Trump backs under-fire Speaker after first meeting
It comes as the Republican House speaker faces internal dissent and calls for his removal.
Erie, Pennsylvania: A swing county Biden and Trump can’t ignore
Inflation is the big issue in this bellwether for the nation. And voters have a message: listen or lose.
Kamala Harris blames Trump for Arizona abortion law
Donald Trump has distanced himself from a revived 1864 law that would ban most abortions.
Democratic donors paid $1.7m in Biden legal fees
Mr Biden has criticised Donald Trump, his election challenger, for using donor funds to pay legal fees.
Engineers in Oregon train dog robot to walk on Moon
A multidisciplinary team has been given a two-year $2 million grant to help Nasa prepare to study the Moon’s surface. The LASSIE (Legged Autonomous Surface Science in Analog Environments) Project…
Opinion | Military Aid Cannot Be Unconditional
The suffering of civilians in Gaza — tens of thousands dead, many of them children; hundreds of thousands homeless, many at risk of starvation — has become more than a…
Opinion | We Must Address New York City’s Mental Health Crisis
In September 1958, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was stabbed with a seven-inch steel letter opener. He had been autographing copies of his first book in Blumstein’s department…
Opinion | Who Cares if Supreme Court Justices Get Along?
The Supreme Court is hurting. I can say that with confidence — not based on any inside information but on the external evidence of how hard some of the justices…
Opinion | Open Letters Are Cries in the Dark
Once upon a time, it is often suggested, people with starkly different viewpoints were able to convene and compromise and find hallowed common ground. This all happened in a “better…
The Gen Z Crossword Era
My 20-year-old niece, Emma, texted the other day to tell me she’s addicted to The Times’s game Connections; she and her friends play every day, along with the Mini and…