The 34-year-old assemblyman won the Democratic primary by defying the city’s all-powerful establishment. He secured the mayoralty by delicately disarming it.

Zohran Mamdani’s victory as the city’s next mayor is a milestone for hundreds of thousands of residents who see one of their own atop the city’s political infrastructure.

Victories in New York City, New Jersey, Virginia and elsewhere were decisive, but new political tests loom for a party still rebuilding its brand.

Abigail Spanberger, a former congresswoman and C.I.A. officer, will be the first woman to serve as governor of Virginia, following a streak of 74 men.

The plane crashed and exploded shortly after taking off from a Kentucky airport, disrupting operations at the delivery company’s main air cargo hub.

Seven people were dead after the cargo plane crashed soon after takeoff. The authorities canceled flights from the airport in Louisville, Ky., and local residents were ordered to remain indoors.

President Trump and administration officials indicated the fallout could intensify in the coming days, even as he has kept himself at a remove from the crisis.

Several former detainees described tight quarters, a lack of sanitation and little access to lawyers at the Broadview, Ill., immigration detention facility.

Dick Cheney was to many the embodiment of the unpopular and bloody Iraq war. But his late-in-life anti-Trumpism changed his image for some of his longtime critics.

A former defense secretary and congressman, he held the nation’s No. 2 job under President George W. Bush and was an architect of policies in an era of war and economic change.