New York Times

For all her tough talk, the education secretary has made little progress on priorities like school vouchers and charter schools. Allies blame the storms around the president.

With Republicans’ new ambitions, the bill heading toward completion is not just a tax cut, but the first step toward a long-held vision to undo the New Deal and Great Society.

Even as the United States spends billions of dollars along the Mexican border, traffickers are exploiting weaknesses elsewhere, shipping parcels by mail, by air and on Amtrak.

With a new C.E.O., a retreat popular with the elite since the 1980s fights to stay relevant in a world where athleisure and juice bars are now quotidian.

Senate Republicans made major changes to their bill and picked up the votes to push it through the chamber 51-49 early Saturday morning.

What looks fresh this season? Colors that are, shall we say, slightly off. Here’s how to wear them.

Watching the president disrespect my heritage with an unfunny “joke.”

Venezuelans of all classes have been hit hard by sharply rising costs, and the economic turmoil has turned the most basic tasks — like food shopping and commuting — into feats of endurance.

Many of the journalists who stand accused of sexual harassment covered the 2016 presidential campaign.

Makaylah Barber, 16, has faced homelessness and expulsion. After her mother died, her grades worsened, making her ineligible to play basketball this season.

The plea raised uncomfortable questions about what the former national security adviser might be telling the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III.

In recent years, the one-time bastion of Catholic conservatism has moved left on same-sex marriage and gay rights, and is poised to repeal a constitutional ban on abortion.

The party, which criticized the growth of the federal debt under President Barack Obama, has rallied behind a tax cut that would send it to new heights.

Prince Harry’s fiancée will have to become familiar with that and numerous other obscure facts in order to gain British citizenship.

The president is trying to appease evangelical supporters and powerful Jewish donors even as he works to avoid derailing his administration’s peace efforts.

Filthy scary alien monster cyborg goth drag is in the club.

In Cali, dancing can start as early as the afternoon, and the energy never lets up.

The receding ice has opened new passageways for high-speed internet cables. Point Hope, a gravel spit in northwest Alaska, is along one of the new routes.

Evidence of the Rohingya Muslims’ history in Myanmar is being systematically eradicated. One prominent Rohingya asks, “How can they pretend we are nothing?”

The government ordered security forces on Friday to move against demonstrators demanding an impartial count of presidential election ballots.