After months of upheaval, many are attempting to get on with their lives while quietly grappling with grief, economic stress and a loss of hope.

Plus, chatbots told scientists how to make bioweapons.

The majority said the law was a victim of its own success and no longer needed. Dissenters responded that Congress should make the call.

Veterans of the civil rights movement and others said the Supreme Court decision felt like a bleak end to decades of gains in Black representation in the region.

A decade ago, the party sought independent redistricting commissions. Now, in an era of extreme gerrymandering, such efforts could slow Democrats as they try to keep up with Republicans.

King Charles III and Queen Camilla laid flowers at the Sept. 11 memorial before stopping by an urban farm, the New York Public Library, a business event and a gala.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani of New York suggested that Britain should return the gem, a symbol of colonial plunder. Here’s the back story of the famed jewel.

More than 250 music insiders and six New York Times critics weighed in on who defines the new American songbook. Here are the artists they chose.

The artist talks about writing her era-defining hits, the pleasures of collaboration and some of the ways she has been undercredited as a writer.

Her keen ear and glittery emotionalism have produced the most No. 1 hits of any American songwriter.

The artist shares stories behind some of her biggest hits, her love of a “rant bridge” and how life in the public eye informs the stories she tells in her songs.

Times critics, with the help of more than 250 experts, made their list of the 30 greatest living American songwriters. Now it’s your turn to choose.

Some consider the regular feeding of late-stage dementia patients to be nonnegotiable. Others see it as extending life unnecessarily.

A risk-taking outsider, he brought speed, competition and controversy to one of science’s biggest races.

States are responding to a rise in high-profile squatting cases, in luxury homes and public housing alike.

Somehow, the weaker nation is in the stronger negotiating position.

The people building A.I. fear that we have only a short time before advanced A.I. disrupts the labor force.

We look at when political criticism can be considered a threat of violence.

City and state officials want speed-limiting devices installed in the cars of drivers who get more than 16 speeding tickets in a year, in hopes of preventing injuries and deaths.

The police are seeking a man who was last seen holding hands with the five-year-old girl on Saturday night near Alice Springs.

The measure will allow the G.O.P. to begin working on a filibuster-proof bill to fund ICE and C.B.P., part of their plan to reopen the long-shuttered Department of Homeland Security.