Politics

When the actor Maya Rudolph first appeared as Kamala Harris on “Saturday Night Live,” in September 2019, she established a few motifs: Cocktail at the ready, Ms. Harris was America’s fun aunt (“I call that a ‘funt,’” she said) and a “smooth-talking lady lawyer” with sex appeal and subpoena power. …

Tony Chavez and his wife, Elizabeth, came to Cardenas Market in East Las Vegas on Saturday to pick up a few essentials — bread, three dozen eggs and ingredients for tamales. Mr. Chavez did not expect to check something else off his list. But when he saw poll workers and …

Senator Bob Casey, Democrat of Pennsylvania, distances himself from the Biden administration and highlights his support of certain Trump administration policies in a new TV campaign ad that aired in parts of the state on Friday, signaling a last-minute appeal to the former president’s supporters in a crucial battleground state. …

The 2024 election could be won or lost on the strength of the Black vote, which could in turn be won or lost based on the strength of the American economy. So it is no surprise that candidates are paying a lot of attention — and lip service — to …

Thirty minutes south of Portland, as rain pattered down from gray skies, Representative Lori Chavez-DeRemer, Republican of Oregon, was at a wedding venue railing against Democrats in her state for decriminalizing hard drugs and accusing them of failing to support local law enforcement. Progressive experiments with policing, Ms. Chavez-DeRemer told …

For years, Dr. Aljanal Carroll was too ashamed to look at her degree from Walden University, let alone put it on display. Even after months slogging through reams of graduate work that earned her a doctorate in business administration in 2020, which she sought in hopes of a promotion inside …

The Biden administration has reached a major milestone in its pursuit of expansive student debt relief, announcing on Thursday that over one million people have had their federal student debt canceled through a program that offers forgiveness to public service workers. For President Biden, whose student debt agenda has been …

The Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared to side with the City of San Francisco in its unusual challenge of federal water regulations that it said were too vague and could be interpreted too strictly. The outcome could have sweeping implications for curtailing water pollution offshore and would deal another blow …

Former President Donald J. Trump, whose administration sued Google over allegations it violated antitrust law, indicated that he might not break up the company if he regained the presidency, describing it as a bulwark against China’s technology ambitions. “China is afraid of Google,” Mr. Trump said while speaking on Tuesday …

The Transportation Department fined Lufthansa $4 million on Tuesday, after finding the airline had discriminated against 128 Jewish passengers traveling from New York to Hungary in 2022 by preventing them from making a connecting flight in Germany, according to an agency announcement. The passengers were en route to an annual …