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Lahaina’s Historic Banyan Tree Is Scarred, but Standing

Amid the charred ruins of Lahaina, one of the historic town’s cherished landmarks is still standing: a 150-year-old banyan tree. But it appears to have been badly singed by the fires that devastated...

Ron DeSantis Looks to Regain His Footing. Here’s What Republican Strategists Say He Should...

The presidential campaign of Gov. Ron DeSantis is clearly in a downward spiral, whether measured by polling, internal upheaval, shifting strategies or money woes.Early this year, Mr. DeSantis seemed to have a clear...

Maui Wildfires: What We Know About Cause, Search Efforts and Damages

A summer of ferocious weather across much of the United States reached the country’s most remote state on Wednesday, 2,500 miles off the West Coast, in Hawaii.What began at the start of the...

FEMA’s Response to the Maui Wildfires Will Be Closely Watched

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has deployed teams, including search dogs, to Maui and Oahu to help local officials with search-and-rescue missions, emergency communications, logistics and coordination. In an operations update on Friday,...

Love Letters to California – The New York Times

Surrounded by so much grim news as a reporter, I’m always in search of anything that feels hopeful, or that brings delight into my life.I often find it in the community that has...

Republican 2024 Candidates Cast Doubt on Hunter Biden Special Counsel

Republican presidential candidates, some of whom were stumping in the early-caucusing state of Iowa on Friday, largely derided the news that the prosecutor investigating President Biden’s son Hunter had been elevated to special...

Trump Cheers the Defeat of Rapinoe and the U.S. Women’s Soccer Team

When the United States lost to Sweden in the Women’s World Cup on Sunday, many American viewers saw it as a painful collapse on the grandest stage — the sort of agonizing moment...

Racing to Stop Trump, Republicans Descend on the Iowa State Fair

Over decades of presidential campaigns, the Iowa way has been to hop from town to town, taking questions from all comers and genuflecting to the local culinary traditions. Going everywhere and meeting everyone...

Here Are Past U.S. Wildfires That Turned Especially Deadly.

The urgent search for victims of the wildfires in Maui this week has evoked painful memories of dozens of other fatal blazes that have seared the American landscape, especially in the West.Here are...

Ohio Rejects Issue 1, Constitutional Change Intended to Thwart Abortion Movement

Ohio voters rejected a bid to make it harder to amend the State Constitution on Tuesday, according to The Associated Press, a significant victory for abortion-rights supporters trying to stop the Republican-controlled State...

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AI development gold rush may see another chip shortage as China, US play supply chain tug-of-war, experts say

The world could face another chip shortage as companies and nations seek to lead the...

Shocking attacks at U.C. Berkeley exposes depths of antisemitism on campus, student says

Attacks against University of California, Berkeley, students wearing Israeli flags aren't being investigated as hate...

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Lahaina’s Historic Banyan Tree Is Scarred, but Standing

Amid the charred ruins of Lahaina, one of the historic town’s cherished landmarks is still standing:...

Ron DeSantis Looks to Regain His Footing. Here’s What Republican Strategists Say He Should Do Next.

The presidential campaign of Gov. Ron DeSantis is clearly in a downward spiral, whether measured by...