Confusion has ensued about the future of programs and research supporting people with disabilities as a result of President Trump’s executive order.
Known for his resounding baritone and his courtly manner, he briefly led the Impressions before beginning a successful solo career, recording hits like “Only the Strong Survive.”
The senator worries that too many Democrats remain reluctant to shake up the system. But he does not regret defending Joseph R. Biden Jr. until the very end.
A focus on bread-and-butter issues, not the culture wars, helped an Iowa Democrat win in a red area. His playbook is now being used in Pennsylvania.
Elon Musk’s super PAC has spent $1 million on canvassing operations supporting the conservative candidate in the race, his first election spending after the 2024 campaign.
A Democrat, he became a powerful voice on national intelligence in the Senate before leaving to become president of the University of Oklahoma.
La aerolínea dijo que había comunicado a los 76 pasajeros que viajaban en el avión que la oferta se hacía “sin condiciones”.
The airline said it told the 76 passengers who had been on the plane, which crashed and flipped over on Monday, that the offer came with “no strings attached.”
Leonard Peltier, the American Indian Movement activist, returned to North Dakota, where, under home confinement, he will serve the remainder of his life sentence for the murders of two F.B.I. agents.
Abortion opponents had tried to block, or severely limit, the procedure, against the will of voters who in November enshrined abortion rights in the state constitution.
Andrew D. Lester, 86, was awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty last week to felony assault in the 2023 shooting of Ralph Yarl.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has cited President Trump’s claim of a national energy emergency to speed up permits for new gas pipelines and other projects.
A brick and stone house in Oklahoma City, a midcentury modern home in Tempe and a saltbox in Madison.
How did a successful, financially sophisticated banker gamble his community’s money away?
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Gov. Laura Kelly, a Democrat, had vetoed the bill, but the Republican-controlled Legislature overwhelmingly supported it, following the lead of other conservative states.
Mr. Peltier’s murder conviction and two life sentences, stemming from a 1975 shootout with F.B.I. agents on a reservation, have been widely criticized.
La volcadura del vuelo procedente de Mineápolis se produjo entre fuertes vientos y nieve. De las 80 personas a bordo, 18 resultaron heridas.
Se espera que las 80 personas a bordo sobrevivan. Dos pasajeros describieron cómo un descenso rutinario de pronto los puso de cabeza.
Mr. Peltier was convicted in the killing of two F.B.I. agents. An order from former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. will allow him to serve his remaining time under home confinement.
All 80 people aboard Delta Flight 4819 survived a crash landing at a windy and snowy Toronto airport.
All 80 people on board are expected to survive. Two described finding themselves upside down after what had seemed like a routine descent.
All 80 people aboard the Delta flight from Minneapolis clambered out of the plane, with 18 suffering injuries.
Protesters opposing broad swaths of President Trump’s agenda took the streets across the country, including outside the U.S. Capitol.
Spinning the wheel to raise money for youth sports and, maybe, win a steak, sausage or bone-in pork butt.
The self-taught artist Abraham Lincoln Walker worked in his basement on phantasmagorical paintings, discovered by the art world more than 30 years after his death.
Andrew D. Lester, a Kansas City resident in his 80s, was charged with felonies in the shooting of Ralph Yarl, a teen who went to the wrong address.
The museum dropped a legal effort to block the seizure of the statue by investigators who said the bronze, thought by some to be of Marcus Aurelius, had been stolen.
The Minnesota Democrat will leave her party defending another open seat as it confronts an uphill battle to retake the Senate. The move could also prompt a run from Gov. Tim Walz.
The announcement came one month after the company’s second bankruptcy filing in less than a year.
A Sangamon County deputy fatally shot Sonya Massey, 36, last year, after she called to report a prowler outside her home in Springfield, Ill. The former deputy has been charged with murder.
Michael J. Madigan, a formidable force in the state’s politics for decades, faced federal charges of racketeering, bribery and conspiracy.
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The 10 percent tariff the president said he might impose in March could cause U.S. refineries to cut production and lead to higher prices.
The pardon was the latest overture between the president and the former governor, who is still known in Chicago simply as “Blago.”
Vivek Ramaswamy’s short and rocky tenure in Washington isn’t turning off Republican voters in his home state.
In the lawsuit, the city states that people associated with the group made death threats last year against those who expressed support for Haitian residents.
Despite its brevity, the rush to spear giant sturgeon in Cheboygan, Mich., is important to the local economy.
The facility in western Ohio was licensed to house about 280,000 young hens raised to lay eggs. The destruction came amid egg shortages linked to an avian influenza outbreak.
Some local officials are pushing back against the federal government’s assertion that they must help ICE with its deportation campaign.
The daughter of the Bears founder and football pioneer, George Halas, she witnessed much of N.F.L. history from a young age, then took the team’s reins in 1983.
The suit asserts that sanctuary laws in Chicago, Cook County and Illinois have obstructed federal efforts to enforce immigration policy.
Democrats agreed to let a Republican take the speakership of the Minnesota House after a weekslong fight over control of the chamber.
Officials said on Thursday that a second worker had died from injuries sustained in a shooting at a cosmetics warehouse in New Albany, Ohio. Four others were injured.
The home of Joe Burrow of the Cincinnati Bengals was burglarized in December. The authorities said a man detained in Manhattan was part of a related fencing operation.
If approved, the plan would provide cash payments, a new hospital and the potential returning of land to descendants of the victims.
A competition of sorts has broken out to see who can be the most pro-Trump member of Congress.
G.O.P. lawmakers, including those on the House Agriculture Committee, praised the plan for tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China despite the financial damage a trade war could unleash on American farmers.
A decades-long theft of a man’s identity raised questions about who gets believed in the justice system, and what happens when your name is taken.
David Fisher, a professional rope jumper and performer, was honored by Westfield, Ind., on Monday after using a jump rope to rescue a teenager who had fallen through an icy pond.
The $600,000 settlement is the latest in a series of lawsuits alleging excessive force by Mr. Chauvin, the former police officer convicted of murdering George Floyd.
The wing of an Air Wisconsin plane struck the vehicle, which was trying to cross a taxiway at Chicago O’Hare International Airport, officials said.
The number of incarcerated people nationwide has declined, and almost 200 correctional facilities have closed in the past 20 years. The sites are being repurposed.
The boy was receiving medical treatment at a Michigan medical facility when the chamber exploded on Friday, the authorities said. His mother was also injured.
Democrats elected a Midwesterner and behind-the-scenes operator to take charge of a party still reeling from defeat.
The Minnesota moderate has thoughts on how her party can move forward.
The city had tried for years to host the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, and to get a direct flight to the northeast.
Prosecutors said the woman was intoxicated when she crashed into another car in Missouri, killing a passenger, on Jan. 5, 2022, a year after she joined the mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol.
Both the captain, Jonathan J. Campos, 34, and the co-pilot, Sam Lilley, 28, had been flying for years, according to family and friends.
Miembros de la comunidad estadounidense de patinaje artístico viajaban en el avión comercial que chocó con un helicóptero militar en las afueras de Washington. Regresaban de un campamento de patinaje en Kansas.
El vuelo 5342 de American Eagle se precipitó en el río Potomac tras colisionar con un helicóptero del ejército cuando se aproximaba al aeropuerto nacional Reagan.
After a year of living in Japan, a couple returned to Columbus, Ohio, to find a new three-bedroom house. Would $400,000 be enough?
Members of the U.S. figure skating community were traveling on the commercial jet that collided with a military helicopter outside Washington. They were returning from a training camp in Kansas.
An American Airlines flight from Wichita, Kan., plunged into the Potomac River after colliding with an Army aircraft.
Chesley B. Sullenberger III said though flying was safer than ever, Wednesday’s crash showed the need for constant vigilance and learning from past errors.
Sixty-seven people were believed to have died after an American Airlines jet and a U.S. Army helicopter collided and crashed into the Potomac River.
Republicans still have large legislative majorities in Iowa, but a Democrat’s apparent win in a solidly conservative area buoyed that party at a moment of uncertainty.
The suddenly open seat in a top-tier battleground has several Michigan politicians taking a serious look.
After holding the event for 40 years in the Utah ski town, organizers plan to take it elsewhere starting in 2027.
State health officials said that dozens of people in the Kansas City, Kan., area have the disease, which has drawn a federal response.
The rule would not block undocumented students from enrolling, but it would supply the Trump administration with information to aid immigration enforcement.
A coalition of states, including New York, California, Illinois, New Jersey, Rhode Island and Massachusetts, are expected to file the challenge later on Tuesday in the Southern District of New York.
His decision makes the Senate map even tougher for Democrats: They will need to defend an open seat in a battleground state that President Trump carried in 2024. And Gov. Gretchen Whitmer ruled out a run.
The police said that Matthew W. Huttle, 42, of Hobart, Ind., who was sentenced to six months for his role in the riot at the U.S. Capitol in 2021, resisted arrest after he was stopped in Indiana on Sunday.
No estaba clara la cantidad de detenciones realizadas por las autoridades federales. Funcionarios estatales, incluido el gobernador de Illinois, dijeron que no se les avisó con anticipación del operativo.
A contest for control of Wisconsin’s top court may be even nastier and more expensive than its bitter 2023 predecessor, with the fate of an 1849 abortion ban and other policies at stake.
States are using higher registration fees for electric cars to make up for declining fuel taxes, but some are punitive, environmentalists say. A federal tax could be coming.
The number of arrests there was uncertain. Illinois officials, including the governor, said they had not been given advance notice.
A New York Times analysis shows new maps stifled partisan competition for seats in the House of Representatives and state legislatures.
In Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington and other cities, chefs and owners are worried for their workers and their businesses.
The agents turned out to be unrelated to immigration, officials said hours later. They were from the Secret Service, investigating a threat.
Minnesota’s top court ruled that Republicans had overstepped their authority by conducting business in the Legislature even as Democrats boycotted the session.
A lower court had blocked the Republican-backed law that made it a state crime to enter Iowa after being deported or denied entry to the United States.
The proposal to create the nation’s first religious charter school paid for by taxpayer funds could move the line between church and state in education.
Rebuilding can be a chance to rethink things.
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.
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.