Mr. Kennedy’s success in landing on the battleground state’s ballot guarantees that he will shape the race this November. Both parties are racing to define him.
His serial frauds included a waterfront development in Buffalo, a civil rights law firm in California and a package delivery company in Springfield, Ill.
Officials are moving to increase enforcement and change laws in response to the rise in counterfeit or expired plates, which exploded during the pandemic.
Luther Hall won the judgment against a former colleague in connection with a beating that took place during a 2017 protest where he was undercover.
Hecklers disrupted a concert in Ohio — and online critics pounced to say, falsely, that it started because the liberal singer had expressed support for the president.
The Natural Law Party, which has ballot access in Michigan, nominated Mr. Kennedy. President Biden’s campaign is worried that he could tip the election to former President Donald J. Trump.
The author of nine suspense books also finds time to foster kittens from a Chicago-area shelter.
Residents in parts of South Dakota, Nebraska, Texas and Nevada were unable to call the emergency number, officials said. Service was later restored in Las Vegas, Nebraska and South Dakota.
The deal, which could be announced in coming weeks, would bring an end to one of the last major cases stemming from a horrific sports scandal.
In a first, a Colorado law extends privacy rights to the neural data increasingly coveted by technology companies.
President Biden’s remarks on the issue came shortly after Caitlin Clark, the University of Iowa basketball star, was selected first in the W.N.B.A. draft.
Clarisa Figueroa, 51, of Chicago, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 50 years in prison. Prosecutors say she strangled the young mother and tried to pass the baby off as her own.
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 departure of two Democratic representatives who won suburban mayoral posts last fall evenly split the Michigan House.
Juan Alvarez-Sorto and two other people were on a drug trafficking trip in 2022 when they carjacked an S.U.V. belonging to a crime victim specialist, federal prosecutors said.
The four arrested on murder and kidnapping charges were from Oklahoma and, according to a relative, were members of an anti-government group by that name, the authorities said.
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Plus, NASA’s “Hail Mary.”
The coordinated protests across the United States and around the globe were planned in part to coincide with Tax Day in the United States.
Large hail, damaging winds, heavy rain and isolated tornadoes are expected on Monday in the Plains before moving into the Midwest on Tuesday.
Mary Moriarty, a former chief public defender, became the top prosecutor in Minneapolis, promising an overhaul. Now she faces criticism, including from fellow Democrats.
The tribes barred the Republican governor from their reservations after she told lawmakers that Mexican drug cartels had a foothold there and were committing murders.
The income-driven plan known as SAVE has reduced payments for millions of borrowers. Lawsuits by Republican-led states are seeking to upend it.
He diagnosed dozens of patients with what he said were suppressed memories of being tortured by cults. He later lost his license.
Chicago police officers stopped Dexter Reed Jr. last month and fired 96 shots after he fired first and wounded an officer, investigators said.
The Electoral College as we know it is less a product of the insight or design of the framers and more a contingent adaptation to the political world.
Anthony Freud is leaving Lyric Opera of Chicago on good terms, though the company faces challenges in a strained environment for the performing arts.
A judge denied Morgan Geyser’s request for release on Thursday, nearly a decade after the attack by a pair of 12-year-olds against their friend stunned residents of Waukesha, Wis.
Justice Ann Walsh Bradley, whose term ends in July 2025, said she will not seek re-election. The race to replace her will decide whether the court has a liberal or conservative majority.
The Clifford family of Edmond, Okla., tracked down an octopus for their son Cal, 9, who has been infatuated with the sea animals for years. What they didn’t expect were the 50 hatchlings.
After a decade in rentals, a couple hoped to strike the right balance for their first purchase on the north side of the city: ‘square footage versus access to coffee shops and restaurants.’ Here’s what they found.
How Trump allies are trying to rework the state’s voting system to the former president’s advantage.
His new book, “There’s Always This Year,” is a meditation on beauty, grief and mortality through the lens of basketball and Columbus, Ohio.
He was arrested protesting war and clashed with fellow bishops in supporting gay marriage and the ordination of women and championing victims of sex abuse by priests.
Gov. Kim Reynolds, a Republican, signed the bill on Wednesday and accused the Biden administration of failing to secure the border.
Department lawyers said in a brief that Enbridge, a Canadian company, “lacks any legal right” to operate its Line 5 pipeline on reservation territory.
Procter & Gamble, Nestlé y otras marcas confían en una nueva generación de plantas de reciclaje para cumplir sus objetivos medioambientales, pero la tecnología aún no funciona a plenitud.
The clinics’ owner, Dr. Jihad Mustapha, who called himself the “leg saver” but whose procedures sometimes preceded amputations, was a focus of a Times investigation last year.
Several of the party’s candidates, particularly those in battleground states, said they favored letting states regulate the procedure instead of having a national ban.
Congress passed bipartisan legislation to provide families that rely on subsidized school meals with help buying food over the summer. Nearly half of Republican-led states have yet to sign on.
The railroad company will pay residents and businesses in East Palestine, Ohio, and the surrounding area after a derailment last year.
Plus, the fight against “deepnudes.”
Jennifer and James Crumbley, whose son killed four people, each faced up to 15 years in prison for involuntary manslaughter convictions.
We scouted the city’s vast food scene, from stellar hot dogs and renowned Italian beefs to refined tasting menus. (And we’re here for your comments.).
The economy is in good shape. Why are so many Americans still saying it’s bad?
Dozens of correctional workers urged Gov. Mike Parson to commute the death sentence of Brian Dorsey, who pleaded guilty in the murders of Ben and Sarah Bonnie.
What people in the path of totality were seeing and saying as the eclipse unfolded across the continent.
The former president said he supported leaving abortion decisions to states, but political opponents say he bears responsibility for any curbs enacted.
Dr. Bob Ross cares for the aging residents of Ortonville, Minn, even as he wonders whether he, and the presidential candidates, are up to all their tasks.
Plus, is it eclipse weather?
After Wisconsin’s Supreme Court ordered new legislative maps, Democrats are gearing up to try to flip the State Assembly — and give President Biden a boost.
Mr. Brings Plenty, 27, was found dead in Kansas days after his family reported him missing. Officials did not provide a cause of death.
In Chicago, venues are booking fast for the Democratic convention in August. But Milwaukee, host of the Republican convention, is wondering if customers will come.
To attract movie and television production, states must try to offer the best incentives. The competition drives spending on Hollywood subsidies ever higher.
The new legislative maps reflect a near split between Republican- and Democratic-leaning districts. For more than a decade, earlier maps had helped Republicans hold power.
In St. Louis and around the country, people harmed by the drive for an atomic bomb have been shut out of a federal law enacted to help such victims.
On Thursday, the richly talented 28-year-old maestro led the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for the first time since being named its next music director.
Big brands like Procter & Gamble and Nestlé say a new generation of plants will help them meet environmental goals, but the technology is struggling to deliver.
Mary Miss’s lawsuit claims that the planned demolition of her work violates the Visual Artists Rights Act, which empowers artists to save their work from destruction.
Most of the battles over Israel play out in Democratic primaries. But a G.O.P. group is putting up $1 million for ads against John N. Hostettler, who is running for Congress.
Donald Trump’s falsehoods about mail voting have created a strategic disadvantage for Republicans, who must rely on Election Day turnout. The group Turning Point Action has a $100 million plan to change voters’ habits.
His imprisonment for a minor marijuana offense became a cause célèbre. He was released after John Lennon and Yoko Ono sang about him at a protest rally.
The state awards an electoral vote to the winner of each congressional district. Former President Donald J. Trump and allies want a “winner take all” system, which may have another chance to pass.
John Schu is a best-selling author, a children’s librarian and a tireless evangelist for the power of a blank page.
The former president held up the death of a young Michigan woman at a campaign rally as an example of what he calls “migrant crime,” and claimed to have spoken to her family.
Brian Dorsey, who pleaded guilty to murder in the 2006 killings of Sarah and Ben Bonnie, is scheduled to be executed on Tuesday unless Missouri’s governor or the courts step in.
As Southern states reconsider Medicaid expansion, Gov. Laura Kelly of Kansas is pushing her own plan meant to appeal to conservatives. So far, success has been elusive.
The new numbers help the former president narrow the financial gap with President Biden, who had amassed $155 million with the Democratic Party at the end of February.
In 2020, Joseph R. Biden Jr. won one electoral vote in a state that divides its votes by congressional district. Donald J. Trump has supported the stalled effort to change the system.
Severe weather toppled campers and trees in Ohio and Kentucky as parts of West Virginia were placed under tornado watch.
Nikki Haley drew a notable slice of Republican voters in four states, while protest votes against the president over his support for Israel continued.
Wisconsin’s Republican-led Legislature proposed changing the State Constitution to restrict private funding and staffing of election offices.
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The storm system was blamed for two deaths, in Kentucky and Oklahoma. Forecasters expected the storm system to move into New England.
Democrats, bolstered by a pair of court rulings out of Florida on Monday, have fresh optimism about their ability to center the campaign on abortion.
Many hotel pools are built with children and sun-seekers in mind: too short, too warm and too crowded. These, in cities across the U.S., let you get your laps in, in style.
The infections, which include one associated human case, add another worrying wrinkle to a global outbreak that has devastated bird and marine mammal populations.
The tale behind a new museum of children’s literature is equal parts imagination, chutzpah and “The Little Engine That Could.”
A powerful storm system struck sections of Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas before moving east, forecasters said.
The Supreme Court will soon decide whether to hear an appeal in her case, which, as one judge put it, “focused from start to finish on Ms. Andrew’s sex life.”
Representative Tim Walberg denied that he was advocating the use of nuclear weapons and said that his town hall remarks were taken out of context.
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The rendezvous between the sun and the moon in 2017 captivated a small region in the Midwest. Lucky for Americans at the eclipse crossroads, they get to see it again.
The contest was close, and workers counted ballots for days after the March 19 election before the result of the race for the Democratic nomination was announced.
Officials in Iowa and Missouri estimated that nearly 800,000 fish had died in waters that flow into the Missouri River.
Experts have long pondered the question of improving protections, and several bridges have undergone adjustments. But the size of today’s vessels leads to immense challenges.
Sus empleados afirmaron que las dificultades de la empresa que fabrica aviones no son nuevas, pero que se agravaron durante la pandemia, cuando perdió a miles de sus trabajadores más experimentados.
The suits contend that two counties entered into agreements with telecommunications companies that would bring more money because of increased use of phone calls and electronic messaging.
It took researchers only two days to find the wreckage of the Milwaukee, a steamship that sank in 1886 after colliding with another ship. They were guided by details from newspaper accounts of the accident.
The company’s issues date back years, employees said, and were compounded by the pandemic, when it lost thousands of experienced workers.
While a motive for the killings was not clear, the suspect charged in a deadly attack in Rockford, Ill., told detectives that he had become paranoid after smoking marijuana given to him by one of the victims.
The conditional loan from the Energy Department is part of a broad effort to revive the use of nuclear energy in the United States.
Six home sellers in Missouri successfully argued that the powerful real estate trade group’s rules on commissions forced them to pay inflated fees.
Line 5 crosses tribal lands, runs beneath the water and needs major upgrades. Opponents fear spills. Supporters envision jobs. Everyone sees a fight.
A new approach to reviving victims of cardiac arrest has a higher rate of success than conventional CPR.
An increasing number of states have advanced A.I.-related legislation to combat attempts to mislead voters during the 2024 election, according to a new analysis by the Voting Rights Lab.
During a very brief tenure at NBC News, the former Republican Party leader downplayed her role in efforts to overturn the 2020 election. A review of the record showed she was involved in some key episodes.
The collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge wiped out a roadway that tens of thousands of people used to travel to and from Baltimore.
Erin Hawley, a law professor and wife of Senator Josh Hawley, is arguing the Supreme Court case.
Joshua Russell, 46, of Ohio, left threatening messages in 2022 for Katie Hobbs, then Arizona’s secretary of state, during her successful race for governor.
Larry Householder, already serving a 20-year federal prison sentence, was indicted on additional state felony charges on Monday in connection with a sprawling bribery scheme.
U.S. regulators confirmed that sick cattle in Texas, Kansas and possibly in New Mexico contracted avian influenza. They stressed that the nation’s milk supply is safe.
Centuries-old grave mounds in Illinois became a flashpoint in the debate over displaying Native American remains. Now, tribes are close to seeing them reburied.
He was held prisoner in nine concentration camps. Decades later, he fought a battle against American Nazis that became a major free-speech case.
A potent storm was expected to make travel “near impossible at times” starting overnight on Sunday in the Upper Midwest and Central and Northern Plains, forecasters said.
Faculty members in public universities could be disciplined or fired, even those with tenure, if they are found to fall short of the new requirements.
A new production of the ballet sets it in 1930s Hollywood instead of a mythic India, eliminating Orientalist clichés while embracing American ones.
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Supporters of the little-known college on Friday celebrated its moment of fame after a shocking first-round win.
The referendum, backed by progressives but criticized by the real estate industry, called for raising transfer taxes on properties that sell for more than $1 million.
Ohio will almost certainly go for Donald Trump this November. The Democratic senator will need to defy the gravity of the presidential contest to win a fourth term.
The Tulsa County district attorney said a fight involving the nonbinary student in an Oklahoma high school bathroom was “mutual combat.” The death has been ruled a suicide.
How a blue-collar state went MAGA.
Nine people have been charged with crimes, including weapons violations, in connection to the shooting in Kansas City, Mo., last month.
The Iowa basketball star is blazing a trail in women’s sports.
Dozens of states have lured film and TV production with financial incentives. Years after gutting its program during a budget crisis, Michigan wants to rejoin the arms race.
Politics drive a wedge between even the longest of friends.
The Florida governor has recently highlighted his state’s response to the coronavirus in hopes of striking some distance from Donald Trump.
The Ohio woman, Ava Misseldine, used the identity of a baby who died in 1979 to obtain fake IDs. She was sentenced to six years in prison.
As they struggle to recover after the pandemic, regional theaters are staging fewer shows, giving fewer performances, laying off staff and, in some cases, closing.
The nation uses an enormous number of animals for commercial purposes, and regulations do not adequately protect against outbreaks, experts concluded.
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.
An architecture and design firm in New York installed indoor air sensors during the pandemic. Then the wildfires hit.
Asylum seekers are pouring in at a fraught moment, when Chicago is changing mayors, its shelters are full, and a pandemic-driven restriction at the southern border is expected to end.
Politics probably explain America’s poor life expectancy.
Rollbacks on child labor protections are happening amid a surge of child labor violations.
In 2021, deaths of pregnant women soared by 40 percent in the United States, according to new government figures. Here’s how one family coped after the virus threatened a pregnant mother.
Democratic candidates everywhere should be paying attention to the miserable showing of Lori Lightfoot in the mayoral primary.
America’s cities increasingly face similar problems, particularly worries about crime and hangovers from the pandemic. That’s why the mayor’s election in Chicago on Tuesday is about more than Chicago.
The administration faced a conservative court that has insisted that government initiatives with major political and economic consequences be clearly authorized by Congress.
The outcome of a case in federal court could help decide whether the First Amendment is a barrier to virtually any government efforts to stifle disinformation.
Before the pandemic, turning a house into a hub for big gatherings seemed like a good idea.
The three people were sentenced to life in prison without parole in the fatal shooting of a Flint, Mich., security guard in 2020.
Ascension, one of the country’s largest health systems, spent years cutting jobs, leaving it flat-footed when the pandemic hit.
What seemed like a transitory step to avoid infection has become a major force driving the future direction of urban America.