New York Times

The 82-year-old Vermont independent, a leading progressive in Washington, cast November’s elections as a fight for democracy.

The downward spiral of one inmate, Markus Johnson, shows the larger failures of the nation’s prisons to care for the mentally ill.

Republicans have spent years drawing Latino evangelicals into their fold. At one growing church in the Las Vegas suburbs, Donald J. Trump is reaping the benefits.

At Washington dinner parties, dark jokes abound about where to go into exile if the former president reclaims the White House.

The comedian, long beloved for his apolitical riffs, has been wrestling with what it means to be Jewish amid the Israel-Hamas war. Not everyone is pleased.

President Biden says lowering the cost of insulin for seniors is among his proudest domestic policy achievements. He now faces the challenge of selling it to Americans of all ages.

Democrats call Donald J. Trump dangerous. Republicans see him as revolutionary. For young Trump voters, he is just normal.

An American official said the United States had information undermining Russia’s claim that a device it is developing is for peaceful scientific research.

Backlash over the deal has echoes of the 1980s when Nippon Steel tried and failed to buy another American metal company.

The first lady commended the winner of the National Teacher of the Year award during an event evoking formal state dinners.