New York Times

Most elements of the state visit, largely planned by the East Wing, are meant to symbolically honor the relationship between the United States and France.

The 2012 G.O.P. presidential nominee, running for an open Senate seat, faced conservatives who disliked his ideological swerving, and a fear among hard-right activists that they were losing power.

South Koreans still don’t know what to make of Kim Jong-un as the North Korean leader prepares to meet with the South’s president, Moon Jae-in.

As he arrives for the first state visit of Mr. Trump’s administration, Mr. Macron, the French president, hopes to persuade the American leader not to scrap the agreement with Tehran.

Senegal deported two former Guantánamo detainees to Libya, raising fears of a broader collapse of Obama-era resettlement deals under President Trump.

Minutes before a committee vote, Senator Rand Paul, Republican of Kentucky, bowed to pressure and backed the confirmation of Mike Pompeo to be secretary of state.

A special election in Arizona was spurred by a sex scandal, and polls show that this Republican stronghold has a chance at being won by a Democrat.

Mr. Bush was “responding to treatments and appears to be recovering,” his spokesman said.

New rules don’t explicitly exclude teaching about contraception and protected sex, but favor “sexual risk avoidance” and don’t require as rigorous evidence of efficacy.

National Democrats were shocked in 2016 when a Republican presidential nominee carried Wisconsin for the first time since 1984. Now both parties see a key Senate race as a crucial test before 2020.

As Melania Trump oversees preparations to welcome President Emmanuel Macron of France, her advice to her staff before the high-profile event is not to worry.

The proposal comes a year after Gov. Andrew Cuomo blocked a 5-cent city surcharge on the bags and as he has tacked left since Cynthia Nixon began a primary challenge.

After an argument on the independence of executive branch officials, Mr. Rosenstein made his Supreme Court debut in a separate sentencing case.

The meeting of the two leaders exemplifies a world less constrained by the guardrails of international norms, in which virtually anything can happen.

A young soldier whose genitals were destroyed underwent extensive reconstructive surgery that doctors hope to offer to others who were wounded at war.

President Trump, in defending his actions before a planned summit meeting, incorrectly claimed that North Korea had “agreed to denuclearization.”