Other mistakes might have led grid managers to believe more plants were affected than was the case. The Geysers geothermal power plant, about 72 miles north of San Francisco, was listed as operating at less than its usual capacity, but its owner, Calpine, said on Thursday that it had in …...Read More

Olivia Pope and Selina Meyer are used to finding themselves on the political stage. Gaby Solis and Rainbow Johnson not so much. Yet this week, all four — or at least, the actresses who have played them — presided over the Democratic Party’s biggest political event of the year. Celebrities …...Read More

Late last month, as the Texas Republican Party was shifting into campaign mode, it unveiled a new slogan, lifting a rallying cry straight from a once-unthinkable source: the internet-driven conspiracy theory known as QAnon. The new catchphrase, “We Are the Storm,” is an unsubtle cue to a group that the …...Read More

MSNBC has dominated ratings for this year’s Democratic National Convention, and its streak continued on Wednesday as it attracted 6.3 million viewers for a starry night that featured speeches by Senator Kamala Harris and former President Barack Obama. The evening marked the biggest live TV audience yet for the convention, …...Read More

President Trump, speaking in Pennsylvania on Thursday afternoon, made a litany of accusations against the Democratic nominee, Joseph R. Biden Jr., and his running mate, Senator Kamala Harris of California. Mr. Trump said that Ms. Harris, during her time as San Francisco’s district attorney, “put a drug-dealing illegal alien into …...Read More

The Food and Drug Administration is investigating bagged peaches as a likely source of a salmonella outbreak that has sickened 68 people across nine states, 14 of whom were hospitalized. The peaches were packaged by Wawona Packing Company and sold in two-pound, clear plastic bags starting June 1. Aldi, the …...Read More

Mr. Carlson devised the supermax system after the infamous murders of two corrections officers by two different inmates in the same prison on the same day in 1983. The killers were members of the Aryan Brotherhood, a white supremacist organization based in prisons. “No event caused him more personal anguish …...Read More

On a call with reporters held before the visit, senior administration officials stressed that there were no “no hard and fast timelines, and there are no hard and fast numbers” on when any reduction of troops would happen, but U.S. commanders have already pulled back hundreds of troops from several …...Read More

Orit Sulitzeanu, director of the Association of Rape Crisis Centers in Israel, said the number of attackers was horrifying but beside the point. “It’s a bigger issue,” she said. “Gang rape is just a manifestation of something very bad going on here,” calling it part of a “rotten culture.” The …...Read More

OAKLAND, Calif. — Uber and Lyft threatened to suspend ride-hailing services throughout California on Thursday night, a defiant reaction to a judge who ordered the companies to reclassify their drivers as employees. The ride-hailing blackout, which might begin at midnight Pacific Standard Time, could drag on for weeks, as Uber …...Read More