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Since 1790, the decennial census has played a crucial role in creating and reshaping the ever-changing views of racial and ethnic identity in the United States. Over the centuries, the [...]

The Times examined what's left of one of the oldest streets in Antakya, a southern Turkish city, after a massive earthquake and aftershocks reduced it to rubble. Called Saray Street [...]

No one thought LeBron James would overtake Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to become the N.B.A.'s career scoring leader when he came to the league as an 18-year-old. It didn't seem like anyone [...]

After George Floyd's death, protests in Louisville, Ky., erupted as they did in the rest of the country. But in Louisville, people were mostly chanting a different name -- Breonna [...]

Coronavirus testing data has been spotty and not easily available, especially in the United States. Based on official government sources, here's how testing efforts in the United States compare with [...]

Nearly four months of pro-democracy protests have rocked Hong Kong, with the police arresting more than 1,500 people and firing at least 2,000 rounds of tear gas. The protests started [...]

Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont has a huge lead over other Democratic presidential candidates in the number of individual donors they have each accumulated so far. This is the first [...]

After the closing of dozens of abortion clinics around the country in recent years, more than 11 million women in the United States live more than an hour's drive from [...]

Alabama's governor on Wednesday signed a bill to ban abortions in nearly all cases, making the state the seventh this year to enact abortion restrictions that could challenge the constitutional [...]

A series of coordinated attacks on Easter Sunday in Sri Lanka shattered the peace in a country that has suffered a long history of sectarian tensions. During a decades-long civil [...]

About 800,000 federal workers are furloughed or working without pay across the country because of the government shutdown, many of them concentrated in the West.Over all, federal workers account for [...]

If President Trump actually meets Kim Jong-un in the next few months -- an encounter that many American officials still doubt will come to pass -- his challenge will be [...]

The Senate Republican tax bill includes the repeal of the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate, the requirement that all Americans purchase qualifying health insurance or pay a penalty. The move [...]

The Islamic State, born of an insurgency, quickly seized control of much of Iraq and Syria. Now, having lost much of its territory but far from defeated, the militant group [...]

Subway delays have become a frustrating fact of life in New York City. Every day brings a new set of alerts about painful disruptions across the system. Trains creep along [...]

The Republican health care plan being considered by Congress will significantly increase the number of uninsured people, but it will save the federal government hundreds of billions of dollars, according [...]

A Majority of Battleground States Went for Trump Donald J. Trump secured his victory by winning seven out of 13 battleground states that President Obama won at least once (Mr. [...]

Rebel groups supported by the United States are focused on toppling the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, not rooting out the Islamic State. The United States is focused on defeating the [...]