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Lawmakers in California last month advanced about 30 new measures on artificial intelligence aimed at protecting consumers and jobs, one of the biggest efforts yet to regulate the new technology. The bills seek the toughest restrictions in the nation on A.I., which some technologists warn could kill entire categories of…

For more than a decade, America’s campaign watchdog agency was a portrait of dysfunction. Divided equally between three Republicans and three Democrats, the Federal Election Commission deadlocked so often it became a political punchline as investigations languished, enforcement slowed and updated guidelines for the internet era stalled. Now, the commission…

Mr. Gantz joined the government last October to foster a sense of unity at a time of crisis. He joined forces with his political rival, Mr. Netanyahu, despite a deep lack of trust between the two and a history of betrayal. The last time Mr. Gantz went into a government…

Hunter Biden’s defense team rested on Monday in his federal firearms trial in Delaware on Monday, setting the stage for the jury to begin deliberating, barring any dramatic moves. By Monday morning, it was clear that Mr. Biden would not testify in his own defense. Each side had hammered out…

Voters in the 27 European Union member states sent a stern warning to mainstream political powers, wreaking havoc on French and, to a lesser degree, German politics and rewarding hard-line nationalist parties in a number of countries. Even so, the radical right-wing wave dreaded by the European political establishment did…

This is Street Wars, a weekly series on the battle for space on New York’s streets and sidewalks. A thrilling glimpse of New York City history is on display at the intersection of West 12th Street and Washington Street in Manhattan. Cobblestone-like Belgian blocks, most likely dating to the 1870s,…

President Emmanuel Macron threw French politics into disarray on Sunday when he unexpectedly called for snap elections. The surprise move came after his party was battered by the far right in European Parliament elections. Mr. Macron dissolved the lower house of France’s Parliament and said the first round of legislative…

More than two years after Elias Irizarry breached the U.S. Capitol with other Trump supporters, he wrote a letter to Judge Tanya S. Chutkan as he waited for her to determine his sentence. “I want to make clear that I am not writing to make excuses or defend my actions,”…

“The voice has become bigger,” Mr. Fortunato said. Previous campaigns to have the plaque removed have failed. Shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine, about 12,000 people signed an online petition to have it taken down, but were rebuffed. Part of the problem is that it is not clear even to some…

Bret Stephens: Hi, Gail. I know we’ll want to talk about the Hunter Biden trial. But I’d like to give kudos to The Times’s Edgar Sandoval for his terrific report last week from the Rio Grande Valley in South Texas. The long and short of it is that Texan Latinos,…