In North Carolina, a Voting Rights Clash Ahead of 2024
A closely watched political fight is developing in North Carolina over voting rights and control of elections, as Democrats aim to recapture a presidential battleground...
Lithium Scarcity Pushes Carmakers Into the Mining Business
Eager to avoid falling further behind Tesla and Chinese car companies, many Western auto executives are bypassing traditional suppliers and committing billions of dollars on...
Trump Attacks Biden and Federal Law Enforcement at Fourth of July Event
Former President Donald J. Trump drew a crowd of thousands on Saturday to a quiet South Carolina town’s Independence Day event, where he assailed the...
Hunter Biden’s Daughter and a Tale of Two Families
There is a 4-year-old girl in rural Arkansas who is learning to ride a camouflage-patterned four-wheeler alongside her cousins. Some days, she wears a bow...
DeSantis Uses LGBTQ Issues to Attack Trump in Twitter Video
Gov. Ron DeSantis’s campaign shared a provocative video on Friday attacking the record of former President Donald J. Trump regarding L.G.B.T.Q. people that was widely...
An Early Heat Wave Upsets the Rhythm of Life in the South
The drum line stood beneath a canopy of trees and rattled through rolls of sextuplets, with reddened shoulders glistening. As the sun blistered the parking...
U.S. Foreign Policy Veteran Says Real Danger Is Here in America
Everywhere he has gone as president of the Council on Foreign Relations, Richard N. Haass has been asked the same question: What keeps him up...
Supreme Court Decisions on Education Could Offer Democrats an Opening
Ever since President Bill Clinton advised “mend it, don’t end it,” affirmative action has had an uneasy place in the Democratic coalition, as omnipresent as...
Coast Guard Apologizes for Covering Up Long History of Sexual Assault
The U.S. Coast Guard apologized on Friday for covering up scores of documented sexual assault and harassment cases that took place at the service’s academy,...
Robert Kennedy Jr. Reports Income of $7.8 Million
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the political scion and prominent vaccine skeptic who is challenging President Biden for the Democratic presidential nomination, reported an income of...
DeSantis Financial Disclosure Puts Him in the Millionaires Club
Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, who often speaks of his blue-collar roots, is now a millionaire, thanks to a $1.25 million book deal that he...
Judge to Decide Whether Taint of C.I.A. Torture Extended to Guantánamo
More than 22 years after Al Qaeda bombed the U.S.S. Cole and nearly 12 years after a prisoner was first charged with plotting the attack,...
Affirmative Action Ruling May Upend Diversity Hiring Policies, Too
As a legal matter, the Supreme Court’s rejection of race-conscious admissions in higher education does not in itself impede employers from pursuing diversity in the...
What Is the Higher Education Act? Biden to Try Canceling Student Loans Again.
Even as he denounced the Supreme Court ruling striking down his student debt forgiveness program and blamed Republicans for going after it, President Biden said...