Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump bore down on Ohio and the Democrats sent top surrogates to drive enthusiasm among core voting blocs like labor and progressives.
Not to be outdone, Mr. Trump invited reporters onto his personal plane, where he sought to clarify his views on immigration.
Labor Day is barely over, and already the air is thick with insults exchanged by two of the least popular presidential candidates in modern American history.
The military’s extensive use of drones against terrorist groups has led to a shortage of Air Force pilots, and private contractors are filling in the gaps.
Angered by the cultural transformations of the 1960s, Mrs. Schlafly led grass-roots campaigns against Communism, abortion and the Equal Rights Amendment.
The thousands of Muslim asylum seekers pouring into Denmark have spawned a backlash, and questions over whether the country has a latent racial hostility at its core.
Researchers have linked loneliness to physical illness and to functional and cognitive decline. Yet an unspoken stigma makes it harder for people to accept.
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 said he would fly to Mexico on Wednesday to meet with President Enrique Peña Nieto and then fly back to the United States for an immigration speech.
In his speech, Mr. Trump is expected to clarify his stance on immigration, which has plagued his campaign over the past few weeks.
Voting rights advocates charge that local election boards are staging an end run around a federal court ruling by writing rules that discourage African-Americans from voting.
Lawmakers have criticized companies that avoid taxes by moving overseas. But they’re rallying to Apple’s defense after an E.U. demand for $14.5 billion in back taxes.
Few forms of mass-consumed entertainment have the anthem ingrained into every performance, and a protest by Colin Kaepernick has ignited passions over a tradition with no clear origin or mandate.
The Maclean clan’s castle, with its leaky walls and collapsed ceilings, sits on an island where blustery, rainy weather makes a need for repairs constant.
