In the fractured, misunderstood world outside our windows, a cicada emergence is a gift, a reminder that we have not yet destroyed it all.
A new Florida law prohibits many Chinese citizens from buying homes because of national security concerns. Critics say it has fueled discrimination and chilled the local property market.
A decision by the Federal Election Commission would allow the Biden and Trump campaigns to raise money for outside groups pushing ballot measures.
The entertainment lineup for this weekend’s Formula 1 race has been infused with Latin music and nightclub-like electronic beats.
Some protesters questioned the magnitude of the police response, compared with the school’s response in 2017 to white nationalists marching on campus with torches.
America’s most famous horse race may be celebrating a milestone this year, but the hats are the real stars of the show.
Ohio State, Indiana University and Northeastern have graduation ceremonies this weekend, all happening on the heels of clashes between protesters and the police.
Other states have also considered restrictions, citing concerns about farmers’ livelihoods and food safety, though the product isn’t expected to be widely available for years.
State lawmakers failed to reach a compromise, dashing hopes of extending largely free health care to most low-income residents and supporting struggling rural hospitals.
Plus, the shadow over the Kentucky Derby.
In a stop in Wilmington, N.C., the president announced $3 billion in new spending to upgrade water systems around the country.
The Miami race had a rocky first year, but organizers learned from their rookie mistakes.
North Carolina’s Triad was built on tobacco, textiles and furniture. Now it’s trying to forge a new economy from more highly skilled manufacturing.
Ethan Hawke teams up with his daughter, Maya Hawke, for an unconventional and somewhat muddled portrait of a singular author.
As Black roller skaters from around the country bring their styles to the city, some locals look for space to preserve the moves Atlanta is known for.
Even opponents of abortion saw such curbs as too controversial just over a decade ago. Times have changed.
The vice president sought to tie former President Donald J. Trump to the state’s six-week abortion ban, which took effect on Wednesday.
On the day that Florida began to enforce its six-week abortion ban, Vice President Kamala Harris delivered a searing attack on former President Donald J. Trump in Jacksonville, Fla., calling the measure “another Trump abortion ban.”
Los procedimientos de aborto han sido prohibidos en Florida a partir de las seis semanas de gestación. Según los expertos, durante este periodo muchas mujeres no saben que están embarazadas aún.
Times journalists writing about the state’s judicial system would like to hear from lawyers about their experiences with the appointment process.
Wally, an emotional support alligator that was denied entrance to a Phillies game last year, was apparently kidnapped, found and dropped in a swamp.
“The Chocolate War,” published 50 years ago, became one of the country’s most challenged books. Its author, Robert Cormier, spent years fighting attempts to ban it — like many authors today.
Two students were among those arrested early Wednesday, the university said. Officers from three law enforcement agencies moved in after ordering the group to disperse.
Plus, a possible shift on marijuana policy.
Seven hundred miles to the nearest clinic: how one ban will reshape access in the South.
The ban, which took effect on Wednesday, was part of Gov. Ron DeSantis’s push into cultural conservatism. But Florida politics is rarely that simple.
An early 19th-century Cape Cod-style home with a writing studio in Provincetown, a 1939 cottage in Austin and an 1840 house in Charleston.
A newly drawn congressional map in Louisiana was struck down on Tuesday by a panel of federal judges who found that the new boundaries, which form a second majority Black district in the state, amounted to an “impermissible racial gerrymander” tha...
In a 2-to-1 decision, the panel sided with challengers who argued that the map that created a second Black majority district was an “impermissible racial gerrymander.”
The killing of the four officers in a usually quiet neighborhood, where a running gun battle left people scrambling for cover, stunned residents and brought anguish across the city.
By Tuesday afternoon, protesters had broken through the barriers keeping them out of an encampment, and they replaced an American flag in the center of campus with a Palestinian one.
Protesters at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, clashed with police officers working to restore an American flag that the demonstrators had replaced with a Palestinian one.
The expansion would extend largely free health coverage to 200,000 more low-income adults. But hurdles remain, including a likely veto by Gov. Tate Reeves.
A police officer and three members of a U.S. Marshals task force were fatally shot while serving warrants to a suspect, who was also killed.
On one of the last days it would be legal to get an abortion until 15 weeks of pregnancy in Florida, a clinic in Fort Pierce was completely booked.
Florida is set to ban abortions after six weeks. Experts explain how that can often be before a woman knows she is pregnant.
In “The Demon of Unrest,” present-day political strife inspires a dramatic portrait of the run-up to the deadliest war on American soil.
In the battleground state of Georgia, some Black entrepreneurs are frustrated over the impact of higher interest rates, a source of economic anxiety.
The Florida representative will face off against Aaron Dimmock, a retired Navy officer and aviator.
Speaking in Atlanta, the vice president began a national tour to highlight how the Biden administration is trying to help Black Americans economically.
Three of the four were part of a U.S. Marshals task force. The felon whom they sought was also killed.
If old school public-service journalism can make it anywhere, it can make it here.
The state has dozens of clinics that serve tens of thousands of women a year, including from across the Southeast. The six-week ban will require most to travel much farther.
The food scene in and around the nation’s capital is vibrant these days, with Italian, Ethiopian, Salvadoran and more. Comments are open.
After moving 10 times in 10 years, a woman found that a little luck was the best companion for a lot of hard work. She won a studio in a lottery on her fifth try.
The former president and his vanquished rival met in Florida, months after Ron DeSantis dropped out after a contentious Republican contest.
With pro-Palestinian protests spreading across campuses nationwide, university leaders have had to confront a central question: When does a demonstration cross the line?
The State Supreme Court cleared the way for a part of Baton Rouge to become the city of St. George. Critics say the white, wealthier enclave separating from the capital could have devastating consequences.
Some communities with religious origins now offer spiritual programming as just one of many enticements, like the bingo nights of yesteryear.
College students started a venture that has diverted glass bottles from landfills and crushed them into sand for coastal restoration efforts.
Each spring, Columbus, Miss., has opened its Civil War-era homes to visitors. Some say the event should reflect more the oppression behind the architecture, and how the city has changed since.
Prosecutors are sending a warning as Donald Trump and his supporters continue to spread conspiracy theories: that disrupting elections can bear a heavy legal cost.
Experts say high school seniors are more likely to go to college if they complete the financial aid form, but the state sees privacy issues with mandating it.
The United Automobile Workers reached an agreement involving workers who make Freightliner trucks and Thomas Built buses. The deal comes as the union seeks to expand in Southern states.
Two creatures unearthed in 2006, and finally on display in North Carolina, might hold the key to a major debate over a certain animal’s identity.
REC Silicon says it will soon start shipping polysilicon, which has come mostly from China, reviving a Washington State factory that shut down in 2019.
The 2,500 decks being issued to correctional facilities in southern Mississippi seek clues on missing persons and unsolved murders. Cold case cards sometimes bring useful tips to dormant investigations.
Having poured thousands into an older house with maintenance issues, a single mother aimed her $450,000 budget at something newer and nicer for herself and her teenager. Here’s what she found.
Supporters of new legislation to allow some teachers to carry firearms say it will make the state’s schools safer. Many parents and educators are not convinced.
Many parents and nutritionists applauded stricter federal regulations, but food companies say the changes could increase costs and waste.
The dolphin, a juvenile found on a Louisiana beach, had injuries “consistent with being shot with a firearm,” marine officials said.
Republicans tried to quash the union drive with partisanship. It didn’t work.
Votes for dropout candidates, such as Nikki Haley, have been features of past election cycles, too.
A provision in an election bill would bar homeless voters from receiving mail-in ballots and election information at shelters or other temporary addresses.
A single spillover, from a bird to a cow, led to the infections, a review of genetic data has found.
A 1926 brick house in Lexington, a two-bedroom condominium in Lyme and a Tudor Revival home in Minneapolis.
A 183-canvas painting by Noah Saterstrom explores mental illness, his family’s struggle with it — and the state’s response to those impaired by it.
The young artist interweaves the personal and the political, asking such questions as, “How can we build when we are inhabited by rage?”
The man, David Joseph Gietzen, had failed to show up in court and became a fugitive after a jury found him guilty of committing five felonies during the January 2021 attack on the Capitol.
The move came about a year after the state’s deadliest school shooting and was opposed by some of the families whose children survived the attack.
President Biden tied a six-week abortion ban that will soon take place in Florida to former President Donald J. Trump and Republican efforts to ban abortion nationwide.
The party is banking on abortion access as an issue to animate the state’s competitive race for governor and, they hope, galvanize voters for President Biden.
The Biden campaign has made abortion one of its top issues, as polling shows it is one of the few subjects in which voters place more trust in President Biden than Donald Trump.
Creative approaches to landscaping and a post-pandemic interest in outdoor activities are driving institutions to make better use of their grounds.
In Baton Rouge, a public safety experiment could help to answer a critical question: Do community efforts to reduce street violence work?
Additional routes in popular parks now require reservations, the annual pass gets a big change, Juneteenth is now a new free entrance day and more changes for 2024.
The ad portrays a woman trying to leave the state to have an abortion. The Campaign for Democracy, a political action committee started by Mr. Newsom, the California governor, created it.
Civilian oversight boards face resistance across the country from those they are supposed to monitor. A New York case underscores the tension.
After a week stuck in a courtroom, Donald Trump was planning to speak to thousands of supporters in North Carolina, until the weather turned dangerous.
During his 34 years as an elected official, Mr. Pryor was sometimes said to be more liberal, especially on racial issues, than the people who elected him.
Some experts say the outcome at a plant in Chattanooga, Tenn., may be organized labor’s most significant advance in decades. But the road could get rockier.
The Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga is set to become the first unionized auto factory in the South not owned by one of Detroit’s Big Three.
An African American burial ground project in South Carolina is just one subject in Caroline Gutman’s search for a history hiding in plain sight.
Agents in South Carolina, the fastest growing state in the country last year, say that many newcomers are Republicans eager to leave the Northeast and West Coast.
Many older Black voters see moral and political reasons to vote. Younger Black voters feel far less motivated to cast a ballot for Democrats or even at all.
Leo Schofield has maintained innocence all along in his wife’s murder in 1987, and another man has since confessed to the killing.
Since the collapse of the Key Bridge, other East Coast ports have absorbed the cargo previously handled in Baltimore, but some parts of the supply chain like trucking are struggling.
Georgia, Michigan and Nevada have already brought charges against people who posed as electors for Donald Trump, and Arizona and Wisconsin have active investigations.
The United Automobile Workers hopes contract gains at the Big Three carmakers will provide momentum in a broad effort to organize nonunion plants.
A Tudor Revival cottage in Biltmore Forest, a ranch house and guesthouse in Boise and a 1991 home in Kent.
After the 9/11 attacks, Mr. Graham became an outspoken critic of President George W. Bush’s response and voted against invading Iraq.
Shomari Figures, a Democrat who worked in the Justice Department, and Caroleene Dobson, a Republican newcomer, advanced in the state’s Second Congressional District.
Get live results and maps from the 2024 Alabama runoff election.
Representative Virginia Foxx is a blunt partisan. But her life in rural North Carolina informs her attacks against these schools, starting with whether Harvard is truly “elite.”
The legislative audit found several ways that the heavily scrutinized purchase potentially violated state law. Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders criticized the findings.
Large hail, damaging winds, heavy rain and isolated tornadoes are expected on Monday in the Plains before moving into the Midwest on Tuesday.
First, fish off the Florida Keys started swimming in spirals or upside down. Then, endangered sawfish started dying. Scientists are racing to figure out why.
As one-third of the production team Organized Noize, he nurtured the careers of Outkast, Goodie Mob and Future from the confines of his mother’s basement, known as the Dungeon.
Golf enthusiasts regard a trip to the Masters Tournament as the stuff of dreams. Here are photos from this year’s tournament.
Alex Garland’s new film is most interested in the experience of living through an armed conflict.
The judge did not rule on motions by lawyers for Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira, who are accused of helping the former president obstruct government efforts to recover classified material.
Up to four inches fell in less than 24 hours across broad sections of both states, and officials were watching rising waterways warily.
Mr. Johnson met with former President Donald J. Trump at Mar-a-Lago, where they found common cause in stoking unfounded fears of election fraud.
The vehicle that Simpson fled in as 95 million Americans watched on television is on display at the Alcatraz East Crime Museum in Pigeon Forge, Tenn.
There is no longer a truly pro-life party in the United States.
In recent months, a handful of exclusive credit card lounges have opened in airports in the United States. More are coming this year.
A quest to find living descendants of 36 enslaved people has transformed into a project that gives Black residents new clues to their ancestry, wherever it may lead.
A Virginia grand jury found that the administrator had not acted on reports from staff members that the 6-year-old had brought a firearm to Richneck Elementary.
A special grand jury found that the shooting of an elementary teacher by a 6-year-old student in Newport News, Va., last year was preceded by a “shocking” series of lapses by the school’s assistant principal at the time.
The federal judge threw out the city’s voting map, rejecting the rationale that city commissioners have used for more than 20 years.
The authorities said that the suspect in the February episode had acknowledged on social media that he had “violent impulses” and espoused antigovernment views.
Tamara de Lempicka, a painter favored by celebrities and designers, is being revisited. Plus, a historical Miami building reopens as a hotel and private club.
A 1940 Colonial Revival home in Charles Town, an 1858 Greek Revival house in Holly Springs and a one-bedroom condominium in Washington.
Storms were moving east, setting off numerous warnings and watches from Texas to Florida. There were reports of tornadoes in Louisiana and Texas, with one person killed in a Mississippi storm.
A former administrator at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, Va., where a first-grade teacher was shot last year, has been charged with eight counts of child abuse and neglect.
A local hero in his hometown, he was best known for his hit “Ain’t Got No Home,” which showcased the vocal versatility that earned him his nickname.
The new regulation is aimed at reducing the risk of cancer for people who live close to plants emitting toxic chemicals.
En el evento de recaudación de fondos, Trump también lamentó el aumento de los migrantes, en particular de América Latina, diciendo que los miembros de pandillas “hacen que los Hells Angels parezcan personas extremadamente agradables”.
The prosecutor, Fani Willis, defended a judge’s recent ruling that she could continue leading the election interference case against Donald J. Trump.
Though the Florida Supreme Court allowed a ballot question on expanding abortion rights, it also laid out a way for anti-abortion groups to challenge such an expansion.
What people in the path of totality were seeing and saying as the eclipse unfolded across the continent.
J. Cole also vowed to update the track, “7 Minute Drill,” or remove it from streaming services after it was featured on his new album, “Might Delete Later.”
Marilyn Lands’s victory in a special election provided an early blueprint for Democrats who are eager to make reproductive rights central to their campaigns.
The country superstar faces charges of reckless endangerment and disorderly conduct after the incident in Nashville on Sunday night.
The state has miles of rugged terrain and an array of state parks, but it does not have a major professional sports team. Officials have struggled to think of an event comparable to the eclipse.
Plus, is it eclipse weather?
At rallies, Donald Trump frequently laments migrants from a list of countries from Africa, Asia and the Middle East as he stokes fears around the surge at the border.
The event, hosted at the Palm Beach home of the hedge-fund billionaire John Paulson, follows a concerted effort by the Trump campaign to close the money gap with Democrats.
He expanded the educational mission of Thomas Jefferson’s plantation. He also embraced research that showed Jefferson had fathered the children of one of his slaves.
Assessing the academic skills of elementary and middle school students matters more than ever.
Federal health officials and other experts have repeatedly sought to counter erroneous comments about the vaccines by Dr. Joseph Ladapo, Florida’s surgeon general.
The great Medicaid unwinding of 2023 is doing real damage.
Art fairs managed to survive the downturn brought about by the Covid pandemic and are on the rise again — a trend expected to continue in the coming year.
Mississippi has long had high childhood immunization rates, but a federal judge has ordered the state to allow parents to opt out on religious grounds.
The Florida governor has so far found little success in getting his criticism of the Trump administration’s Covid-19 policies to stick, but that has not stopped him from trying.
The 17 employees from the Broward Sheriff’s Office in Fort Lauderdale were accused, in separate cases, of falsifying paperwork to collect money from two relief programs.
Benefits extended earlier in the coronavirus pandemic have been rolled back. But many older Americans are not taking advantage of the aid still available.
The C.D.C. on Tuesday recommended at least one dose of the updated Covid-19 vaccines for most Americans six months and older.
The Florida governor has recently highlighted his state’s response to the coronavirus in hopes of striking some distance from Donald Trump.
Over the years, Mr. DeSantis embraced and exploited his Ivy League credentials. Now he is reframing his experiences at Yale and Harvard to wage a vengeful political war.
Strained by limited resources, prosecutors are deploying special teams and nurturing local relationships to catch up to a wave of fraud.
Once a vaccine advocate, the Florida governor lost his enthusiasm for the shot before the Delta wave sent Covid hospitalizations and deaths soaring. It’s a grim chapter he now leaves out of his rosy retelling of his pandemic response.
The order came in a lawsuit filed by the attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana, who claim the administration is trying to silence its critics.