The defendants, all from Chile, are accused of participating in a South American crime group targeting multimillion-dollar homes, the authorities said. One of them appeared to belong to the Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow.
Activists are holding meetings to advise people about their legal rights and families have been drafting powers of attorney.
With the Nordic Soundscapes Festival, Thomas Sondergard puts his stamp on the Minnesota Orchestra (and its interior spaces).
The billionaire decided he could not campaign while helping lead the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, but tensions with Elon Musk were also evident.
No one was injured. The building, which includes a district office of a Wisconsin congressman who has been a critic of TikTok, sustained moderate damage in the fire on Sunday.
El plan, denominado “Operación Salvaguardia” por el Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas, comenzaría el martes, al día siguiente de la toma de posesión de Trump.
Exactly why the sculpture was attacked by University of Georgia students may always be a mystery. But 70 years later, restored, it rides again.
Details of planned immigration raids are unclear, but they would be the opening step in the president-elect’s goal of overseeing the largest deportation program in history.
While the Justice Department found no discriminatory practices in the shooting death of Sonya Massey, 36, Sangamon County must update its policies and training.
The president-elect’s vow to impose 25 percent duties on Canadian imports could ravage Canada’s auto industry and decimate Windsor, a city deeply tied to the U.S.
Vivek Ramaswamy, who was also seen as a possible replacement for the vice president-elect, is widely expected to run for governor of Ohio instead.
The company said its Columbus plant could eventually produce tens of thousands of autonomous systems and weapons each year.
The former North Dakota governor told senators at his confirmation hearing that he saw limits on energy production as a national security threat.
Doug Burgum, President-elect Donald J. Trump’s pick to be interior secretary, said he would sell some holdings if confirmed. He held on to his investments while running North Dakota.
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer addressed the Detroit Auto Show, saying that tariffs should not be used “to punish our closest trading partners,” like Canada.
A Greek Revival house in Milan, a condo in Philadelphia and a shotgun-style home in New Orleans.
A one-seat Republican majority in the Statehouse and a looming special election made for a tense start to a new era of divided government.
In trying to find the line between false statements and misleading ones in the case of a Chicago politician, members of the Supreme Court posed colorful questions.
The artist Mary Miss agreed to the settlement, ending a yearlong battle to save her work. The museum said her piece, which it had commissioned, had become a safety hazard.
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.
Governor Walz’s party has lost control of the Minnesota Legislature and faces mounting criticism as a budget deficit looms.
The owners of Honor Family Market are ready to retire. A buyer would face the tight margins of a small business and competition against the giant chains and discount stores.
Prosecutors said the man had sent “sexually violent” messages to the Indiana Fever star and had traveled to Indianapolis to be closer to her.
As state legislatures convene, they face the same political polarization seen in Congress. Some are in near-deadlock.
A powerful new book by the law professor Michelle Adams recounts the failed effort to integrate Detroit’s schools and the case’s relevance today.
President-elect Donald J. Trump picked the South Dakota governor to head the Homeland Security Department, which includes the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
The Justice Department’s conclusion follows an investigation of the 1921 atrocity in Oklahoma in which up to 300 Black residents were killed.
The woman, Morgan Geyser, 22, was sentenced to spend 40 years in a psychiatric facility after she stabbed her friend 19 times in 2014 for a sinister internet character.
Parts of Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas began to see snowfall on Thursday as Southern states stretching to the Carolinas brace for the storm to reach them on Friday.
Paradigm-shifter for public art in the ’80s, groundbreaking (and openly queer) performance artist in the ’70s, Burton showed new ways of connecting.
The men said that, by reducing their sentences to life in prison, President Biden’s act of clemency could hurt their appeals.
Across the country, educators described widespread anxiety about President-elect Donald J. Trump’s promises to deport immigrants and what it could mean for their students.
Where will the new year take you? Kick-start your travel plans by selecting favorites from our annual list.
With only two weeks left in the Biden administration, officials hurried to finalize a plan in the city where George Floyd was murdered.
Hazardous snow, sleet and freezing rain disrupted travel plans and caused power outages in the Mid-Atlantic region, as bitter cold set in.
Instead of proclaiming performative acknowledgments of Native peoples, institutions should establish strong relationships with Native nations.
All highways in northeastern Kansas were closed on Sunday evening, bringing traffic to a standstill in some places.
An icy 18-mile section of Interstate 70 in Kansas was closed on Saturday. A large winter storm is bringing sleet, snow and freezing rain that will stretch to the Mid-Atlantic.
The owners began their businesses with no college degrees and 100 percent grit. A visit from the TikTok food critic Keith Lee also helped.
This film about Adam Kinzinger, the politician of the title, benefits from the involvement of the progressive filmmaker Steve Pink.
The affable traditional conservative from South Dakota is the first new chief of the Senate G.O.P. in nearly two decades. He will confront a challenge managing President-elect Donald J. Trump’s expectations.
El estado de Jason Peña, de 14 años, es crítico. En el ataque murieron su padre y su tío, ambos ciudadanos estadounidenses, y un familiar mexicano.
Jason Peña, now 14, was shot in the head on a highway in the state of Durango, a family spokeswoman said. His father and uncle, both U.S. citizens, and a Mexican relative were also killed.
A Queen Anne house in Denver, a top-floor condominium in Chicago and a ranch-style house in Austin.
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Other state laws going into effect in 2025 will boost wages, restrict social media for children and make insulin cheaper.
Ian Cramer, the 43-year-old son of Senator Kevin Cramer, Republican of North Dakota, led the police on a highway pursuit that killed a sheriff’s deputy.
The northern part of the country could see pink and red streaks in the skies this week, just in time for New Year’s Eve, according to NOAA.
Oklahoma’s attorney general dismissed the charge against an Oklahoma City police sergeant who was seen in body camera footage throwing a 71-year-old man to the pavement during an argument over a ticket.
Crime was a talking point on the presidential campaign trail. But after a spike during the pandemic, murders have been dropping steadily, including in big cities like Chicago and San Francisco.
The burden of debt and public pensions could soon push Chicago into bankruptcy.
The Barrett Sisters were a Chicago institution, known for their tight harmonies and joyful performances. She was the last one standing.
Se está investigando la muerte de una persona cuyo cuerpo fue hallado en un vuelo que salió de Chicago y aterrizó en Hawái el martes.
Jews around the globe lit the first of eight candles on Wednesday and came together to celebrate and reflect on their history.
The discovery came after the flight, which originated in Chicago, landed in Hawaii. The death is under investigation.
As time runs out for the Biden administration, cities like Minneapolis — where an investigation found abuse and racial discrimination — may avoid oversight.
A couple found plenty of sunlight in their new house in Chicago. All that was needed was the added “coolness.”
Many Haitian immigrants work at an Amazon warehouse near Springfield, packaging thousands of holiday gifts. But after Donald Trump won the election, some worry about their future.
Assessing newer voices, and future strategies.
As Christmas nears, New York Times journalists send dispatches from places like Santa Claus, Ind., and North Pole, N.Y.
With less touring, it’s been a while since all the world has been its stage, but the troupe is working with the Chicago Shakespeare Theater — where it has family ties.
The governor of South Dakota has defied coronavirus restrictions and been a vocal critic of President Biden’s immigration policies.
The Mark Robinson story is yet another case of self-declared morality being at variance with actual behavior.
The move was the latest sign that House Republicans were moving from investigating and attacking President Biden to taking aim at the new Democratic ticket.
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The woman, 29, was struck by her own vehicle after the suspects began driving away, the police said.
The Chicago City Council is seeking the public transit chief’s ouster as the system wrestles with financial woes, sluggish service and crime complaints since the pandemic.
Columbus, Ohio, had only about 100 homicides a year. Then came a pandemic surge. With more guns and looser laws, can the city find its way back to the old normal?
The footprint of gun violence in the U.S. has expanded, as shootings worsened in already suffering neighborhoods and killings spread to new places during the pandemic years.
Officials are moving to increase enforcement and change laws in response to the rise in counterfeit or expired plates, which exploded during the pandemic.
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 company’s issues date back years, employees said, and were compounded by the pandemic, when it lost thousands of experienced workers.
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.
Driven by Covid chaos, online disinformation and a YouTube guru, two Americans went looking for solace on a sailboat in the middle of the ocean. They found a different fate.
The filmmaker David Siev chronicles his family’s struggle to keep their Michigan restaurant afloat through the pandemic in this hermetic documentary.
A team of reporters and photographers profiled 10 city centers across the country, all in varying stages of economic recovery and transformation.
We visited 10 cities across the country to see how the pandemic and its aftershocks have reshaped the American downtown.
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.
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.
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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.