We explain the lawlessness in the West Bank.

Plus, Detroit grows after decades of decline.

The key prosecution witness faced defense lawyers as Donald J. Trump’s Manhattan criminal trial neared what may be an unexpectedly early conclusion.

For nearly 40 years, the Commission on Presidential Debates has made the rules for the most-watched events in politics. This year, both campaigns said no thanks.

Mitch McConnell and other top Republicans want more federal money for the military. But Democrats say domestic programs must get an equivalent boost.

The seven-year run of the hit series, which ends on Thursday, mirrors the story of the television business during that time.

Your questions about 2024, answered.

The dehumanization of Palestinians has become a norm.

The American painter depicted women caring for children, not posing for the male gaze. New exhibitions and books reappraise her legacy 100 years later.

Much of the recent international discussion of Mr. Fico’s leadership has focused on his ties to President Vladimir Putin of Russia and Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary.

Officials said the condition of Prime Minister Robert Fico had stabilized, hours after his shooting. The government was expected to focus on Thursday on security breaches.

Slovakia is one of two nations born out of the former Czechoslovakia, a multiethnic nation established at the end of World War I.

Defense lawyers for Donald J. Trump will try to sully the testimony of Michael D. Cohen, who once was his lawyer and now is his nemesis.

Amid a standoff with the state over whether Beth Israel Hospital will close, severely ill patients keep arriving to a hospital that cannot always care for them.

Things for Ukraine are likely to get worse before they get better.

Ms. Shanahan, who has fueled Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s campaign financially since becoming his running mate, has now poured nearly $15 million into the long-shot effort to elect him president.

The ruthless assault that freed a prisoner and set off a manhunt has turned attention to a multibillion-dollar drug trade fueling gang warfare.

A union representing about 48,000 academic workers said that campus leaders mishandled pro-Palestinian demonstrations. The vote gives the union’s executive board the ability to call a strike at any time.

China’s backing will be crucial to President Vladimir V. Putin as he intensifies his offensive in Ukraine. But his host, Xi Jinping, has other competing priorities.

New census estimates find moderate post-pandemic rebounds for big cities in the Midwest and Northeast.