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The state’s Democratic governor, Andy Beshear, will try to fend off a challenge from Daniel Cameron, Kentucky’s Republican attorney general, on Tuesday.Mr. Beshear is an appealing target for Republicans in this staunchly...

A 69-year-old Jewish man died on Monday from injuries he suffered during a weekend altercation in Southern California over the Israel-Hamas war, and the authorities said they were investigating the incident as...

Federal prosecutors on Monday asked a judge to reject a barrage of motions filed last month by former President Donald J. Trump that sought to toss out the indictment charging him with...

In her memoir, Justice Sonia Sotomayor confessed that she does not always observe the letter of the law. “I’m a New Yorker,” she wrote, “and I jaywalk with the best of them.”Almost...

The authorities have opened a hate crime investigation into the report of a hit-and-run on Friday that left an Arab Muslim student injured at Stanford University.According to the university, a black S.U.V....

White House officials on Sunday shrugged off weekend polling that showed President Biden trailing former President Donald J. Trump, even as Democrats said they were increasingly worried about Mr. Biden’s chances in...

Gov. Kim Reynolds of Iowa is expected to endorse Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida in the Republican presidential primary on Monday, throwing her significant clout in the state behind him as he...

President Biden hosted officials from 11 countries in the Western Hemisphere on Friday for a meeting intended in part to address the historic flow of migrants in the region by bolstering the...

The Supreme Court agreed on Friday to decide whether the Trump administration had acted lawfully in banning bump stocks, the attachments that enable semiautomatic rifles to fire in sustained, rapid bursts.In Supreme...

During baseball season, the public buses in Houston flash a message as they rumble through the city: “Go Astros!!”A similar sort of communal baseball spirit has not typically surrounded the Texas Rangers,...