William Lawrence Wins Primary in Battleground Michigan House District

William Lawrence defeated two moderate candidates to challenge a vulnerable Republican incumbent, but some worry his views could hurt his chances in November.William Lawrence, 35, is a co-founder of the youth-led environmental group the Sunrise Movement.

B Bayliss Wagner and Evan Gorelick

Arizona’s Democratic Governor Set to Pick a Republican Running Mate

Gov. Katie Hobbs, locked in a competitive re-election battle, plans to tap a moderate former mayor of Mesa, Ariz., John Giles, to serve as her lieutenant governor if she wins in November.Gov. Katie Hobbs of Arizona on primary Election Day last month in Phoenix.

S Sejal Govindarao, Kellen Browning and Reis Thebault

Todd Blanche Clears Committee Vote, Nearing Confirmation as Attorney General

Todd Blanche’s nomination now advances to the Senate floor, where it was not immediately clear whether he would be confirmed given that he can afford to lose only two senators on a party-line vote.Todd Blanche, the acting attorney general, has overseen a wholesale transformation of the Justice Depar

G Glenn Thrush and Michael Gold

An Angry Trump Struggles to Understand Iran’s Defiant Leaders

Iran’s leaders have perplexed several American presidents, perhaps none more than President Trump.Mourners gathered at Azadi Square in Tehran last month, holding flags during the funeral procession for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader killed by an airstrike at the beginning of the U.S.-Ira

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China’s Nonsmokers Try to Clear the Air, One Confrontation at a Time

Disputes between smokers and nonsmokers are becoming more visible as a younger generation increasingly refuses to suffer secondhand smoke in silence.Smoking outside the Beijing Railway Station in February. China consumes roughly half the world’s cigarettes, and enforcement of local smoking bans can

B Berry Wang

Officials Say They’ve Found the Cause of a Fire That Devastated L.A.

The 2025 Eaton fire, which killed 19 people and destroyed the Altadena community, began at an inactive tower belonging to Southern California Edison, officials said.Burned homes after the Eaton fire in Altadena, Calif., in January 2025.

L Livia Albeck-Ripka, Ivan Penn and Shawn Hubler

Trump White House Readies AI Framework to Review Security Risks

The voluntary review process will cover closed-source artificial intelligence models, but exclude those that publish the underlying code.President Trump at the G7 summit with Sam Altman of OpenAI in June. The Trump administration laid out how the federal government plans to review whether new A.I. t

D David McCabe, Mike Isaac, Kate Conger and Ana Swanson

After Midtown Building Buckles, Violations Are Found at Many Other Sites

New York City officials conducted inspections at 180 construction sites. None of the violations posed an immediate danger to the public, they said.Nearly a month since the former Pfizer building became dangerously unstable, the project to convert the office towers to apartments remained on hold.

M Mihir Zaveri, Patrick McGeehan and Arfa Momin

The New York City Parking Sticker of Shame Is Back

After 14 years, the city has returned to slapping bright stickers on cars that do not move for street sweepers.Many New Yorkers fail to move their parked cars on designated street-cleaning days, resulting in standoffs with sanitation vehicles and resentment from neighbors.

E Emma G. Fitzsimmons

Judge Pained as He Grants Dismissal of Jan. 6 Charges Against Oath Keepers

The judge, Amit P. Mehta, blasted the administration’s request for a dismissal in the case, saying it bestowed “unearned grace” on the Oath Keepers defendants “by wiping their records clean.”Trump supporters outside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Judge Amit P. Mehta noted that the events of that day c

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What One Witness Saw Before a Spokane Wildfire Started

A resident of Spokane County, Wash., said he noticed a man acting suspiciously and called 911 after seeing smoke. The police later arrested a suspect tied to one of the wildfires in the area.Paul Child at his home on the outskirts of Spokane on Tuesday. “I ran out the door,” said Mr. Child, 64, who

P Pooja Salhotra and Anna Griffin