Una reportera espacial viajó a la península de Míchigan, donde redescubrió la fascinación por el cosmos.
Carbondale, Ill., a liberal enclave within driving distance of 10 states with abortion bans, has become a hub for the procedure. Last year there were nearly 11,000 abortions in this city of 21,000.
Over two decades, a minimum-security prison aimed at helping inmates prepare to leave prison was a point of civic pride. Now, state officials have converted it to ICE detention.
When students are treated like customers, they can demand educators grade accordingly.
Readers react to President Trump’s disparaging comments about Somalis in the U.S. Also: Academic censorship; a prejudice against psychiatric medication.
Una de las primeras baterías de este tipo se instaló en el desierto de Atacama hace 15 años. Ahora, con la caída de los precios, se utilizan cada vez más en todo el mundo.
An early grid battery was installed in the Atacama Desert in Chile 15 years ago. Now, as prices have tumbled, they are increasingly being used around the world.
The automaker switched production from Ontario in a bid to please President Trump. But the company defaulted on contracts covering hundreds of millions of dollars in assistance, Canada said.
Minnesota’s governor said the president’s xenophobic remarks were dangerous as the state continued to face fiscal questions about a fraud scandal.
In high-profile operations, more than half of those arrested had no criminal record, an analysis shows.
Attacks on Somali Americans are a cruel distraction.
President Trump has attacked Somalis with increasingly inflammatory rhetoric in recent days.
Police say the man, whose identity has yet to be released, shot another man at a grocery store across town in what appeared to be a random attack.
Most Somalis in the Twin Cities are U.S. citizens or legal permanent residents. The Trump administration has started a crackdown on Somalis who are subject to deportation.
President Trump referred to Somali immigrants as “garbage” during a White House meeting on Tuesday.
A Tudor Revival in Clayton, a bungalow in West Palm Beach and an adobe farmhouse in Arroyo Hondo
The Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians in Chicago has built community and pushed musical boundaries for 60 years. Hear 13 tracks from this jazz institution.
William Hendrix wanted a life in politics. He found it, with the Young Republicans.
The essay, written for a psychology class by a University of Oklahoma student, called the idea of multiple genders “demonic.” The instructor said it did not answer the assignment.
The president delivered xenophobic comments during a publicly broadcast cabinet meeting.
The move comes as President Trump has attacked Somalis with increasingly inflammatory rhetoric in recent days.
Forecasters expected the storm to track up the Eastern Seaboard Monday night into Tuesday, leaving as much as a foot of snow in parts of the Northeast.
When ICE arrived in Chicago, this group had an answer.
More than 1,100 flights were canceled at Chicago airports as the storm disrupted travel for those headed home after Thanksgiving.
The organization provides critical support to families of sick newborns, making a lonely and devastating experience a little less so.
The U.S. first had a federal education department in 1867 — not 1979. Its history is critical in understanding the federal role in schools.
Prosecutors say members of the Somali diaspora, a group with growing political power, were largely responsible. President Trump has drawn national attention to the scandal amid his crackdown on immigration.
Blizzards blanketed the parts of northern Wisconsin and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula with heavy snow. Some areas may receive up to 30 inches of snow, according to the Weather Service.
The march down Woodward Avenue, which endured through the city’s hardest years, features papier-mâché caricatures that are uniquely Detroit.
An American Foursquare in Pittsburgh, a Victorian-era home in Cincinnati and a renovated farmhouse in Winchester.
Forecasters said the snow was expected to be unusually intense, even for areas used to heavy snow.
Republican leaders in the legislature backtracked and said they would vote on a new congressional map that President Trump wants, though support remained uncertain.
The Trump administration has claimed the police were slow to protect federal agents on Oct. 4, but videos and audio show that their rationale conflates hours of events involving a shooting, a protest, a car crash and a police radio call.
Vahid Abedini, who colleagues said was in the United States on an H-1B visa, was arrested on his way to a conference in Washington. It was unclear why.
Industrialization in the mostly rural northern part of the state has some residents pushing for protection of the region’s dark skies.
The woman, Morgan Geyser, was last seen in a residential area of Madison, Wis., on Saturday evening. The police said she cut off a monitoring bracelet.
About 700 Somali immigrants are currently allowed to live and work in the United States under a program for people fleeing countries in turmoil.
On Friday, a state Supreme Court ruling reinstated a near-total abortion ban, reversing a judge’s earlier decision.
Seven people, ages 13 to 17 were shot at a downtown gathering by the Chicago Theater. A second shooting left a man dead and another teenager in serious condition.
The processing plant, in Lexington, employs more than 3,000 workers. It is expected to close in January.
Officer Connor Grubb was charged with murder and other offenses after he fired through the windshield of a moving car, killing Ta’Kiyah Young, 21, in August 2023.
Judge Matthew E.P. Thornhill also talked about politics and played Elvis songs in court, a judicial commission said.
The order temporarily halts a federal judge’s call to release several hundred people arrested during the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in Illinois.
Two motorists had been charged with crimes in connection to an incident in Chicago in October. Federal authorities had shot and injured one of the drivers.
New research shows that climate change is beginning to erode home prices in the most disaster-prone areas of the United States. Here’s what to know.
The Coalition for Spiritual and Public Leadership says its members have been blocked from ministering at an ICE detention center near Chicago.
A judge found that immigration agents were using force in a way that “shocks the conscience.” Appellate judges said the restrictions she imposed went too far.
The woman, 26, was in critical condition when she was taken to the hospital, the police said. A person of interest was in custody.
We need to support working-class kids before the 21st century abandons them completely.
An Eastlake Victorian in New Orleans, a Queen Anne Revival in Rapid City and an American Foursquare in Minneapolis.
In a struggling area of Lincoln, a program pays for repairs and energy efficiency upgrades in rental buildings. In return, landlords must keep rents affordable.
A tribally owned network of chargers will soon be complete, connecting reservations and bridging a gap in the Midwest.
Ridership jumped, people cut back on driving and, over the summer, the city extended the program another year.
After the State Senate said it would not take up a new map, President Trump said he would support primary challengers against Republicans who bucked him.
James Donald Vance Jr., of Grand Rapids, Mich., had also threatened President Trump, according to a criminal complaint.
The measure rebuked the retiring Democratic representative Jesús García of Illinois for maneuvering to ensure his top aide would be the only one running to succeed him.
Charlotte and Raleigh in North Carolina became the latest cities to see federal forces move in. Here’s a rundown of what’s going on in each place.
The company that won a huge verdict against Greenpeace earlier this year has asked a North Dakota court to block a countersuit in the Netherlands.
El hombre fue acusado de homicidio involuntario después de que una mujer fuera tiroteada a través de la puerta principal de una casa este mes en los suburbios de Indianápolis.
Lisa Cook, accused of fraud on mortgage papers, said in a letter that Bill Pulte, who referred her to the Justice Department, was doing President Trump’s dirty work.
A man was charged with manslaughter after a woman was shot through the front door of a home before dawn this month in suburban Indianapolis.
Marshawn Kneeland spent nearly all of his 24 years working to get to the N.F.L. He died two days after scoring his first touchdown.
The move comes amid court battles and objections by state and local leaders to President Trump’s deployment orders.
When I took my dad to see Adam Sandler live, I expected to laugh. We both got so much more.
The show, in its depiction of the early feminist movement, is an essential part of the ongoing fight for women’s progress.
The pushback from Senate Republicans follows the governor’s call for a special session to consider a new congressional map that President Trump wanted.
The death-row inmate, Tremane Wood, 46, had already had his last meal. It was only the second time Gov. Kevin Stitt has stepped in to stop an execution.
More than 3,000 workers who make fighter jets and weapons in the St. Louis area have been on strike for over three months.
Authorities said a tanker truck parked outside a hotel in Weatherford, Okla., was leaking ammonia on Wednesday night, prompting evacuations.
Rent increases have outpaced wage growth, but there are pockets of affordability among the largest U.S. metro areas.
The judge raised concerns that federal agents may have violated terms of a consent decree during their immigration enforcement crackdown in Illinois.
The night skies across the United States lit up as fast-moving charged particles from the sun slammed into the Earth’s atmosphere.
The search of The Marion County Record’s office in 2023 touched off a national conversation about press freedom.
The state’s top Republicans wanted to join President Trump’s push to redraw congressional maps. But plans for a special session fell apart when some lawmakers resisted.
A survey of museum directors reveals the impact of federal cutbacks: reduced arts programs for rural areas, students and people who are elderly or disabled.
A lawsuit filed on Monday argued that the president has discriminated against blue states by slashing federal funds for political leverage during the shutdown.
In one of his final missives as the company’s leader, Mr. Buffett said he would accelerate his plans to disburse his fortune to his children’s foundations.
Neros, a company founded in 2023 by former teenage drone racers, won a coveted Army contract and is gaining popularity in the defense sector.
More than 10 inches of snow was expected to fall in some areas south and west of Lake Michigan. The cold system was expected to move further east on Tuesday.
Senator Bernie Sanders is backing Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan in her state’s Democratic primary race for Senate, his latest attempt to pull the party to the left.
While the tech giants have plenty of money to build data centers, smaller outfits are taking on debt and taking big chances to work with them.
The town’s unionized workers wanted to believe that there was something better than what private equity owners had offered.
No Border Patrol agents were injured in the incident on Saturday as an immigration enforcement campaign continues in the city.
Disruptions to air travel on Saturday were modest, but officials and passengers were bracing for worse as the government shutdown continued.
Prince was mysterious, sexy. This adaptation of his 1984 film, onstage in Minneapolis, explains too much and comes off as disorienting.
The former president, now a far less popular figure in his party, appeared in Nebraska for an overtly political speech that slammed his successor.
A photo of him lying on the ground and bleeding made the cover of Life magazine after the 1970 shooting.
El disparo contra la mujer, migrante de Guatemala, ocurrió el miércoles en Indiana, estado que tiene leyes sólidas en favor de la defensa propia.
In a neighborhood that appeals to people from both the right and the left, residents strive for a finely tuned state of political harmony.
Abdiaziz Shafii Farah, 36, played a leading role in a scheme that stole more than $47 million from a program meant to feed children during the Covid-19 pandemic, prosecutors said.
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.
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.
Five years after the pandemic began, interest in the anti-parasitic drug is rising again as right-wing influencers promote it — and spread misinformation about it.
Aimee Bock was accused of overseeing a scheme that exploited lax pandemic-era controls, and reaped millions with fake invoices for nonexistent meals.
The Oklahoma Board of Education recently approved a new, more conservative social studies agenda that has irked even some Republicans.
The judgment was issued in a case brought by the Missouri attorney general. The Chinese government did not respond to the claims in court.
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.
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
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.
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.