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Ms. McSally, a House member, lost her bid for the state’s other Senate post in November. She will replace Jon Kyl, who was filling the seat on a temporary basis. […]

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said on Fox News that the Trump administration can find $5 billion for a border wall without getting it from Congress. […]

The agreement by the Donald J. Trump Foundation follows a court decision that allowed a lawsuit against the foundation to move forward. […]

The Duke freshman is earning comparisons to Charles Barkley, Shawn Kemp and, yes, even LeBron James and has everyone in basketball’s attention. […]

Under the new regulation, which had been expected, Americans who own bump stocks would have 90 days to destroy their devices or to turn them over to the A.T.F. […]

At an event commemorating a leaders’ conclave in 1978, China’s president emphasized a singular message: Don’t question the wisdom, foresight and omnipotence of the Communist Party. […]

Stocks in the United States rebounded from a steep decline that left the S&P 500 at its lowest point in 2018. In Asia, a speech by China’s leader, Xi Jinping, was a letdown for investors. […]

Here’s what you need to know. […]

Delaware’s ambitious bid to offer one-stop shopping for birth control is a social experiment that other states will be watching. […]

The Chinese president marked 40 years of economic liberalization by arguing that the Communist Party’s firm control must not waver. […]

People across the world are rejecting the idea that carbon taxes are the answer to lowering emissions. […]

Orbiting 11 billion miles from the sun, this tiny world offers additional clues in the search for the proposed Planet Nine. […]

The Chinese tech giant cultivated a hard-charging spirit in its quest for world dominance. Some employees may have been pushed too far. […]

Sayfullo Saipov was heard on numerous wiretapped calls, including one the day before a Halloween attack that killed eight people, the defense said. […]

Israel’s “roof-knocking” airstrikes are meant to spare civilians by prompting them to flee targeted buildings. But they can be deadly, too, a new report has found. […]

A school safety commission created after the Parkland school massacre contends that the policies, intended to protect minority children, eased up too much on discipline. […]

A Pentagon official and a government contractor investigated for mishandling classified material say that bureaucrats opposed to President Trump targeted them. […]

The Malaysian government filed charges against Goldman Sachs for its role in the 1MDB fraud, and in the United States, the bank’s lawyers held talks with federal prosecutors. […]

Your family is great, but no one wants to read about it for 10 minutes. Here’s what to do. […]

The Red Cat, a classic Manhattan restaurant for nearly two decades, will close next week so its chef and owner can go home to Rhode Island. We sent a photographer to record its final days and the history it leaves behind. […]

Tuesday: How reversals in deportation policies are affecting the Vietnamese community, a small decline in homelessness and a hotel’s feminist history […]

Big tax revenue, more impaired drivers and a persistent black market, one researcher predicted. Also: no more HOLLAAD TONNEL. […]

Mr. Flynn, the president’s first national security adviser, is to be sentenced on Tuesday for lying to federal investigators about his conversations with the Russian ambassador. […]

Never mind what the election results say. […]

In Hannah Starkey’s photographs, women often appear alone doing ordinary activities, but these moments — which neither glorify nor objectify them — are bestowed an unmistakable emotional gravity. […]

After the beloved poet caught a chill in December 1891, The Times kept a literary bedside vigil until his death on March 26, 1892. […]

It’s the end of an era on Capitol Hill. What about in the White House? […]

Mobile phones “instill students with unhealthy ideology,” said a state-run paper in the North, where many users have found ways around official information controls. […]

Often neglected, these considerations can guide you to increased confidence in your charitable choices. […]

Caste discrimination against Christians, whose ancestors were lower-caste Hindus, persists in the country. […]

Afghans like Azizullah Sharifi wait years for an answer on their Special Immigrant Visa application. Those who do get approved face a whole new set of problems once they arrive in the United States. […]

In a mock interview on “The Late Show,” the White House adviser ended up covered in an Afro, claiming it takes “funkiness” to protect the border. […]

States that support the Affordable Care Act said a ruling striking down the law had created “ambiguity” and “poses a dangerous threat to the health care of millions of Americans.&rdquo […]

We’ve all got one *those* stories. […]

Social media lies have real-world consequences. […]

On the battlefield, listening to a small voice that says, ‘This is not normal.&rsquo […]

The Senate gave my research team data from social media companies. The picture that emerges is grim. […]

The Russian leader is down with rappers’ freedom of expression. To a point. […]

The Federal Reserve continues to raise interest rates, prompting concerns that growth will slow — and workers will reap fewer of the benefits. […]

As Congress sees a shutdown as increasingly inevitable, the president sees a chance to show more swagger. […]

Apparatchiks are corroding the foundations of democracy. […]

The G.O.P. is forced to reckon with health care, an issue Democrats hammered them on in the midterms; plus, the latest updates on the 2020 race. […]

Two businessmen wanted to be “big shots.” Prosecutors claim the men bribed several police officials with expensive gifts — including prostitutes — in return for favors. […]

For the holidays, one showstopping dessert rises above the rest: the Yule log, or bûche de Noël. Yotam Ottolenghi shares his for the season (along with a slightly simpler cake too). […]

By undermining the World Trade Organization’s judges, the United States could destroy one of its best tools to hold China accountable. […]

The Times’s chief theater critics chose the best productions of 2018. Some readers beg to differ. […]

The W.H.O. has recommended such a test for H.I.V.-positive patients since 2015. But in poor countries, few qualifying patients are receiving it. […]

Muslims have been here since the time of the earliest explorers and have left their mark on everything from the White House to the Marine Corps uniform. […]

Spoiler alert: He’s still writing for us and not singing for her. But it’s just one example of the way the star has sweet-talked her way into the Oscar race. […]

Along the nation’s northern border, businesses depend on holiday shoppers from Canada. This year, tensions between the two countries are keeping some people away. […]