Yellen Rebukes Chinese Lending Practices in Call for Debt Relief In an interview, the Treasury secretary also highlighted progress at the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund ahead of annual meetings this week.

Two Theories for Why the Polls Failed in 2020, and What It Means for 2024 To make polling better, you have to figure out what went wrong in the first place.

David Halbfinger on Overseeing The New York Times’s Politics Team That the election cycle has been turbulent may be the understatement of the century. And David Halbfinger is overseeing coverage of every twist and turn through Election Day and its aftermath.

With Election Day 2 Weeks Away, 15 Million Voters Have Already Cast a Ballot Since the pandemic, early voting has become a broadly accepted part of American elections. But it is difficult to glean partisan advantage.

Trump Courts Christian Voters, Days After Vulgar Remarks at a Rally In a nearly hourlong speech before a crowd that included evangelical leaders, he claimed that only he could protect Christian voters. He did not mention abortion once.

In Trump Ad, ‘Not a Thing That Comes to Mind’ Ties Harris to Biden’s Liabilities Kamala Harris’s hesitancy to put daylight between her and President Biden gave Donald Trump’s campaign a big opening.

Republican Official in Arizona Pleads Guilty in Election Certification Case Peggy Judd, a county supervisor in Cochise County, a hotbed of election conspiracy theories, had tried to delay certifying the 2022 election results.

Where Harris and Trump Stand on Abortion In the first presidential election since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald J. Trump bring sharply different records on abortion. Maggie Astor, a political reporter for The New York Times, describes where the candidates stand on the issue.

Trump Says He Has Seen No Evidence of Cheating in the Election, but Nonetheless Sows Doubts The former president, asked at a news conference in storm-damaged North Carolina if he had seen anything to suggest the election would be unfair, said, “I have not seen that.”

A Writer Sees Leniency in the Supreme Court’s Approach to Public Corruption A Georgetown law professor argues that five rulings by the justices in recent years have allowed behavior that is “sketchy as hell” and meant to make the judiciary look good by contrast.

State of the Race: A Slight Shift Toward Trump but Still No Clear Favorite The polls are not precise enough for a 0.2-point edge to convey meaningful information.

House Report on Trump Rally Shooting Chastises the Secret Service A House task force report included detailed accounts from law enforcement at the Butler, Pa., rally, including an officer who confronted the gunman.

Trump Defends Falsehoods About Haitian Immigrants and Jan. 6 on Fox News In an interview that aired Sunday, Donald Trump defended his recent falsehoods about immigrants and the Capitol riot by claiming, implausibly, that he did not know or had “not heard” the truth.

Why Hasn’t the 9/11 Trial Started? A new court, a death penalty case and even the weather have contributed to the go-slow process at Guantánamo Bay.

Biden to Propose That Insurers Cover Over-the-Counter Birth Control The new rules under the Affordable Care Act would include emergency contraception, a newly approved nonprescription birth control pill, spermicides and condoms.

Inside the Last-Ditch Hunt by Harris and Trump for Undecided Voters Both campaigns are digging through troves of data to find these crucial Americans. They both think many are younger, Black or Latino. The Harris team is also eyeing white, college-educated women.

Racked by Pain, One Man Turns To a Far-Right Platform And a Right-Wing Miracle Cure With Patriot Party News, Michael Chesebro found a sense of community, and a place where conspiracy theories could become real in the form of the “medbed.”

Democratic Meme Makers Rejoice During Kamala Harris’s Campaign After a few sluggish years under President Biden, liberal social media creators are seeing their messages resonate as Kamala Harris campaigns for the White House.

The Lesser-Known Side of Harris’s Identity: Asian American Some Asian American leaders are rooting for Kamala Harris to become the first Asian American president. But she is not widely known as Asian American, reflecting the complexity of the identity.

A Comedy Critic Weighs In on Kamala Harris’s Laugh The Trump campaign sees Harris’s laugh as a vulnerability to exploit. But far from a liability, it is one of her most effective weapons.