The New York Times has not authenticated the note. But some of its phrases are similar or identical to ones Jeffrey Epstein used in emails and another handwritten letter.

Pictures and striking scenes from the making of perhaps the world’s most celebrated naturalist.

A federal appeals court declined, for now, to halt an order requiring D.H.S. to permit unannounced visits to immigration detention centers by Democrats in Congress.

The ruling was a major lift to the G.O.P. efforts to build a structural advantage through redistricting.

Immigration hard-liners have grown frustrated with the level of deportations and the Department of Homeland Security’s attempts, under its new secretary, to stay under the radar.

The proposal comes after the Justice Department said this year that a century-old law banning the practice was unconstitutional. Democratic leaders are calling it “unlawful.”

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The decision is a major victory for Republicans, wiping away a measure approved by voters to allow Democrats to gain as many as four House seats in the midterms.

The secretary of defense has argued that military retirees are subject to freedom of speech restrictions. Let that sink in.

The Pentagon on Friday released online what it called “new, never-before-seen” files, dating back decades, related to unidentified flying objects.

A California sheriff said investigators were searching the backyard of a woman whose son was convicted of murdering Ms. Smart, who went missing in 1996.

A key judicial decision in Mr. Khalil’s immigration case was expedited significantly and included the recusal of multiple judges.

The guilt of my teenage conviction haunted me for decades. Learning to shoot helped me forgive myself as an adult.

The network’s argument, made to the F.C.C., is the most aggressive posture taken yet by a television network toward the Trump administration.

Health officials are closely monitoring those who were exposed for symptoms of the virus, which does not spread easily between humans.

End-of-school year chaos has arrived. These 20-minute (or less) meals will get you cooking through it.

Former passengers on the MV Hondius say that the ship was made for wildlife expeditions and that the crew took safety very seriously.

As it adapts to the artificial intelligence era, the company is pushing many of its 78,000 workers to use the technology, and preparing to lay some of them off.

Silicon Valley oligarchs worried about the risks their technology posed to the world. They forgot about people.