Jacksonville is one of dozens of American cities that have struggled to pick up trash, yard waste and recycling amid a pandemic labor shortage.
Some residents want the monument removed. In the meantime, Franklin, Tenn., erected a statue of a U.S. Colored Troops soldier, broadening the way the community memorializes the Civil War.
The civil trial that starts Monday will examine whether the far-right organizers had plotted to foment violence. They have countered that bloodshed stemmed from self-defense.
The proposal to join West Virginia seems destined to go nowhere. But it has tapped into deep-seated feelings of alienation in western Maryland, a mountainous panhandle wedged against the Mason-Dixon line.
House hunters are attracted to the hassle-free living and lack of down payments, but there’s a trade-off: They give up the investment of owning a home.
Glenn Youngkin, the Republican nominee for governor, is encouraging early voting despite catering to the Trump base that believes the former president’s election conspiracies.
Readers react to an account of 90 seconds of violence at the Capitol. Also: Voting rights; Parler; the Jefferson statue; older drivers; filing cabinets.
The organizers say they will have enough signatures by Monday to file for an election with the National Labor Relations Board. The company is pushing back.
The centerpiece of the president’s environmental agenda has fallen apart because of the objections of a single senator.
The contemporary art triennial Prospect New Orleans looks at the city’s cyclical history of challenges.
They’re a seafood-shack favorite, but making them yourself can be an almost fine-dining experience.
It can be the safety-above-all caricature that deep-red America has made of it, or it can leave the age of emergency behind.
The agency said Arizona, South Carolina and Utah had failed to adopt rules protecting workers from the coronavirus.
The tight governor’s race in Virginia is a proving ground for strategies that could help determine control of Congress next year.
The settlement comes more than three years after the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., when 17 people were killed.
She played Deputy Barney Fife’s girlfriend on the long-running sitcom and was remembered by fans with fondness more than 50 years later.
With public schools on the defensive, is this a blip or a ‘once-in-100-year moment for the growth of Christian education’?
With thousands of artifacts, a New Orleans museum tells of a different immigrant experience, far from the cities of the North.
Students for Fair Admissions vowed to immediately appeal in a case that appears destined for the Supreme Court.
On climate and children, he’s hurting his own constituents.
Whether the three men accused in Mr. Arbery’s death were motived by racism will quite likely be a major theme in the case.
The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority idled 748 Metro cars on Monday after one train derailed at least three times on Oct. 12, officials said.
The A.C.L.U. said that the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office had opened an investigation into the violent encounter. The woman was treated at a hospital, and no charges were filed against her.
Michael Regan, the E.P.A. administrator, wants to limit a class of chemicals that has been linked to cancer and is found in everything from drinking water to furniture.
The end of the federal ban on evictions came amid soaring rents that make it harder for people to find new places to live.
Nashville may be having an identity crisis. But our moral commitment to equality will never change.
Donald Trump is the Republicans’ greatest asset in mobilizing voters. But some fret that his obsession with false claims about the 2020 election could cost the G.O.P. in 2022.
Arrested more than 40 times, she was best known for her role in the 2012 break-in at the Oak Ridge nuclear complex in Tennessee.
As the senator thwarts Democrats’ major push to reduce warming, new data shows West Virginia is more exposed to worsening floods than anywhere else in the country.
Three white men are charged in the death of Arbery, an unarmed Black man, in a coastal Georgia suburb. Jury selection begins on Monday.
Republicans in Virginia are saying what their nominee for governor will not: The governor’s race is a proxy for Mr. Trump’s grievances.
A program in West Virginia, partially rolled out while Joe Manchin was governor, could be a model for the nation. But there were challenges, including the 10 years it took to establish.
Last week, I attended an event aimed at rallying Republicans behind Glenn Youngkin, the party’s nominee for governor in Virginia. But it was mostly about Donald J. Trump.
The West Virginia Democrat told the White House he is firmly against a clean electricity program that is the muscle behind the president’s plan to battle climate change.
A new Covid concept house pitches itself as empowering and feminist. Is it?
The plea will include 17 counts of premeditated murder and 17 counts of attempted murder, a lawyer said, for one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history.
The supply chain crisis triggered by the pandemic was supposed to be over by now. It’s not.
Though the state is getting bluer, voters’ exhaustion is imperiling the former governor’s comeback attempt against his Republican rival, Glenn Youngkin.
For some, it’s not enough to go to an event in the name of Donald J. Trump — their attendance also requires wearing something that embraces some of his political calling cards.
Mr. Murdaugh, the scion of a legal dynasty in South Carolina, is accused of pocketing about $2.8 million in settlement money that was supposed to go to the housekeeper’s family.
The former Green Bay Packers quarterback was among more than 10 people who received letters from the state auditor demanding repayment of tens of millions of dollars connected to an extensive welfare fraud scheme.
The Board of Regents has given its universities the power to fire tenured professors without faculty input. Now some fear that academic freedom is threatened, too.
Black Americans were once far less likely than white Americans to be vaccinated. But a wave of pro-vaccine campaigns and a surge of virus deaths have narrowed that gap, experts say.
Manatees in Florida have been dying at an alarming rate, with the state losing about 10 percent of its population in just a year.
In a governor’s race deemed a bellwether for the 2022 midterms, the battle between Terry McAuliffe and Glenn Youngkin has ignited over national cultural issues.
Virginia Republicans in a tight governor’s race have been staging “Parents Matter” rallies and tapping into conservative anger over mandates and critical race theory.
“This does not change anything for American,” a spokeswoman said. When the airline introduced its mandate, it cited a presidential order that employees of government contractors be vaccinated.
The 22-year-old’s remains were found last month in a national forest in Wyoming, the F.B.I. said. The police continue to search for her fiancé, Brian Laundrie.
Mr. Yarmuth, the lone Democrat in his state’s congressional delegation and a key proponent of President Biden’s domestic agenda, said he would not seek re-election.
Far more law enforcement officers in the U.S. have died from Covid-19 than from any other work-related cause in 2020 and 2021. Even so, police unions are fighting vaccine mandates.
Jonathan and Diana Toebbe face life in prison if convicted on the charges. Prosecutors, saying they are flight risks, are seeking to keep them in detention.
Luxury home aquariums now can rival installations at public aquariums in size and scale, and they come with hefty price tags.
Democrats believe the system is broken — and they have a proposal for fixing it.
Alex Murdaugh, the powerful lawyer who asked a handyman to kill him, had a spectacular fall from grace. Five people in his family’s orbit have died in recent years, and investigators are looking for connections.
Roberto Abreu, known as Cyborg, has acknowledged missteps in the way he responded to sexual abuse allegations in his Brazilian jiu-jitsu organization.
Master Trooper Adam Gaubert of the Louisiana State Police was found dead in his car more than 12 hours after he was ambushed on Saturday, the authorities said.
The city manager decided to fire Chief Art Acevedo less than a year after announcing his high-profile hiring.
The office was already under fire from Trump supporters, who passed sweeping legislation that could lead to a takeover by the Republican-controlled State Legislature.
Latosha Clemons, who rose to the rank of deputy fire chief in Boynton Beach, Fla., said the mural’s misrepresentation of her had caused her mental and emotional harm.
Después de luchar contra el cáncer durante años, a Sam Anthony se le acababa el tiempo. Entonces se armó de valor para enviar una carta que siempre había temido enviar.
Fast-moving storms damaged parts of a town and at least one school in northeastern Oklahoma, while severe weather forced the Texas state fair to close early and delayed an N.F.L. game in Kansas City.
How the climate crisis is forcing Americans to ask a difficult question.
People on both sides of the aisle can work together to prevent future calamities from unfolding.
Parents are sneaking carbon dioxide monitors into their children’s schools to determine whether the buildings are safe.
President Biden’s social policy legislation aims to address a problem that weighs on many families — and the teachers and child care centers serving them.
After struggling with cancer for years, Sam Anthony was running out of time. Before he died, he found the courage to mail a letter that he had long been afraid to send.
Thursday’s decision means that the districts could face cutbacks that are equal to their school board members’ salaries for requiring students and staff to wear masks.
Many organizations are now trying to reach wider and younger audiences, and to tackle topics beyond the Holocaust.
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Slow-moving thunderstorms drenched parts of northern and central Alabama, flooding houses and stranding drivers in their cars. The heavy rains left at least four people dead, including a 4-year-old girl.
Larrianna Jackson, 18, a student at Covington High School in Louisiana, is a facing a felony battery charge after she repeatedly punched a teacher, the authorities say.
A child and three adults drowned in vehicles submerged in deep water after creeks swelled in the northeast and central counties, officials said.
Outstanding fines prevent too many Floridians from voting.
Despite some turmoil, a vast majority of students have been in classrooms full-time and mostly uninterrupted this fall. Now, educators debate what’s next.
Since last year, archaeologists have been excavating the foundation of the First Baptist Church, one of the nation’s oldest Black churches, in Colonial Williamsburg.
The justices will soon take on some of the most divisive topics in the U.S. amid concern about how politicized the institution has become.
“The Taking of Jemima Boone,” the first nonfiction book by the novelist Matthew Pearl, recounts a legendary abduction case that complicates our view of relations between settlers and Native Americans during westward expansion.
Los medios y las autoridades invirtieron tiempo y recursos en encontrar a Gabrielle Petito. Su caso ha resaltado la falta de visibilidad de otras desapariciones, con frecuencia mujeres y niñas latinas, negras e indígenas.
For 150 years, the Fisk Jubilee Singers have performed spirituals that saved a university and helped raise generations up from the bonds of slavery.
When the Supreme Court hears arguments this fall in a big abortion case from Mississippi, it will consider dueling accounts of international practices.
With an autumnal ombré and cooler temperatures, fall is prime time for journeying along this Appalachian Mountain roadway.
Ms. Marcano, a 19-year-old college student in Orlando, Fla., was last seen on Sept. 24.
A top-10 matchup between the hedges in Athens looked like anything but.
The news media was fascinated with the disappearance of Gabrielle Petito. But the families of many women who go missing, especially women of color, struggle for attention.
The hit sitcom, which ended in 1993, is back as play, premiering in Arkansas. But how do its laughs land in our more pointed political landscape?
A Colonial Revival home in Oklahoma City, a historic single house in Charleston and a 1907 bungalow in Nashville.
A Colonial Revival home in Oklahoma City; a historic single house in Charleston, S.C.; and a 1907 bungalow in Nashville.
Market watchers are taking the once-unthinkable possibility seriously.
Some brokers say houses that are not posted publicly give buyers a chance to get into the market, others say the practice violates fair housing laws.
Kasim Reed, the former mayor whose administration was marked by corruption scandals, is running for another term, promising to restore public safety.
He played bass on thousands of popular recordings, helping to create the uncluttered style that came to characterize the country music of the 1950s and ’60s.
Robert Aaron Long pleaded guilty in July to four other murder charges and will spend the rest of his life behind bars.
Jocelyn Nicole Johnson, at 50, is not the average age of a debut author. But the public school teacher describes herself as a “literary debutante” with the October publication of “My Monticello.”
Discrimination, delays and systemic hurdles prevent young trans people from reaching the care they need, a new study finds.
Chief Art Acevedo was a flashy hire when he arrived in Miami six months ago. Now his job is in peril after a series of clashes with city commissioners.
The automaker and a supplier will spend $11.4 billion on three battery factories and a truck plant, creating 11,000 jobs.
As offices debate the merits and logistics of reopening, a parallel sphere of workers like Peter Naughton, a Walmart cashier, seem to inhabit another world. Often their jobs just got really hard.
Calls to poison control centers have soared across the country as misinformation spreads touting the anti-parasite drug as a Covid treatment.
“We mourn, we comfort, we are in pain, too,” said Hari P. Close, the president of the National Funeral Directors & Morticians Association.
Adam Oakes, a 19-year-old student at Virginia Commonwealth University, died in February after being told to drink a bottle of Jack Daniel’s whiskey, family members say.
The rulings were the second and third the last two weeks to suspend Gov. Bill Lee’s executive order after parents sued, charging that it violated the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Failure of moderates and progressives to reach a deal would fuel Republican attacks on their competence — with consequences as soon as November in Virginia, and in the midterms next year.
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Here are moments when readers found bliss outdoors, edited for length, and one memory from me.
Maps showing the storm’s route as it hit Texas and brought heavy rain on a path toward Louisiana.
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A Times investigation shows how faulty design and construction could have contributed to the collapse of the building in South Florida.
Maps show where an immense quantity of rain fell in Tennessee, unleashing devastating flash floods in a hilly rural area crisscrossed with rivers and creeks.
Maps show a rise in the share of people of color in nearly every county across the United States, as the nation records its first drop in the white population.
A map showing the storm’s path through the Caribbean as it heads toward the Gulf of Mexico, near Florida.
Like many hospitals in Louisiana, North Oaks Medical Center has been tested by a fourth wave of coronavirus cases.
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The first tropical storm of the 2021 season made its way through the Caribbean on Friday and was headed for Florida.
At least half of the 135 apartments of the Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Fla., collapsed in the early hours of June 24. See the apartment locations of the victims and those still missing.
The Lost Graves of Louisiana’s Enslaved People
Republican lawmakers in many states are passing laws that add new restrictions to voting and change how elections are run.
An ever-changing spit of sand on the Carolina coast is a haven for multitudes of shorebirds. But nature and humans threaten it.
See full results and maps from the Virginia primaries.
A Times review of videos of Andrew Brown Jr.’s fatal shooting in North Carolina casts doubt on whether the use of lethal force was justified.
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Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas just signed a bill that would ban most abortions in the state. Here’s what else to know.
Depending on how the Supreme Court decides a Mississippi abortion case, access to legal abortion could be restricted in large parts of the country.
The plea deal for Joel Greenberg, the onetime associate of Representative Matt Gaetz who had served as a tax collector in Seminole County, Fla., north of Orlando, until he was indicted in 2020.
Here’s what it looks like on the ground of the 147th running of the Kentucky Derby.
In The Improvement Association, we investigate the allegations swirling around Bladen County, N.C.
See full results and maps from the Louisiana special election.
Here’s what a recent trip through Miami International Airport looked like for a New York Times reporter.
New legislation passed by state Republicans creates an array of new restrictions and limits on voting. Here’s the full document.
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Data from Idaho, Florida and other states offer a warning on “vaccine deserts.”
See full results and maps from the Louisiana special primary elections.
In hundreds of comments following the shooting deaths of eight people in the Atlanta-area, six of whom were of Asian descent, New York Times readers shared their fears and concerns.
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Takeaways from a conversation on my podcast, Sway.
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Despite the pandemic and an unusual winter storm, a group of New Orleanians set out to honor its traditions.
A look at this week’s news from the team tracking the coronavirus.
A look at this week’s news from the team tracking the coronavirus.
There are 13,000 school districts in the U.S. Here is how some are faring.
A look at this week’s news from the team tracking the coronavirus.
A look at this week’s news from the team tracking the coronavirus.
A look at this week’s news from the team tracking the coronavirus.
See full results and maps from the Georgia Senate runoff elections.
See full results and maps from the Georgia Senate runoff special election.
Modeling the Senate runoff election results.
See full results and maps from the Georgia Senate runoff election.
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When she was 17, she leapt into a segregated Florida swimming pool — and landed on the front page.
The more than 500,000 people we lost to the pandemic so far form a portrait of America. For this series of short films, we asked five people to celebrate the life of someone close to them.