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JD Vance, campaigning in North Carolina, criticized journalists for asking about Mark Robinson, the embattled Republican running for governor there.

Homicides fell 11.6 percent nationwide in 2023, and violent crime overall fell by 3 percent after a surge in crime during the pandemic.

New polls from The New York Times and Siena College showed Donald J. Trump ahead in Arizona and leading in tight races in Georgia and North Carolina.

The owners of Rayne Beau, the 2-year-old Siamese cat, have no idea how their cat made it back, but call his return a “miracle.”

The baseball team tied the modern day record for losses on Sunday, dropping a 120th game. In the team’s most loyal neighborhood, some people couldn’t bear to watch.

An amiable Korean-born graduate of Georgetown University, he was imprisoned after a second scandal involving the U.N.

Multiple gunmen shot into a group of people in a popular entertainment district, the local police said. The authorities are still looking for the shooters.

The former president did not mention Mr. Robinson, the state’s embattled Republican nominee for governor, whom he once called “Martin Luther King on steroids.”

The president has often said that “all politics is personal.” On Saturday, he opened his home in Wilmington to the leaders of Australia, India and Japan.

Vice President Kamala Harris, who was widely seen as the winner of the Sept. 10 debate against former President Donald J. Trump, is seeking a rematch.