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Rep. Colin Allred of Texas Will Challenge Ted Cruz for Senate

HOUSTON — Representative Colin Allred, a Dallas-area Democrat who defeated an incumbent Republican to gain his seat in 2018, announced on Wednesday that...

Jim Marchant, a Nevada Election Denier, Announces Senate Run

Jim Marchant, a vocal election denier and Trump ally who lost his bid for Nevada’s secretary of state in last year’s midterm elections,...

Howard University Selects a New President, a Historian

Howard University, the renowned historically Black institution that was founded to educate freed slaves, has selected a historian of Latin America as its...

Former F.B.I. Agent Charged in Jan. 6 Riot

WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors have charged a former F.B.I. agent with illegally entering the Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot and said he...

The Population of California Declined, Again

It was big news a few years ago when, for the first time in more than a century, California’s population shrank.The small but...

Opinion | Readers react to an op-ed on understanding biological sex

Comment on this storyCommentIn her May 1 Opinions essay, “To understand biological sex, look at the brain, not the body,” Jennifer Finney Boylan...

Opinion | Overuse of ‘existential threat’ is a crisis of existential proportions

Editorial writer and columnist|AddFollowMay 3, 2023 at 7:30 a.m. EDTComment on this storyCommentThere’s never a good time for partisan brinkmanship over extending the...

Opinion | Why ‘right to repair’ could be the next big political movement

Comment on this storyCommentThere aren’t many issues that unite Democratic, Republican and independent voters, offer a ready-made villain in greedy corporations, and tick...

Experts unearth one of the first colonists: A teen with a broken leg

Comment on this storyCommentHe was dumped in his grave with little ceremony. He had no coffin, no burial shroud and probably no family...

Opinion | In ‘An Ordinary Man,’ Gerald Ford emerges with a certain greatness

Comment on this storyCommentIn December 1944, a typhoon slammed Adm. William F. “Bull” Halsey’s Third Fleet, which included the USS Monterey, a small,...

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