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Eight years ago, the United States and Russia agreed to a spy swap that sent a Russian double agent to safety in Britain. That former spy...

As hundreds of thousand of demonstrators prepared to march in Washington in response to the school shooting in Parkland, Fla., students on...

For decades, Americans have believed that the best way to end racial inequality is to end class inequality. But a landmark 30-year study is...

Five days after details about Cambridge Analytica’s mining of data were made public, Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Facebook,...

A young Canadian data expert came up with a plan to harvest people’s personal data from Facebook, and to use that information to influence...

President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, facing no real challenger, has been elected to a fourth term, drawing support from more than...

President Trump called the firing of Andrew G. McCabe, the deputy F.B.I. director, a “great day for democracy.” Mr. McCabe says it’s...

Ida B. Wells was an investigative reporter who exposed the systematic lynching of black men in the South. Her work made her the most famous...

Florida is a great state to be a gun owner. For years, it has been a laboratory of sorts for the National Rifle Association — it’s the...

Rex Tillerson’s relationship with President Trump was rocky from the start. But no one was more surprised than Mr. Tillerson when he was...