In Wausau, Wis., the county board has debated a resolution aimed at embracing inclusion for nearly a year, with no agreement. Racial tensions that had simmered beneath the surface are now roiling the community.
Rural communities have long complained about their lack of internet access. The pandemic and President Biden’s infrastructure plan are giving them hope for a solution.
About 80 people in Sibley, Iowa, were ordered to evacuate. The train was carrying a highly combustible fertilizer and asphalt, officials said.
Mr. Koester’s Delmark Records and his Chicago record store were vital in preserving and promoting music the big labels tended to overlook.
The proportion of those with full protection is much higher among older Americans than among younger people.
Reporting on the impact of the pandemic, I had hoped to gain a deeper understanding of teenagers’ pain. But I received much more than that.
The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Commission removed Gov. Kevin Stitt from the panel just days after he had signed a bill that banned the teaching of certain concepts about race.
Mr. Hill, 47, was fatally shot by a police officer in December while he was in a garage. An agreement announced on Friday paves the way for the city’s largest settlement.
He sang alongside his father and sisters as his family’s gospel group achieved renown in the late 1950s and ’60s.
Gov. Mike DeWine of Ohio announced on Wednesday that residents could win $1 million for having received at least one dose of the coronavirus vaccine in an effort to get more Americans vaccinated.
A reporter’s embed with a high school class tells the story of this interrupted, destabilizing school year.
Gov. Mike DeWine of Ohio announced five prizes for residents who had received at least one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine.
A powerful — and revealing — aspect of the Derek Chauvin trial was the community it created out of strangers.
The delay in the trial of three former officers who are charged with aiding and abetting second-degree murder allows for a separate federal case against them to move forward.
A group of high school students try desperately to make it through an isolated and dire year.
To bolster slumping demand for the vaccine, the state will use federal coronavirus relief funds to pay for a weekly lottery beginning May 26.
Because the judge ruled there were aggravating factors in the murder of George Floyd, he is allowed to sentence Derek Chauvin to up to double the 15-year state guideline.
Canada’s government has backed the pipeline owner in the dispute with Michigan’s governor, an ally of President Biden, complicating U.S.-Canadian relations.
Following the acquisition of the singer-songwriter’s once-secret archives in 2016, a Tulsa-based foundation will put lyrics, photos and films on display in Oklahoma.
A 1925 cottage in Madison, a two-bedroom waterfront condo in Fort Lauderdale and a Craftsman bungalow in Louisville.
A 1925 cottage in Madison, Wis.; a two-bedroom waterfront condo in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; and a Craftsman bungalow in Louisville, Ky.
Lordstown Motors said it would start producing and selling electric pickup trucks this year, but there is little evidence it is ready to do so. Its stock has tumbled from a high of about $30 last year to around $8.
He helped redefine Chicago architecture with his postmodern designs of the Thompson Center and the United Airlines terminal at O’Hare International Airport. But he was also known worldwide.
In addition to the disciplinary action they have faced, the boys’ mother said that at least one of her three sons has been bullied because of the shirts.
The death of George Floyd and other high-profile police killings have prompted African-Americans to seek help, mental health experts say.
The 16-year-old girl was fatally shot while threatening a young woman with a knife. She had spent two years shuttling among Ohio foster homes, hoping to return to her mother.
They are also calling for Mr. Gonzalez to resign for being one of 10 Republican House members who voted to impeach Donald J. Trump after the Jan. 6 riot.
His vibrant paintings of the urban Black experience, and his sketches of nursing home residents he cared for as an aide, drew increasing notice in his last years.
The story of Lori Arnold, drug queenpin and sister to Tom Arnold, is a complicated lesson in Midwestern values.
The charges are another extraordinary censuring of law enforcement officials, who rarely face criminal charges for using deadly force.
The coronavirus could turn sewage surveillance into a mainstream public health practice.
The coronavirus could turn sewage surveillance into a mainstream public health practice.
Andrew Brenner, a Republican, used a background to make it appear as if he were at home rather than behind the wheel of his car during a state meeting. The giveaway? His seatbelt.
One key economic goal is to create the virtuous cycles of innovation and jobs that already occur in many coastal cities.
Everdeen Mason, The Times’s first editorial director of Games, wants to keep challenging current players while reaching new ones. “We have to get people out of their comfort zones a little bit.”
The expected legal motion came on the same day that one of the jurors was being criticized for his participation in the March on Washington last year.
A guide to the most exciting florists working today in Chicago, Miami, Mexico City, Berlin, Seoul and Sydney.
State employees who get vaccinated in Maryland are eligible for a $100 payment, while Detroit is giving out $50 prepaid debit cards to those who give someone a ride to a vaccine site.
State employees who get vaccinated in Maryland are eligible for a $100 payment, while Detroit is giving out $50 prepaid debit cards to those who give someone a ride to a vaccine site.
In a scathing opinion, Judge Algenon L. Marbley temporarily barred the Columbus police from using an array of tactics on nonviolent protesters and said officers had “run amok” with power.
The author of a new study said the combination of blackouts and extreme heat “may be the deadliest climate-related event we can imagine.”
Funcionarios de ambos partidos expresaron dudas sobre las cifras del censo publicadas hace poco; los demócratas aseguran que hay un subregistro de la población hispana.
Ms. Noem, the governor of South Dakota, has defied coronavirus restrictions and eagerly projects a rugged Great Plainswoman image. Her moves have stirred both support and conflict in the G.O.P.
Police said officers killed the assailant in the shooting outside a casino and hotel complex in Green Bay.
President Biden’s infrastructure plan could fund a long-overdue revamp of the Brent Spence Bridge between Ohio and Kentucky. But the Senate Republican leader opposes it.
Warren Buffett was upbeat about his company’s increase in earnings in the first quarter. And, at the shareholders’ meeting, he defended Berkshire’s efforts on dealing with climate change.
The count reflects the slowest population growth since the 1930s. It also offers a glimpse of the shifting centers of population and power in the United States.
Building Back Together will highlight the president’s coronavirus response and his economic plan and will contrast his measured approach to his bombastic predecessor’s.
With offers of cash, housing and a budding talent pool, smaller cities and states hope to get in on the ground floor of a new era for remote workers.
With offers of cash, housing and a budding talent pool, smaller cities and states hope to get in on the ground floor of a new era for remote workers.
One juror described the seven hours of closed-door deliberations that led to Derek Chauvin’s murder conviction.
Boone, a former cultural commissioner for Chicago, will take the helm after tumult over racial justice at the foundation, one of the country’s wealthiest literary organizations.
Stone Foltz, a 20-year-old sophomore at the university in Ohio, died on March 7, three days after he had attended an off-campus Pi Kappa Alpha event.
Our critics and writers have selected noteworthy cultural events to experience virtually and in person in New York City.
A 23-year-old Brainerd, Minn., man was also ordered to pay $12 million for his role in the fire in Minneapolis, U.S. prosecutors said.
Anthony Alvarez, 22, died after a police officer shot him following a chase. A video showed he was running away, holding a gun.
Creating and seeding accounts for every newborn is found to have an impact on aspirations as well as savings.
Frustrated and bored during the pandemic, a Midwestern dad brings his nostalgia for weekend movie rentals to life. Just don’t forget to rewind.
Frustrated and bored during the pandemic, a barber from Des Moines built an old-school video store in his basement. Just don’t forget to rewind.
During the pandemic, a barber from Des Moines built an old-school video store in his basement.
The 2020 carnage for the party was deep in the state, one of many where economic decline and social malaise helped fuel Donald Trump’s rise. Now Democrats face the pivotal question of whether to abandon both Iowa and its first-in-the-nation caucuses.
How did a Promised Land to generations of Black families become a community of lost lives?
Our racialized politics will produce a conservative resurgence.
With immigration leveling off and a declining birthrate, the United States may be entering an era of substantially lower population growth, demographers said.
How “pandemic boredom” led to an internet sensation and a battle royal (with pool noodles) of many Joshes.
Charles Adams, a former police officer, and the Minneapolis North team are warily moving forward after the Derek Chauvin verdict offered a rebuke to one police killing in their community.
The charge was related to a “Sabrina the Teenage Witch” tape that had been rented from a video store in Norman, Okla. Prosecutors dismissed the case on Wednesday.
Even as vaccines roll out, more younger people in Michigan are being hospitalized than at any other point in the pandemic. And they’re coming in sicker.
The fatal shooting of a 16-year-old in Columbus, Ohio, highlights the different standards that young Black girls are held to.
The fatal shooting of a 16-year-old in Columbus, Ohio, highlights the different standards that young Black girls are held to.
The fatal shooting of a 16-year-old in Columbus, Ohio, highlights the different standards that young Black girls are held to.
George Floyd was presented as a full person, not just a body beneath a police officer’s knee. Derek Chauvin, who was convicted in his murder, remained an aloof figure.
What can be done about all of the suffering that remains?
George Floyd was presented as a full person, not just a body beneath a police officer’s knee. Derek Chauvin, who was convicted in his murder, remained an aloof figure.
George Floyd was presented as a full person, not just a body beneath a police officer’s knee. Derek Chauvin, who was convicted in his murder, remained an aloof figure.
Excavations at the city, famous for its pre-Columbian mounds, challenge the idea that residents destroyed the city through wood clearing.
Nicole Poole Franklin, 43, pleaded guilty to hate crime and attempted murder charges after striking two children with her Jeep Grand Cherokee in 2019.
Native Americans are stepping up efforts to pressure Congress to revoke Medals of Honor awarded for the killings of Sioux, including unarmed women and children, at Wounded Knee.
Two nurses have been placed on administrative leave after at least 77 inmates at the Iowa State Penitentiary in Fort Madison received shots that contained six times the recommended dosage.
She was known as Juror 96 and sat through three weeks of testimony, but Lisa Christensen didn’t get to decide Derek Chauvin’s fate. She was selected as an alternate.
Central Illinois, which saw major growth in cases earlier this month, is now improving — especially in Peoria, one of the metropolitan areas where the virus had been spreading the fastest.
Edward Wagner, 28, who prosecutors said had been in a custody dispute over his daughter, apologized for the Rhoden family murders.
With four killings in the past four months, many residents in Ohio’s capital feel victimized by their Police Department, which has received a litany of misconduct complaints.
The Rev. Al Sharpton delivered the eulogy for Mr. Wright, the 20-year-old Black man who was shot and killed by a police officer in Brooklyn Center, Minn., last week.
Los llamados contra el racismo estructural y la violencia policial se extendieron a casi todos los aspectos de la vida estadounidense en el último año. Pero aún quedan avances por lograr, según expertos.
A gunman killed eight people at a FedEx facility last week, despite legislation that sought to prevent people like him from acquiring weapons. What went wrong?
The investigation was a sign that President Biden intends to wield federal law enforcement as a tool to combat police abuses.
Unions and chiefs applauded the guilty verdict against Derek Chauvin, but rank-and-file officers were left feeling anxious.
A bipartisan effort to change policing practices collapsed last summer after George Floyd’s murder by a white officer. Can a “guilty” verdict and President Biden’s call for action resurrect it?
Years before he won a murder conviction for the death of George Floyd, Mr. Ellison, the Minnesota attorney general, was a young civil rights lawyer taking on police misconduct.
The Justice Department has opened up a new avenue for potentially major policy shifts in the city.
New video and 911 calls shed light on what led to the fatal shooting of 16-year-old Ma’Khia Bryant, who the police said was wielding a knife when an officer fired four shots at her.
The inquiry will likely lead to a consent decree between the department and the federal government, a tool that the Obama administration repeatedly used to address police misconduct.
Thomas Lane, J. Alexander Kueng and Tou Thao were charged with aiding and abetting second-degree murder and aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter and are expected to be tried jointly beginning in August.
A 1945 cottage in Charleston, a two-bedroom condo in an industrial loft in Omaha and a converted stone church in Bernardsville.
A 1945 cottage in Charleston, S.C.; a two-bedroom condo in an industrial loft in Omaha; and a converted stone church in Bernardsville, N.J.
As the nation reacts to the guilty verdict a jury handed to Derek Chauvin in the killing of George Floyd, Republican-led states are introducing punitive new measures governing protests.
An ethics committee report said that State Representative Rick Roeber physically and sexually abused his children and once drowned puppies in a pond.
After 10 hours of deliberation, a jury found that Derek Chauvin had murdered George Floyd. We were in Minneapolis for the verdict and the reaction.
Calls for racial justice touched nearly every aspect of American life on a scale that historians say has not happened since the civil rights movement of the 1960s.
A jury deliberated for just over 10 hours before pronouncing Mr. Chauvin guilty on all three charges: second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter.
People across the country reacted with a variety of emotions to the news of the former officer’s conviction on all charges in the killing of George Floyd.
En todo Estados Unidos, la gente reaccionó con una variedad de emociones a la noticia.
Scenes from around the country after Mr. Chauvin was found guilty of murdering George Floyd.
Scenes from around the country after Mr. Chauvin was found guilty of murdering George Floyd.
The police in Ohio, who released body camera footage, said the girl had threatened two other girls with a knife before an officer opened fire.
The president and the vice president addressed the nation on Tuesday evening.
The state’s case, which relied heavily on video evidence from bystanders, is a major victory for Keith Ellison and his team.
Neither murder charge required the jury to find that Mr. Chauvin intended to kill George Floyd. Nor did the manslaughter charge.
Ms. Frazier was 17 when she recorded the cellphone video in May and uploaded it to Facebook. ‘When I look at George Floyd, I look at my dad,’ she said in court.
The vice president was my role model — and my friend.
In testimony from 45 witnesses over three weeks, attorneys returned to the trial’s central questions: what caused George Floyd’s death, and were Mr. Chauvin’s actions justified and lawful.
Chauvin, un exoficial de la policía de Mineápolis, fue declarado culpable de tres cargos. Fue juzgado durante tres semanas por la muerte de Floyd, un hecho que generó las mayores manifestaciones por los derechos civiles realizadas en décadas.
The former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty of murder and manslaughter charges in the death of George Floyd, a Black man whose killing sparked nationwide protests.
Crowds in Minneapolis took to the streets in celebration chanting George Floyd’s name after the verdict was announced.
The jury convicted Mr. Chauvin of second- and third-degree murder, as well as manslaughter. He faces up to 40 years in prison but is likely to be sentenced to far less time, based on state guidelines.
The jury convicted Mr. Chauvin of second- and third-degree murder, as well as manslaughter. He faces up to 40 years in prison but is likely to be sentenced to far less time, based on state guidelines.
Democrats killed a measure by Representative Kevin McCarthy, the minority leader, condemning it as hypocritical.
Keith Ellison, the attorney general of Minnesota, and other members of the prosecution team hold a news conference after the jury announced the guilty verdict in the trial of the former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin.
Keith Ellison, the attorney general of Minnesota, and other members of the prosecution team hold a news conference after the jury announced the guilty verdict in the trial of the former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin.
Los integrantes del jurado estarán recluidos en un hotel durante sus deliberaciones sobre el exoficial de policía acusado en el caso por la muerte de George Floyd.
Under Jimmy Carter, he was the first V.P. to serve as a genuine partner of a president. His own run for the top position ended in a crushing defeat.
The jury will be sequestered in a hotel during their deliberations over Derek Chauvin, who is charged with second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter.
For one Chicago entrepreneur, it was a design that felt as if it had been pulled straight from her unconscious. (And there are lots of chains.)
To the owner, the design felt as if it had been pulled straight from her unconscious.
The 42nd vice president, who died Monday at 93, was recalled for his collaborative role in the Carter administration and his liberal advocacy.
Gov. Tim Waltz and Minneapolis leaders expressed empathy with protesters but emphasized the need for the public to remain peaceful once there is a verdict in Derek Chauvin’s murder trial.
Judge Peter A. Cahill criticized comments by Representative Maxine Waters that if the jury doesn’t return a guilty verdict in the trial of Derek Chauvin, protesters should “get more confrontational.”
What happened to George Floyd is the latest in a long line of incidents of police violence captured on camera. We watched the Chauvin trial with the families of Rodney King, Oscar Grant and Stephon Clark to see this moment in history through their eyes.
Jerry Blackwell, a prosecutor in the trial of the former police officer Derek Chauvin, made closing arguments on Monday, urging jurors to use common sense to evaluate the evidence and find Mr. Chauvin guilty in the death of George Floyd.
The organizers of the walkout, Minnesota Teen Activists, said that students at more than 100 schools participated.
Citing shortcomings of the state’s “red flag” law, the local prosecutor explained why he did not seek a ruling last year that would have barred Brandon Hole from possessing guns.
The murder trial of Derek Chauvin is at the center of a national reckoning on race and policing. But cycles of protests over systemic racism and policing are not new. We watched the trial with the families of Rodney King, Oscar Grant and Stephon Clark to see this moment in history through their eyes.
George Floyd used it to buy cigarettes, but a store clerk thought it was fake. Neither side in the trial has spent much time addressing it.
As a young Justice Department official, Mr. Garland led the investigation into the 1995 attack on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, the worst domestic terror attack in American history.
In his last comments to jurors before they begin deliberating over a verdict, a Minnesota prosecutor argued that Mr. Chauvin had acted with cruelty and indifference unbefitting of a police officer.
The schools will shift to remote learning from Wednesday through Friday, but if the schedule in the Derek Chauvin trial changes, the district will “re-evaluate, adjust plans,” a letter to parents said.
A review of 19 deaths of Black Americans involving police officers shows that, despite public outrage, guilty verdicts are rare.
Businesses boarded up and residents held their breath, fearing a repeat of last year’s unrest if the jury brings back a decision that the public sees as unjust.
Gov. Tim Walz said he had told police officers to “make changes” that would allow reporters to do their jobs.
Red flag laws are supposed to keep guns away from people who should not have them. That did not happen with the gunman who killed eight people in Indianapolis.
Ken-Matt Martin, the esteemed Chicago theater’s first Black artistic director, is going in with his eyes open.
States have passed over 140 police oversight bills since the killing of George Floyd, increasing accountability and overhauling rules on the use of force. But the calls for change continue.
The latest news and data from the team tracking the coronavirus.
The latest news and data from the team tracking the coronavirus.