One day each month, Charlie Kirk, one of the country’s most influential Republican activists, holds an event called Freedom Night in America at Dream City Church, a Pentecostal megachurch on the outskirts of Phoenix. “I truly believe that God has voted early in this election,” he said on a Wednesday …

As President Donald J. Trump battled public outrage in the summer of 2019 over his effort to enlist Ukraine in digging up dirt on former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., he summoned a small group of top advisers to the Oval Office. Among them was Charles Kupperman, the deputy …

Representative Marc Molinaro has spent his decades of public service building a reputation as a particular brand of New York Republican: a measured and courteous pragmatist more interested in responsible governing than in ideological battles. But that reputation is being tested as Mr. Molinaro, a first-term congressman, seeks re-election against …

Europa Clipper, the biggest interplanetary spacecraft that NASA has ever built, lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida early Monday afternoon. The mission will tackle one of biology’s core questions: Can life exist anywhere else in our solar system? The spacecraft’s destination is Europa, a moon of Jupiter, …

Vice President Kamala Harris made a sweeping push on Monday to energize Black voters, among whom she faces slipping support, unveiling a plan to bolster the finances of Black men, appearing in interviews with two Black media outlets and releasing a pair of ads in battleground states targeted to that …

With a month to go before what is widely expected to be an extraordinarily close election, an extra element of unpredictability looms: In every battleground state, there is at least one third-party or independent presidential candidate on the ballot. None of these candidates will come anywhere close to winning the …

Stock prices rose in China on Monday, as investors welcomed government signals of renewed attempts to counter weakness in the economy by borrowing more and easing oversight of the private sector. The CSI 300, an index of large companies traded in Shanghai and Shenzhen, rose 1.9 percent. The increase came …

When Chrissy Economos and Gloria McCourtney heard that the last full-size Kmart in the mainland United States was closing down, they knew they had to pay their respects, even if the store was more than 1,300 miles away. As the shelves were quickly emptying at the Kmart in Bridgehampton, N.Y., …

Where Wall Street intersects with the Harris campaign Despite entering the presidential contest only about three months ago, Vice President Kamala Harris has shattered fund-raising expectations — in large part because she has managed to win over many of the business donors who had been lukewarm about President Biden. At …

Vice President Kamala Harris has made an expanded child tax credit central to her campaign, and former President Donald J. Trump boasts, “I doubled the child tax credit.” With a quick look, voters might think the child-rearing subsidy the rare matter on which the rival candidates agree. It is anything …