Hamas returned to Israel the remains of Lt. Hadar Goldin, who was killed in a 2014 war in Gaza.

Typhoon Fung-wong made landfall on the main island of Luzon, prompting the evacuation of more than one million people, just days after an earlier storm killed over 200.

The fact that planes are generally less full in early November have helped to ease the impact. That will change as Thanksgiving nears.

Weeks of uncertainty during the longest government shutdown in American history have left some states struggling to issue payments to food stamp recipients.

The Justice Department moved an inquiry that appeared initially focused on the former C.I.A. director John O. Brennan to South Florida and is beginning to recruit line prosecutors.

“Ask a Correspondent” will take your questions to Somini Sengupta, our international climate reporter.

The Democratic Party will not return to the White House, nor reclaim Congress, until it learns to embrace centrist politicians like Pennsylvania’s governor.

More schools and governments are turning to tech bans to try to keep kids off screens. Do they work?

This is what happens when the fringe becomes the mainstream (and vice versa).

In Michigan, Maine and many other states, primary candidates will decide the party’s direction on a host of policy issues, and ultimately whether it has a center-left or left-wing vision.

With no negotiations, no oversight and no clarity about Iran’s stock of nuclear material, many in the region fear another war with Israel is inevitable.

Valentino Luchin, 62, once owned an acclaimed Italian restaurant. Now he sits in a Bay Area jail.

A growing coalition of conservatives are speaking out against hormonal birth control, while promoting a more “natural” alternative.

Boycotts of Israeli universities, largely imposed in Europe, have multiplied since the start of the war and reflect Israel’s international isolation over its conduct in Gaza.

Celebrating his recent redistricting victory, the California governor swooped into a state led by a Republican rival and sent the latest signal about his presidential ambitions.