William Lawrence defeated two moderate candidates to challenge a vulnerable Republican incumbent, but some worry his views could hurt his chances in November.William Lawrence, 35, is a co-founder of the youth-led environmental group the Sunrise Movement.
Gov. Katie Hobbs, locked in a competitive re-election battle, plans to tap a moderate former mayor of Mesa, Ariz., John Giles, to serve as her lieutenant governor if she wins in November.Gov. Katie Hobbs of Arizona on primary Election Day last month in Phoenix.
Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, at a news conference in Washington in April.
Todd Blanche’s nomination now advances to the Senate floor, where it was not immediately clear whether he would be confirmed given that he can afford to lose only two senators on a party-line vote.Todd Blanche, the acting attorney general, has overseen a wholesale transformation of the Justice Depar
Iran’s leaders have perplexed several American presidents, perhaps none more than President Trump.Mourners gathered at Azadi Square in Tehran last month, holding flags during the funeral procession for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader killed by an airstrike at the beginning of the U.S.-Ira
The 2025 Eaton fire, which killed 19 people and destroyed the Altadena community, began at an inactive tower belonging to Southern California Edison, officials said.Burned homes after the Eaton fire in Altadena, Calif., in January 2025.
Disputes between smokers and nonsmokers are becoming more visible as a younger generation increasingly refuses to suffer secondhand smoke in silence.Smoking outside the Beijing Railway Station in February. China consumes roughly half the world’s cigarettes, and enforcement of local smoking bans can
The S&P 500 rose 1.8 percent, pushing past its previous peak at the start of June and capping a big turnaround from a recent sell off in technology stocks.
The voluntary review process will cover closed-source artificial intelligence models, but exclude those that publish the underlying code.President Trump at the G7 summit with Sam Altman of OpenAI in June. The Trump administration laid out how the federal government plans to review whether new A.I. t
New York City officials conducted inspections at 180 construction sites. None of the violations posed an immediate danger to the public, they said.Nearly a month since the former Pfizer building became dangerously unstable, the project to convert the office towers to apartments remained on hold.
After 14 years, the city has returned to slapping bright stickers on cars that do not move for street sweepers.Many New Yorkers fail to move their parked cars on designated street-cleaning days, resulting in standoffs with sanitation vehicles and resentment from neighbors.
South Korea, which has one of the world’s lowest fertility rates, is in the throes of a breakdown in emergency care. It is particularly acute for at-risk newborns.Staff taking care of newborns in the neonatal room at a postpartum care center in Seoul, South Korea, in 2024.
The judge, Amit P. Mehta, blasted the administration’s request for a dismissal in the case, saying it bestowed “unearned grace” on the Oath Keepers defendants “by wiping their records clean.”Trump supporters outside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Judge Amit P. Mehta noted that the events of that day c
A resident of Spokane County, Wash., said he noticed a man acting suspiciously and called 911 after seeing smoke. The police later arrested a suspect tied to one of the wildfires in the area.Paul Child at his home on the outskirts of Spokane on Tuesday. “I ran out the door,” said Mr. Child, 64, who
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Footage posted by a conservancy group offers an unusual glimpse of a common behavior by dolphins that often goes unobserved.
