Working behind the scenes at MIT, she played a key role in the success of NASA's Apollo missions. She was later awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Democratic Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut said the Pentagon denied him access to ​Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar during a visit to the Middle East. His failed attempt came after Defense Secretary Pet...

Companies and investors are eager to hire those with recent access to the White House and knowledge of the administration’s Venezuela policy or contacts.

For too long, both parties have been hamstrung by the Senate's tangled rules.

Are Democrats overconfident? Republicans too anxious? The Post’s pollster answers questions about polling bias and how to read the midterm surveys.

The family of Silverio Villegas Gonzalez said his shooting death last year in the Chicago area was unlawful and left his two children traumatized.

Vice President JD Vance announced the suspension, saying it would affect H-1B visas and aims to protect U.S. workers.

The writer joins a list of laureates that includes Toni Morrison, Samuel Beckett and Bob Dylan.

Rewriting the rules for counting the population is yet another way to marginalize minorities.

A majority of ownership in a proposed multibillion-dollar deal would go to a group of Middle Eastern investors, including some with business ties to U.S. negotiators.

A top aide to Ambassador Mike Huckabee skewed information to portray the Netanyahu government in a favorable light, according to multiple officials and documents obtained by The Times.

Recovery of tigers, tuna and green sea turtles show nature loss can be reversed when action taken, charity says Conservation comebacks for wild tigers, tuna and green​ sea turtles prove that global nature loss can be reversed, ​scientists have said. ​But a report warns food production must be the next ​“positive tipping point​” if the world is to avert biodiversity collapse. The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) analysed nearly 36,000 animal populations and more than 5,000 species, producing the largest ever database of vertebrate wildlife. Scientists found populations had declined by an average of 73% since 1970, showing that “nature continues to be degraded at an alarming scale”, with “no sign of losses slowing”. Continue reading...

Senator Patty Murray, a former chair of the Senate health committee, is forming a group of experts to examine how to insulate the C.D.C. from political interference.

Trump doesn’t commit to repaying federal funds already spent on controversial ads, aide says Trump did not call for attacks on US cities, Trump to call Putin to discuss plague in Russia,

Scientists Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai won the 2026 Nobel Prize ​in Chemistry on Wednesday for solving a long-standing riddle of asymmetric "mirror image" molecules, a discovery hugely important for ph...

Anonymous commanders paint a picture of an army suddenly trusted to improvise, led by rehabilitated critics and 30‑something officers, while Russia marks Putin’s birthday with mass strikes and a burning oil tanker off Sochi’s coast.

Jaafar Ashityeh, 58, was attacked while reporting the same story — settler attacks during the Palestinian olive harvest — last year, too.

Police officers helping ICE arrest unauthorized immigrants were given a shortened training course that scaled back instruction on the nation’s immigration laws.

SARS, Ebola and covid highlighted role of plane travel in spreading — and tracking — outbreaks.

A labor shortage tied to ICE arrests could shake up a trio of battleground House races along the U.S.-Mexico border.

The state hasn’t elected a Democrat to the Senate in nearly a century. Economic challenges during President Trump’s second term, as well as other factors, have put it in play.

Republicans' mid-decade redistricting was supposed to create 14 strongly red districts, but only five look safe. That's lead to a $100 million ad boost.

In Texas and Iowa, Democrats are successfully tying universal school vouchers to corruption.

Moscow says its capture of the region is inevitable. But Kyiv has so far stymied Russian efforts to encircle Ukrainian “fortress belt” cities.

The FDA has issued a recall of 13,567 bottles of 25 mg chlorthalidone tablets, which had failed lab tests. It's the manufacturer’s second recall of the tablets this year, with over 25,027 bottles affe...

Lawyers for the former Olympian David Hearn accused prosecutors of ignoring their own evidence to indict him and then providing “blatantly false” information about what they knew when.

A hearing in New York brought together AI executives and former employees who say the industry is moving too fast.

The civil rights organization is stepping up efforts in response to President Donald Trump’s push to change voting rules.