A joint statement promised new efforts to cut emissions at a time when China is positioning itself as the world’s one-s…

A Black man was beaten by a white officer in Jacksonville, Fla., during a traffic stop. The sheriff’s office said that …

Trump’s budget cuts mean that local governments must work smarter.

A co-founder of the Congressional Black Caucus, he represented St. Louis in the House as an uncompromising liberal Demo…

The man, a U.S. citizen, is barred from leaving China by the Ministry of State Security, the country’s main intelligenc…

Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York, said that he and his wife were going to the African count…

A former Jeffrey Epstein employee said that she told the F.B.I. in 1996 and 2006 about what she considered a troubling …

Ukraine’s president proposed reviving talks brokered by the Trump administration, which seemed stalled a month ago.

Natasha Lavoie’s phone number appeared on a T-shirt sold online that advertised a fictitious missing cat. She can’t sto…

Over 260 people were released from prisons in El Salvador and Venezuela. Now they face the challenge of coming home.

Pop culture didn’t create the real-world mythologies roiling our politics, but it helped write the scripts.

Republicans had a point when they complained that Democrats overreached on immigration. But that’s what the G.O.P. is d…

From the director of “Midsommar,” a nightmare vision of our national descent.

Mr. Adams, who was elected on a law-and-order campaign message, is seeking to portray Zohran Mamdani, this year’s Democ…

Students want to study the humanities and liberal arts. But university administrators keep getting in the way.

The Trump administration sent five deportees to Eswatini, an African kingdom, saying that their own countries would not…

More than a client list, MAGA is looking for meaning.

Few Americans have confidence in the chairman, Jerome Powell, to do the right thing on the economy, though attitudes ar…

Drastic measures are necessary “before we are crushed by the debt,” the country’s prime minister warned.

Her heritage, as a scion of Boston Brahmins and the mother of biracial children, shaped a discursive verse style that v…