Clockwise from left: Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan, Keisha Lance Bottoms in Georgia, Chris Pappas in New Hampshire and Byron Donalds in Florida.
Plus, the Friday news quiz.
He will need to sell voters on a tarnished Trump brand.
Parts of the state recorded two feet of rain in a day. Will this El Niño winter deliver even more?
Markets in Asia and Europe tumbled, with Japan’s market falling into a bear market.
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine meeting with President Trump at the United Nations in September. Mr. Trump has blown hot and at times very cold on Kyiv.
Young people powered Democratic candidates, joining global demands for generational change from a cohort weary of older people sitting on jobs and devouring resources.
Daniel K. Biss earned a Ph.D. in mathematics at M.I.T. and taught math at the University of Chicago before moving to politics, first as an Illinois state legislator and, since 2021, as the mayor of Evanston.
Texas last year began one of the largest taxpayer-funded school voucher programs.
As Microsoft pours billions into artificial intelligence, the company has offered buyouts to about 60,000 employees. The work force was already on edge.
A longstanding hypothesis held that some problems would always be hard for computers to solve quickly. But OpenAI disproved it — raising the possibility of radical new efficiencies.
Democrats have a chance to rewrite the rules of the economy. Here’s how.
By leaning into nativist absolutism, Netanyahu almost doubled the Arab vote, creating a political — and foundational — crisis for Israel.
President Trump at the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, in July. He has questioned the utility of the trans-Atlantic alliance.
Jordan Firstman, the writer, director and star of the film “Club Kid.”
Doctors said that women should receive treatment for menopause symptoms, but need accurate information about the drugs.
On a visit to Lyndon Johnson’s Texas ranch, a cub reporter learned why it pays to get out of Washington.
“Wouldn’t it be ironic if the only person who stands by Trump is Melania?” Jimmy Fallon said after Republicans began distancing themselves from the president after the midterms.
A model of President Trump’s proposed arch, seen in June.
The Chinese leader Xi Jinping with President Donald Trump at the National Archives Museum in Washington in September.