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Federal prosecutors say Representative Henry Cuellar tried to shape policy for Azerbaijan in exchange for bribes. The country has spent millions in the past decade lobbying Washington.

A zebra named Sugar was captured on Friday after being on the loose in Washington State for nearly a week.

Senior advisers to the former president highlighted the numbers at an R.N.C. event in Florida and said they are looking to expand the electoral map.

Several rivers north of Houston were forecast to reach or exceed their floods of record, the authorities said. Evacuation orders were in place for some areas.

The comedian, long beloved for his apolitical riffs, has been wrestling with what it means to be Jewish amid the Israel-Hamas war. Not everyone is pleased.

Photos of the Kentucky Derby, which is marking its 150th running.

The protests against Israel’s war in Gaza are merely the latest in a tradition of student-led, left-leaning activism dating back at least to the civil rights and anti-Vietnam War protests of the 1960s.

Ohio State, Indiana University and Northeastern also have commencement ceremonies, all happening on the heels of clashes between protesters and the police.

Conservative state governments are forbidding school districts from doing what the Department of Education says they must, under new Title IX regulations on students’ gender identity.

Democrats call Donald J. Trump dangerous. Republicans see him as revolutionary. For young Trump voters, he is just normal.

President Biden says lowering the cost of insulin for seniors is among his proudest domestic policy achievements. He now faces the challenge of selling it to Americans of all ages.

Muenster, Texas, has hosted a German-heritage festival for nearly 50 years. But then some locals rebelled.

Illinois is the center of the cicada emergence that is on the way. Two groups of cicadas are expected at once, leaving some people queasy, others thrilled.

After President Nemat Shafik called the police to arrest protesters on campus earlier this week, she asked the school community to “show empathy and compassion for one another.”

The president’s allies say the Justice Department’s chill take on marijuana has a political upside.

An American official said the United States had information undermining Russia’s claim that a device it is developing is for peaceful scientific research.

The New York Times used videos filmed by journalists, witnesses and protesters to analyze hours of clashes — and a delayed police response — at a pro-Palestinian encampment on Tuesday.

The president of the University of Chicago said on Friday that the pro-Palestinian encampment on his campus’s quad “cannot continue,” a position that was being closely watched in higher education because the university has long held itself up as a national model for free expression.

Republicans are attempting to seize an opportunity to gain votes within swing states from Hispanic evangelicals, who find more common ground socially and spiritually with the party.

“I’m sure he underestimated me,” Ms. Noem writes of the North Korean leader in her forthcoming book. A spokesman said the error would be corrected.

A video showing Annelise Orleck, 65, being taken to the ground intensified criticism of the decision by the college’s president to call in officers.

The university said it would hold a celebration at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. More than 100 school-specific graduations and smaller receptions will also take place with tighter security.

State lawmakers failed to reach a compromise, dashing hopes of extending largely free health care to most low-income residents and supporting struggling rural hospitals.

The political arms of five organizations are coordinating their efforts to mobilize Hispanic Democrats, saying that defeating the former president is their top goal.

A dedicated cruciverbalist, she won the first American Crossword Puzzle Tournament in 1978. She went on to test and proofread puzzles for The New York Times.

Mr. Cuellar and his wife are accused of accepting bribes from a bank in Mexico City and an oil and gas company owned by Azerbaijan. He has maintained they are innocent.

Several counties were under flood warnings in the Houston area and other parts of Southeast Texas on Friday.

The university is home to the Chicago statement, a framework for free expression that has been embraced by other colleges.

Members of the upper chamber are regularly holding votes on amendments that, by design, have no chance whatsoever of passage.

Backlash over the deal has echoes of the 1980s when Nippon Steel tried and failed to buy another American metal company.

Protesters had been camped out for days, demanding that their schools end financial ties with Israel.

Both states are reliably Republican and have abortion bans that are among the strictest in the nation.

Since pulling out of an arms-limitation agreement with Russia in 2019, the U.S. has quickly developed new weapons that could be used to stop a Chinese invasion force.

As U.S.C. and U.C.L.A. pick up the pieces, the two universities present dueling case studies in crisis management.

Six months before the election, the president selected a list of awardees heavy with political allies like Nancy Pelosi, James E. Clyburn and John F. Kerry.

Thousands of immigrants in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program could obtain federal health coverage this year under a new rule.

With tensions escalating and Republicans pouncing, President Biden finally weighed in and sought to increase the distance between himself and some of the more radical activism on colleges.

The first big pro-Israel counter demonstration was on Sunday in Los Angeles, home to large Israeli and Jewish populations. More are planned in the coming days.

President Biden and Ukraine’s allies have invoked a sense of urgency over weapon deliveries. But there are logistical hurdles, and Ukraine has little time to lose.