The move would be the latest U.S. concession to Moscow as President Trump pursues economic incentives he hopes will secure an end to war in Ukraine.
State and local plans for Election Day include how to react to potential ICE raids, misbehavior by federal election monitors and attempts to seize votes or machines.
Dr. Jennifer Shuford, a respected former Texas health official, had been appointed by President Trump to help steady the agency.
The American people have a chance to allow the nation to glimpse the end of the Trump era and the start of something brighter.
The administration had filed a lawsuit seeking to prevent certification of the election if the Republican incumbent narrowly loses.
Lawyers for James B. Comey said the case centered on an issue that had already been investigated and had not led to charges, of a purported leak of national security information to The Times in October 2016.
The election forecaster Nate Silver breaks down the likelihood of a G.O.P. wipeout.
The president has initiated extensive maneuvers to personally profit as a private citizen while wielding the threat of his public power.
By a 2-1 vote, a federal appeals court panel denied the Trump administration’s request that it immediately order the state to set aside 20,000 mail-in ballots.
The filing was the second time in less than a month that the university moved to throw out a federal lawsuit about its actions after the Oct. 7 attack on Israel.
A federal judge stopped the Trump administration from cutting trees and prohibited other changes at the park where the president has sought to overhaul a golf course.
The new book by the reporter Matthew Cole connects $2 billion in slush funds from gulf state leaders to Trump’s son-in-law in an effort to influence U.S. policy.
We polled liberals and conservatives on their favorite players, the trans-athlete debate and more.
The strange story behind the first federal terrorism prosecution of American protesters.
The buck stops with local officials.
President Trump on Monday was the latest big political star to swing through Mississippi and boost a candidate in a red-state Senate race that suddenly seems competitive.
President Trump defended his renovation projects after former President Barack Obama said the White House looked like “Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory.”
Seeking new elections, María Corina Machado will need to tread carefully to avoid offending the Trump administration, while also asserting her own leadership.
Former President Barack Obama had cast his successor as out of touch while jabbing at his extravagant sense of style. Mr. Trump responded at length.
After more than a decade of Trump looming over American politics, many believe that he can do whatever he wants, says the columnist Jamelle Bouie on “The Opinions.” But he urges us to remember: Just because there’s a will doesn’t always mean there’s a way.
It was unclear how the president would pay for the proposal, which fused his campaign trail promotion of financial incentives to help his party win and his unfounded warnings about voter fraud.
President Trump disparaged Norway to express his irritation over not winning the Nobel Peace Prize. Norwegian officials have repeatedly stated that they don’t have any influence over the award.
Examining President Trump’s praise of a rallygoer who punched a protester last week, David E. Sanger, a White House and national security correspondent for The New York Times, studied the atmosphere at Mr. Trump’s recent events. What he found was a faint echo of the moments that made Mr. Trump’s 2016 rallies so shocking.
A Platner superfan’s reluctance to support the Democrat now running against Senator Susan Collins reflects the party’s challenges navigating left-wing passions.
Plus, can a three-hour documentary lead the box office?
Democrats are targeting G.O.P. strongholds that could set them up for new majorities. But if they don’t win those races now, it could be a long time before they have another chance.
It’s Oct. 26 — eight days from the midterms. Here’s the state of play.
The left says its populist message can attract moderates and conservatives in addition to liberals. That theory will be put to the test in a series of competitive races on Election Day.
Former Republican Gov. David Beasley and Democratic Gov. Jim Hodges recorded a joint video throwing their support to the Democrat in the tight Senate race.
In much of Europe, the advance of the right has been seen as unstoppable. But in the east, nationalists are being cast aside in places where they long governed.
About an ad in which the candidate’s mother calls her a liar and a lawsuit over similar names in a Senate race. Also: “The Twilight Zone”; no smartphones.
Ms. Comey, the daughter of James Comey, the former director of the F.B.I., worked for the U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan, handling the prosecutions of Jeffrey Epstein and Sean Combs.
The request comes as Democrats are working to paint Republicans as corrupt and highlight their plans to investigate Trump should they win the midterm elections.
Joe Lombardo, the governor of Nevada, was favored to win a second term. Now he’s in one of the nation’s tightest contests.
Mr. Lula’s victory represents a win for the forces of democracy not only in Brazil, but around the world.
Conflict? Cooperation? On the potential of divided government.
President Trump will stump for a senator in a state he has won three times by double digits, and as Democrats see a path to victory.
Norwegian officials emphasized that their government does not have any influence over who receives the Peace Prize, after President Trump used crude language to express his frustration.
The president contended that Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, a Muslim, would “invite hordes of jihadis to our shores” as he sought to bolster the G.O.P. candidate in a tight Senate race.
It’s crunch time and still looking bullish for Democrats.
At rallies this weekend, Mr. Obama and Mr. Trump delivered two starkly contrasting pitches, differing in style and substance.
The Venezuelan opposition leader returned home from exile to a country firmly under American control. How are her relations with Washington?
A lawsuit by the Justice Department challenging a potential narrow loss by the GOP Senate incumbent in Alaska reflects a new tactic by the president to try to shape the election results.
A video of Catholic leaders praying with the president was shared by the White House. One archbishop said it was done without permission.
On Sunday, Brazilians will choose between a beleaguered left-wing incumbent and a right-wing challenger. Trade, security and democracy are on the table.
Latinos helped fuel President Trump’s return to the White House. But Democrats have won back the trust of many Hispanic voters over the past two years.
With new intelligence and the possibility of all sides seeking pretexts for action, the war in Iran is entering a dangerous phase ahead of elections in the United States and Israel.
Both Israelis and Palestinians are trapped in the Netanyahu paradigm.
There are signs the A.I. boom is going bust. If it does, the consequences could rival the 2008 financial crisis.
The president seems not to understand that the global standing of the United States suffers when he plays into the stereotype of the ugly American.
Senator Roger Marshall was slow to recognize the steep challenge he faced in his solidly conservative state. Now he is confronting dissent among voters with deep economic worries.
Former President Barack Obama attacked the Trump administration on Saturday as he hit the campaign trail before the midterm elections.
A deputy in small-town Texas became the local face of ICE’s national crackdown.
The Volkswagen division, which imports all its cars from Europe or Mexico, has been hit hard by U.S. tariffs.
The president voted at a polling station in Palm Beach County, Fla.
With moves in Alaska and California, the department has stepped up interventions in the midterm elections as the president’s instrument of unmediated executive power.
The president temporarily waived clean-air rules for industrial facilities that spew cancer-causing gases. Then his appointees worked to gut the regulations altogether.
The fallout from Vivek Ramaswamy’s brutal spot targeting his Democratic rival in the Ohio governor’s race showed that even in the Trump era, a political attack can be seen as going too far.
Chemical plants and other industrial facilities had been required to curb their toxic emissions. A New York Times investigation shows how they got out of it.
The 44th president sharply criticized Mr. Trump, who hit back later in the day. Mr. Obama also assailed Vivek Ramaswamy, the Republican nominee for governor of Ohio.
Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva faces an uphill battle for another term, in a high-stakes election that may reshape Latin America.
Democrats are increasingly optimistic about the midterms. But they are being outspent by Republicans. And they are trying to compete in states that favored President Trump by large margins.
The U.S. government has ordered diplomats and other federal employees to leave Saudi Arabia. It is also drawing down staff at other missions in the region.
The United States once declared that Ukraine’s fight was the front line in a global battle for freedom. Now the Trump administration is sending money to Moscow.
Election officials across the state received letters from the agency saying if they fail to comply, they “risk significant federal scrutiny.”
No obvious legal authority supports a pre-emptive effort to block the certification of Alaska’s Senate election if the Republican incumbent narrowly loses.
President Trump told the Justice Department to intervene in the race, where polling shows Republicans at risk of losing a seat.
The Trump administration says Canadian officials are trying to sway the midterm elections for Democrats. Prime Minister Mark Carney says those claims have “no merit.”
Interviews and documents show a Russian energy giant secretly funded a U.S. firm. The deal has been discussed in talks to end the war in Ukraine.
In states like Florida, officers who hand out fishing citations and inspect produce have been deputized by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, expanding the reach of President Trump’s deportation campaign.
Hope, dread and the final stretch to Election Day.
The move was announced by Senator Susan Collins, a Maine Republican who faces a tough re-election fight amid rising prices.
The fundamental issue is Trump’s shredding of the model that made America the world’s leading country.
A New York Times investigation shows how President Trump allowed companies to skirt rules designed to limit toxic pollution.
The Justice Department has opened an inquiry into Mr. Lewandowski. President Trump has not jumped to his defense.
The Brazilian echoes of American politics have become too eerie to deny.
Blake Miley yelled “fascist” as President Trump spoke at a midterm campaign rally. The violence that followed “was not right,” she said.
The Trump administration wants a public victory soon, as well as a potential path to U.S. military forces in Mexico.
Some Muslim voters who backed Mr. Trump in 2024 say they believe he pledged his support when it was politically convenient, only to alienate and scapegoat them once he won the election.
The president has spread false claims about ranked-choice systems, voting machines, vote counting and past results to question the integrity of elections.
The donations from James Blair and Chris LaCivita were revealed after the president expressed pique over their consulting work for Republika Srpska.
The ruling, from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, sharply curtails the ability of judges to free undocumented immigrants.
The Alaska Supreme Court ruled months ago that two candidates, both named Dan Sullivan, could appear on the ballot on Election Day.
Georgia’s Rick Jackson has spearheaded a court battle over a failed ‘anti-woke’ bank that also counted Ohio’s Vivek Ramaswamy as a major investor.
The department, in a highly unusual lawsuit, argued that confusion over candidates with similar names could taint the election result.
President Trump rallied on Friday in a Republican state where Democrats have their eye on several House races.
North Carolina has not elected a Democrat to the Senate since 2008. Can Roy Cooper break that spell?
Senators have warned the White House they will withhold confirmation votes until the administration ensures the restoration of communications capabilities used by Ukraine’s military.
But about half expressed concerns that Republicans could try to overturn the results, a New York Times/Siena poll found.
The charges intensified the administration’s efforts to go after the law enforcement and intelligence personnel who cast doubt on unsubstantiated claims that Joseph R. Biden Jr. engaged in corrupt dealings in Ukraine.
Plus, the Friday news quiz.
Among the stakes in next month’s election is the long-running question of whether tax cuts can shape how people vote.
Fueled by tens of millions from Elon Musk, President Trump’s super PAC, Michael Bloomberg and other big donors, both parties are pumping enormous amounts into the final days of the midterms.
The first lady, who is positioning herself as an intermediary between two warring nations as her husband sides with Russia, said the agreement would allow residents to evacuate.
President Trump says Venezuela is not ready for elections, and he focuses instead on its oil. But Secretary of State Marco Rubio is nudging talks between opposing politicians.
A bill to bolster the nation’s unemployment insurance program reflects the concern — and the risks — in Washington.
The administration says the arch fulfills the “historic design intent” of a proposal from the 1920s. But does it honor history or flout it?
Nayib Bukele’s notoriously harsh and wildly popular security crackdown in El Salvador is spawning imitators and remaking the region.
The call from the president about the Starshield network came after officials in Ukraine reported that they found new limits on the use of military drones in their war against Russia.
Trump’s latest attempt to denaturalize Representative Ilhan Omar is yet another signal of his abuse of power, argues the columnist Jamelle Bouie. In fact, the entire immoral act, according to Bouie, “encapsulates the president’s outright contempt, hostility to, arguably, opposition to the Constitution itself.”
In Ohio, many voters say their frustration about the increase in electricity and fuel prices and the growth of data centers won’t influence whom they vote for.
Wisconsin’s Republican candidate for governor, Tom Tiffany, is talking about nearly anything but President Trump. And as Republicans watch Mr. Trump’s approval ratings plummet, he is hardly alone.
Lawyers for the BBC had accused the president of delaying his testimony in the case he brought.
The G.O.P. nominee in Ohio has given conservatives space to reckon with the ethical degradation of Trumpism.
Sarah Longwell has conducted hundreds of focus groups with Trump voters, and many of them are feeling betrayed.
Ahead of the midterms, Natasha Sarin and Catherine Rampell unpack the state of the economy — and how much responsibility the president bears for it.
The details of the inquiry remain unclear, but it is one of the rare instances in which a Trump ally or appointee has been investigated for potential wrongdoing during the president’s second term.
The administration is planning a massive expansion of the surveillance program. Here’s how much it can see.
It evokes dark periods in American history.
About a fifth of the 300,000 metric tons of lean beef trimmings have come through customs, six weeks through a program designed to lower prices.
It’s been many years since the continent seemed more spectral, and its people more vulnerable, than it does now.
America is figuring out the trick to reindustrialization, if it can learn the right lessons.
President Trump said on Thursday that Elon Musk had put the Starshield satellite communications network back online in Ukraine.
The president visited Sioux City, part of deep-red Western Iowa, in an effort to boost GOP turnout in a state that was once solidly Republican.
The Justice Department sought to jump-start a lawsuit aimed at compelling the state to not count as many as 20,000 mail ballots it claims were sent to noncitizens.
Progressive activists released a video of three men making the allegations about the South Carolina Republican, who died in July. The New York Times has not confirmed their claims.
Trump got behind a much-criticized spot in the Ohio governor’s race.
The Justice Department is reviewing whether Representative Ilhan Omar, a Minnesota Democrat, broke the law when she became a U.S. citizen decades ago. Here’s what we know.
The Islamic republic has long used billboards in Tehran to mock its opponents and hammer home its messaging, but this piece of performance propaganda is perhaps the most eccentric yet.
Iran has a long history of using billboards for messaging, but this piece of performance propaganda is perhaps the most eccentric yet. A live impersonator of President Trump locked in a jail cell is attached to the billboard.
President Trump appeared to celebrate after a rallygoer physically confronted a protester at a rally in South Carolina on Wednesday. He was campaigning for Senator Darline Graham as he barnstorms ahead of the midterm election.
Russia has sought to separate the war in Ukraine from potential business deals and diplomacy with the United States. Its efforts now appear to be working.
Plus, America’s newest national park.
In the new Times/Siena poll, 70 percent of young voters identified as Democrats or leaned that way — a jump from just two years ago.
Calley Means, who helped unite Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and President Trump, pushed food reforms but grew frustrated with stalled progress on the MAHA agenda.
The Trump administration’s policies could cost Republicans in a state that is being hit hard by expensive diesel prices and uncertainty over trade.
President Trump’s proposed overhaul of a Washington golf course and park could sacrifice features long popular with locals.
New surveys show that increases in premiums and deductibles are forcing people to forgo treatments or doctor’s visits while budgets are strained by higher food and gas prices.
The ruling largely blocked homeland security agents from carrying out field interviews in nine states, including California, as part of a sprawling effort to find noncitizens registered to vote.
Abdul El-Sayed accused Mike Rogers of being overly devoted to President Trump. Mr. Rogers accused Dr. El-Sayed of not enough loyalty to the country. It was still more cordial than their last debate.
In today’s Backstory, the new Holmes film takes issue with our profile, Nikole Hannah-Jones unpacks her viral essay and a professor shares why he thinks we apply “conservative” and “liberal” labels inconsistently.
Renewed hostilities might not be any more successful than the war’s first phase, and President Trump has repeatedly canceled plans for a return to major combat.
Plus: The justices’ book deals mean the court can’t rule on cases involving a media conglomerate.
A former three-star admiral fired by Pete Hegseth is making his competence a campaign issue.
The win is a show of support for the International Criminal Court as the Trump administration moves to thwart its work.
The group discusses the economy, the president and the candidates for senator and governor.
Israelis on both sides of the political spectrum see next week’s vote as the most consequential in their country’s history.
He had an unlikely rise, from modeling agent to presidential special envoy. After his firing, he was unrepentant: “I need to make money.”
Mr. Trump has been searching for his Yalta in the war in Ukraine ever since he returned to the Oval Office.
A lower court judge had halted the administration’s plan to erect hundreds of miles of barriers in the Big Bend region of Texas.
From Barack Obama to Donald Trump, ideology has infused the interpretation of the federal law banning sex discrimination on college campuses.
President Trump’s announcement raised concerns that he would use the program seeking information on fraud for political purposes.
Some democracies seem caught in a trap: Spend more and risk market panic, or cut benefits and empower the far right.
After years of bipartisan effort, the former Chiricahua National Monument, in southeast Arizona, has become the United States’ 64th national park.
President Emmanuel Macron of France said President Trump and other foreign leaders made false claims about the protests in France.
After a Cornell student’s lawsuit alleging the school failed her when she reported sexual assault, there’s a new focus on Title IX, the federal law barring sex discrimination in federally funded education. Our Washington correspondent Michael C. Bender traces how interpretations of the law shifted between the Obama and Trump administrations.
The latest rift with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine serves as a reminder that President Trump readily lashes out at other world leaders, only to grow outraged if they fight back.
Readers sharply criticize what they view as appeasement of Russia. Also: Costly midterm ads.
The Trump administration will release 315,000 barrels of heating oil, but analysts say the amount is too small to make much of a difference.