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They play an essential role in supporting life on Earth, but many species are in decline, researchers found.

The former first lady shares an emotional appeal about how reproductive rights are on the line in this election.

The inflammatory rally was a capstone for an increasingly aggrieved campaign for Donald Trump, whose rhetoric has grown darker and more menacing.

A memo circulating in Donald Trump’s orbit says that if elected he should use private firms to check appointees’ backgrounds and give them immediate access to classified secrets after taking office.

Nearly half say it does not do a good job representing the people, and three-quarters say it is under threat, according to a Times/Siena poll.

Post owner Jeff Bezos ended the decades-long practice, weeks after a discussion at a meeting in Miami. The move has drawn criticism in and outside the newsroom.

An unknown work in the composer’s hand has emerged in a New York museum, the first such find in more than a half century. The pianist Lang Lang plays it here.

Dwight Eisenhower learned leadership in an early job as a football coach. His success as president offers a few important lessons.

After Aiden Clark was killed in a school bus accident in Springfield, Ohio, his death inspired conspiracy theories, campaign lies and anti-immigrant hate. Now his family is the latest target.

After the paper canceled its planned endorsement of Kamala Harris, the owner, Patrick Soon-Shiong, said his daughter didn’t speak for the organization. But many staff members questioned his motives.

One of the first rock bassists whose instrument regularly took a lead role, he also had a hand in writing some of the band’s best-known songs.

The targeting of the Republican presidential ticket’s phones is part of what appears to be a wide-ranging effort to gather information about American leaders.

A Republican super PAC is running ads invoking the name of Ruth Bader Ginsburg to help Donald Trump win voters who favor abortion rights. Her family denounced the effort as “nothing short of appalling.”

The swimsuit model Stacey Williams said Jeffrey Epstein brought her to Trump Tower, where the future president groped her. Mr. Trump’s campaign denied it.

Twenty years after the publication of her fantasy debut, “Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell,” Clarke is returning to her richly imagined world of magical England.

With his smooth voice, he drew crowds to cabarets and music halls for six decades. He also sang the themes for films and TV shows, including “The Love Boat.”

The entire world’s population of Przewalski’s horses once dwindled to a mere dozen. So how did a pair named Fiona and Shrek end up in livestock auctions in the West?

The former president has repeatedly praised a period in American history when there was no income tax, and the country relied on tariffs to fund the government.

One day last winter, Alison Stewart, the host of “All of It” on WNYC, was alarmed to find herself speaking gibberish.

The former Fox News host used a bizarre extended metaphor at a rally in Georgia where Donald J. Trump spoke.

The leader of the long-running study said that the drugs did not improve mental health in children with gender distress and that the finding might be weaponized by opponents of the care.