Trump backs under-fire Speaker after first meeting
It comes as the Republican House speaker faces internal dissent and calls for his removal.
Kamala Harris blames Trump for Arizona abortion law
Donald Trump has distanced himself from a revived 1864 law that would ban most abortions.
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.
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…