After an unpopular name change, and its firing of the director responsible for it, the museum is working to rehabilitate its image.
Calling dibs on the parking spot you shoveled after a blizzard tends to be a respected tradition in northern cities, but a spate of confrontations is a reminder of just how precious a spot can be.
The administration took a crowbar to a site that focused on George Washington and slavery. But can the contradictions of the Founding Era be erased?
A number of potential presidential candidates are releasing memoirs as the shadow primary heats up.
Readers object to the National Park Service’s deletions at historic sites ordered by the Trump administration. Also: David Brooks’s farewell column.
Mr. Dunn, who rose to prominence for defending the Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot, will run for a hotly contested Southern Maryland seat.
William Stevenson, de 77 años, fue detenido e imputado de asesinato. Aún no se conocen detalles de la muerte de su esposa Linda Stevenson de 64 años.
William Stevenson was arrested after being indicted on charges of first-degree murder in the death of his wife in December. He was married to Dr. Biden in the 1970s.
The state’s House of Delegates passed a new map that would be likely to eliminate Maryland’s lone remaining Republican seat in the U.S. House, but the State Senate may well block the measure.
The Interior Department removed placards and videos about Washington’s involvement with slavery. A new court ruling blocks further changes, for now.
The supposedly meteorologically gifted rodent saw his shadow, suggesting several more weeks of winter. (Forecasters agreed, at least for this week.)
The administration has ordered that further changes be made to Independence National Historical Park, according to internal National Park Service documents obtained by The New York Times
Demonstrators rallied across the country, leaving school and work and closing businesses in a show of solidarity with Minneapolis.
His viral video of the comedian Hannibal Buress calling Bill Cosby a rapist helped spur broader coverage of sexual-assault accusations against a once-beloved entertainer.
After the United States imposed sanctions on Russia’s two biggest oil producers, the ripple effects wreaked havoc on business for local franchisees.
A show at ICA Philadelphia joins a surge of Shaker-inspired projects: films, dances, a museum’s expansion. Refracted through new interpreters, Shaker culture bends, and twists.
Politically pointed and heavy on his Jewish faith, the book already has Democrats talking.
The case is the latest action taken by a state with an abortion ban against providers in states that support abortion rights.
Nine progressive prosecutors say they will work together to charge federal agents accused of wrongdoing, but they will face significant legal obstacles.
The storm deaths were reported in New York, Tennessee, Louisiana, Kansas, Texas, Massachusetts, Arkansas, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Mississippi, Kentucky and New Jersey, and other deaths were under investigation.
An organized theft ring in Connecticut, New Jersey and New York swapped or quickly cloned key fobs to steal millions of dollars’ worth of vehicles, officials said.
Officials in several cities, including Boston, New York and Philadelphia, advised residents to avoid traveling if possible through the weekend.
About 40 million gallons of untreated sewage a day has spilled into the river since a pipeline ruptured in Montgomery County, Md., on Monday, according to a utility company.
He endured years of frustration before emerging as the N.F.L.’s most valuable player.
Philadelphia sued the Trump administration after it directed the Park Service to rip out a memorial to slavery. Elsewhere, materials about climate change and labor history were being removed.
Following a directive from President Trump, the National Park Service removed a Philadelphia exhibit memorializing nine people enslaved by George Washington. The administration ordered the removal of materials that promote “corrosive ideology” in favor of those highlighting American “greatness.”
The exhibit memorialized nine people enslaved by George Washington. The Park Service said it was being removed in accordance with a directive from President Trump.
A craftsman in Washington, a condo in Lexington and a rowhouse in Pittsburgh
One meteorologist warns that “the main ingredients” are fitting into place for a disruptive winter storm later this week.
Gov. Wes Moore and the company behind the Sphere said the project in National Harbor, in the Washington metro area, would create jobs and become a landmark attraction.
In his new memoir, the Pennsylvania governor suggests that when Kamala Harris’s team vetted him to be her running mate, aides focused on Israel to an extent he found offensive.
Local print media is in a death spiral. Nonprofit journalism start-ups show how journalists can still do essential work.
Track the latest polls in the Pennsylvania governor election.
Track the latest polls in the Maryland governor election.
The shop in suburban Philadelphia had been a gathering spot for the MAGA crowd to rally during the 2024 campaign.
Robert G. Kramer sold nearly 90,000 shares of his stock in Emergent BioSolutions, knowing that large quantities of vaccine materials were contaminated, the lawsuit said.
Many proposals have been introduced, but there is little consensus among governors, Congress members and tech executives about exactly how much the companies behind data centers should pay for electricity.
His naïve style landed him outside the firmament, but his painterly innocence was more seductive — and intentional — than many critics appreciated.
As the race to gerrymander House districts narrows to a few states, Democrats are trying to go on offense. But a Supreme Court ruling could give Republicans a major edge.
It started in a laboratory. No one could have predicted where it would end.
Investigators recovered what was believed to be more than “100 full or partial sets of human and skeletal remains” from the man’s home and storage unit in Lancaster County, the district attorney said.
The Pennsylvania governor starts out as a clear favorite, but Republicans are trying to make him sweat.
The Maryland congressman, who served as one of his party’s top leaders, plans to depart after nearly half a century in Congress, as his party looks toward generational change.
The family-owned company that operates the newspaper cited mounting losses and labor constraints. A final edition is expected on Sunday, May 3.
The daughter of a politician, she didn’t expect to become one. But once she ran for office in 1987, there was no stopping her.
The industry is pumping ever more oil and natural gas, but it is doing so with only about three-quarters as many workers as it employed a decade ago.
The woman, 29, was struck by her own vehicle after the suspects began driving away, the police said.
The government provided $69.5 billion in relief funds to help keep transit on track during Covid-19. But many rail and bus systems are now facing layoffs and cutbacks.
The pandemic upset a delicate balance of part-time and full-time residents in a community in the Poconos, sparking a debate over short-term rentals.
The country is on track for a record drop in homicides, and many other categories of crime are also in decline, according to the F.B.I.
Strained by limited resources, prosecutors are deploying special teams and nurturing local relationships to catch up to a wave of fraud.
Many of the nation’s major cities face a daunting future.
Americans over 65 remain the demographic most likely to have received the original series of vaccinations. But fewer are getting the follow-up shots, surveys indicate.
A signature-matching rule in North Carolina is rejected, mail ballots in Pennsylvania are in dispute, and more.
A signature-matching rule in North Carolina is rejected, mail ballots in Pennsylvania are in dispute, and more.
With cases rising again, the superintendent said that as the pandemic evolves, “so too will our response to it.”
Josh Shapiro said he had mild symptoms and would stay home during the state’s primary election on Tuesday.
The report sheds new light on executives’ worries about deficiencies in the company’s quality control systems at its troubled Baltimore plant; no contaminated doses were ever released to the public.