The justices face so-called legitimacy dilemma as they deal with a tricky legal dispute and a president who has made clear he would view defeat as a personal insult.Experts say the case is a tossup that poses difficult considerations for the justices, made all the more tense by President Trump’s eff
One lawsuit, underway since February, has sought to compel President Trump to honor Congress’s vision for foreign aid. It still has a long way to go.Furniture, files and equipment at a medical site in Johannesburg, after cuts to U.S. foreign aid led to its closure in February.
Plus, squeezing in a marathon before your full-time job.Among the most high-profile elections on Tuesday is the mayor’s race in New York City. The rise of 34-year-old Zohran Mamdani has demonstrated the left’s appetite for fresh faces and new ideas.
President Trump is imploring lawmakers to redraw their congressional maps to stave off Democratic control of the House. But the debate over redistricting has revealed fissures within both parties.Retaining control of the House of Representatives during next year’s midterm elections is one of Preside
What began with Texas drawing what could be five new Republican districts in the House of Representatives at President Trump’s behest has spiraled into a nationwide redistricting race. Nick Corasaniti, a New York Times reporter covering national politics, gives an overview.
These extreme maps may not be likely, but they might soon be legal, with temptations to go further than ever before.
Why the challenge of truly representative democracy is so complex.Moon Duchin, who leads the University of Chicago’s Data and Democracy Lab, explores how math can help solve gerrymandering and improve electoral systems.
Democrats have no federal contests that would allow them to check President Trump’s power, but governors’ races, mayoral contests and referendums will test momentum and divisions in both parties.Gov. Gavin Newsom of California at a rally for Proposition 50 in Los Angeles on Saturday.
Meet Mark Grebner, the Michigan statistician who helped pioneer the science of predicting whether someone will vote Republican or Democratic.Mark Grebner, at his home office in East Lansing, Mich., earlier this month.
From religion to race, age to ethnicity, pockets of New Yorkers represent key blocs that can unlock tens of thousands of votes in a citywide race.Four times as many people voted early this year as in the last mayoral election.
The owner of Kleenex and Huggies will acquire the company that has fought claims by the Trump administration that a common pain reliever is linked to harmful side effects.Kenvue, which was spun off from Johnson & Johnson, owns Tylenol, Johnson’s Baby, Listerine, Band-Aid and many other brands.
Tomorrow is an off-year Election Day across the United States. We explain what is happening.Early voting in Brooklyn, New York, yesterday.
Sam Sifton wants readers to know: Everything is going to be all right, and you’re not alone.
New work requirements are expected to leave millions of poor Americans uninsured. For Equifax, which charges states steep prices for its trove of employment data, it is a business opportunity.
Poor Americans will face new challenges to enroll, and states will have to build new bureaucracies.
A new kind of Mideast peace process is underway, as a determined Trump administration and its allies in the Muslim world seek to broaden a tenuous cease-fire between Israel and Hamas.Israelis attend a rally on Saturday in Tel Aviv to mark the 30th anniversary of the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin.
Mr. Musk’s supporters say he may quit if shareholders don’t approve a trillion-dollar package. Some investors say it’s excessive and would give him too much sway.Elon Musk and his critics agree on one thing: The compensation fight is about how much influence he has over Tesla.
France’s trove of DNA profiles has helped solve high-profile crimes and was used to find some of the Louvre suspects, and it is growing. The police can also access other countries’ databases.Members of a forensic team inspect a window at the site where burglars broke into the Louvre and made off wit
The new light-rail train, linking Queens and Brooklyn, would signal a shift in the city’s center of gravity, toward one less tethered to the office towers of Midtown.
It was a record-setting day as more than 50,000 athletes packed the streets for the 2025 New York City Marathon. Benson Kipruto and Hellen Obiri triumphed.Hellen Obiri of Kenya became a two-time champion after winning the race.
Some 55,000 people came out to race through the five boroughs on a sunny Sunday.
She was her mother’s handmaiden and aide-de-camp. In 1993, her blockbuster biography told of the awful price she paid.Maria Riva in an undated photo. The daughter of the movie star Marlene Dietrich, she grew skilled at an early age at caring for her mother’s costumes and props and stamping her autog
And why it matters so much to try.
The Vermont senator on how to take the country back from elites — on both sides of the aisle.
