The candidate in Kentucky, Nate Morris, said he would be joining the Trump administration. He met with the president a day before his announcement.
The winner will serve out the rest of Representative David Scott’s seat in Congress after the longtime lawmaker’s death last month.
Republican-led legislatures in Tennessee and Alabama will reconvene in the coming days. Unlike in Tennessee, however, a new map in Alabama will require Supreme Court action.
La petrolera estatal venezolana contrató a la consultora de David Rivera por 50 millones de dólares para influir en miembros del Congreso y de la Casa Blanca.
Calvin Duncan had been exonerated and elected as criminal court clerk in New Orleans. Gov. Jeff Landry eliminated the role as part of an effort to reshape the city’s judicial system.
A former University of South Florida student has been charged in the murders of Nahida Bristy and Zamil Limon, doctoral students who were reported missing last month.
Gov. Kay Ivey said a map that would give Republicans an additional House seat cannot be enacted without Supreme Court action, but she wants to be ready if that happens.
Republican commentators have argued, incorrectly, that political violence is largely a left-wing problem. Liberals have countered by citing the threats made against former President Obama.
Legal challenges are mounting over the decision to suspend the state’s May House primary after a Supreme Court ruling found that the congressional map was unconstitutional.
The nation’s state-run oil company hired David Rivera’s consulting firm for $50 million to influence members of Congress and the White House.
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Two employees at a bank in Berea, Ky., were shot and killed.
Locals say rising ticket prices and a late start time for the Oaks race on Friday are hurting residents and restaurants. “The only thing I see is greed,” one steakhouse owner said.
Republicans sliced Nashville into three G.O.P.-leaning congressional districts in 2022. After the Supreme Court decision on voting rights, Memphis could be next.
Funcionarios de American Airlines, del condado de Miami-Dade, del gobierno de EE. UU. y del gobierno venezolano celebraron el paso más reciente en el restablecimiento de los lazos entre ambos países.
King Charles III and Queen Camilla had a ceremonial farewell at the White House before attending a block party in Front Royal, Va.
President Trump banned commercial flights to Venezuela during his first term, but the flights are the latest step in re-establishing ties between the two countries.
American Airlines 3599, the first nonstop flight between the United States and Venezuela since 2019, departed Miami for Caracas on Thursday. President Trump had banned direct commercial and cargo flights between the two countries during his first term.
The brothers from the Republic of Congo were released on Thursday after the school community appealed to local Republican politicians, their lawyer said.
The expected flood of new congressional maps is likely to produce fewer competitive districts, fewer ways for voters to hold elected officials accountable and more polarized politics.
The passage of the landmark law in 1965 helped increase Black representation, especially in the South, according to a Times analysis.
Black Democrats in the South already face steep challenges when seeking political office. But the Supreme Court’s ruling could be felt for a generation.
It was not immediately clear whether Gov. Jeff Landry, a Republican, would postpone the May 16 primary election for House races after the court ruled the state’s congressional districts unconstitutional.
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 court struck down Louisiana’s voting map, a decision that could make it harder for lawmakers to create majority-minority districts.
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Veterans of the civil rights movement and others said the Supreme Court decision felt like a bleak end to decades of gains in Black representation in the region.
States are responding to a rise in high-profile squatting cases, in luxury homes and public housing alike.
Benjamin Hale’s book “Cave Mountain” connects the brief disappearance of his cousin in 2001 to a grisly true-crime story in 1978.
Susan Hutson, the sheriff of Orleans Parish, faces 30 counts, and the jail’s chief financial officer was also indicted.
A school transfer disrupted two brothers’ visas, their lawyer said, leaving them vulnerable to arrest and unsettling their Mississippi school community.
Surveillance video shows a group of middle school students in southern Mississippi taking control of a school bus on a highway after their driver blacked out from an asthma attack.
Footage of the incident shared this week by a school district in Mississippi shows a group of students working together to avert disaster on a highway.
Both parties are now scrambling to adjust to a new voting rights landscape.
The state’s Republican governor said he would call a special session in 21 days to address the state’s judicial maps.
Several voting rights groups have said that they plan to challenge the map in court once Gov. Ron DeSantis signs it into law.
Democrats had earned a slight advantage with a victory in Virginia last week, but now a Supreme Court decision and Florida’s move to pass a new map are set to help Republicans.
The new map could give Republicans as many as four new seats in the state’s 28-member delegation, which already has 20 Republicans.
The map would eliminate as many as four Democratic-held districts, including one that is heavily Puerto Rican. Republicans expressed confidence in the map’s legality.
From a barbecue at Camp David to a college football game, the British monarch has experienced many American traditions over decades of visiting the United States.
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Rom Reddy has pushed to protect his beachfront mansion in South Carolina from what he calls “government overreach.” The fight, he said, inspired his political awakening.
The collapse of the talks could pave the way for another spirits company, Sazerac, to open negotiations with Brown-Forman.
The Justice Department has secured a new indictment of James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, after an attempted prosecution spurred by President Trump last year ended in failure. The new case stems from a social media post showing seashells on a beach that the Trump administration characterized as a threat against the president.
The House speaker cited concerns about “children being in school without measles and mumps and polio and chickenpox vaccines that have been working for decades.”
The decision reversed a lower-court ruling last year that temporarily blocked the deployment.
Jessie Askew Jr. was sentenced to life without parole for a clumsy armed robbery with an unloaded gun. The man who sent him away was determined to bring him back home.
Writers toil daily to engineer perfect country songs. Shane McAnally, Brandy Clark and Josh Osborne are among the finest — and the most disruptive.
The Republican-controlled Legislature is meeting in Tallahassee this week to vote on the map, which would apply for the 2026 midterms if passed.
Oral arguments on Monday morning lasted about an hour. It was not clear how justices would rule.
The remains have not yet been identified, but a former University of South Florida student has been charged in connection with the murders of Nahida Bristy and Zamil Limon.
All eyes are on Florida and Virginia, where a special session and courtroom proceedings set for this week factor into the battle for the House in the midterms.
Lizzo bought the home four years ago. Jeff Green, the N.B.A. star, also sold a mansion in Miami, and Jesse McCartney listed one in L.A.
Revenge-based criminal cases against the president’s enemies have not come to fruition. That’s where the U.S. attorneys come in.
A new book by Jayne Anne Phillips, a Pulitzer-winning novelist, recalling her childhood is a bittersweet triumph.
President Trump posted surveillance footage of Nilufa Easmin’s brutal killing by another immigrant to advance his agenda. Behind the rhetoric was a more nuanced story.
It was the largest outbreak in recent U.S. history.
Even a Times reporter qualified for the event, which caused outrage last year for providing access to President Trump in exchange for investment in one of his family’s crypto ventures.
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.
The Republican supermajority in the Tennessee General Assembly approved a series of immigrations bills, crafted in coordination with the White House.
Homicides and assaults have declined in many cities, but programs credited with helping keep the peace are losing federal support.
In her first interview since being deported, Marie-Thérèse Ross-Mahé, the French widow of a former G.I., recounted her experience in ICE detention.
The University of South Florida students were reported missing last week. A roommate of the student whose body was found was charged in connection with his disappearance.
Two large wildfires in southeast Georgia had destroyed more than 120 structures and scorched tens of thousands of acres of drought-stricken land, according to state officials. The fires were among dozens that have been burning in the state.
Fires fueled by drought have burned tens of thousands of acres in southern Georgia and northern Florida, where officials said one blaze was blamed for the death of a volunteer firefighter.
Many of the deaths were attributed to a lack of heat at an unauthorized warehouse that Sloth World was using, officials said.
A top Nashville musician, he played for Bob Dylan and on “Oh, Pretty Woman” and “Jolene,” and was in the country-rock groups Area Code 615 and Barefoot Jerry.
In paint, bricolage and collage, she explored the history of art, ideas and the human species.
An austere lifestyle allowed her to make epic collages and Joseph Cornell-like contraptions that told stories about art history and her place in — and outside — it.
The Shreveport, La., slaying of eight children was an example of what experts call family annihilation.
Two recent fatal shootings underscore the need to encourage the use of an assessment tool.
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Christopher Gillum had targeted a large festival there, the authorities said. He was arrested on Wednesday in a Florida hotel room before he could carry out his plans.
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The chief of the Baton Rouge Police Department said during a brief news conference on Thursday that the shooting appeared “targeted.”
The Memphis police chief said a chance discovery led investigators to more than a dozen bones belonging to three children between the ages of 3 and 7.
Calvin Duncan, who became a lawyer and an advocate for incarcerated people, was recently elected criminal court clerk in New Orleans. Lawmakers are racing to eliminate the role.
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In the onetime Confederate capital, history is being told with newfound clarity.
Northern Virginia carried the measure to victory even as turnout in Democratic areas lagged and nearly all of the state shifted right from last year’s governor’s race.
The prediction market said the candidates violated new rules. The platform and its competitors face growing scrutiny from lawmakers and regulators over how political betting is policed.
The mothballs, which are toxic to wildlife, appeared on St. Pete Beach this week, according to the state’s Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. Officials are investigating the episode.
Police had recovered fingerprints after the murders in 1993, which took place while the victims’ child was in the next room. But they identified William Antonio Solis as a suspect only last year.
Attention now turns to Florida, and the Supreme Court.
A “chemical release” of hydrogen sulfide in Nitro, W.Va., left at least two people dead, officials said.
The fires are also causing poor air quality, expected to last into at least Thursday, for a corner of the Southeast.
Olaolukitan Adon Abel, a 26-year-old Navy veteran, had been charged with killing a man and two women in a series of attacks across suburban Atlanta.
As many as 30 others were treated at a hospital and at the scene after a “chemical release” of hydrogen sulfide at a plant in Nitro, W.Va., the authorities said.
Before the Justice Department filed charges against it, the group had faced scandal and critiques from both the left and the right.
The former Georgia state lawmaker was an advocate for issues that affected Black communities. He drew attention for his refusal to exit politics amid health problems.
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A 1792 Federal-style house in Shepherdstown, W.Va., an 1894 Arts & Crafts house in Wilmette, Ill., and a 1940s cottage in Phoenix.
“We cannot bring a stick to a knife fight”: Democrats are increasingly open to extreme measures, including gerrymandering, when the stakes are high.
Virginia voters approved a new map that could flip four House seats away from Republicans going into the 2026 midterm elections. It was the latest fight in the national redistricting war.
The arrest came two days after a gunman carried out a rampage that left eight children dead in Shreveport and injured two adults.
Virginia’s approval of an aggressive gerrymander could give Democrats up to four additional House seats as they seek to win back Congress.
Democrats now hold six of the state’s 11 seats in the U.S. House, but the new map could allow the party to win 10 of them.
With Virginia’s vote on Tuesday, Democrats pulled close to even with Republicans, who may have further cards to play in the race to gain extra House seats.
The map, as extreme a gerrymander as exists in the United States, could let Democrats win 10 of the state’s 11 House seats as the party tries to win back the chamber.
“It’s just unfair for the Democrats to have 10 seats and the Republicans to have one,” one voter said of the proposed House map. But others in the state’s blue northern areas were more supportive.
The party now holds six of the state’s 11 seats in the U.S. House, but the proposed map could allow Democrats to win 10 of them.
Of the $98 million raised by the three groups that have bought the most advertising, at least 96 percent has come from nonprofit groups that do not disclose their donors.
Suburbs to the north and large cities to the south could offer insight into how support for the amendment to the state constitution is unfolding.
A redistricting measure is asking voters to temporarily reverse a decision they made less than six years ago.
El presidente de EE. UU. ha intentado restaurar la industria manufacturera al imponer aranceles exorbitantes y una fuerza de deportación agresiva. Pero estas medidas resultan contraproducentes.
In-person turnout on Tuesday is trailing far behind that of last year’s governor’s race, which set a state record in a nonpresidential election.
The reversal came after the Justice Department replaced a career prosecutor with a loyalist to President Trump in the administration’s effort to charge the former C.I.A. chief with a crime.
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The investigation focuses on messages between the chatbot and the man accused of killing two people at Florida State University last year.
Gov. Abigail Spanberger of Virginia has emphasized practical governance as her brand, but the political fight over redistricting has dominated her term so far.
In the latest gerrymandering clash before the midterm elections, voters in Virginia will decide on Tuesday whether to approve a map that would give Democrats more House seats.
The election on Tuesday is part of a coast-to-coast fight between Republicans and Democrats ahead of the midterms.
Shamar Elkins had been suffering severe mental health problems, his family said. His deadly rampage, which killed eight children, has profoundly scarred a community facing rising domestic violence.
The young people, planning for a fight, had arranged to meet off school grounds at a park in Winston-Salem, N.C., when gunfire broke out on Monday morning.
On Monday, city and state officials gave updates on a mass shooting in Shreveport, La., in which a gunman opened fire on his family, killing eight children and injuring two others.
The party is seeking an extra edge in Virginia at a time when its thinking has changed on the partisan drawing of political maps — in large part, leaders say, because of President Trump’s tactics.
The ride-hailing giant has now lost the first two of more than 3,000 pending federal lawsuits.
The shooting spree on Sunday also left two adults wounded.
Siete de los ocho niños eran hijos del tirador, quien murió en un enfrentamiento con la policía. Tenía problemas de salud mental y estaba estresado por la relación con su esposa, según familiares.
With Virginians voting Tuesday to accept or reject redistricting, candidates from both parties await the voters’ judgment to decide whether — or where — to run for Congress.
The jobs are coming back, despite President Trump’s tariffs and harsh immigration enforcement.
A gunman shot 10 people, killing eight children, in a domestic violence shooting at multiple locations in Shreveport, La., the police said. The victims ranged in age from 1 to 14. The gunman was later fatally shot by officers.
He won a Grammy for the Kenny Rogers song “The Gambler,” and also wrote for Randy Travis, the Judds and Mary Chapin Carpenter.
The authorities said a total of 10 people had been shot in a crime scene in Shreveport that involved multiple sites. The gunman was fatally shot by officers.
Dozens of Democratic doctors are running for office in the midterms, including some spurred by opposition to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his anti-vaccine stance.
The state liquor agency has been struggling to make timely deliveries to restaurants, bars and liquor stores since it got rid of outdated conveyor belts at a warehouse in January.
Marie-Thérèse Ross-Mahé, de 85 años, detenida en el marco de una disputa por la herencia de su esposo, ha regresado a Francia, dijo el ministro de Asuntos Exteriores francés.
Democrats may win a referendum to give their party more House seats, but they are growing concerned — in part because of TV ads that might confuse voters about where the former president stands.
Después de la muerte de su esposo, Marie-Thérèse Ross-Mahé enfrentó una batalla patrimonial con sus hijastros. Una jueza dijo que uno de ellos usó su posición como empleado federal para detenerla. Tras 16 días, fue liberada y regresó a Francia.
Marie-Thérèse Ross-Mahé, 85, who was arrested amid an inheritance dispute, has returned to France, its foreign affairs minister said. She came to America last year after reconnecting with and marrying a former G.I.
The suspect is accused of carrying out a string of attacks in the Atlanta area that killed two women and injured a homeless man. The authorities described the attacks as random.
Justin Fairfax, a former lieutenant governor of Virginia, fatally shot his wife, Cerina Fairfax, and then killed himself at their home in Annandale, Va., shortly after midnight on Thursday, according to the county police. Mr. Fairfax had been a rising star in the state before he was accused of sexual assault by two women in 2019. Fairfax denied the allegations, finished his term and later ran unsuccessfully for governor.
Braden Peters, el influente mejor conocido como Clavicular, ha hablado de tomar metanfetamina para mantenerse delgado. El martes fue hospitalizado en Miami tras lucir desorientado.
A harrowing incident involving Clavicular, ambassador to the “looksmaxxing” community, was captured on the same platforms that made him a star.
After Marie-Thérèse Ross-Mahé’s husband died, an inheritance battle exploded. Her stepson then used his influence to have her arrested, an Alabama probate judge said.
Mr. Fairfax, a Democrat, served as lieutenant governor from 2018 to 2022.
Remember those grimy snow piles that just wouldn’t melt? They’re gone now.
The Florida governor is expected to propose a congressional map that could result in up to five new Republican-leaning seats. Some in the party fear it could backfire.
Frances Robles, corresponsal internacional de The New York Times compartió sus experiencias de más de 25 años cubriendo la región.
A bungalow in Mobile, Ala., a condominium above a storefront in Portland, Maine, and a Craftsman in Astoria, Ore.
Frances Robles, an international correspondent for The New York Times, has reported on the region for more than 25 years.
Senate leaders say key provisions fall short of what is necessary to prevent aircraft from midair collisions.
Dr. Thomas Shaknovsky tried to persuade his colleagues in the operating room that the liver he removed from a 70-year-old patient was a spleen, according to Florida’s Health Department.
For 100 years, the Atlanta History Center and the High Museum of Art have expanded and diversified, not unlike the metropolis itself.
The new law signed by Gov. Abigail Spanberger is the culmination of a long, Democrat-led push to distance Virginia from its Confederate past.
After spending most of her Washington career as a Republican, she joins a crowded field of Democrats running in a Virginia district that doesn’t exist yet.