The expected flood of new congressional maps is likely to produce fewer competitive districts, fewer ways for voters to hold elected officials accountable and more polarized politics.The Supreme Court’s ruling on the Voting Rights Act could unleash another redistricting arms race.
The Louisiana secretary of state said the House primary election would be delayed after the court ruled the state’s congressional districts unconstitutional. The Senate primary will go forward on May 16.Gov. Jeff Landry of Louisiana, a Republican, outside the White House in 2025. Mr. Landry is weigh
Black Democrats in the South already face steep challenges when seeking political office. But the Supreme Court’s ruling could be felt for a generation.Evan Turnage, a former congressional aide, recently challenged the veteran Democratic lawmaker Bennie Thompson in a Mississippi district vulnerable
Dr. Means’s nomination had stalled in part over her views on vaccines. The president said he was instead nominating Dr. Nicole B. Saphier, a radiologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.The withdrawal of Dr. Casey Means’s nomination is bound to be a deep disappointment for the Make America
Corn estimates were off by 4.5 million acres last year. A lack of survey responses, not job cuts, led to the miss, the Agriculture Department said.A cornfield in Earlham, Iowa, last fall. The Agriculture Department botched its estimate for the size of the 2025 corn crop.
Dr. Sara Brenner is a physician, an F.D.A. official and a “MAHA mom” who has said people should not reflexively believe in the benefits of vaccines.Dr. Sara Brenner fully embraced the Make America Healthy Again movement after being named the acting commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, s
If President Trump flies to China as planned in May, the primary topic will clearly be the rippling economic effects of a war that Beijing has made clear it viewed as unnecessary.A mural in Tehran last week showing Iran controlling the Strait of Hormuz. China imports about a third of its oil and gas
The defense secretary testified on the eve of the 60-day mark of the war, a major statutory deadline for the president to withdraw forces or seek approval from Congress to continue the fight.Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth testified for the second straight day on Capitol Hill on Thursday.
Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei said in a statement that Iran would establish “new legal frameworks” for the Strait of Hormuz. He also said his country would retain its nuclear capabilities.Iranians held photos of the country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, at a government-organized march i
Her withdrawal reflects the energy of the party’s left and voters’ unease with older candidates and paves the way for Graham Platner to challenge Senator Susan Collins in November.Gov. Janet Mills of Maine was not able to match the fund-raising of Graham Platner, a progressive political newcomer, or
Senator Chuck Schumer, the New York Democrat and minority leader, considered the Maine governor his top recruit for winning the majority. Critics said her collapse showed he is out of touch with the party’s voters.Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York and the minority leader, at the Capitol la
In this sequel, Andy (Anne Hathaway) and Miranda (Meryl Streep) encounter a series of crises that set the stage for a larger, existential catastrophe.
The 2006 comedy is filled with moments big and small that have stood the test of time, thanks in no small part to Meryl Streep’s turn as Miranda Priestly.
An inmate said he discovered the note after Mr. Epstein was found injured in his jail cell, weeks before his death. It’s now locked in a courthouse.
Two victims of Jeffrey Epstein will testify at the State Capitol next week in support of a bill that would enable them to seek punitive damages from his estate.Senator Zellnor Myrie is pushing a bill to make it possible for victims of Jeffrey Epstein to seek punitive damages from Mr. Epstein’s estat
Jerome H. Powell will remain a governor at the Federal Reserve after his term as chair ends, in a bid to guard against a further incursion by the Trump administration on the central bank’s independence.Jerome H. Powell on Wednesday during what is expected to be his final news conference as chair of
Gross domestic product expanded at a 2 percent annual rate in the first three months of the year, a period including first weeks of conflict in the Middle East.The U.S. economy continued to prove resilient in the first three months of the year, even as energy prices soared in the early weeks of the
Strong earnings and economic data buck fears that prolonged disruption to Middle East fuel supplies will eventually dent economic growth.
The Trump administration wants President Claudia Sheinbaum to arrest a Mexican governor. She is faced with few good options in response.President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico could arrest one of her party allies, the governor of Sinaloa state. and extradite him to the United States, or defy the U.S.
In the 1960s, she invited an audience to cut off her clothes. As attacks on women’s rights escalate, “Cut Piece” and other decades-old works of feminist art feel more relevant than ever.
President Trump banned commercial flights to Venezuela during his first term, but the flights are the latest step in re-establishing ties between the two countries.The first direct flight between the United States and Venezuela landed in Caracas on Thursday afternoon.
One of Elon Musk’s abiding fears is that A.I. could one day threaten humans. But the jurors deciding his suit against OpenAI probably won’t hear about it.Elon Musk returned to the witness stand in federal court for a third day on Thursday in what is expected to be a monthlong trial.
A New York Times tech reporter shares a dispatch from the press gallery of the showdown between Elon Musk and Sam Altman.A line to enter the Ronald V. Dellums U.S. Courthouse in Oakland, Calif., on Wednesday.
High school and college teachers are watching students write, in the classroom, in order to protect against the incursion of artificial intelligence.
