Congratulations on surviving another week in American politics. We would reassure you that next week will be calmer, but we’re not allowed to lie. Here’s a look at what happened in the 2020 presidential race this week. Buttigieg named his McKinsey clients On Tuesday, Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Ind., released the names of […]Read More

The artist shares his thoughts on five recent works that incorporate African art objects and explore representations of the black body. Dec. 14, 2019 Please sign up here to have the Race/Related newsletter delivered weekly to your inbox. The work of the Brooklyn-based artist and photographer John Edmonds has been noted for its striking formalism […]Read More

It was acute lymphoblastic leukemia. “What are you talking about?” she remembers telling the physician. Ms. Toleubay wanted to go home, but doctors told her she was too sick to travel. Her mother, who lost her job last year after a serious car crash, sold several of the family’s assets, including a car and an […]Read More

Mayor Svante Myrick of Ithaca, N.Y., a city of about 31,000 that won a $100,000 Bloomberg grant for a supervised injection facility, said Mr. Bloomberg’s campaign had swiftly reached out after he entered the race to seek support. Mr. Myrick, who has not endorsed a candidate, said it had not occurred to him to weigh […]Read More

Gov. Gavin Newsom of California said on Friday that Pacific Gas & Electric’s restructuring plan did not comply with a state law, throwing up a new hurdle to the company’s effort to resolve its bankruptcy. The move was not surprising given that Mr. Newsom, a Democrat, has criticized PG&E for starting devastating wildfires, not moving […]Read More

A police officer in Florida was charged Friday with violating the civil rights of two women, one of them a minor, in separate episodes in 2015 that federal prosecutors said involved kidnapping, sexual abuse and threats of physical harm. F.B.I. agents arrested the officer, Jesus Manuel Menocal Jr., 32, a police sergeant in Hialeah, Fla., […]Read More

WASHINGTON — With the House headed to a vote to impeach President Trump next week, Senator Mitch McConnell was working hand in hand with the White House to make plans for a Senate trial, a proceeding steeped in tradition and rules but one fraught with political peril for vulnerable Republicans. Mr. Trump said on Friday […]Read More

This is the Impeachment Briefing, The Times’s newsletter about the impeachment investigation. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every weeknight. What happened today In back-to-back votes Friday morning that took less than 10 minutes, the House Judiciary Committee approved two impeachment articles against President Trump, moving him one step closer to a […]Read More

WASHINGTON — It was the rarest of moments in the nation’s capital, a seemingly sincere attempt at persuasion across the partisan breach by the Democratic chairman of the House Judiciary Committee on the eve of the panel’s vote to impeach President Trump. “I know this moment must be difficult, but you still have a choice,” […]Read More

Three years ago, fewer than 23,000 votes handed Donald J. Trump a crucial victory in Wisconsin, a state that many had assumed would again be won by the Democratic candidate. The takeaway for 2020 in a state that was now seen as a key prize: Every last vote would matter. On Friday, far more Wisconsin […]Read More