Vice President Kamala Harris has plenty of big-name backers, but one of the eternal questions is how much star power ultimately matters to voters.
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.
As part of a plea agreement, Juliana Peres Magalhães, 24, has agreed to cooperate with prosecutors, who have charged her ex-lover with murdering his wife and another man in 2023.
The fixed nature of the early vote makes it difficult to predict whether overall turnout will be as high as in 2020 and 2022, or whether either party is truly building an edge.
Gloria Johnson’s bid to unseat Senator Marsha Blackburn appears destined to fail, but she still sees an opening to start chipping away at Republican dominance in the state.
Prosecutors have accused the star Atlanta rapper of leading a gang in the longest trial in Georgia history. The case has been further delayed by plea negotiations.
Dueling Trump and Harris rallies outside Atlanta offer a case study in how anger and anxiety over Covid-19, a proxy for the larger debate over trust in government, have shaped the 2024 race.
Donald J. Trump’s oldest daughter and former top aide was once one of his most prominent campaign surrogates. Lately, she’s noticeably absent.
Renting is quickly becoming a better way for many people to enjoy high-risk places with much less financial baggage.
Once a top presidential battleground, the state is lost to Democrats. The party’s missteps, along with demographic change, led to every one of Florida’s 67 counties becoming more red.
“Tree islands” deep in a sea of grass once helped Native Americans elude capture by U.S. troops. A tour of these refuges reveals a rich culture and a new risk: rising water.
At a rally in Atlanta, Donald Trump called the former first lady a “hater,” in response to her comments saying he had displayed “erratic behavior” and “obvious mental decline.”
La mujer, Sarah Boone, dijo que se estaba defendiendo de abusos pasados y que no había tenido intención de matarlo, pero las pruebas de video contradijeron su declaración.
The sheriff in a rural Tennessee county said his office is searching for a man who used a stolen identity to pose as a victim.
Dozens of volunteer doctors, nurses and psychologists traveled to the region to treat people whose routines, including medical appointments, were disrupted by the storm.
The woman, Sarah Boone, said the two were drinking and playing hide-and-seek when she zipped him inside the suitcase and then left him overnight.
Georgia has seen a flurry of activity underlining both parties’ recognition that, once again, the state is anyone’s to win.
The rapper Lil Durk was arrested at the airport in Miami this week after he had been booked on flights to three international destinations, federal prosecutors said.
After two heat strokes and damaged kidneys, José Delgado remains stunned that Florida banned counties from enacting protections for outdoor workers.
A work-release program for Alabama prisoners provides labor for corporations and income for the state. Lawsuits are challenging its constitutionality.
Representative Andy Harris walked back his remarks, later saying his rationale that Hurricane Helene disenfranchised some voters was “theoretical.”
With voters already casting ballots, the two parties are still battling over the requirements for who gets to vote and which votes count.
Barack Obama’s presence looms large in the state, which his party hasn’t won since his first presidential bid. He painted Donald Trump as a danger to the country, families and pocketbooks.
The law requires officials to count absentee ballots received by mail up to five days after Election Day. It appears unlikely that the ruling will affect the current election.
Acompañados de celebridades como Tyler Perry y Samuel L. Jackson, el expresidente intentó inyectar energía a la vicepresidenta, considerada a menudo como su sucesora.
A third of state residents use private wells, and about four out of 10 wells tested after Hurricane Helene weren’t safe, highlighting the risks of extreme weather for millions of Americans.
An investigation in four battleground states found that Republicans have taken control of election boards with the aim of challenging and overturning outcomes that don’t go their way.
Astead W. Herndon, a national reporter for The New York Times and the host of the politics podcast “The Run-Up,” traveled to North Carolina to see how Hurricane Helene and the misinformation in its wake have reshaped the election landscape in this...
Carl Hulse has covered congressional campaigns for four decades. Much has changed, but one thing remains constant: Journalists must be ready for the unexpected.
The actor and filmmaker, who built his career in the Georgia capital, said he had realized that in the former president’s America, “there is no dream that looks like me.”
At a star-filled rally in Georgia that also featured Tyler Perry and Samuel L. Jackson, the former president tried to give a jolt of energy to the vice president often seen as a successor.
People in the storm-hit area can resume flushing toilets and taking showers, but the water is often yellow or brown. Officials are asking for patience with repair efforts.
Maps spreading on social media show a storm hitting the United States the week of the election. But a lot more goes into a forecast than just one model run.
El error de una votante se ha transformado en una teoría de la conspiración del fraude electoral, y ha sido catapultada a la atención nacional por la diputada Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Muslim and Arab voters were part of the coalition in Georgia who delivered victories to Democrats there in 2020 and in 2022. Maya King, a politics reporter for The New York Times covering the Southeast, describes how war in the Middle East is affe...
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.
Eight people were taken to hospitals, three of them with serious injuries, in a crash on the set of “The Pickup” in April. A federal investigation found no health or safety violations.
The former Fox News host used a bizarre extended metaphor at a rally in Georgia where Donald J. Trump spoke.
Facebook Marketplace, a platform often used for furniture and electronics, is an increasingly popular place to buy and sell home-cooked meals.
Mi momento viral reveló una experiencia compartida de ansiedad climática entre generaciones. Es hora de que la canalicemos hacia la acción.
When it comes to the climate crisis, sometimes feelings are as important as facts, even for meteorologists.
This fall, the Met pairs images of Florida by Walker Evans and Anastasia Samoylova, the first living female photographer with a major show there in some three decades.
A new commercial from the biggest super PAC in American politics makes a pitch for Republicans in Arizona and North Carolina.
One voter’s mistake has been transformed into a voter fraud conspiracy theory, catapulted into the national spotlight by Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Some counties have a history of refusing to certify election results. Others have tried to disqualify voters or prevent them from casting absentee ballots.
My viral moment revealed a shared experience of climate anxiety across generations. It’s time that we channel it into action.
Destruction arrives not via solemn news reports but in a barrage of digital scraps — first-person views of what it looks like when the world changes.
Recklessness has characterized Mr. Robinson’s online persona, his personal life and his rocky campaign for governor in North Carolina.
The rocker will appear at a rally on Thursday in Atlanta alongside the vice president, and again at an event next week in Philadelphia with Barack Obama.
Buncombe County, which includes Asheville, miscounted the deaths during a period when communications were severely hampered by the storm, the sheriff’s office said.
In 1957, she and eight other Black students — the Little Rock Nine — enrolled in a high school in the face of racist mobs and a resistant Jim Crow governor.
The deaths of seven people on Sapelo Island have brought to the fore longstanding frustrations among its Gullah Geechee community.
Las encuestas no son lo suficientemente precisas como para que una ventaja de 0,2 puntos transmita información significativa.
The former president, asked at a news conference in storm-damaged North Carolina if he had seen anything to suggest the election would be unfair, said, “I have not seen that.”
Federal and state researchers said there might be five million to 19 million tons of lithium, more than enough to meet the world’s demand for the battery ingredient.
Disaster struck at the end of an annual cultural celebration on Sapelo Island. Twenty people went into the water, including seven people over the age of 70 who died.
The polls are not precise enough for a 0.2-point edge to convey meaningful information.
There’s no shortage of Southern virtuosity in the 404, but don’t miss the outstanding Indian, Italian and Thai cooking — or the amazing wings from an unexpected spot.
A write-in campaign appears to be Democrats’ only hope in a Georgia congressional district after a lawyer with extreme right-wing views won the party’s primary.
Bystanders and rescue teams searched for victims after the gangway at a ferry dock in Sapelo Island collapsed into the water.
Investigators have begun looking for reasons behind the failure at a ferry dock on Sapelo Island, the site of a festival celebrating the heritage of descendants of enslaved people.
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.
Known for his blockbuster Southern Reach series, the author talks about his eerie new installment, “Absolution,” keeping mysteries alive and what people get wrong about alligators.
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.
Overall, 20 people were forced into the water on Saturday by the accident on Sapelo Island, the site of a festival celebrating the heritage of descendants of enslaved people.
The document, which was sold to an anonymous bidder at an auction in North Carolina, was among the first copies of the Constitution ever printed, experts said.
The more than 353,000 ballots cast signaled enthusiasm in the battleground state, but the significance of the high turnout was unclear.
On the first day of early voting, residents of western North Carolina weighed which candidates would most help their yearslong recovery.
The organization behind a campaign for an abortion-rights ballot measure sued the Florida governor’s administration over its threats of criminal prosecution against TV stations.
Barack and Michelle Obama will make their first campaign appearances alongside Kamala Harris at rallies in Georgia and Michigan.
A look at the political microcommunities that could decide the 2024 presidential election.
Ashwin Ramaswami, a Democrat, was still in law school when he decided to run against State Senator Shawn Still, who was indicted with Donald Trump in the Georgia election interference case.
The man, Daqua Lameek Ritter, was the first person in the country to be convicted of a federal hate crime based on gender identity.
A grand jury handed up charges against a 14-year-old who is accused of killing four people at his high school. His father is accused of giving him access to the murder weapon.
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.
Josh Stein’s campaign in North Carolina is a master class in devastating campaign ads.
Los investigadores que estudian los delfines mulares encontraron poliéster y otros plásticos en todos los animales que analizaron.
Mary Barra, G.M.’s chief executive, said that the company had fixed battery-manufacturing problems and that its electric vehicles would soon be profitable.
The cruel realities of the Supreme Court’s decision through the eyes of one doctor.
A bridge over the Strong River in Simpson County that was being demolished collapsed in a “work site accident,” the authorities said.
Disponemos de poco tiempo para comprender los retos a los que se enfrentan las legislaturas estatales, el Congreso, los poderes ejecutivos y los jueces electos antes de las elecciones en EE.UU.
The measures had been promoted by the State Election Board. The judge called them “illegal, unconstitutional and void.”
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 appeal filed on Tuesday disputes a judge’s ruling that six of the charges brought against Donald J. Trump and his allies in Georgia were not specific enough.
At a rally in a state he lost in 2020, the former president considered the possibility of another defeat.
The group behind an ad in favor of enshrining abortion rights in Florida’s Constitution says the state is violating the First Amendment by threatening TV stations that ran the ad.
Researchers studying bottlenose dolphins found polyester and other plastics in every animal they tested.
The 39th president, who entered hospice care in February 2023, submitted an absentee ballot, according to a grandson. His family said he had been eager to vote for Vice President Kamala Harris.
The former first lady, one of the Democratic Party’s most popular but most elusive figures, will appeal to younger, nonwhite voters.
We have just a short time to understand the challenges across state legislatures, Congress, executive branches and elected judges.
The Sunshine State is losing its security and safety, but it’s avoidable.
A Craftsman-style house from 1906 in Denver, a turn-of-the-century townhouse in Washington, D.C., and a Queen Anne Revival-style house in Fredericksburg, Va.
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.
The ruling was confined to the current election, halting the measure from going into effect for 2024 while the judge further weighs its merits in the future.
Donald Trump fielded questions from an audience of all women in Georgia for a Fox News event to be broadcast on Wednesday morning.
A new historical marker in Miami Beach pays tribute to his younger years, before Hollywood, when as a Cuban émigré he performed at a nightclub.
Democrats and Republicans alike have crusaded for residents to get to the polls early as Donald Trump and Kamala Harris aggressively seek the state’s 16 electoral votes.
Search and rescue teams are still looking for the missing, officials said, with 95 deaths already attributed to the storm’s wrath in the state.
On the west coast of Florida, a town built to weather hurricanes hosted more than 2,000 people during Hurricane Milton. Could communities like this help shape Florida’s future?
A Trump-era rollback of flood-protection rules has left critical infrastructure projects at higher risk, experts say.
Mr. Robinson’s campaign for governor of North Carolina has been in crisis since the report, which the lawsuit calls “recklessly false.”
Smaller, lighter and sharper than Buffalo wings, this interpretation of a classic has faded away over time. But you can make it at home.
The ruling cuts at the heart of a key argument made by right-wing activists since the 2020 election, when Donald Trump sought to disrupt the certification process as part of his bid to subvert the results.
A decade after the first one opened, the Italian American juggernaut is still a celebrity magnet and impossible reservation. Take our red-sauce tour.
Fall is the perfect time to take excursions from bustling Music City into the surrounding countryside, where a variety of natural and cultural adventures await.
As chief law enforcement officers, sheriffs shape how laws around immigration, guns, health and much else play out at the local level.
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.
En un evento, Kamala Harris preguntó por qué Donald Trump no ha hecho público su historial médico, no ha aparecido en ’60 Minutes’ o no ha aceptado un segundo debate.
William Jacob Parsons was arrested and charged in North Carolina after he was found with a handgun and a rifle at a supermarket where a federal aid vehicle was parked.
Philip Esformes is at least the seventh person to be charged with new crimes after receiving a second chance in the last days of the Trump administration.
Weather experts say the spiraling falsehoods, especially claims that the government is creating or controlling storms, have gotten out of hand.
Mecklenburg County leans liberal but has broken Democrats’ hearts in past elections with low voter turnout. A new party leader wants to change that.
Millions of Americans, many poor and vulnerable, live in mobile and manufactured homes. When catastrophe strikes, they’re often on their own.
The 2008 coal ash spill was among the biggest industrial disasters in U.S. history. In a new book, Jared Sullivan recounts the accident, the lawsuits and the lasting damage.
The vice president criticized former President Donald J. Trump, calling him “weak and unstable.”
Kamala Harris asked why Donald J. Trump had not released his medical records, appeared on “60 Minutes” or agreed to a second debate.
With early voting set to begin in Georgia, the Harris campaign is sending the former president to get out the vote in rural areas.
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.
I had only recently moved to Tampa and before the storm didn’t feel connected to the place.
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.
Helene in North Carolina and Milton in Florida were very different storms in very different places.
The deli-meat company made its owners fabulously wealthy. But they have remained silent, even as the company faces the biggest scandal in its history.
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.
The president will visit communities ravaged by Hurricane Milton on Sunday. The disaster declaration will enable funds for the state to be deployed.
Pvt. Cole Bridges pleaded guilty last year to charges of attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization and attempting to murder U.S. military service members.
Honorable public servants of both parties upheld democracy after the 2020 election. America is counting on them again to do their duty.
Un estallido de actividad solar elevada creó el jueves condiciones que mantuvieron la mirada de la gente sobre los paisajes nocturnos en todo el hemisferio norte.
Florida’s animal shelters are struggling after the storm. Animal organizations are helping fly some pets to faraway shelters.
Hurricane Milton’s death toll was highest far from the coast where it made landfall, in a retirement community where few were braced for destructive tornadoes.
Over time, the question of whether to stay or go will likely become a question of whether to keep living in coastal or low-lying areas at all.
Power outages, gas shortages and pockets of flooding were among the lingering issues. But Gov. Ron DeSantis said the damage could have been worse.
Hurricane Milton left many gas stations without power and disrupted deliveries at ports. Mass evacuations before the storm also drained supplies.
The state has taken steps to shore up its insurance market, but researchers warn of looming risks.
Some Rabbis are altering tradition slightly to account for dispersed congregations, power outages and flooded temples. For others, it’s business as usual.
Por toda Florida, el ciclón dejó zonas inundadas, cortes de electricidad o daños por los tornados. Al menos 13 personas murieron.
Greenhouse gas emissions added rain, intensified winds and doubled the storm’s potential property damage, scientists estimated.
La tormenta, formada solo cuatro días antes de tocar tierra, se convirtió en uno de los huracanes más intensos registrados en el golfo de México, rivalizando con huracanes como Wilma y Rita, ambos de 2005.
Aquí te decimos cómo conectar con grupos de ayuda verificados que trabajan en las zonas afectadas por la tormenta.
How did we get here?
El Partido Republicano encabeza las contiendas claves al Senado en Montana, Texas y Florida, según las últimas encuestas de The New York Times y Siena College.
The aurora borealis, which transformed the sky with startling streaks of pink and purple, arose from a magnetic storm.
The Coast Guard rescued a fishing boat captain Thursday afternoon and said he survived winds as fierce as 90 miles per hour.
Residents of Sanibel Island, Fla., feared the worst when they evacuated to safer ground before Hurricane Milton arrived.
Nuestra reportera relata un intervalo de puro asombro ante el misterio y el poder del mundo natural, en el que todo lo demás, incluido el miedo, desaparece brevemente.
The home of the Tampa Bay Rays, generally disdained by players, was built to take the elements out of baseball. The elements struck back.
Millions waited for streams of updates from TikTok users in Florida, who broadcast from their damaged homes and neighborhoods and shared their evacuation journeys.
Last month’s Hurricane Helene will be widely remembered for the rainfall in the Appalachians and the surge along Florida’s west shore. Milton will stand out for other reasons.