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A Delta Air Lines pilot announced on a trip from New York to Paris that there was an extra passenger. The airline said it was working with the authorities to investigate the flight.

By John Yoon

Big Tom is a beloved landmark in his Minnesota hometown. Across the Midwest, small places take pride in having the largest of just about anything.

By Mitch Smith and Graham Dickie

The injunction is the second time that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has sided with Texas in a yearlong dispute over barbed wire around the city of Eagle Pass.

By Mattathias Schwartz

The president-elect has long been critical of Mr. Zuckerberg’s social media platforms, saying they censor conservative viewpoints.

By Mike Isaac, Jonathan Swan, Maggie Haberman and Theodore Schleifer

The state is one of at least a dozen states to set restrictions on bathrooms for transgender students at public schools.

By Amy Harmon

The discussion between President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico and the president-elect came after Mr. Trump threatened tariffs unless Mexican authorities stopped migrants and drugs from coming across the border.

By Simon Romero

President-elect Donald J. Trump’s selections to run the nation’s health agencies are alarming infectious disease experts.

By Sheryl Gay Stolberg

They would have been worth nearly $18 million if they were genuine, making it the largest counterfeit instrument seizure in history, officials said.

By Adeel Hassan

“Buckle up and pack a lunch, because it’s going to be four years of this,” the Democratic senator from Pennsylvania said.

By Jess Bidgood

Many of the victims were the West Virginia pastor’s relatives, the police said, including five nieces who filed a complaint against him in 2004.

By Billy Witz

A member of one of the U.S. Army’s all-Black regiments, formed after the Civil War, he trained West Point cadets in horsemanship during World War II.

By Trip Gabriel

Derek Tran, a consumer rights lawyer and Army veteran, defeated Representative Michelle Steel, a Republican two-term incumbent, flipping a seat in Orange County, Calif.

By Amy Qin

The retired Army lieutenant general could play a key role in any negotiations to end the yearslong war between the countries.

By Michael Crowley

The so-called Department of Government Efficiency, with Elon Musk as co-leader, has advantages that past budget-cutters did not, but laws and court challenges can still make change slow and difficult.

By David A. Fahrenthold, Alan Rappeport, Theodore Schleifer and Annie Karni

A Trump transition team spokeswoman said law enforcement officials had “acted quickly to ensure the safety of those who were targeted.”

By Devlin Barrett and Maggie Haberman

The suit was brought by Ray Epps, who was falsely characterized by Tucker Carlson and others as being a government agent who instigated the violence at the Capitol.

By Alan Feuer

The agriculture and nutrition measure was last updated in 2018 and originally expired two years ago. Farmers fear the Trump administration’s priorities will eclipse theirs next year.

By Maya C. Miller

The party’s donor class is still wrestling with Donald Trump’s victory, worried about retribution and sluggish liberal energy. Some rich Democrats are even pondering leaving the country.

By Theodore Schleifer

Even as President Biden brokers a cease-fire in Lebanon, President-elect Donald J. Trump is running his own foreign policy without waiting to be sworn in.

By Peter Baker

A new state law grants the Kentucky Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control the authority to auction off impounded alcohol.

By Alexandra E. Petri

Bad weather threatens roads over the holiday, but airports have had little trouble on Wednesday.

By Hank Sanders and Alexandra E. Petri

As the director of the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya would oversee the world’s premier medical research agency, with a $48 billion budget and 27 separate institutes and centers.

By Sheryl Gay Stolberg

Mr. Hassett defended Donald Trump’s tax cuts and trade policies in his first administration but has also acknowledged that tariffs can weaken economic growth.

By Jonathan Swan, Maggie Haberman, Alan Rappeport and Ana Swanson

The Romers, of Scarsdale, N.Y., disappeared from a Georgia hotel. Divers who seek to solve cold cases found a vehicle similar to theirs in a pond. They also found bones.

By Annie Correal

President-elect Donald J. Trump’s team will have some formal briefings with outgoing staff members, but it has so far refused to allow the F.B.I. to do security clearances for transition members.

By Michael D. Shear

The special counsel will leave behind a complex legacy, having amassed considerable evidence against Donald J. Trump but having lost key legal battles that could constrain future investigators.

By Devlin Barrett, Glenn Thrush and Alan Feuer

Many of the prime minister’s political opponents were as critical of him as about the president-elect’s plan, which would adversely affect Canada’s economy.

By Ian Austen

The suspect, an animal-rights activist, was sought in connection to the bombings of two San Francisco-area businesses in 2003.

By Adeel Hassan

Arrests for illegal crossings from Canada spiked in the last fiscal year, but remain a fraction of the number of those from Mexico.

By Hamed Aleaziz and Matina Stevis-Gridneff

The president-elect’s threat to hit Canada, Mexico and China with new tariffs is already rocking business and diplomatic relationships and could topple the trade pacts he signed in his first term.

By Ana Swanson

Migrants often gather in groups in southern Mexico as a means of protection from criminal groups. But they almost never make it anywhere near the U.S.-Mexico border.

By James Wagner

Lt. Gen. Christopher T. Donahue was recently selected to lead the U.S. Army’s Europe Command as the war in Ukraine heads into its fourth year.

By Helene Cooper, Thomas Gibbons-Neff and Eric Schmitt

This article was published prematurely.

The electric trucks have a side cargo door, more space and, critically, air-conditioning, promising some long-overdue relief for carriers, who haven’t had an upgrade since the 1980s.

By Michael Levenson

Republicans have a supermajority in the state’s legislature and may move to override Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto, which would set off a new fight over state power and hurricane aid.

By Nick Corasaniti

President Claudia Sheinbaum responded to President-elect Trump’s threat to impose high tariffs, saying such a move would inflict damage on both countries.

By Simon Romero

Facing diminishing public support, some activists say all-or-nothing tactics are not working. “We have to make it OK for someone to change their minds.”

By Jeremy W. Peters

Marlena Velez, 22, stole the items by scanning false bar codes in the self-checkout to make the items cheaper, the police said.

By Alexandra E. Petri

President-elect Donald J. Trump ordered the investigation by his legal team into Boris Epshteyn, a powerful figure in the transition. Mr. Epshteyn denies the allegations.

By Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan

Donald J. Trump is set to regain office without clarity on the scope of presidential immunity and with a lingering cloud over whether outside special counsels can investigate high-level wrongdoing.

By Charlie Savage

The administration is pressing the World Anti-Doping Agency to allow an outside audit after it failed to suspend Chinese swimmers for positive tests.

By Michael S. Schmidt and Tariq Panja

Susan Lorincz, who shot Ajike Owens, was convicted of manslaughter. The case prompted national outrage.

By Annie Correal

Three members of the motorcycle unit at the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office were struck by a driver on Thursday. Two died that day, and a third who had been in critical condition died on Monday.

By Michael Levenson

Incumbent vice presidents running for president face unique challenges — and have a poor track record in elections.

By Ian Prasad Philbrick

The former sheriff, Shawn Stines, was indicted last week after a local judge was shot to death in his chambers in September.

By Kendra Sanchez and Campbell Robertson

A hearing scheduled for mid-December was pushed back to Jan. 30 so the judge and the new L.A. district attorney could have time to review filings in the case.

By Orlando Mayorquín

President Biden, granting clemency to a pair of turkeys in an annual White House ceremony, expressed gratitude for serving as commander in chief.

By The New York Times

A federal judge ruled that the player, who is at the center of a controversy over transgender athletes, can participate in a women’s volleyball conference tournament this week.

By Rachel Nostrant and Kate Selig

The special counsel effectively brought to a close the Justice Department efforts to hold Donald J. Trump accountable in the election and classified documents cases.

By Alan Feuer, Charlie Savage and Devlin Barrett

Setting aside politics, the president used the lighthearted ceremony to thank the nation one more time for the opportunity to serve.

By Zach Montague

The longest-serving Senate leader is relinquishing his post in the next Congress and planning to use his influence in ways that could put him at odds with President-elect Donald J. Trump.

By Catie Edmondson

Natalie Harp, a 33-year-old former anchor on a right-wing cable show, is poised to become the gatekeeper for information to and from the president.

By Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan

Bishop Jakes received immediate medical attention and is now “stable and under the care of medical professionals,” according to the Potter’s House, his megachurch.

By Remy Tumin

New Mexico has among the highest rates of killings by police officers in the U.S., and officials are trying to reduce the number of deadly encounters.

By Michael Corkery

With critical races in Georgia and North Carolina just two years away, the party is soul-searching on a time crunch.

By Maya King

Steve Witkoff’s involvement with two sovereign wealth funds as he bought and then sold Manhattan’s Park Lane Hotel demonstrates the potential conflicts his new role will present.

By Eric Lipton

The president-elect has named wealthy financiers for key economic positions, raising questions about how much they will follow through on promises to help the working class.

By Alan Rappeport and Ana Swanson

Brandon Anderson, who used his nonprofit’s accounts to rent mansions and buy luxury clothes, was featured in a New York Times story in August.

By David A. Fahrenthold

A U.S. ruling set in motion the gem’s repatriation to Brazil, where it was first unearthed more than 20 years ago.

By Alexandra E. Petri

Justice Antonin Scalia, a conservative giant, said attempts to circumvent the Senate’s responsibility to vet nominees were “ignoble” and “just made up.”

By Adam Liptak

Stricter rules and punishments over campus protests seem to be working. Universities have seen just under 950 protest events this semester, compared with 3,000 in the spring.

By Isabelle Taft

They said they believed that Donald J. Trump’s attacks on undocumented immigrants were directed at recent asylum seekers rather than their own community members.

By Orlando Mayorquín and Christina Morales

The 20-year-old student died this summer after attending an off-campus party. The fraternity members and sorority were charged with offenses related to providing alcohol to minors.

By Kate Selig

One faction of prospective nominees appears focused on revenge, another on calming markets and a third on relentlessly — perhaps hopelessly — cutting people and budgets.

By David E. Sanger

A mesmerizing speaker, he urged his fellow evangelicals to turn away from politics in favor of the values of charity and love espoused by Jesus.

By Trip Gabriel

A Texas native, Ms. Rollins worked in the first Trump White House and has also led two influential conservative think tanks.

By Linda Qiu

A Cessna plane crashed while conducting a training exercise, killing the pilot and an aerial photographer, the authorities said.

By Annie Correal

Breaking with past practice, President-elect Donald J. Trump has not agreed to disclose the donors paying for his planning effort or to limit their contributions.

By Ken Bensinger and David A. Fahrenthold

Donald Trump’s promise to carry out mass deportations has driven fearful immigrants to seek protections and advice.

By Miriam Jordan

Religion is often overlooked as a factor in the lives of the needy, but those who gather at a center in Virginia say it helps sustain them.

By Jason DeParle and Moriah Ratner

When we met them a dozen years ago, they were teenagers in trouble, playing for a basketball team that always lost. Did they find a way to win at life?

By John Branch and Ruth Fremson

When they were teens, these girls were sent to a school for juvenile delinquents. Our journalists experienced the rare privilege of telling their stories twice.

By John Branch and Ruth Fremson

After eight years in the Senate as a moderate Democrat, he took a leftward turn toward “new populism” in a failed shot at the presidency in 1976.

By Robert D. McFadden

Jon and Carie Hallford pleaded guilty to corpse abuse after dozens of decaying bodies were found at their funeral home.

By Hank Sanders

David Braff was first accused of misconduct years ago but has since held a series of school jobs. The authorities are investigating the possibility of additional victims.

By Dana Goldstein

Ms. Rollins is the chief executive of the America First Policy Institute, a think tank created to promote President-elect Donald J. Trump’s agenda.

By Linda Qiu

The storm, driven by the season’s first major atmospheric river, inundated the Pacific Northwest and Northern California, killing at least three people and causing widespread power outages.

By The New York Times

The hedge fund investor predicted last year that President-elect Donald J. Trump’s political fortunes were on the rise.

By Alan Rappeport

After enduring a host of election conspiracy claims in recent years, Ada County believes it has found a way to restore confidence in the vote-counting system.

By Mike Baker

The city tolerated Donald J. Trump, and then it loathed him. Now, some New Yorkers have begun to embrace him. The Kid from Queens couldn’t be happier.

By Shawn McCreesh

Two weeks after the election, a gathering in Gettysburg commemorated Lincoln’s address, 272 words that have come to epitomize what it means to be presidential.

By Dan Barry and Todd Heisler

Some in the party are considering alternative ways of assessing the federal budget as they prepare to extend temporary tax cuts passed in 2017.

By Andrew Duehren

President-elect Donald Trump is filling key cabinet positions with controversial picks at a breakneck speed. Jonathan Swan, senior political correspondent at The Times, explains why these choices are significant, even if they don’t all make it into office.

By Jonathan Swan, Alexandra Ostasiewicz, James Surdam and Whitney Shefte

The forecasts, like those from Decision Desk HQ, Nate Silver and 538, are now ubiquitous, but their accuracy is hard to measure.

By Kaleigh Rogers

After a decade of battles over voter ID, the law that finally went into effect landed with a whimper, not a bang.

By Michael Wines

Some private citizens are hunting for potential cases of fraud tied to small-business loans. They have earned big payouts — in some cases, more than $1 million.

By Madeleine Ngo

Donald Trump has a record of pardoning favored companies from tariffs. Companies are once again lining up to try to influence him.

By Ana Swanson

Officials have linked 11 listeria cases since October 2021 to items from Yu Shang Food, which is recalling more than 72,000 pounds of products.

By John Yoon

Dr. Janette Nesheiwat is a medical director for a chain of urgent care clinics. Her sister served as an adviser in the first Trump administration.

By Joseph Goldstein

The housing agency plays a central role in addressing the growing national affordability crisis.

By Glenn Thrush