If every voter were an economist (ghastly thought), elections would be easy to forecast. The performance of the economy would reliably predict consumer sentiment, which in turn would predict approval ratings for the incumbent president, which in turn would predict the outcome of the election in the Electoral College. It …

This week, I released an audio essay on Donald Trump. And in a way, it was about Donald Trump’s mind and the peculiar ways in which it works, the degree to which he moves through the world without inhibition and the ways in which that is potentially worsening as he …

The first person I met at a Monday night meet-and-greet for Dan Osborn, the independent Nebraska Senate candidate, was a Donald Trump-voting Republican named Joe Hallett. He’d worked, alongside his wife, Sherri, with Osborn at Omaha’s Kellogg plant. Explaining Osborn’s appeal, Joe said, “He’s not a millionaire or anything like …

This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times. The flat-bottomed paper bag is a marvel of quiet utility. It stands tall at the checkout counter of grocery stores ready to cradle the essentials of daily …

The number of people hospitalized from the E. coli outbreak linked to raw onions on McDonald’s Quarter Pounder hamburgers has more than doubled, and those reporting they have been sickened rose to 75, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on Friday. Illnesses of people ranging in age from …

Chinese hackers targeted data from phones used by former President Donald J. Trump and his running mate, Senator JD Vance of Ohio, as part of what appears to be a wide-ranging intelligence-collection effort, people familiar with the matter said on Friday. Investigators are working to determine what communications data, if …

We’ve all been there, waiting impatiently at the baggage carousel, anxiously hoping for that first glimpse of our checked luggage. Then we breathe a sigh of relief, collect it and get on with our travels. Or we don’t. Last year in the United States, airlines lost or damaged one out …

The Biden administration has proposed another student debt relief plan for eight million people who cannot repay their loans because of “financially devastating hardships,” Miguel A. Cardona, the secretary of education, said on Friday. The proposal, which will almost certainly face legal challenges, builds on the administration’s strategy of finding …

One day in 1993, the financier Jeffrey Epstein brought a model named Stacey Williams to Trump Tower in Manhattan to say hello to the building’s owner, Donald J. Trump. As he and Mr. Epstein chatted, Mr. Trump groped Ms. Williams, she said. Ms. Williams, a former Sports Illustrated swimsuit model, …

Warnings over France’s financial situation grew on Friday when the Moody’s ratings agency issued a negative outlook for the country’s sovereign debt rating amid concerns about the nation’s rapidly rising debt and deficit. The outlook reflects what Moody’s said were heightened risks of political gridlock in France as Prime Minister …