The intermediate-range missile did not carry nuclear weapons, but it is part of a strategic arsenal that is capable of delivering them.

Florida’s first female state attorney general, she became a member of Donald Trump’s impeachment defense team and backed his false claims of election fraud in 2020.

Answers to six immediate questions you might have about the art world after a crypto entrepreneur spent millions on a 35-cent fruit.

A City Council committee passed a major proposal that would ease restrictions on housing growth in New York. The full Council is likely to approve it next month.

In Ms. Bondi, who served on his legal team during his first impeachment, the president-elect turned to a loyal ally to put his stamp on a Justice Department that he sees as hostile to him.

Mr. McCormick, a Republican former hedge-fund executive, toppled Mr. Casey, a three-term Democrat, in one of the nation’s top Senate races and biggest 2024 upsets.

The rise of the Republican representative from Georgia signals the ascendancy of the MAGA wing of the G.O.P. in Congress.

The chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee said hackers listened to phone calls and read texts by exploiting aging equipment and seams in the networks that connect systems.

Before managing the campaign of President-elect Donald J. Trump, Susie Wiles represented a tobacco company and a mining project, among others.

As Donald J. Trump nominates staunch supporters of Israel to key positions, advocacy groups are taking aim at the departing administration's policies.

Mr. Gaetz has consistently denied the allegations of sexual misconduct and drug use, but his prospective nomination ran into trouble in the Senate.

The world’s two richest men are longtime business rivals, but now one of them has the ear of the next president of the United States.

Cities have paid out billions of dollars in police misconduct cases, but depending on the case, families may not receive any money at all. A recent $100 million penalty for a police shooting case in Dallas may never lead to a payout.

Don’t assume that highly educated foreigners will be spared by the new administration.

A series of atmospheric rivers is flooding the Pacific Northwest and parts of California, with more wind and rain forecast as utilities try to restore power to hundreds of thousands of people.

Linda McMahon, who ran World Wrestling Entertainment for decades, was accused in the lawsuit of not preventing one of the organization’s employees from victimizing children who helped set up wrestling rings.

Cleopatra is not our mother.

We should not operate as if there is some hierarchy in the value of children’s lives.

On Sunday, Angel Lata Landi, a construction worker, called his mother in Ecuador, whom he helped support. The next day, he was one of three people stabbed to death on the street in Manhattan.

The transportation secretary, one of several ambitious Democrats jockeying for prominence, gave advice in a speech but was coy about his own plans: “I know that I will make myself useful again later.”

President-elect Donald J. Trump’s pick to lead the Defense Department was described by peers as a skillful soldier who became embittered by military dysfunction.

The court accused Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defense minister of having “intentionally and knowingly deprived” Gaza’s population of food, water, fuel and medicine.

Flash demonstrations intended to spread fear and anxiety are happening almost weekly, say experts who track the incidents.

Trump failed to push Republicans past their red line.

Denzel Washington’s performance shows skill, intensity and absolute confidence in Ridley Scott’s pleasurably immersive epic about ancient Roman fighters.

In a collection of mini essays, poems and painted vignettes, the artist and writer reckons with remorse and joy.

Increasing numbers in his own center-left party say he should, arguing for a more charismatic leader who might better their electoral chances.