The New York Times

A powerful president and a popular rival highlight an election that has already featured fights, arrests and accusations of intimidation.

Russia’s president has signaled an increase in income and corporate taxes that will help finance the war. The move reflects his firm control over Russian policy.

A flurry of arrests this week reflect the continent’s newly toughened response to Beijing’s espionage activities and political meddling.

The Health and Human Services Department finalized a rule prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, reversing a Trump-era policy.

The United Automobile Workers reached an agreement involving workers who make Freightliner trucks and Thomas Built buses. The deal comes as the union seeks to expand its membership in southern states.

The students had been among more than 100 who were suspended for participating in an encampment at Columbia University.

The Republican National Committee said moving protesters farther away from the venue in Milwaukee would reduce the risk of confrontations.

There might be problems in the student protest movement for Gaza, but they are not misguided in their goals.

The sentencing marked the final chapter of a case that stretched over nearly five years and helped usher in sweeping public safety reforms.

He was once a staunch ally of the company’s biggest owner, Shari Redstone, but the relationship soured in recent months.

David Pecker, who was the keeper of Donald J. Trump’s secrets, insisted he had testified truthfully about his dealings with the former president.

Harvey Weinstein faced similar sex crimes charges in New York and California, but the arguments used to overturn one case may not help in the other.

Officials said at least one tornado touched down in Nebraska on Friday afternoon, a day after tornadoes battered other parts of the Midwest.

The encampments present a new wrinkle in a year already knotted by war abroad and domestic discord.

The early results suggest that pasteurization is killing the H5N1 virus in milk, something that regulators were not certain of.

The senators voted for a resolution that accused the administration of breaching the due-process rights of students and professors.

Terms were not disclosed. The parties had been arguing over the payment of legal fees and James P. Spears’s financial oversight as his daughter’s conservator.

The proposal had been years in the making, in an effort to curb death rates of Black smokers targeted by Big Tobacco. In an election year, the president’s worries about support among Black voters may have influenced the postponement.

After video surfaced on social media, the student, Khymani James, said on Friday that his comments were wrong.

A tabloid publisher’s testimony dominated a week that began with opening statements setting the stage for the first prosecution of a president.

Israel is facing one of the most fateful choices it has ever had to make.

Also, Biden said he would be “happy to debate” Trump. Here’s the latest at the end of Friday.

During Richard Cordray’s tenure at the agency, the botched rollout of the new FAFSA upended the college admissions process.

The appearance allowed President Biden to tell the stories of love and loss that have defined his public image.