Two transgender teenagers claimed that the ban, enacted last year over the Democratic governor’s veto, violated the Kansas Constitution.
A series of storms, including supercells, threatens to dump rain, hail and create a tornado risk for a vast section of the country. The most severe weather is expected on Monday.
The country seems to be tiring of the Trump era. Now what?
Several clergy members and an advocacy group had sued the Trump administration, arguing that they were unlawfully denied access to detainees at an Illinois facility.
Richard Werstine was detained in Panama City last month after more than 30 years on the run, according to the authorities. He is accused of murdering Rodney Barger of the Detroit band Cold as Life.
One fateful decision 100 years ago created parallel lives. How does a family broken by the bizarre rules of racism heal itself after three generations apart?
The Trump administration broke the law, Michigan and others told a court, by declaring an “energy emergency” and forcing an aging coal-burning plant to keep operating.
The company said it would close four regional offices and take a $400 million charge related to the changes.
The Omaha establishment changed its name this week from the Barber Shop Blackstone to the Censored Shop Blackstone in protest while it is suing the state in federal court in a trademark fight.
Two powerful forces in politics clash.
A lawyer for Richard Glossip said the ruling provided a step forward in his client’s efforts to escape a “decades-long nightmare” in a case that has faced substantial criticism.
On Thursday, two people were killed after a small plane crashed into a house on a suburban street in Akron, Ohio, and caught fire.
No one on the ground was hurt when a small plane crashed into a house on a residential street south of downtown Akron, the authorities said.
They were passengers on a plane to Johannesburg with an infected Dutch woman who later died.
The body of Specialist Mariyah Symone Collington, 19, was retrieved from a coastal cave less than a week after the recovery of the body of First Lt. Kendrick Lamont Key Jr.
Costs have been mounting in the year since the Trump administration began directing aging coal plants to say open.
The passenger, who had tested positive once in the Canary Islands, was being monitored in a special biocontainment facility in Omaha, until a new test came back negative.
Denise Powell prevailed in a close primary race for an Omaha-based seat, currently held by a retiring Republican, that could help determine control of the House.
Vice President JD Vance said the state had not done enough to fight fraud in the public health insurance program.
David Cates, a psychologist working with Americans exposed to the disease on the MV Hondius, said psychosocial supports are just as important as physical care.
Cindy Burbank has said she intends to exit the general-election race, clearing the field for Dan Osborn, an independent candidate, to face Senator Pete Ricketts, a Republican.
Democrats face an uphill fight as they seek to unseat Gov. Jim Pillen, who is running for another term in the solidly Republican state.
Desde su cama de hospital en Chicago, el joven deseaba ver por última vez a sus padres. Pero tras cruzar ilegalmente desde México para visitarlo, fueron detenidos por inmigración en Arizona.
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Jake Rosmarin, a travel influencer from Boston, is one of 15 passengers from the virus-stricken cruise ship being monitored at the National Quarantine Unit in Nebraska.
In an exception to the usual paintings-heavy blockbuster exhibitions, the Art Institute of Chicago is presenting the masterful drawings of Willem de Kooning.
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From his hospital bed in Chicago, Kevin Gonzalez had a final wish to see his parents. But they were in immigration detention in Arizona after illegally crossing to see their son.
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A new super PAC with ties to Republicans is intervening in Democratic primaries, in one instance helping a sex therapist in Texas accused of antisemitism.
The cost to put food in cans remains high because manufacturers must still import steel from overseas. U.S. Steel plans to reopen a tin-plate factory.
Every day, thousands of semi trucks roll in and out of the sprawling warehouse complexes outside Chicago, supporting the rise of next-day delivery. They pummel the roads, belch fumes and cause deadly crashes.
A novel cigarette tax has generated $270 million for cultural organizations in the Cleveland area, which makes declining smoking rates “a double-edged sword.”
Casi dos decenas de países están repatriando a ciudadanos que iban a bordo del MV Hondius, donde murieron tres pasajeros en un brote de hantavirus.
The National Quarantine Unit in Nebraska is now the temporary home for many of the Americans who had been passengers on the MV Hondius.
When Joy Kwon, a third-year medical student on TV, set a boundary, she stirred a work-life balance debate among medical professionals and fans.
Nearly two dozen countries were moving to repatriate their citizens who were aboard the cruise ship where three passengers died in a hantavirus outbreak.
Seventeen Americans who were aboard the MV Hondius, a cruise ship with a deadly hantavirus outbreak, landed in Omaha on a U.S. government medical flight. The passengers will be monitored at the country’s only federally funded quarantine center.
One Democrat is accused of being a Republican in disguise. Another plans to drop out to boost an independent. It’s primary eve in one of the country’s most unusual midterm contests.
Security and other expenses are piling up for host cities. In the smallest metro area staging games, the bill includes temporary bus systems in two states.
The passengers will be monitored in Omaha at the country’s only federally funded quarantine center.
But if his opponents mount a challenge, how would it unfold?
In an unusual move, a North Dakota court said Greenpeace International shouldn’t be allowed to pursue a lawsuit in Europe, where it is based, against the company.
Kirsten Beyer was assessing the benefits of improving school playgrounds in Milwaukee. Then her E.P.A. grant was canceled.
A small group of candidates and influencers met to forge a shaky new political movement — without its de facto leader and his groypers.
Rob Sand, Iowa’s auditor, is campaigning for governor with a pragmatic message that eschews strict partisanship.
Jason Meade had been searching for a fugitive when he shot Casey Goodson Jr. in 2020. It is rare for a law enforcement official to be convicted in a killing that occurs on the job.
The attack happened in late January during a town-hall meeting in Minneapolis, at the height of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in Minnesota.
The media mogul, who died this week, amassed roughly two million acres and revived entire ecosystems.
Across the country, police and city officials are trying to crack down on sometimes violent youth gatherings, but the teens themselves say they need some way to socialize and blow off steam.
Low approval ratings? MAGA divisions? The president was able to turn out party loyalists in an Indiana primary to help him oust Republican state lawmakers who had crossed him.
El presidente apoyó a los adversarios de siete legisladores republicanos que se opusieron a su iniciativa de redistribución de distritos. Al menos cinco ganaron sus elecciones.
Attacks are flying, prominent Democrats are taking sides and the fight is just getting started.
Poco después de que Robert Prevost se convirtiera en el papa León XIV, tuvo que llamar a su banco. Esto es lo que pasó.
The vice president, a skeptic of the war, made his first visit of the cycle to the state that will kick off the 2028 nominating process.
About 1,500 beagles are scheduled to be removed from Ridglan Farms, a Wisconsin facility that breeds the dogs for biomedical research aimed at improving veterinary medicine, after a special prosecutor found it had performed procedures that constituted animal mistreatment. One rescue bought 1,000 of the dogs and is working on finding them homes.
In a lawsuit, an Air Force veteran says that the federal government is sending a “chilling message” to people demonstrating against the immigration crackdown.
Officials said they were examining the shooting of Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez last summer during a Chicago-area crackdown on illegal immigration.
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat, allowed the swing district seat to sit vacant for more than a year as her party clung to a slim majority.
The president helped unseat most of the state lawmakers he targeted after they rebuffed his call to draw new House maps to help Republicans.
Madison Sheahan, whose candidacy promised to test how general-election voters viewed President Trump’s immigration agenda, lost to a rival who billed himself as a “MAGA Republican.”
President Trump endorsed primary opponents against seven Republican lawmakers who opposed his redistricting push. At least five of the Trump-backed candidates have won their races.
The vice president acknowledged economic headwinds, including rising energy and fertilizer costs. “We got a little — a little blip in the Middle East,” he said, referring to the war in Iran.
In a close race, Vivek Ramaswamy, the Republican nominee, and Dr. Amy Acton, the Democrat, bring distinctive potential liabilities: his wealth and her time leading Ohio’s pandemic response.
A long-neglected fossil seems to show the evolutionary leap that let the ancestors of today’s many-legged arthropods crawl forth from the seas.
Spoiler alert: There was no miracle.
Stacie Grissom and Sean Wilson’s 9,000-square-foot Indiana schoolhouse is a lesson in courage.
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The president is seeking political payback for Republican state legislators in Indiana who rejected his push to redraw the state’s political map last year.
Ohio’s unusual contest — with a little-known incumbent and a well-known challenger — shows how Democrats are hoping to capitalize on G.O.P. voters’ anger at the Jeffrey Epstein scandal.
A series of Republican contests will test his grip on the party.
Last month, animal rights activists tried to steal some of the dogs from the Wisconsin facility, Ridglan Farms, but were thwarted by tear gas and rubber bullets.
The Justice Department is seeking to block a lawsuit filed against major players in the fossil fuel industry over their role in climate change.
The shooting took place near Arcadia Lake, northeast of Oklahoma City, where a crowd of young people was having a party, the police said.
This school gave me hope for our democracy.
Each new attack, like the London stabbings last week, brings a heightened sense of caution to an already wary population.
The election on Tuesday will test the influence of President Trump, who endorsed challengers to Republican state senators who scuttled his push to redraw political maps.
For more than 30 years, she wrote and illustrated “Sylvia,” a comic strip about a tart-tongued, witty woman unafraid of expressing her many opinions.
Spirit once upended the industry by offering very low fares but was in its second bankruptcy in two years after years of struggle.
During President Trump’s second term, the disaster declarations that unlock money are taking longer than in the past. Blue states wait the longest and they hear ‘no’ more often.
Organizers have billed the events as a nationwide day of action to demand policies that put the interests of working people over those of the ultrawealthy.
The exit of Gov. Janet Mills kicked off the general election early in what is likely to be one of the most important, expensive and combative Senate races of 2026.
As the Trump administration guts weather agencies, a state’s low-cost flood tracking system offers a model for responding to deadly inundations.
Sabrina Tavernise, a national writer-at-large, traveled to Saline Township, Mich., where the state’s first hyperscale A.I. data center is under construction. Residents are banding together to oppose the center, crossing political lines in surprising new ways.
Americans have soured on the projects, polls show, and the sentiment is profoundly bipartisan. How that will change our politics?
Corn estimates were off by 4.5 million acres last year. A lack of survey responses, not job cuts, led to the miss, the Agriculture Department said.
Mr. Coe, who wrote “Take This Job and Shove It” and other hits, was a transgressive exponent of the outlaw country movement of the 1970s and ’80s.
The airline was used by chicken breeders in Texas to illegally transport roosters for cockfights, an animal welfare group said.
With nary an inch of wall space to spare, a couple of art collectors looked for a house that could hold their ever-expanding lives.
Both parties are now scrambling to adjust to a new voting rights landscape.
Prosecutors, in a significant retreat, said they would abandon conspiracy counts against activists, including a former congressional candidate, and refile with misdemeanors.
He transformed the Missouri Botanical Garden into an international research hub and laid out the existential threats posed by deforestation and unchecked development.
Haitians played a pivotal role in revitalizing the once struggling Ohio city. The end of Temporary Protected Status could be a setback for its future.
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Alchemy Architects pioneered the weeHouse after building a home for Stephanie Arado. Decades later, she wanted another one — this time with plumbing.
A bungalow in Louisville, Ky., a midcentury modern house in Indianapolis and a cottage in Little Rock, Ark.
Elected to Congress in 1966 as a Republican from Michigan, he grew disenchanted with his party during the Nixon presidency and became a progressive Democratic senator.
Investigators obtained 22 search warrants to collect evidence as part of a fraud investigation in a state that has become a top concern for the Trump administration.
Haiti’s revolution shocked the world. America still isn’t over it.
Areas around St. Louis could face tornadoes, forecasters said. Dangerous weather has unfolded across the Midwest in recent days.
A proposed copper mine in northern Minnesota has become a battleground for politicians and environmentalists — and a pressing reason to explore the waterways.
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In Illinois and other states, officials hoped that culls could halt the progress of chronic wasting disease. Now they are losing hope.
The shooting left one officer in critical condition, officials said. The condition of the other officer was not immediately known.
All four Black House Republicans are retiring after this year, a reflection of the striking and persistent lack of diversity in the G.O.P. ranks of Congress.
A large tornado in Oklahoma damaged homes and struck Vance Air Force Base in the city of Enid, officials said. The tornado came as severe weather threatened the central United States.
The tornado damaged homes and struck an Air Force base in Enid, Okla., the local sheriff said. Some people were injured.