Most social services come through the schools — but it can be impossible to get to them.
Richard Liu, also known as Liu Qiangdong, will be one of the few high-profile Chinese figures to face a courtroom jury over sexual assault allegations.
Three writers on whether Democrats should get their hopes up.
Groups fueled by right-wing election conspiracy theories are trying to toss tens of thousands of voters from the rolls. “They are just going to beat the system into the ground,” said one election official.
The Cleveland Orchestra has been given the autograph score, which was sold at auction to a previously anonymous buyer for $5.6 million.
Readers discuss a column by Pamela Paul about employing debate techniques. Also: Abortion laws; the Russia-Ukraine war; migrants welcome; Broadway today.
Kyle and Lauren Petry made an offer on a former high school gym that had been renovated into living space. Then social media caught wind of the listing.
A 2020 kidnapping plot against Gov. Gretchen Whitmer rattled Michigan. On Friday, her Republican opponent, Tudor Dixon, used it as a punchline in two campaign stops.
J.R. Majewski, a Republican trying to unseat Representative Marcy Kaptur in Ohio, was deployed for six months to Qatar.
The state prohibition had been in effect for only a week, and now abortions are legal again while a court fight goes forward.
The trash-talking of a man with a history of violent run-ins with the police starts to reveal a message.
What is life like for a man who puts a police officer in jail?
What happens when the right evidence points to the wrong man?
Working in their home city, the photographer Julie Blackmon and her daughter, Stella, a filmmaker, find some mystery in everyday life.
The Securities and Exchange Commission said the firm had agreed to pay a $35 million fine.
Barrie Kosky and Yuval Sharon, two of opera’s finest directors, open new productions in Chicago and Detroit.
The defendants were charged with stealing $240 million intended to feed children, in what appears to be the largest theft so far from a pandemic-era program.
Several significant discoveries have started with a construction worker unearthing a bone and calling in an expert.
Jennifer Bonjean has become known for her aggressive approach as she has defended men accused of sexual misconduct in several of the highest profile cases of the #MeToo era.
Whether he is invited or not, the former president keeps holding rallies in battleground states. It reflects an awkward dance as Republican candidates try to win over general-election voters.
Representative Tim Ryan, the Democratic nominee for Senate, had some advantages coming out of his May primary. But in Ohio, those advantages may not be enough.
The billionaire chief of a family company known for its bathtubs, toilets and faucets, he brought championship play to a tiny Wisconsin town.
The former officer, Roger Golubski, 69, was indicted on charges that he sexually assaulted two women while on duty from 1998 to 2002, the Justice Department said.
The Asian American Power Network will focus on engaging Asian American voters on progressive issues and candidates in seven battleground states.
A tactic by Southern governors to shift the problems of border crossings onto Northern states escalated this week.
A Tudor Revival cottage in Dallas, a 1950 house in Minnetonka and an 1890 Arts and Crafts-style home in Branford.
The University of North Dakota, the latest U.S. college to acknowledge keeping Indigenous bones and artifacts, pledged to work with tribal leaders on returning them.
Abortion was illegal after six weeks of pregnancy, but a judge put the law on hold after abortion rights advocates sued the state.
At New York Fashion Week, a big metal bag made in the Midwest helped represent “female hysteria.”
The photographer Stephanie Sinclair captured the newly unsettled world inside the Cleveland Clinic, where Ohio’s abortion laws have drastically changed maternal care.
Pieper Lewis was 15 years old when, according to court documents, the man sheltering her forced her to have sex with other men for money. She stabbed one abuser 30 times.
As cruising picks up, one small Wisconsin port weighs the pros and cons of more ships and their impact on the town and the environment.
Loops open a dimension where, although time is ticking forward at its usual pace, I’m moving at my own speed, appreciating my body and the world around me.
Democratic candidates have been trying to signal their independence from the White House, while not distancing themselves from his base or his agenda.
The Republican Party is under particular pressure to slap a friendly face on its nominees, with a special focus on wooing women.
An Oklahoma teacher left her job after she told her students how to access the library’s banned books program.
Nearly five inches of rain drenched parts of the city on Sunday, leaving cars stranded along some streets.
Eva LaRue, an actress known for her roles on “CSI: Miami” and “All My Children,” said her family lived in fear. James David Rogers, 58, was sentenced to just over three years.
Democrats are hoping ballot measures on abortion rights will drive up voter turnout. They’re looking to Michigan as a test run.
President Biden attended the groundbreaking for an Intel computer chip factory in a heavily Republican part of Ohio, an effort to focus voter attention on parts of the economy that are improving.
The life a Black man made for himself far from the violence of 1980s St. Louis was upended when the man whose name he used discovered the ruse.
Politicians, activists and entrepreneurs are trying to solve the city’s deep racial and economic divides — and their ambitions know few boundaries.
A state board had previously said the issue could not appear on the ballot because of word spacing problems on the petitions.
With designs that strive to enhance ecology, strengthen community and affirm cultural identity, today’s innovative buildings and projects transcend style.
The best-selling author of 19 novels starring Cork O’Connor opens up about their relationship.
After a dead-heat finish in the 1950 Wanamaker Mile in New York and a series of yes-no-yes rulings, he was finally declared the winner almost a year later.
A converted stone church in Rifton, a floating home in Seattle and a 1907 Tudor Revival house in Kenilworth.
The Dobbs ruling and falling gas prices may have shifted the narrative. But the G.O.P.’s chances in the midterms still look good.
Michigan may hold lessons for residents of other states looking to withstand the tide of authoritarianism and violence.
Julie Chin, an anchor with the Tulsa, Okla., NBC affiliate KJRH, thanked her colleagues for helping her get medical attention immediately and said she was recovering.
Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day.
What happened when a superintendent in northern Michigan raised the issue of systemic racism?
With violent rhetoric from the right intensifying, some election officials are bolstering their defenses. Others are quitting.
Twenty years ago, a grass court emerged from the surrounding cornfields in Charles City. Its story is colored by exacting standards, profound loss and, ultimately, rebirth.
This may be a year when politics gets flipped on its head.
A flurry of new organizing efforts is giving young people hope.
Indigo Point was created as an oasis, one that organizers saw as all the more necessary after a barrage of conservative legislation focused on transgender young people.
The party is turning against a political commitment to fairness.
A handful of Republicans who heeded President Donald J. Trump’s call to march to the Capitol are now vying to return to Washington, this time as lawmakers.
Mike Taylor Jr. said Celeste Northern was “the Detroit girl I had always been looking for.” The two began dating after they both relocated to New York City.
Roberta Smith, co-chief art critic, on fall exhibitions that capture a period during which art and art history have been in flux, including the New Museum’s survey of the polymathic Theaster Gates.
The video shows a Black man, Donovan Lewis, sitting up in bed and raising his hand before an officer fires. The police chief said the authorities had found a vape pen cartridge on the bed.
Abortion rights supporters gathered more than 750,000 signatures, but the petitions they circulated had formatting problems.
A 1960 house in Statesboro, a two-bedroom condominium on Beacon Hill in Boston and a Colonial Revival home in Madison.
The trial came months after a different federal jury did not return any convictions in the case, one of the country’s highest-profile domestic terror prosecutions.
Jobs aplenty. Sizzling demand. If the United States is headed into a recession, it is taking an unusual route, with many markers of a boom.
The House speaker’s visit is reviewed, pro and con. Also: The Kansas abortion vote; OB-GYNs; coal miners; rich and poor friends; single-issue voters.
The Republican hopeful has called the 2020 election stolen. But she sidestepped questions during an appearance on Fox News just two days after receiving the former president’s endorsement.
Cubicles are largely empty in downtown San Francisco and Midtown Manhattan, but workers in America’s midsize and small cities are back to their commutes.
After a lengthy recovery, the artist comes back with the most vigorous work he’s made: “It took me a really long time to understand what had happened to me.”
As the BA.5 subvariant drives a spike, many public health leaders aren’t cracking down
As remote work persists and business deals are sealed online, many upscale restaurants that catered to the nation’s downtown office crowd are canceling the meal.
Even as companies struggle to coax employees back to the office, some bars report that their after-work crowds are nearing prepandemic levels.
Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day.
Theater, art and music are flourishing, and on the culinary scene, a 13-course Filipino tasting menu and a sleek Black-owned winery in Bronzeville are just a few of the city’s new offerings.
Readers discuss the current malaise among many college students. Also: The Oklahoma abortion ban; stopping gun violence; remote work and the climate.
The puzzling coronavirus cases highlight ongoing surveillance challenges and blind spots.
The predominantly Black college in Illinois will cease operations Friday after 157 years, having failed to raise millions to recover from the pandemic and a cyberattack that originated in Iran.