Legislation that would require proof of citizenship to register to vote was only the beginning as the G.O.P. presses to sharply limit voting in line with President Trump’s false claims of widespread fraud.Ballots being counted in Los Angeles County in 2024. Representative Bryan Steil, Republican of
In the battle for Congress, redistricting has become all the rage in America. Other nations have guardrails in place to avoid the same situation.A voter casts her ballot as others mark them at a pre-polling center in Sydney last year ahead of Australia’s federal election.
Dan Helmer, a Democratic state lawmaker, played a key role in putting redrawn congressional maps before state voters.An Army veteran of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Dan Helmer, 44, entered state politics in 2019 on a platform of gun control and abortion rights.
Plus, Brad Pitt vs. Tom Cruise?Stephen Colbert said he had to drop an interview with a Democratic candidate for a U.S. Senate race because of new F.C.C. guidance that targeted political interviews.
Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner in Israel last October.
The discussions in Geneva were expected to focus on territorial issues, a major sticking point, but the short duration suggests major progress was not made.Russia’s lead negotiator, Vladimir Medinski, leaves the Intercontinental hotel in Geneva, Switzerland, on Tuesday.
The House Democratic leader has asked rank-and-file members to sit quietly at the speech or skip it altogether, wary of creating a distraction.Representative Al Green, Democrat of Texas, was ejected from the chamber after disrupting President Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress last year.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who won over voters with his approach to social media, is using the same strategy to try to connect City Hall to all New Yorkers.Mayor Zohran Mamdani appeared at a Sanitation Department salt shed as the city prepared for a snowstorm.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani said his proposal to raise New York City property taxes was a “last resort” to close a budget gap.Mayor Zohran Mamdani delivered his preliminary budget plan on Tuesday.
The project is the latest example of a push by New York City to build homes on land it owns. The building will be 100 percent affordable, officials say.Police officers will no longer be able to park in an East Harlem lot that is being turned into housing, but the building will include a police garag
Mr. Jackson was critical to Martin Luther King Jr.’s quest to transform a fight for equality in the South to a national movement for economic and social justice.The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., second from right, alongside Jesse Jackson, at center holding a piece of paper, at Greater Mount Hope
The candidate’s reference to New York as “Hymietown” helped tank his 1984 presidential campaign and eroded a longstanding alliance.
There are more Black senators than ever before, but a major Supreme Court ruling could reduce Black representation in the House.Demonstrators outside the Supreme Court in October, during oral arguments in a case that could significantly weaken the Voting Rights Act.
The once-humble plate of poultry has been elevated to luxury status, with prices hitting $50 or more.
The avalanche struck a guided backcountry skiing group near Truckee, Calif., near the end of a multiday trip, officials said. Six skiers have been rescued.Members of a rescue team make their way to the area of an avalanche in Soda Springs, Calif., on Tuesday.
High winds were fueling the risk of wildfires across the Southwest and the Plains, and an Oklahoma town faced a mandatory evacuation. Officials said the weather had caused a deadly pileup in Colorado.Emergency workers at the scene of a crash involving 30-plus vehicles, including six semi-trucks, on
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has acknowledged traveling to Jeffrey Epstein’s island and meeting him on another occasion.Howard Lutnick, the commerce secretary, is among the Trump administration officials whose names appear in the Epstein files.
Some patients in a clinical trial of one new drug lost so much weight that they became concerned and dropped out.
A fast-growing network of private schools, the brainchild of a North Carolina neurosurgeon, is teaching 9,000 war orphans and other needy Palestinian youngsters.Students lining up to enter a classroom at an Academy of Hope school in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, this month.
Trading of Japanese government bonds, long considered moribund, is roaring back to life as fears of the country’s debt have sent yields surging.The Tokyo Stock Exchange in 1986. In the 1980s and 1990s, yields on Japanese government bonds shifted rapidly alongside fluctuations in Japan’s overall econ
The deals, totaling $36 billion, were the first step in a $550 billion investment pledge aimed at securing tariff relief and sustaining U.S. relations.President Trump and Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi in Tokyo in October.
Life and business are back along a road once defined by war damage. But even with improved security, Afghans are desperate for jobs and development.
Without the usual flood of new musicals, the playwrights of works like “Becky Shaw,” “Dog Day Afternoon” and “Giant” are getting a chance to shine.
Across the country, a flurry of theater productions, including “Black Swan” and “The Lunchbox,” are mining the movies for material.
