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The campaign is adding Marc Elias, one of the party’s top election lawyers, to help Democrats counter what they expect to be a contentious postelection period.

A chart topper in 1960 for his doo-wop group the Zodiacs, it inspired popular cover versions and was heard in the 1987 film “Dirty Dancing.”

The secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, has spent $500,000 defending himself in court. He says the plaintiff will only settle if he effectively endorses a debunked conspiracy theory about the 2020 election.

New advances in screening, prevention and treatment of TB make tremendous progress possible — if we tap them.

The city has become a hothouse for experimentation in local news. Could it serve as a model for the rest of the country?

At a show in 2003 with his band, a pyrotechnics display ignited a fire that killed 100 people, including the band’s guitarist.

In the aftermath of an assassination attempt last month, the agency has shifted members of President Biden’s protective team to the Trump campaign.

Donald J. Trump also listed $100 million in liabilities over judgments he owes in civil cases, and over $1 million in crypto holdings as he courts the industry for his campaign.

A riot started by a white lynch mob in Springfield in 1908 destroyed a Black neighborhood and led to the creation of the N.A.A.C.P.

In “Imminent,” the former intelligence official who ran a once-secret program shares some of what he knows.

After decades raising hogs in Iowa, they wanted a way out of factory farming. Their solution was a return to nature, and a lot of mushrooms.

Shola, who assisted with search-and-rescue operations in the U.K., has moved to her second act: saving other English Shepherds from blindness.

As the popular dance show grew into an international juggernaut, some of the group’s young performers paid a steep price.

We now understand that our emotions are often wise. The problem is that our culture and our institutions haven’t caught up with our knowledge.

The Biden administration said it would have saved $6 billion had the new prices been in effect last year.

Nemat Shafik is the third Ivy League president to resign in the wake of turbulent congressional appearances and strife connected to the Israel-Hamas war.

Early in her husband’s political career, she stepped in to help. Some wondered: Why isn’t she running?

Israel has severely set back Hamas but will never be able to completely eliminate the group, U.S. officials said.

Doctors in Canada have identified dozens of patients with similar, unexplained symptoms — a scientific puzzle that has now become a political maelstrom.

People who wish to come to America in search of a better life deserve a fair shot.