Most of the tourists have left Ocracoke Island, and the surfers are watching closely as deadly rip currents lurk below the waves.
It was the second time that Mr. Abrego Garcia’s lawyers have sought to hold the Trump administration accountable over its handling of his expulsion to El Salvador and its aftermath.
The chair of the Democratic Governors Association, however, warned Republican governors against supporting “a dangerous, politically motivated agenda.”
Housing rights experts say a community restricted to white residents is illegal, but the creators believe they could win a potential challenge in court in the current political climate.
The shanty boat was bound for New Orleans, but the destination mattered less than the challenges, chance encounters and lessons learned along the way.
Ohio, West Virginia and South Carolina have also deployed the Guard to Washington to support President Trump’s crackdown on the city.
Aunque el huracán está lejos de la costa, las corrientes de resaca podrían crear riesgos en las playas de la costa este de EE. UU. y de Canadá.
Rip currents are the third leading cause of deaths from hurricanes, and they can happen on a sunny day hundreds of miles from the storm.
Craig Greenberg’s move, requested by the Trump administration, allows federal agents more time to detain immigrants who are held at the city’s jail.
A long battle over the pro-slavery words on a Tyrrell County statue intensifies as the Trump administration reclaims Confederate imagery.
While thousands of people are bitten by venomous snakes in the United States each year, deaths are uncommon, according to the authorities.
For decades, Louisiana lawmakers at all levels of government have been caught up in corruption allegations.
Gov. Patrick Morrisey said the state would send 300 to 400 troops to Washington to support Mr. Trump’s “initiative to restore cleanliness and safety” to the city.
A statue in Florida has prompted complaints about its shoes, arm and head but also a discussion about art and representations of historic figures.
Nearly a year after Hurricane Helene severely damaged the popular River Arts District, the rebuilding process continues in a gradual manner.
A Florida jury convicted the hip-hop artist and his mother in a federal fraud case that centered on luxury goods, which prosecutors said that Mr. Kingston did not pay for.
Playing a blend of rock, R&B and zydeco, he had a hit in 1966 with “Sweet Dreams” and inspired Elvis Costello and Nick Lowe, among many others.
LaToya Cantrell was charged with going to criminal lengths to carry out a romantic relationship with a city police officer assigned to protect her.
After three weeks, with bug bites and tattered hiking boots, Micherre Fox found the stone at Crater of Diamonds State Park.
The storm’s likely path is coming into focus, but a lot can still change. Here’s what the forecasters look at.
A trade group representing sites like Facebook and X said the law ran afoul of the First Amendment.
With Eric Clapton, he wrote “Bell Bottom Blues” and built one of the greatest — if most short-lived — supergroups of the 1970s.
Los rituales para detener la lluvia se han hecho cada vez más populares en las bodas de alto nivel, y más parejas añaden “bloqueadores de lluvias” a la lista de profesionales para su gran día.
The state says it will run the new center from an empty prison that could hold 2,000 federal detainees. This one will be called “Deportation Depot.”
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.
A man opened fire on the sheriff’s deputies, wounding them with shrapnel, as they served warrants, officials said.
State wildlife officials say a regulated hunt is needed to manage the bear population. Opponents say the new rules will lead to trophy hunting.
A condo in Stonington, a Colonial Revival in Warrenton and a ranch house in Durham.
A car swirled around in a muddy whirlpool as rescue teams helped people evacuate from flooded homes in Chattanooga, Tenn.
The mayor of Hamilton County, Tenn., declared a state of emergency as rescue crews pulled people out of submerged cars and homes.
He imposed a 47-month prison term on Mr. Trump’s former campaign chairman, who was convicted of fraud. Sentencing guidelines recommended up to 24 years.
Gov. Ron DeSantis elevated a loyal ally, State Senator Jay Collins of Tampa, as Republicans jostle over who should succeed the term-limited governor.
Democrats delivered millions to the Texarkana region. It didn’t matter a dime.
For high-end destination weddings, couples are increasingly hiring rain-stoppers to keep precipitation away.
Fragments of a meteorite that fell to Earth as part of a mysterious daytime fireball in late June missed striking a man near Atlanta, a researcher has found.
Ford, which once had a lead on other established automakers, said on Monday that it will use new materials and methods to lower the costs of electric vehicles.
A gunman who believed the Covid-19 vaccine had made him ill fired at the agency’s Atlanta offices, killing a police officer and rattling the public health community.
The number of these programs, which come from a range of sources, is rising in the United States, but there are barriers to entry.
The testosterone-laced conversations on the podcast “Bussin’ With the Boys” prioritize sports, gambling and manhood.
The shooting in Atlanta, which killed a police officer, followed the spread of false information around Covid vaccines and animosity directed at the agency, public health workers say.
Three Opinion writers on Trump’s most recent power grabs.
Jeff Jackson was elected to attorney general in North Carolina the same year that President Trump won the state for the third time. Supporters see lessons for Democrats in Mr. Jackson’s rise.
Homeland Security says a detainee fainted. But other accounts say the man was unconscious. One witness said the guards did not seem to know how to check his pulse.
Several emergency units responded to Emory University after reports of an active shooter at a CVS store near the campus in Atlanta Friday afternoon.
Pictures showed gunfire had struck windows at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Officials building a Florida detention center appear to be skipping environmental reviews made mandatory decades ago after a fight over an airport at the very same spot.
When you’re MAGA, they let you do it.
The announcement of Mr. Blackstock’s death came one day after Ms. Clarkson said she would be postponing the remainder of her residency in Las Vegas.
A federal judge said work must stop for 14 days while she considered arguments that building and operating the immigration detention facility would harm the environment.
The 29-year-old forged her documents to work at a Florida hospital, and the discrepancy was noticed only after she was offered a promotion, according to an investigation.
A novelist and memoirist, she famously clashed with her brother, leading to the fall of a Kentucky publishing dynasty that her paternal grandfather established in 1918.
A mother and her son searched near Asheville, N.C., for a quiet place with nice views and an easy commute to her new job.
The legal claim, one of a raft of lawsuits across the country, had accused companies of a yearslong disinformation campaign about climate change.
As environmentalists made the case on Wednesday to stop operations, what was most striking was how many significant questions remained unanswered about the immigration detention center.
El sospechoso empleó su arma y fue sometido por otros soldados en la base militar, según las autoridades.
The gunman was quickly apprehended, the authorities said and a lockdown of the base was lifted.
A conservative Trump ally in the Senate, Ms. Blackburn will now try to become the first woman to serve as governor.
Stu Sternberg used quantitative wizardry to turn the Tampa Bay Rays into a perennial contender. But the fans were the one equation he could never solve.
They went to jail when their boy was killed. Why don’t road planners bear some guilt?
Cool Cantonese, the return of a real ‘Miami girl’ chef and a chic bar with incredible pizzas.
The authorities had been searching for Austin Drummond in connection with the killing of four people and the abandonment of a baby in a yard.
Lawyers for Byron Black, found guilty of three murders, have argued that an execution may be more painful because of his heart implant.
A decline in the number of children and rise in the number of choices has created a crisis for public schools. Some are trying new strategies to recruit students.
A woman was also critically injured in the collision, which happened on Shearon Harris Reservoir, about 25 miles southwest of Raleigh, N.C., the authorities said.
The man, Travis Eugene Posey, also injured 11 people in the shooting at the Mad Butcher in Fordyce, Ark., in June 2024. He received four consecutive life terms.
The area around the immigrant detention center, deep in the Everglades, is threatened by hurricanes, extreme heat and even wildfires.
Derek Dooley, a former football coach, cast himself as an outsider candidate as the Republican primary field for a marquee midterm contest takes shape.
The Charleston-area congresswoman was once a moderate Republican, but has more recently presented herself as a loyal supporter of President Trump.
A moderate group that has tried to rally Democrats around school choice faces divisions over private-school vouchers.
Some said he had shown nearly as much promise in the ring as Muhammad Ali. But he gave up his own career to join the champ’s entourage.
Six people, including a camp counselor, aboard a sailboat were thrown into the water after the collision on Monday, the authorities said.
“Deporting immigrants is cruel,” some of the ads against Cuban Americans in Congress read. Michael B. Fernández wanted to “wake up” Miami’s conscience.
In addition to the hardship many families could face, the cuts to SNAP could lead to the loss of grocery stores in rural areas that already have few food retailers.
En las tiendas de libros de todo Estados Unidos, algunos de los vendedores más populares tienen cuatro patas, orejas inquietas y bigotes.
The authorities said Kevin O’Neal tried to set off explosives as Polk County, Tenn., deputies entered his home. More than a dozen devices were later found.
A state trooper went to the aid of a bull terrier who had been abandoned as Hurricane Milton approached. Now the dog, named Trooper, is thriving, and his story inspired stricter animal protections.
She blazed a trail for women in country music with the candor of her songs and her bold fashion sense. She was the first woman to host a segment on the Opry.
The child, who was in foster care, died on July 22 after being left in a vehicle. A contractor for the state’s Human Resources Department was charged with a felony on Friday.
After a scrubbed launch on Thursday, four astronauts lifted off from Florida and will dock at the International Space Station on Saturday.
Lawyers for the family of a woman struck and killed by a Tesla sedan in 2019 argued that the company’s Autopilot software should have avoided the crash.
Immigrants in custody, with no felony convictions, may be offered direct commercial flights home — and avoid “Alligator Alcatraz.”
Four radioactive wasp nests may indicate previously undetected environmental contamination at the decades-old Savannah River Site. Here’s what to know.
Mitchell Jackson was fired from a high-profile journalism job at 25. Now he represents some of the most divisive figures in America, including the right-wing podcaster Candace Owens.
Plus, your Friday news quiz.
Republicans have attacked the president, Gregory Washington, over his support for diversity efforts at the university, Virginia’s largest public institution.
These rare salamanders, which can grow to over two feet long, lurk in the wild rivers of Appalachia. To spot one, you’ll need a snorkel, and some luck.
Austin Robert Drummond, 28, faces four counts first-degree murder, one count of aggravated kidnapping and firearms charges.
State leaders fast-tracked plans by Elon Musk’s company for a tunnel to Nashville’s airport, ignoring the city’s concerns.
The office of Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana asked the Department of Homeland Security to release the detainee, who is married to a U.S. Marine Corps veteran.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement wants to operate more like a business — like FedEx or Amazon. Brent McDonald and Campbell Robertson traveled to a small commercial airport in Alexandria, La., that has become the No. 1 ICE transit hub in the country.
The man, James Andrew McGann, was charged with two counts of capital murder. The couple was killed while hiking with their young daughters on Saturday.
Cardman, who leads a crew of astronauts to the station on Thursday, was bumped from a similar mission last year.
A man burst into an office in Danville, Va., where the councilman, Lee Vogler, was working, doused him with a flammable liquid and set him on fire, the authorities said.
An 1870 house in Charles Town, an Italianate home in St. Louis and a condo in Boston.
Before building the beachfront homes of their dreams, the superrich keep tearing down perfectly good mansions.
James Uthmeier, el nuevo fiscal general de Florida, ha implementado una serie de acciones políticas similares a las del gobernador Ron DeSantis. “El tipo tiene futuro”, dijo el presidente Trump.
A picture and a sketch show a person that the state police are seeking to question in the deaths of Clinton David Brink, 43, and Cristen Amanda Brink, 41, in Devil’s Den State Park. Their daughters, 7 and 9, were not physically harmed.
The divided state’s new Democratic governor vetoed 14 bills this session, on guns, immigration, trans rights and more. Republicans are trying to enact them all anyway.
At a Tallahassee, Fla., Chuck E. Cheese location, a police officer told children: “Chuck E.’s busy right now.”
A legal fight over access to burial grounds has pitted the Gullah Geechee against wealthy landowners around Hilton Head Island.
People are starting their holiday shopping earlier this year, using summer sales from retailers like Amazon and Walmart to save time and money.
The lawsuit argues that the federal government’s demand was an attempt to obtain sensitive personal information for use outside the food stamp program.
Paul Dans will run in the South Carolina primary highlighting the work of Project 2025, a conservative blueprint that President Trump has employed during his second term.
The Faculty Senate at George Mason University in Virginia adopted a resolution supporting the school’s president and his work related to diversity. The Justice Department says it will investigate.
The sailboat was struck near Hibiscus Island in Biscayne Bay, the authorities said.
A verbal gymnast on and off the page (as well as a musician and photographer), he was a founder of the Dark Room Collective, a community of writers, and fostered a boom in Black poetry.
Extreme heat has settled across much of the region.
The couple were hiking with their two daughters on Saturday when they were attacked, according to the police, who asked for help in searching for the killer.
James Uthmeier, the new attorney general, has followed an aggressive playbook similar to that of Gov. Ron DeSantis. “The guy’s got a future,” President Trump said.
James Uthmeier has followed an aggressive playbook similar to that of Gov. Ron DeSantis, for whom he used to work behind the scenes as chief of staff.
A sheriff called it the worst child abuse case he’d seen in his 33-year career. Victims as young as 3 are now in state care and getting medical, emotional and psychological support.
A lawyer for the family of 12-year-old Jaysen Carr said he died on July 18 after contracting a deadly infectious amoeba while swimming in a reservoir.
The New Orleans musician known for party-starting rapping chats about healing through song, and the TV, movies and boots that keep her stomping ahead.
The boy, who was in foster care, was being transported between a supervised visit and day care, his aunt said. State lawmakers said they were seeking answers and the police were investigating.
A partir de este mes, los viajeros de varios vuelos de Londres podrán saltarse los controles aduaneros estándar y llegar más rápidamente a sus puertas de conexión.
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.
Al menos algunos funcionarios estadounidenses sabían que Dahud Hanid Ortiz había sido condenado por un triple asesinato cuando lo subieron al avión con destino a Estados Unidos.
Fired employees have struggled to get a judge to hear their cases because Congress set up a separate system to referee such employment disputes.
At least some American officials knew that Dahud Hanid Ortiz had been convicted of a triple murder when he was put on the plane to the United States.
With a national profile, he represented the notorious and the celebrated, helping to secure an acquittal in the Smith rape case and a lenient plea deal for Jeffrey Epstein.
His entry will pave the way for a marquee contest in 2026, with former Gov. Roy Cooper planning to seek the Democratic nomination.
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.
For Michael Gibson, topiary art isn’t just clipping branches. It’s a life lesson.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia podría volver pronto como hombre libre a Maryland, donde vivía con su familia antes de su calvario de meses de detención, deportación y encarcelamiento en El Salvador.
The men were last seen on a sandbar south of a boat ramp in Meeman-Shelby Forest State Park, about 13 miles north of Memphis.
The convergence of the two judicial rulings, which came within minutes of each other, meant that Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia could soon be released and return to Maryland.
On select routes from London offered by American and Delta, travelers will bypass standard customs and skip rechecking bags as part of a program that could expand to other airports.
A Black man was beaten by a white officer in Jacksonville, Fla., during a traffic stop. The sheriff’s office said that it was reviewing the episode.
A 1950s bungalow in Beaver, a midcentury-modern house in San Antonio and a cottage from 1900 in Wake Forest.
Peat bogs have huge potential to store planet-warming carbon. The ones in North Carolina just need some help to get healthy again.
In a public letter, employees of the National Science Foundation accused the administration of politicizing the agency and impeding scientific innovation.
A 17-year-old restaurant that’s still got it and a red-sauce tavern known for its holy pizza join the list.
Gregory Washington, the first Black president of George Mason University, is under fire for his promotion of campus diversity.
Descriptions and displays at scores of parks and historic sites have been flagged for review in connection with an executive order from President Trump.
Not all Californians took it well.
That bison may be huge, but it can run a lot faster than you think. Test how much you know about staying safe around animals like bears, alligators and, yes, bison.
Un análisis de The New York Times reveló un patrón de decisiones apresuradas que han dado más importancia a la necesidad de obtener órganos que a la seguridad de los donantes.
Some women’s symptoms improved quickly after taking the pill, but depression persisted in others. Doctors are trying to learn which patients benefit, and why some don’t.
The driver gave testimony in a federal trial about Tesla’s role in a 2019 accident that killed a woman in Florida.
City commissioners said the move was meant to save money and improve turnout. Critics noted that it would give some city officials an extra year in office.
Locals in Canton, N.C., are trying to figure out what’s next after losing the thing that gave them an identity: their beloved, stinky paper mill.
Politicians used to care how much students learn. Now, to find a defense of educational excellence, we have to look beyond politics.
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.
“Vaccines should be treated with nuance, recognizing differences between seasonal vaccines and childhood immunizations,” Dr. Ralph L. Abraham, the state’s surgeon general, wrote in a memo.
With little post-pandemic recovery, experts wonder if screen time and school absence are among the causes.
The city was seeing glimmers of optimism for what the new year might bring before the horrendous attack on the French Quarter.
The preparers filed for pandemic-related tax credits on behalf of ineligible clients and then netted hefty filing fees, officials said.
Voters in the Virginia suburbs shifted toward Trump. Some said they were still frustrated by pandemic closures and fights over gender, race and testing in schools.