Even as early voting has gotten underway, some pivotal states are still litigating how ballots should be cast and counted, creating uncertainty that is being fanned by President Trump.
A Times poll shows Biden and Trump neck and neck in three states: This is your morning tip sheet.
This documentary follows individuals pushing back against political forces that want to privatize federal lands.
The coronavirus has added strain to Wisconsin voters already facing challenges to ballot access.
Close races in Georgia, Iowa and Texas show President Trump’s vulnerability and suggest that Joseph Biden has assembled a formidable coalition, according to a New York Times/Siena College poll.
There are currently no trials underway, making a vaccine unlikely before fall of 2021. And students are missing online school at alarming rates.
The predominantly white neighborhoods outside Wisconsin’s largest city, among the nation’s most racially segregated suburbs, could be a key part of President Trump’s narrowing path to re-election.
An 1840 Greek Revival home near Louisville, a midcentury-modern house in Springfield and a Gothic-Tudor cottage in Minneapolis.
An 1840 Greek Revival home near Louisville, Ky.; a midcentury-modern house in Springfield, Mo.; and a Gothic-Tudor cottage in Minneapolis.
Mr. Prude had a somewhat troubled life in Chicago, with a series of personal tragedies disrupting his attempts at finding meaningful stability.
He directed unconventional works and championed diversity, both in the material he staged and in the actors performing it. He died of the coronavirus.
The Democratic nominee, in Wisconsin, tried to place himself on the side of American workers, while Mr. Trump used a trip to Ohio to blame his opponent for job losses there.
Joseph R. Biden Jr., the Democratic presidential nominee, appealed to voters in Manitowoc, Wis., who had supported Barack Obama but backed President Trump in 2016.
“You’re agitated by my tone because you think people like me should be sitting in a corner, not heard and not seen.”
Jacob Gardner, who was indicted in the killing of James Scurlock during a May protest in Omaha, had been expected to turn himself in to the authorities, his lawyer said.
Judge Amy Coney Barrett is regarded as the leading contender to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Campaign volunteers go door to door to rouse voters on Election Day. Now some stay outside polling places, asking voters to text friends to join in.
Democrats won some important legal battles in the critical states of Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. But the legal wars over the 2020 election are just getting going.
Shortly after President Trump started speaking at a rally in Bemidji, Minn., the news broke of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death, with the potential to upend the 2020 race.
Both Donald Trump and Joe Biden traveled to Minnesota, a battleground state, as its residents began to head to the polls.
DNA evidence is persuasive that James Blaesing, 70, is the grandson of the 29th president and his mistress. But his cousins are upset by his plan to exhume Harding’s remains with a reality TV crew.
Key demographics are tilting Democratic. Frustration with President Trump’s virus response is high. And there are two big differences from 2016: Pollsters have made adjustments, and voter enthusiasm is high.
Although the games will be played without spectators in the stadiums, some officials are concerned they will lead to more off-campus gatherings that could spread the virus.
President Trump continued his assault on voting by mail, but printing and mailing errors are nothing new, and have affected Republican and Democratic candidates alike.
President Trump continued his assault on voting by mail, but printing and mailing errors are nothing new, and have affected Republican and Democratic candidates alike.
That’s frightening. But a case at your child’s school does not mean you should panic.
That’s frightening. But a case at your child’s school does not mean you should panic.
Sarah Firshein tries to resolve how a nonstop with seat selection became a packed “split flight,” with concerns over proper cleaning and an arrival two hours later than expected.
The charges against Jake Gardner in the May 30 killing of James Scurlock in Omaha include manslaughter and making terrorist threats.
Jason Ravnsborg, the attorney general, elaborated on what happened after his car struck something on a dark highway, saying he returned in the morning to find the dead man, Joe Boever, 55, nearby.
President Trump and Joe Biden can both point to advantages in our new poll of Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire and Wisconsin.
The attorney general, Jason Ravnsborg, called 911 to say he thought he had hit a deer late Saturday. The next morning, the body of Joe Boever, 55, was found nearby, the authorities said.
Days before the start of mail voting, the state’s Supreme Court rejected an appeal by the Green Party’s candidate to reprint thousands of ballots so that his name could be added. The decision could help Joe Biden.
Eric Kerska, whose daughter was deployed to the base, said he was alarmed by the isolation of young soldiers on their first tour as a coronavirus precaution.
A former U.S. trade negotiator says Japan, India and Australia have already taken steps. Also: Kenosha, my hometown; making the switch to metric.
Minnesota was a near miss for Donald Trump in 2016. But new polling shows him well behind where he finished four years ago in a state he views as a prime pickup opportunity.
Less than two months before the election, both parties are waging legal battles around the country over who gets to vote and how.
As new coronavirus cases have dropped nationally, infections have soared in the Midwest.
President Trump has leveled scathing law-and-order attacks on Joseph Biden for weeks. But a new poll shows Mr. Biden ahead in three states Mr. Trump hopes to pick up, and maintaining a lead in Wisconsin.
Worries about law and order have become so prevalent that likely voters say it’s just as important as solving the coronavirus pandemic. But voters aren’t favoring Mr. Trump on the issue.
The snake, which is about 62 and hasn’t had contact with a male python in at least 15 years, surprised zookeepers at the St. Louis Zoo.
Derek Chauvin, the officer who is charged with second-degree murder in Mr. Floyd’s death, is expected to go to trial next year.
The family of George Floyd and their lawyer, Benjamin Crump, rebuked claims from police officers’ defense lawyers that Mr. Floyd died of an overdose.
Educators’ deaths are part of an unabated pandemic.
Brittany Keech does not know how a message from 100 years ago landed in her mailbox. Now she’s trying to find relatives of the intended recipient.
Lina-Marie Mano and Andrew Silvestri played 20 questions while they were dating as a way to learn more about each other.
In one of the nation’s sharpest clashes over school reopening, officials in Des Moines say Iowa’s Republican governor is pushing them to risk public safety.
With hyperbole and falsehoods, the president has increased stops at airports that resemble campaign rallies, his favorite type of politicking. But Nevada said the events violated health restrictions and canceled two rallies there.
Before sketching out a plan to keep more jobs in the United States, the former vice president denounced his rival over revelations in a new book that the president knowingly minimized the coronavirus’s dangers.
Once a reliable vaccine exists, it won’t stop the pandemic unless most people are willing to take it. Economics provides a solution.
Yuval Sharon, who has created works in cars, a park and a train station, will now lead Michigan Opera Theater.
President Trump and his party are using a playbook that aims to alarm people about crime in their backyards. It didn’t work in 2018, but both parties think it could resonate more this year.
El incendio en El Dorado, California, comenzó cuando una familia usaba un “dispositivo pirotécnico” para anunciar el sexo de un bebé, dijeron las autoridades.
Mr. Floyd died after being handcuffed and pinned to the ground by an officer’s knee in an episode that was captured on video, touching off nationwide protests.
Enslaved people were also driven west along the Trail of Tears. After a historic Supreme Court ruling, their descendants are fighting to be counted as tribal members.
Father Michel J. Mulloy had been chosen by Pope Francis to lead the Diocese of Duluth, Minn., but then an allegation from the 1980s surfaced, church officials said.
The unofficial Labor Day kickoff to the fall campaign centered on Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, two pivotal states for both the president and Joseph R. Biden Jr.
The El Dorado fire in California ignited as a family was using a “pyrotechnic device” to announce the gender of a new baby, the authorities said.
In a video recorded from his hospital bed, Mr. Blake, who was shot by the police, says, “It hurts to breathe; it hurts to sleep.”
Mr. Blake spoke from his hospital bed in Milwaukee on Sunday, two weeks after he was shot seven times in the back by the police in Kenosha, Wis., and became paralyzed.
The vice-presidential candidates will be on opposite ends of Wisconsin, a battleground that is increasingly essential to President Trump in November.
The coronavirus is spiking around campuses from Texas to Iowa to North Carolina as students return.
In “levelheaded” Omaha, a protester was killed and, in the aftermath, people demanding an end to racial injustice set their sights on police budgets — and a diner with Robert E. Lee on the menu.
A view of income inequality in Chicago at ground level.
The men, both American citizens, were taken into custody on Thursday evening in Minneapolis. They say they are members of a far-right group called the Boogaloo Bois.
Providing free meals is a crucial function for schools.
¿Y si los primeros resultados del 3 de noviembre en los estados pendulares muestran que el presidente Trump va ganando y declara su victoria antes de que los votos por correo, fuertemente demócratas —y que él ha vinculado falsamente con el fraude— sean contados en su totalidad?
A second person was also killed, a police union official said. Details were scarce, and the police were still gathering evidence, he said.
Two days after President Trump traveled to Wisconsin to focus attention on violence and disorder, Joe Biden sought to strike a drastically different tone, repudiating the president’s divisive approach to matters of racial injustice.
Some high schools have postponed football seasons. Some are forging ahead. And others are in limbo, with young athletes desperate to find a way to avoid a lost season.
Some Black residents of Kenosha, upended by the police shooting of Jacob Blake, weren’t convinced that an election would solve the problem.
“Nothing about boneless chicken wings actually comes from the wing of a chicken,” he told the Lincoln, Neb., council. “We’ve been living a lie for far too long.”
Reporting experience at a previous job told me that I should check out the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally this year.
What is the political fallout of urban violence? And is the media just buying into it?
We spent months photographing dozens of families across the country to understand what food insecurity looks like today.
The Iowa senator’s comments echoed a false claim, spread by President Trump over the weekend, that deaths from Covid-19 have been inflated.
The Iowa senator’s comments echoed a false claim, spread by President Trump over the weekend, that deaths from Covid-19 have been inflated.
What if early results in swing states on Nov. 3 show President Trump ahead, and he declares victory before heavily Democratic mail-in votes, which he has falsely linked with fraud, are fully counted?
A circa-1900 cottage in Columbus, a Second Empire-style house in Calais and a two-bedroom condominium in Denver.
A circa-1900 cottage in Columbus, a Second Empire-style house in Calais and a two-bedroom condominium in Denver.
Cities big and small know they can’t rely on federal stimulus to support their entrepreneurs, so they are finding innovative ways to keep them afloat.
Not everyone is for defunding the police. Especially those in communities that would be most affected.
The president has wrongly claimed credit for sending in the National Guard. He has also made misleading assertions in attacking his Democratic rival, Joseph R. Biden Jr.
The president has wrongly claimed credit for sending in the National Guard. He has also made misleading assertions in attacking his Democratic rival, Joseph R. Biden Jr.
In 1921, white looters destroyed a prosperous Black business district and killed up to 300 people. In a lawsuit, survivors of the catastrophe and descendants of victims said the city and state needed to rectify the past.
In a blistering speech, Joe Biden charged that crises “have kept multiplying” under President Trump’s watch. It was an effort to refocus the spotlight on the incumbent after a week of Republican attacks.
President Trump has employed provocative and sometimes incendiary words and images to focus attention on demonstrations and away from the human and economic costs of the pandemic.
Daniel Thompson, an editor at The Kenosha News, resigned over a headline that highlighted a speaker who made a threat during a peaceful protest.
Readers write that President Trump is stoking fear for his political advantage.
A Black police officer in Flint, Mich., reflects on what it now means to be part of the force in his hometown.
A fatal shooting after clashes in Portland came on the heels of the shooting deaths of two people during confrontations in Kenosha, Wis., earlier in the week.
In a Twitter barrage, the president advanced conspiracy theories claiming that protests are an organized coup and that the virus death toll is inflated. He also reposted a call to imprison New York’s governor.
A new crop of activists has joined the ranks of protesters in Kenosha, Wis., as police killings across the country spur ordinary people into the streets. Jacob Blake’s family spoke at a rally on Saturday.
So many people have been chasing the 50 stragglers that the animals got spooked and split off into singles and pairs, complicating efforts to catch them, a sheriff said.
The national political conventions over the last two weeks set the battle lines for the election’s remaining weeks. Joe Biden is focusing on President Trump’s virus management, while the president is hammering a law-and-order message.
The authorities said an earlier sexual assault charge was the reason for the restraints, which were removed on Friday.
The two were the only golfers to finish below par after 36 holes. Tiger Woods was far back in the field as he struggled to keep his PGA Tour season alive.
Readers address athlete walkouts and the reverberations of the protests and violence in Wisconsin. Also: Not every Christian is an evangelical; safe drinking water; hope in everyday things.
Several law enforcement and public officials in Wisconsin held a news conference at the Kenosha Public Safety Building about the investigation into the police shooting of Jacob Blake.
"Your right." "A duty." "A very sacred act." A century after suffrage, women reflect on what it means to them.
Unrest in Kenosha, Wis., continued after the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black resident. Peaceful demonstrations earlier in the day gave way to chaos as law enforcement faced off with protesters.
An 1810 Federal-style house near the harbor in Bristol, a midcentury-modern home in Alexandria and a 1906 Tudor Revival in Davenport.
An 1810 Federal-style house near the harbor in Bristol, R.I.; a midcentury-modern home in Alexandria, Va.; and a 1906 Tudor Revival in Davenport, Iowa.
Demonstrations turned tense, then violent early Wednesday on the streets of Kenosha, Wis.
The violence occurred early Wednesday during a confrontation between demonstrators and a group of armed men as protests continued over the police shooting of Jacob Blake.
The violence occurred early Wednesday during a confrontation between demonstrators and a group of armed men as protests continued over the police shooting of Jacob Blake.
The violence occurred early Wednesday during a confrontation between demonstrators and a group of men armed with guns as protests continued over the police shooting of Jacob Blake.
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“You are eliminating one of the few tools that the city has to create middle-class incomes for black and brown folks.”
A discussion about changes in policing, moderated by Emily Bazelon.
In corners of the U.S. facing financial ruin, but where the coronavirus hasn’t arrived in full, an analysis of economic and infection data helps explain why some see reopening as long overdue.
When the officers use kicks, chokeholds, punches, takedowns, Mace spray, Tasers and the like, the person subject to that force is black about 60 percent of the time.
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As the pandemic guts the livelihoods of formerly stable families, the federal government seems unwilling to act on the necessary scale.
We’re making food from our favorite restaurants at home.
More than 300 dams in the state are classified as having the potential to cause loss of life or economic and environmental damage in the case of a failure, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
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Detailed results and maps from the Ohio primary election.
Detailed results and maps from the Ohio presidential primary election.
Many will be watching the results from Ohio’s third congressional district as a progressive first-time candidate hopes to beat a four-term incumbent.