Migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela who entered the United States legally under a Biden-era program are now scrambling.
States across the border issued air advisories about particulate pollution that are expected to last for several days.
Senator Joni Ernst's flip response in an exchange with constituents about the effects of Trump’s domestic policy bill quickly spread online.
Across the country, you’ll find Shakespeare in amphitheaters, exciting new works on intimate stages and many regional repertories in bucolic settings.
The judge ruled that the trooper was shielded from charges under the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution because he was working on a federal task force.
Durante 20 años, Carol Hui ha servido waffles, criado a sus hijos y abrazado el pequeño pueblo de Kennett, en Misuri. Su detención y deportación pendiente a Hong Kong ha golpeado duramente a la comunidad.
Ricky Ian Gordon and Lynn Nottage tell the story of three generations in a Harlem home. Enter a second Nottage generation, her daughter, on the creative team.
The family of four that used the network got disoriented and lost their way in 2022 while trying to reach the United States from Canada on foot in blizzard conditions.
Mr. Hoover was accused of directing the Gangster Disciples even after he went to prison in the 1970s. The federal commutation will not change his state prison sentence.
The ruling helps undercut a new amendment to the State Constitution that ensures abortion rights.
Mr. Hoover, a drug kingpin who was convicted of leading a vast street gang from inside an Illinois prison, has also been convicted of murder.
Prosecutors said the former lawyer, Gregory J. Moore, 51, had also sought to avoid court dates by feigning illnesses, getting into a car crash and calling in bomb threats.
For 20 years, Carol Hui has served waffles, raised her children and embraced the small town of Kennett, Mo. Her detention and pending deportation to Hong Kong has hit the community hard.
From the Super Bowl to the Oscars, Los Angeles has plenty of experience with high-profile spectacles. But the 2028 Olympics will test the city in the aftermath of devastating wildfires.
Senator Elissa Slotkin of Michigan and David Leonhardt on the fundamental question Democrats need to answer.
In the U.S., the re-enactment of historical battles has long been a niche hobby. But fake battles that echo an ongoing war are a relatively recent phenomenon.
At the funeral for Sarah Milgrim, who was killed outside a Jewish museum in Washington last week, the Israeli embassy aide was mourned as someone who wanted to help everyone.
Although the actor’s conviction for filing a false police report was overturned because of a previous deal with prosecutors, the city wanted him to pay for its hate crime investigation.
Yessica Rojas, madre venezolana, lo arriesgó todo para buscar un futuro mejor para sus dos hijos en Estados Unidos. Esta primavera, se marcharon de Misuri porque temía perderlos.
The writer Melissa Febos has a taste for extremes. Her new book, “The Dry Season,” chronicles a bold experiment in her search for self-knowledge.
Yessica Rojas, a Venezuelan mother, risked everything to seek a better future for her two children in the United States. This spring, they left Missouri because she feared losing them.
This year’s playoff ratings are excellent. But is a small-market problem looming?
Domestic factories that make batteries to store power to meet America’s rising energy demand depend on Chinese components and federal subsidies.
Cecilia Alemani works on public art for the popular greenway in addition to curating shows in New York and Santa Fe. This is what a few days in her life look like.
After a drive through this bountiful area of Grand Traverse Bay, your car will overflow with organic fruit and vegetables, freshly caught whitefish, baked goods and more. Just don’t forget to bring a cooler.
A photographer covered protests in the city after George Floyd was murdered. Five years later, he is still working on the story of a city.
There was an enhanced risk for severe thunderstorms in parts of Texas and Oklahoma on Sunday, forecasters said. They warned of hail of up to three inches in diameter and of winds up to 80 miles per hour.
Society’s antagonisms can find a graceful outlet on the hardwood.
A Times reporter was struck by a rubber bullet while covering protests in Quebec in 2001.
After George Floyd was killed, people from the right and left agreed that the act was unconscionable. Now, some conservatives are calling for the police officer responsible to be pardoned.
More than 100 relics connected to President Abraham Lincoln brought in $7.9 million, auctioneers said. The proceeds will help a presidential foundation repay a loan.
A recipe for a vegan cake from a food blogger in Oregon helped a Times reporter to realize that plant-based eating could be delicious.
The court rejected a religious charter school, but conservatives may get much of what they want in a school voucher program that passed the House this week.
The suspect, Elias Rodriguez, was charged with gunning down two Israeli Embassy workers outside a Jewish museum in Washington. Here is what we know about him.
A 24-year-old has been charged with forgery after enrolling in an Ohio high school as a 16-year-old student, the federal authorities said.
A former Grand Rapids, Mich., police officer, Christopher Schurr, will not face a new murder trial in the 2022 killing of Patrick Lyoya after a jury failed to reach a verdict this month.
The man detained after the shooting at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington is from Chicago, where he had marched in pro-Palestinian demonstrations.
In a 4-to-4 decision, the court upheld a ruling by the Oklahoma Supreme Court that blocked the school.
Sam Nordquist was an ebullient trans man who longed for love and fame. He drove halfway across the country to be with a woman he fell for online, certain he was fulfilling both dreams.
He took over the business from his father in 1997 and turned the team into one of the best in the league, with a Super Bowl win during the 2006 season.
Mayor Cara Spencer placed the city’s emergency manager on administrative leave pending an investigation into the failure to warn residents.
The Trump administration announced the withdrawal of the plan just days before the fifth anniversary of George Floyd’s killing.
The village of Dolton, Ill., has stepped in to buy the modest house where Pope Leo XIV spent some of his childhood. It may also use eminent domain.
The Justice Department said that it would abandon efforts to overhaul local policing in Minneapolis and other cities with histories of civil rights violations.
A chalet-style house in Bartlett, a condo in Royal Oak and a brick house in Minneapolis.
Elmhurst, Ill., is evolving from its longstanding reputation as a sleepy bedroom community.
Run by teenagers, for teenagers, the Green Crew helps students get their hands dirty with projects like tree planting, trail restoration and invasive species removal.
Haunted by memories of the Dust Bowl, Oklahoma farmers have adopted conservation practices that have helped to revive about 100 streams.
Chicago is one of the most dangerous cities in the United States for migrating birds, and a glassy lakefront conference center was especially lethal.
Catrin Einhorn, a reporter covering biodiversity, climate and the environment for The New York Times, explains how McCormick Place, a convention center in Chicago, went from being a killer of migratory birds to a success story. This story is part of The New York Times’s “50 States, 50 Fixes” package that highlights one environmental solution that’s working in each state.
Billy Long’s effort to promote the credit, along with his pushing of a fraud-ridden pandemic-era tax break, will be under close scrutiny during his Senate confirmation hearing.
Marty Ross-Dolen’s grandparents died in a devastating collision in 1960. Her mother never talked about it.
A plan for a hefty new tax on university endowments was crafted to target “woke” schools, lawmakers said. But a small Kansas college and a Texas medical school might also be hit.
It is the Trump administration’s latest effort to remake the department’s civil rights division, which has historically worked to fight discrimination against minorities.
The episode happened in Fremont, Ohio, on Sunday night. The mayor said at least one person was missing and emergency crews were searching the Sandusky River.
In London, Ky., the scope of the destruction from a tornado that killed 19 in the state was coming into view as residents tried to process the disaster.
Readers respond to the Missouri senator’s argument for protecting Medicaid from cuts.
Storms capable of producing hail larger than golf balls, strong winds and tornadoes are expected in the Great Plains on Sunday and Monday.
At least 27 people have been killed in storms that have pummeled the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic regions since Friday. Kentucky and Missouri have been hit particularly hard.
Five years after the corner where George Floyd was killed became the epicenter of a national protest movement, the future of the site is unsettled.
With demand for steel down and a trade war underway, miners in the Iron Range of Minnesota are feeling the hit. But they hope better times are ahead.
Day turned to night in northwest Indiana and north-central Illinois on Friday as a rare dust storm shrouded the skies.
Un currículum de profunda educación religiosa, experiencia pastoral de primera línea, gestión parroquial y de gobierno del Vaticano —junto con un empujoncito del papa Francisco— pusieron a Robert Prevost en la vía rápida.
Several tornadoes tore through Missouri, Kentucky and Virginia, killing at least 23 people.
At least 14 people died in Kentucky, Gov. Andy Beshear said. More severe weather was expected across North Texas and the southern plains on Saturday.
A résumé of deep religious education, frontline pastoral experience, parish management and Vatican governance — along with a nudge from Pope Francis — put Robert Prevost on the fast track.
Wildfires are common in the state. But scientists say this week’s damaging blazes in a northeastern region are a sign of more severe effects from a warning planet.
A farm stop in Ann Arbor, Mich., has found success with its local-first approach. But is the model replicable?
Their union objected to the unilateral policy change. Starbucks said the disruption has been minimal.
“I cannot stand by while a country is invaded, a democracy bombarded and children killed with impunity,” wrote the former ambassador, Bridget A. Brink, in an opinion essay published on Friday.
“I’d be surprised if we didn’t see some tornadoes,” a meteorologist with the Storm Prediction Center said.
The same auction house that sold President Trump’s childhood home for millions in 2017 will take bids for the modest three-bedroom where Pope Leo XIV once lived.
Thunderstorm activity could bring a dangerous mix of weather hazards, including large hail, intense wind gusts and strong tornadoes, Thursday into Friday.
“It was the most electric thing I have ever experienced inside the walls of a Catholic church,” one protester recalls.
Judge Hannah C. Dugan claimed judicial immunity this week after a federal grand jury indicted her.
A writer drove from Chicago to L.A. to see what it truly means to belong to a place.
The state’s Republicans are putting abortion on a ballot question again, seeking to buck the trend of voters siding with abortion rights on ballot measures.
The suspect sought to use a drone, Molotov cocktails and armor-piercing ammunition to attack a base outside Detroit on Tuesday, the authorities said.
Judge Hannah C. Dugan’s lawyers claimed judicial immunity in a court filing on Wednesday, a day after she was indicted by a federal grand jury.
The Trump administration has declared litigation to hold oil companies responsible for climate change a threat to the American economy and has taken aggressive steps to fight it.
Despite soaring power demand, Republican lawmakers in the Texas Legislature are pushing to rein in renewable energy, part of a national wave of Trump-era opposition.
John Ewing Jr. would be the first elected Black mayor of Omaha, the largest city in Nebraska. The Republican incumbent, Jean Stothert, had been seeking a fourth term.
With Democrats sizing up their 2028 plans, Pete Buttigieg spoke at a town hall in Cedar Rapids and criticized the Trump administration: “The American people bow to no king.”
A Republican known as Kit, he was the state’s youngest governor. When he retired from Congress after four terms, he said he didn’t want to be the state’s oldest senator.
Judge Hannah C. Dugan was accused of helping an undocumented immigrant elude federal agents who were waiting to arrest him outside her courtroom.
Louis Prevost’s Facebook posts — no longer publicly viewable — suggest that he has embraced some of the most common complaints and conspiracy theories of the right.
Slate Auto, a start-up backed by Jeff Bezos, plans to sell a small, spartan electric truck that comes with no paint, stereo or touch-screens.
In some Illinois cities, shoplifting, calling 911 too many times or even being a victim of a crime can get you kicked out of your home. Sidnee King Pineda, who is reporting on housing laws in Illinois as part of The Times’s Local Investigations Fellowship, explains why.
La orden de San Agustín, con menos de 3000 miembros, dio forma al hombre que se convertiría en cardenal y después en pontífice para los católicos de todo el mundo.
The Order of St. Augustine, with fewer than 3,000 members, shaped the man who would become a cardinal, and then pope to the world’s Roman Catholics.
An investigation from The New York Times and The Illinois Answers Project found that renters in Illinois risked eviction if they had too much contact with the police.
In some places with crime-free housing laws, landlords must kick out tenants who have had too much contact with the police.
In some Illinois cities, shoplifting, calling 911 too many times or even being a victim of a crime can get you kicked out of your home.
A large swath of Minnesota, Wisconsin, the Dakotas and Nebraska was on high alert on Monday. Temperatures were expected to approach 100 degrees in some places.
To win, Mr. Sand would have to buck trends that have favored Republicans in Iowa for a decade.
Few policy differences have emerged among the Democrats vying to replace the retiring Senator Richard J. Durbin, while Gov. JB Pritzker’s influence looms large.
In Chicago, New Orleans and beyond, elated worshipers and priests celebrated their immediate sense of connection with Pope Leo.
Four other people were critically injured, and 30 others were rescued after the fire broke out on Sunday morning, the authorities said.
Mildred Prevost, a mother of three who sought a graduate degree, held her religious devotion at the center of her life.
In a digital age, the front pages of print newspapers can still capture a historic moment as they did on Friday with word-playing headlines, splashy photos and a dose of solemnity.
As a senior designer at G.M., he helped create the exuberant, elongated shape of 1960s and ’70s cars like the Pontiac GTO, the Bonneville and the Trans Am.
A young mother told friends that she’d be “back in 10 minutes.” She never returned, and the police in San Jose have now charged a man in her death.
The man sent letters and emails to 34 public officials and members of law enforcement, the authorities said. Some letters contained a white powder and at least one had a bullet.
The documents, including census records, baptismal rolls and marriage certificates, trace the story of Pope Leo’s mother’s family and their diverse background before moving to Chicago.
En una amplia entrevista en su casa al suroeste del centro de Chicago, John Prevost reflexionó sobre el ascenso de su hermano al papado, los valores del nuevo papa y sus raíces estadounidenses.
Pope Leo was spotted at the 2005 World Series, a rare moment of triumph for the pride of Chicago’s South Side.
The pope grew up in a Catholic enclave on Chicago’s South Side. That community is gone now.
Pope Leo XIV voted in Democratic primaries in 2008 and 2010 and in three Republican primaries in the years that followed, state records show.
After Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was selected to become the leader of the Roman Catholic Church, offers began flooding in to buy this modest house outside Chicago, the real estate broker said.
The pope’s eldest brother, Louis Prevost, remembering their boyhood in Illinois from his home in Florida, said that the pontiff had always been a peacemaker.
In his advocacy of the poor, migrants and a more open church, many people see the new pope as a continuation of his predecessor.
Chicago, a uniquely meme-able city, was the center of a ton of jokes. Here is some of the internet’s best work.
The C.D.C. delivered $750 million annually to state and local health departments for emergency work. The program was eliminated in the Trump administration’s budget blueprint.
Desde llevar ayuda a las regiones devastadas por las inundaciones hasta cantar canciones navideñas y bendecir a los bebés, el papa León XIV intentó ser un clérigo del pueblo en Perú.
From delivering help to flood-ravaged regions to singing Christmas songs to blessing babies, Pope Leo XIV tried to be a cleric of the people in Peru.
The infamous TV talk show host had a political career and grand ambitions. The very qualities that held him back are ones that Democrats need to embrace.
From his home in suburban Chicago, one of the pope’s brothers described Leo as “middle of the road” but not afraid to speak his mind.
Fans from both teams seemed to claim him as their own, but his brother had the final answer.
He voted in November’s presidential election with an absentee ballot, according to records from a suburban Chicago county.
The private Catholic university in the suburbs of Philadelphia has a new most famous alumnus.
Esto es lo que hay que saber sobre el sucesor del papa Francisco, que fue elegido el jueves. Es el primer papa estadounidense y será conocido como León XIV.
Jeffrey Rupnow, whose 15-year-old daughter fatally shot a teacher and a fellow student at a Christian school in Madison in December, faces two weapons-related counts, the authorities said.
For Chicagoans, the selection of Robert Francis Prevost was thrilling and a little stunning.
Here’s what to know about Pope Francis’ successor, Robert Francis Prevost, who was chosen on Thursday. He is the first American pope and will be known as Leo XIV.
The jury deadlocked in the trial of Christopher Schurr, who testified that he feared for his life when he fatally shot Patrick Lyoya during a traffic stop in Grand Rapids, Mich., in 2022.
The chief executive of Detroit Axle, which sells car parts that are mostly imported from China, is adjusting his business and hoping for a new trade deal.
“I started exploring it as a kind of landscape,” the Lebanese-born designer Jessy Slim said of the ravaged surfaces of her legume creations.
Cory Bowman will next face Aftab Pureval, the Democratic incumbent, who outperformed him in Tuesday’s nonpartisan primary.
Ovidio Guzmán López sería el primero de los hijos del capo mexicano en reconocer su culpabilidad ante un tribunal federal estadounidense.
Ovidio Guzmán López would become the first of El Chapo’s sons to acknowledge guilt in a U.S. federal courthouse, after federal investigators turned their attention from the drug lord to his children.
Price Tower, the architect’s only realized vision for a skyscraper, is going to a company that says it will restore the Oklahoma building for use as a hotel and residences.
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The White House has begun a new effort to sue individual states over their climate initiatives and to stop lawsuits against fossil fuel companies.
Patricia Racette, who has a recent history of performing in and directing productions with the company, will begin as its artistic director this fall.
Judge Hannah C. Dugan was accused of directing an undocumented immigrant to leave through a side door while federal agents waited for him.
The company lent roughly $9 billion to practices affected by a vast cyberattack on its payment systems last year. Medical practices are now suing the health care colossus, saying it is pressuring them to repay funds.
Tens of thousands were on hand to see the billionaire announce his plans to retire. Their attention is already focusing on what is next for the conglomerate he built.
With high costs and low prices for their crops, soybean and corn farmers were already nervous as they planned for planting season this year. Tariffs aren’t helping.
In Detroit, traditionalist Catholics were bracing for a crackdown. The promise of change in Rome offers them a sliver of hope.
Mr. Buffett, 94, was crowned the “Oracle of Omaha” because of smart investments he made as the chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway. He also made some mistakes.
The department’s civil rights division said it was investigating the Hennepin County prosecutor’s office over a policy telling staff members to be mindful of “racial disparities” in plea negotiations.
Clinicians at the Department of Veterans Affairs say the president’s return-to-office order is forcing many of them to work from makeshift spaces where sensitive conversations can be overheard.
Antonio Austin is trying to hold his car business together as President Trump’s tariffs drive up costs — and drive his customers deeper into crisis.
The man had viewed footage of the fatal shooting of his 18-year-old son in Cincinnati hours before deliberately crashing into a sheriff’s deputy in Hamilton County, Ohio, the authorities said.
Thomas Homan, the border czar, had said, “Wait to see what’s coming,” when asked about guidance sent to state workers about interacting with ICE agents.
A Republican, he imposed a moratorium on capital punishment, saying he could not support a death-row system “so fraught with error” that it might end an innocent life.
A jury in suburban Chicago convicted the man of murder and hate crime charges in the 2023 killing of Wadee Alfayoumi, 6. He was the boy’s landlord.
Ms. Sobule, known for her advocacy as well as her music, died in a house fire. She had been scheduled to perform songs from an autobiographical musical she wrote.
El fármaco se ha convertido en una especie de símbolo de resistencia a lo que algunos en el movimiento MAGA describen como una élite corrupta.