Democratic gains were expected, but surveys almost uniformly underestimated how well the left would do. Many pollsters seem to have made similar mistakes.
At Tougaloo College, supporters danced and wept over Scott Colom’s victory. He will be Mississippi’s first Black U.S. senator since the Reconstruction era.
Footage showed protesters at a pro-Palestinian demonstration throwing what appeared to be milk at former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. after he attended an event at Trinity College Dublin.
Video showed demonstrators from a pro-Palestinian protest throwing projectiles at former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. after he attended an event at Trinity College Dublin on Tuesday.
The tight race between Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith and her Democratic challenger, Scott Colom, has highlighted the difficulties that stringent elections laws present to voters.
In Lewis County, N.Y., the highly contagious virus has swept through Amish homes. Public health experts fear there’s no end in sight.
When he stepped onto campus in 1965, he said, he was met with “curiosity and disbelief.”
Northern California is likely to record some of its heaviest rain so far this season later this week.
Two white young women made noises imitating monkeys outside the apartment door of a group of Black students. The university called the video “deeply troubling.”
We look at the numbers.
Pablo and the TV legend break down billionaire investigations and mechanical birds.
The photographer Allan Sekula explored the hidden world of global shipping from the perspective of dockworkers and sailors in this celebrated series debuting in New York.
Under Trump, new Ph.D. enrollments are down, funding is on the decline and many budding researchers are reconsidering their careers.
The police in Columbus, Ohio, were investigating the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity after a video of the incident drew widespread attention online, according to the university.
We look at the messages at the center of the rape inquiry.
Kelly Holley-Bockelmann was one of the top astrophysicists in the country until President Trump’s policies affected every part of her work.
After a Cornell student said fraternity members had sexually assaulted her, university investigators amassed a trove of communications from the student and the men she accused.
Sebastian Matta, a sophomore at Arizona State University, was elected on Tuesday as Superior Court clerk in Maricopa County, Ariz.
In Texas, teaching on race and gender was restricted, Christianity was encouraged and private school vouchers expanded. It may be hard for Democrats to reverse those policies.
The largely symbolic vote serves as a sharp rebuke of campus leadership’s handling of an explosive rape allegation that put the university in the national spotlight.
A trader placed well-timed bets on Polymarket and Kalshi in two Senate races. It was unclear if the person had access to inside information or simply made good trades.
A new museum exhibition gathers some of the elegant dresses, but also the sneakers and shorts, of the American socialite, equestrian and writer C.Z. Guest.
Hundreds complained about Les Wexner’s ties to the convicted sex offender. But O.S.U. officials said he was not charged with wrongdoing and his name would remain.
We look at how they powered Democratic candidates.
George and Laura Bush made their first public comment on the controversy roiling their usually decorous congregation, which is reverberating far outside Texas.
The group behind the college exams is planning new measures to keep up with high-tech breaches and “time zone” cheating.
University rules required Chi Phi to have a live-in adviser on the premises the night a woman said she was raped at the fraternity house. The organization had not hired one.
Some call him a doomer. Others see him as a responsible technologist. Here’s how the Anthropic chief executive’s thinking on artificial intelligence was shaped.
We look at more from the midterms.
We look at results from the election.
Jacqueline Kelly will oversee a criminal investigation into a former student’s allegations that she was raped in 2024.
Kseniia Petrova, a researcher at Harvard, has argued that she was vindictively prosecuted after her arrest in 2025.
Democrats have the lead in most of the seven tossup Senate races, according to the latest Times/Siena poll, though some contests remain close. Our polling reporter Ruth Igielnik breaks down what the numbers show.