Inflation has hurt Americans at many levels: Farmers, truckers, consumers. It has also expanded the electoral map into what was safely Republican country just a few months ago.

A new report claims Trump's Liberation Day tariffs suppressed hiring by up to 1 million jobs and cost American families roughly $1,000 more in 2025.

We are unable to recognize and critique bad behavior outside of a narrow definition of criminal sex.

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.

Half of homes in Maine rely on heating oil. Rising costs driven up by President Trump’s war with Iran have become central to the state’s Senate race.

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

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

Hours after some Jewish leaders denounced Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s remarks about the attacks on Israel, activists interrupted a vigil to call him a traitor to the Palestinian cause.

Margaret Hamilton, the first female programmer hired to work on the space project at M.I.T., was 90.

Vaccine safety experts say more research into the side effects would be welcome yet question whether the health secretary’s effort will be grounded in science.

Russian authorities aren’t saying much about the death of a woman who worked in a lab studying plague. But experts say any risk of contagion would be limited.

Beta Pictoris b appears to have an aurora caused by a powerful magnetic field. If confirmed, it would be the first such field known outside our solar system.

Archaeologists are scouring mountain passes as artifacts from a bygone world all but tumble out of Switzerland’s shrinking ice.

Gov. Gavin Newsom called the president “dangerous and deranged” after his remarks at a political rally, where Mr. Trump said the Iran war was necessary to “keep the world safe.”

The Senegalese writer was lauded as one of the founding fathers of African literature who subtly captured the shock of colonization from the perspective of the continent’s people.

The government-funded ads show just how much President Trump has been able to use federal money for his own aims.

Democrats are performing strongly in five reliably Republican states where they are trying to flip Senate seats to win control of the chamber, new New York Times/Siena polls found.

The Justice Department is trawling to find perpetrators on whom to pin conspiracies. Ordinary citizens are being ensnared.

This case has flown under the radar, but it won’t stay there.

Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York appointed Letitia James, the state attorney general, to investigate a former Cornell University student’s rape allegation. They were set to provide an update on the case ...

Trump-in-denial grows defensive and curses at a reporter when confronted with straight-forward questions about his second term

After decades of potlucks and paddle-boarding on Maine’s midcoast, rising anger and protests have left the Supreme Court’s chief justice more isolated than ever.

We introduce you to librarians across the country.

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

Their accounts, detailed in hundreds of pages of investigative files obtained by The New York Times, were disjointed and sometimes contradictory. All the men denied any wrongdoing.

Documents obtained by The New York Times show that the campus police at Cornell University sent a condensed statement to a prosecutor, who then declined to bring charges.

A seating chart of the meeting illustrated growing divisions within the artificial intelligence industry and how it is viewed by the White House.

A new “propaganda playbook” aims to demystify common techniques used to target Black Americans, long a powerful voting bloc, with election-related disinformation.

We already spend at least that much on the US military each year, and maybe a lot more....

MAGA’s favorite Democrat, John Fetterman, has been secretly fundraising with Republicans.

The fatal shooting of Ms. Good set off protests during the Trump administration’s immigration operation early this year in Minnesota.

The administration’s policy of detaining immigrants who crossed the border illegally years ago and holding them without a bond hearing has divided lower courts.

Christa Pike was convicted of murdering a classmate in 1995. It was not clear what went wrong in the execution or what her current medical condition was.

As A.I. capabilities accelerate, the technologist is shocked by the “complete lack of engagement” with the question of how to manage its risks.

Some Iraqis are celebrating the end of an American military presence that unleashed waves of bloodshed. Others fear what happens next for their country, trapped between Washington and Tehran.

The search for fraud in the federal government must always end in the same place.

The new question, included on a draft version of the primary tax form, comes as part of an anti-immigrant turn at an agency that long prioritized tax administration.

After outrage over allegations in a lawsuit, the Tompkins County district attorney will revisit the decision not to pursue criminal charges against seven fraternity members.

A Staten Island judge sided with a group of homeowners who had sued the city over its introduction of the tax, dealing a blow to Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

The administration is brokering deals in a notoriously corrupt industry, including one with a company that the United States deems a security threat.

We look at the market for products with added protein.

The Supreme Court has had a lot to do with it.

Powerful waves spat out a chunk of the wooden boat, one of hundreds that had wrecked around the island in the 19th century.

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.

Investigators found that New Jersey’s lieutenant governor, Dale Caldwell, sought a promotion for his girlfriend and made a sexually charged comment to a staff member.

CNN, MS NOW and Politico argued in court that the president’s effort to block them from the White House complex violated their First Amendment rights. The judge promised to rule soon.

Texas and even Florida are the places to watch in November if a polling pattern holds.