The grainy image, which shows three people in dark hoods and white masks, looks like something out of a horror movie. Detectives in Denver, who released the picture on Tuesday, hope it will lead them to the people who set fire to a house this month, killing five members of …...Read More

In 1952, she attended her first convention, in Chicago, as a member of the Democratic youth leadership from California. The following year, as a 22-year-old senior at the University of Southern California, she ran for a seat on the Los Angeles City Council. With friends, she went door to door …...Read More

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Wednesday suspended or terminated three bilateral agreements with Hong Kong related to extradition and tax exemptions, the latest in a series of measures that escalate tensions between Washington and Beijing. The move comes after President Trump signed an executive order last month ending the …...Read More

The Senate Intelligence Committee, after its own three-year investigation that maintained a broader counterintelligence focus, built on those findings this week with a bipartisan report laying out an extensive web of contacts between Trump campaign advisers and Russian officials. Among them, it said Konstantin V. Kilimnik, with whom the onetime …...Read More

Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Kamala Harris sought to appeal to Black, Latino and Asian-American voters on Wednesday, taking a swing through three virtual caucus meetings held during a socially distant Democratic convention. In pre-recorded remarks to the D.N.C.’s Hispanic Caucus, Mr. Biden echoed several speakers in asserting that Latinos …...Read More

Aaron Coleman admitted that he harassed girls online when he was in middle school. He called one sixth-grade girl fat and told her she should kill herself. Seven years ago, he told another girl, who was 13 at the time, that he would circulate a naked photo of her if …...Read More

The Trump campaign kicked off its convention response with a flashy ad buy placed at the top of YouTube’s home page for a 96-hour stretch, seeking to bracket the virtual Democratic National Convention on the most popular video platform on the internet. It also bought a lot of eyes. Since …...Read More

The television audience for the Democratic National Convention held steady on Tuesday with about 19.2 million people tuning in live for the second night, down only slightly from Monday’s opener, according to Nielsen. Those numbers will be reassuring to the Democrats producing a highly unusual televised spectacle without the customary …...Read More

In his speech on Wednesday night, Mr. Obama offered validation for Mr. Biden, portraying him as “a brother” to him and “a man who learned early on to treat every person he meets with respect and dignity.” And in praising Mr. Biden’s record, Mr. Obama managed to frame his own …...Read More

When Geraldine Ferraro was picked to run on Walter Mondale’s presidential ticket, in 1984, the media did not know quite what to do with her. The political press experienced a female vice-presidential candidate as a kind of processing error. Journalists expressed suspicion of Ms. Ferraro’s use of her maiden name …...Read More