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Tina Peters, the former clerk of Mesa County, Colo., had tried to prove that the machines had been used to rig the 2020 election against former President Donald J. Trump.

In a survey of 50 members of the D.C. legal establishment, many warn that Trump could follow through on his threats to prosecute his political adversaries.

Some donors said they were seeking to repair damage the Trump-Vance campaign, and Mr. Vance himself, had caused by spreading bogus rumors that migrants were harming pets.

The special counsel provided new details that help flesh out how Donald Trump sought to remain in power, while setting out his argument for the case to survive the Supreme Court’s immunity decision.

The homeland security secretary said FEMA, which is dealing with the destruction from Hurricane Helene, would need more money to respond to another major storm.

The former president’s views of virtual coins have shifted markedly in recognition of the emergence of this sector as a major player in campaign finance.

JD Vance sailed fairly smoothly through some 90 minutes of Tuesday’s debate with Tim Walz. Then the subject turned to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.

His career on Broadway spanned decades. But he has probably best known for providing the voice of the boogeyman in “The Nightmare Before Christmas.”

Israel seems ready to respond in a much more forceful and public way with Iran after Tehran launched its second massive missile attack on Israel this year, analysts and officials say.

He was the patriarch in one of the first sitcoms with an all-Black cast and an enslaved African in the American South in a blockbuster TV mini-series.

Scientists have mapped out how 140,000 neurons are wired in the brain of the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster.

Mr. Walz taught at a high school in China as part of a program sending American teachers abroad, but he did not actually travel to the country until August 1989.

The vice-presidential candidates largely avoided personal attacks, with JD Vance showing a knack for revising history while Tim Walz appeared to battle nerves.

A climate scientist and former mayor, Claudia Sheinbaum was inaugurated on Tuesday as the first woman to lead the country.

Zoos around the world have occasionally used a little dye, or just brazenness, to pass off one animal as another.

After the Category 4 hurricane made landfall on Florida’s Gulf Coast and pummeled the Southeast, some victims’ portraits were coming into focus.

Coming late to basketball, he nevertheless found stardom, retiring with the second-most blocked shots in league history. He devoted much of his life to humanitarian causes.

A work stoppage at East and Gulf Coast ports would halt most activity at some of the busiest American ports.

Tens of thousands of Rockdale County residents were evacuated or sheltering in place as smoke continued to pour out from the site on Monday.

Scenes of devastation in the western part of the state, where the traces of Hurricane Helene destroyed some communities and stranded others.