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The devastation that Hurricane Helene wreaked across the South last week thrust the issue of climate change to the forefront of the vice-presidential debate early in its first hour, quickly...

A Justice Department investigation into Georgia’s state prison system found conditions that violate the Constitution, including rampant violence, sexual assault, drug smuggling and gang activity, according to a report released...

Islamabad, Pakistan – The global prices for different varieties of rice dropped on Monday after India and Pakistan made tit-for-tat moves to eliminate price caps and resume rice exports. On...

Two men charged in the 2017 hazing death of a Penn State sophomore that prompted new legislation imposing tougher charges in similar cases were sentenced to two to four months...

Hours before the vice-presidential debate on Tuesday, former President Donald J. Trump traveled to Wisconsin and gave two rambling speeches laden with tangents, largely jettisoning any particular focus as he...

Senator JD Vance of Ohio and Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota clashed on Tuesday in a vice-presidential debate in which Mr. Vance’s well-honed, television-friendly style came up against an aw-shucks...

President Joe Biden and other government officials are urging port companies to offer stronger contracts to the 45,000 dockworkers on strike at East and Gulf Coast ports. They’re intervening because...

Song Binbin, a student leader of China’s Red Guards who in 1966 was embroiled in the beating death of her high school principal, one of the most notorious killings of...

Israel has a freer hand to respond forcefully to Iran’s missile barrage on Tuesday than it did in April, security analysts and former officials say, when its retaliation for the...

Videos from across Israel show dozens of missiles launched from Iran exploding on Tuesday evening, according to a New York Times analysis. The Israeli military said that Iran had fired...