New York Times

Laying out bait that Donald Trump eagerly snatched, the vice president owned much of the night, keeping him on the back foot and avoiding sustained attention on her own vulnerabilities.

Commemorations for those killed in the attacks 23 years ago took place throughout the city, with politicians joining those assembled at ground zero.

Two Opinion writers break down the Trump-Harris debate.

In his first extensive remarks on the death of Aysenur Eygi, the U.S. president called for accountability from Israel.

Individual sanctions offer a rare form of accountability for autocrats.

The legislation passed by Congress could produce one of the most far-reaching judicial overhauls in any major democracy.

Experts said the research underscored how abortion bans had affected women’s contraceptive choices.

President Emmanuel Macron’s newly picked prime minister wasted no time in putting a pointed distance between himself and France’s weakened leader.

The New York Times spoke to several election volunteers for Venezuela’s opposition party who found that Edmundo González defeated Nicolás Maduro in July. They fled the country after facing death threats from Maduro’s supporters.

A substantial number of Republican voters are losing faith in science.

Former President Donald J. Trump is gambling that Americans are as angry as he is, while Vice President Kamala Harris hopes voters are exhausted by the Trump era and ready to move on.

Francisco Lopera defied rebels, cartels and vampire bats to become a pioneering researcher of Alzheimer’s disease.

At Tuesday’s debate, Mr. Trump repeated his claim that he can end the war and refused to say if defending Ukraine was in America’s national security interests.

Terence Banks opened a consulting firm and soon found work with companies that do business with the city agencies overseen by his older brothers.

A gallon of regular gasoline in August was down nearly 12 percent from a year earlier, reflecting a fall in oil prices as well as a decline in demand.

Former President Donald J. Trump offered a dire portrait of America, often relying on false and debunked claims as he described “a failing nation.”

Plus, the truth about recycling coffee pods.

How the latest controversy in the long-running death-penalty case at Guantánamo Bay could play out.

In human remains buried in an Italian crypt, researchers found evidence of cocaine use from the 17th century.

When Donald Trump and Kamala Harris faced off on the debate stage, governing style was on display.