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Vice President Kamala Harris’s allies in organized labor have begun a late drive to help her with white working-class voters, her weakest demographic, in the face of great skepticism over...

Half of the eight battleground states in this year’s U.S. presidential election use the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour, a rate that hasn’t changed since 2009 despite a 47%...

If you watched any of Donald Trump’s recent rally in Butler, Pa., you probably noticed Elon Musk beside him — jumping, jiving, arms raised, belly bared — and wondered what...

Good morning. It’s Thursday. Today we’ll find out why two women who sued the Pierre Hotel in 1973 will be honored guests there tonight. We’ll also get details on a...

On Oct. 19, three days after Israeli soldiers killed the Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, the Israeli military released a video that was dated a year earlier, just before the attack...

At the end of 1901, the budding composer Alma Schindler received a 20-page letter from Gustav Mahler laying out the expected terms of their future life together. She was 22...

Democratic self-rule contains a paradox. It is a system premised on openness and competition. Any ambitious party or politician should have a shot at running for office and winning. But...

The Biden administration said Thursday that it was strengthening requirements for homes and child-care facilities to remove lead-based paint dust, a move that could better protect more than 300,000 children...

Listen to and follow ‘The Opinions’ Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | YouTube | iHeartRadio The meteorologist John Morales has been a hurricane specialist in Miami for decades,...

He dined with Rupert Murdoch and a handful of other billionaires, for Donald Trump. He intends to appear at Madison Square Garden this weekend, for Donald Trump. He is planning...