The victory by Mr. Thompson, the state’s longest-serving Black Democrat, offers a counterpoint to the broader push nationwide for younger leadership in Congress.
Through his lawyers, Alberto Carvalho, who was put on leave after the F.B.I. raided his home and office, said that his actions were appropriate but that he would respect the investigative process.
Martine Moïse was the first witness called in the long-awaited Miami trial of the people accused of plotting the murder of her husband, Jovenel Moïse, in 2021.
Clayton Fuller will face Shawn Harris, a Democrat, in an April runoff. Mr. Fuller’s win over a flashier Republican showed the power of the president’s support.
Most of the Van Allen Probe A, in orbit since 2012, will incinerate in Earth’s atmosphere, NASA said. But some pieces are expected to survive, posing a small risk to people on the ground.
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When conflict broke out in the Middle East, thousands of travelers were stranded. We followed a New Orleans doctor on his epic journey to get home.
The move by Gov. Kay Ivey, a Republican, is extremely rare. The inmate, Charles Burton, was scheduled to die even though the gunman’s sentence had been commuted years ago.
The voting technology company’s new court filing signals how far-reaching the legal fights over elections will be in 2026.
Shocked by the rapid price increases, many Americans are scrambling to figure out how to stretch their budgets to cover an essential expense.
It’s primary day in Mississippi, where a younger Democrat is trying to oust a House veteran, and in Georgia, where Marjorie Taylor Greene’s seat is up for grabs.
La familia del docente “apoya que se retiren los cargos para todos los implicados”, después de que una broma con papel higiénico se convirtiera en un accidente de auto mortal.
Experts say the initial designs raise health, safety and security concerns.
The groups are working to educate voters in the South about how they would be affected if the court strikes down a key provision of the Voting Rights Act.
The longest-serving Black Democrat in Mississippi, Bennie Thompson is a formidable political force. But he is not immune to a national trend of younger candidates going after older incumbents.
Screening delays created lines that stretched around William P. Hobby and Louis Armstrong airports, causing many to miss flights at the start of spring break season.
President Trump thinks Republicans should “take over” election procedures in parts of the United States. But where? Here are some possibilities.
The detention of Estefany Maria Rodriguez Florez, who had sought asylum and is married to an American citizen, raised fears that she had been targeted for her reporting.
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The Florida bar said that it had “erroneously” made that assertion, disclosed in a letter last month, and that no investigation into Ms. Halligan was pending.
Mrs. Loving’s anger over being banished from Virginia for marrying a white man led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling overturning state miscegenation laws.
Colton Moore, who hopes to win a special election on Tuesday to replace Ms. Greene, has the same flair for the dramatic and the ultra-MAGA persona, but he lacks one thing: a Trump endorsement.
An aging population is drawing workers to medical and social care, creating reliable jobs and revealing weakness for the rest of the economy.
Mr. Parnas, who once tried to help find damaging information on Hunter Biden, said his background had turned him into “an advocate for speaking truth to power.”
The actions of Ms. Halligan, who as a U.S. attorney brought criminal cases against President Trump’s enemies, are under review by the organization that licensed her to practice law.
The country is casting an ever wider net in its search for accountability after mass shootings. Charging parents is an emerging tactic.
After the secretary of the Miami-Dade County Republican Party created the chat for college students, it devolved into slurs against Black and Jewish people.
Voters across this politically purple state made it clear on Tuesday that they wanted to punish the powerful on both sides of the aisle. It may be a warning to incumbents elsewhere.
Even as some top targets held on, lawmakers in both parties were pushed into runoffs by challengers in Texas, while some in the North Carolina state legislature lost.
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The Associated Press had not yet called the race. The contest was widely viewed as a bellwether for the type of candidate that Democratic voters wished to elevate in the Trump era.
A federal judge found that the designation for CAIR, one of the nation’s largest Muslim advocacy groups, had violated the organization’s First Amendment rights.
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Aaron Spencer faces a second-degree murder charge for shooting a man accused of sexually assaulting his daughter. Preliminary results showed him appearing to win the Republican primary.
Some kind of severe weather is expected every day into early next week, forecasters warned. Friday is expected to be among the riskiest.
Mientras el mercado inmobiliario estadounidense está congelado, en los rincones más exclusivos de Miami Beach algunos titantes de las finanzas y la tecnología están dispuestos a pagar lo que sea por una propiedad.
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The hit show is wrapping up, but its legacy will live on in a tourism boom and a blossoming local TV industry.
But that did not stop Sam Page, a small-town sheriff steeped in President Trump’s political movement, from declaring victory in the race.
North Carolina has broken national Democrats’ hearts for nearly two decades, but this time they hope that Roy Cooper, the former governor, can once again find a path to victory.
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A jury found that Colin Gray, the father of the suspect, bore criminal responsibility for the attack at a Georgia school by failing to heed warnings of his son’s struggles.
The heavy favorites in the Senate primary are former Gov. Roy Cooper, a moderate Democrat, and Michael Whatley, a former chairman of the Republican National Committee.
Midterm season is kicking off with hard-fought Senate and House primary contests that include battles over political style and ideology, age and scandal.
The ultrawealthy are vying for a limited number of exclusive properties on the islands and shorelines of South Florida.
Spartanburg County in South Carolina is ground zero for the largest measles outbreak since 2000. One school has a vaccination rate of 21 percent.
Aaron Spencer has been charged with fatally shooting a man accused of assaulting Mr. Spencer’s daughter. But ahead of his trial, he’s running for county sheriff in Arkansas.
A new ad from a progressive challenger, Nida Allam, attacks Representative Valerie Foushee over financial backing she has received from defense contractors and the A.I. industry.
Before closing arguments in the trial, the father, Colin Gray, testified that he never considered his son capable of the attack that killed four people in 2024.
The prosecution said it plans to drop two charges against the three men. Defense attorneys are expected to start their case this week.
Primary contests in Texas could help decide control of the House and Senate in November, and North Carolina and Arkansas are also holding elections on Tuesday.
As Mr. Jackson’s body lies in state in South Carolina on Monday, the city of Greenville, where he fought civil rights battles, is wrestling with how to pay its respects.
President Trump did not deliver a formal address to the American public to explain why the country was at war, a departure from his predecessors.
He helped bring the African American cooking of the Carolina Lowcountry to the world and became known as the “dean of Southern Cuisine.”
Luxury travel with children? At places like these, it’s highly possible.
Marquee primary contests will determine the major-party nominees for an open U.S. Senate seat. The real action could unfold lower down the ballot.
The state will hold party primaries as well as some general elections for nonpartisan local offices. Early voting continues through Monday.
The two-part documentary on HBO is not just the story of a gruesome murder, but a portrait of the city, neighborhood and home where it happened.
From a Charlotte-area House race to three statehouse races, North Carolina liberals are signaling that their tolerance for Democratic stalwarts may be coming to an end.
El relato del gobierno cubano sobre una supuesta incursión armada en su territorio quedó en entredicho después de que uno de los hombres identificados como ocupantes de la embarcación apareciera en Miami.
The office of a prosecutor based in Miami has issued new subpoenas in a wide-ranging inquiry aimed at President Trump’s perceived foes.
The distance running icon, who died Wednesday at 80, taught me to endure. In December, we shared his final run.
At 11, she was one of the youngest at the 1965 “Bloody Sunday” voting rights march in Selma, Ala., and was injured while crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge.
The Cuban government’s account of a supposed armed raid into its territory was called into question after one of the men identified as being on the boat turned up in Miami.
Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, and others respond to a Nicholas Kristof column. Also: Reagan’s warning about nuclear weapons; aging doctors.
A runner, coach and best-selling author, he created the widely embraced run-walk-run method, which helped make running more accessible to the public.
Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders wants to build a huge, pricey prison to hold the inmates incarcerated under her tough-on-crime agenda, and she hopes to oust fellow Republicans on Tuesday to do it.
Cuban officials said border troops engaged in gunfire with a Florida-based speedboat on Wednesday, leaving four dead on the boat and six wounded. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the U.S. is working to verify what happened and will respond accordingly.
The prediction-market platform said it had reported the employee to federal regulators. The show’s parent company said it had “no tolerance for this behavior.”
The firings are part of a rolling barrage of retribution aimed at those who worked on the two federal prosecutions of President Trump.
On Wednesday, a Florida-registered speedboat entered Cuban waters and some on board exchanged gunfire with Cuban troops. Two such armed clashes occurred in 2022.
Four people aboard a Florida-based speedboat died in a gunfight with Cuban border troops near the island nation’s coast, the Cuban Interior Ministry said.
The race is one of a handful of competitive Senate elections this year, but Democrats seem most confident about North Carolina, partly because their candidate, former Gov. Roy Cooper, has never been beaten.
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From palatial to contemporary to luxuriously rustic, this collection of new resorts and inns offers spas, private gardens, fine restaurants and exquisite settings.
The owners have put a 67-year-old nudist colony on the market, hoping a new steward can help it shed its troubled past.
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18 bishops and archbishops from border areas issued a strongly worded statement hours before President Trump’s State of the Union address.
The 21-year-old man was killed by law enforcement officers after he entered Mar-a-Lago with a weapon.
El sheriff local identificó al hombre como Austin Tucker Martin, de 21 años y originario de Cameron, Carolina del Norte. El presidente no se encontraba en su complejo de Florida y no ha hecho comentarios sobre el tiroteo.
The man was killed early Sunday after an “unauthorized entry” into the secure perimeter at President Trump’s resort in Florida, the agency said. The president was not at the club at the time.
Scores of Californians have moved to Tennessee for its friendlier business environment and conservative politics. On Saturday, the Democratic governor accused of driving them away paid a visit.
The rocket will be removed from the launchpad in order for technicians to investigate and fix a malfunctioning helium system.
The New York Times traveled to Honolulu, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, New Orleans and New York to see how Asian American communities blend old and new customs to celebrate the Lunar New Year.
The Pan-Asian landscape is rich with tradition. In Honolulu, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, New Orleans and New York, communities blend old and new customs to make the holiday their own.
A prosecutor apologized for failing to alert the magistrate to a 1980 law that restricts searches for reporting materials.
A federal appeals court vacated a temporary block on the 2024 law, tossing a previous decision that called it “plainly unconstitutional.”
The news arrived in a note passed by the U.S. trade representative.
The move appeared to undercut the Make America Healthy Again movement led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a onetime campaigner against mercury pollution.
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The state’s attorney general said in a lawsuit filed on Thursday that the company declined to use tools that recognize the material stored on iCloud.
The slow counting of votes is a classic example of the perfect being the enemy of the good.
The Microsoft co-founder has listed another house on the property. Also on the market, a penthouse in Taylor Swift’s rumored wedding venue and Hulk Hogan’s oceanfront mansion.
The present and past coexist in a Southern city unlike any other.
In “Kin,” the follow-up to the best-selling “An American Marriage,” she looks back on the place and the people that forged her.
The agency is ramping up arrests, but local pushback is complicating efforts to expand detention capacity and prevent overcrowding.
For decades, she oversaw a money-gushing South Florida restaurant that has drawn celebrities like Frank Sinatra, Muhammad Ali and Madonna.
The Trump organization said the move was necessary to protect the brand as Florida prepares to rename an airport after the president.
El actor, conocido por sus papeles en “Transformers” y “Megalópolis”, fue arrestado tras atacar a dos personas durante un altercado en el Barrio Francés.
Across the country, Democratic-led states are accelerating their initiatives to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Their role just became much more important.
Dan Helmer, a Democratic state lawmaker, played a key role in putting redrawn congressional maps before state voters.
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Mr. Jackson often spoke about Greenville, S.C., in his speeches, returning home several times to fight for change — and for a slice of his favorite banana cream pie.
The actor, known for his roles in “Transformers” and “Megalopolis,” was arrested early Tuesday after reportedly assaulting two people, the authorities said.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson entered the national spotlight during the civil rights movement and ran for president twice. He also courted controversy while in the public eye.
The Masonic lodge that served as the home base for Dr. King’s activism will soon be open to visitors. It had long been considered endangered.
Our education system is failing, but allotting funding by student and family preference, rather than by ZIP code, can help.
Carnival can generate more than 1,000 tons of trash every year. A coalition of nonprofit groups, city officials and scientists has a plan to clean it up.
The man, who federal officials said had entered the United States illegally, was arrested and charged with first-degree homicide after the crash in Savannah, Ga., according to the county police.
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