New York Times

President Biden spent decades seeking the highest office, only to drop his bid for re-election under pressure. These final months before the November election are bittersweet, his allies say.

The hawkish conservative and vice president under President George W. Bush has broken with Donald J. Trump before. Earlier this week, his daughter Liz Cheney said she would vote for Ms. Harris.

Mr. Trump’s news conference had little to do with the issues in the 2024 presidential race, and seemed like more of a venting exercise over his frustrations about his legal travails.

To understand Harris’s success, you have to think about Marie Kondo and her ruthless minimalism about clutter.

A pianist, composer and arranger, he rose to fame with the group Brasil ’66 and remained a force in popular music for more than six decades.

A 10-day raid by Israeli troops into the occupied territory has been one of the most devastating in years, with at least 39 people killed, according to Palestinian officials.

In another case of deadly gunfire at a school, the victim, a 15-year-old student, was airlifted to a trauma center, where he later died. A 16-year-old suspect was in custody on Friday.

In court, the woman said she was traumatized not only by what prosecutors said happened to her mother but also by fear that she herself might have been abused.

The stock market “can’t win” at the moment, said Andrew Brenner, head of international fixed income at National Alliance Securities. “Heads I lose, tails I lose.”

The revelation that much of Mayor Eric Adams’s inner circle is under federal investigation stunned city officials, and some worried their work could be affected.

The former president has to answer for Dobbs. He can’t wriggle out of it.

The actions taken against the reporters, from The New York Post and The New York Times, came after federal agents seized the phone of New York City’s police commissioner.

Both are being prosecuted in the killings of two teachers and two students. New questions arose Friday about whether school officials were told about an investigation of the teenager last year.

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Nazi sympathy is the natural endpoint of the politics of trolling.

The former president and his running mate gave nearly equally confusing answers when asked separately this week how they would make child care more affordable.

Karen Dunn, who is preparing the vice president for next week’s clash, has trained Democrats for debates in every election since 2008. Her approach, as Hillary Clinton put it, is “tough love.”

Congressional Republicans in races around the country are seeking to appeal to women by pledging support for I.V.F. and abortion access, even if they have opposed them in the past.

A looming decision in Washington to block Nippon Steel’s merger with U.S. Steel on national security grounds is raising sharp questions in Tokyo.

The value of the 88-year-old activist investor’s company has fallen by nearly $20 billion. Mr. Icahn said that he was “absolutely not selling.”