During intense grilling in Parliament, Prime Minister Keir Starmer blamed civil servants for not telling him that Peter Mandelson had been rejected for top security clearances.

Trump wants to pay for the military, not child care. History shows that the armed services are at their best only when soldiers’ kids are cared for.

Boston held its 130th Marathon on a chilly day that was the crowd endured and the athletes relished.

The state claimed the e-commerce giant pressured brands like Levi’s and Hanes to ask competing retailers to raise prices on certain products.

Prosecutors investigating his social media company, X, had summoned him for a meeting. His no-show reflected a broader dispute over regulation.

The singer is accused of committing unlawful sexual acts against Celeste Rivas Hernandez, killing her because she was a witness to an investigation, and mutilating her body.

Voters in Virginia will decide on Tuesday whether to redraw the state’s congressional map in an attempt to eliminate all but one safe Republican district.

Schiff has said he won’t perform in countries with what he calls strongmen leaders, a list that still includes the United States and Russia.

Catholic preschools in Colorado that decline to enroll families with L.G.B.T.Q. children or parents sued to participate in a state-funded program.

Betty Yee, the former state controller, had faced pressure to drop out after hovering near the bottom of polls for months. The move could help Democrats begin to unify behind a front-runner.

The eight letters by the 19th-century Romantic poet to his fiancée, Fanny Brawne, were taken decades ago from a Whitney family estate on Long Island.

Kevin M. Warsh is set to testify at the Senate Banking Committee on Tuesday even as a criminal investigation into the central bank risks delaying his ascension to become the next chair.

The government debuted a system to repay importers two months after the Supreme Court struck down tariffs at the heart of the president’s trade policy.

A new deal, which would allow The Onion to use the Infowars name and website address, must be approved by a Texas judge.

The military is investigating the soldier. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed regret for any hurt caused to “believers in Lebanon and around the world.”

The shooting spree on Sunday also left two adults wounded.

The jobs are coming back, despite President Trump’s tariffs and harsh immigration enforcement.

The kea gained fame for learning to use a pebble to groom himself. Scientists were astounded by his next innovation.

A high-energy laser weapon and a power struggle between federal agencies brought a night of hassles to the city.

The vice president is again center stage, after abruptly leaving the first round of high-level Iranian peace talks without an agreement.

The Asia-Pacific was hit hard and quick by the war in Iran and its energy bottlenecks. Scenes of crisis there indicate that problems are multiplying and spreading.

Helped by a favorable national environment and strong candidate recruitment, Democrats are tied or ahead in four Republican-held seats, polls show.

The comically self-serious and outrageous 1936 morality tale, which warned the public about marijuana, became an unintentional parody and midnight-movie classic decades later.

New documents reveal what professors did to help Jeffrey Epstein get inside Harvard’s gates.