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But it is one thing to express an intent to split a ticket and another to do it. Voters can change their minds on Election Day based on myriad factors, including a...

Last spring I came clean about my gardening ineptitude, my thwarted ambitions to cultivate an indoor jungle. Readers of The Morning answered my S.O.S. with wisdom (“Ignore them”), admonishments (“Water the plants...

Follow live coverage about the attack on Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul Pelosi.Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul Pelosi, was hospitalized after he was assaulted by someone who broke into the couple’s residence in...

HOUSTON — At a somber and occasionally emotional oversight hearing, the director of the Texas state police faced pressure on Thursday to resign over his agency’s role in the delayed police response...

With applications for next year’s class of residents underway even as state abortion laws mutate, program directors in restricted regions are struggling with what assurances about abortion training they can make to...

WASHINGTON — President Biden will travel to Syracuse, N.Y., on Thursday to highlight investments in semiconductor manufacturing and make a last-ditch attempt to win over voters on inflation, the economic issue that...

At last year’s global climate summit in Glasgow, countries pledged to redouble their efforts to cut the emissions from burning oil, gas and coal that are dangerously heating the planet. They also...

Asked about proposals to expand the court, Justice Alito said that was a matter for Congress, though he added that roughly nine members seemed about right to him.But he added what he...

A 5.1-magnitude earthquake rattled the San Francisco Bay Area on Tuesday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage.The earthquake struck around 11:42 a.m. local...

Ashton B. Carter, an academic physicist who later climbed the leadership ranks at the Pentagon, culminating in two years as secretary of defense under President Barack Obama, a position he used to...