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Six days before the California primary, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation on Wednesday intended to safeguard elections after federal officials and local sheriffs took unusual steps in the last year …

Representative Mike Flood, Republican of Nebraska, stood outside the theater at a local high school in Norfolk on Tuesday evening, cheerfully mingling with the protesters gathering outside his town hall. …

Ken Paxton’s victory in Texas on Tuesday transformed the deep red state into the nation’s newest political battleground, expanding the Senate map, previewing lines of attack from both parties and …

Record numbers of Cuban nationals have been deported from the United States since President Trump returned to office last year, but most have not been repatriated to Cuba. Instead, they …

President Trump is considering making an appearance at the N.B.A. finals next week, a rarity for an American leader, after his hometown New York Knicks clinched a championship spot, according …

The decision by Texas Republicans to redraw the state’s congressional maps last year, in an effort to flip five seats in Congress, unleashed contentious intraparty fights in several U.S. House …

Pope Leo XIV has been a major global critic of immigration crackdowns and war, staking out a moral agenda that has at times challenged the political leadership of his home …

Clarence B. Jones, a confidant, lawyer and speechwriter for the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during the civil rights struggles of the 1960s, who helped plan the March on …

Pope Leo XIV’s major new teaching on safeguarding humanity in the age of artificial intelligence is a forward-looking document, arriving at the precipice of what many see as a new …

The threat of an explosion in a Southern California suburb from an unstable tank of toxic chemical has been eliminated, the Orange County Fire Authority said in a video statement …