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‘Political Scores’ Use Reams of Data to Predict Your Vote
Meet Mark Grebner, the Michigan statistician who helped pioneer the science of predicting whether someone will vote Republican or Democratic.
New York Times Top StoriesNew York Times Top StoriesMoon Duchin on the Math of Gerrymandering
Why the challenge of truly representative democracy is so complex.
New York Times Top StoriesHow Medicaid’s New Work Requirement Will Work
Poor Americans will face new challenges to enroll, and states will have to build new bureaucracies.
New York Times Top StoriesInspired by Rome’s Pantheon: Antony Gormley and Tadao Ando’s Art Cave
The British sculptor Antony Gormley and the Japanese architect Tadao Ando designed an installation evoking the ancient Roman dome. Building it was complicated.
New York Times Top StoriesThe Monthslong Legal Battle to Save Foreign Aid
One lawsuit, underway since February, has sought to compel President Trump to honor Congress’s vision for foreign aid. It still has a long way to go.
New York Times Top Stories‘A Big Positive’: How One Company Plans to Profit From Medicaid Cuts
New work requirements are expected to leave millions of poor Americans uninsured. For Equifax, which charges states steep prices for its trove of employment data, it is a business opportunity.
New York Times Top StoriesN.J. Democrats Hope Early Vote Advantage Is Enough as Race Enters Last Days
As a close race for governor between Mikie Sherrill and Jack Ciattarelli comes to a close, the two campaigns were reading the tea leaves and pulling out the stops.
New York Times Top StoriesN.J. Democrats Hope Early Vote Advantage Is Enough as Race Enters Last Days
As a close race for governor between Mikie Sherrill and Jack Ciattarelli comes to a close, the two campaigns were reading the tea leaves and pulling out the stops.
New York Times Top StoriesThese 5 Key Voting Groups Could Decide the Mayor’s Race
From religion to race, age to ethnicity, pockets of New Yorkers represent key blocs that can unlock tens of thousands of votes in a citywide race.
New York Times Top StoriesA Bloody Prison Beating Was Caught on Video. No Guards Were Punished.
A New York prisoner accused corrections officers of assault and sexual abuse. State officials deemed his claims unfounded despite footage of the encounter.
New York Times Top StoriesIndia Wins Women’s Cricket World Cup
A team that faced seemingly insurmountable odds wins its first championship, with wider ramifications for the role women play in public life.
New York Times Top StoriesHow Maduro Future-Proofed His Dictatorship in Venezuela
Maduro has built a system in which the only people who can truly tear down the dictatorship are the ones with the most to lose from its demise.
New York Times Top StoriesAt Least 10 Dead and Hundreds Injured After Strong Quake Hits Afghanistan
The 6.3-magnitude quake struck near Mazar-i-Sharif, a northern city known for its magnificent Blue Mosque. The extent of the damage was not immediately clear.
New York Times Top StoriesJudge Extends Block of Trump’s National Guard Deployment to Portland
A judge in Oregon said she would issue a final ruling on the matter by Friday. But she suggested that she would ultimately make the block permanent.
New York Times Top StoriesArrests in Louvre Heist Show Power of DNA Databases in Solving Crimes
France’s trove of DNA profiles has helped solve high-profile crimes and was used to find some of the Louvre suspects, and it is growing. The police can also access other countries’ databases.
New York Times Top StoriesN.Y.C. Early Voting Ends With 735,000 Ballots Cast, as Younger Voters Surge
This year’s mayoral race saw the highest early in-person turnout ever for a nonpresidential election in New York.
New York Times Top StoriesMartha Layne Collins, 88, Dies; Kentucky’s First Female Governor
She rose from a junior high school teacher to the state’s top official, and helped persuade Toyota to build its first American factory in Georgetown, Ky.
New York Times Top StoriesExplosion at Harvard Building Affected Small Section of Hallway, Officials Say
There was no structural damage to the building, they said, as investigators pursued two suspects.
New York Times Top StoriesA Thrilling Finish to N.Y.C. Marathon as Kenyans Dominate Elite Races
It was a record-setting day as more than 50,000 athletes packed the streets for the 2025 New York City Marathon. Benson Kipruto and Hellen Obiri triumphed.
New York Times Top StoriesEnergy Secretary Says Nuclear Tests Won’t Involve Explosions
Chris Wright said that tests announced by President Trump last week wouldn’t involve nuclear explosions and would instead focus on other aspects of the weapons.
New York Times Top StoriesIndiana Republican Tries Different Approach in Debate on Voting Maps: Listening
As redistricting efforts spread across the country, an Indiana state senator said he isn’t sure how he will vote on a plan that President Trump supports.
New York Times Top StoriesNew Weapons Testing Ordered by Trump Won’t Include Nuclear Explosions, Wright Says
Energy Secretary Chris Wright said the testing ordered up in a surprise announcement by President Trump last week would focus on “the other parts” of nuclear weaponry.
New York Times Top StoriesThe NYC Marathon in Photos and Videos
Some 55,000 people came out to race through the five boroughs on a sunny Sunday.
New York Times Top StoriesF.D.A. Drug Unit Chief Is Placed on Leave, and Cites a ‘Toxic’ Environment
The official, Dr. George F. Tidmarsh, a top regulator at the agency, said disagreements over a new program to rapidly approve medications had caused tensions with agency officials.
New York Times Top StoriesDefense Lawyers Demand Dismissal of Abuse Case Against Israeli Soldiers
The chief legal officer of Israel’s military resigned after authorizing the leak of a video in the case involving grave abuse of a Palestinian detainee. That further politicized a fraught case.
New York Times Top Stories5 Die, Including 3 Children, in Halloween Night House Fire
The cousin of a state assemblyman, his wife and children died in the fire in Paterson, N.J. Seven other relatives survived the blaze.
New York Times Top Stories2025 New York City Marathon: Best Fashion Looks
Held on a Halloween weekend, this year’s race had a mother-and-daughter duo dressed as cows, a human-size banana and Ken (without Barbie).
New York Times Top StoriesOPEC Plus Signals Cautious Approach to Oil Production
Eight members of the oil cartel agreed on Sunday to a small increase but said they would now pause in adding more oil, reflecting market concerns about an oversupply.
New York Times Top StoriesMaria Riva, Dietrich Daughter Who Demystified the Legend, Dies at 100
She was her mother’s handmaiden and aide-de-camp. In 1993, her blockbuster biography told of the awful price she paid.
New York Times Top StoriesKipruto Wins NYC Marathon Men’s Race in One of the Closest Ever Finishes
Some past New York marathons have been extremely tight. Benson Kipruto’s split-second victory was a photo finish.