Melissa Aviles-Ramos, a former English teacher and deputy chancellor, will assume the post after David C. Banks steps down in December.

Declaring “I am a capitalist” in a speech in Pittsburgh, Kamala Harris promised not to be “constrained by ideology” even as she said she would fiercely defend unions and the middle class.

President Vladimir V. Putin heightened his warnings against the West, asserting that Russia should be permitted to use nuclear arms in the event of an attack by a nation backed by a nuclear power.

How is it possible that the former president has a reasonable chance of winning the election despite all that voters now know about him?

Some restless entrepreneurs are releasing pollutants in the sky to try to cool the planet.

North Carolina’s Republican nominee for governor has already lost most of his campaign staff after a news report linked him to disturbing comments on a porn site.

North Carolina’s Republican nominee for governor has already lost most of his campaign staff after a news report linked him to disturbing comments on a porn site.

Germany, Australia, Canada and the Netherlands said they will take the Taliban to the U.N.’s highest court because of its harsh restrictions on Afghan women.

Wildlife experts fear that a rat could disrupt the island’s delicate balance, so they are pulling out all the stops.

Canada’s Liberals are reeling from a string of setbacks, even as the party survived a no-confidence vote in Parliament on Wednesday.

Sheriff Shawn Stines made his first appearance in court as a defendant in the case that has shaken the small rural community of Letcher County, Ky.

The government does not name the victim of a firebombing cited in its case against Mr. Combs, but the timing and facts line up with a reported 2012 attack on the rapper’s car.

Her medium is the tiny seed bead. Her canvas ranges from a 35-foot-long mobile home to the chauvinist history of Abstract Expressionism.

The number of threats after a Georgia school shooting this month is much higher than usual, many officials said. In response, some have cracked down with arrests and detention for children as young as 10.

The Swiss police said they had detained “several individuals” after a 64-year-old American woman reportedly died by suicide using the controversial device.

A Senate committee report on the Secret Service’s inability to protect the former president at a July event depicts a lack of individual responsibility among those charged with planning.

President Biden became the first sitting president to appear live on “The View.” He said he was “at peace” with his decision not to run again.

At an event in Silicon Valley, Meta exhibited a range of products meant to blend the real world and virtual reality, with a healthy dose of A.I.

The government does not name the victim of a firebombing cited in its case against Mr. Combs, but the timing and facts line up with a reported 2012 attack on the rapper’s car.

Astronomers have discovered a black hole emitting energy in jets longer than the width of 140 Milky Way galaxies.