Julian E. Barnes

As vice president, Kamala Harris often tried to use government to target racism and sexism.

Thousands of soldiers from an elite unit of the Korean People’s Army began arriving on Wednesday and are expected to try to help expel Ukrainian forces from Russian territory.

The video, which purported to show mailed-in ballots in Pennsylvania being ripped up, was part of Moscow’s efforts to influence the U.S. presidential election, the officials said.

The former first lady will join Kamala Harris at a rally in Kalamazoo, Mich., as Donald J. Trump campaigns in a Detroit suburb.

Paging through intelligence reports just weeks after she was sworn in as vice president, Kamala Harris was struck by the way two female foreign leaders were described.

TEL AVIV — The Israeli military widened its campaign against the militant group Hezbollah on Wednesday, launching airstrikes around the eastern Lebanese city of Baalbek and forcing large numbers of people to flee.

William Burns, the C.I.A. director, is making a last-ditch attempt to move Gaza talks along before U.S. elections next week.

Top Biden administration negotiators visited the Middle East on Thursday for a last diplomatic drive before the US election, though hopes were not high for quick agreements to pause the fighting.

Two recent videos have sought to undermine confidence in the security of the vote.

U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded that Russia is behind two new fabricated videos that appeared on social media this week falsely claiming