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The two presidential candidates can both point to records of pushing poverty rates down, but their approaches could hardly be more different.

To walk past the bookcases in our family’s house is to make a different study of the history of time.

The president of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies makes an impassioned plea for protecting humanitarian aid workers.

The JOIDES Resolution, which for decades was key to advancing the understanding of the Earth and its innards, concluded what could be its final scientific expedition.

Border numbers are down significantly. But migrant activists say the restrictions President Biden imposed in June are weeding out people who may have legitimate claims of asylum.

Persistent concerns with the vehicle’s propulsion systems mean Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore will return home next year in a SpaceX vehicle.

Drugmakers have supplies ready to ship that are necessary to stop a potential pandemic. But W.H.O. regulations have slowed access.

Men under 30 are much more likely to support Donald Trump than women their age. It’s a far bigger gender gap than in older generations.

A new translation of cuneiform relics from the second millennium B.C. highlights the warnings that astrologers saw in eclipses.

The company, founded in the city as Twitter, is moving its headquarters to Texas as a shadow of its former self.

Convenience stores are a part of the country’s culture, meaning that the foreign buyout bid for 7-Eleven, the largest chain, could be a hard sell in Japan.

Mr. Kennedy said he will remove his name from the ballot in battleground states, so as not to be a spoiler.

El austero expresidente de Uruguay, y filósofo sin pelos en la lengua, ofrece la sabiduría de una vida plena mientras lucha contra el cáncer.

The Democratic presidential nominee was both smart and scorching on the final night of the party’s convention.

Completing his transformation into a party leader, Mr. Walz played up his Midwestern roots and his time as a football coach. “It’s the fourth quarter,” he said. “We’re down a field goal.”

The former president cautioned exuberant delegates at the Democratic National Convention not to be complacent in 2024 because politics is “a brutal, tough business.”

In a prime-time speech at the Democratic National Convention, four of the five men exonerated in the 1989 assault of a female jogger said Donald J. Trump’s public attacks were devastating.

As she prepares to formally accept the Democratic nomination on Thursday night, what the vice president may be offering the nation is a future defined by the fine print.

The 17-year-old’s tearful support for his father, Gov. Tim Walz, inspired a hashtag (#ThatsMyDad) and partisan bickering on social media.

From the vice president’s looks to the “angel” judge at his trial, the former president can’t help commenting on the appearance of others — especially in relation to himself.

As bodies were recovered, the authorities and experts wondered how a $40 million, stable and secure vessel could have sunk so quickly.

A decade ago, the city — and all of Michigan — had too many houses. Now it has a shortage. The shift there explains today’s costly housing market in the rest of the country.