The former New York mayor’s dirt-digging effort on Hunter Biden in 2019 ended with President Trump’s impeachment. Now he is back with new associates. So far it is not going exactly as planned.
“Why should you pay more taxes than Donald Trump?” Joseph R. Biden Jr. asked as he took aim at the president’s taxes and tax policy.
Prosecutors in Connecticut said they did not have enough evidence to pursue a second trial against Michael C. Skakel, who was convicted of killing Martha Moxley in 1975 when they were both 15.
Her mother watched her heartbreaking downfall over three swift weeks, starting in mid-September, when Elvia began experiencing headaches.
Its name was Observation Post Rock. The outpost is the backdrop for a ghost story, and is known for strange voices, radio static and the creeping fear of being watched.
Immigration was a defining issue for President Trump in 2016. It’s less dominant in 2020, and it is motivating his critics as well as his supporters.
Mr. Trump won the presidency in 2016 after making more than 100 promises. Here’s where some stand four years later and what some of his supporters think of them.
A magnitude-7.0 quake that struck in the Aegean Sea also killed at least two people in Greece. Hundreds in Turkey were injured and many thousands displaced.
Trump ganó la presidencia en 2016 haciendo más de cien promesas. Cuatro años después, este es el avance de algunos de esos compromisos y lo que piensan algunos de sus seguidores de ellos.
On the ground and in TV ads, the candidates are in an intense and surprising battle for Black male voters, who are crucial for Democrats trying to win back Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
An unknown assailant fired twice at the priest before fleeing the scene, authorities said. The attack came amid heightened tensions in France after an Islamist terrorist attack in Nice that left three dead.
Obama will head to South Florida and Atlanta on Monday, Biden campaign announces.
A new storytelling initiative is rooted in the belief that information is “not going to be on a sliver of glass forever.”
Early vote totals tick past 90 million, nearing two-thirds of 2016 turnout.
As President Trump urges supporters to watch for fraud at polling places, people inside the polls already are keeping watch — and usually not finding much.
New outbreaks used to be traced back to crowded factories and rowdy bars. But now, the virus is so widespread not even health officials are able to keep up.
Florida’s 26th Congressional District seemed like the rare pickup opportunity for Republicans. But the campaign has been complicated by the coronavirus and the presidential election.
“Mr. Trump presented himself as a class traitor who would bring the billionaires to heel,” but did the opposite, a reader says.
John Forbes returns with a proper cryptic challenge.
Over the past four years, The New York Times has independently obtained and published information on several decades of Donald J. Trump’s taxes.
The magnitude-7.0 quake that struck in the Aegean Sea also killed at least two people in Greece. Hundreds were injured in Turkey and many thousands displaced.
Whether as James Bond or Indiana Jones’s father, the Scottish star played the man’s man with an earthy sexiness, as these performances prove.
After chafing against their isolation for so long, Australians these days are finding island life a privilege when pestilence lies beyond.
When it comes to curbing violence by law enforcement, local elections matter most.
Emmanuel Macron’s government may unwittingly be breeding the kind of communalism it wants to ward off.
With every election cycle, the same question comes up: Is this the year the Lone Star State changes its color?
People making from $10,000 and $30,000 — nearly one-quarter of Americans — are among millions slated to pay more in 2021.
Government efforts to stimulate growth are lifting markets of all kinds everywhere.
Co-op shareholders are responsible for keeping the building financially stable. But what happens when they don’t want to pay a new fee?
U.S. Special Operations forces conducted a predawn raid in neighboring Nigeria to free the American before he could be sold to terrorists.
Hearty and consoling dishes.
La iglesia de Roma pierde terreno frente a la secularización, el ateísmo y el avance de otras religiones. Para sobrevivir y actualizarse necesita mostrar compasión.
The sudden increase of time with their children has reminded some low-income parents of what they have been missing. “It’s an odd silver lining, but it’s there,” says Jane Waldfogel, a professor at the Columbia School of Social Work.
Daddy longlegs will sometimes collect in large groups. Don’t mistake their dangling limbs for fur.
After a poll marred by accusations of widespread fraud and irregularities, one opposition leader warned that the nation could become a “one-party system.”
Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s cabinet met on Saturday as medical experts warned that the virus would soon overwhelm hospitals if the government did not take draconian action.
To legions of fans who have watched a parade of actors play Agent 007, none played the part as magnetically or as indelibly as Mr. Connery.
El país espera que cuando la gente reserve sus primeros vuelos pospandémicos al extranjero, Islandia sea la primera opción. También pretende aprender del pasado reciente, cuando el número de turistas se disparó.
Overall, Russia’s health care system is coping with a fall surge in cases, but bodies are piling up in overwhelmed regional hospitals and morgues.
On an empty lot near Phoenix, perhaps the most auto-addicted city in America, a start-up is betting $170 million on a more walkable future.
How isolation, monotony and chronic stress are destroying our sense of time.
No matter who wins the presidency, a lot of people are going to be disappointed. Maybe even scared. But it’s no time to act rashly.
“We are forecasting widespread destruction,” an official said of the typhoon, which was expected to make landfall on Sunday.
In a bid to drive turnout in Michigan, Obama and Biden will appear together at two rallies on Saturday.
The crisis facing magicians is unprecedented. “It’s a scary, scary time,” said one.
Peter Hamby hosts “Good Luck America” on Snapchat. “My North Star is really the low-information news consumer,” he says. “That’s not an insult.”
My wife and I thought we were two strangers meeting on social media. Turns out, we shared some history.
President Trump has complained this week of what he calls a media obsession with the coronavirus pandemic. The message from Democrats has been united — all coronavirus, all the time.
In a divided country, a tour of the final, furious campaign days has revealed an abiding theme that cuts across party lines: Let’s never do this again.
In a divided country, a tour of the final, furious campaign days has revealed an abiding theme that cuts across party lines: Let’s never do this again.
With turnout the key to victory in Florida, some Democrats have expressed concern about a lack of enthusiasm from Black and Latino voters.
With turnout the key to victory in Florida, some Democrats have expressed concern about a lack of enthusiasm from Black and Latino voters.
It’s not hope or change. It’s not making anything great. It’s just about making it through.
President Trump turned American foreign policy inside out, to the benefit of some nations and consternation of others. Now both groups are watching attentively to see which direction the U.S. goes next.
Republicans are battling to hold off losses by warning of the risks of unified Democratic power in Washington, but they concede their majority is in peril.
Anxious but determined, Americans are pushing through challenges like the pandemic and long lines to cast their ballot. The country is on course to surpass 150 million votes for the first time.
Cephalopod researchers were surprised by the sighting of a ram’s horn squid, a peculiar animal never before filmed in its natural environment.
Complicated ballot counts and a president’s baseless claims of vote-rigging are two of the challenges facing TV anchors and executives.
And so would nearly every company out there this year.
Instead of addressing genetic mutations, the Crispr machinery prompted cells to lose entire chromosomes.
Because we could all use a little escapism this year.
Representative John Katko has managed to keep his seat in Central New York by distancing himself from the president. Will that be enough this year?
Young staff members are adjusting to a campaign trail altered by the coronavirus, working long hours from their childhood bedrooms.
“Serpentine” — which features, once again, the unquenchably curious Lyra — juxtaposes light and dark, innocence and experience.
In Varian Johnson and Shannon Wright’s graphic novel “Twins,” sisters navigate a sometimes cruel and changing world.
“Becoming Muhammad Ali,” by James Patterson and Kwame Alexander, is a poetic retelling of the legendary boxer’s youth.
In “Lupe Wong Won’t Dance,” a seventh-grade girl who dreams of becoming a major-league pitcher is horrified by a new unit in gym class: square dancing.
Minnesota will not contest a ruling ordering it to set aside ballots received after 8 p.m. on Election Day.
Minnesota will not contest a ruling ordering it to set aside ballots received after 8 p.m. on Election Day.
Gervonta Davis and Leo Santa Cruz will fight on pay-per-view and in front of fans at the Alamodome. Two weeks ago, another big fight was not sold separately for viewers, and did not allow paying spectators.
These new works from Tomi Ungerer, Sophie Blackall and Christian Robinson are realistic and — without being soppy — filled with hope.
President Trump plans four stops in Pennsylvania on Saturday, and the Biden campaign will be there on Sunday and Monday.
President Trump plans four stops in Pennsylvania on Saturday, and the Biden campaign will be there on Sunday and Monday.
A federal judge told the Postal Service to take “extraordinary measures” to ensure on-time ballot delivery in 22 districts, some of them in battleground states.
After President Trump repeated an unfounded claim that American doctors were profiteering from coronavirus deaths, medical professionals pushed back.
After President Trump repeated an unfounded claim that American doctors were profiteering from coronavirus deaths, medical professionals pushed back.
A federal judge told the Postal Service to take “extraordinary measures” to ensure on-time ballot delivery in 22 districts, some of them in battleground states.
After President Trump repeated an unfounded claim that American doctors were profiteering from coronavirus deaths, medical professionals pushed back.
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Nursing homes set restrictions to lower risks, but Covid-19 has continued spreading in some homes, and residents are now grappling with consequences from isolation.
Surprise victories in the Midwest catapulted President Trump to victory four years ago, and the region again looms as the critical battleground. Both candidates are focusing on it in the final days.
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Stella Zawistowski brings us a Saturday puzzle with bite.
As 2020 lurches to a close, it seems more people are waking up at this ghastly liminal hour, unclaimed by neither night nor day.
Something has to be done about the technology sector. Here’s what to keep in mind.
The social media company’s head of cybersecurity policy on “perception hacks” and what it will take to have an authentic election.
Inspire Brands, backed by Roark Capital, is assembling a portfolio of quick-service restaurant chains it thinks will withstand the pandemic.
Statues of Christopher Columbus in Baltimore and a Union Army colonel in Madison, Wis., will be repaired.
Toxic ideas can be turned into literal demons — and defeated.
Record quarterly growth inspires little joy as the threat of a double-dip recession looms.
In western Colorado, the election is about “not having the government think for us, the right to protect ourselves.”
There are many parallels between 1860 and 2020. Let’s hope there aren’t too many.
Suzanne Muscara, 38, sent a threatening letter to the senator’s home in 2018 after becoming upset with her vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh as a Supreme Court justice, the authorities said.
Once denounced by French leaders, the images are now defended across the political spectrum, widening a divide with Muslim nations and leaving many French Muslims alienated.
The previous record for most cases in a single day was set one day before amid a spiraling outbreak. Case levels reached highs in almost half the country.
Las encuestas más recientes revelan que Joe Biden lleva una ventaja al presidente Donald Trump en uno de los estados cruciales para las elecciones de Estados Unidos.
Hunter Biden’s business dealings have provided President Trump with plenty of political ammunition, while making an already complicated father-son relationship even more so.
Canada’s public health experts are researching approaches to testing and quarantine that could make travel abroad more feasible.
Thirty minutes after Hinch’s season-long punishment officially ended on Tuesday, Detroit contacted him. Three days later, he was officially introduced as manager.
Turner could not have been unaware of the pandemic’s severity when he insisted on celebrating his World Series win in close quarters with his Dodgers teammates. And Rob Manfred, baseball’s commissioner, can’t just blame one player.
M.L.B.’s owners voted to approve Cohen’s $2.4 billion purchase of the team, and New York City signed off on his taking over the lease of Citi Field.
Cruise companies must follow stringent health and safety protocols to be allowed to resume passenger excursions.
The C.D.C. has issued a conditional order toward certifying companies that can prove they can protect passengers and crews from the coronavirus. Actual travel by sea is still a distant wish.
Mr. Rittenhouse, 17, is accused of shooting three protesters, two fatally, during a protest against the police in Kenosha, Wis.
The men used fake paperwork to steal more than 4,000 Prada, Gucci and Chanel items from a cargo area at the airport, prosecutors say.
In a media environment dominated by streaming and battered by the pandemic, companies see a rare opportunity to catch a huge audience all at once.
A month after a preliminary injunction in a separate lawsuit, a federal judge blocked Commerce Department restrictions from taking effect on Nov. 12.
The coronavirus and battered economy are focal points in national campaigns. But in many local elections, systemic racism and police reform have emerged as dominant themes.
At his rally in Green Bay, Wis., President Trump maintained that Black voters are not supporting Joseph R. Biden Jr., the Democratic presidential nominee, because of his support of the 1994 crime bill.
The material that rained down from a tower terrified passers-by, though no one was injured. The building will be the second-tallest residential skyscraper in the city.
For weeks, the director of national intelligence has taken over a job usually done by an intelligence officer.
White evangelicals have time and again offered uncompromising support for President Trump when he needed it the most.
Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day.
The latest sell-off has come as a second wave of cases forced more lockdowns in Europe, threatening the economic recovery and spooking investors around the world.
Some of the most popular heist films of the last 25 years are remakes of beloved classics. Here’s where you can get away with streaming the originals, plus some other vintage-cool crooks.
A defensive star in Green Bay — he ran back seven interceptions for touchdowns — he played on five championship teams under Vince Lombardi and one in Dallas.
We share a big announcement and look back on a year in the field.
The U.S. recorded more than 500,000 new cases and counted its nine millionth case.
About one in 10 voters could still be considered “volatile,” half the number as at this point in 2016, but this time around, most of them have an unfavorable opinion of Donald J. Trump.
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Joseph R. Biden Jr. slammed President Trump on Friday for trade policies that have “cost farmers and manufacturing so badly.”
Join us on a sonic journey back through the presidential campaign in preparation for Election Day.
Join us on a sonic journey back through the presidential campaign in preparation for Election Day.
Join us on a sonic journey back through the presidential campaign in preparation for Election Day.
Polls suggest some retirees are shifting from having supported President Trump to voting for Joseph R. Biden Jr. But they are rare in Florida’s Republican heartland.
The Baltimore Museum of Art and the Brooklyn Museum both planned on selling works last Wednesday at auction, but Baltimore paused the sale after much criticism.
Falling back, for better or worse.
A visual journey through the microscopic world of the coronavirus shows how masks provide an important defense against transmission.
President Trump and his campaign have been calling for an army of poll watchers on Election Day. What is poll watching, and when does it cross the line? We look at how a federal consent decree restricted the Republican Party for decades, and why its expiration could make a difference in 2020.
The actress and her husband pleaded guilty in May to charges that they conspired to have their daughters admitted to college as rowing recruits, even though neither participated in the sport.
President Trump called Laura Ingraham, a Fox News host, “politically correct” for wearing a mask during his rally in Michigan on Friday.
The lies took off so rapidly on Facebook and Twitter that local election officials could not contain them.
Following Kanye West, 50 Cent and Ice Cube before him, the rapper faced criticism on social media after posting a seeming endorsement of the president.
Following Kanye West, 50 Cent and Ice Cube before him, the rapper faced criticism on social media after posting a seeming endorsement of the president.