During a heated Senate hearing, Gen. Mark Milley also defended his actions in the final months of the Trump administration.

During a heated Senate hearing, Gen. Mark Milley also defended his actions in the final months of the Trump administration.

Often-cited examples of redlining and police shootings don’t tell such a simple story.

Though many hospital and nursing home employees remain unvaccinated, officials say worst-case staffing shortages seem less likely.

Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day.

Tuesday’s appearance by Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III, Gen. Mark A. Milley and Gen. Kenneth F. McKenzie, Jr. was the start of back-to-back Senate and House hearings.

The property giant’s success mirrored the country’s transformation from an agrarian economy to one that embraced capitalism. Its struggles offer a glimpse of a new financial future.

Kasim Reed, the former mayor whose administration was marked by corruption scandals, is running for another term, promising to restore public safety.

Pfizer and BioNTech said the data they submitted to the F.D.A. on their coronavirus vaccine was favorable. Here’s the latest on Covid-19.

Republicans have learned that sabotage works.

The entertainment industry is still grappling with the digital future.

They doubled down on a promise to oppose the infrastructure bill until Congress acts on a far more expansive domestic policy package.

They doubled down on a promise to oppose the infrastructure bill until Congress acts on a far more expansive domestic policy package.

Critics of the Justice Department deal to free Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou say it could blunt tools like sanctions and prosecutions.

Critics of the Justice Department deal to free Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou say it could blunt tools like sanctions and prosecutions.

This is the draft text of the continuing resolution intended to forestall a government shutdown.

Other Democrats fretted about diversity at the Federal Reserve as Chair Jerome H. Powell testified ahead of an imminent personnel shake-up.

Critics of the Justice Department deal to free Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou say it could blunt tools like sanctions and prosecutions.

When one party in our two-party system goes completely rogue, it falls on the other party to protect democracy.

The two moderate Democrats continue to frustrate members of their party, offering few specifics on what they would support in a broad spending bill.

Unlinking the two issues will help the majority party prevent a government funding lapse this week. But Democratic leaders are still scrambling for a plan to head off a U.S. debt default.

Navient is the second major federal student loan servicer to ask to get out of the business. FedLoan said in July that it wanted out.

Testifying to a Senate panel, Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said top Trump officials knew about calls he made to China last year.

The former press secretary is reflective in her tell-all: “I should have spoken up more.”

The former press secretary is reflective in her tell-all: “I should have spoken up more.”

The New York Times’s media columnist, Ben Smith, reported that Ozy’s chief operating officer had apparently impersonated a YouTube executive during a conference call with Goldman Sachs bankers.

The Lionel Messi goal that completed a Champions League win over Manchester City offered a flash of his past, and a glimpse of his new club’s future.

The project has been bogged down by legal challenges and a federal review. Barack Obama’s presidential papers won’t actually be housed there — they’ll be digitized, another point of contention.

The companies said that their vaccine was safe and effective in that age group, and that they would submit a formal request in the coming weeks to U.S. regulators to allow a pediatric dose.

The Democratic senator heads back as Congress continues to seek a solution for keeping the government open and raising the debt limit.