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An amendment that can help save our democracy.

Lawmakers in the nation’s two most populous states were planning to vote Thursday on competing proposals as the battle over U.S. House maps intensified.

When Nvidia, the chip producer, reports earnings next week, investors expect the S&P 500 to have a bigger reaction than when the Fed chair delivers a big speech on Friday.

Jerome Powell, the Federal Reserve chair, is managing a high-stakes balancing act as he grapples with a cooling labor market, rising inflation and White House pressure to cut interest rates.

Long confined to the medical fringe, “restorative reproductive medicine” has unified Christian conservatives and proponents of the Make America Healthy Again movement on the political right.

Using the full power of the federal government, President Trump has promoted a vision of America that challenges the legitimacy of the Black experience.

N.C. Wyeth’s colossal 1932 mural, “Apotheosis of the Family,” re-emerges in a gleaming new round barn after years in storage.

The mass return of fallen soldiers is one of the few concrete results of U.S.-orchestrated truce negotiations.

The two will have separate hearings, and it is not at all certain that the outcome will be the same for each man.

As Erik and Lyle Menendez wait for a ruling on their parole, a new tour is retelling their story, in detail, from the back of a limousine.

Israel approved new settlements in the occupied West Bank, while its troops have reached the outskirts of Gaza City. The developments raise questions about the viability of a cease-fire proposal.

Israel’s plan to invade Gaza City, the most populous city in the northern Gaza Strip, has forced many families to consider uprooting themselves.

A campaign volunteer for Mayor Eric Adams of New York was suspended after giving a journalist cash in a potato chip bag.

The State Senate will vote Thursday on maps intended to help the G.O.P. win five more U.S. House seats in the midterm elections. California Democrats will counter on the same day.

One town’s effort to make pricey items accessible and encourage people to buy less stuff seems to be catching on.

Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic mayoral nominee, said that while he still had doubts about city casinos, he respected the views of voters who supported them.

The California governor’s press office is mimicking President Trump’s distinctive Truth Social style on X. Liberals love it. The White House says it’s “just getting weird at this point.”

The secretary of state and national security adviser will meet with European counterparts on Thursday in an effort to advance a peace process that so far has gotten little traction.

The former president suggested that Democrats opposing G.O.P. efforts in Texas and elsewhere should advance their own gerrymandering plans.

The hip-hop, punk and nu-metal tracks on Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2 helped imprint memories like nosegrinding a helicopter.