Since throwing his support behind former President Donald J. Trump, Mr. Kennedy has sought both to be removed from and to remain on various state ballots.
After Dominique Morgan said her group would start a bail fund for poor defendants, she instead took nearly $100,000 for personal expenses, prosecutors said.
Tim Walz, the Democratic vice-presidential nominee, is a fan of the ground-beef treat. On a recent stop at a Runza restaurant in Omaha, he managed to spend $600.
In Chicago, the mayor and the teachers’ union are tightly connected. The relationship has ushered in generous spending and led to political turmoil.
Ford is struggling to make money on battery-powered models while General Motors, which started more slowly, says it is getting close to that goal.
Residents of Peculiar battled developers and some of their local officials to keep a giant data center out of their community.
Sales of Nerds have greatly increased in recent years, the company says. The secret? A multicolored orb.
Michelle Goldberg went to Nebraska and found political hope in an independent.
The group participants discuss the state of the race and what may drive them toward a given candidate.
The vice president finished her day in the battleground state at a rally near the University of Michigan’s campus in Ann Arbor, where she sprinkled her speech with outreach to progressive Democrats.
La ex primera dama describió un segundo gobierno de Trump como nefasto para las mujeres estadounidenses. Y acusó a los medios y a muchos votantes de tener un nivel de exigencia mayor para Harris que para Trump.
As Donald Trump’s rhetoric grows more extreme, liberals say Kamala Harris is being held, unfairly, to a higher bar by voters and the media. One is “allowed to be lawless while the other one has to be flawless,” a congresswoman said.
Los sondeos estatales se mantienen estables, y dos nuevas encuestas en Texas y Nebraska muestran que el control del Senado podría estar aún en juego.
“We failed this victim 100 percent,” the Minneapolis police chief said after criticism that the shooter, who had active arrest warrants, was not taken into custody sooner.
Seven years after a Trump policy ruptured his family and landed him in foster care, José is a star student. But he is still scarred. “I don’t trust anyone.”
The Democratic National Committee will run the 15-second ads in Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and Nebraska.
In Nebraska, Dan Osborn, an independent, is in a tight race with Senator Deb Fischer, and in Texas, Representative Colin Allred is four percentage points behind Senator Ted Cruz.
State polls remain steady, and two new polls in Texas and Nebraska show Senate control may still be in play.
After Aiden Clark was killed in a school bus accident in Springfield, Ohio, his death inspired conspiracy theories, campaign lies and anti-immigrant hate. Now his family is the latest target.
Michelle Obama made a striking speech about the consequences that the election will have for women’s bodies and reproductive health.
The former first lady portrayed a second Trump administration as dire for American women. And she accused the media and many voters of holding Kamala Harris to a higher standard than Donald Trump.
The former president is reaching out to Muslim and Arab American voters in Michigan, a key battleground state.
Why Democrats in the Midwest are losing ground.
One economic question that really matters in an election year: Are others doing better than you?
The former first lady, who is viewed warmly among some of the voters whom the Harris campaign is trying to reach, will appear alongside the vice president on Saturday in Michigan.
With voters already casting ballots, the two parties are still battling over the requirements for who gets to vote and which votes count.
Eric Hovde is closing out his challenge to Senator Tammy Baldwin, a low-key Midwesterner, with a new attack ad that appears to want to make sure voters know she’s gay.
Anger among the battleground state’s sizable contingent of Arab American voters about violence in Gaza and Lebanon could hurt the Democratic congresswoman in a close contest.
See the latest election polls and polling averages for Nebraska C.D. 2.
Mira las últimas encuestas electorales y los promedios para Nebraska C.D. 2
Nebraska’s Senate race is far closer than anyone predicted.
An exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Arts tries to connect with the area’s large, vibrant Arab American community through a show about food.
Sophie Calle’s first major North American career survey, opening at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, frames the acclaimed French artist as the original oversharer.
Rotimi Fani-Kayode and Ming Smith grew up a world apart, but their images speak much the same language. This fall, their works collide in Columbus.
Former President Donald J. Trump phoned in during a televised town hall with voters, surprising his running mate.
A person of interest was taken into custody after Sgt. Sarah Roque, 23, was found dead at Fort Leonard Wood, according to Army officials.
The Mideast war is threatening Vice President Kamala Harris’s support among Muslim and Arab American voters, a traditionally Democratic constituency, in critical swing states.
The veteran Michigan Republican called the former president “unfit to serve,” and said Vice President Kamala Harris would work to bring people together.
After an E. coli outbreak, McDonald’s stopped selling the Quarter Pounder in 12 states. The burger might take a hit for now, but its hold on customers will prevail, experts say.
Senator Sherrod Brown has spent his decades in Congress establishing a track record as a populist champion on economic issues. But in the closing days of his re-election race, abortion has become a key emphasis.
By tweaking the DNA of bacteria, scientists aim to cut the use of chemical fertilizers that are worsening global warming. Some worry about unintended consequences.
Shawn Reilly, the mayor of Waukesha, Wis., said he had never thrown his support behind a Democrat before.
Endorsements, how do they work?
Dan Osborn, a labor leader and mechanic who is running as an independent, is making Republicans sweat with his dark horse bid to oust Senator Deb Fischer. Can he turn the buzz into votes?
Reliably conservative Nebraska is one of just two states that splits its Electoral College votes. That’s why its one small “blue dot” could make a difference to Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign.
Some counties have a history of refusing to certify election results. Others have tried to disqualify voters or prevent them from casting absentee ballots.
A three-bedroom Carpenter Gothic house in Cambridge, N.Y., a renovated three-story home in Cincinnati, and a two-bedroom cottage in Portland, Ore.
A free museum near Route 66 celebrates America’s fiberglass giants and the nostalgia that draws people to them.
The two men railed against Donald Trump and urged voters to return their ballots early, as polls show a close race in the state.
The editor Ryan Fitzgibbon invited collaborators to toast “A Great Gay Book,” a new collection of pieces from his influential, now-defunct magazine, Hello Mr.
The campaign is hoping Facebook ads, WhatsApp channels and small meetings with disillusioned voters will help turn the tide.
Appearing side by side at a campaign event in Michigan, the Republican former congresswoman expressed her support for Vice President Kamala Harris.
As the pair campaigned together in suburban areas of battleground states, the Republican former congresswoman served as Ms. Harris’s ambassador to conservative women.
The Supreme Court ruled in June that the original plaintiffs, anti-abortion doctors and groups, did not have standing to sue. Now three states are trying to continue the legal fight.
Tony Vargas, a Democrat vying to become the state’s first Latino representative, lost to Don Bacon, the Republican incumbent, in 2022. But the presidential election could help him in his rematch.
Vice President Kamala Harris has made a notable shift in strategy to paint Donald Trump as unfit and dangerous as Democrats grow anxious about the closeness of the race just two weeks out.
In Wisconsin, the Farm/Art DTour brings artists and farmers together and each get a fresh perspective.
This year’s campaign offers a vivid reminder of how much the playing field in presidential elections has shrunk, giving voters in a handful of states a disproportionate influence in the decision.
After former President Donald J. Trump disparaged the city, Vice President Kamala Harris said her campaign was seeking the kind of “grit” and “excellence” the city’s residents possessed.
Charlie Sykes, the anti-Trump conservative commentator joining the vice president in Wisconsin on Monday, in the past amplified false claims of voter fraud and referred to Michelle Obama as “Mooch.”
The vice president and her top Republican surrogate will appear together for “moderated conversations” in the suburbs of Philadelphia, Detroit and Milwaukee.
Ballot drop boxes, used for years in Wisconsin until they were mostly banned after Republicans’ legal challenges, are back. Julie Bosman, the Chicago bureau chief for The New York Times, describes how the boxes have become the subject of bitter de...
Drop boxes, which had been used for years in Wisconsin until they were mostly banned after Republicans mounted legal challenges, are back. They have become the subject of bitter debate.
The biggest pharmacy benefit managers are profiting by systematically underpaying independent drugstores, creating “pharmacy deserts” across the country.
Campaigning in the battleground on the same day, Kamala Harris cast herself as a friend to union workers while Donald Trump sought to capitalize on anger over the war in Gaza.
Bernie Moreno, his Republican rival, said women older than 50 are “crazy” for caring about abortion rights. A series of Ohio women who fit that description have much to say in response.
From the geographic boundaries to the values and friendliness, people have debated what defines the region essentially since it was labeled the Midwest. It has taken on a renewed urgency this election year.
Barack and Michelle Obama will make their first campaign appearances alongside Kamala Harris at rallies in Georgia and Michigan.
Many people I spoke to seemed reluctant to admit — even, perhaps, to themselves — that they were really going to vote for that person.
A look at the political microcommunities that could decide the 2024 presidential election.
Campaigning in Wisconsin, the vice president sought to amplify her rival’s recent comments that he was “the father of I.V.F.” and that Jan. 6, 2021, was “a day of love.”
“It is time for the day after to begin without Hamas in power,” the vice president said after the Israeli military confirmed that Yahya Sinwar, the leader of the militant group, had been killed.
Massad Boulos, Tiffany Trump’s father in-law, has been working behind the scenes to persuade a critical group of voters in Michigan.
En una asamblea transmitida por Univision el miércoles, Donald Trump no respondió directamente a muchas preguntas francas sobre el cambio climático, la inmigración, el derecho al aborto y otros temas.
As technology like doorbell cameras makes it easier to avoid unsolicited visitors, the Harris campaign is leaning on data-capturing apps to supplement the traditional work of canvassing.
With a practice that includes painting, ceramics and real estate, he has truly earned the title “multidisciplinary.”
Algunos de los asesores de Harris piensan que es demasiado cautelosa al hacer comentarios públicos. Pero el martes, al hablar de Trump en la radio, la vicepresidenta no se contuvo.
In a town hall that Univision broadcast on Wednesday night, Donald J. Trump did not directly answer many frank questions on climate change, immigration, abortion rights and other topics.
The decision affirmed a law passed by the Legislature this year clearing the way for people to cast ballots immediately after finishing prison and parole terms.
Students said the teacher, who claimed to be a police officer, also said “police brutality isn’t real.”
Donald Trump se negó a comentar si había hablado con el presidente ruso desde que dejó el cargo. Pero añadió: ‘Si tengo una relación con la gente, es algo bueno’.
Legislators voted to restore voting rights to more people convicted of felonies, but a dispute over that law’s constitutionality created pre-election confusion.
Researchers found that when remote workers were paid to move to Tulsa, Okla., everyone came out ahead.
Los expertos en meteorología dicen que la espiral de falsedades, especialmente las afirmaciones de que el gobierno está creando o controlando las tormentas, se han salido de control.
During a free-flowing interview that was by turns friendly and pointed, the vice president went beyond her previous remarks in casting Donald Trump as an authoritarian.
In a combative interview, the former president hinted at even higher tariffs as an economic magic bullet.
Donald J. Trump declined to comment on whether he’d talked with the Russian president since leaving office. But he added, “If I have a relationship with people, that’s a good thing.”
In Michigan, Ohio, Arizona and elsewhere, progressive court candidates are hoping that the abortion issue that helped conservatives remake the federal judiciary will work for them this time.
Democrats have long won by wide margins in Detroit, but some party leaders said the vice president needed to do more to counter an assertive Trump campaign.
Two men who said they were looking for a gas leak killed the man in his basement in suburban Detroit and bound his wife with duct tape before taking her watch and phone, prosecutors said.
Door County, Wis., has picked the presidential winner since 1996. Last time, the margin was 292 votes, so the campaigns are trying to reach every household.
Defections from Black and Latino voters are making Kamala Harris more dependent on white, suburban voters — and complicating her path to victory.
Weather experts say the spiraling falsehoods, especially claims that the government is creating or controlling storms, have gotten out of hand.
Former President Donald Trump’s recent attacks on his opponent could affect the vote. “It’s a stirring of the pot,” one voter said.
Both parties are frenetically chasing votes in the counties that could very well decide the election. In many places, inexperienced conservative groups are going up against a more tightly organized Democratic operation.
Fans at games in four swing states will see skywriting or banners over their stadium on Sunday. The vice president’s campaign would like men in particular to look up.
Lawyers should remember what they were taught in ethics class.
It is a reanimation story strange enough for a zombie movie, made possible by the fact that the original George trademark lapsed, only to be secured by a conservative lawyer.
La mejora de la economía mexicana ha contribuido a impulsar el retorno voluntario de un número significativo de expatriados.
For over 50 years, as a historian, lecturer and author, he fought to protect Beaux-Arts buildings in New York and Chicago from falling to the developer’s wrecking ball.
Honorable public servants of both parties upheld democracy after the 2020 election. America is counting on them again to do their duty.
More than 25 years after Mexico began recognizing dual nationals, some U.S.-born children of Mexican immigrants are claiming citizenship in the country that their parents once left.
Once the largest city in the U.S. to declare bankruptcy, this Midwestern metropolis is now thriving. But some obstacles still remain.
Entrepreneurs once flocked to Motor City to build cars. Now, they’re building its mobility future.
The stop in Arizona was part of the Harris campaign’s strategy to court Republicans disaffected with former President Donald J. Trump.
Deb Fischer, the Republican incumbent, faces a stiff challenge from a union leader, Dan Osborn, running as an independent. Her latest ad calls him a “Democrat in disguise.”
The Minnesota governor running for vice president on the Democratic ticket also had strong words for Elon Musk, the billionaire businessman who is working to get former President Donald J. Trump elected.
To find out what’s trending now, The New York Times for Kids visited middle schools across the country.
The radio show hosted by the entertainer and author has long been a venue for candidates to appeal to Black voters.
For the first time in 13 years, Wisconsin Democrats are contesting a number of local races. Even a few thousand voters energized by the candidates at their door could make a difference in a tight presidential contest.
A young family came to love the city where they rebuilt their lives and bought a home. Since a false rumor spread, they have scrapped outings, even to the park.
A state law allowing high schoolers to earn from endorsements, if they commit to attending a public university in Missouri, has helped Mizzou attract blue-chip players.
Even before this latest proposal, aimed at promoting car sales, an analysis found that the former president’s economic agenda could add $15 trillion to the nation’s debt over a decade.
Fact-checkers have found no evidence over the years that former President Donald J. Trump once received the honor in Michigan.
One of the last Democrats from the Great Plains to be elected to national office, he built his career on delivering benefits to his home state, South Dakota.
Laurel Jean Mitchell’s killing in Indiana went unsolved for decades until DNA testing revealed a match. Her sister, Sarah Knisley, never stopped looking for answers.
In a fraught meeting, the student government rejected a plan to redirect its budget from campus activities to aid for Gaza. But the fight is not over.
Representative Elissa Slotkin, a Democrat, and former Representative Mike Rogers, a Republican, had bitter exchanges over abortion, war and China.
It is not clear where the man intended to stage the attack, though the criminal complaint said he sought to inflict mass casualties on behalf of the Islamic State.
Senator JD Vance of Ohio spoke of the occurrence of “weird childhood diseases” that may be caused by “weird stuff” in the food and water supply.
The organization that emerged from protests against the Biden administration’s Middle East policies now says a second Trump term would be far worse.
Both sides told the Supreme Court that long-suppressed evidence about the state’s star witness undermined the case against the inmate, Richard Glossip.
Why navigate crowded roads to get your fill of autumn colors when you can ride the rails and enjoy gorgeous scenery you can’t see from the highway?
A year after the Oct. 7 attacks, Kamala Harris faces deepening Democratic fractures in a crucial state. Interviews suggest that her support from Muslim and Arab Americans is drying up.
Las número más recientes del Times/Siena muestran a Harris por delante en Míchigan y Wisconsin, y con una ventaja razonable en el Segundo Distrito de Nebraska
The meeting, which took place backstage, came as Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign ramped up efforts to appeal directly to Arab and Muslim voters in the final weeks before the election.
With tight contests in all seven battleground states, the candidates are pressing for a few thousand votes that could sway the outcome of the entire election.
Kamel Ahmad Jawad, a U.S. citizen, was remembered by friends and relatives as someone who chose to stay behind to help others who couldn’t flee.
Kamala Harris, who has faced a flurry of Trump ads in Michigan misleadingly arguing that she wants to ban gas cars altogether, promised, “I will never tell you what kind of car you have to drive.”
The bid details for new Bibles the state is buying seem to point to a version promoted by former President Donald J. Trump.
Tangie Wilson was sleeping when her daughter Zoe sneaked out of the house and drove to the store. The tale of how it all unfolded is as relatable as it is incredible.
The ruling was the latest instance of legal whiplash for the over 27 million borrowers who could qualify, and yet another blow to the president’s pledge to provide mass student debt relief.
Mayor Brandon Johnson has been at odds with the head of Chicago Public Schools over his plan to fill a $1 billion gap in the district’s budget.
The former president and his allies, who often decry undocumented immigrants, are targeting programs that allow millions of people to enter the country lawfully.
When prosecutors admit they were wrong in a death penalty case, courts should listen.
The former congresswoman and Republican exile campaigned with the vice president in the battleground state of Wisconsin.
Appearing for roughly 85 minutes onstage, the Republican nominee repeated false claims about the 2020 election and introduced a mischaracterization about disaster-relief money.
The former congresswoman and Republican exile stumped for Kamala Harris in Ripon, Wis., the birthplace of the G.O.P., calling on conservatives to shun Donald Trump’s “depraved cruelty.”
The ruling by a judge in Georgia could be just a temporary reprieve for the plan, which still faces legal challenges in another state.
He again disparaged Haitians in Springfield, Ohio, and said he would end their legal status in the country and send them back. His first attempt to do that failed.
Algunos de los donantes dijeron que buscaban reparar el daño que la campaña de Trump, y el propio Vance, habían causado al difundir rumores falsos.
Ms. Cheney, the most prominent Republican to endorse the Democratic nominee, will appear alongside her in Ripon, Wis., where meetings in 1854 helped lead to the party’s formation.
Farmers in the heartland are restoring swaths of the prairie with government help. The aim is to reduce nutrient runoff from cropland, and help birds and bees.
At Tuesday’s debate, Gov. Tim Walz said that his son, Gus Walz, witnessed a shooting at a community center. A volleyball coach said Gus helped other young players to safety.
Fritz fue parte del dúo detrás del exitoso programa de telerrealidad en History Channel que buscaba piezas coleccionables de gran valor en áticos, sótanos y ventas de garaje.
Some donors said they were seeking to repair damage the Trump-Vance campaign, and Mr. Vance himself, had caused by spreading bogus rumors that migrants were harming pets.
A sunny one-bedroom condo in Minneapolis, a ranch-style house in Williamstown, Mass., and a 19th-century townhouse in Baltimore.
Some students at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside seemed underwhelmed. One noted, ‘This is long, huh?’