Tuesday.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who won over voters with his approach to social media, is using the same strategy to try to connect City Hall to all New Yorkers.Mayor Zohran Mamdani appeared at a Sanitation Department salt shed as the city prepared for a snowstorm.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani appointed six members to the Rent Guidelines Board, which decides whether rents can go up in nearly one million rent-stabilized apartments.Mayor Zohran Mamdani pledged throughout his campaign last year to “freeze the rent” for the nearly two million New Yorkers who live in rent-
Mayor Zohran Mamdani will place the Department of Homeless Services in charge of the sweeps, replacing the Police Department as lead of the interagency effort.A man died in this encampment in Queens, N.Y., during a recent cold snap.
Mr. Jackson was critical to Martin Luther King Jr.’s quest to transform a fight for equality in the South to a national movement for economic and social justice.The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., second from right, alongside Jesse Jackson, at center holding a piece of paper, at Greater Mount Hope
Humain, which was created by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman last year, said it made the investment just before xAI was acquired by SpaceX, Mr. Musk’s rocket company.Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman with Elon Musk at a Saudi Arabia Investment forum at the Kennedy Center in Washington last year.
America’s Kurdish allies oversaw two dozen sites holding thousands of members of the terrorist group and their families. Their withdrawal has left the system in chaos.
A fast-growing network of private schools, the brainchild of a North Carolina neurosurgeon, is teaching 9,000 war orphans and other needy Palestinian youngsters.Students lining up to enter a classroom at an Academy of Hope school in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, this month.
Some patients in a clinical trial of one new drug lost so much weight that they became concerned and dropped out.
Without the usual flood of new musicals, the playwrights of works like “Becky Shaw,” “Dog Day Afternoon” and “Giant” are getting a chance to shine.
Across the country, a flurry of theater productions, including “Black Swan” and “The Lunchbox,” are mining the movies for material.
