High mortgage payments, higher child care costs and economic uncertainty are making some people rethink their plans on starting a family.

A revealing glimpse of the state of the Supreme Court, on the verge of momentous rulings in the weeks ahead.

Chevy Humphrey explains why the scientific method matters in business.

In Illinois and other states, officials hoped that culls could halt the progress of chronic wasting disease. Now they are losing hope.

It was the largest outbreak in recent U.S. history.

The gunman did not make it inside the hotel ballroom where President Trump, top officials and hundreds of journalists had gathered for dinner.

Ideas have been floated for how the contaminated zone could bring economic benefits to Ukraine. But for the foreseeable future, it will be an army-controlled security belt.

Photographs from the first days of the Chernobyl disaster and of the aftermath years later show the response, the evacuation and the long-term consequences of the world’s worst nuclear accident.

President Trump withdrew from the Obama-era nuclear accord in 2018, saying it was the worst deal ever. But Iran responded with an enrichment spree that haunts the negotiations to this day.

The armed group JNIM claimed to have seized two key cities and destroyed the defense minister’s residence in a coordinated offensive that experts said was a major escalation in yearslong hostilities.

A Republican-backed initiative has cleared the signature threshold for the November election. Critics say the measure could make it harder for people to vote.

The two Americans were killed on Sunday when their vehicle crashed while returning from an antidrug operation led by Mexico’s armed forces in the state of Chihuahua.

The same progressive South Asian networks that helped elect Zohran Mamdani as mayor in New York are mobilizing against Jenifer Rajkumar, a Queens assemblywoman.

Lionsgate estimated on Saturday that the Michael Jackson biopic would collect more than $200 million over its first few days in theaters.

Even a Times reporter qualified for the event, which caused outrage last year for providing access to President Trump in exchange for investment in one of his family’s crypto ventures.

The court that paused a 2023 law allowing state and local police officers to arrest migrants has now ruled that the measure is legal, a decision likely to be appealed.

All four Black House Republicans are retiring after this year, a reflection of the striking and persistent lack of diversity in the G.O.P. ranks of Congress.

Economists and real estate agents are calling London’s taxation of wealthy property owners a cautionary tale for New York, where leaders have endorsed a second-home tax.

Homicides and assaults have declined in many cities, but programs credited with helping keep the peace are losing federal support.

Reversing the new vaccine skepticism will require a dedicated effort.