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To understand Harris’s success, you have to think about Marie Kondo and her ruthless minimalism about clutter.

If her record is any guide, Judge Tanya Chutkan will try to keep pretrial proceedings moving along after a lengthy hiatus and the Supreme Court’s decision granting former presidents broad immunity.

Mr. Sheehy, a Republican, is the nominee for a Senate seat in Montana, where Indigenous residents make up about 6 percent of the population.

El líder autoritario del país ha decidido brindar alegría a un pueblo cuya democracia está en ruinas.

Extreme heat and flooding are accelerating the deterioration of bridges, engineers say, posing a quiet but growing threat.

Local landowners are questioning how Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump were able to sew up development rights for two luxury hotels on hot coastal property.

She has to help Trump hurt himself in the debate, break with Biden on policy and show how she has grown since the 2020 campaign.

JD Vance, as he was dipping his toe into politics, praised the Heritage Foundation report — 29 essays opposing abortion and seeking to instruct Americans on how to raise children — as “admirable.”

A man is accused of drugging his wife and then inviting dozens of men to rape her over almost a decade. The questions raised by the case have unsettled the country.

After students at the University of North Carolina shielded a U.S. flag from protesters, admirers raised money to throw a “rager” in their honor. Some didn’t want it.

Kamala Harris’s proposals won’t fix the housing affordability crisis. The solution can be found in the way the U.S. raised the legal drinking age.

The movement of the ground in Rancho Palos Verdes is threatening homes. But as the city searches for solutions, many residents are committed to staying.

Hamas leaders spent years developing an underground warfare plan. Records from the battlefield show the group’s preparations, including blast doors to protect against Israeli bombs and soldiers.

Nearly five million Lego pieces plunged into the sea in 1997. The pieces are still showing up — on England’s coast, in Ireland, Belgium, France and possibly at the beach near you.

A gallery in Manhattan is to exhibit a selection of the abstract works of Iria Leino, a pioneer in New York in the ’60s and a mystery to many in the art world.

It was the latest effort by the Trump campaign to defend itself after the campaign defied a ban on political campaigning at Arlington National Cemetery.

In just the past 40 years, we’ve already lost nearly half the world’s insects. Every day I am thankful to find my pollinator garden buzzing.

Joshua Seal, a Deaf man killed in a mass shooting last fall, did not get to see the third season of the camp he started. But 22 Deaf or hard-of-hearing children did, including his own.