With Monday’s attacks across southern Lebanon, the prospect of the escalating conflict enveloping the city has suddenly become real for many Beirut residents.

Beijing’s leaders are working with regional neighbors on the country’s western, northern and southern borders to develop new rail and sea links.

News outlets are experimenting with a feature in the world’s most popular messaging app that allows them to send links and headlines directly to followers.

Dr. Ashwin Vasan, who led New York City out of the pandemic as its health commissioner, is the third top official to quit in recent weeks.

Representative Ruben Gallego, the Democratic candidate for Senate, leads in this key contest, a New York Times/Siena College poll found, while Kamala Harris trails Donald Trump.

Representative Ruben Gallego, the Democratic candidate for Senate, leads in this key contest, a New York Times/Siena College poll found, while Kamala Harris trails Donald Trump.

During a trip to Arizona, Vice President Kamala Harris is expected to make her first visit to the southern border since becoming the Democratic nominee.

Can we fix the Constitution before it destroys us?

Thomas G. Donlon, brought in to bring stability to the Police Department when his predecessor resigned, had his homes searched by federal agents.

Jim Covello, Goldman Sachs’s head of stock research, warned that building too much of what the world doesn’t need “typically ends badly.”

Michael Kuilan and Antonio Venti admitted providing fentanyl-laced heroin to Cecilia Gentili, whose death prompted an outpouring of grief among L.G.B.T.Q. New Yorkers.

Staff Sgt. John A. Tarbert of the Air Force died weeks before his son was born, but he was accounted for only this year.

At a Black evangelical church in North Carolina, the candidate for governor still has support.

Among the world’s leading academic critics, he brought his analytical rigor to topics as diverse as German opera and sci-fi movies.

Calls for crackdowns have mounted with reports of cyberbullying and studies indicating that smartphones are harmful to children’s mental health.

Federal prosecutors investigating Mayor Eric Adams and his campaign’s ties to Turkey issued subpoenas in July for records related to 5 other countries.

The literary critic, who died on Sunday at age 90, believed that reading was the path to revolution.

Satellite photos showing a 200-foot-wide crater at a launch site indicate that the Sarmat missile, said by the Kremlin to travel at five times the speed of sound, might not be ready for duty.

Born in Paris to Italian parents and raised in Germany, she had her own show on television in the 1950s and was later a small-screen mainstay in the U.S.

President Biden is beginning to acknowledge that he is simply running out of time to help forge a cease-fire and hostage deal with Hamas, his aides say. And the risk of a wider war has never looked greater.