The order expanded a previous one in April that barred the Trump administration from withholding federal funding to 16 cities and counties over their local laws.
The man, a former software developer for Eaton Corporation, wrote malicious code that crashed servers on the company’s network in 2019, prosecutors said.
President Trump wants to use Washington as a template to target crime in cities around the country.
The judge rejected a 20-year sentence that would have been combined with a federal case. Prosecutors said that Jon Hallford, 45, and his wife cheated grieving families while living a lavish lifestyle.
As President Trump asks Republican-led states to redraw congressional maps, some Indiana conservatives are pushing back. “They should leave it alone,” one legislator said.
Jerome H. Powell, the chair of the Federal Reserve, signaled that interest rate cuts may be coming during his final speech as Fed chair on Friday at an annual conference hosted by the Reserve Bank of Kansas City in Jackson, Wyo.
A year after her father became the Democratic vice-presidential nominee, the 24-year-old Hope Walz reflects on all that has changed for her and the world.
State Democratic officials withdrew the endorsement of a Minneapolis mayoral candidate who has drawn comparisons to Zohran Mamdani, the New York mayoral hopeful.
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Aimee Betro, 45, was convicted this month of attempting to shoot a man near Birmingham, England, in 2019.
A group of homeowners worked together to navigate the process of installing rooftop solar systems, saving time and money in the process.
La Administración de Alimentos y Medicamentos instó a los consumidores a desechar los paquetes de camarones congelados vendidos en 13 estados. Una experta en seguridad alimentaria dijo que el riesgo para el público era bajo.
The Food and Drug Administration urged consumers to discard packages of frozen shrimp sold in 13 states. A food safety expert said the risk to the public was low.
The test is meant to filter out teachers who hold views “antithetical” to Oklahoma values.
In Oklahoma City we’re not put off by rhetoric about reverse discrimination that attacks equal opportunity and celebrations of our residents’ unique identities.
The chair of the Democratic Governors Association, however, warned Republican governors against supporting “a dangerous, politically motivated agenda.”
The I.R.S. says churches can now support candidates during services, but many denominations still forbid it. A Wisconsin pastor learned the hard way.
Just as manufacturing towns failed to recognize the looming threat of new technology, cities now risk underestimating the disruption of artificial intelligence.
From theaters and museums to kayaking and hiking, here are some of our favorite spots within a two-hour radius, by plane or train, from six major U.S. cities.
Springfield faced a crisis after Donald Trump falsely claimed Haitians were eating pets. Now his policies are driving out workers like Wilford Rinvil, who left for Canada.
Representative Mike Flood of Nebraska on why town halls are an American tradition worth keeping.
Thousands assembled around the country to demonstrate against a Republican effort to redraw congressional maps in their favor for 2026.
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“Black Moses,” by Caleb Gayle, recounts the story of Edward McCabe, who dreamed of establishing a haven for Black settlers on the Western frontier.
After President Trump suspended the refugee admissions program, some new arrivals found themselves out in the Wisconsin cold. With help, they have survived.
As the Trump administration has publicly targeted elite universities, it has also quietly pursued funding cuts for the nation’s tribal colleges, which rely on federal dollars to operate.
A federal judge in Texas granted a request by the Trump administration, which said a Biden-era decision to safeguard the bird was flawed.
State prosecutors had previously charged the man with second-degree murder in the deaths of State Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband.
Electricity rates for individuals and small businesses could rise sharply as Amazon, Google, Microsoft and other technology companies build data centers and expand into the energy business.
Aimee Betro, 45, was convicted on Tuesday of attempting to shoot a man near Birmingham, England in 2019.
The former three-term senator is said to be running to get his old job back, delivering a recruitment coup for Democrats facing an uphill battle to win a Senate majority next year.
Dead fish, puddles and weeds are all that’s left of Alice Lake after a pipe, which was unable to close, pushed all of the water into the St. Croix River.
She was revered in the jazz world as a chance taker who communicated an effervescent joy in the pure act of singing.
In a neighborhood that appeals to people from both the right and the left, residents strive for a finely tuned state of political harmony.
A Republican proposal to add five Republican congressional seats in Texas imperils Democrats’ midterm prospects.
Milwaukee and its neighboring area experienced record-setting rains, leading to the early closure of the Wisconsin State Fair and flash flooding that left some residents stranded.
Senator Ruben Gallego of Arizona won his seat last year by outperforming national Democrats among Hispanic voters and men. He wants the party to listen to his message as it regroups.
Record-setting rainfall caused intense flooding in and around the Milwaukee area starting on Saturday night.
The challenges in Ohio highlight the risks that federal and state officials took when they financially backed Intel, a once-powerful force in chip manufacturing.
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.
Prosecutors said that Tonia Haddix perjured herself to avoid giving up custody of Tonka, who had appeared in the movies ‘George of the Jungle’ and ‘Buddy.’
The Secret Service said the boats the agency uses for security are usually motorized and need deeper waters to operate.
The crash, which happened near the border of Missouri and Illinois, closed a bridge into Illinois. A witness said it “just disintegrated” after coming in contact with a power line.
Vance Boelter, the man accused of shooting two state lawmakers in June, killing one, entered the plea at a brief hearing in federal court in Minneapolis.
The senator said the agency had agreed to help locate Democratic state legislators who departed to try to block a vote on congressional maps. Democrats said federal law enforcement was being misused.
The effort by President Trump and his allies is the latest example of them trying to rewrite the rules to squeeze out every possible political advantage.
Technology is making the old ways of teaching ineffective. A new way is starting to emerge.
When his wife died, the paleontologist Barry James poured his grief into the reconstruction of a triceratops skeleton that they had started together.
Mary Sheffield and Solomon Kinloch Jr. will face off in a November election. Mike Duggan, Detroit’s mayor for a dozen years, is not seeking re-election.
The pilot, Dominic Cipolla, was arrested in July while on duty at New Orleans International Airport, the airline said.
Federal investigators said that they had seized 190 pit-bull-type dogs from the former running back, who previously pleaded guilty to state dogfighting charges in 2004.
The booing started in seconds at Representative Mike Flood’s town hall in Lincoln, Neb. Annie Karni, a congressional correspondent for The New York Times, reports from the auditorium after the Republican congressman’s town hall, which she said was one of the most raucous political events she’s ever witnessed.
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An angry crowd of more than 700 people in Nebraska heckled and booed Representative Mike Flood over the Republican congressman’s support of President Trump’s sweeping domestic policy bill.
Most Republican lawmakers are avoiding town hall meetings, reluctant to confront energized Democrats and answer tough questions. When Representative Mike Flood of Nebraska gave it a try, the booing started in seconds.
The case against a Chicago mortgage lender has become a Rorschach test for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, epitomizing how the left and the right feel about the agency.
Al salir del estado, los demócratas podrían demorar varias semanas la votación sobre la reconfiguración del mapa. El gobernador amenazó con destituir a los legisladores que dejaron sus puestos si no regresaban antes del lunes.
Legal experts say such concern from the bench could have a more systemic effect, eroding the healthy functioning of the courts.
Here is why Democrats in the Texas House left the state, why Republicans in the Legislature want to redraw political maps and why other states are involved.
Several candidates want to replace Mike Duggan, the only mayor the city has had since its financial crisis. Detroit’s next challenge, residents say, will be reviving forgotten neighborhoods.
Northern Sky Theater in Door County programs original musicals steeped in local history, archetypes and customs.
Sandy shorelines and fresh breezes characterize these six spots in the United States and Canada.
The walkout was a sharp escalation in the bitterly partisan clash over a congressional redistricting requested by President Trump.
Leavenworth, Kan., was forged by the corrections industry, but residents are divided over plans for a privately operated immigration detention site in town.
En las tiendas de libros de todo Estados Unidos, algunos de los vendedores más populares tienen cuatro patas, orejas inquietas y bigotes.
Economists say the way the Trump administration is imposing tariffs is backfiring for some of the businesses they are meant to help.
The smoke is expected to remain over the northern and central Plains of the United States for the next couple of days, according to meteorologists.
El vuelo, que transportaba a 275 pasajeros de Salt Lake City a Ámsterdam, realizó un aterrizaje de emergencia en Mineápolis el miércoles por la noche, dijo la compañía aérea.
The flight, which was taking 275 passengers from Salt Lake City to Amsterdam, made an emergency landing in Minneapolis on Wednesday evening, the airline said.
Recovery efforts were underway after a deadly explosion at a biofuel plant in Fremont, Neb.
The girls, believed to be under 12 years old, were waiting for a relative who was also killed in the blast, the authorities said.
An 1870 house in Charles Town, an Italianate home in St. Louis and a condo in Boston.
A decade ago, the residential boom downtown would have been hard to imagine.
Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota activated the National Guard to help the city of St. Paul address a cyberattack that was detected last Friday.
Readers respond to a Critic’s Notebook about the debate over empathy. Also: The notion that President Trump’s image could be added to Mount Rushmore.
La producción de Glenn Valley Foods se desplomó casi un 70 por ciento en unas semanas. La mayor parte de los trabajadores había desaparecido después de que el ICE llegara.
The lawsuit argues that the federal government’s demand was an attempt to obtain sensitive personal information for use outside the food stamp program.
The most intense storms, with wind gusts potentially exceeding 75 m.p.h., were forecast for central and eastern South Dakota and southwestern Minnesota.
The restaurant mistakenly used oil infused with THC, a psychoactive ingredient found in many cannabis products, in food preparation last year, the C.D.C. said.
The authorities on Sunday said that a motive for the attack, which left 11 people injured, remained unknown. Citizens, including one who was armed, helped to apprehend the suspect, officials said.
Dan Pelzer comenzó a anotar los libros que leía en 1962. Tras su muerte a los 92 años, su familia hizo pública su lista de libros leídos, con la esperanza de motivar a los lectores de todo el mundo.
“The Bear” asks the question, how do we live together when someone always seems to be going too far?
Glenn Valley Foods tried to verify every hire through a federal system. After a raid, the company is wondering how it can keep going.
Joseph Czuba, who was convicted of killing 6-year-old Wadee Alfayoumi in 2023, died two months after a judge sentenced him to 53 years in prison. He was 73.
One person was in custody after what the authorities said was a random attack at a store near Traverse City, Mich.
After Dan Pelzer died this month at 92, his children uploaded the handwritten reading list to what-dan-read.com, hoping to inspire readers everywhere.
The Justice Department had sued the leaders of Illinois, Chicago and Cook County over policies that limit cooperation with federal immigration officials.
A woman who the Pennsylvania State Police say worked under multiple aliases faces multiple criminal charges. The authorities still aren’t sure of her real name.
The justices paused a lower court order pending a decision on whether the Supreme Court will take up the case, a major challenge to the Voting Rights Act.
The decision is likely to invite a wide-open race for the Democratic nomination in a battleground state the party hopes to control.
A court overturned a previous ruling requiring Mike Lindell to pay out $5 million to a software engineer who had entered Mr. Lindell’s challenge to skeptics of his election interference claims.
One in five voters who cast a ballot for Donald Trump in 2024 was a person of color. Why?
An analysis released Thursday by the Council on Criminal Justice shows that the majority of crimes the council tracks are continuing to decrease in 42 U.S. cities.
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.
The industry is pumping ever more oil and natural gas, but it is doing so with only about three-quarters as many workers as it employed a decade ago.
With less touring, it’s been a while since all the world has been its stage, but the troupe is working with the Chicago Shakespeare Theater — where it has family ties.
The governor of South Dakota has defied coronavirus restrictions and been a vocal critic of President Biden’s immigration policies.
The Mark Robinson story is yet another case of self-declared morality being at variance with actual behavior.
The move was the latest sign that House Republicans were moving from investigating and attacking President Biden to taking aim at the new Democratic ticket.
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The woman, 29, was struck by her own vehicle after the suspects began driving away, the police said.
The Chicago City Council is seeking the public transit chief’s ouster as the system wrestles with financial woes, sluggish service and crime complaints since the pandemic.
Columbus, Ohio, had only about 100 homicides a year. Then came a pandemic surge. With more guns and looser laws, can the city find its way back to the old normal?
The footprint of gun violence in the U.S. has expanded, as shootings worsened in already suffering neighborhoods and killings spread to new places during the pandemic years.
Officials are moving to increase enforcement and change laws in response to the rise in counterfeit or expired plates, which exploded during the pandemic.
Sus empleados afirmaron que las dificultades de la empresa que fabrica aviones no son nuevas, pero que se agravaron durante la pandemia, cuando perdió a miles de sus trabajadores más experimentados.
The company’s issues date back years, employees said, and were compounded by the pandemic, when it lost thousands of experienced workers.
Politics drive a wedge between even the longest of friends.
The Florida governor has recently highlighted his state’s response to the coronavirus in hopes of striking some distance from Donald Trump.
The Ohio woman, Ava Misseldine, used the identity of a baby who died in 1979 to obtain fake IDs. She was sentenced to six years in prison.
As they struggle to recover after the pandemic, regional theaters are staging fewer shows, giving fewer performances, laying off staff and, in some cases, closing.
The nation uses an enormous number of animals for commercial purposes, and regulations do not adequately protect against outbreaks, experts concluded.
The order came in a lawsuit filed by the attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana, who claim the administration is trying to silence its critics.
An architecture and design firm in New York installed indoor air sensors during the pandemic. Then the wildfires hit.
Asylum seekers are pouring in at a fraught moment, when Chicago is changing mayors, its shelters are full, and a pandemic-driven restriction at the southern border is expected to end.
Politics probably explain America’s poor life expectancy.
Rollbacks on child labor protections are happening amid a surge of child labor violations.
In 2021, deaths of pregnant women soared by 40 percent in the United States, according to new government figures. Here’s how one family coped after the virus threatened a pregnant mother.
Democratic candidates everywhere should be paying attention to the miserable showing of Lori Lightfoot in the mayoral primary.
America’s cities increasingly face similar problems, particularly worries about crime and hangovers from the pandemic. That’s why the mayor’s election in Chicago on Tuesday is about more than Chicago.
The administration faced a conservative court that has insisted that government initiatives with major political and economic consequences be clearly authorized by Congress.
The outcome of a case in federal court could help decide whether the First Amendment is a barrier to virtually any government efforts to stifle disinformation.
Before the pandemic, turning a house into a hub for big gatherings seemed like a good idea.
The three people were sentenced to life in prison without parole in the fatal shooting of a Flint, Mich., security guard in 2020.
Ascension, one of the country’s largest health systems, spent years cutting jobs, leaving it flat-footed when the pandemic hit.
What seemed like a transitory step to avoid infection has become a major force driving the future direction of urban America.
Driven by Covid chaos, online disinformation and a YouTube guru, two Americans went looking for solace on a sailboat in the middle of the ocean. They found a different fate.
The filmmaker David Siev chronicles his family’s struggle to keep their Michigan restaurant afloat through the pandemic in this hermetic documentary.
A team of reporters and photographers profiled 10 city centers across the country, all in varying stages of economic recovery and transformation.
We visited 10 cities across the country to see how the pandemic and its aftershocks have reshaped the American downtown.
The defendants were charged with stealing $240 million intended to feed children, in what appears to be the largest theft so far from a pandemic-era program.
The trial came months after a different federal jury did not return any convictions in the case, one of the country’s highest-profile domestic terror prosecutions.
Jobs aplenty. Sizzling demand. If the United States is headed into a recession, it is taking an unusual route, with many markers of a boom.
The House speaker’s visit is reviewed, pro and con. Also: The Kansas abortion vote; OB-GYNs; coal miners; rich and poor friends; single-issue voters.
The Republican hopeful has called the 2020 election stolen. But she sidestepped questions during an appearance on Fox News just two days after receiving the former president’s endorsement.
Cubicles are largely empty in downtown San Francisco and Midtown Manhattan, but workers in America’s midsize and small cities are back to their commutes.
After a lengthy recovery, the artist comes back with the most vigorous work he’s made: “It took me a really long time to understand what had happened to me.”
As the BA.5 subvariant drives a spike, many public health leaders aren’t cracking down
As remote work persists and business deals are sealed online, many upscale restaurants that catered to the nation’s downtown office crowd are canceling the meal.
Even as companies struggle to coax employees back to the office, some bars report that their after-work crowds are nearing prepandemic levels.
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Theater, art and music are flourishing, and on the culinary scene, a 13-course Filipino tasting menu and a sleek Black-owned winery in Bronzeville are just a few of the city’s new offerings.
Readers discuss the current malaise among many college students. Also: The Oklahoma abortion ban; stopping gun violence; remote work and the climate.