Six weeks into the federal crackdown in Chicago, the attack on crime that the president promised hasn’t happened, and many in the city’s Black population haven’t been won over.
About 97 percent of the land in the state is privately owned. Meet the people helping to make it friendlier for native bugs.
A problem with an intercom led to uncertainty. No one was hurt.
Mandela Barnes, the former lieutenant governor of Wisconsin, lost a race for Senate in 2022. He is likely to run for governor in 2026, while Democrats are eager for new candidates and new ideas.
The messages follow a pattern set by the Trump administration, but use notably milder language.
A Supreme Court ruling, while technically temporary, could set the ground rules for National Guard deployments elsewhere in the country.
While what is happening to us is as serious as a guillotine, we must harness our best humorous selves in order to keep it from falling.
A federal judge has ordered operational leaders of the crackdown to appear before her on Monday to be questioned about their tactics and their use of tear gas.
An immigration raid on an apartment building in Chicago followed years of problems with crime, and neglect by landlords. It swept up dozens of U.S. citizens who were detained in the middle of the night.
A trip to the Badlands with my 8-year old offered lessons in boyhood — and manhood.
The crash killed two Amish children and injured two others in rural Minnesota in 2023.
Public documents show the Department of Homeland Security has contracted to purchase a pair of top-of-the-line Gulfstream jets for the secretary and other top officials.
The Trump administration risks squandering the progress it has made in securing the border.
The U.S. Border Patrol is expanding its mission to major cities across America, and building a splashy social media campaign to promote it. We joined them in Chicago — hundreds of miles away from the nearest foreign border — to observe how the agency’s mission has changed.
A look inside Barack Obama’s “living, breathing cultural and gathering space” (with an N.B.A.-size basketball court). Not everyone is cheering.
People gathered at a house near the University of Cincinnati tumbled to the ground from a third-floor balcony, the fire department said. One person was in critical condition.
The order comes as the Trump administration has carried out an immigration crackdown in the region.
More customers and workers are staying home, they say, leading to lower revenue and worries of wider economic repercussions for the city.
A call Friday morning by the president to Republican state senators is part of an escalating pressure campaign by the White House.
Un número creciente de hoteles construidos en lugares como antiguas prisiones, recintos de sectas, instalaciones militares extintas y cementerios apuestan por sus pasados dramáticos.
The administration at Indiana University Bloomington fired the adviser to the paper and barred the publication from putting out a print edition.
The nationwide protests are playing out as a federal government shutdown lingers and troops are being deployed in cities.
The Chicago History Museum will explore the heritage and traditions of Latinos, and the National Museum of Mexican Art will trace the role of Mexicans in railway work.
An exhibition of works by contemporary Native American artists is meant to show ties between ancestors, teachings, values, stories, the future and one another.
The cause of the plane crash was not immediately known, officials said.
Andrew Stanton, 38, was charged with threatening federal law enforcement officers, whom he said should be shot. He pleaded not guilty and remains in custody.
The Seventh Circuit rejected an attempt by the Trump administration to remove an order by a trial court judge. But legal wrangling is expected to continue.
The Illinois governor reported the winnings on his 2024 tax returns, which his campaign released this week. “I was incredibly lucky,” he said.
Algunos funcionarios locales del Partido Republicano que participaron de los chats han perdido sus puestos de trabajo, pero otros republicanos con cargos más altos han respondido con desdén.
The federal judge said she was “profoundly concerned” that federal agents might have violated earlier limits that she had set as the Trump administration has carried out an immigration crackdown.
The superintendent said he had “no plans” to enforce his predecessor’s mandate to put Bibles in public school classrooms, which was being fought in court.
El representante Dave Taylor por Ohio condenó el símbolo como “vil” y dijo que su oficina estaba investigando con la Policía del Capitolio de EE. UU.
Immigration agents are using aggressive tactics. Residents of the sanctuary city are trying to resist them.
A lawsuit in Washington State is one of several accusing the airline of failing to update equipment on a plane that crashed in South Korea last year, killing 179 people.
The Missouri History Museum shines a light on Mill Creek Valley, once a bastion of Black culture and community.
Prosecutors in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, filed the charges in juvenile court. The victim’s mother wrote on social media that her daughter was found “unresponsive and unrecognizable.”
Representative Dave Taylor of Ohio condemned the symbol as “vile” and said his office was investigating with the U.S. Capitol Police.
Los habitantes han empezado a formar grupos de voluntarios para vigilar sus barrios en busca de agentes federales de inmigración. Otros pasan la voz cuando ven agentes cerca.
The bone fragment, found in June, “is a powerful and humbling reminder that people have walked this land, our home in Fayette County, for millennia,” the county’s coroner said.
Some G.O.P. officials who participated in a monthslong online chat are losing their jobs or being pressured to resign.
A Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired home in Bloomington, a camelback-style home in Louisville and an 1880 house in Poughkeepsie.
Stacks of Victorian-era photos, books and other documents discovered in Ohio have taken a winding path back to New York, bringing two strangers together.
Residents have begun forming volunteer groups to monitor their neighborhoods for federal immigration agents. Others honk their horns or blow whistles when they see agents nearby.
A statistical analysis of an infamous indentation in a sidewalk suggested a 99 percent likelihood that another rodent made the mark.
Detroit has one of the largest Arab American populations and a vibrant Jewish community. Both groups feel some relief, and lingering doubt.
The former transportation secretary argues Americans need a new sense of belonging.
Drawn by local talent, cheap labor and state cash incentives, start-ups building the weapons of the future are revitalizing manufacturing in once-vibrant industrial towns.
The myriad styles and materials used for tile can make a space, not just bathrooms and kitchens, shine in unexpected ways.
Week by week, the federal campaign to ramp up immigration enforcement in the Chicago area has created fear and inflamed tensions.
What’s happening is shocking. It can get worse.
An appeals court said National Guard troops could remain under the Trump administration’s control, but left in place an earlier temporary ruling barring troops from deploying into the Chicago area as a legal fight proceeds.
A lot has happened this week. The New York Times Opinion editor Kathleen Kingsbury highlights one thing you shouldn’t miss: After President Trump tried to send the National Guard into Portland, Ore., a federal judge blocked him. Watch Kingsbury explain why the president’s actions defy the fundamental principles of the U.S. Constitution.
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Over seven terms, she garnered millions in funds in helping to revitalize the city. But the political scandals of her son, an ex-mayor, came to shadow her career.
The judge’s decision is the third in three days in Illinois against the Trump administration. It came after ICE said its Operation Midway Blitz would continue indefinitely.
The superintendent, now head of schools in DeKalb County, Ga., had been lauded for his efforts to help students of color. Prosecutors say he led a kickback scheme in suburban Chicago.
Federal courts across the country have heard legal challenges to the mobilization of troops in Los Angeles, Washington, Portland, Ore., and Chicago. Here’s how some judges have ruled.
Thousands took part in a biannual hike to a South Dakota mountaintop, where a sculpture of the Lakota chief is in its 77th year of construction.
For the past few decades, the national spotlight has been on the Carolinas and Texas. But the most influential barbecue town may just be Kansas City.
She led the Ramblers’ players in pregame prayers, pointed out opponents’ strengths and weaknesses and supported the team in N.C.A.A. tournaments.
Judge April M. Perry said the Trump administration had not established that sending in troops over the governor’s objection was legally justified. An appeal is likely.
A Grammy-winning pianist, he was renowned for works that created “new ideas about line, harmony, rhythm, sound and musical architecture,” one admirer wrote.
Gov. Kevin Stitt, the current chairman of the National Governors Association, broke with Texas, saying, “Oklahomans would lose their mind” if Illinois sent troops to their red state.
Embrace this beer-and-cheese-loving Midwestern capital with farmers’ markets, cozy supper clubs and picturesque lakeside strolls.
As local anxiety builds, Illinois officials say the deployment of Guard troops violates state sovereignty, while the White House says the troops’ presence is needed.
Even in his 80s, Pete Cleveland, a fixture of rock climbing in the Midwest, went climbing every week and trekked for at least a mile a day, his son said.
The Illinois governor, a potential presidential candidate, is fighting the presence of National Guard troops and the activities of ICE agents in Chicago.
President Trump said he would consider using the Insurrection Act to deploy the National Guard in Chicago and other places.
The case, one of several challenges to mail-in ballot rules lodged by allies of President Trump, involves an effort to exclude votes received after Election Day.
A local Y.M.C.A. branch in South Dakota partnered with a Brooklyn-based firm to design tiny homes as existing two-bedrooms swell with 10 to 15 people.
The man fell about 25 feet and died from his injuries before rescuers could treat him, officials said.
Judge April M. Perry is a Biden appointee who has been a federal judge for less than a year.
The Guard has been federally mobilized around the country at least 10 times since World War II, with presidents using it to respond to civil unrest.
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The president’s claims about cities don’t hold up.
On Monday, the president said that he was considering invoking the Insurrection Act to send National Guard troops to American cities. The act would grant him emergency powers to deploy troops and bypass court rulings.
Experts reassessed the damage from a tornado that left three people dead in June, and gave it the strongest possible rating on the tornado scale.
The president said he would invoke emergency powers to deploy the National Guard if “people were being killed, and courts were holding us up.”
Parents are standing guard at schools. Some restaurants have stopped delivering food or simply closed. “Every single person who looks brown is scared,” a lawyer said.
President Trump’s attempts to politicize the military have become more overt as he makes the case for having troops at his disposal in American cities.
Dismissing candidates like Zohran Mamdani simply because of their youth is no longer viable. Millennial and Gen Z Americans will only gain more political influence.
A recently released affidavit relates new details about the July death in a Kansas jail of a man with medical problems who was handcuffed and face down on a bunk.
The account in the federal criminal complaint, which differs significantly from an earlier homeland security statement, says the motorists rammed officers’ vehicle and that an agent shot one when she drove her car at him.
Ian Roberts rose through the ranks of American education with talent, charm and a riveting back story. He was also hiding a shocking secret.
Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois said he had ordered state agencies to investigate a raid on a Chicago apartment building where there had been reports of “nearly naked” children zip-tied by federal officers.
There’s a way out of this, and people in despair are leading the way.
Some underground attractions are closed, and many outdoor sites have reduced their services.
Once the darling of the alcohol industry, small-batch beer makers are shutting down because of increased competition and flagging interest.
Dozens of people gathered on Chicago’s Southwest Side on Saturday afternoon to protest federal immigration activity, which has escalated sharply in the city in recent days.
The wounded individual had non-life-threatening injuries, according to federal authorities. The clash touched off more protests in the city over immigration enforcement.
The police and Fox Sports, the network where Mr. Sanchez works as a commentator, said he was in stable condition.
In the newly released video, two officers can be seen outside of the Latter-day Saints church, along with a bystander holding a handgun. The shooter died in an exchange of gunfire.
The move, condemned by Illinois officials, appeared to be part of the Trump administration’s aim of using the government shutdown as leverage.
Robert Morris, the founder of Gateway Church, which has one of the nation’s largest congregations, admitted to sexually abusing a child in the 1980s.
Ian Roberts, who resigned from the post after his arrest last week, was charged with possessing firearms while in the country without legal authorization.
Much of the Summer Games in 2028 will take place in Southern California. But two events, softball and canoe slalom, will be held in Oklahoma.
A member of the Latter-day Saints church was worried about the road to recovery that the family of the Michigan gunman faced. So he started a donation page for them.
Silas’s future seemed bright except for at least one detail. He didn’t have a car.
The administration announced a federal operation in the Chicago area more than three weeks ago. Agents have appeared along downtown streets, and National Guard troops are expected.
A 437-million-year-old fossil from a deposit in Wisconsin could be the oldest species of leech ever found.
El caso muestra cómo Indiana ha acelerado la represión contra quien haya criticado al activista de derecha tras su muerte.
A coalition of blue states and Washington, D.C., accused the Trump administration of illegally “taking money from its enemies” in freezing emergency preparedness grants.
The investigation is the “first of many” targeted at U.S. cities, said Joseph B. Edlow, the director of U.S.C.I.S.
The president leveraged the meeting as his chance to trumpet his domestic and foreign policy moves.
A lawyer for Ian Roberts, superintendent of Des Moines Public Schools, announced that Dr. Roberts would step down. The Justice Department said it would investigate hiring practices in the school district.
Varios amigos y personas que conocían al hombre acusado de atacar una iglesia de Jesucristo de los Santos de los Últimos Días dijeron que durante mucho tiempo había despotricado contra la fe.
Immigration officials arrested Ian Roberts, the Des Moines Public Schools superintendent, on Friday and said he was in the country illegally.
The Department of Homeland Security requested the deployment over the objections of state officials, including Gov. JB Pritzker, a Democrat.
Powell Hall, home of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, has been renovated and expanded, reopening in what the city’s mayor called a “very, very rough year.”
The F.B.I. is searching homes connected with the attacker, describing the shooting and fire that destroyed a Church of Latter Day Saints meeting house as a “targeted act of violence.”
El hombre que colisionó un vehículo contra una iglesia en Míchigan y abrió fuego contra los fieles tenía 40 años y murió durante el ataque, dijeron las autoridades.
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At least four people were killed after an attacker opened fire at a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint building and intentionally set fire to the structure.
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The suspect, a 40-year-old man, was killed during the attack, officials said.
A man crashed his vehicle into a Michigan church on Sunday morning and then opened fire, investigators said.
The building in Grand Blanc Township served a congregation of about 150 members. And that number was growing, according to a frequent visitor.
Republicans intend to flip a congressional seat in the Kansas City area, but opponents are trying to stop the new map from taking effect.
Congregants and neighbors of the church attacked by a gunman on Sunday said the scene was harrowing.
Emergency crews were responding to a reported shooting and fire at a Mormon church in Grand Blanc Township, Mich.
The police said that multiple people had been injured in a shooting at a church in Grand Blanc Township, Mich., southwest of Flint. The building was on fire, the authorities said
For nearly four decades, the Iowa baseball field used as the set of the beloved Hollywood movie has been trying to find its next act.
School Board members in Iowa’s capital made the decision one day after immigration officials accused the superintendent, Ian Roberts, of being in the country illegally.
Parents revealed conflicting emotions after the finding that a gunman who killed four people in July had the brain disease that has been linked with football and other contact sports.
The state no longer goes first for the party’s presidential nomination process, but ambitious politicians with an eye toward 2028 keep showing up. It’s “the gravitational pull,” as one Iowa Democrat put it.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said a panel, convened by his predecessor, recommended keeping Medals of Honor for soldiers in the 1890 attack on Native Americans.
The school board president in Iowa’s largest city said she did not know what led to the detention of Superintendent Ian Roberts, who has been in that role since 2023.
The agreement to resolve scores of lawsuits was a significant blow to a city facing budget challenges, but not as pricey as some officials had feared.
The president said some revenue from tariffs would go to crop farmers, but the agriculture secretary said a plan wasn’t yet ready.
The federal Education Department accused New York, Chicago and Fairfax, Va., of discrimination and said it would pull federal funds from their magnet schools.
Ryan Walters had drawn criticism from liberals and conservatives alike over his push to place Bibles in classrooms and bring more prayer into public schools.
A couple combined their resources and senses of style to find a house that evoked the city’s rich architectural heritage — and maybe needed a little work.
Deep in a sea of grass, you’ll find a surprising landscape of tiny towns, rolling dunes and sandy beaches nearly 1,000 miles from an ocean. Grab a tube.
Nicole Mitchell was found guilty of breaking into her stepmother’s home. She resigned from the State Senate after her conviction, briefly threatening the Democrats’ slim majority.
An 1800 house in Royalston, a 1920s cottage in Atlanta and a 2003 house in Iowa City.
Some homes in the city of Sallisaw, in the eastern part of the state, were damaged, as were trees, power lines and poles, officials said.
“The Lowdown,” Harjo’s follow-up to the acclaimed “Reservation Dogs,” is a Tulsa noir steeped in corruption and myth. “I’m trying to put onscreen my ideas of what my home is,” he said.
The New York Times analyzed surveillance and bystander videos to understand what happened when an immigration agent shot and killed a motorist in a Chicago suburb.
Technology is helping farmers use land and fertilizer more strategically. Sometimes, the best practice is no chemicals at all.
The women of Holy Wisdom Monastery have restored 170 acres of native prairie and oak savanna. “Humans need creation to find ourselves,” one said.
In a neighborhood that appeals to people from both the right and the left, residents strive for a finely tuned state of political harmony.
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.
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.