The president seeks to confront threats to American institutions, but Americans are deeply divided on who is imperiling them.

Parties’ Divergent Realities Challenge Biden’s Defense of Democracy

“It’s been the most incredible ride and journey I’ve ever been on in my life,” Williams, wiping tears, said on court after the match.

Serena Williams, Moving Toward Retirement, Ends Her Magical Run at the U.S. Open

A little over a year after the Champlain Towers South fell, the Surfside condo victims’ families are about to be compensated for their losses.

Lawsuits Over Tragedies Can Drag On. Not in the Florida Condo Collapse.

Instead of making higher education free, we subsidize it later through repayment plans and attempts at debt cancellation. The complexity is disrespectful.

Why Aren’t Student Loans Simple? Because This Is America.

Businesses have fewer protections than residential users against higher electricity and gas costs, and industry groups warn of widespread closings this winter.

Britain’s Pubs Are Threatened by ‘Alarming’ Rise in Energy Bills

The New York Police Department let a suspect in a Brooklyn rape case slip through its grasp. A month later he was arrested in connection with the murder of a nurse in Queens.

‘That Nurse Should Be Alive’: How Police Delays Left a Suspect at Large

A technology enabling the transmission of fake locations to carry out murky or even illegal business operations could have profound implications for the enforcement of international law.

How Fake GPS Coordinates Are Leading to Lawlessness on the High Seas

These new efforts, which test the legal boundaries, have sprung up since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and many states restricted abortion.

Abortion Pill Providers Experiment With Ways to Broaden Access

The campaign arm of Senate Republicans had collected $181.5 million by the end of July — but spent 95 percent of it. A big investment in digital, and hyperaggressive tactics, have not paid off.

How a Record Cash Haul Vanished for Senate Republicans

Timothy McGurr captures intimate moments with big stars.

A Photographer Who Tours with Beyoncé and Lewis Hamilton

Asad Syrkett stays close to his Brooklyn home, doing Pilates, seeing friends, burning incense and reading fiction.

How the Editor in Chief of Elle Decor Spends His Sundays

Sidewalk sheds and scaffolding are ubiquitous fixtures in the New York City landscape, but they aren’t supposed to stay up forever.

How Long Can My Building Keep Scaffolding Up?

Quotation of the Day for Saturday, Sept. 3, 2022.

Quotation of the Day: For Wheelchair Users, Flying Includes Risks

Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s fall from grace had seemed to end a powerful dynasty, but his arrival in the country’s capital, Colombo, shows how deeply entrenched his family is.

Sri Lanka’s Ex-President Returns Home, Just Weeks After Being Ousted

New York City’s beloved bodega cats are internet famous. But other animals — birds, snakes and even pigs — are also at home in neighborhood shops.

You’ve Seen a Bodega Cat. How About a Barber Shop Rooster?

Dozens of police officers have been killed in the country so far this year, as its new president struggles to quell a wave of violence he campaigned on ending.

Explosion Kills 7 Police Officers in Colombia

Mr. Rubenstein, who started the Carlyle Group over 30 years ago, discusses its former chief executive’s sudden departure, the carried interest loophole and what he’s learned from the industry’s titans.

‘I Was Not Surprised’: David Rubenstein on Carlyle’s Recent Leadership Shake-Up

Everyone and their mother seems to be playing. What’s the draw — and is it really a workout?

Why Is Pickleball So Popular?

No longer able to defer burial, Ukrainian investigators are photographing unclaimed and unidentified bodies, taking DNA samples and assigning them numbers, hoping that one day their families will claim them.

‘We Do Not Want Unknown Graves’: The Struggle to Identify Bucha’s Victims

At the funeral of Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, the size of the crowds signaled the depth of the regret about the undoing of the freedoms that his tenure initiated.

Russians Mourn Gorbachev in Silent Protest Against an Absent Putin

The decision to keep monitors at the plant despite the obvious risks underscored what the International Atomic Energy Agency’s leader called the “unprecedented” peril of the moment.

Renewed Shelling Puts Nuclear Plant at Risk Despite U.N. Presence

When an interior designer decided to make a big move during the worst months of the pandemic, she planned her new rental around several key pieces.

How to Decorate a New York Apartment From Los Angeles, in a Few Easy Steps

Comments from the front-runner for prime minister, Liz Truss, suggest bumpier relations with Europe and the U.S. if she wins, with Northern Ireland getting in the way of the “special relationship.”

As Britain Prepares for a New Leader, Tensions With Allies Loom

In a single ballot on Sunday, Chileans will decide on abortion, universal health care, rights for nature and a record expansion of constitutional rights.

Chile Votes on Constitution That Would Enshrine Record Number of Rights

The pilot took a plane from a Tupelo, Miss., airport on Saturday and flew erratically for hours, officials said. After negotiators convinced him to safely come down, another pilot talked him through landing.

September 3, 2022

Headlines from September 3, 2022

Parties’ Divergent Realities Challenge Biden’s Defense of Democracy

Serena Williams, Moving Toward Retirement, Ends Her Magical Run at the U.S. Open

Lawsuits Over Tragedies Can Drag On. Not in the Florida Condo Collapse.

Why Aren’t Student Loans Simple? Because This Is America.

Britain’s Pubs Are Threatened by ‘Alarming’ Rise in Energy Bills

Billboard 200

Un Verano Sin Ti

Beautiful Mind

Renaissance

Dangerous: The Double Album

Harry's House

Historical Context for September 3, 2022