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Well, that's a first.

That phrase could have been said many times during these highly unusual presidential campaigns. And the White House firsts will continue through Election Day, whether it's Kamala Harris or Donald Trump who is elected.

Each party can make history by winning the election, whether for reasons of precedent or infamy.

Possibly outcomes will mark something that has not been done since as far back as the mid-1800s when James Buchanan was in office. And speaking of firsts, Buchanan was the first and only president who never married...

Throughout American history, the nation has looked to its presidents to lead us. All presidents have faced challenges, but a handful have made momentous decisions that defined what kind of democracy the United States would be. Take a closer look at those critical turning points — and how they shaped the country.

Early voting opened in North Carolina this week, and voters have already cast a record number of ballots, even in the wake of Hurricane Helene. Voting is also set to open in Detroit, a crucial swing state that both Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump campaigned in on Friday.

The judge overseeing Donald Trump's federal election interference proceedings unsealed nearly 1,900 pages of heavily redacted evidence that special counsel Jack Smith assembled to build his case against the former president. Trump's legal team objected to the release before next month's election, but the judge said withholding the information from the public could itself constitute election interference.

Necdet Seyitoğlu, 49, said he and others were abducted in the capital city of Nairobi.

Some ex-pats living abroad are sounding the alarm after Republicans in three swing states have tried to delay accepting and counting overseas absentee ballots.

American commandos and intelligence officers began helping Israel soon after the Oct. 7 attacks last year.

The vice president and her top Republican surrogate will appear together for “moderated conversations” in the suburbs of Philadelphia, Detroit and Milwaukee.

Some nursing homes in the Asheville, North Carolina area are still without water, three weeks after Hurricane Helene.

Voters rank the economy and high cost of living as their top issue. Donald J. Trump believes immigration “beats out the economy,” and he’s made it his closing message.

In white, working-class places, Kamala Harris’s goal is simply to lose by less. Thirty interviews in Beaver County, Pa., offered signs that with some swing voters, she is holding the line.

As Ms. Harris rose to center stage, the actor playing her on “S.N.L.” modified her approach, turning the vice president into a no-nonsense boss, surrounded by dopey men.

In the battleground state of Arizona and other important pockets of the country, polling suggests that voters backing the former president are eschewing Republican Senate candidates.

It’s unclear whether the longtime Democratic goals are a priority for Donald Trump. Yet the fact that he’s talking about them at all is part of a recent shift on the right.

The prime minister and his wife were not at the property, in the northern coastal city of Caesarea.