After losing in two courts and winning in another, Missouri officials said they planned to forge ahead with using a congressional map that was redrawn to benefit Republicans.Protesters outside the Missouri State Capitol in Jefferson City last September.
Voting rights organizations had challenged a Trump administration overhaul of a government database, arguing it could be used to disenfranchise eligible voters.Election workers in Fremont, Calif., last month.
The administration’s plan to screen mail-in ballots remains blocked as the Supreme Court considers challenges to new U.S. Postal Service ballot rules.The Supreme Court is considering challenges to recent a Trump administration plan to restrict mail-in voting through new rules at the U.S. Postal Serv
Iran said it had retaliated by launching missiles at Jordan, raising the specter of still more fighting.A satellite image released by the European Space Agency showing Kharg Island, a key oil export terminal for Iran.
Britain, Canada and France on Tuesday announced sanctions on Israeli settlements in the West Bank, with Britain saying Israel had “turned a blind eye” to violence against Palestinians.Palestinian villagers harvesting olives in the village of Turmus Aya, with Israeli settlements in the background, no
The Saudi authorities said dozens were injured in attacks by the Iran-backed militia and vowed to retaliate.Members of the Houthi security force standing guard in Sanaa, Yemen, in July.
Also, OpenAI says it solved one of math’s “Millennium Problems.” Here’s the latest at the end of Tuesday.Lonnie Bunch in the Smithsonian Castle in May.
The company’s announcement is the most dramatic sign yet that artificial intelligence is fundamentally transforming the field of higher mathematics.Related to a set of equations about fluid mechanics, the “Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness problem” has long ranked among the great unsolved probl
OpenAI announced today that it had solved the problem, one of seven “Millennium Problems” seen as among the most important in higher mathematics.
Ken Paxton and James Talarico
Voters will nominate candidates for one of the most high-stakes Senate races in the country. And a Democratic House primary has emerged as a test of the party’s establishment.
For G.O.P. candidates in the most competitive races, deciding whether to appear with President Trump can be tricky. Some are going, while others are staying away.
A political group for the world’s richest man, who is ramping up a midterm spending blitz, began running attack ads against Democrats in Texas, Ohio and Iowa.Elon Musk is said to be planning to spend tens of millions of dollars on the midterm elections.
Two photographers, a fashion designer, a stylist, a creative director, an editor and a supermodel debate the images that have had an indelible impact on how we dress.
In the face of escalating White House attacks about how museums present American history, Lonnie G. Bunch III has announced his decision to depart.Lonnie G. Bunch III, the secretary of the Smithsonian, has tried to navigate increasing pressure from the White House while defending the institution’s a
The president shared a provocative new look for the next-gen Space Force ’fit.
China’s economic competition with the United States makes Chinese companies a legitimate target, the agency’s deputy director, Michael Ellis, said at a conference.Tourists walking out of the Forbidden City in Beijing last week. Michael Ellis, the deputy C.I.A. director, said that China “poses a fund
Patients sued by Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas were routinely charged 18 percent interest, The Times found. Some had bank accounts garnished.Senator Roger Marshall spent 25 years practicing obstetrics before running for Congress.
President Trump has long sought to position himself close to the Sept. 11 recovery effort and has made a series of questionable and provocative statements to burnish his political brand.President Trump renewed his claim that he had taken a crew to a building near the site where the World Trade Cente
Welles Remy Crowther, an equity trader and volunteer firefighter, is credited with saving 18 people at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11 before being killed.Paige Crowther Charbonneau, left, and Alison Crowther accepted a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Trump on behalf of th
With tariffs on U.S. goods in effect and high-profile international engagements coming up, the Canadian leader keeps moving toward his goal.Prime Minister Mark Carney, a former investment banker and central bank governor, is working to draw global investors to Canada.
Canada’s decision to retaliate against President Trump’s recent tariffs has triggered another front in the trade war.A shipment of Montana lumber last week in Canada, where it will be used to build beehives.
Lue Yang, who was convicted in a home invasion as a teenager, was facing deportation to Laos. With a plane on the tarmac, he wondered whether an appeal would be heard.Lue Yang and his family moved to the United States as refugees fleeing war in Southeast Asia.
Israel and the United States each hold elections one week apart in the fall. The fate of their democracies lies in the balance.
