Forecasters warned that areas around Chicago could experience especially dangerous weather. This type of storm in early March is “uncommon,” one forecaster said.
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Shocked by the rapid price increases, many Americans are scrambling to figure out how to stretch their budgets to cover an essential expense.
Mounting evidence shows that excessive computer use can harm children, so parents are cutting back at home. Now, the debate has shifted to the classroom.
More solar energy was added to U.S. grids than any other technology, but the amount installed fell by 14 percent, according to a new report.
Dominic M. Miller, 20, was sentenced to two years in jail as part of a plea agreement related to the 2024 killing of Lisa Lopez-Galvan. He has already served most of his time.
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After the sprawling and chaotic federal immigration crackdown in Minnesota, jurisdictions in other states have been bracing for a range of scenarios.
More than 70 million people will be at some risk for severe weather on Tuesday, forecasters warned.
The president, Walter Carter Jr., said he “made a mistake in allowing inappropriate access to Ohio State leadership.”
Antonio Wiley’s mother, Anita, vanished during a time when her hometown Detroit was wracked by drugs and crime. It took three decades and an extraordinary effort by a missing persons detective to locate her.
President Trump thinks Republicans should “take over” election procedures in parts of the United States. But where? Here are some possibilities.
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At least six people were dead and well over a dozen injured between the two states after a series of tornadoes on Friday.
The drop in arrests reflects a retreat, at least for now, from some of the administration’s most aggressive immigration enforcement tactics.
A hotel on the edge of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area in Ely, Minn., teaches guests how to harness, mush, and manage teams of three to six dogs during their stay.
A world-famous social welfare worker, she won a Nobel Prize for her efforts on behalf of world peace.
Millions of people from Texas to the Great Lakes are under some risk of heavy rain, strong winds or hail on Friday, forecasters warned.
The large-scale, public event in Chicago on Friday caps two weeks of memorials for Mr. Jackson, the civil rights leader, who died at 84.
Farmers in the Upper Midwest are investing in homegrown oats. It’s good for the land. But can it work as a cash crop?
Mayor Jacob Frey of Minneapolis said “Good riddance” after Ms. Noem’s ouster. Gov. Tim Walz and others said they still wanted a “complete overhaul” of the department.
The president’s choice of Senator Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma to replace her at the Department of Homeland Security could trigger a cascade of aspirants for his seat.
Brian Janous, a former Microsoft executive, and his firm Cloverleaf have become modern-day land men, packaging electricity and land for data centers.
Some kind of severe weather is expected every day into early next week, forecasters warned. Friday is expected to be among the riskiest.
The conspiracy theories of our time seem fixated on an absence of clues.
On the edge of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area, a novice learns to drive her own team on an adventure in the heart of winter.
En Springfield, Ohio, algunos estadounidenses han convertido sus sótanos y habitaciones libres en refugios para familias migrantes que podrían ser objeto de redadas.
They were from Nebraska, Florida, Iowa and Minnesota. One was wrapping up his final deployment and hoped to open a martial arts studio.
Family and friends on Tuesday paid tribute to Jorge Pederson, 30, and the two others who were killed in the attack outside a bar in Texas.
The new C.E.O. said the company would focus on home décor, apparel and pop culture trends in an effort to reverse years of sales declines.
In Springfield, Ohio, some Americans have converted their basements and spare bedrooms into shelters for immigrant families who could be targeted in raids.
The Trump administration cited widespread fraud in state social service programs. Minnesota officials said they were victims of “political punishment.”
Some religious groups have sued for access, others have been denied entrance to detention facilities.
Several top state and federal offices are up for grabs amid a period of crisis with few if any precedents in the state’s history.
The former officer traveled to China to train pilots of the People’s Liberation Army Air Force without approval from the State Department, the Justice Department said.
A Wisconsin man was found guilty of impersonating an undocumented immigrant in handwritten letters that threatened to kill the president in an effort to get the immigrant deported.
The newly indicted people join nine others, including Don Lemon, in facing charges in connection to a protest of President Trump’s immigration crackdown during a worship service.
Greenpeace has said the verdict could bankrupt it. The lawsuit was over the group’s role in protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline.
As Kansas invalidates hundreds of licenses and birth certificates, transgender people say their constitutional rights have been violated.
The Foglia Residences, a nine-story, 76-unit affordable housing unit designed for people who are blind and visually impaired, opened in the fall of 2024.
Speaking in Wisconsin to support Republicans ahead of the midterm elections, Vice President JD Vance reminded his audience that Democrats had not stood up at the president’s behest on Tuesday.
Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota laid out legislative measures to prevent fraud after a scandal that has upended the political landscape in the state.
The federal judge identified 210 orders issued in 143 cases in Minnesota in which he said Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials had not complied with court orders.
Sin Tung Chan was a member of a prominent hometown association in the city, one of hundreds of social clubs that often maintain close ties with the Chinese government.
Mourners lined up outside Rainbow PUSH, the organization Mr. Jackson founded decades ago. He died last week at 84.
The man is accused of conspiring with his then girlfriend to kill her mother, whose body was stuffed in a suitcase. He spent 11 years in prison in Bali, Indonesia, on related charges.
An inquiry into scams involving money slated for social services has deepened over the years. It also is at the center of several recent domestic decisions by the Trump administration.
The Trump administration came under fire for an operation that turned lethal and politically toxic. But the show of force may also have had a bigger purpose: to serve as a warning.
Police officials said the cause of the conflagration near Columbus is under investigation. It took four hours to extinguish and the carcasses were buried beneath wreckage.
Vice President JD Vance said that the Trump administration had been forced to “turn the screws on” Minnesota so the state would respond to allegations of fraud.
The Milwaukee officer used the technology to run searches on his partner’s plate 124 times, officials said, and he also tracked the person’s ex.
Aliya Rahman, a U.S. citizen who was dragged from her vehicle after an ICE agent shattered its window, was charged with unlawful conduct after standing up during President Trump’s speech.
Mr. Kerrey has left his role as chairman of the company, Monolith, after Justice Department documents showed he had met and corresponded with Jeffrey Epstein.
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A judge took the unusual step of dropping the case over a speedy trial violation by the U.S. attorney’s office in Minnesota, which has been flooded with immigration-related cases.
An annual contest usually draws lighthearted quips. This year, Chicagoans chose a political pun.
18 bishops and archbishops from border areas issued a strongly worded statement hours before President Trump’s State of the Union address.
The question before the justices in a lawsuit filed by Michigan seeking to close part of the line was narrow. But the dispute raises broader questions about states’ power to regulate fossil fuels.
The suspect, who had been charged with receiving stolen property, was killed after fleeing into the woods, said the sheriff’s office in Christian County, which is south of Springfield.
Federal officials are subjecting some states to higher scrutiny in an antifraud campaign, as the president rails against California and states led by Democrats.
The need to push back against a core Democratic Party constituency.
Faith leaders said many people were still afraid to leave their homes, even after the weekslong federal immigration crackdown ended.
The woman, Rebecca Auborn, pleaded guilty to murder in December. The men, whom she had met for sex in exchange for money, overdosed on fentanyl, the authorities said.
The New York Times traveled to Honolulu, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, New Orleans and New York to see how Asian American communities blend old and new customs to celebrate the Lunar New Year.
A fraud scandal had Democrats on the defensive and led Gov. Tim Walz to end his re-election bid. But the ICE surge upended the political landscape.
The Pan-Asian landscape is rich with tradition. In Honolulu, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, New Orleans and New York, communities blend old and new customs to make the holiday their own.
The PAC and the White House say the donation had nothing to do with President Trump’s tirade against a new bridge connecting Detroit and Windsor, Ontario.
The police in St. Paul, Minn., are investigating an arrest last month during the immigration crackdown. The man has said he was beaten by agents. ICE asserted that he ran into a wall.
Unusually warm temperatures, dry air, parched vegetation and strong wind gusts have fueled wildfires, which have broken out across Oklahoma and Texas this week.
A combustible mix of weather ingredients has sparked worries about new fires in Oklahoma and Texas.
Amy Acton’s service to retiring Gov. Mike DeWine gives her bipartisan credibility in a Republican state, but that service, leading Ohio’s pandemic response, also stirs charged emotions.
The ruling out of Minnesota marks a new level of judicial concern about the Trump administration’s lack of compliance with judges’ orders in immigration cases.
The assistant chief, Jamiel Altaheri, resigned almost immediately after starting the job, after The New York Times asked about misconduct allegations while he was a police chief in Michigan.
The steamer Lac La Belle, which was carrying passengers and cargo, sank in a storm in 1872. Eight people died when one of its lifeboats capsized.
Meta’s biggest election investment aims to prevent state legislation that it fears could inhibit artificial intelligence development. Its spending starts this week in Texas and Illinois.
In Minneapolis, people ignore the cold to defend their neighbors from ICE.
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Mr. Jackson was critical to Martin Luther King Jr.’s quest to transform a fight for equality in the South to a national movement for economic and social justice.
A Chicago man filed a lawsuit in 2023 against Buffalo Wild Wings, arguing that it had engaged in false advertising of its boneless wings. A judge said the claim “has no meat on its bones.”
At the Jackson home in Chicago, people paid quiet tributes to a man they said was groundbreaking but also ‘very grounded.’
High winds were fueling the risk of wildfires across the Southwest and the Plains. Officials said the weather conditions had caused a deadly highway pileup in Colorado.
Mr. Jackson, who spent much of his life in the city, died at his home there on Tuesday. “He ushered in new politics in Chicago,” one longtime organizer said.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson entered the national spotlight during the civil rights movement and ran for president twice. He also courted controversy while in the public eye.
Veterans have taken part in demonstrations against the federal crackdown on illegal immigration in Minnesota. “I believe in the institutions,” one said.
The Olympic journey of Laila Edwards, the first Black woman to play for the U.S. hockey team, has captivated her hometown, Cleveland Heights.
In a rare letter to Republican senators, four descendants of the former president oppose mining near a wilderness area in Minnesota.
A former spiritual retreat in West Virginia, four cabins in the Ozarks and a converted detention facility in Tennessee.
If you’re looking for a family-friendly weekend in New England, the Midwest or Quebec, it’s hard to find a better travel theme than syrup.
The Mexican-born mayor of Coldwater was accused of voting illegally as a noncitizen. Many of his neighbors want state and federal officials to back off.
Funding for the Department of Homeland Security lapsed on Saturday amid a standoff over restrictions that Democrats have demanded for federal immigration agents. But much of its work continues.
The collapse of the Trump administration’s version of events in the case was only the most recent instance in which officials gave an account of a shooting that was later contradicted.
An upcoming Senate primary contest in Illinois, which is likely to pick the state’s next senator, has centered on Democrats’ future approach to federal immigration policy.
Protesters in Minneapolis and St. Paul said in sworn statements that they were singled out by agents who demonstrated that they knew where they lived.
A Catholic nonprofit and several clergy said immigration authorities had unlawfully blocked its members for months from providing pastoral care at an ICE facility in Broadview, Ill.
El alto comisionado de las Naciones Unidas para los Derechos Humanos ha instado a Estados Unidos a que levante las sanciones que impiden el suministro de petróleo a la isla.
The journalist Don Lemon entered a not guilty plea on Friday to two accounts stemming from his participation in a protest at Cities Church in St. Paul, Minn., last month.
The measures were installed last month by the Trump administration after the U.S. captured Nicolás Maduro and seized control of Venezuela’s oil industry.
A surge of immigration arrests in the state sent thousands of people to detention centers in Texas, New Mexico and elsewhere. Federal courts have been overwhelmed with their pleas for release.
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Congressional Democrats say they will approve no money for the Department of Homeland Security without guardrails on immigration agents. Their voters in Minnesota are demanding no less.
Citizens are rediscovering this institution’s power and original purpose.
Far from the national spotlight, towns like Cornelius, Ore., and Coon Rapids, Minn., are dealing with President Trump’s expanding mass deportation effort, and the effects can be acute.
It is the latest court ruling staving off deep cuts to social services that Democratic-led states say are politically motivated and would harm hundreds of thousands of people.
In a rebuke to the government, a federal judge in Minnesota said “the government failed to plan for the constitutional rights of its civil detainees” during its immigration crackdown in the state.
The top federal prosecutor in Minnesota asked a judge to drop charges against the immigrant who was shot by an ICE agent, saying new evidence was “materially inconsistent” with what officials had claimed.
Some 3,000 agents took part in the federal operation that started late last year around the Twin Cities. On Thursday, officials said the surge would wind down.
The debate over whether federal agents should be allowed to cover their faces with masks has become a flashpoint as the government heads for a partial shutdown.
European leaders are wondering if they can ever trust the U.S. again.
President Trump initially deployed the troops in those cities to support law enforcement efforts to tamp down protests against immigration raids and protecting buildings.
Tom Homan, the White House border czar, says the Trump administration is ending its monthslong surge of immigration agents in Minnesota. Roughly 3,000 agents flooded into the state for Operation Metro Surge. Gov. Tim Walz criticized the administration’s actions but shared cautious optimism.
Senate Democrats refused to move ahead with a spending bill needed to keep the Department of Homeland Security running because it lacked limits they have demanded on federal immigration agents.
After another journalist interviewed the university’s former president about Jeffrey Epstein, a professor physically intervened when a documentarian wanted to ask more questions.
An insolvent, broken utility left downtown buildings in Youngstown freezing in recent weeks. Gov. Mike DeWine has attributed the problems to an archaic system.
The announcement came more than two months into an operation that has led to tense protests, thousands of arrests and three shootings in the Democratic-led state.
The hearing comes two days after the officials declined to answer questions from House members about the fatal shootings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
The states, all led by Democrats, claim the cuts were intended as retribution and will harm efforts to control H.I.V. and other sexually transmitted infections.
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Twenty four states are now considering legislation to allow small, plug-in solar power systems that connect directly into a wall socket.
A Frank Lloyd Wright-designed house in Galesburg, a modern condo in Portsmouth and a midcentury modern home in Seattle.
Desde octubre de 2024, las autoridades mexicanas habían incautado 18.000 armas de fuego, de las cuales casi el 80 por ciento procedían de Estados Unidos.
In their first sit-down interview, Michael and Susan Pretti avoided recriminations and recalled the son that Michael called “an exceptionally kind, caring man.”
About 137,000 .50-caliber rounds have been seized since 2012, and of those, 47 percent came from a plant in Kansas City, Mo., Mexico’s defense secretary said.
A Detroit billionaire met with Howard Lutnick, the commerce secretary, hours before President Trump said he would block the opening of a new bridge connecting Detroit to Canada, officials said.
President Trump’s threat to block the opening of the new crossing is the latest in a long string of challenges for the project.
El puente internacional Gordie Howe, cuya inauguración está prevista para principios de este año, fue construido por Canadá para facilitar el transporte de mercancías entre Detroit y Windsor, Ontario.
Two months after federal agents began operations in the Twin Cities, residents say they have found strength in their sense of community.
For “Mammoth,” a new show at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, he takes up contentious issues of race and climate change in beads, sequins and Lite-Brite colors.
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The Gordie Howe International Bridge, expected to open early this year, was built by Canada to ease cargo transport between Detroit and Windsor, Ontario.
The move involving Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, who hosted a popular midcentury radio and TV show and died in 1979, ends a six-year delay.
The states, all led by Democrats, used the grants to support a wide variety of functions, including H.I.V. prevention and surveillance.
Schools, city offices and businesses were locked down in Springfield, Ohio, where more than 10,000 Haitians have settled in recent years.
Illegal immigration and government overreach are colliding in Minneapolis, fundamentally changing Trump voters’ views of the president.
Joseph Yracheta was in charge of a repository that compiled and protected tribal health data. Then its funding was cut.
Naples, Fla., and Milwaukee are quite different, but have one thing in common: They are home to regional theaters that are thriving.
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.
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.