Protesters stood outside The Plaza hotel in Manhattan on Friday, where Republican presidential candidate Donald J. Trump was attending an event.
In interviews, even Americans who deplore Donald J. Trump’s call to ban Muslim immigrants are more fearful after the rampage in California.
This week’s highlights in photographs from Washington and the presidential campaign trail.
Ted Cruz suggests that Donald J. Trump is unwittingly bending the race toward Mr. Cruz, and this may partly explain Mr. Cruz’s deference to Mr. Trump.
An analysis of how top-tier Republicans seeking the White House spent November reveals that a strenuous itinerary does not necessarily translate to robust poll numbers.
The November itineraries for Republican presidential candidates reflect robust travel schedules that reveal campaign strategy.
After Prince Alwaleed bin Talal of Saudi Arabia called Donald J. Trump a “disgrace,” the candidate responded in true form with his own insult.
In a renewed effort to attract younger women to her campaign, Hillary Clinton is now more intent on trying to forge common cause on specific issues, and less on merely shattering the glass ceiling.
Representative Matsui, Democrat of California, questioned recent statements, including one by Donald J. Trump, supporting President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s program of interning Japanese-Americans.
The court will decide whether state efforts to compel breath, blood or urine tests for motorists suspected of drunken driving violate the Fourth Amendment.
Donald J. Trump’s dominance in the polls combined with a cluster of second-place candidates looking to topple him has Republicans thinking their convention next summer could be a nerve-racking get-together reminiscent of 1976.
Protesters angry at Donald J. Trump’s call to ban Muslims from entering the United States disrupted his appearance Friday in midtown Manhattan, and security officers forcibly ejected several of the demonstrators.
The Democratic National Committee has revoked the sponsorship of WMUR, New Hampshire’s most influential television station, of the next debate due to a labor dispute involving the station.
With negotiators certain to blow a midnight deadline Friday, the House approved a stopgap measure to forestall a government shutdown, allowing five more days for a larger deal.
After Ted Cruz told a private gathering of donors that Donald J. Trump’s campaign was destined to collapse, and the comments went public, the billionaire developer dared the Texas senator to challenge him out in the open.
As he has done multiple times in this campaign, Donald J. Trump has shown that the criticism and controversy that chase his often inflammatory statements, do not follow him into the polls.
Despite a push from a broad right-left coalition and though he seemed open to the idea, Senator McConnell says he has not determined whether he will bring a bipartisan criminal justice overhaul to the Senate floor next year, legislation that could present a sticky election-year vote for some Republicans.
The annual Commonwealth Club luncheon is usually a festive affair and a lucrative fundraiser. But this year the lavish event has been overshadowed by controversy. Its keynote speaker is Mr. Trump.
Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey has more than doubled his support in New Hampshire to take second place in the state, according to a WBUR poll released on Friday that shows his persistence there starting to pay off. But Donald J. Trump remains firmly in the lead.
“It would be unacceptable and even un-American for me to not speak up and fight back,” said Representative André Carson of Donald J. Trump’s call to bar members of his faith from entering the United States.
The bipartisan legislation, which is expected to pass, falls short of critics’ demands for stronger measures against suspected currency manipulation by other countries.
After months of cajoling by senators from two oil-producing states, Congress seems to be on the verge of lifting the ban as part of a giant year-end spending and tax deal.
The bipartisan measure, which Mr. Obama hailed as “a Christmas miracle,” shrinks the federal role in education and returns power to states and local districts.
Mrs. Clinton tones down her approach to the leading G.O.P. contender as her party is forced to consider the roots of his appeal to many.
Americans are deeply fearful of another terrorist attack, lifting Donald J. Trump to a new high among likely Republican primary voters, the poll found.
The poll is based on telephone interviews conducted Dec. 4 through 8 with 1,275 adults throughout the United States.
While studying Mr. Romney months ago, the Bush team tried to learn from his mistakes, according to aides, since the men share many similarities.
The bases would serve as hubs for Special Operations troops and intelligence agents who would conduct counterterrorism missions for the foreseeable future.
Since 2008, the mortgage giants have been held to far more punishing standards than the big banks, opening the door to an attempted Wall Street takeover.
Donald Trump, the candidate, may or may not last. But the ideas he’s bringing into national circulation are sure to linger.
The government has spent billions of dollars on airport safety but little to protect trains or rail stations, not to mention buses or bus depots.
The announcement by the country’s central bank was likely to rock global financial markets.
More than seven in 10 residents surveyed want their new governor, who is an opponent of the Affordable Care Act, to keep the state’s Medicaid program as it is.
The party’s unyielding approach in treating the climate talks as a waste of time has even sympathizers shaking their heads.
Financial worries and fears about terrorism and immigration are contributing to a rise in right-wing politicians in Europe similar to Donald J. Trump.
Mr. Hadley, a journalist and author, learned about the armed forces firsthand as a veteran of World War II and as a consultant to the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy of Connecticut said on Thursday that he intended to sign an executive order to bar people on federal terrorism watch lists from buying firearms in the state.
Mr. Ali called on political leaders to foster understanding about his faith after Donald Trump’s call to bar foreign Muslims from entering the United States.
The latest news from the campaign trail.
All sides agree that action is essential by early next year or the issue will get ensnared in presidential politics.
Bernie Sanders, Paul Ryan, the White House and more in photos.
The holiday through the years with presidents, their families, carving knives and turkeys (some survived).
More than a dozen Republicans and a handful of Democrats have announced they are running for their party’s 2016 presidential nomination.
The New York Times will be checking assertions made throughout the 2016 presidential campaign.
An analysis of 95,000 words Mr. Trump said in public in the past week reveals powerful patterns in his speech which, historians say, echo the appeals of demagogues of the past century.
All of the Democratic candidates want new gun laws, while nearly all Republicans are against additional restrictions they see as harmful to Second Amendment rights.
Just 158 families have provided nearly half of the early money for efforts to capture the White House.
The super-affluent throw tens of millions of dollars into candidate and “super PAC” coffers, seeking to influence the 2016 presidential race.
Unprecedented political spending helped elect a fresh-faced financier. But his ideological vision has unsettled many in the state.
Something surprising happens when Bernie Sanders starts speaking at his presidential campaign rallies. He gets right down to business, delivering a searing indictment of American politics, with crusty, to-the-barricades exhortations.
The three leading Democratic presidential candidates overlap significantly in their positions on key issues, each pushing a liberal agenda by different degrees.
We collected some of the most interesting moments here.
Many residents of Burlington, Vt., can mimic Mr. Sanders, a politician since his successful run for the city’s mayor in 1981, complete with the thick Brooklyn accent.
The Times analyzed key moments live from Hillary Rodham Clinton’s testimony on Thursday to a House committee investigating the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya.
The contenders for the Republican presidential nomination have proposed numerous tax overhauls and have largely voiced opposition to raising the minimum wage. They are split on how to deal with Social Security and Medicare.
The Republican presidential candidates faced off for the third time on Oct. 28, 2015, in Boulder, Colo. We collected some of the most interesting moments here.
Though running for senator from New York required Hillary Rodham Clinton to reluctantly let down her guard, she gradually became an adept campaigner.
An attack by the future presidential candidate while seeking office in Morris County showed his tactics early. There was just one problem: It was inaccurate.
During his 2010 race for the Senate, Mr. Paul appealed to Kentuckians who believed in shutting down the government to advance their goals.
With the same message, the same style, the same themes and the same aides, Mr. Cruz’s presidential campaign is essentially an extension of his 2012 Senate race.
The candidates clashed sharply over immigration and other policies in Milwaukee on Tuesday.
We checked the accuracy of candidates’ remarks in the Republican debate in Milwaukee.
Presidential candidates from both parties are seizing on growing national ambivalence about capital punishment after an era in which Democrats strove to seem tough on crime.
We checked the accuracy of candidates’ remarks live in the Democratic debate in Des Moines.
The campaign shifted focus to national security after the Paris attacks.
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The senator leads the presidential field in offering ill-informed prescriptions for a grave foreign threat.
Canada’s expedited program to admit Syrian refugees is an example other prosperous nations should follow.
History suggests that each party’s eventual nominee will emerge from 2015 in one of the top two or three positions, as measured by endorsements, fund-raising and polling.
See how the latest fund-raising numbers from the campaigns and outside groups stack up.
More than 30 individuals or corporations have given $1 million or more, based on the super PACs that have filed so far.
The Republican party has 16 major presidential candidates this cycle — three times the number of Democrats and more than any other field in recent history.
How the teams behind some likely and announced 2016 candidates are connected to previous campaigns, administrations and organizations.
The 2016 calendar is still fluid, with primary and caucus dates uncertain in more than a dozen states. Both parties are requiring all states but four to wait until March to hold their nominating contests or face delegate penalties.
There are already a lot of polls out there. Here’s some advice on sorting out the news from the noise.
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