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President Biden and the Democratic leadership had months to prepare for the fall of Roe v. Wade, and even after a draft ruling was leaked in May, they had weeks to muster concrete plans to counteract a once-unimaginable outcome that suddenly seemed inevitable. Yet as Republicans celebrated the culmination last…

SAN ANTONIO — A day after dozens of people were found dead in the back of a tractor-trailer in the heat of the scorching Texas sun, the authorities were working to identify the victims and untangle one of the deadliest border-crossing attempts in years. The bodies of at least 46…

At the start of 2022, a variety of launches to the moon by space agencies and private companies appeared to be on the horizon. So far, none of them have gotten off the launchpad. But on Tuesday, the first moonshot of the year, CAPSTONE, is scheduled to lift off. The…

KREMENCHUK, Ukraine — Hundreds of people were out shopping, chatting and meeting with friends in a shopping mall in central Ukraine on Monday, a rare moment of normalcy amid the horror of war. Then a Russian missile struck. The attack left at least 16 dead and at least 10 missing…

Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas, facing re-election for a third term in November, has positioned himself as the defender of the country from migrants, making his aggressive stance on unauthorized migration central to his political campaign, even though his policies have been ultimately unsuccessful in stemming the arrival of migrants….

WASHINGTON — When Speaker Nancy Pelosi refers to the Supreme Court as the “Trump-McConnell” court, she does not mean it as a compliment. Senator Mitch McConnell will take it as one anyway. “I want to thank her for confirming the obvious,” Mr. McConnell, Republican of Kentucky and the minority leader,…

A law that would have allowed noncitizens to vote in local elections in New York City was struck down on Monday by a State Supreme Court justice in Staten Island who said it violated the State Constitution. The measure, which was passed by the City Council in December, would have…

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that a high school football coach had a constitutional right to pray at the 50-yard line after his team’s games. The vote was 6 to 3, with the court’s three liberal members in dissent. The decision came less than a week after…

JACKSON, Miss. — A young woman entered the parking lot of the only abortion clinic in Mississippi, her shoulders hunched. She was accompanied by an older woman and a stone-faced young man with a handgun on his hip. She appeared terrified. All around them, the noise was deafening. It was…

The public listing of former President Donald J. Trump’s social media company took a fresh blow on Monday when the cash-rich shell company merging with Mr. Trump’s company disclosed in a regulatory filing that a federal grand jury in New York recently issued subpoenas to the company and its directors….