Jim Sanborn is auctioning off the solution to Kryptos, the puzzle he sculpted for the intelligence agency’s headquarters. Two fans of the work then discovered the key.

President Trump has said he wants to eventually shift the burden of disaster relief and recovery onto states. It’s already happening.

When President Javier Milei of Argentina faced an economic meltdown, President Trump vowed to come to his aid. But that lifeline is coming at a cost.

The best safeguard against tyranny is a legion of people who believe in an authority higher than any political program.

A video this week captured Hamas fighters in Gaza executing Palestinian rivals as the militant group tries to assert that it is still the dominant force in the territory after two years of war with Israel.

The remote village of Kipnuk planned to use the money to protect against flooding. On Sunday, it was inundated.

Democrats would be in danger of losing around a dozen majority-minority districts across the South if the court struck down part of the Voting Rights Act.

Immigration agents are using aggressive tactics. Residents of the sanctuary city are trying to resist them.

Residents have begun forming volunteer groups to monitor their neighborhoods for federal immigration agents. Others honk their horns or blow whistles when they see agents nearby.

Beijing’s latest effort to weaponize global supply chains is modeled on the American technology controls that it has long criticized.

As Syria’s regime collapsed, the world’s eyes were on Bashar al-Assad’s getaway flight. Behind him, officials key to his brutal rule made a mass exodus, virtually undetected.

Brown was the second university to turn down the deal, which would have given a funding preference to universities that agreed to certain requirements.

Some local G.O.P. officials who participated in the text exchanges are losing their jobs or being pressured to resign. But top Republicans have been dismissive.