The city will pay six social media influencers $2,000 each to share messages during the trials of Derek Chauvin and three other former police officers charged in the killing of George Floyd.
Experts say the filing of human trafficking charges against John Geddert, who died on Thursday, could have major ramifications for future prosecutions of coaches in the high-pressure world of elite sports.
She believed that life for her people in America was an act of near-superhuman perseverance, and she was determined to capture that history in every medium she could.
The discovery of Mediterranean recluse spiders at the University of Michigan prompted a two-day closure of one of its libraries.
An Oklahoma City police sergeant fired three shots “unnecessarily” at a man “as he was running away,” officials said.
An Oklahoma man whose prison sentence had been commuted cut out and cooked a woman’s heart and tried to feed it to his relatives before killing two of them, the authorities said.
John Geddert died by suicide shortly after he was charged with human trafficking and criminal sexual conduct, Michigan prosecutors said.
The judge has said his first priority as attorney general would be to take on domestic extremism. Today, we examine how his career has prepared him for the task.
State power is the path to racial equality and liberation.
Coronavirus cases at fitness centers in Chicago and Honolulu were linked to carelessness about masks and symptoms, federal health officials found.
The tribe’s Supreme Court excised language from its constitution that limited the citizenship rights of descendants of Black people who had been enslaved by the tribe before the Civil War.
State officials released videos that show investigators confronting the attorney general, Jason Ravnsborg, with descriptions of his car hitting a man: “His face came through your windshield.”
In what appears to be the first case of its kind, a pair of donated lungs led to Covid-19 in an organ recipient, according to doctors at the University of Michigan.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a law that he said would end a system that disproportionately hurts the poor and favors wealthier defendants.
During the pandemic, suicidal thinking is up. And families find that hospitals can’t handle adolescents in crisis.
During the pandemic, suicidal thinking is up. And families find that hospitals can’t handle adolescents in crisis.
As the state murder trial of Derek Chauvin, the former officer charged in the death of George Floyd, approaches, the federal government has accelerated its own investigation.
Taking back control of our personal data can feel like a lost cause. But there’s hope!
The Minnesota Transportation Department excluded that one as too political. The public can vote on 50 finalists, including Raspberry Brrr-et, Road Carew and Mary Tyler More Snow.
Goodbye, Iowa and New Hampshire. Hello, Nevada and South Carolina? The former Nevada senator is just one voice arguing that it’s time to change the nomination calendar.
Goodbye, Iowa and New Hampshire. Hello, Nevada and South Carolina? The former Nevada senator is just one voice arguing that it’s time to change the nomination calendar.
The spike in these states was as brief as it was powerful. Today, their rates of new cases are back roughly to where they were last summer or early fall.
On a visit to a vaccine manufacturing plant in Michigan, President Biden said the nation could be “approaching normalcy” by the end of the year, but said new virus variants could slow progress.
Some epidemiologists say it’s a bad idea, because the games will attract people from all over the country to Indianapolis and San Antonio, the cities that will host every game of the men’s and women’s tournaments.
After touring a Pfizer manufacturing facility in Kalamazoo, Mich., on Friday, President Biden emphasized the safety of approved coronavirus vaccines and said there would be enough available for all Americans by the end of July.
Jason Ravnsborg avoided felony charges, including manslaughter, after he struck and killed a pedestrian with his car last September.
A city commission, created after protests against racism last year, identified five statues of Abraham Lincoln among 41 monuments that should receive public scrutiny.
Connecticut is No. 1 again thanks to the unrelenting efforts of its latest freshman star.
Mr. Dole, 97, represented Kansas in the Senate for more than 25 years, including 11 years as the chamber’s Republican leader.
Mr. Dole, 97, represented Kansas in the Senate for more than 25 years, including 11 years as the chamber’s Republican leader.
Colleges across the country are figuring out how Covid has changed the college experience, while parents are struggling to understand why schools haven’t changed their price tag.
His departure comes in the wake of a job posting, since corrected, that described the museum’s core audience as “white,” and amid criticism from a trustee, some staff and local artists.
A 1921 home outside Cleveland, a two-bedroom condominium in Chicago and a circa-1880 house in Kingston.
A 1921 home outside Cleveland, a two-bedroom condominium in Chicago and a circa-1880 house in Kingston.
A 1921 home outside Cleveland, a two-bedroom condominium in Chicago and a circa-1880 house in Kingston, N.Y.
It was President Biden’s first extended encounter with voters since Inauguration Day and was a rare opportunity for him to practice his signature brand of personal politics.
Ryan Koenigs, a biologist who oversees the state’s sturgeon spearing season in Lake Winnebago, is accused of accepting $20,000 worth of caviar in an illegal bartering scheme.
Even after his defeat, Donald Trump is causing fierce infighting among Republicans in a crucial battleground state. Loyalists are rewarded. Dissenters face punishment.
At least 30 law enforcement officers from around the country took part in the rally on Jan. 6 that preceded the riot. Many are now being investigated.
The coast-to-coast storm brought heavy snow and frigid temperatures while leading to rolling blackouts.
In barns and backyards, outdoor rinks built with kits or from scratch are filling a void for hockey players amid pandemic-related closures.
A vote on a bill this week is part of a movement that could cost Apple and Google billions of dollars. State legislatures are becoming the fight’s new front.
In an interview, Ms. Lightfoot talked about how she hoped to rebuild trust in the system and eventually reopen high schools.
At least 2.5 million customers, most of them in Texas, had lost electricity by early Monday as weather advisories extended from coast to coast.
For Kathryn Stewart, a struggling single mother in Michigan, the past year showed how much safety net programs can help — and how the nation’s fickleness about them can add confusion and uncertainty to fear and worry.
Cities and community groups are wrestling with how to shelter a vulnerable population without exposing it to an airborne virus that spreads most easily indoors.
The museum wrote that it was seeking a director who would work to maintain its “core, white art audience,” in addition to attracting a more diverse one.
The officials of Armstrong, Iowa, and a former city clerk, face charges that include assault with a dangerous weapon, theft and falsifying public documents, the authorities said.
Recent pileups in Iowa and Texas amid severe winter weather have analysts and traffic experts issuing vital reminders about how to stay safe. One common refrain: Slow down.
Ohio officials said on Thursday they discovered about 4,000 overlooked Covid-19 deaths that occurred over the past several months after the state’s Health Department said the deaths had not been properly merged between the internal death certifica...
A look at this week’s news from the team tracking the coronavirus.
The deaths, some of which dated back to October, had not been properly merged between one reporting system and another, the state’s Department of Health said.
The Shaka King movie dramatizes the life and death of Fred Hampton, chairman of the Illinois Black Panther Party. Here’s a guide to the people and the issues of the day.
Michael Patrick F. Smith’s “The Good Hand” is a memoir about grinding work in the last days of the Bakken oil boom.
The private university in Indiana, which is affiliated with the Lutheran Church, said the Crusader name could be associated with “aggressive religious oppression and violence.”
A deal between the city and its teachers' union cleared the way for prekindergarten and special needs students. More will follow.
Saheeda Nadeem, 65, an undocumented immigrant from Pakistan who was given sanctuary by the First Congregational Church in Kalamazoo, Mich., learned this week that she would not be deported, her lawyer said.
Saheeda Nadeem, 65, an undocumented immigrant from Pakistan who was given sanctuary by the First Congregational Church in Kalamazoo, Mich., learned this week that she would not be deported, her lawyer said.
As attorney general, William Barr rejected a plea deal days after Mr. Floyd died, worried in part of protesters calling it lenient. Derek Chauvin was set to plead guilty to third-degree murder.
Mike Shirkey, the state’s top elected Republican, said on Wednesday that he stood behind his previous remarks.
Though an injury derailed her career, she proved that Black women could reach the pinnacle of the sport, winning the 1983 national championship.
A stone house in horse country outside Philadelphia, a Georgian Revival home in Kansas City and a 1907 cottage in Pasadena.
A stone house in horse country outside Philadelphia; a Georgian Revival home in Kansas City, Mo.; and a 1907 cottage in Pasadena, Calif.
Seven of this year’s 16 nominees are women, including the Go-Go’s, Dionne Warwick, Kate Bush, Carole King, Chaka Khan and Tina Turner.
The police did not give a motive, but the suspect’s brother said he had become dependent on opioids after back surgery and was recently upset when doctors refused to prescribe them to him.
The city’s teachers union approved a deal that would send a first wave of students back to classrooms this week.
Actions taken by paramilitary groups in Michigan last year, emboldened by President Donald J. Trump, signaled a profound shift in Republican politics and a national crisis in the making.
Mr. Sowell, who was sentenced to death in 2011, murdered 11 women and hid the remains of his victims on his property.
A new documentary takes viewers inside the Minneapolis Police Department and explores whether more women officers, particularly Black women, could lead to better policing.
The authorities are trying to determine why a device exploded, hurling shrapnel into a Michigan backyard.
If approved, the deal would avert a strike and allow some students to receive in-person instruction starting this week.
“Goin’ Back to T-Town,” the 1993 PBS documentary about the mass murder of a city’s Black residents and the destruction of their community, returns.
Donald Rabin, 23, searched for days for his $22,000 flute, which he left on a Chicago train during a visit.
The state’s selection of party chair and vice chair hinged in large part on who was most loyal to the former president.
A Times editor describes getting the vaccine as a glimmer of joy during a dark and cold winter.
The team released a statement confirming that Reid, the son of Kansas City’s head coach, Andy Reid, had been in an accident but provided no other details.
A cold front swept through parts of the Midwest this week, wreaking havoc on highways in Iowa. Bitter cold is in the forecast.
The pandemic has sent many people back to their parents’ homes, giving both generations new insight and a chance at a different kind of relationship.
What my time working on a North Dakota oil patch taught me about America’s fossil fuel addiction — and how to curb it.
Nuevos testimonios acusan al oficial de policía que presionó su rodilla contra el cuello de George Floyd, en Minneapolis, de usar tácticas similares con otros detenidos a lo largo de los años.
The Ohio attorney general announced charges against Adam Coy, a Columbus police officer when Andre Hill, a Black man, was fatally shot in December.
Adam Coy fatally shot Andre Hill in December within seconds of approaching him. Mr. Coy also faces charges for not activating his body camera until after the shooting.
The trial arising from the “police riot” at the 1968 convention thrust him into the spotlight. He later became an unlikely spokesman for a teenage guru.
The ugly fight between the city and its teachers’ union has frustrated parents, even those who want to keep their children home.
A prefabricated modern house in Madison, a brick colonial in Gloucester and a Greek Revival-style home in McComb.
A prefabricated modern house in Madison, a brick colonial in Gloucester and a Greek Revival-style home in McComb.
The older fiddlers and rhythm guitar players don’t rely on sheet music, so their weekly jam sessions — now on hiatus — are critical to passing their technique to the next generation.
In “Halfway Home,” Reuben Jonathan Miller draws on years of research and personal experience to write about how we understand incarceration and its afterlife.
Timothy Loehmann, who was fired from the Cleveland police force after the shooting death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, has quietly played with a semipro team in Ohio.
Timothy Loehmann, who was fired from the Cleveland police force after the shooting death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, has quietly played with a semipro team in Ohio.
New firsthand accounts accuse Derek Chauvin, the police officer who pressed his knee into George Floyd’s neck in Minneapolis, of using similar tactics on detainees over the years.
Mr. Ryan, who mounted a long-shot campaign for president in 2019, plans to compete for the state’s open Senate seat. His campaign will test Democrats’ strength in a state tilting to the right.
Deep-seated mistrust among Black families toward their public school districts is holding back school reopening, even as Black children suffer inordinately from remote learning.
Tammy and Jordan Myers will have to adopt their twins after two Michigan judges denied them parental rights because the children had been carried by a surrogate.
The deaths add to what is becoming a familiar trend in the spread of the virus as it devastates religious congregate communities by infecting retired, aging populations of nuns and sisters.
A child of migrant workers, he served more than 25 years in the Wayne County court system and advocated for other Latinos in the legal profession. He died of Covid-19.
Teacher resistance is a disaster for the most vulnerable.
A look at this week’s news from the team tracking the coronavirus.
A Times analysis found that the number of hospitals with full or nearly full I.C.U.s has doubled nationwide since the beginning of October, and more than two in five hospitals have reached a critical occupancy level.
The more than 500,000 people we lost to the pandemic so far form a portrait of America. For this series of short films, we asked five people to celebrate the life of someone close to them.
Remote learning is extra hard for millions of students who lack reliable internet at home. Wi-Fi buses are the solution in this Michigan community.
Times correspondents report on the first coronavirus vaccinations in the United States.
The state of Wisconsin is a microcosm of the financial devastation the pandemic has brought the sports industry, and those who rely on it.
A look at this week’s news from the team tracking the coronavirus.
Joe Biden was propelled to victory in this historically Democratic battleground with the help of increased turnout in Detroit and its wealthy suburbs.
Rural voters continued to support President Trump, but some counties that swung far to the right in 2016 moved left in 2020.
Rural voters continued to support President Trump, but some counties that swung far to the right in 2016 moved left in 2020.
How different groups voted
How different groups voted
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How different groups voted
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Every four years, as Election Day draws near, we embrace America’s oddball geographic nicknames.
Here are 20 counties in battleground states that are crucial for a White House victory.
President Trump and former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. debated for the first time, with Chris Wallace of Fox News moderating. Watch the full video with our fact-checks and analysis.
“You’re agitated by my tone because you think people like me should be sitting in a corner, not heard and not seen.”
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Can you identify the cities where these abstract architectural photographs were taken?