The authorities in at least three states were investigating threats against elected officials. President Trump and U.S. senators were identified as targets.
Toni Tipton-Martin, Jungsik Yim and the restaurateurs behind Le Veau d’Or were among the top honorees.
Impersonating a police officer is a tactic sometimes used by criminals to win victims’ trust, police say.
State and federal officials announced charges, including murder, stalking and firearms offenses against Vance Boelter on Monday, who has been accused of assassinating a Minnesota state lawmaker and injuring another during multiple shootings.
Before Representative Melissa Hortman’s death, the state’s House was evenly divided. The governor has until next February to fill her seat before the next legislative session.
State Senator Ann Rest, a Democrat, credited police officers who were proactively checking on her safety with sparing her from an attack.
The Republican senator from Utah suggested in social media posts that the killings were the work of “Marxists,” and mocked Minnesota’s Democratic governor. He later issued a more sober condemnation of the violence.
Battery companies are slowing construction or reconsidering big investments in the United States because of tariffs on China and the proposed rollback of tax credits.
Whether we realize it or not, every decision we make contributes to our collective history.
Governor Tim Walz of Minnesota commended the family of John A. Hoffman, saying their actions during a gunman’s attack on Saturday saved “countless lives.”
Plus, Pope Leo’s hometown shout-out.
A look at two of the most pressing events from the weekend.
After a gunman killed a lawmaker and wounded another, officials scrambled in what they called the largest manhunt in Minnesota’s history. The suspect was arrested in a rural field on Sunday.
Colleagues described Representative Melissa Hortman as a skilled, conciliatory lawmaker who was at once steely and warm.
The tally, which included politicians, community and business leaders, and locations for Planned Parenthood, was recovered in a car linked to the attacks.
A manhunt is underway for a man suspected in the killing on Saturday of a state lawmaker and her husband and in the shooting of another lawmaker and his wife. Here is how the events unfolded.
The Minnesota assassination is causing some state legislators to rethink home security and how much personal information they make public.
El sospechoso, Vance Boelter, fue nombrado más de una vez miembro de la Junta de Desarrollo de la Fuerza Laboral, donde trabajó con el senador estatal John Hoffman, quien fue tiroteado el sábado.
He notched a victory in a Supreme Court decision against the City of Chicago in 1976. He then spent over 40 years making sure the ruling was enforced.
President Trump appointed her to clinch a conservative legal revolution. But soon after arriving at the Supreme Court, she began surprising her colleagues.
Off the bench, the Supreme Court justice has discussed her judicial and personal philosophies, having a son with Down syndrome and running away from television trucks in high heels.
Threats and violent acts have become part of the political landscape, still shocking but somehow not so surprising.
Even as the national political discourse has grown hyperpartisan in recent years, Minnesota had kept a foothold on its own traditions.
The suspect, Vance Boelter, was appointed more than once to the Workforce Development Board, where he served with State Senator John A. Hoffman, who was shot on Saturday.
State Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, died in the attack at their home. The assailant also shot and injured another Democratic lawmaker and his wife, officials said.
Organizers of the protests said that all of the planned events in the state were canceled after a recommendation from Gov. Tim Walz.
Un hombre armado vestido de policía mató a Melissa Hortman, representante estatal demócrata, y a su marido en su domicilio, dijo el gobernador Tim Walz. Un senador estatal y su esposa resultaron heridos en otro ataque.
The program on Saturday in Chicago includes music, prayer, speeches and Pope Leo’s first public address to an American audience.
Michael J. Madigan, who for decades was one of the most influential Democrats in Illinois politics, was convicted of conspiracy, bribery and wire fraud.
Las manifestaciones no son solo en Los Ángeles. Han surgido en ciudades de todo el país.
The provision, long advocated by Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri, would revive and broaden a law for compensating those who developed serious illnesses from government-caused nuclear contamination.
From any angle, Michigan Central Station is a revelation.
Sectors including construction, hospitality, health care and manufacturing are on high alert. Economists are worried about the labor market and growth.
Amid unrest in California, Republicans plan to press the governors of other blue states on their immigration policies, including on limiting cooperation with federal enforcement efforts.
The federal holiday, celebrated on June 19, is embraced as a nationwide celebration of Black history. Here’s how and where to partake.
A bungalow in Elgin, a Craftsman in Oklahoma City and a cottage in Lancaster.
The demonstrators carried signs denouncing federal immigration officials.
The three students who survived the attack in 2023 all suffered extensive, life-altering injuries, their lawyers said.
Prosecutors said the undocumented man had been wrongly accused of threatening President Trump. An immigration judge said on Tuesday that he could be released on bond.
Anger at PJM, which manages the electrical grid in all or parts of 13 states and the District of Columbia, has been boiling over in some state capitals.
With corporate sponsors retreating, smaller companies are helping to fill the gaps, not only to support L.G.B.T.Q. people but also their local economies.
En el Congreso de EE. UU., con una mayoría republicana que se ha mostrado reacia a oponerse a Trump, el representante por Nebraska es uno de los últimos de una especie en vías de extinción.
Judge Hannah C. Dugan was indicted last month on charges of concealing a person from arrest and obstruction of proceedings. She has pleaded not guilty.
How much should the law treat a person as an individual rather than as a member of a group?
Storms could bring 100-mile-per-hour winds, hail bigger than baseballs and a few tornadoes to northern Texas and southwest Oklahoma.
The Nebraska Republican’s dissent makes him one of a disappearing breed in the G.O.P. — and suggests he may head for the exit.
The nearly 11,000-seat Muny in St. Louis is receiving the regional theater Tony Award. This week it began preparing to open its 107th season with “Bring It On.”
A millenniums-old settlement in Michigan has archaeologists rethinking the rise of agriculture on the continent.
Worn by Matthew Broderick in “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” the vest could fetch several hundred thousand dollars, according to Sotheby’s.
The grid operators that draw power from the plants said they never asked for them to remain open, and consumers may have to absorb extra costs.
How one of the N.B.A.’s scrappiest teams came to dominate the league.
The justices rejected an appeals court’s requirement that members of majority groups meet a heightened standard to win employment discrimination cases.
The city that brought us automobiles and Motown has seen tough times. But Detroit always rises again.
Despite signs that consumers are pulling back on some spending, businesses are cautiously hopeful about domestic tourism this summer season.
As university leaders face political pressure around the country, one president in Indiana has acquiesced to many conservative plans.
Ming Li Hui’s detention by the immigration authorities brought the reality of President Trump’s immigration crackdown to rural Missouri, where supporters rallied for her freedom.
Five years after the site became central to a national protest movement, its fate is unsettled.
He mined his own varied catalog of sexual experiences in more than 30 books of fiction and nonfiction.
An farm in Rapidan, a 1780 stone and clapboard house in Palisades and a condo in Chicago
The smoke has drifted toward Minneapolis, and forecasters expect it to reach the East Coast.
Kristi Noem said a Mexican immigrant wrote a letter saying that he wanted to assassinate the president. Another man has now been charged with setting him up.
Some two million people were under a flash flood warning in the two states as several inches of rain fell, trapping some in their cars.
Responses to the story of Carol, an immigrant arrested in a conservative Missouri town. Also: Death by aid cuts; an Orwellian globe; slashing research.
The deviant behavior of a tiny particle called the muon might point to undiscovered forms of matter and energy in the universe. Or it might not.
For almost 20 years, the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra has been collaborating with Native artists, aiming to address a history of racial tension.
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra has hired Donald Palumbo, 76, the former chorus master of the Metropolitan Opera, to lead its chorus.
His photos and graphic design for the Chicago-based company cemented its artistic reputation. He also painted and served as Dance Magazine’s art director.
J.D. Scholten, a state representative who is also a minor-league baseball pitcher, said he had felt compelled to take on Senator Joni Ernst, a Republican, after her defense of Medicaid cuts.
Personas procedentes de Cuba, Haití, Nicaragua y Venezuela que entraron legalmente en Estados Unidos al amparo de un programa de la era Biden ahora están en apuros.
Damaging winds and large hail are forecast for the Plains and the Midwest, and the remnants of Tropical Storm Alvin could bring excessive rainfall and flash flooding.
When the Trump administration slashed a successful food aid program, Austin Flamm set out to put politics aside. “Everybody needs a meal,’’ he said.
The plan, the first large-scale attempt to address the impact of the 1921 atrocity, will raise private funds for housing assistance, scholarships and economic development.
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.
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.
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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.