Italy sent its first boat carrying migrants to Albania on Monday, part of a plan to send migrants who are rescued in the Mediterranean by Italian ships to detention centers in the Balkan nation, where their asylum claims will be assessed. The plan, which is being heralded by the Italian …

One person was killed and nearly two dozen others were injured in South Jersey on Monday morning when a New Jersey Transit light rail train struck a tree on the tracks, the commuter rail said. Just after 6 a.m., a River Line train traveling south from Trenton collided with a …

A Florida man who received a commutation of a 20-year fraud sentence from President Donald J. Trump in 2020 — only to plead guilty this year to a related crime — was arrested on Sunday on domestic violence-related charges in South Florida. The man, Philip Esformes, was charged with two …

Nancy Kidd, a coordinator with the Democratic Party of Door County in northeast Wisconsin, was willing to brave a door-to-door canvass for Democratic votes during a soaking rain in October. “I don’t melt,” she said, gathering her things at the party’s office in downtown Sturgeon Bay. But knocking on the …

Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign began running this 60-second ad called “Safety and Security” on television stations in Georgia and North Carolina on Thursday and has spent about $75,000 to air it so far in markets affected by the recent hurricane, according to AdImpact. The biggest expenditures have been in …

Kaseem Ryan, who built a small but fervent following as an underground Brooklyn rapper known as Ka while maintaining a career as a New York City firefighter, died in the city on Saturday. He was 52. His death was announced by his wife, Mimi Valdés, on Instagram, as well as …

The conservative activist Christopher Rufo published claims on Monday that Vice President Kamala Harris had copied portions of her 2009 book “Smart on Crime,” citing five sections that he said were lifted from widely available sites including Wikipedia and news reports. The passages called into question by Mr. Rufo on …

A meteorologist based in Washington, D.C., was accused of helping the government cover up manipulating a hurricane. In Houston, a forecaster was repeatedly told to “do research” into the weather’s supposed nefarious origins. And a meteorologist for a television station in Lansing, Mich., said she had received death threats. “Murdering …

A North Carolina man was arrested on Saturday and accused of threatening federal emergency responders who have been administering aid since Hurricane Helene ravaged parts of the state last month. The man, William Jacob Parsons, 44, of Bostic, N.C., was charged under a law that makes it illegal to carry …

About 200 people, along with prominent members of the Kennedy family, crowded into a Catholic church on Cape Cod on Monday for the funeral of Ethel Kennedy, the widow of Senator Robert F. Kennedy and a powerful figure in the family’s political dynasty. Mrs. Kennedy, whose husband was assassinated in …