It’s to kick millions of Americans off their health insurance.
2024 and the dilemmas of the elite-populist deadlock.
Readers discuss Nicholas Kristof’s column urging Democrats not to demean Trump supporters.
There is something particularly insidious about his claim that Haitian immigrants are eating household pets.
Donald J. Trump has made his revisionist account of the Capitol attack the foundation of this campaign, even when there is little political advantage.
The nation’s only Medicaid work program is part of a broad Republican push to change how poor people qualify for health care. In a second Trump term, Medicaid could be a target for huge spending cuts.
The inside story of how the producers of “The Apprentice” crafted a TV version of Mr. Trump — measured, thoughtful and endlessly wealthy — that ultimately fueled his path to the White House.
The former president meandered over 80 minutes from complaints about Tuesday’s debate to elevating baseless claims that have circulated on right-wing social media.
La decisión del expresidente de encumbrar a Loomer, una activista de extrema derecha conocida por sus publicaciones racistas y homófobas en internet, ha dejado atónitos incluso a algunos aliados.
After fellow Republicans criticized her appearance on the trail, noting her history of offensive remarks, former President Donald J. Trump praised her but later said he disagreed with some of her statements.
Gov. Gavin Newsom said all Americans should be alarmed that the former president wants to “block emergency disaster funds to settle political vendettas.”
As the president deliberated with Prime Minister Keir Starmer, the question of whether to let Ukraine use long-range weapons in Russia was a rare point of contention between allied nations.
The former president has repeatedly leveled baseless and exaggerated claims about migrants in Springfield, Ohio, and Aurora, Colo.
Joking around with a Trump supporter at a Sept. 11 event this week, the president put on a “Trump 2024” hat for a few seconds. The pictures took on a life of their own.
His economic agenda would concentrate more power in the hands of the president.
After commemorating Sept. 11 with a far-right activist who has called the attacks an “inside job,” former President Donald J. Trump said he was unaware of her remarks.
Donald J. Trump, the largest shareholder in the parent company of Truth Social, said he won’t sell his stock when a restriction ends next week.
The vice president, who appeared in Johnstown and Wilkes-Barre, pledged to remove “unnecessary degree requirements” for some federal jobs, aiming to compete in conservative-leaning areas.
Can pro-life states survive in a pro-choice country?
The decision not to indict Lt. Gov. Burt Jones was made by Pete Skandalakis, who is a veteran Georgia prosecutor and a fellow Republican.
He said American Catholic voters had to choose the “lesser of two evils” because of Donald Trump’s cruelty toward immigrants, and Kamala Harris’s support of abortion rights.
Former President Donald J. Trump would tell the Russians, Ukrainians and Europeans to “figure out what a peaceful settlement looks like,” Senator JD Vance, his running mate, says.
A trip to Washington by Britain’s prime minister, Keir Starmer, came after President Vladimir Putin of Russia warned that the allies’ next step could mean war for NATO.
Donald Trump’s rejection of a second meeting with Kamala Harris may or may not be final. But it could complicate his effort to portray her as ducking tough questions.
Springfield, Ohio, is caught in the middle of the nation’s political wars after former President Donald J. Trump made a debunked claim about Haitian immigrants and pets.
Mr. Trump said he would introduce the project on Monday, continuing his embrace of the crypto industry, a major source of political donations.
Readers discuss diversity, equity and inclusion efforts. Also: The debate; Donald Trump’s mental state; the Sentinel missile program; a walker in Manhattan.
More Americans are using mail-in ballots, which take longer to count than those cast in person. In several battleground states, a winner may not be apparent on Nov. 5.
A false claim made by Donald Trump in the presidential debate has its origins in an Ohio town.
Trump has made himself the most hated person in America, and that’s the way he wants it.
As campaigns increasingly communicate via meme, cat videos are outranking reality.
A successful presidency is much more about organization, vision and values than it is the scope of a given legislative package.
An examination of a month’s worth of rally speeches revealed sharp contrasts in how closely the candidates stick to the script — and the facts.
An examination of a month’s worth of rally speeches revealed sharp contrasts in how closely the candidates stick to the script — and the facts.
A good debate doesn’t decide an election.
As opposition to their agenda grows, especially on abortion, many conservatives are grappling with how to handle this new uncertain political world.
The topic has been a major concern in presidential elections for decades. Its absence as a top issue now is notable.
Its leader, Kim Jong-un, visited the factory and urged his country to produce more highly enriched uranium to build “exponentially” more nuclear weapons.
La declaración se produce tras su actuación en el debate del martes que fue ampliamente criticada. En el pasado, Trump ya había dudado si participar o no en los debates.
La estrella del pop coronó una gran noche para Kamala Harris con un inesperado apoyo que podría atraer a más votantes jóvenes. El mensaje político de Swift también fue directo y personal.
Las falsedades según las cuales los migrantes en Ohio están matando gatos y decapitando patos se hicieron virales esta semana. La campaña de Trump las hizo suyas.
The former president’s decision to elevate Laura Loomer, a far-right activist known for racist and homophobic posts online, has stunned even some Trump allies.
Speaking at an event in Tucson, Ariz., former President Donald J. Trump called for eliminating taxes on overtime pay as he declared Tuesday’s debate a “monumental victory” for him.
As campaigns shift from persuading voters to turning them out, mail voting is in the spotlight.
People can be bitter for only so long. Harris’s happy strength may offer a glimpse of a sunnier national mood to come.
At her first big events since this week’s debate, the vice president said “we owe it to the voters” to have another. Shortly beforehand, Donald Trump had said he would not participate in one.
While the judge kept most of the case intact, it was a win for the defendants, who have been trying to chip away at the case.
The former president has a habit of working the referees before debates, and then complaining about them if things don’t go as he hoped.
Merrick Garland told the department’s staff that there “is not one rule for friends and another for foes,” amid threats from former President Donald Trump to go after enemies if he is elected.
Trying to come up with a viable alternative to the Affordable Care Act would probably just mean reinventing it.
His declaration follows a debate performance on Tuesday that was widely criticized. He has gone back and forth before about whether to participate in debates.
Nathan Clark dice que los candidatos están explotando la muerte de su hijo en un accidente causado por un inmigrante a las afueras de la pequeña ciudad de Springfield.
The House speaker faces a choice of cutting a deal with Democrats or bowing to conservatives and Donald Trump and shutting down the government just before the election.
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To me, this is the biggest political dynamic coming out of Tuesday’s debate.
Readers offer different answers in response to a guest essay. Also: Protests on campus; China’s adoption policy; Trump the fixer; hearing loss.
Her careful cramming and his cocky hamming tell you all you need to know.
Springfield, which has attracted thousands of Haitians, has been at the center of a fiery immigration debate and baseless rumors amplified by Donald J. Trump and JD Vance.
The singer denounced the former president, singling out the impact of his administration’s family separations policy in Arizona, and endorsed Kamala Harris.
We explain the contrasting approaches Donald Trump and Kamala Harris take to the executive office.
Plus, debunking claims about immigrants in Ohio.
Apparently, this election is about … pets.
Her campaign is riding high, but still sees the race as an exceedingly close grind. Her aides have new hopes of focusing the race squarely on Donald Trump’s fitness for office.
105 minutes on a Philadelphia debate stage wasn’t enough for some people to fully make up their minds.
Optimistic words and some admirable proposals aren’t enough to overcome the discontent and anger that a large majority of Americans feel about the economy.
Binyamin Appelbaum on why Harris’s ill-defined plan is still better than Trump’s.
Serena y sin perder la compostura, Kamala Harris usó sus palabras, y sobre todo su lenguaje corporal, para desestabilizar a Donald Trump, provocar su ira y luego simplemente dejar que se hiciera daño a sí mismo.
The Homeland Security Department approved adding federal, state and local resources to help protect the counting of Electoral College votes on Jan. 6, 2025.
On 9/11, firefighters greeted the former president with high fives and hugs. But across the street, other New Yorkers were icy.
The former president’s refusal to back Ukraine’s war effort showed the likely limits of U.S. support for Kyiv if he returns to the White House.
Donald J. Trump’s aggressive spinning of his debate performance suggested he knew it was suboptimal, and left aides considering how to move ahead with eight weeks to go.
The TV audience for the Harris-Trump matchup was roughly comparable to the second Trump-Clinton debate in 2016.
Kamala Harris sought to rattle Trump — and flip a gender dynamic on its head.
Former President Donald J. Trump has long tried to stoke fear about immigration. Now, he’s doubling down as the presidential race heats up.
The city manager in Springfield, Ohio, said it was disappointing that the presidential race was amplifying a bizarre narrative about the city’s immigrants.
The vice president successfully baited Trump’s angry, conspiratorial, free-associating side. But what wasn’t said was just as telling.
During the debate, the former president used the phrase “execute the baby” to attack Kamala Harris for her support of abortion rights.
The debate analysis you didn’t know you needed.
The election is too close to call, but the vice president has exposed the former president.
Supporters of Donald J. Trump and Kamala Harris are taking the debate’s spiciest moments for inspiration in memes, video reels and fake photos.
Scrambling to shelter himself on abortion, Donald J. Trump disavowed his running mate’s pledge that, if re-elected, the former president would veto a national abortion ban.
Former President Donald J. Trump once promised to replace Obamacare with “something terrific.” But as the 2010 law has become more popular, he has sounded less confident about a repeal.
Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald J. Trump joined President Biden and other dignitaries in a daylong journey to sites of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
The pop star capped a big night for Kamala Harris with an unexpectedly timed endorsement that could draw in more young voters. Ms. Swift’s political message, too, was newly direct and personal.
Large donors to former President Donald J. Trump’s campaign expressed concern after his performance. The Democrats raised big money in the hours after the debate.
Readers analyze the candidates’ performances, the moderators, the likely impact and claims of pet-eating.
It can be hard to tell when a debate bounce will last, but there are rough parameters that can guide us.
Un lapso de cuatro minutos, en el que el expresidente divagó entre el tamaño de las multitudes en los mítines y las teorías conspirativas sobre los gatos, pareció alterar la trayectoria de la noche.
Vice President Kamala Harris baited traps for Donald J. Trump in their debate on Tuesday night — and he walked right into them, spinning into conspiracy theories. But did she say enough about her plans? Jonathan Weisman, a politics reporter for Th...
In Tuesday’s debate, the vice president made herself the studio audience for a cringe comedy starring her opponent.
“She’ll probably pay a price for it in the marketplace,” the former president said in an interview on “Fox & Friends” regarding the pop star, who backed Biden in 2020.
Aiden Clark was killed when an immigrant’s minivan crashed into a school bus he was travelling in last year.
The morning after their first face-to-face meeting, the two candidates attended a ceremony on the 23rd anniversary of the terror attacks. Vice President Kamala Harris appeared to say “thank you” to her rival.
Former President Donald J. Trump is gambling that Americans are as angry as he is, while Vice President Kamala Harris hopes voters are exhausted by the Trump era and ready to move on.
The former president played media critic during a Wednesday morning interview on “Fox & Friends.”
Nathan Clark says the candidates are exploiting his son’s death in a crash caused by an immigrant outside the small city of Springfield. “This needs to stop now.”
The former president suggested immediately after the debate and in a call-in to Fox News on Wednesday morning that he was not inclined to agree to another.
When Donald Trump and Kamala Harris faced off on the debate stage, governing style was on display.
The war in Gaza merited a few scant mentions in the presidential debate. Here’s a look at where Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump stand.
Shares of the parent company of Truth Social, which have traded like a proxy for former President Donald Trump’s election prospects, set a new low for the year.
At Tuesday’s debate, Mr. Trump repeated his claim that he can end the war and refused to say if defending Ukraine was in America’s national security interests.
Kamala Harris seemed to win the debate with Donald Trump, but didn’t have a perfect night.
Commentators, even Republicans, concluded that the vice president succeeded in provoking the former president.
A substantial number of Republican voters are losing faith in science.
Our columnists and contributors rate Trump’s and Harris’s debate performances.
If Donald Trump wins a second term, America would be at risk of falling even further behind China.
La vicepresidenta se adueñó de gran parte de la noche, manteniendo a Trump a la defensiva y evitando que se centrara la atención en sus propias vulnerabilidades.
Voters said the vice president talked about a sweeping vision to fix the country’s most stubborn problems. But they wanted the fine print.
In their first face-to-face meeting, Kamala Harris put Donald Trump on the defensive as the former president tried to tie her to unpopular Biden administration policies.
Former President Donald J. Trump offered a dire portrait of America, often relying on false and debunked claims as he described “a failing nation.”
Calmly and firmly, Linsey Davis and David Muir pursued the kind of real-time fact-checking missing from many previous debates.
Tuesday’s debate was expected to center on defining Kamala Harris. Instead, with words and with body language, she turned it into a referendum on Donald Trump.
Vice President Kamala Harris largely deflected former President Donald J. Trump’s attempts to tie her to President Biden.
Donald Trump can be beaten. That was the clearest takeaway on Tuesday night.
Laying out bait that Donald Trump eagerly snatched, the vice president owned much of the night, keeping him on the back foot and avoiding sustained attention on her own vulnerabilities.
Kamala Harris reminded viewers she owns a gun. Donald Trump repeated a debunked internet rumor about immigrants eating cats.
It was an unusual move for a presidential candidate.
El expresidente difundió una descabellada teoría de internet desde el escenario del debate, provocando las risas de su contrincante, la vicepresidenta Kamala Harris.
A four-minute stretch, in which the former president wandered from crowd sizes to cat conspiracy theories, seemed to alter the evening’s trajectory.
Donald J. Trump tried to soften his claim that Vice President Kamala Harris had changed her racial identity. She called his divisive remarks a ‘tragedy.’
Al rebatir una afirmación del expresidente Donald Trump durante el debate, la vicepresidenta dijo que poseía un arma y añadió: “No vamos a quitarle las armas a nadie”.
In rebutting a claim from former President Donald J. Trump during their debate, the vice president asserted that she owned a gun, adding, “We’re not taking anybody’s guns away.”
He fell right into the traps Harris set for him.
En uno de ellos, publicado en línea el martes, la ex primera dama reflexiona con tono conspiranoico sobre el atentado contra la vida de su marido. Los videos pretenden promocionar unas nuevas memorias.
Donald J. Trump amplified an outlandish internet theory from the debate stage, drawing laughter from his opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris.
Vice President Kamala Harris went on offense over abortion policy. “The government and Donald Trump, certainly, should not be telling a woman what to do with her body,” she said.
Nuestros periodistas analizan y verifican en directo los datos del debate de Filadelfia. Esto es lo que hay que saber.
Anthony Scaramucci and Tulsi Gabbard are there. But you might be surprised which candidate they’re supporting.
Puede que Donald Trump y Kamala Harris no se vuelvan a encontrar durante esta campaña. Esta noche tienen un enorme y fugaz espacio para cambiar la forma en que los votantes ven a su rival.
See how the candidates used their speaking time to discuss the issues or criticize their opponent.
I asked again how you’re feeling about the debate. You responded with new worries and hopes.
In one, released online on Tuesday, she muses conspiratorially about the attempt on her husband’s life. The videos are intended to promote a new memoir.
Falsehoods claiming migrants in Ohio are killing cats and decapitating ducks went viral this week. The Trump campaign embraced them.
Kamala Harris has backed away from some progressive positions she took in the 2020 primaries. Donald Trump has changed his stripes on a host of issues big and small, sometimes repeatedly.
Millions of Americans are waiting for her to earn their vote. Here’s how she can do that.