A former rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, she will be the first woman of color to be nominated for national office by a major political party.

President Trump’s abrupt decision to pull forces from northern Syria forced the Pentagon to press ahead with a risky night operation that killed the ISIS leader, military officials said.

On an otherwise bleak night for North Dakota Democrats, a Native American woman unseated the architect of the very law tribes had feared would disenfranchise them.

More than 1,100 former prosecutors and officials who served in Republican and Democratic administrations signed an open letter condemning the president and the attorney general over the Stone case.

Mr. Hickenlooper, who has remained near the bottom of the Democratic field, is in discussions to challenge Colorado’s Republican senator, Cory Gardner.

The deficit was down from $2.6 trillion a year earlier, as pandemic emergency spending slowed, the economy reopened and tax revenue rose. The new figures come as spending fights loom in a divided...

The president’s order would allow the government to withhold money from campuses deemed to be biased, but critics see it as an attack on free speech.

President Trump said Representative John Ratcliffe of Texas, a staunch defender of the president, would replace Mr. Coats, who was an important link to the Republican establishment.

Newly revealed calls between President Trump and Roger Stone dovetailed with key developments in the theft of Democratic emails, prosecutors said.

Mr. Sanders is embracing an idea at the center of Elizabeth Warren’s presidential campaign. His proposal goes further in who would be taxed and how much money would be raised.

The Harvard-educated lawyer, who sits on the Intelligence Committee and once led the Hispanic Caucus, will help prosecute President Trump in the Senate impeachment trial.

Investigators focused on a sale of at least $1 million of stock in Cardlytics, a financial firm whose board the senator once sat on. They closed the case this summer without charges.

The Infowars founder is seeking the dismissal of a bellwether defamation lawsuit this week, as social media platforms take steps to curb him.

The military and the Department of Veterans Affairs report higher inoculation rates, as do some companies and states, but they have a long way to go.

Mr. Yang, an entrepreneur, earned 2 percent support in a new poll, adding him to the group of Democratic presidential candidates who will go to Houston in September.

His supporters are loyal, and in Iowa they don’t really have eyes for anyone else.

High-level clearance is not required to see that the list of Russian aggressions in recent weeks rivals some of the worst days of the Cold War.

The Postal Service says it has completed a court-ordered search for possible missing ballots in 12 districts.

QAnon believers, united in a battle against what they see as dark forces of the world, reveal where the internet is headed.

The committee told Mr. Hannity it had obtained “dozens of text messages” he exchanged with senior Trump White House officials around the time of the riot.

The former national security adviser, who has complied with a White House directive not to cooperate in the inquiry, said he would testify if the Senate subpoenaed him.

The decision has broad implications for Mr. Trump’s effort to push drilling across the American coastline and on public lands.

Mr. Lewandowski, President Trump’s former campaign manager, testified before lawmakers conducting an impeachment inquiry.

In the first of nine scheduled redesignations, Fort Pickett in Virginia became Fort Barfoot in honor of Col. Van Barfoot, a Medal of Honor recipient.

The race to file lawsuits challenging the election results has forced lawyers into mistakes and uncomfortable court appearances.

A report from 13 federal agencies says humans are the main cause of global warming, a position at odds with some in the Trump administration.

Very few of Georgia’s more than 100,000 voting-age Native Americans cast ballots in November. Even a small increase could make a difference in the Senate runoffs.

Five groups invited association members to an undisclosed location on Tuesday afternoon to write checks for between $1,000 and $5,800, payable to Sinema for Arizona.

After an 18-month court battle, prosecutors in Manhattan investigating possible bank and tax fraud have seized former President Donald J. Trump’s tax records.

Mr. Yang championed putting money in the pockets of every American adult during his presidential campaign. Now, amid the coronavirus crisis, “This thing is going to pass,” he says.

In the years since Mr. Epstein was first accused of sexually abusing minors, one of Mr. Trump’s Cabinet officials has been accused of letting him off easy.

The Mormon Women for Ethical Government called for a suspension of Judge Kavanaugh’s confirmation proceedings, pending a thorough investigation.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi threatened decisive action against the president for his role in the insurrection against Congress if he refused to resign.

Texas hasn’t seen a midterm election like this one in decades. Here are five takeaways.

The unusually forceful campaign has created challenges that Democrats did not expect as they struggle to combat misinformation and thwart further efforts to undercut access to abortion.

Shortly after John Kerry, the former secretary of state, endorsed Mr. Biden in the 2020 Democratic primary, the former vice president had a heated confrontation with a voter.

At a fund-raiser, Joe Biden fondly recalled that “at least there was some civility’’ when he served in the Senate alongside James Eastland and Herman Talmadge, two segregationists.

He refused to certify Joseph Biden’s victory over Donald Trump in Detroit but later relented. A foe of Covid vaccines, he was hospitalized with the virus.

Ms. Conway, a counselor to President Trump, falsely claimed that he did not know about payments to two women until this year, and misleadingly suggested the arrangement occurred in August 2015.

President Trump has been trying to pre-emptively delegitimize ballots counted after Nov. 3. But states have always counted past election night.

The official recognition is a turnabout from the policies of President Donald J. Trump, who refused to acknowledge the celebration.

Ms. Demings, a relatively junior member of Congress from Florida who had been a police chief, has become a respected questioner on both the House Judiciary and Intelligence committees.

The Treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin, said the administration would audit any company that received more than $2 million.

The source disputed by President Trump was in fact a senior administration official speaking to a large group of reporters in the White House briefing room.

The prosecutor, Fani T. Willis of Fulton County, Ga., is investigating possible election interference by the former president and his allies.

Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law, has a long connection to Israel. When he meets with the country’s prime minister on Wednesday, it will be a gathering influenced by old encounters and...

Younger voters typically do not cast ballots in midterm elections. But after the Parkland, Fla., shooting, registration among younger voters is accelerating.