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Mr. Murdoch's appeal over whether he can consolidate his son Lachlan's power over his media empire is due just before Christmas. Rupert Murdoch's attempt to change his family trust to [...]

A Nevada commissioner ruled resoundingly against Mr. Murdoch, who was trying to give full control of his empire to his son Lachlan and lock in Fox News's right-wing editorial slant. [...]

Rupert Murdoch, the patriarch, has moved to change the family's irrevocable trust to preserve his media businesses as a conservative force. Several of his children are fighting back. Rupert Murdoch [...]

There was anxiety in the thin mountain air when the planet’s economic leaders gathered in January at Davos for the 54th meeting of the World Economic Forum. Donald Trump had [...]

If you’re tired of the endless manufactured arguments by modern sports personalities, his midnight “SportsCenter” is a safe harbor. Scott Van Pelt materializes onscreen five nights a week at midnight [...]

The stuntman Buddy Joe Hooker came on board about midway through the shooting of “To Live and Die in L.A.” in 1985. For years, the director, William Friedkin, had been [...]

It was April 2022, and David Zaslav had just closed the deal of a lifetime. From the helm of his relatively small and unglamorous cable company, Discovery, he had taken [...]

When the former secretary of state and C.I.A. director Mike Pompeo, a man who had dealt firsthand with autocrats like Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, described Randi Weingarten as “the [...]

Rupert Murdoch was lying on the floor of his cabin, unable to move. It was January 2018, and Murdoch and his fourth wife, Jerry Hall, were spending the holidays cruising [...]

PASADENA, Calif. -- A few weeks ago, Juan Carlos Osorio, the coach of Mexico's national soccer team, sat in the sunny courtyard of a Beverly Hills hotel, nursing a cup [...]

It was the low point for a campaign that had been in steady decline for weeks. Less than 24 hours earlier, an 11-year-old recording of Donald J. Trump boasting about [...]

In November 2000, as the Florida recount gripped the nation, a newly elected Democratic senator from New York took a break from an upstate victory tour to address the possibility [...]

Millions of Americans will cast their ballots on Tuesday under intense scrutiny both from vigilantes who fear the election will be rigged and from thousands of voting rights advocates who [...]

Ten years ago, Jim Gilchrist was waging a lonely battle. His organization, the Minuteman Project, which sent volunteers, often armed, to patrol America's southern border, was widely considered a fringe [...]

They came of age in the 1960s and '70s, in the traumatic aftermath of the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. They fought [...]

It started with a photograph -- the shot retweeted round the world, if you will. Snapped aboard Hillary Clinton's campaign plane late Saturday night by her traveling press secretary, Nick [...]

She had seen her face superimposed on the body of a concentration camp inmate. She had been called ''a slimy Jewess.'' She had been told she ''deserved the oven.'' One [...]

In between her extensive debate prep and her final, frenzied bid to raise money and win over voters, Hillary Clinton has had to carve out time to answer 25 detailed [...]

It was the author Kelly Oxford, a social media powerhouse, who got things started on Friday night. ''Women: tweet me your first assaults,'' she wrote on Twitter at 7:48 p.m. [...]

It was a little shimmy of her shoulders -- cheeky, insouciant -- accompanied by a big, toothy grin. Her opponent smirked. She looked as if she was having fun. He, [...]

Weeks after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, with bodies still being pulled from the smoldering rubble, New York's mayor, Rudolph W. Giuliani, delivered an emotional address before a hushed United [...]

The Presidential Suite is 4,000 square feet of pure opulence, with three bedrooms, a fitness center, a butler's pantry and a bathroom tiled with Calacatta Gold marble from an Italian [...]

She seemed like the model tenant. A 33-year-old nurse who was living at the Y.W.C.A. in Harlem, she had come to rent a one-bedroom at the still-unfinished Wilshire Apartments in [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDFor more than a decade, she loomed menacingly between the posts, a muscular, hyper-focused, lightning-quick goalkeeper who seemed able to stop anything. But in the end, the one thing [...]

RICHMOND, Va. -- He offered the first formal apology for this city's role in the slave trade. He led the effort to add a statue of Arthur Ashe, a Richmond [...]

When Gov. Mike Pence of Indiana was in college, he found himself admiring a gold cross hanging from the neck of his fraternity ''big brother.'' The response he received left [...]

The man who the Dallas police say killed five officers in a barrage of bullets on Thursday was a troubled Army reservist who left Afghanistan under a cloud of sexual [...]

Donald J. Trump on Wednesday offered a defiant defense of his campaign's decision to publish an image widely viewed as anti-Semitic -- saying he regretted deleting it -- and vigorously [...]

''My father-in-law is not an anti-Semite.'' With those words, Jared Kushner -- an Orthodox Jew who is married to Donald J. Trump's daughter Ivanka -- opened a full-throated and at [...]

On Tuesday morning, Dana Schwartz, a culture reporter for The New York Observer, sent a pitch to the paper's editor in chief. After posting a message on Twitter criticizing Donald [...]

International diplomacy is a world of careful rituals, hierarchy and credentials. But when the Israeli ambassador to the United States, Ron Dermer, wanted to communicate with Donald J. Trump, he [...]

The future Mrs. Donald J. Trump was puzzled. She had been summoned to a lunch meeting with her husband-to-be and his lawyer to review a prenuptial agreement. It required that, [...]

Donald J. Trump on Sunday renewed his call for the United States to consider profiling as a preventive tactic against terrorism in the aftermath of the mass shooting last week [...]

Congressional candidates who speak of ''liberating the American underclass'' are flush with campaign donations. The likely Democratic presidential nominee has not only moved to the left on a range of [...]

No sooner had Senator Ted Cruz of Texas exited the Republican primary on Tuesday night than Hillary Clinton's partisans on social media began calling for Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont [...]

Madelyn Rubinstein moved to New York City from Long Island in 1985 with big dreams of making it as a professional pianist. She had a head start: a very cheap [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDIt was a night to celebrate strong women. Amy Schumer was the host, Caitlyn Jenner was honored and the guests included Arianna Huffington, Madeleine Albright and the actress Reese [...]

On paper, Donald J. Trump is the last candidate one would expect to raise eyebrows within the Jewish community. He is from the city with the country's largest Jewish population, [...]

AUSTIN, Tex. -- From its start in 1999, the office of the solicitor general of Texas was run by a plain-spoken Mormon, a by-the-books lawyer known for mentoring young attorneys [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDAfter Donald J. Trump's victories on Super Tuesday, his rivals for the Republican presidential nomination made him a frequent target during their 11th debate, held Thursday night in Detroit. [...]

Until recently, Jared Taylor, long one of the country's most prominent white supremacists, had never supported a presidential candidate. ''There's been no one worth endorsing,'' he said in an interview. [...]

Only five candidates remain in the race, but the 10th Republican presidential debate, held Thursday night in Houston, had plenty of attacks, claims and assertions to keep an army of [...]

At the debate Saturday night in Greenville, S.C., the six Republican candidates for president attacked one another on their conservative credentials and haggled over what might happen to Justice Antonin [...]

On a recent afternoon, Jim Rich, the editor in chief of The Daily News, sat at his computer playing around with front-page headlines, a few well-chosen words that would capture [...]

The money poured in by the millions, then by the hundreds of millions, and finally by the billions. Over weak coffee in a conference room in Midtown Manhattan last year, [...]

''I feel like I just wandered into the soccer-themed bar mitzvah I never had,'' said Roger Bennett, one-half of the Men in Blazers duo, seconds after bounding up onto the [...]