With the states acting as laboratories for legislation that cannot advance in Washington, Republican policy changes are likely on a variety of issues.
As the Senate minority leader, Mitch McConnell has been a constant foil to the president’s agenda. Now he’s expected to be the majority leader. Can two political combatants function together without driving each other crazy?
Because the only thing cuter than a tiny house is a tiny house on wheels.
The national Democratic party has been out of favor in the South for decades, and now the party has become a toxic brand for local politicians.
Gov. John W. Hickenlooper’s narrow victory over Bob Beauprez defied a wave of Republican victories in races for governor in usual Democratic strongholds like Maryland, Massachusetts and Illinois.
A bigger apartment required a radically new attitude about what went into it.
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art draws the A-listers, including Kim Kardashian and Amy Adams.
Change is coming to this quiet island, which is part of Manhattan, with several new developments and residential subsidy programs about to end.
Restoring three pieces from the federal Work Projects Administration at a hospital on Roosevelt Island presented many challenges.
At the annual CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund dinner, Paul Andrew, a shoemaker from Britain, is the big winner.
Republicans picked up seats in Arkansas, West Virginia, Montana, South Dakota, Colorado, North Carolina and Iowa, consolidating their power on Capitol Hill.
Republicans entered the end of the most expensive midterm campaign in American history confident they will take control of the Senate, but voter interest is low.
In Utah and nearby states, rodeo children — weaned on mutton-busting and goat-tying — grow up in a culture that prizes riding sheep over Facebook updates.
The Portuguese ensemble Buraka Som Sistema shows the melting-pot side of this former colonial power.
Condé Nast workers began moving into the new building, built on the lot where the twin towers once stood, and signs of a resurgence were everywhere.
Malcolm Livingston II prepares to make the jump from WD-50 to being Noma’s pastry chef.
Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan announced the names of 55 parishes that will merge with neighboring parishes from Staten Island to the Catskills.
Professional baseball is thriving in South Korea, with the festivities in the stands both raucous and organized to a degree that American fans might find startling.
Judicial races have been evolving into another political battleground for big money, as seen in Montana, where a sitting State Supreme Court justice is running in the most expensive race on state record.
A clown, contortionists, jugglers and one sheepadoodle are among the attractions in “Metamorphosis,” the latest edition of the Big Apple Circus.
Scientists blew up more than half a ton of uranium in 2,000 explosions at a fort only 14 miles from the Eiffel Tower. Now there is disagreement over whether the site should be redeveloped.
Hafthor Julius Bjornsson, an Icelandic strongman best known for lifting cars or tugging trucks or throwing barrels, has parlayed his imposing size into a role on “Game of Thrones.”
The police have arrested what they describe as the country’s dog meat kingpins, and the military government is considering banning the trade.
Macy’s flagship has long tried to be everything to everyone. But in a $400 million renovation, it’s taking sharper aim at millennials and free-spending tourists.
A tour of the Grove in Oxford, Miss., which comes alive each football weekend with one of the most elaborate pregame gatherings in the country.
They are picking up the war-torn pieces in the rebel-held region, hoping someone — whether from Kiev or Moscow — can get essential services running again.
Power 105’s Powerhouse concert on Thursday in Brooklyn presented a lineup of rising talent, and bigger stars like Chris Brown, Trey Songz, Young Jeezy and T.I.
The parade, along Avenue of the Americas from Spring Street to 16th Street, brought out ghouls, zombies and Daft Punk.
To promote a show of seascapes, a museum in Virginia is challenging visitors to find a forged painting hung alongside the real ones.
Franck Bohbot, a French photographer living in New York, photographed several barbershops in the city during the past year. “You feel that so many stories happened there,” he said.
At Liebman’s Kosher Delicatessen in the Bronx they’ve been slinging pastrami and brisket since 1953, and no one seems to care about New York’s deli resurgence, or think that it needed one in the first place.
Ben Daitz, an owner of the Num Pang Cambodian-style sandwich shops, lives in Greenwich Village among collections of shoes, hats and bourbon.
The bride, an opera singer and the groom, a magician, have combined their acts.
Zap Comix, that 1960s countercultural haven for artists like R. Crumb, Rick Griffin and Robert Williams, is now available in a boxed set.
On Sundays, Amy Ryan, an actress known for her dramatic roles, gets in touch with her playful side in Brooklyn Heights, where she lives with her husband and daughter.
A comparison of prices from a 1964 newspaper ad and from the same supermarket chain today yields some interesting results.
The New Museum show “Chris Ofili: Night and Day” presents six distinct bodies of paintings and drawings, all with blackness as an underlying theme.
From his home in the Appalachian foothills, Kevin Bumgarner, the father of Madison Bumgarner, the World Series M.V.P., sent his son a text while watching him lead San Francisco to the title.
On a trip to the Seine-et-Marne region, where Brie has been produced since the seventh century, the author goes on an indulgent cheese tasting tour.
“Bob and Roberta Smith: Art Amnesty,” at MoMA PS1, invites artists to pledge to stop making art and to deposit their work there, raising intriguing questions about how artists and art are valued.
In “The Dreary Coast,” an immersive theatrical work from Jeff Stark, Hades, king of the underworld, sits enthroned on the banks of the Gowanus Canal.
The photographer Duane Michals talks about his art and the new retrospective of his work at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh.
The foundation for AIDS research recognized Mr. Ford on Wednesday in Los Angeles.
The piano company Steinway & Sons, which sold its building on West 57th Street, is close to signing a 15-year lease for space at 1133 Avenue of the Americas.
With a star performance from Madison Bumgarner, the Giants beat the Kansas City Royals at Kauffman Stadium to became the first team in 35 years to win a Game 7 on the road.
Smoking pot, some say, is now just part of everyday life at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Hobbyists are flocking to workshops that teach the art of stuffing animals. Some do it for the fun of sculpting and sewing, others for ethical reasons.
The Allman Brothers Band has played an engagement nearly every year since 1989 at the Beacon Theater in Manhattan — more than 230 concerts. On Tuesday it played its last.
This quieter, lower-slung section of Astoria, a longtime stronghold of the Greek immigrant community, is seeing an influx of young people in search of more affordable housing.
At the Elton John AIDS Foundation dinner, tableside conversation turns to Halloween costumes and the World Series.
A whitewashed brownstone in Harlem, where the rooms have names and the chai is brewed to perfection.
Dan Barber’s long search for flavor at his farm is evident downtown, where each new ingredient might be the best example of its kind you’ve tasted.
A small airport in northern Sweden is showcasing technology that many expect will eventually transform the way air traffic is managed worldwide.
About 4,000 Christians left the Iraqi city of Mosul for Jordan in the last three months, forced out by Islamic State fighters.
In a country that has long been ill at ease with its hard-living son, Thomas’s granddaughter is trying to refocus public attention on the poet’s work.
Mexico is planning to do something it has not attempted in decades and never on its modern census: ask people if they consider themselves black.
Photographs of Broad Channel, an island in Jamaica Bay in Queens.
A Brazilian chef who passed up the glamour of São Paulo is helping change his country’s cuisine with the help of flavors from the rain forest.
Resentment and fear have swept Calais, France, in the last year amid a new wave of migrants hoping to cross illegally to Britain, which they see as a better place than France to start a new life.
Hekkie Budler is preparing to defend the two belts he holds in the minimumweight division, the lightest sanctioned classification in boxing.
Can China continue its torrid pace of economic growth for decades to come? The long arc of history suggests not, according to a paper by Harvard’s Lant Pritchett and Lawrence Summers.
The white gravel roads in the vineyards and hills of Tuscany inspired L’Eroica, a vintage bicycle race that has grown to more than 5,000 participants.
A duplex in the south tower of the River House, the opulent Art Deco enclave perched above the East River, is poised to enter the market at $14.75 million.
Assigned by a record label to take publicity shots, Mr. Wertheimer photographed rock ‘n’ roll’s earliest superstar in his earliest days.
An exhibition in New York, will display works by Picasso that were inspired by Jacqueline Roque, with whom he lived from 1954 until his death in 1973.
American Ballet Theater opened its fall season on Wednesday with a gala triple bill by young or youngish choreographers.
“Grand Design,” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, presents 19 large Renaissance tapestries designed by Pieter Coecke van Aelst.
“Paul Strand: Master of Modern Photography,” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, reappraises Strand as a modernist turned humanist as well as a cinephile.
Once reluctant to accept the virtual world, institutions are now using interactivity, 3-D imaging and “augmented reality” in displays.
There are several ways to organize your exhibition-hopping this season.
The new restaurant features soup dumplings, or xiao long bao, that are near perfect.
Colin Bailey left his post at the Frick Collection to help the the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco revamp their exhibits — and maybe their mission.
The new museum designed by Frank Gehry combines technology, science and art to promote discovery of nature in the country.
The Jewish Museum highlights Helena Rubinstein, a pioneer of women’s cosmetics, whose taste reflected a combination of chutzpah and creativity.
Mark Mothersbaugh of the influential band Devo will have his first major solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver.
The Museum of Modern Art’s coming show will look at the ways design has played with music, from posters to electronic delivery systems.
This Gulf Coast resort city has a vibrant downtown and high-end shops but also lush wetlands and white-sand beaches.
Mr. Burri was a globe-trotting photographer who documented figures like Pablo Picasso and Che Guevara, as well as urban scenes and war.
Pitcher Luther Taylor starred at a school for the deaf in the Kansas City metropolitan area before helping the Giants reach the 1905 World Series.
Many established spas and retreats are retooling their offerings to attract the same target: wealthy, successful and highly stressed-out executives.
Described as a “ranch burger,” the house in Columbia County was remade to order.
Dan Bussey has tracked down 17,000 varieties dating from Colonial times, the better to guarantee a world way beyond Red Delicious.
A smallish city of around 80,000, Danbury, Conn., just across from the New York border, is less expensive than most surrounding towns and far more diverse.
A black-tie benefit draws out celebrities like Sofia Vergara, Ryan Reynolds with Blake Lively and Kris Jenner on Monday night.
In Brooklyn, real-life good witches are concocting friendly brews for public consumption.
Mr. Bradlee, a quintessential newspaper editor, supervised The Washington Post’s exposure of the Watergate scandal that led to the resignation of President Richard M. Nixon.
From Diane Lane to Nicki Minaj, the designer’s dresses appealed to a range of actresses and entertainers.
At a time when marijuana laws are loosening in the United States, High Times magazine is celebrating its 40th anniversary with a hefty book.
Mr. de la Renta dressed the wives of American presidents and socialites, but it was Hollywood glitz that defined him for a new age and a new customer.
The Metropolitan Opera’s first performance of “The Death of Klinghoffer” was disrupted twice, but both protesters were ushered out.
Four days had passed since their overcrowded migrant boat had capsized in the Mediterranean, after being rammed in an apparent quarrel between smugglers. The Palestinians were now weak and hallucinating.
A way of life is eroding as small towns hemorrhage younger residents, a potent but unpredictable undercurrent in a closely fought Senate race.
Images of major league baseball in Kansas City, which included the Athletics, who moved to Oakland, and the expansion Royals, who won a World Series in 1985.
The men and women of one Ebola clinic in rural Liberia reflect on life inside the gates.
For nine days, waves of pro-democracy protests engulfed Hong Kong, swelling at times to tens of thousands of people and raising tensions with Beijing.
The Brown sisters have been photographed every year since 1975. The latest image in the series is published here for the first time.
Few collegians work as hard as the U.S. Military Academy’s 786 female cadets.
A journey through the state, featuring Jimmy Carter, Civil War re-enactors and newborn Cabbage Patch Kids.
A panoramic view of the progress at the new World Trade Center site exactly 13 years after the Sept. 11 attacks.
Scenes of sorrow and violence in a Missouri town after an unarmed black teenager was shot by a police officer.
The damage to Gaza’s infrastructure from the current conflict is already more severe than the destruction caused by either of the last two Gaza wars.
The Times asked firefighters to submit their first fire experiences on City Room. Read a selection of those stories.
The daily tally of rocket attacks, airstrikes and deaths in the conflict between Israel and Hamas.
The reporter Damien Cave and the photographer Todd Heisler traveled up Interstate 35, from Laredo, Tex., to Duluth, Minn., chronicling how the middle of America is being changed by immigration.
World War I destroyed kings, kaisers, czars and sultans; it demolished empires; it introduced chemical weapons; it brought millions of women into the work force.
Despite a period of rising incomes, a tide of economic discontent helped make Narendra Modi the prime minister-elect.
Highlights from a map of N.B.A. fandom based on Facebook “likes.”
A 32,000-ton arch that will end up costing $1.5 billion is being built in Chernobyl, Ukraine, to all but eliminate the risk of further contamination at the site of the 1986 nuclear reactor explosion.
Fairgoers share memories of family outings and moments of inspiration at the 1964 New York World’s Fair.
On the trail of the phantom women who changed American music and then vanished without a trace.
Runners, spectators and volunteers who were at the finish line of the Boston Marathon when the bombs exploded reflect on how their lives have been affected. Here are their stories of transformation.
Nelson Mandela’s death spurred an international outpouring of praise, remembrance and celebration.
What does the way you speak say about where you’re from? Answer the questions to see your personal dialect map.
Typhoon Haiyan, which cut a destructive path across the Philippines, is believed by some climatologists to be the strongest storm to ever make landfall.
Voters elected Bill de Blasio, but New York has always been a city of unofficial mayors.
Your guide to the year’s most important meal, with our best recipes, videos, techniques and tricks.
The International Herald Tribune, the global edition of The New York Times, has become The International New York Times. A look at its journey.
Along the highway between Moscow and St. Petersburg — a 12-hour trip by car — one sees great neglected stretches of land that seem drawn backward in time.
For the first time in over a decade, New York City will vote in a new mayor. A look back at the 2013 primary campaign for mayor in New York City, in photographs.
More than 6.5 million Syrians have been displaced by the war, according to the United Nations. The New York Times visited the homes of four of them to hear their stories.
Uncertainty about how an outside attack could affect Syria’s civil war is one of the factors leading to disagreement among Western countries about how to respond.
In a five-part series of reports on young, under-the-radar fashion designers we visit each at a different stage in the process as they prepare for New York Fashion Week.
At age 55, the jockey Russell Baze is still making all the right moves
in a dangerous sport.
More than 50 ways to make use of the things you’re most likely to find in a market or your C.S.A. basket.
New York may be noisier than ever, but pockets of peace exist – if you know where to look. Here is a selection from readers.
Browse archival photographs, video and articles chronicling the city’s quest for quiet.
Revel in the season with a pie (or a tart, or a cobbler). Here are 20 recipes to carry you through the warm months.
Lynda Obst, Mike Vollman, Erik Feig and others help The Times make the next big tent-pole movie.
Times coverage from the late 1960s and the 1970s shows the South Bronx as a crumbling, desolate and dangerous place. Ángel Franco, a Times photographer, revisited neighborhoods featured in that coverage to see how the view has changed.
The mean streets of the borough that rappers like the Notorious B.I.G. crowed about are now hipster havens, where cupcakes and organic kale rule.
A sequence revisiting how Chicago’s Nate Robinson, one of the best at teardrop shots, scored over the Nets’ Brook Lopez in a game at the end of the season.
About 120,000 Syrians are calling the tents and trailers of the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan home, at least for the foreseeable future.
On April 15, the first of two bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. Here are the stories of the runners, spectators and others seen in this image.
One suspect in the Boston bombings is dead and the second was taken into custody Friday night.
Fred R. Conrad, a New York Times photographer, set up a studio at the Westminster Kennel Club dog show this week and invited Best of Breed winners to pose.
New York City was a vastly different place when Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg gave his first State of the City address in 2002, and his focus has shifted on various issues.
Ray Lewis, Randy Moss and others with Super Bowl experience share the advice they have given their teammates.
European Union officials have struggled to turn things around — debating new treaties, shoring up banks, securing more funding. The people of Greece, Spain, Portugal, Ireland and Latvia have dealt with economic troubles in various ways.
Forty-two memorable front pages from the past year, picked by editors on the Times news desk who oversee the content, design and production of Page 1.
Mr. Sulzberger shaped the destiny of The New York Times for 34 years as its publisher and as chairman and chief executive of its parent company.
A day-by-day recap of the conventions in Tampa, Fla., and Charlotte, N.C.
Emotional victories, stunning defeats and fierce competition from the Olympic Games.
See the most prominent vocal producer in the music industry, Kuk Harrell, in action, and then listen along with him as members of the girl group Calvillo perform a part of their song “Right Now.”
A selection of Tony Award nominees, including Josh Young from “Jesus Christ Superstar,” perform songs and scenes from this year’s shows.
What has happened after 2,400 technology, Internet and telecom I.P.O.’s.
Alan Gilbert, music director of the New York Philharmonic, demonstrates and discusses the role of a conductor.
The players on the Carroll Academy girls basketball team have little experience with organized sports and myriad troubles outside of school.
A series profiling people who are functioning normally despite severe mental illness and have chosen to speak out about their struggles.
Examining the worldwide struggle to find answers about Alzheimer’s disease.
Photos from Syria, Belgium, United Arab Emirates and Turkey.
Listen to New York Times editors, critics and reporters discuss the day’s news and features.
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