The New York Times asked poets laureate from across the country what the people in their states had to be thankful for in this difficult year.
In his show at Gagosian, he merges the language of abstract art with the legacies of racial injustice.
The New York Times asked poets laureate from across the country what the people in their states had to be thankful for in this difficult year.
The New York Times asked poets laureate from across the country what the people in their states had to be thankful for in this difficult year.
The New York Times asked poets laureate from across the country what the people in their states had to be thankful for in this difficult year.
The New York Times asked poets laureate from across the country what the people in their states had to be thankful for in this difficult year.
The New York Times asked poets laureate from across the country what the people in their states had to be thankful for in this difficult year.
The New York Times asked poets laureate from across the country what the people in their states had to be thankful for in this difficult year.
The New York Times asked poets laureate from across the country what the people in their states had to be thankful for in this difficult year.
The New York Times asked poets laureate from across the country what the people in their states had to be thankful for in this difficult year.
Portraying itself as a good guy in a seedy corner of home sales, Divvy has received mixed early reviews. But the bulk of its clients will soon have to decide whether to buy or back out.
Honestie’s handcuffing by the police in Grand Rapids, Mich., caused a national uproar and led to a new law enforcement policy on dealing with youths. Honestie died of Covid-19.
Philip Brickman was an expert in the psychology of happiness, but he couldn’t make his own pain go away.
The Trump administration has authorized formal preparations for the transfer of power. Here is a look at the campaign of lawsuits, lies and pressure that sought to prevent that from happening.
A key official designated President-elect Joe Biden as the apparent winner after Michigan certified his victory there and President Trump lost another court decision in Pennsylvania.
Election officials in Michigan certified its election results on Monday, resisting pressure from President Trump to delay the process and making President-elect Biden’s win official.
Its work is usually routine, but thanks to a push by President Trump and other Republicans to overturn the election results, the Michigan Board of State Canvassers is now under a microscope.
As they try to somehow reverse Joe Biden’s victory, President Trump and his allies have targeted heavily Black cities, painting them as corrupt and trying to throw out huge numbers of votes.
Two other employees were injured in the shooting on Saturday night. A man was arrested, but a motive for the episode was unclear.
As Black Lives Matter signs popped up in recent months, our columnist grew less wary of running in predominantly white neighborhoods. But is that optimism premature?
In pushing his false claims to the limits and cowing Republicans into acquiescence or silence, President Trump has revealed the fragility of the electoral system — and shaken it.
State and city leaders are trying to slow the spread of the coronavirus without full lockdowns. But whether curfews will help remains unclear.
Journeys through two states found Americans leading starkly different lives in the pandemic. New Mexico feels at a standstill. In South Dakota, life is going right on.
Joseph R. Biden Jr. was certified as the winner in Georgia, and Michigan Republicans said they had no information that would change the tally in a state Mr. Biden also won.
The Nebraska pharmacist was sentenced to nine years and the Maryland drug dealer was sentenced for 14 years for the plot.
In a city that is used to being disparaged, President Trump’s attempt to overturn an election that he lost seems both extraordinary and business as usual.
The race to file lawsuits challenging the election results has forced lawyers into mistakes and uncomfortable court appearances.
The shooting, which happened at the Mayfair Mall in Wauwatosa, Wis., injured seven adults and one teenager, the police said.
The 17-year-old was captured on video shooting three people during protests in Kenosha, Wis., over the police shooting of Jacob Blake.
Mr. Lowe took control of the animal park owned by another of the show’s main subjects, Joseph Maldonado-Passage, better known as Joe Exotic.
His only success will be in ruining what should be the celebration of a successful election under highly challenging circumstances.
Bob Bauer, the top election lawyer for President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr., called President Trump’s attempts to overturn Michigan’s election results “an abuse of office” and “doomed to failure.”
Two of the state’s leading Republicans are headed to the White House on Friday, as the president continues his efforts to subvert the election results in their state.
“Does the mayor think we’re all stay-at-home moms?”
Patty Schachtner took masks to funeral homes and installed showers for sheriff’s deputies. No amount of preparation could ready her for what followed.
As the virus spread in South Dakota, an impassioned debate over a local mask ordinance played out before the Sioux Falls City Council
The president appears to meddle in Michigan’s electoral process: This is your morning tip sheet.
And I fear there’s no going back.
The execution of Orlando Cordia Hall was the eighth since the Trump administration revived capital punishment for federal crimes and the first of three scheduled during the presidential transition.
The president’s push to prevent states from certifying electors and get legislators to override voters’ choice eclipses even the bitter 1876 election as an audacious use of brute political force.
In a brazen step, the president invited Republican state leaders in Michigan to the White House as he and his allies try to prevent the state from certifying Joe Biden’s clear victory there.
The charges against Alexander Sittenfeld, a mayoral hopeful, stunned local political leaders and reinforced what federal prosecutors have called a “culture of corruption” that has undermined trust in City Hall.
Confrontations have escalated in swing states, with elections officials in both parties facing threats of violence, as the president and other Republicans try to subvert the country’s voting system.
Confrontations have escalated in swing states, with elections officials in both parties facing threats of violence, as the president and other Republicans try to subvert the country’s voting system.
The G.O.P. members of a county canvassing board eventually approved Detroit’s election results, but the process left many voters wondering what stands between a routine election and a breakdown of democracy.
An internal review started after Jeffrey Epstein’s ties to the company were revealed has not produced any public findings. Some employees question whether workplace issues have been properly addressed.
The G.O.P. members of a county canvassing board eventually approved Detroit’s election results, but the process left many voters wondering what stands between a routine election and a breakdown of democracy.
Joseph Mensah, a Black officer, most recently killed an armed Black teenager, Alvin Cole, setting off protests in the Milwaukee area.
“I don’t want to do this,” Gov. Kim Reynolds said, joining a wave of Republican governors issuing new mask orders as her state faces a spiraling hospital crisis.
In a brutal school year, mothers keep the country afloat.
A Frank Lloyd Wright house outside Chicago, a rowhouse on Beacon Hill in Boston and a Queen Anne Victorian in Portland.
A Frank Lloyd Wright house outside Chicago; a rowhouse on Beacon Hill in Boston; and a Queen Anne Victorian in Portland, Ore.
Ben, who lost his parents in a murder-suicide in 2017, had also worked at his father’s barbecue restaurant selling homemade cookies and brownies.
G.O.P. elections officials backtrack in Michigan: This is your morning tip sheet.
G.O.P. members of the elections board in Wayne County, which includes Detroit and is heavily Democratic, reversed their decision to hold up approval of Joe Biden’s victory after an outcry.
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan said the state would shut down a line between her state and Ontario that has been operating since the 1950s.
California and Michigan moved to shut down indoor dining, and Philadelphia severely limited indoor gatherings. With more than 150,000 virus cases daily, the nation is shutting down again.
Caroline Kent’s canvases explore the power and limits of language — and challenge the modernist canon of abstraction.
He caught Covid-19 as the virus surged across the state. How to fill his vacant seat in the state legislature remained in dispute.
The event, which is typically spread across the United States, could be held in its entirety in Indianapolis, organizers said.
Yet Philadelphia, Milwaukee and Detroit have become the targets of G.O.P. allegations of voting shenanigans.
President Trump comfortably carried Chaska, Minn., in 2016. This time, he lost by nine percentage points — a dramatic shift that similarly played out in suburban counties across the country.
Even before he was elected in 2016, Donald J. Trump was building a conspiracy theory about voter fraud that took on new energy this year, as his political fortunes ebbed during the coronavirus pandemic.
A voice for farmers, he lost a re-election bid after it was disclosed that he had joined a health spa that was shut down on prostitution charges.
The president’s efforts to use the courts to delay or block President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s victory were turned aside in cases in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Arizona.
The president has suffered a string of defeats in pursuing legal action seeking to delay certification of his loss to President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.
Some Trump allies have suggested that Republican lawmakers should override the will of voters who elected Joe Biden the next president.
He was noted in the ’80s for his English-style manors, catering to an opulent clientele with a taste for grandeur.
More than a third of the governors across the U.S., including Gov. Tony Evers of Wisconsin and Gov. Mike DeWine of Ohio, have issued public appeals for people to take coronavirus prevention measures seriously.
By different metrics, all sorts of locations in the United States are deeply troubling, from Minot, N.D., to New York City.
The hashtag #MaidenGate has spread, even though the tweet that planted the rumor contained no evidence of the supposed fraud.
A Dutch Colonial-style bungalow in Indianapolis, a Victorian rowhouse in Richmond and a 1918 home in Wilmington.
A Dutch Colonial-style bungalow in Indianapolis; a Victorian rowhouse in Richmond, Va.; and a 1918 home in Wilmington, Del.
The president and his allies have baselessly claimed that rampant voter fraud stole victory from him. Officials contacted by The Times said that there were no irregularities that affected the outcome.
Charles Curtis, who served as vice president from 1929 to 1933, grew up in part on Kanza land and spoke proudly of his Native American ancestry.
Charles Curtis, who served as vice president from 1929 to 1933, grew up in part on Kanza land and spoke proudly of his Native American ancestry.
Decades-old movies, songs and video games have surged in popularity over the pandemic. Psychologists say conjuring nostalgia during stressful times is a healthy coping mechanism.
Joseph R. Biden Jr. hizo campaña como un líder sobrio y convencional, preocupado por el “alma del país”. Juzgó correctamente el carácter de la nación y se benefició de los errores del presidente Trump.
Some lawyers at Jones Day and Porter Wright, which have filed suits about the 2020 vote, said they were worried about undermining the electoral system.
Some Republicans have blamed software glitches for vote-count issues in Michigan and Georgia. The Michigan cases were caused by human error and soon fixed, while Georgia software issues didn’t affect tallies.
President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. took back Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin by surging in the suburbs. He held his own in big cities, but there were signs of weakness in Black and Latino neighborhoods.
The city would also have to admit wrongdoing in its arrest of the Milwaukee Bucks player, who sued the city after the police used a Taser to subdue him during a confrontation over a parking violation in 2018.
Some activists have downplayed the damage to businesses from looting and arson in racial justice protests around the country. But some small entrepreneurs are struggling.
Some activists have downplayed the damage to businesses from looting and arson in racial justice protests around the country. But some small entrepreneurs are struggling.
After working summers at the family ranch, he decided to saddle up as a job, turning to selling real estate later in life. He died of Covid-19.
The university’s president promised strict punishments for students who break virus protocols. But his credibility on campus is wearing thin.
Nebraska delivered one electoral vote for Mr. Biden, but the rest of the rural state is deeply red, and mostly accepting of the election results.
Now, state party leaders are looking to replace the representative-elect, Aaron Coleman.
We asked voters about their hopes for the next four years — regardless of the occupant in the White House.
Joe Biden’s victory was particularly sweet for supporters in three states he had to win: Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan.
Charmaine McGuffey, an ex-major in the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office in Ohio, defeated her former boss in a primary and won the general election against a candidate the sheriff had backed.
Joe Biden had to flip a few states that went to President Trump in 2016 and hold on to Democratic-leaning battleground states to win the election. Here’s how it happened.
Joe Biden had to flip a few states that went to President Trump in 2016 and hold on to Democratic-leaning battleground states to win the election. Here’s how it happened.
The president appeared to have little path through the courts to shift the outcome of the election, leaving him reliant on long shots like recounts or pressure on state legislatures.
Infectious-disease experts warned about the risk of cramming revelers into the Black Hills of South Dakota. But it was the annual Sturgis rally, and bikers were coming no matter what.
The Trump campaign has intensified its efforts to stop vote counting and to question the validity of ballots, with nearly a dozen lawsuits in Nevada, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Georgia.
Mr. Blake, a 29-year-old Black man, was partly paralyzed after a white police officer shot him seven times in the back in Kenosha, Wis., in August, setting off protests.
Run-of-the-mill clerical errors have been used as false evidence of voter fraud in Michigan.
Journalists have debunked most claims of voter fraud, but President Trump’s supporters have not seemed to notice.
Most television networks cut away from the statement President Trump gave Thursday night from the White House briefing room on the grounds that what he was saying was not true.
Judges, like most Americans, will surely see that the winner should be chosen by no one other than voters.
A group of President Trump supporters faced off against Black Lives Matter protesters in Detroit on Thursday morning outside of the TCF Center where the city’s votes had been tallied.
The judge in the case also ruled that the trial would remain in the Minneapolis area after the defendants sought a change of venue.
Joe Biden was propelled to victory in this historically Democratic battleground with the help of increased turnout in Detroit and its wealthy suburbs.
Unfounded rumors about the gathering were shared by President Trump and others.
Unfounded rumors about the gathering were shared by President Trump and others.
Unfounded rumors about the gathering were shared by President Trump and others.
President Trump told suburban voters that affordable housing would hurt property values and increase crime. The story of one Wisconsin community challenges those assumptions.
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.
Protesters marched in Minneapolis, New York and elsewhere against President Trump, while some of his supporters gathered near a Phoenix building where crucial votes were being counted.
A wide range of demonstrators gathered on Wednesday night in cities including Portland, Ore., Philadelphia, Chicago and New York. Marchers showed support for counting all votes in the election, for Black Lives Matter and for other causes.
Beating back a swell of liberal enthusiasm from suburban voters, Ms. Spartz, a Republican state senator, was elected to the House in a reliably conservative district outside Indianapolis.
The president pursued lawsuits in Pennsylvania and Michigan, and his campaign said it would demand a recount in Wisconsin.
Joseph R. Biden Jr. picked up victories in Michigan and Wisconsin, giving him an advantageous position, as President Trump prepared legal challenges.
Supporters of President Trump and Democratic observers converged on the TCF Center in Detroit as poll workers tried to finish counting more than 170,000 absentee ballots.
Screenshots of an election map suggested that 100 percent of a vote update in Michigan went to Mr. Biden. The reason: A typo that was quickly fixed.
Screenshots of an election map suggested that 100 percent of a vote update in Michigan went to Mr. Biden. The reason: A typo that was quickly fixed.
Screenshots of an election map suggested that 100 percent of a vote update in Michigan went to Mr. Biden. The reason: A typo that was quickly fixed.
La elección presidencial ha sido muy reñida, lo que según los especialistas, puede ser el peor escenario para la proliferación de información errónea.
Todavía es muy pronto para saberlo, pero hay indicios de lo que podría pasar.
There remains a huge information gap that is ripe for exploitation.
There remains a huge information gap that is ripe for exploitation.
Joe Biden se acercó a los 270 votos electorales con victorias en Wisconsin y Michigan el miércoles, y dejó al presidente Trump en buena medida jugando a la defensa en el mapa de los estados en disputa.
Though they’re still too close to call, there are some indications of which way things might go.
Though they’re still too close to call, there are some indications of which way things might go.
Though they’re still too close to call, they’re tilting in Biden’s direction for now.
Although some are still too close to call, they’re tilting in Biden’s direction for now.
The count goes on, but we appear to be closer to a winner.
Joe Biden moved closer to 270 electoral votes with victories in Wisconsin and Michigan on Wednesday, leaving President Trump largely playing defense on the battleground map.
From the beginning of his campaign until the end, Joseph R. Biden Jr. concentrated on winning back Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, rather than becoming overly distracted by red states.
From the beginning of his campaign until the end, Joseph R. Biden Jr. concentrated on winning back Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin. It is not clear that he did.
The Republican state senator toppled the lone Democrat representing Oklahoma in Congress, offering her party a pickup as it sought to build its numbers in the House.
The long-serving chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, who had bucked political trends in his conservative district for years, succumbed to a challenge from Michelle Fischbach.
Cori Bush, a Democrat who won a House seat in Missouri, will become the first Black woman to represent the state in Congress.
The four-term congresswoman narrowly held off a well-financed challenge by Jill Schupp, a Democrat.
The first-term Republican overcame a steep challenge from Theresa Greenfield, denying Democrats a crucial pickup in their path to reclaiming control of the Senate.
Mr. Feenstra, a state senator who defeated Mr. King in the primary, shares many of the incumbent’s policy views but not his history of incendiary and racist remarks.
President Trump is counting on strong turnout in staunchly Republican neighborhoods to counter growing Democratic support in the suburbs.
See full results and maps from the Illinois elections.
We made it to election night, together. I’ll be keeping an eye on a few key places to get an early sense of how the results are unfolding.
Hillary Clinton’s narrow loss refocused the party’s efforts to reclaim support and power after years of Republican statehouse dominance.
The 10th-ranked Badgers will not play Purdue on Saturday as they continue to struggle with coronavirus containment and move closer to ineligibility for the Big Ten title.
How different groups voted
How different groups voted
How different groups voted
How different groups voted
See full results and maps from the Oklahoma election.
See full results and maps from the South Dakota election.
How different groups voted