Donald J. Trump shelved his plan to deport 11 million undocumented residents and said a Trump administration and Mexico would secure the border together.
But his dual speeches in Mexico City and Phoenix were so jarring that his true vision and intentions were hard to discern.
Julian Assange looking out from the Ecuadorean Embassy in London in February. Having lived there for four years, he is increasingly isolated.CreditFrank Augstein/Associated Press
The university, which in 1838 sold 272 slaves in order to stay afloat, also plans to offer a formal apology, create an institute for the study of slavery and erect a public memorial to the slaves whose labor benefited the institution.
A deadlocked Supreme Court refused to revive parts of the law that a federal appeals court had struck down as an effort to “target African Americans with almost surgical precision.”
The disintegration of WrkRiot has gripped Silicon Valley, though it is a familiar tale to many who arrive with the dream of creating the next tech juggernaut.
The new president, Michel Temer, must navigate his own controversies and a quarrelsome Congress to lead Latin America’s largest nation out of a deepening fiscal crisis.
Between turf wars and competing interests, the government is having trouble devising a coherent plan for ending four decades of integration with Europe.
Donald J. Trump’s unpopularity with voters in affluent, suburban areas has jeopardized several House Republican incumbents, opening the chance for Democrats to win in conservative districts.
Mr. Trump is so disliked among college-educated voters that he is at risk of losing by double digits in several districts that Mitt Romney carried comfortably in 2012.
Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Trump have not allowed the press corps to travel with them on their campaign airplanes, suspending a tradition that had lasted more than 50 years.
The nonlethal pellet guns employed by Indian security forces to disperse crowds since early July can cause ghastly damage, often blinding victims, some of them children.
Cemetery proposals by Muslim groups have been greeted with swells of opposition around the country, raising the specter of exclusion even for the dead.
As New York City’s number of homeless people rises, a 1999 order meant to keep families with children from sleeping at an intake center in the Bronx forces many of them to forgo any rest at all.
Young technology companies in Silicon Valley were supposed to face a great reckoning in 2016. The crash hasn’t happened, but start-ups are making some adjustments.
Before long, a generation of pop stars won’t have much of a relationship to MTV at all, and Sunday night’s Video Music Awards demonstrated the gap between veterans and the younger class.
Donald J. Trump’s unpopularity with voters in affluent, suburban areas has jeopardized several House Republican incumbents, opening the chance for Democrats to win in conservative districts.
Mr. Trump is so disliked among college-educated voters that he is at risk of losing by double digits in several districts that Mitt Romney carried comfortably in 2012.
As Mr. Trump assumed an increasing role in his father’s business, the real estate company’s practice of turning away potential black tenants was painstakingly documented.
Using both conventional media and covert channels, the Kremlin relies on disinformation to create doubt, fear and discord in Europe and the United States.
At the University of Texas, students, professors and administrators talk about how they’re grappling with a state law allowing concealed handguns on college campuses.
An airman with the unit is being considered for the Medal of Honor after new video analysis suggested that he fought alone bravely in a 2002 battle on an Afghan peak.
Two White House correspondents discuss a new film about Barack and Michelle Obama’s first date: “It wasn’t that great of a date!” And, “It sure went on a long time.”
The goal of relieving students saddled with onerous debt and a subpar education can be at odds with reducing the cost to taxpayers who are likely to be stuck with the bill.
The most expensive single residential property ever sold in Palm Beach, Fla., once owned by Donald Trump, is being demolished by its new owner, a Russian billionaire.
