The project’s reversal of fortunes has angered environmentalists and focused attention on an unusual connection between a Chilean billionaire and President Trump’s family.
The first woman from her party to be elected to the House from her state, Ms. Meyers was a moderate who backed abortion rights and gun control.
She was Betsy to her mother, who expected her to marry. Liz to fellow high school debaters, whom she regularly beat. Now, the lessons of an Oklahoma childhood are center stage in the presidential race.
Mr. Buttigieg is a technocrat trained in performance management. But his response to a fatal police shooting in South Bend, Ind., has raised questions about his ability to forge personal connections.
Donald J. Trump carried several key states on a vow to end manufacturing job losses. That has not happened.
With “Rigoletto” and “The Coronation of Poppea,” Opera Theater of St. Louis remains committed to presenting works in translation.
For pennies a meal, the federal government can incentivize better environmental services.
Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Ind., took questions about the city’s response to a fatal police shooting of a black man by a white officer. The Democratic presidential candidate has been struggling with low support from African-American voters.
Mr. Duffy and Michael Muser, who left the acclaimed Grace in 2017, say their new place, Ever, will be more opulent.
The fatal shooting last week of a black man by a South Bend police officer has tested Mr. Buttigieg’s leadership at a critical time for his campaign.
Demonstrators called the government’s plan to house 1,400 unaccompanied migrant children a return to a shameful past.
When Cleveland’s Cuyahoga caught fire, it was as much about urban blight as environmental crisis.
Mr. Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Ind., attended a heated protest following the shooting of a black man by the police there.
The new prosecutor will review why the charges of faking a hate crime were dropped against the actor, and will be able to reopen the case if necessary.
The laws, rushed through before Democrats took office as governor and attorney general of Wisconsin, drew large protests. The State Supreme Court said the special session was legal.
Thousands of people in Wisconsin visit farms each June for a tradition known as the dairy breakfast. In one county where the industry struggles, two families kept the breakfast going.
Claire Lombardo, whose debut novel “The Most Fun We Ever Had” follows a family shaken by secrets, talks about shifting from social work to fiction and how she wrote about what she doesn’t know.
Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory School learned Thursday that the Archdiocese of Indianapolis would no longer recognize it as a Catholic school.
A tarot card reader said my ex would come back to me in three years. Until then, I was supposed to have relationships that fail.
Texas is reeling from the news that a Chicago investment firm is acquiring a majority stake in the Texas-born fast-food chain Whataburger.
Officers accused of making racist, dehumanizing or otherwise biased posts were placed on administrative duty in Philadelphia and barred from presenting cases to prosecutors in St. Louis.
Officers accused of making racist, dehumanizing or otherwise biased posts were placed on administrative duty in Philadelphia and barred from presenting cases to prosecutors in St. Louis.
The court has passed on contentious cases about abortion and the rights of same-sex couples. Will it now drop the census case?
The court has passed on contentious cases about abortion and the rights of same-sex couples. Will it now drop the census case?
As more Somali refugees arrive in St. Cloud, white anti-immigration activists have pressed an increasingly explicit anti-Muslim agenda.
The Bible, given to a friend of Lincoln’s after his death, has remained out of sight, passed along from one generation to another, unknown to the vast array of scholars who have studied his life.
The mayor of South Bend, Ind., continues to confront a crisis involving the shooting of a black resident by a white officer.
As politicians swarm the state, readers debate whether we should reconfigure the caucus and primary system.
With a renewed focus on reparations for slavery, what lessons can be drawn from payments to victims of other historical injustices in America?
With a renewed focus on reparations for slavery, what lessons can be drawn from payments to victims of other historical injustices in America?
The Oklahoma-born writer, a member of the Muscogee Creek Nation, is the first Native American to hold the post.
Why should your children have all of the fun?
The authorities are trying to piece together what led to the deaths of the woman and her twin daughters, whose bodies were found in the Kalamazoo River.
Why do Republicans in Congress have so much trouble increasing the number of women in their ranks?
The shooting of a black resident by a white police officer has revived scrutiny of Mr. Buttigieg’s sometimes strained relationships with the black community.
A new educational space that can accommodate lectures and classes is planned adjacent to the popular attraction in Oak Park, Ill.
Mr. Buttigieg pulled himself off the presidential campaign trail this week after a police officer in South Bend shot and killed a black man. Here’s some context.
Doused in pepper, salt and history, the region’s signature dish is a staple of after-church dinners, and a fine reason for a road trip.
Rising concerns about housing affordability, racial inequality and climate change are causing cities nationwide to re-examine their attachment to the detached house.
“I know that whenever an incident like this happens, there is tremendous hurt that can come about,” said Mr. Buttigieg, the mayor, as he returned to the city.
The agent was hired to help investigate accusations against the former governor of Missouri. He is charged with perjury and tampering with evidence in the case.
“We are really wanting this to be a preventive, proactive measure,” said the superintendent of the school district in Nebraska.
Mr. Biden is betting that his widespread name recognition and early poll results free him to focus on President Trump — and brush off his 22 Democratic opponents.
Baby Constantin spent five months of his first year in a foster home. His family got a painful look at America’s experiment with family separation as an immigration policy.
In places like Kansas City, a growing gap between a booming downtown and struggling neighborhoods can breed resentment. Both candidates in the city’s mayoral election have promised to address it.
This new work, with music by Terence Blanchard and a libretto by Kasi Lemmons, is a bold and affecting adaptation of Charles Blow’s memoir.
A big idea in Minneapolis points the way for other cities desperately in need of housing.
Residents of Benton Harbor say they know their schools are ailing, but they see racial bias in plans to close their main high school.
A Somali immigrant struggles to grasp his child’s imprisonment.
Gregory L. Johnson claims police officers violated his rights after his act of protest. Those rights were established 30 years ago in a Supreme Court case that bears his name.
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Almost a decade into a fight over education funding, the state’s highest court declared Friday that Kansas finally was spending enough money on its public schools.
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Eight months before the all-important Iowa caucuses, revelers came to the state’s capital to celebrate Pride — and to hear presidential candidates speak about issues that matter to them.
Kimberly Gardner was one of a wave of prosecutors who promised to change the system. For them, winning election was the easy part.
The relocation plan follows criticism from career staff members who have been fearful about their jobs being moved and who have speculated that the Trump administration is trying to stifle research.
Interviews across Iowa indicate Mr. Biden’s early lead comes from familiarity, nostalgia for the Obama years and strategic calculations about who can win, not just from enthusiasm for his campaign vision.
Interviews across Iowa indicate Mr. Biden’s early lead comes from familiarity, nostalgia for the Obama years and strategic calculations about who can win, not just from enthusiasm for his vision.
Prosecutors abruptly dismissed cases against state and local officials in the drinking water crisis that has plagued Flint for years.
Sleepy Joe versus insomniac Don.
About half of the student body at one Ohio elementary school has witnessed drug use at home. Educators spend time every day teaching the children how to cope.
During their rallies in Iowa on Tuesday, President Trump and former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. spent time speaking on how the other is unfit to lead the country.
A former schoolhouse in Andes, a 1923 brick house in South Bend, and an 1892 bungalow in Milwaukee.
A former schoolhouse in Andes, N.Y.; a 1923 brick house in South Bend, Ind.; and an 1892 bungalow in Milwaukee.
This is no way to pick a presidential nominee.
A Wisconsin city is due to vote next week on a bill that would impose fines on parents whose children bully others, a measure several municipalities have already tried.
Ten attorneys general filed a federal lawsuit to block the $26 billion deal between the third- and fourth-largest wireless carriers in the United States.
President Trump and former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., who increasingly see each other as political foils, traded attacks as they traveled to the battleground state.
It is the first time in more than a century that all but one state legislature is dominated by a single party, and lawmakers have pushed in opposite directions.
After a bitter public tussle, the body of Archbishop Fulton Sheen, which is entombed in Manhattan, will be moved to Peoria, Ill., where he is revered as a native son.
On Tuesday, President Trump will engage with the former vice president, if indirectly, for the first time during the 2020 campaign when they both make appearances in Iowa.
A St. Louis judge issued a preliminary injunction that will keep the state’s only abortion clinic open. The state has until June 21 to make a decision on the facility’s license.
The company raised $25 million to help it complete orders and was not intended to go toward a proposed purchase of a General Motors plant in Ohio.
Why are some small towns thriving?
The verdict raised questions about the responsibility of colleges to police students’ speech and behavior, as well as broader First Amendment issues.
Nineteen presidential candidates visited the state this weekend, talking to voters and trying to grab a moment to distinguish themselves.
Joseph R. Biden Jr. leads in a poll of likely Iowa caucusgoers, but Elizabeth Warren and Pete Buttigieg have made clear gains to join Bernie Sanders in a virtual three-way tie for second place.
Gov. Mike DeWine called for Ohio’s Bureau of Adult Detention to increase its staff to enable more frequent state inspections of local jails.
An 18-year-old man fatally shot three people and injured two others in a Detroit home last month, prosecutors said.
It’s almost as if abortion bans aren’t actually about “life” at all.
There was viral outrage online, and the story could have ended there. But it didn’t.
A huge new literary adaptation and a tiny old melodrama both find a place in a healthy cultural ecosystem.
The Cuyahoga River burst into flames for the last time in 1969. As tourism climbs, the city celebrates the river’s rebound 50 years later.
When white students at a Minnesota school posted a slur to Snapchat, black classmates demanded action. Their efforts led to uncomfortable conversations about race.
A number of secondary schools around the world offer robotics programs to prepare students for industries being transformed by automation.
Fiat Chrysler and Renault’s attempt to join forces was a response to turmoil in the auto industry, which accounts for much of the world’s factory jobs.
Tariffs on Mexican imports will ripple across the United States and could cause significant pain for consumers and businesses, even those far from the southwestern border.
The authorities accused the doctor of deliberately prescribing fatal doses of the powerful opioid to critical-care patients. He pleaded not guilty.
As Ms. Warren emerges from Mr. Sanders’s shadow, the two standard-bearers of the progressive base find themselves competing for voters, and donors.
A $25 million fine for anticompetitive practices appears to make the Detroit automaker the latest company to be singled in the U.S.-China economic clash.
An expansive farmhouse in Litchfield County, a Mediterranean-style home in San Francisco and a Tudor-style estate in a Detroit suburb.
There are 8,565 of them across the country, meaning a place to take a hike, fire up some s’mores or simply recharge is often just around the corner. In a year of traveling, we visited 53 of them.
Let the beets’ best qualities — mild earthiness and vegetal sweetness — shine.
Based on real events, the Steppenwolf Theater Company’s new play tells the story of a Chicago drag queen who throws her fabulous hat into the ring.
After 19 years of singing the national anthem at Blues games, Charles Glenn is retiring because his multiple sclerosis commands more of his attention.
Researchers are experimenting with a Rube Goldberg-esque mix of tactics to control hearty, nonnative swimmers that re-engineer nutrient-rich Midwest waters.
Rick Snyder, who led the state during Flint’s water crisis, was named in a search warrant. He has not been charged with a crime.
Mr. Fraser, who later served as mayor of Minneapolis, led House hearings that exposed a bribery conspiracy by South Korean intelligence agents and the Rev. Sun Myung Moon.
The view from Detroit: “It is true that compact car sales have declined across the industry. But a lot of things are going right in this country and at G.M.”
The Great Flood of 1993, one of the worst in American history, left entire towns ravaged. With heavy spring rains and saturated soil, some fear a repeat.
Readers react to a profile of Rick Marsh, who has lost confidence in the political system after losing his auto manufacturing job.
Working opposite ends of the volume spectrum, two musicals, the new “Six” and a reinterpreted “Next to Normal,” find their levels.
An investigation at Ohio State University revealed that coaches had inklings of a team doctor’s sexual abuse. But Representative Jim Jordan’s denials are assuaging his constituents.
Boston is attempting to join 1936 Detroit as the only American city to hold titles in three major sports at once.
All four of Detroit’s major sports teams reside within the city limits now. They have something else in common: They’re all trying to recapture championship glory.
With voters increasingly getting information online and from TV, candidates are traveling to a wide range of states, viewing them as sound stages for delivering their message.
The Army Corps of Engineers has been struggling on two fronts — taming America’s rain-swollen rivers, and taming the fallout from mass water releases and breached levees.
Call them Generation O, the children growing up in families trapped in a relentless grip of addiction, rehab and prison.
An analysis of abortion clinic locations shows more than 11 million women in the United States live more than an hour’s drive from a provider.
We talked about weather cycles, commodity prices, tariffs and Trump. Then we drove off to the next field.
A licensing dispute between the state and Missouri’s only abortion clinic threatened to make the state the first without access to the procedure in nearly 50 years.
Revisiting Obama’s 2007 struggles. The lesson? Calm down.
From paddleboarding in Colorado to bachata music in Puerto Rico, we asked writers to tell us what makes their beach vacations the best.
Newly released police files say that soon after the actor was charged with faking a hate-crime attack, prosecutors were thinking of settling the case.
President Trump may be the louder voice on the issue, but the vice president is the one many evangelicals hear.
A documentary looks at the Detroit Red Wings and the hockey players they recruited from the Soviet Union.
In June, millions of people will gather in New York City to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the uprising at the Stonewall Inn, which marked the start of a national pride movement. But some in the Midwest say there’s still work to be done — either because they’re still struggling, or because they feel that the L.G.B.T.Q. community has forgotten them.
When it comes to saloons, high-stakes card games and the inevitable shootouts, history is best experienced firsthand in this South Dakota town.
He presided over two trials stemming from the worst act of domestic terrorism, which killed 168 at a federal building, until the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
They will force women to carry pregnancies to term despite the detection of painful and deadly fetal anomalies.
A log cabin in Stowe, a midcentury-modern home in Columbus and a Victorian house in Chatham.
A log cabin in Stowe, Vt.; a midcentury-modern home in Columbus, Ohio; and a Victorian house in Chatham, N.Y.
The settlement goes to the children of Terrill Thomas, who died in his jail cell in 2016 after being denied water for a week.
Representative Justin Amash, always a marginal Republican figure, finds himself on center stage for his view on the president’s conduct: hero to many, goat to many more.
Braggs, a town of 259 in rural Oklahoma, has become a virtual island. Floodwaters have nearly surrounded it, cutting off residents, who have formed an ad hoc emergency response network.
With Purdue Pharma and Teva settling the case, the state sought to hold J & J responsible for the broader opioid crisis. The company argued that it operated responsibly and lawfully.
The court upheld a provision on the disposal of fetal remains but avoided what could have been a test of Roe v. Wade. Here’s what that means.
Multiple tornadoes hit Ohio, Indiana and Kansas. In the last week alone, authorities linked the storms to at least seven deaths and scores of injuries.
Tuesday was the 12th consecutive day with at least eight tornado reports, tying a record. In all, more than 500 tornadoes have been reported in 30 days.
If the clinic stops offering abortions, Missouri would become the first state in the country without access to abortion services in nearly 50 years.
The electric-truck venture hailed by President Trump exists almost entirely on paper and would need $300 million to get the factory running again.
Missouri may soon show America what abortion access will look like if Roe v. Wade is overturned.
The justices upheld a law on the disposal of fetal remains, but declined to hear a case on whether states can prohibit abortions sought solely based on a fetal characteristic like sex or disability.
Declining to hold big-dollar fund-raisers and rolling out one policy proposal after another, Ms. Warren has strengthened her candidacy, though questions about her financial viability remain.
Widespread damage and power failures were reported across much of western Ohio, and the wreckage extended to Indiana.
Firefighters and animal rescuers made their way into a flooded town in eastern Oklahoma, seeking the pets that fleeing residents had left behind.
Rick Marsh worked in the car plant in Lordstown his entire life. Now that job is gone. What does that mean for his politics?
The competitive lanes are set as candidates vie for black voters, women, younger voters — but they are fluid. One thing seems sure: Joseph R. Biden’s lead will be tested.