Organizers are hoping to promote early voting ahead of the midterm elections in this latest round of nationwide demonstrations that have previously focused on President Trump.

The world’s richest person, who has become the biggest known midterm donor, gave $158 million to a group that quickly spent that much to help Mr. Paxton’s Senate bid in Texas.

Why Democrats must prioritize court reform.

The party will need to make the most of whatever majority it has.

Signs are emerging that dispirited Republican voters may stay home in November, bringing a Democratic surge without many conversions.

At the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Mary Tsingou Menzel’s computer programming helped set the stage for chaos theory and other fields.

We are living through the Regina George administration, argues the Opinion contributing writer Molly Jong-Fast. Yes, the very one from “Mean Girls.” President Trump’s administration is filled with wan...

As enrollment for Medicare Advantage begins this month, older Americans are confronting fewer options because insurers are discontinuing coverage in many areas.

The Texas Democrat who says the culture wars are over.

The man was in a car with a 5-year-old in the back seat when he was shot and wounded, the authorities said. Mayor Zohran Mamdani said the Trump administration was “terrorizing our city.”

The last two midterms where Democrats surged against an unpopular Republican president were in 2006 and 2018. They had notably different outcomes.

Signs are emerging that dispirited Republican voters may stay home in November, bringing a Democratic surge without many conversions.

The founder of SpaceX, with billions of dollars in military contracts, joins several other defense industry executives on a Pentagon advisory board.

Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general and Republican Senate candidate, has alleged a sprawling profit-driven conspiracy. Pediatricians say the accusations are an attempt at intimidation.

The president’s decision to hold an international summit at his own private golf club, an idea rejected in his first term, illustrates how much he has shattered norms.

In his “State of the Force” address on Wednesday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth doubled down on his decisions to fire dozens of admirals and generals and bar transgender people.

On the technological, diplomatic and biological fronts, Trump is creating a disaster.

It was the Trump administration’s latest stumble in its effort to find proof of widespread noncitizen voting, despite decades of evidence that it is extremely rare.

“Rigged.” “Fraud.” “Hoax.” The president is a broken record.

State health officials said 55 new cases had been reported since Wednesday. In all, 890 measles cases have been reported across 39 counties so far this year.

If Democrats can embrace what affordability is really about, they might do even more than win elections.

Fun, free events communicate a larger goal: that everyday people should be able to afford a joyful life.

A review of dozens of incidents caught on camera sheds new light on a largely invisible crackdown.

Trump’s flailing presidency leaves Americans with the thinnest of hopes for this week’s summit: that he does not further damage the national interest.

The Department of Homeland Security said agents released the man after he identified himself. He was taken to a hospital with head and neck injuries, local police said.

The aircraft carrier with its crew of about 5,000 sailors has spent more than 300 days at sea.

A surprising number of pastors are running as Democrats this year, challenging Americans’ assumptions about politics and faith.

Representative Don Davis is seeking re-election in a district redrawn by state lawmakers to lean more Republican.

We spoke to independents who have soured on Trump.

As the outbreak grows to more than 700 confirmed cases, the largest in the country, some people remain opposed to vaccines and others are rushing to get the shots.

Mistakes that led to the deaths of more than a hundred children “went beyond negligence,” investigators said. They also cited a separate strike the same day that killed a reported 22 civilians.

We need a legal standard that would prohibit sexism and gender bias in criminal trials.

An internal memo reinterprets the law so that only the intentional killing of animals, not collateral harm, is illegal.

President Trump is known for appointing friends and family to his administration — including his son-in-law Jared Kushner and his friend Steve Witkoff. On “The Ezra Klein Show,” the political scientis...

The divisions are clear, but there’s more common ground than one might expect within the coalition, a Times/Siena poll shows.

Generation of electricity is the second largest source of carbon dioxide and other planet-warming gases in the United States.

In their new book, Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor argue that a powerful far-right coalition is hastening the destruction of the world as we know it. They talked about how the movement can be countered o...

The judge said the plan would hinder the agency’s ability to respond to disasters.

The president incubated the career of one of his greatest critics.

President Trump has harnessed agencies across the government to curtail press freedoms, a sweeping campaign that free speech advocates say will have lasting effects.

The inquiry has sought to link disparate criminal inquiries into the president as a multiyear scheme to damage his political prospects.

At an unusual midterm gathering, President Trump and his allies painted Democrats as dangerously un-American.

Much of what Alex Gibney’s documentary presents isn’t new. But in piecing it all together, he wants the viewer to take Musk seriously as a threat to democracy.

Two lawsuits seek to reverse the Trump administration’s moves to open the habitats of imperiled wildlife to commercial activities.

On second thought, I’m not that hungry.

The duties are a retaliation against President Trump’s recent tariffs, raising concerns about further escalation.

Roy Cooper’s durable lead in a crucial Senate race is causing jitters.

President Trump’s foreign adventurism will drive immigrants to the United States. And his anti-immigrant base knows it.

The proposed benefit, a top policy priority for Vice President JD Vance, would apply only to married couples and tap a fund intended to provide federal child care subsidies to working parents.

Data from Gallup shows that Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents have their largest advantage over Republicans since 2008.