Democratic Debate Brings Clashes on Economy and Terrorism
By ALAN RAPPEPORT
The fight against global terrorism took center stage after attacks in Paris that laid bare the kinds of threats the next American president will face.
The police in Raleigh, N.C., detaining a protester outside the Executive Mansion after a law prohibiting so-called sanctuary city policies was signed last month.
The police chief of Durham said a new state law would erode trust among undocumented residents, but officials in other so-called sanctuary cities weren’t sure what practical changes might result.
The fight against global terrorism took center stage after attacks in Paris that laid bare the kinds of threats the next American president will face.
The G.O.P. hopefuls said American ground troops would be needed to fight the Islamic State and urged President Obama to halt plans to accept more Syrian refugees.
Gov. Jerry Brown has extended his executive order requiring Californians to conserve water as the state prepares for a fifth year of drought.
In an essay, the mother said her daughter has suffered greatly after being banned from a suburban Chicago girls’ locker room.
Television, radio, the Internet and social media offer ways to tune in as Hillary Rodham Clinton, Bernie Sanders and Martin O’Malley share the stage.
As President Obama heads to Turkey, an annual gathering of presidents and prime ministers is poised to become an urgent summit meeting on confronting extremism.
Anti-immigration passions have roiled the Republican Party through the primary and debate season. And the shifting views of one Republican presidential candidate seen by some as a rising star, Marco Rubio, are under attack.
For many consumers, the sticker shock is coming not on the front end, when they purchase Affordable Care Act plans, but when they get sick and are hit by sky-high deductibles.
The network’s news team has reworked plans and reformulated questions for the Saturday debate to make them more related to terrorism and national security.
Mr. Yufe became a celebrity after he and his brother were subjects in a study of nature versus nurture.
Though many considered the lawmaker a conservative, he was a moderate Democrat who supported the Voting Rights Act and a freeze on nuclear weapons.
Mr. Cruz called for a halt to increases in legal immigration “so long as American unemployment remains unacceptably high” but did not detail plans for those in the country illegally.
Gov. Steven L. Beshear of Kentucky defended his expansion of Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, imploring the governor-elect to keep the program.
Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter dismissed his senior military assistant, Lt. Gen. Ronald F. Lewis — who held a job little known beyond Washington — for unspecified personal misconduct.
John Gregg knows $1 million was too much to pay for a 78-year-old wooden fishing boat, but he’s spending an additional $2 million to refit it as a science and education vessel.
Many in a focus group of young, undecided Democrats in Iowa that convened after the Paris attacks said they saw Mrs. Clinton as a stronger potential commander-in-chief than Bernie Sanders.
A plan to export eight chimps from a research center in Atlanta to a zoo in England is a first test of an endangered species listing that says that only actions that benefit chimpanzees as a species should be allowed.
Mr. Dayton inherited what became the Dayton-Hudson Corporation from his grandfather and father.
Bill Cosby’s lawyers were aggressive enough to fend off rumors about his behavior for years. But the tactic may have backfired in the latest accusations against him.
The renewed collapse in crude prices is helping to again drive down gasoline prices for American drivers, and a surge in production has led to a global stockpile of three billion barrels.
The loss for the 2015 fiscal year reflects continued erosion in the delivery of first-class mail as well as expensive mandates for funding retiree health care.
Clockwise from top left: Senator Ted Cruz, Senator Lindsey Graham, Senator Marco Rubio and Mike Huckabee spoke Friday at the Republican Party of Florida’s Sunshine Summit in Orlando.
Some elderly New Yorkers receive too much income to be eligible for assistance, but not enough to pay for the services they need.
Pinkel announced on Friday that he has cancer, but his decision to resign comes after he backed his football players’ threatened boycott of a coming game amid racial protests on campus.
Emporiums of plant-based medicines offer products for what ails the mind, body and soul, even though scientific studies about their efficacy are inconclusive.
Honoring veterans, political rallies, another presidential debate and a Sunshine Summit in this week in political pictures.
It may not be a good idea to call voters whose support you seek “stupid,” but none of the iron rules of presidential politics have applied so far to Donald J. Trump.
Although companies can counter proxy servers, which mask a computer’s location, The Times was recently able to make bets on DraftKings from the six states where daily fantasy sports is considered illegal.
Students at some colleges can use a service called Callisto to anonymously record the details of a sexual assault and later file a report if they choose.
The justices agreed to hear a challenge to a Texas law that would leave the state with about 10 abortion clinics, down from more than 40.
The effect of state gun control laws is diluted by a thriving underground market for firearms brought from states with few restrictions.
Brain injuries have turned boxing into a sport many see as too brutal. Perhaps football will fall into the same category for the same reason one day.
New York Times journalists would like to hear about readers’ experiences with racial conflict on college campuses.
The Times would like to hear from Americans who purchased health insurance under the Affordable Care Act.
Is there a news event from decades past that you woud like to see re-examined? Suggest stories that you think are worthy of a follow-up by Retro Report.
Organizations can compel their customers and employees to resolve disputes in arbitration proceedings bound not by state or federal law, but by religious edict.
The Times answered questions about the high suicide rates among veterans.
A look at how many Syrian refugees have been admitted to the United States so far and where they live.
A collection of videos that have led to nationwide protests, federal investigations and changes in policy and attitudes on race.
Frequently asked questions about gun policy and public opinion.
Criminal histories and documented mental health problems did not prevent at least eight of the gunmen in 14 recent mass shootings from obtaining their weapons.
In the year after the school killings in Newtown, Conn., states passed 109 gun-related bills. Of those, 70 loosened gun restrictions and 39 tightened them. A chart tracks their paths.
A look at the complicated relationship between the U.S. and guns, told through the personal stories of Americans.
Attention shifted away from Detroit after the bankruptcy. But for five high school students, life has moved on, sometimes in unexpected ways, as the city struggles to get back on its feet.
How dry conditions, dead trees and a lengthy drought set the stage for one of the worst fire seasons on record.
Every year, natural disasters cost the United States billions in insured losses. In 2014, the figure reached $25 billion. Which disasters are the most common, and what do they cost?
In the last year, videos of incidents between white police officers and minorities have prompted changes in procedures. Here is a look at those videos, which include graphic scenes of violence.
The average American consumes more than 300 gallons of California water each week by eating food that was produced there.
More than a quarter of schools in California have measles-immunization rates for kindergarteners that are below the standard the C.D.C. says is needed to maintain so-called herd immunity.
Freddie Gray lived in Sandtown-Winchester, a crime-ridden Baltimore neighborhood that has been depressed for decades.
When the radio host speaks for angry Republicans in Iowa — and beyond — the 2016 candidates have no choice but to listen.
She told the family of a severely disabled man that she could help him to communicate with the outside world. The relationship that followed would lead to a criminal trial.
It shouldn’t be controversial to note that the first draft of history is rarely the last.
With its shelter system overburdened, the city has resorted to placing some families in hotels on Staten Island, far from the schools they had been attending.
Many struggle with the arcana of setting up a foundation, and with questions on risk: Giving to big institutions is safe; social change is difficult.
While trading raunchy photos can be viewed legally as violating child pornography laws, few prosecutors want to ruin a teenager’s life for a one-time display of immaturity.
November 12, 2015
November 11, 2015
We conveniently forget that a third of the immigrants who came here a century ago didn’t like what they found — and went back.
Many educators believe that children need to learn emotional intelligence to reach their full academic potential.
