A special election for a House seat in Tennessee was supposed to be an easy Republican victory. But national spending and Democratic enthusiasm have made it an unusually high-profile race.

Many Filipinos say floods are worse than ever — and now, the government has admitted that vast sums were embezzled from a program meant to fight the problem.

An ultra-Orthodox Jewish filmmaker asks members of her community about the silent anxieties surrounding intimacy on their wedding nights.

GLP-1 drugs for pets could be the next frontier for the blockbuster weight loss and diabetes drugs.

The legal fight involves an attempt by New Jersey’s Attorney General to subpoena crisis pregnancy center records.

Tennessee’s Seventh District was created to be safely Republican, but in recent special elections across the country Democrats have done significantly better than they did in 2024.

President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. is under fire for an enormous graft scandal that is unfolding under his watch. One prominent voice is his sister Senator Imee Marcos.

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Several new start-ups are building replicas of sites so A.I. can learn to use the internet and maybe replace white-collar workers.

Compared to human drivers, Waymo cars were involved in 91 percent fewer crashes that resulted in serious injuries.

A State Senate committee moved to weaken an office that investigates police misconduct and government waste. Senator Andy Kim spoke in opposition but was cut off after three minutes.

A prayer at the site of the 2020 Beirut explosion and a waterfront Mass capped his three-day visit to the Middle Eastern nation with the highest proportion of Christians.

A diplomatic row with Japan over Taiwan has China turning to Britain and France for support, appealing to their shared history as wartime allies.

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has spoken about integrating America’s largest education system in striking terms rarely heard from big city leaders.

Kristi Noem, the secretary of homeland security, equated immigrants to “foreign invaders” as she called for an expanded travel ban. President Trump reposted her statement.

Amid talk of war crimes, the details and precise sequence of a Sept. 2 attack on a boat in the Caribbean are facing intensifying scrutiny.

The new measures represent some of the most significant changes to immigration policy since President Trump returned to the White House.

Investigations are mounting into the legality of strikes that have killed scores of people in the waters off Venezuela.

As of February, passengers without the government-approved identity card will be required to pay for alternative screening at U.S. airports.