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Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, the Democratic vice-presidential nominee, has lamented the angry splits within families over politics. But he and his Republican brother rarely speak. On the campaign trail, [...]

The walls of the Fish Tales bait shop near the banks of Lake Winnebago in Wisconsin are lined with brightly colored bobs and lures. Big coolers hold leeches, butter worms [...]

The major-party vice-presidential candidates -- Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota and Senator JD Vance of Ohio -- are presenting dramatically different recollections of their small-town roots. In the western Nebraska [...]

Dionne Searcey traveled to Wymore, Neb., where she grew up, to learn about some residents' resistance to a new battery-powered bus. Times Insider explains who we are and what we […]

Rental car firms are offering temporary deals on electric cars, which they are selling after they lost value more quickly than expected. If you've been wanting to try an electric [...]

The matter before the school board was straightforward. The tiny school district in Wymore, Neb., needed a new school bus to replace one so old and beat-up that it was [...]

Most strategies in the U.S. for helping people stay cool are geared toward urban areas, leaving behind vulnerable rural populations. In Caribou, Maine, a town of 7,400, the splash pad [...]

Wet towels and body bags filled with ice water are being used to quickly cool victims, which is essential to saving lives. A heat wave is bearing down on large [...]

In overheated Phoenix, firefighters are carrying giant plastic, ice-filled bags to quickly cool people, a technique pioneered in the military and at sporting events. As America comes to grips with [...]

Local officials in Nevada, fearing that billions in federal support could dry up after Election Day, are in a ''mad dash'' to secure funds before November. For Brian Beffort, the [...]

Uzodinma Iweala, chief executive of the Harlem institution, will leave at the end of 2024 after guiding it through pandemic years and securing funds. After guiding The Africa Center through [...]

Department lawyers said in a brief that Enbridge, a Canadian company, ''lacks any legal right'' to operate its Line 5 pipeline on reservation territory. The Department of Justice has weighed [...]

An icy crust on the Straits of Mackinac is melting into slush atop a shimmering, narrow waterway prized for its beauty and its role in supporting the local economy. Snaking [...]

A handful of startups are trying to reinvent one of the most ubiquitous, but also environmentally destructive, ingredients in our diets: palm oil. Palm oil is in bread, instant noodles, [...]

Legislators there and in several other states want to restrict the manufacture or sale of meat made in a laboratory, even though it barely exists. The space industry disagrees. Lab [...]

Environmentalists and American meat producers alike are asking regulators to keep JBS, the world's biggest meatpacker, off the New York Stock Exchange. A giant Brazilian meatpacking company is facing persistent [...]

Frozen gas infrastructure was the main culprit in the disastrous power failures of 2021. After changes, the grid appears to be holding, with help from wind power. Texas has invested [...]

The state is courting high-tech investments, but a new industrial park may lack enough water. Opponents say piping it from miles away might dry out residential wells. When Indiana officials [...]

Carriers want to replace jet fuel with ethanol to fight global warming. That would require lots of corn, and lots of water. Vast stretches of America are dominated by corn, [...]

The Times asked all 50 states how they police the use of valuable groundwater. Their answers reveal why the country is draining and damaging its aquifers so rapidly. America's stewardship [...]

Rokhaya Diagne, a 25-year-old A.I. entrepreneur in Senegal, is part of a subset of Africa's enormous youth population that is confident technology can solve the continent's biggest problems. When she [...]

Mr. Wiley, famous for his portrait of former President Obama, is now showing paintings of 11 current and former African heads of state. ''This is not a celebration of individual [...]

When Minnesota farmers cranked up their powerful wells, they blew through state limits. Thirsty crops included corn, soybeans and perfect, fry-friendly potatoes. The drought that gripped Minnesota in the summer [...]

Hailed as a climate visionary, Gabon's president, Ali Bongo Ondimba, was once welcomed to Buckingham Palace but was blindsided by this week's coup. As the all-powerful ruler of oil-rich Gabon, [...]

After years of shifts, The Africa Center has the plans and space to grow. Can it raise the funds to carry out its ambitions? A recent panel on Africa's external [...]

Dan Gertler, an Israeli billionaire, is pressing President Biden to remove sanctions that were imposed on him for bribe-fueled transactions in the impoverished African country. WASHINGTON -- Five years ago, [...]

''An Archaeology of Silence'' opens in San Francisco, after a string of police killings of Black men. Along with powerful art, it offers a respite room to those needing a [...]

ELK CREEK, Neb. -- In this rural part of Nebraska, county-board agendas include moratoriums on solar farms and some residents scowl when they pass the handful of wind farms that [...]

The chef Roze Traore has spent years building a name for himself in New York, but for his new project, he's tapping his family ties to West Africa. The chef [...]

LOANGO NATIONAL PARK, Gabon -- Evening and the rainforest. A riverbank packed with elephants. Treetops so dense they obscure all but a chimpanzee's hairy arm. And, as the sun sets, [...]

Officials from Algeria to Mozambique say they hope to take advantage of an abrupt change in a long-unequal relationship. European leaders have been converging on Africa's capital cities, eager to [...]

As a major diamond producer, Russia earns billions of dollars that other nations say help finance war. The clash exposes the many loopholes in regulation of conflict diamonds. Russia's invasion [...]

Peatlands and rainforests in the Congo Basin protect the planet by storing carbon. Now, in a giant leap backward for the climate, they're being auctioned off for drilling. DAKAR, Senegal [...]

Every day late in the afternoon, women lugging bags of sticks on their back spill out of the brush onto a highway just south of the Equator. Men pass on [...]

To understand the perilous, often illegal logging industry in the Congo Basin, we needed to get out on the water ourselves. Times Insider explains who we are and what we [...]

A court has given the Congolese control of one of the world's largest sources of cobalt while allegations against the mine's Chinese owners are investigated. A court in the Democratic [...]

KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo -- The lobby of the Fleuve Congo Hotel was a swirl of double-breasted suits and tailored dresses one April morning. Shiny gold watches dangled from [...]

The country's president removed Albert Yuma Mulimbi as chairman of the state mining firm. Cobalt in Congo is a crucial resource in the global clean energy revolution. The chairman of [...]

KASULO, Democratic Republic of Congo -- A man in a pinstripe suit with a red pocket square walked around the edge of a giant pit one April afternoon where hundreds [...]

WASHINGTON -- Tom Perriello saw it coming but could do nothing to stop it. André Kapanga too. Despite urgent emails, phone calls and personal pleas, they watched helplessly as a [...]

The president's son was part owner of a venture involved in the $3.8 billion purchase by a Chinese conglomerate of one of the world's largest cobalt deposits. The metal is [...]

KISANFU, Democratic Republic of Congo -- Just up a red dirt road, across an expanse of tall, dew-soaked weeds, bulldozers are hollowing out a yawning new canyon that is central [...]

In Kinshasa, art is everywhere. Hilary Balu finds his focus uncovering the West's powerful influences on African life. KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo -- When the painter Hilary Balu was [...]

RAWLINS, Wyo. -- The coal layered underground helped bring settlers to this scrubby, wind-whipped part of southern Wyoming, where generations found a steady paycheck in the mines and took pride [...]

RAWLINS, Wyo. -- The coal layered underground helped bring settlers to this scrubby, wind-whipped part of southern Wyoming, where generations found a steady paycheck in the mines and took pride [...]

The state's widespread electricity failure was largely caused by freezing natural gas pipelines. That didn't stop advocates for fossil fuels from trying to shift blame. As his state was racked [...]

Members of the global group share the painter's passion for using art to explore social change. A Congolese painter whose art reflects how globalization and consumerism have transformed African society. [...]

His supporters see his second impeachment, a historic first, as the culmination of years of unfair treatment. The belief's ubiquity shows the resilience of his message and the power of [...]

Sworn In Bible Has Been in Biden's Family Since 1893 When President Biden took the oath of office on Wednesday, he placed his hand on a familial artifact that has [...]

The nation's capital has been secured with checkpoints, tens of thousands of National Guard troops and miles of fencing and barricades, security at the cost of normalcy. WASHINGTON -- Chuck [...]