New York Times

The president’s opening remark to a group of key Democratic leaders — that he was in the race to stay — chilled any talk of his withdrawal, participants said.

The president appears intent on remaining on the ballot, while wealthy donors are discussing plans to put their money elsewhere.

A senior White House official called progress in talks with Hamas “a breakthrough,” while Israel was more restrained, and both said major obstacles to a truce remained.

Mr. Bertoletti won the title, succeeding the 16-time champion Joey Chestnut, who was barred from the July 4 spectacle. In the women’s contest, Miki Sudo ate 51 hot dogs, a record.

On the other side of honesty is the possibility of change.

Christian nationalists aim to impose their beliefs on others.

The Democratic Party seems to be playing the wait-and-see game, hoping polls give it permission to pull the emergency brake.

Pro-Trump professionals aren’t just talking about remaking Western civilization. Some are uprooting their lives to show that they mean it.

Blockbuster decisions by the Supreme Court’s Republican-appointed supermajority — expanding one kind of executive branch authority while undercutting another — were no contradiction.

Most young people in France usually don’t vote or they back the left. That is still true, but support has surged for the far right, whose openly racist past can feel to them like ancient history.

The president’s opening remark to a group of key Democratic leaders — that he was in the race to stay — chilled any talk of his withdrawal, participants said.

Picking a new nominee could give Democrats a jolt of energy. But it could bring division and a crash-course campaign with no room for error.

Now 76, the inventor and futurist hopes to reach “the Singularity” and live indefinitely. His margin of error is shrinking.

The country, which already has the European Union’s longest average workweek, wants to add another day in some cases, bucking a growing business trend.

British Columbia recognized the Haida’s aboriginal title to their islands decades after the Indigenous group launched a battle on the ground and in the courts.

The former president’s reluctance to name a running mate has, in recent days, been partly to avoid shifting the focus away from President Biden amid fallout from the debate.

Earth whirls around the sun in an ellipse, rather than a circle. On Friday the planet will reach its farthest point from its star, known as aphelion.

In a series of interviews, virtually every resident of Tehran listed Iran’s sickly economy as the No. 1 issue for the country’s next president.

As voters cast their ballots in a pivotal election, many in the southern English city of Portsmouth expressed disillusionment over what they see as national and local decline.

The storm, now a Category 3 hurricane, has already slammed Jamaica and Grenada this week. A hurricane warning was in effect for the Cayman Islands on Thursday.