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.
It’s not hope or change. It’s not making anything great. It’s just about making it through.
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.
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.
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.
In a court filing, Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly said Kenneth Walker’s actions had caused him “severe trauma, mental anguish and emotional distress.”
Joe Biden has cut into President Trump’s edge among suburbanites and older voters, but his support from Latino voters appears weaker than Hillary Clinton’s was.
In the swing state’s conservative retirement communities, some voters have switched sides. And some of them have reason to worry about what the neighbors might think.
About 50 million Americans have already voted by mail. Here’s what processing those ballots looks like in a crucial swing state.
The presidential rivals both appeared in Tampa, confronting their vulnerabilities and courting a range of voters, a clear sign that both see their political fortunes tied to the state.
Here’s what you need to know.
He was a Twitter pioneer in writing at length, 140 characters at a time, about losing his job at The New Yorker. He wrote an admired book on New Orleans.
President Trump campaigned in Tampa, Fla., Thursday boasting about third-quarter economic gains, and assailing the news media as “the enemy of the people.”
Campaigning in South Florida, Joseph R. Biden Jr., the Democratic presidential nominee, called on Latino voters to reject President Trump, and promised to reverse Trump’s hard-line Cuba policy.
The outlook has not been much better for basketball than football. “I wouldn’t use the word ‘disaster’ because that would be too light a term,” Seton Hall Coach Kevin Willard said.
La polarización que vimos en Venezuela migró con nosotros. Quienes podemos votar, debemos considerar el modo en el que Trump ha tratado a nuestra comunidad, dentro y fuera del país.
Venezuelan-Americans need to see beyond the bluster, and look at the way he has treated our community in the U.S.
We need to see beyond the bluster, and look at the way he has treated our community in the U.S.
Our vote could play a key role in November. We need to see beyond the bluster, and look at the way Trump has treated our community in the U.S.
Our vote could play a key role in November. We need to see beyond the bluster, and look at the way Trump has treated our community in the U.S.
Joe Biden and Cal Cunningham both led their Republican rivals by three points, a Times/Siena College survey found. Perhaps most notably, 64 percent of respondents said they had already voted.
After hitting the Louisiana coast as a Category 2 hurricane, Zeta’s strong winds caused widespread power outages in Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and the Carolinas.
The election anxieties of Americans across the political spectrum are visible in an alarming place: gun sales figures.
The storm’s strong winds caused widespread power outages in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and the Carolinas.
With business travel all but stopped, city hotels and tourist organizations have made a full-court press to attract local and nearby leisure travelers with bottom-barrel rates and extra perks.
After Virginia passed gun laws, conservatives began invoking the state’s colonial-era constitution, which calls for a “well regulated militia.”
The storm, which was upgraded to a Category 2 hurricane, was set to bring heavy rains and damaging winds to southeast Louisiana.
As Democrats eye the Southern battleground, high turnout will be crucial for them, and that means persuading nonvoters to participate. But experts warn that changing electorates is hard and complicated.
The judge affirmed an order by Gov. Ralph Northam but allowed the monument to remain while local residents appeal the decision.
The judge affirmed an order by Gov. Ralph Northam but allowed the monument to remain while local residents appeal the decision.
The gloves were headed for hospitals battling the pandemic.
In the rural hills of Georgia, a state he is seeking to win, Joseph R. Biden Jr. called for “healing” and “restoration,” and a commitment to a common purpose to meet the challenges of the coronavirus.
Los nuevos inmigrantes cubanos, que antes tenían poca participación en la política estadounidense, han empezado a identificarse como republicanos de Trump. Esto podría darle al presidente un impulso en un estado clave.
After a long season of hits and near-misses, residents are exhausted by hurricanes. The storm was expected to make landfall in southeastern Louisiana on Wednesday.
The legislature in this battleground state could flip to Democratic control, a prospect that is bringing out lower-income voters who stayed home in 2016.
The two presidents drove out 10,000 Cuban doctors and nurses. They defunded the region’s leading health agency. They wrongly pushed hydroxychloroquine as a cure.
The G.O.P.’s politicians, activists and voters are still figuring out what that means.
Los dos presidentes expulsaron a 10.000 médicos y enfermeros cubanos. Le quitaron fondos a la principal agencia de salud de la región e impulsaron erróneamente a la hidroxicloroquina como una cura.
To combat the coronavirus, schools across America moved students outdoors. Here’s a look at four new learning environments.
Appearing newly emboldened, the Democratic nominee also said he thought he would win Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota, three critical battleground states.
Joe Biden could win the state because Republicans have failed to keep up with its diverse population and shifting suburban politics.
The incumbent governor and some of his allies argued, without showing any evidence, that there were voting irregularities and fraud.
Hurricane Zeta is expected to make landfall in the United States Wednesday.
Once regarded as the most vulnerable incumbents, many Democrats who carried Trump districts in 2018 are poised to win re-election, boosting the party’s chances of building its House majority.
A week after the governor ordered an investigation into reports of racism at the college, Gen. J.H. Binford Peay III says the governor and other officials have lost confidence in his leadership.
La candidate à la Cour suprême des Etats-Unis a grandi dans une communauté qui se démarque d’autres groupes religieux conservateurs par l’implication très poussée de ses membres dans leurs vies respectives.
Several Black Democrats are running competitively in conservative states, and they are doing so by talking explicitly about race.
For Black residents of Sumter County, the fight for representation echoed the civil rights era. For white residents, it reflected the anxiety, made manifest by the Trump era, of maintaining power over institutions even without the votes to do so.
In 2016, Russia developed a simple, effective playbook to undermine U.S. elections with disinformation on social media. Four years later, Americans are using the same playbook on each other.
For years, attendance rates have dropped and congregations have closed nationwide. But many reused religious spaces are still sanctuaries.
Zeta is expected to become a hurricane before it makes landfall in the United States on Wednesday. It is the 27th named storm of an unusually active Atlantic hurricane season.
Wilton Gregory, the archbishop of Washington, was among 13 new cardinals named on Sunday.
A heavy fine, but no suspensions, came after two dozen players and staff members tested positive for the virus.
Wilton Gregory, the archbishop of Washington, who led the Roman Catholic Church’s response to the sexual abuse crisis in the early 2000s, was among 13 new cardinals named on Sunday.
Newer Cuban immigrants who previously had little engagement in American politics have started to identify as Trump Republicans. It could give the president a boost in a critical swing state.
Even some people in Gastonia, N.C., are a little perplexed about why the president was holding a rally in a small community that’s already in his camp.
Sixty-two years after the revolution, America’s relations with its neighbor to the south loom large.
The plane crashed next to a house. No civilians on the ground were injured, the authorities said.
Joseph Biden continued to hammer President Trump over his denial of the coronavirus threat, while the president sought to exploit what he viewed as a new opening — Mr. Biden’s comments on oil.
There is no silver bullet to slay internet lies and fictions. But students can be taught to know when information is reliable.
Officials have long atoned for their racist and inappropriate comments. But unlike years past, when apologies might have been enough, they have also been asked to step down.
En una participación más mesurada, el presidente Donald Trump le dijo a Joe Biden: “No tuviste éxito” en Washington. El exvicepresidente acusó al mandatario de crueldad por separar a las familias inmigrantes y avivar las tensiones raciales.
We teamed up with local news organizations across the country to document the lives of a dozen Americans who found themselves out of work in the pandemic.
Pinellas County sheriff’s office said it would station deputies at five early voting sites after two armed men dressed as security guards were seen outside a polling station.
President Trump and former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. met for a second and final debate, moderated by Kristen Welker of NBC News. Watch the video here and review our analysis as it happened.
The firm, Elliott Management, led by Paul Singer, will transfer its headquarters to West Palm Beach, Fla., because of the pandemic.
He was dedicated to Manchester, the small city where he was born and raised. In 1991, he became the city’s first Black mayor. He died of Covid-19.
Ms. Maxwell, who fought to keep the deposition secret, repeatedly denied that she helped Jeffrey Epstein recruit and sexually abuse teenage girls.
Adam Maxwell Donn, 40, of Norfolk, Va., sent dozens of harassing and threatening emails to try to get President Trump’s campaign rally canceled, officials said.
The University of Michigan’s reopening hasn’t gone well, forcing the local government to step in.
Nationwide, such voters are tilting toward Biden. But in Georgia, the president’s law-and-order message seems to be keeping the bulk of them in his column.
A 1979 house near an arboretum in Ann Arbor, a four-unit Art Deco apartment building in Miami Beach and a vacation compound in Ulster County.
A 1979 house near an arboretum in Ann Arbor, Mich.; a four-unit Art Deco building in Miami Beach; and a vacation compound in Ulster County, N.Y.
Public monuments, and the artists who create them, are beginning to represent women and their achievements.
En los grupos familiares de WhatsApp y en los medios de comunicación de Estados Unidos en español, la desinformación pinta 2020 como un juego de suma cero.
Democrats are still haunted by the ghosts of 2016. But some are allowing themselves to contemplate a Biden victory big enough to reorder the nation’s politics.
On family WhatsApp groups and in Spanish-language media, misinformation paints 2020 as a zero-sum game.
One of the emails, obtained by The Times, seemed to suggest that it was sent by an American far-right group, but its metadata showed that it originated from an Estonian server.
A judge gave grand jurors in the case permission to speak publicly, a rare move that immediately led one juror to speak out.
Unlike earlier outbreaks concentrated in the Northeast and South, the virus is simmering at a worrisome level in most regions.
Unlike earlier outbreaks concentrated in the Northeast and South, the virus is simmering at a worrisome level in most regions.
Residents faced lengthy wait times to cast a ballot for early, in-person voting on Tuesday in Wisconsin, Tennessee and Georgia.
Elections supervisors say the hard-earned lessons of the 2000 presidential recount and other messes have taught them well. But the challenges are already apparent.
Our latest survey shows a shift toward Biden among college-educated white voters, but surprising Trump gains among nonwhite voters.
Los supervisores electorales aseguran que han aprendido las difíciles lecciones del recuento presidencial de 2000 y otros desastres. Pero los retos son evidentes.
The contest in the purple state could determine which party controls the chamber. And if the stakes weren’t high enough, the battle has suddenly convulsed.
The city was shredded by Hurricanes Laura and Delta. But the needs of Lake Charles have been overlooked in a year of disaster and unrest.
Se ha prohibido a los trabajadores temporales que salgan, a menos que sean desplazamientos controlados para evitar que contraigan o propaguen la COVID-19. “Es una violación de nuestros derechos”, dijo uno de ellos.
The scheme involved thousands of flying squirrels that were captured in less than three years and were exported to Asia, the officials said.
The Carnival Sensation, which was sailing with no guests and a skeleton crew, found the boat in distress 37 miles off the coast of Palm Beach.
Our world cannot survive four more years of the Trump administration’s environmental policy.
Democrats lead in overall numbers, as well as early voting, but voter registration gains in three critical states have given Republicans a cause for hope.
Monday was the first day of early voting across Florida, and voters were met with lengthy wait times at the polls.
The guest workers have been prevented from all but carefully controlled trips to avoid contracting or spreading Covid-19. ‘I never expected to lose my freedom,’ said one.
Short on money and under enormous pressure, many swing states are still trying to shore up a democratic process challenged daily by court cases, new laws and surges in the coronavirus.
Inside the intricate legal battle to make sure every vote counts in 2020.
Before 2017, a person in Louisiana could be sentenced to life in prison after receiving a fourth nonviolent conviction under the state’s habitual offender law.
The shopping center was a “complete loss,” a city official said. The cause of the explosion was unknown.
The shopping center was a “complete loss,” a city official said. The cause of the explosion was unknown.
Weddings help pay for education at American labor camp sites and connect us with history. Is that good enough?
After several near misses, Democrats can taste victory in Georgia — and Republicans fear President Trump’s lackluster numbers may drag down the party’s Senate candidates with him.
Like way, way down. That could harm millions of Black, Latino and low-income students who enter the higher education system through the system.
The 70-year-old Tony-nominated actor, who appeared in numerous films by the director Spike Lee, was found dead in Atlanta from multiple gunshot wounds on Oct. 3.
A firm started by a group of Trump lawyers highlights the campaign’s connections to the false conspiracy theory and reinforces how deeply it has taken hold in the Republican Party.
He helped his tribe go from operating roadside bingo games to owning the Hard Rock chain, ushering in an era of prosperity. He died of the coronavirus.
Botanists have laid out evidence that dozens of North American trees, herbs, plants and shrubs have gone extinct since European settlers arrived.
As games are postponed and coronavirus outbreaks spike on campuses, nothing seems capable of stopping the juggernaut, regardless of the consequences.
After Bijan Ghaisar’s Jeep was hit by another vehicle in 2017, he left and failed to pull over for the police. “None of that should have led to his death,” a prosecutor said.
With Philip J. Hirschkop, he brought Loving v. Virginia to the Supreme Court, which struck down laws against interracial marriages.
President Trump and former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. appeared in simultaneous town-hall-style events on NBC and ABC, after Mr. Trump rejected the previously scheduled debate. Follow our analysis of both of the broadcasts.
Rachel Maddow of MSNBC criticized the decision to air the town hall opposite ABC’s Biden forum tonight. NBC stars and producers also objected as Savannah Guthrie prepared to moderate.
Mr. Graham, in a tough fight for re-election, is ahead by six percentage points, a Times/Siena College poll shows. President Trump leads Joseph R. Biden Jr. by eight points in a state he won by 14 in 2016.
President Trump and Joe Biden will appear at simultaneous televised forums on Thursday night, starting at 8 p.m. Eastern time.
President Trump and Joe Biden will appear at simultaneous televised forums on Thursday night, starting at 8 p.m. Eastern time.
In this documentary, the performer Big Freedia tackles the epidemic of gun violence in New Orleans.
The ruling, which called the state’s 48-hour waiting period “gratuitously demeaning,” came at a pivotal moment for abortion access, as the Senate considers Judge Amy Coney Barrett for the Supreme Court.
I went home to celebrate Frederick’s glorious life and was forced to reflect on my own.
A surge in worldwide demand for low-cost laptops has created shipment delays and pitted desperate schools against one another.
President Trump trails Joseph R. Biden Jr. by four points in the latest Times/Siena survey of North Carolina, and Senator Thom Tillis is lagging behind his Democratic challenger in a crucial Senate race.
A Gothic Revival mansion in Old Lyme, a two-story condo in San Francisco and a 19th-century clapboard house in Charleston.