In Apple v. Pepper, the Supreme Court will decide whether iPhone App Store customers are entitled to make their case against the tech giant.
Lawyers for immigrants have started to convince judges that state laws prohibit local law enforcement from cooperating with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Will the conservative majority deliver on Trump’s promise to overturn Roe v. Wade?
These district attorneys should make jail the exception and eliminate cash bail.
The best option goes beyond retaliation or restraint.
Breana Rouhselang, 17, was six months pregnant when her body was found in a dumpster. The father of her child, Aaron Trejo, 16, confessed to killing her, the authorities said.
Republican efforts to constrain incoming Democrats could hurt the party’s image with moderates in a region President Trump considers crucial for his re-election effort.
One suspect pledged allegiance to the Islamic State after being radicalized online, the authorities said, and the other corresponded with Dylann Roof, the Charleston church attacker.
Bike-share operators that have sought to revolutionize transportation increasingly are facing questions about who gets left out.
How states are becoming hotbeds of anti-democratic power grabs.
Walgreens and other major companies are key supporters of the Wisconsin legislators now trying to undermine democracy.
The mother, who was unwed and 18 at the time, thought her daughter had died in childbirth. The baby was taken from her and covertly adopted by another family.
Republicans in Wisconsin, Michigan and North Carolina seem intent on subverting the will of the voters.
The legislation, which Democrats vehemently opposed and protesters chanted their anger over, passed through the Republican-held State Legislature on Wednesday.
A modernist duplex in Miami Beach, a 1928 home in Fort Wayne and a 1979 ranch house in Hollis.
A modernist duplex in Miami Beach, Fla.; a 1928 home in Fort Wayne, Ind.; and a 1979 ranch house in Hollis, N.H.
Also: The latest from the Wisconsin power grab.
The billionaire philanthropist, appearing in Iowa as he mulls a presidential run, called climate change “the issue’’ for 2020.
Protesters gathered at the Wisconsin State Capitol in Madison to oppose Republican legislation that would diminish the power of the incoming Democratic governor and attorney general.
After losing top state offices, Republican lawmakers are racing to pass legislation that would diminish the power of the incoming Democratic governor.
The action comes during a year of teacher protests, which until now had been at district schools in conservative or swing states.
The Republicans are trying to hold onto power at all costs, even if it means undoing democracy.
A look at how a simple architectural fixture has played a role in African-American culture.
The lame duck, heavily gerrymandered Republican Legislature plans to vote on Tuesday to limit the powers of the incoming governor and attorney general, who are — surprise — Democrats.
Democrats in Wisconsin say Republican proposals for slashing the incoming governor’s authority are a blatant power grab after voters ousted the sitting Republican.
Readers discuss President Trump’s threats to G.M. and how SUVs and foreign cars have become so prevalent on American highways.
After a yearlong campaign by activists, the letter combination “JAP” will no longer be issued by the state.
He could be the next Aaron Rodgers but wants to be the next Rickey Henderson instead.
Prosecutors said three officers threw a colleague to the ground, then hit and kicked him, believing he was a protester.
From planning to harvest, the grain belt’s rhythms and prospects have been disrupted by the government’s tariff battle with China.
Oklahoma City’s population is becoming younger and more diverse, a fact that helped propel a Democrat, Kendra Horn, to victory in a traditionally Republican House district. But the city’s changing demographics are only one part of the story.
In a region where the president vowed that manufacturing jobs were coming back, the idling of a Chevrolet plant and its 1,600 workers is a major blow.
The Supreme Court heard arguments over whether state civil forfeiture laws are subject to constitutional limits on excessive fines.
Johanna Burton, who is currently at the New Museum in New York, will take on the role at the center at Ohio State University in March.
Tariffs on Chinese imports have endangered small business around the United States — a growing nightmare that critics say the president could have avoided.
The Trump administration has granted nearly 3,000 exemption requests, surprising even some companies that are asking for them.
President Trump promised to replace the bridge. It is one of the many projects across the country in jeopardy without a federal infrastructure bill.
The justices heard arguments over whether Creek Indians still exercise control over much of the eastern part of the state, and the practical consequences if they do.
Politicians try to undermine a constitutional amendment passed in a landslide this month.
The Minnesota senator emerged unscathed from the Kavanaugh hearings, then coasted to a third term. Now she is weighing whether her home state appeal can translate nationally.
The automaker said the moves would affect five factories in the United States and Canada. President Trump said he was unhappy with the move.
A snowstorm in the Midwest grounded flights out of Kansas City and Chicago, causing a nightmare on the busiest travel weekend of the year.
Dayton, Ohio, had one of the highest overdose death rates in the nation in 2017. The city made many changes, and fatal overdoses are down more than 50 percent from last year.
The superintendent said the school district was “not in a position” to discipline the students because of their First Amendment rights.
But it will be if Democrats do not fight for working people in every corner of the state.
She was a child in Tulsa, Okla., during an attack on a black section of the city in 1921. She later broke a racial barrier for the Coast Guard.
In this newly restored 1968 documentary, two nuns ask a variety of passers-by in Chicago: “Are you happy?”
In a Michigan case involving members of a small Muslim sect, the court found that only states, not federal prosecutors, could bring charges.
In a Kansas City park, a health inspector poured bleach on food donated to homeless people. The volunteers didn’t meet city requirements, the inspector said.
“Little children are victims of senseless gun violence,” Sandra Parks wrote in an essay about her hometown, Milwaukee. Two years later, she was dead.
An 1898 Arts and Crafts house in Glocester, a modern condominium in Chicago and a 1931 cottage in Fayetteville.
An 1898 Arts and Crafts house in Glocester, R.I.; a modern condominium in Chicago; and a 1931 cottage in Fayetteville, Ark.
The junior senator from Nebraska and author, most recently, of “Them” says he and his wife would like their children to love books: “We want them to be addicted to reading.”
The ESPN basketball analyst may have received a lift in his career from his association with James, going all the way back to Akron, but he says he is more than that now.
The acting attorney general also faces questions about campaign donations he received after joining the Justice Department.
Colleagues said Dr. Tamara O’Neal’s ex-fiancé opened fire at Mercy Hospital on Monday. They remember her as a talented and caring physician.
Labor organizers and researchers said they had not heard of Amazon previously coming to the table after worker pressure, even for private discussions.
A white county commissioner in Kansas resigned after widespread criticism for his use of the Nazi-linked term “master race” at a public meeting during a discussion with a black consultant.
Louis Klemp, a Leavenworth County commissioner, said his comments to a black consultant at a public meeting had been misconstrued.
A police officer, a doctor and a pharmacy employee were among those killed at Mercy Hospital. The gunman, who was not identified, was also killed.
Lance Mason, a former judge in Cuyahoga County and a top Democratic state lawmaker, was taken into custody after his wife, Aisha Fraser Mason, a sixth-grade teacher, was found dead.
America doesn’t need a liberal Trump; it needs precisely the opposite of that.
The Kansas official was addressing a black consultant when he used the phrase, prompting the governor to call for his resignation days later.
In an age when almost everything is disposable, some environmentally conscious consumers — and some businesses — are turning to long-lasting, durable products.
The measure would punish doctors who perform an abortion when a fetal heartbeat can be detected, as early as six weeks into a pregnancy, and would have few exceptions.
Despite mediocre returns lately, our columnist is investing for the long run. But he worries like everyone else.
In “Storm Lake,” Art Cullen relates how he took on agricultural polluters and a complicit local government in rural Iowa — and why he became a newspaperman in the first place.
In the On Politics newsletter, talking to the billionaire governor-elect about the path forward for Democrats; plus, a guide to ranked-choice voting.
In a last-minute act, Mr. Sessions limited the Justice Department’s ability to oversee local police reforms. The move raises questions about what this hands-off approach means for existing agreements.
Elevated lead and copper in school water fountains prompted officials to shut them down. Officials say they have a solution, but some Detroiters worry about “a baby Flint.”
The Ohio senator has solved the mystery of how to win as a Democrat in a right-leaning Midwestern state. Is that a viable path to success in 2020?
Illinois authorities defended an officer who killed the guard, Jemel Roberson, as he tried to stop a gunman at a bar. A Roberson family lawyer says the police are rushing to judgment.
A condominium in an 1898 schoolhouse outside Boston, an 1840 Carpenter Gothic house in the Hudson Valley and a 1911 estate in St. Louis.
A condominium in an 1898 schoolhouse outside Boston, an 1840 Carpenter Gothic house in the Hudson Valley and a 1911 estate in St. Louis.
Law enforcement officials said a custody battle played a role in the massacre of the Rhoden family in 2016. Members of another family were arrested in connection with the case.
Jeffrey Zeigler, who shot at a 14-year-old boy who knocked on his door seeking directions, will serve at least four years before he is eligible for parole.
Tyler Barriss, 25, of Los Angeles, faces at least 20 years in prison for making a hoax call to Wichita, Kan., that lead to another man’s death.
On an otherwise bleak night for North Dakota Democrats, a Native American woman unseated the architect of the very law tribes had feared would disenfranchise them.
What his press strategy tells us about the Republican Party and its base.
An image of about 60 male high school students in Baraboo, Wis., many of them smiling gleefully with one arm in the air, went viral and drew condemnation.
For the first time, four of the top elected statewide officials will be women who ran on a broad range of issues.
A flurry of ballot measures on Election Day were the latest move to reshape how we vote, and who can cast a ballot.