The former vice president helped shaped the role of the United States around the world.

President Trump wants pharmaceutical production to return to the United States. A shuttered factory in Louisiana shows how hard that will be for generic medicines.

“There were dancers, costumes and champagne — a wonderful celebration where the theme was apparently gross income inequality,” Jon Stewart said.

After three decades, the MSNBC brand will be retired on Nov. 15. The network has called in Rachel Maddow to help viewers make the transition.

Companies that sell diamonds, plant sensors and wine all have one thing in common: They are weighing in against tariffs in a consequential case.

President Trump is showing mounting frustration at his inability to win confirmation of U.S. attorneys in blue states or break the filibuster's grip on the Senate. The G.O.P. has been uncharacteristically uncooperative.

The murder of Mexico’s most vocal anti-crime mayor shows that, despite President Claudia Sheinbaum’s crackdown on drug cartels, the battle is just beginning.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong scattered artifacts from an archaeological site along the shore of the Bering Sea.

In 1865, two dozen Union soldiers, all formerly enslaved, were ambushed and killed along a road in Kentucky. Archaeologists are still searching for their remains.

The mayor’s race in New York will gauge voters’ desire for a left-wing shift, and Democrats running for governor in New Jersey and Virginia again made fighting the president central to their bids.

The country will introduce fixed-term military contracts to try to attract recruits and ease the strain on soldiers after years of fighting.

Plus, killer whales versus great whites.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent dismissed the idea that his presence could be seen as an attempt to intimidate the court on a case that President Trump considers vital to his economic policy.

A former defense secretary and congressman, he held the nation’s No. 2 job under President George W. Bush and was an architect of policies in an era of war and economic change.

Blast waves may be damaging shooters’ brains. The Times has a new investigation on how it happens.

Bucking the anti-immigration trend in British politics, remote areas of Scotland would like to attract foreign workers to offset declining local populations.

When Republicans sing Kumbaya.

The Liberty Justice Center led by Sara Albrecht is better known for backing right-leaning causes, but it filed the tariff case that will be heard by the Supreme Court this week.

Brazil, which is hosting the 30th U.N. Climate Change Conference this month, wants to show the world it is a leader in safeguarding the planet. Its record tells a more complicated story.

Times photographers caught signal moments from the campaign trail as Zohran Mamdani, Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa battled for votes.

A white nationalist’s rise reveals a seemingly unstoppable ratchet of radicalization on the right.