Earlier surveys have shown higher support, but the state’s Republican governor is working hard to defeat the initiative.
Voting by mail is increasingly popular, but mail ballots are rejected far more often than in-person ones. In Pennsylvania and elsewhere, parties are battling over which ones to count — or not.
The statewide ballot measure, known as the Equal Rights Amendment, has become a target for Republican opponents who have cast it as an attack on family values.
Una revisión de sus apariciones públicas en los últimos años sugiere que los discursos del expresidente de 78 años se han vuelto menos centrados, más oscuros, hostiles, largos, furiosos, soeces y cada vez más obsesionados con el pasado.
If it loses its institutional credibility, it will be powerless when it matters most.
NetChoice, backed by tech giants including Meta and Google, has successfully argued in court that Big Tech hosts protected speech.
With the passage of time, the 78-year-old former president’s speeches have grown darker, harsher, longer, angrier, less focused, more profane and increasingly fixated on the past, according to a review of his public appearances over the years.
Aside from major disputes on issues like transgender rights and guns, the docket is fairly routine. That could change fast if the presidential race is contested.
Rasheen Everett strangled Amanda Gonzalez-Andujar in her Queens apartment in 2010. His first conviction was thrown out because of a judge’s error.
A dispute between Adria English, who has accused Mr. Combs of sexual misconduct, and her lawyers is the latest twist in the civil litigation the music mogul is facing.
As storms intensify, so do the legal clashes with insurers, aid agencies and others over compensation, rebuilding and even scams.
Gov. Tim Walz attacked former President Donald J. Trump’s record on abortion — and then turned to the stories of women living with the consequences of abortion bans.
Cuando los votantes estadounidenses evalúen al compañero de fórmula de Trump, deberán analizar si ha mostrado la fidelidad a la Constitución que el cargo requiere.
Why he represents a grave risk to the rule of law in American democracy.
Democrats in a pair of competitive House districts are spotlighting the anti-abortion stances of Republican incumbents after the state enacted one of the most restrictive bans in the country.
Adam Dressner, a lawyer turned portrait artist, began painting eccentric New Yorkers a few years ago. Many of them made an appearance at a recent exhibition.
It’s not just murders and mass shootings. Guns play a role in many of the country’s biggest problems.
Appellate judges based their decision on New York’s ruling earlier this year to bar him from practicing law in the state.
Mr. Williams already had a compelling biography, but the first-ever indictment of a New York City mayor has added an astonishing new chapter to his life’s story.
The Times annotated the indictment.
In a campaign they would like to center on the economy and the border, Republican candidates keep drifting back to abortion rights, an issue that favors Democrats.
Are we ever going to take civil rights laws at face value?
El partido gobernante en México afirma que la guardia sería más eficaz y menos corrupta como parte de las fuerzas armadas. Los críticos temen una mayor militarización de la vida civil y un aumento de los abusos contra los derechos.
Mexico’s governing party says the guard would be more effective and less corrupt as part of the armed forces. Critics fear the increased militarization of civilian life and a spike in rights abuses.
Dan Newlin has spent millions on billboards and TV spots promoting Donald J. Trump (and himself).
Las encuestas han demostrado que el expresidente está teniendo dificultades para obtener el apoyo entre las mujeres, para quienes el derecho al aborto sigue siendo un tema prioritario.
There are many reasons to terminate a pregnancy.
Marcellus Williams, who was convicted of a 1998 murder in suburban St. Louis, maintained he was innocent. But the courts and the governor were not persuaded.
“Shame on her,” Joe Manchin, the independent senator from West Virginia, said after Kamala Harris reiterated her support for ending the Senate practice. “She knows the filibuster is the Holy Grail of democracy.”
An appraiser discovered the 1787 document before a house sale in North Carolina in 2022. It goes up for auction this week.
“You will be protected, and I will be your protector,” said former President Donald J. Trump. Polls have shown he is struggling to cultivate support among women, for whom abortion rights remain a top issue.
The department’s discipline for illegal street detentions is lax at every level, according to an extraordinary review ordered by a federal judge.
In June, the court tried to explain its new history-based approach to the Second Amendment. But judges said the latest decision “offered little instruction or clarity.”
The next fights over health care won’t be legislative brawls or executive actions — they will be a deluge of battles in the courts.
Officials recently discovered that some people with driver’s licenses issued before 1996 might not have proof of citizenship on file, a state requirement since 2004.
The issue of gender dominated the campaign over a week that included a scandal in North Carolina and reporting on the fatal fallout of abortion bans.
In more than a dozen books and several hundred articles, he devoted himself, as he once said, to “questioning the unquestionable or thinking the unthinkable.”
In Justice Juan Merchan’s Manhattan courtroom, the wheels of justice keep turning on the day that the former president was to have been sentenced.
Why didn’t a Georgia hospital save Amber Nicole Thurman?
After dropping out of the race and endorsing Donald Trump, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been fighting in court to remove his name from ballots in several states.
As a young conservative, David Brock smeared Hill, who accused the Supreme Court justice of sexual harassment. Now, in a new book, Brock is denouncing Thomas and the court’s rightward tilt — and contending with his own complicated past.
TikTok will be in federal court on Monday, aiming to block a new law that will ban the popular video app in the United States early next year.
Can pro-life states survive in a pro-choice country?
A judge ruled that the State Constitution protected a woman’s right to abortion until the fetus was viable. The state’s attorney general said he would appeal.
Florida’s governor has come under fire from critics who say he is using state resources to work against a proposed abortion-rights amendment to the state Constitution.
Desde su casa de Illinois, defiende las armas para todos. El Times confirmó su nombre real y relacionó el arma de fuego que ayudó a diseñar con terroristas, narcotraficantes y luchadores por la libertad en al menos 15 países.
Experts said the new research finding underscored how abortion bans had affected women’s contraceptive choices.
La legislación aprobada por el Congreso podría producir una de las reestructuraciones judiciales de mayor alcance en cualquier gran democracia.
The legislation passed by Congress could produce one of the most far-reaching judicial overhauls in any major democracy.
The court ruled hours before the state’s deadline for printing ballots for absentee voters, reversing the secretary of state who had invalidated the measure weeks after certifying it.
From his Illinois home, he champions guns for all. The Times confirmed his real name and linked the firearm he helped design to terrorists, drug dealers and freedom fighters in at least 15 countries.
The justice said the Supreme Court’s reasoning in the Dobbs case called into question access to contraception as well as gay and interracial marriage.
We explain the 10 measures that would let voters decide abortion policy in their states.
The decision could rip a hole in Berlin’s budget and complicate the transition to a greener economy.
The case is the second one this term asking the justices to decide when government activity crosses the line to become coercion forbidden by the First Amendment.
A Fifth Circuit panel partly upheld restrictions on the Biden administration’s communications with online platforms about their content.
After making little progress with Republican leaders at the White House on Tuesday, the president previewed two possible endgames to resolve a debt-limit standoff.
Two criminal defendants have asked the Supreme Court to decide whether remote testimony against them violated the Sixth Amendment’s confrontation clause.
Recent orders suggest that the justices are thinking of dismissing cases involving the “independent state legislature” theory and Title 42, an immigration measure imposed during the pandemic.
The justices, who had been set to hear arguments on March 1, acted after the Biden administration filed a brief saying that the measure would soon be moot.
The unanimous ruling was the first one summarized by a justice since the start of the coronavirus pandemic and an indication that the court is off to a slow start this term.
At issue is Title 42, a public health measure invoked by the Trump administration during the pandemic to block migrants from seeking asylum in the United States.
The justices left in place an injunction blocking the Biden administration’s authority to forgive up to $20,000 in debt per borrower.
A pair of prominent headlines highlights the reversals.
We all know what happened with summer 2020. Then 2021 was dampened by Delta. This year, any anticipated return to revelry has been hampered by … *waves hands at everything.* Is there hope for enjoying the once fun season?
School is out for the summer — but in some cases, so are the bosses.
School is out for the summer — but in some cases, so are the bosses.
Readers call for more openness and discuss judicial restraint and the justices’ religious beliefs. Also: Mask decisions; Twitter’s dark side; skipping school.