The execution of Ronald Phillips was the first in Ohio since the state changed its methods after an inmate took an unusually long time to die in 2014.
In this 360° video, travel through archival photographs to sites of one of the most destructive civil disturbances in American history and hear from a woman who witnessed it.
The president escaped Washington in search of more appreciative audiences and found that he still enjoys campaign-style rallies.
Employers say they are having trouble filling jobs because too many applicants can’t pass screening, a factor depressing the labor participation rate.
Employees at a Wisconsin technology company are volunteering to have microchips implanted in their hands to make unlocking doors and paying for food easier.
As a high school student, Courtney Carson was at the heart of a racial debate that drew national attention. He’s now trying to improve his hometown.
The agency’s new chief spent 43 of 92 days from March through May in Oklahoma or traveling to or from the state, a watchdog group found.
Despite the pledge, some in the nation’s third-largest city worry that The Sun-Times, now partly owned by trade unions, will veer from its tradition of covering them aggressively.
The fatal shooting of Justine Damond had uncommon circumstances and stirred an uproar in Australia, but once more there were blanks to fill in.
Many longtime residents have lost their homes unfairly.
Mayor Betsy Hodges, after criticizing the shooting and the officer’s failure to use a body camera use, asked Chief Janee Harteau to resign.
Mr. Regula, who served 18 terms in the House of Representatives, played a key role in creating the Cuyahoga Valley National Park.
A daytime lineup of producers and D.J.s is coming to the Panorama Festival on Randalls Island, giving an influential music scene a chance to shine.
A Chicago Y.M.C.A. youth programming director draws on her passion for poetry to inspire children through creative projects.
Here are some major questions about the fatal police shooting of Justine Damond, an unarmed Australian woman who had called 911.
In addition to saying that Justine Damond shouldn’t have been shot, the authorities questioned why the officers’ body cameras weren’t turned on.
Somalis welcomed Officer Mohamed Noor to his precinct last year, but they’re now grappling with his having fatally shot an Australian woman who had called 911.
This week’s Australia Letter reflects on American policing and the case of Justine Damond, who was fatally shot Saturday by a Minneapolis police officer.
James Byron Haakenson was one of 33 teenage boys and young men killed by Mr. Gacy in the 1970s. The identities of six victims remain unknown.
Neither Officer Mohamed Noor nor his partner had their video cameras activated during the fatal encounter with Justine Damond, depriving investigators of valuable evidence.
Three Times journalists reflect on recent personal experiences in which they perceived that their race played the defining role.
An antebellum home near Pittsburgh, a modernist house outside Santa Fe, N.M., and an 1895 townhouse in St. Louis.
An antebellum home near Pittsburgh, a modernist house outside Santa Fe, N.M., and an 1895 townhouse in St. Louis.
A state agency released a brief narrative about the fatal shooting last weekend of an Australian woman who had called 911 to report a possible assault.
Defectors who witnessed executions and saw mass graves are helping to identify where North Korea is believed to have carried out its reign of terror.
The killing of Justine Damond by a police officer in Minneapolis, her home after leaving Sydney, is all the more stunning to her friends because of the life she led.
A state agency releases a brief narrative about the night a woman who called 911 to report a possible assault ended up getting killed by the police.
Cities across the nation are reconsidering the value of small municipal airports, which offer the kind of space that could spur economic development.
People in Atchison, Kan., continue to celebrate the aviator 80 years after her disappearance. While theories are welcome, many are fine with never having answers.
Authorities said they received at least 500 new tips in less than 24 hours after they released a composite sketch of a man suspected of killing two girls in February.
After a second jury deadlocked, a prosecutor said he would be dropping charges against Raymond M. Tensing, who killed Samuel DuBose, an unarmed black motorist, in 2015.
After a taxing series against Boston, the Yankees played sloppily in a drizzly game against the Twins in a city where they have traditionally had little trouble.
The authorities have not offered any explanation of how an unarmed woman’s call to 911, to report a possible assault, led to her being fatally shot.
An order issued by Chief Judge Timothy C. Evans of Cook County, Ill., highlights a contentious national debate surrounding the ability of defendants to post bail.
The police do not know who shot Willie Cooper, 58, over the weekend. He was walking near the nonprofit organization where he worked to help the city’s young people.
The New York Times is asking readers for their help in identifying the people in this photograph taken on July 24, 1967, in Detroit, where racial tensions had led to riots.
Police officials said they were looking into the circumstances of the shooting and why the officers were not using their body cameras.
More than 30 years ago, Tyree Guyton began transforming the blighted street he grew up on. Now, he is dismantling a portion of what is known as the Heidelberg Project to begin something new.
A Minnesota judge’s decision means the Universal Music Group’s money must be refunded and a new buyer found for rights to much of the star’s catalog.
The Sun-Times was acquired by an investment group that includes organized labor, preventing it from being bought by the owner of The Chicago Tribune.
As she researched the story of two Indian immigrants mistaken for Iranians, our reporter came across a case of three Christians mistaken for Jews.
A roofing-business owner, turning to temporary immigrants to fill $17-an-hour jobs, says hiring Americans at better pay isn’t a realistic alternative.
With memories of our parents’ union jobs, many of us have borne the brunt of the decline in employment quality.
Americans tend to associate techno with Europe, but it’s a product of the Rust Belt.
A report on the April treatment of Dr. David Dao says that new measures will limit the authority of Chicago’s airport security officers to board airplanes.
Officials said it was unclear whether the explosion in Oklahoma was an act of domestic terrorism.
Dentists are beginning to prescribe fewer opioids to teenagers after wisdom teeth extractions, since nonaddictive painkillers can be as effective.
On Aug. 21, the sun’s disappearance behind the moon will be visible from the Oregon coast to South Carolina. Here are eight places to see it.
The college has had to close dorms and cut jobs because of plummeting enrollment, which officials attribute largely to fallout from protests in 2015.
The retailer said it would instead focus on executing its business plan as a stand-alone company.
Mayor Betsy Hodges of Minneapolis, who is up for re-election this fall, and other liberal mayors are deflecting criticism by focusing on a common foe.
Fostered by the University of Michigan, testing and research programs draw companies and even equip residents’ vehicles to collect and transmit data.
Srinivas Kuchibhotla’s death in an anti-immigrant attack at a Kansas bar made headlines the world over. Now his wife, Sunayana Dumala, tells her story.
While lawmakers and officials cheered an end to the longest state budget impasse in the nation’s history, a prominent critic remained — the governor.
Among the companies targeted was a firm that operates a nuclear power plant in Kansas. It is not clear who was responsible.
At a constituent meeting in Kansas, a state President Trump won by 20 points, Senator Jerry Moran faced probing questions about the bill — and had some of his own.
A reader in Chicago takes issue with Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s description.
The Illinois Senate voted to override the governor’s veto of a budget deal that raises taxes in an attempt to end an impasse that has imperiled the state’s fiscal future.
The courts offer the best chance to clean up the police scandal.
Mr. Cohran helped found the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, which raised public consciousness through performances.
Some Iraqi Christians who fled persecution and worse could be deported as part of President Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration.
Advocates for reforms or better government can be trained to approach their lawmakers and make a difference.
At least eight states are without budgets several days into a new fiscal year, but the effects have been felt most starkly in Illinois, Maine and New Jersey.
New York’s mass transit system has chronic delays; Washington’s has fires. But Chicago has avoided those problems.
Republicans in several states have agreed to raise taxes recently, testing a fundamental economic principle for the right. But is Washington listening?...
A government shutdown over the state’s budget has shuttered more than 50 state parks, historic sites and recreational areas. At least nine other states are also at impasses.
A commission, searching for proof of fraud, requested personal data on 200 million voters. “Go jump in the Gulf of Mexico,” one state official responded.
In state capitals and street protests, women’s rights activists have been wearing red robes and white bonnets based on “The Handmaid's Tale,” the 1985 novel that is now a series on Hulu.
The announcement of a new unit to tackle Chicago’s gun violence came as President Trump declared on Twitter that he was sending federal help to the city.
One of the best places to view August’s solar eclipse, Carbondale, home to Southern Illinois University, will host scientists and eclipse groupies.
Many people who depend on state services — public university students, drug addicts, troubled teenagers, the elderly — have already felt the repercussions.
Dr. Jerome M. Adams was appointed health commissioner by Vice President Mike Pence when he was governor, and helped address an H.I.V. outbreak there.
Monalisa Perez shot Pedro Ruiz III at close range as he held a book, the authorities said. The couple apparently thought the book would stop the bullet.
The officer in Lansing, Ill., can be heard on a video accusing the 15-year-old of trespassing and saying that he could kill the teenager.
Of all the ways to help people with drug problems, threatening their Medicaid eligibility is among the worst options.
A historic brick house in Columbus, a midcentury ranch in Michigan and a 1799 retreat in New York
A historic brick house in Columbus, a midcentury ranch in Bloomfield Township, and a 1799 retreat in Old Chatham.
A historic brick house in Columbus, a midcentury ranch in Michigan and a 1799 retreat in New York...
Has there ever been a crisper expression of the consequences of ‘intersectionality’ than a ban on Jewish pride flags?...