Supporters hope the law will deter young people from bullying. Critics questioned whether it would actually make teenagers think twice about their behavior.
Such a path could drastically raise the stakes for federal investigations of state or county officials, bringing the department and the threat of criminalization into the election system.
The Planned Parenthood case was about much more than abortion.
A farmhouse in Sedgwick, a foursquare in St. Paul and a Craftsman in Norfolk.
A revival of U.S. solar panel manufacturing that began during the first Trump administration could end with the phasing out of tax incentives for clean energy.
In this moment of constitutional crisis, these books provide a clear picture of the highest court in the land.
On a rural road trip in the eastern part of the state, a writer explores the food and culture of an old-school tradition.
A federal appellate panel said that Michael Sockwell was eligible to be retried because prosecutors systematically eliminated Black potential jurors at his 1990 murder trial.
President Trump’s visit to the migrant detention center in the Everglades was meant to highlight the issue that binds his party to him more than anything else — immigration.
The lawsuit claims that a new immigrant detention facility is being rushed forward by Republicans on ecologically sensitive and nationally protected lands, without standard environmental reviews.
A Juneteenth weekend conference in Durham, N.C., looks to establish itself as a place that carries on a cultural legacy.
The Mardi Gras Service, starting on Aug. 18, will connect New Orleans and Mobile, Ala., by train for the first time since Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
A popular former Democratic governor, Roy Cooper, is expected to announce a bid this summer. The Republicans are banking on an endorsement by President Trump to clear their field.
The case is likely to be the first to reach the Supreme Court on the substantive issue of the president’s invocation of a rarely used wartime law.
Crew members rescued two passengers after they drifted in the sea away from the ship. Witnesses said on social media that they had seen a girl fall overboard and a man, possibly her father, go in after her.
As businesses face economic uncertainty, seasonal work is harder to find, pushing the unemployment rate for teenagers above 13 percent.
Colorful boardwalks? Art classes? Stunning underwater parks? Great beaches can offer more than crystalline waters and soothing sand.
The day after President Trump castigated the North Carolina Republican senator Thom Tillis for opposing the bill carrying his domestic agenda, Mr. Tillis said he would not seek a third term.
The case before one of the most conservative courts in the country is likely to be the first to reach the Supreme Court.
Nearly 62 years ago, Bob Dylan — or Bobby Dillon, according to an article — performed in Mississippi, where he sang in honor of Medgar Evers.
Readers respond to an essay by Arlie Russell Hochschild about a conservative congressional district.
Ten years after their Supreme Court win, some veterans of the marriage equality battles see a shared struggle for transgender rights.
States have spent at least $25 billion to attract movie and TV filming. Texas and New York are increasing their subsidies, while Georgia and Louisiana are broadening their programs.
Mr. Morris, a founder of a waste and recycling business, describes himself as the only political outsider in the field and an unwavering supporter of President Trump.
Critics compared her unnerving images to those of Diane Arbus, but praised her ability to infuse her subjects with warmth and humanity.
He helped bring crowds of music fans to a remote Tennessee cow farm with Bonnaroo, and to San Francisco with the Outside Lands festival.
The justices asked that the case, which has implications for the political power of Black voters, be reargued next term.
Las autoridades investigan la muerte de Johnny Noviello, de 49 años, quien falleció el lunes en el Centro Federal de Detención de la Oficina de Prisiones de Miami.
The death of Johnny Noviello, 49, came as ICE agents have made sweeping arrests across the United States as part of President Trump’s crackdown on immigration. The cause is under investigation.
Seven of the victims were from Triadelphia, a town of about 900 people, in the northern panhandle of West Virginia.
A family was heading back to dry land when two of the funnel formations suddenly sprung up. “It looked like something from a movie,” one of them said.
The question for the justices was whether Medicaid beneficiaries may sue to receive services under a law that lets them choose any qualified provider.
Aid groups, some of which helped after Hurricane Helene, are preparing to take on more responsibility when storms, floods and wildfires strike.
Although many of his designs remain unbuilt — with a few exceptions, including King Charles’s Poundbury — he was a driving force in the New Urbanism movement.
The plan to depart Washington and take over the science agency building in Virginia raised questions about where N.S.F. employees would go.
Abandoned coal mines had left waterways acidic and rusty orange. Local residents are cleaning them up, and recovering rare earths in the process.
The panelists will review measles vaccine recommendations and discuss a preservative that the health secretary has falsely claimed causes autism.
Kyle Lybarger built a loyal following online by talking about native plants and why biodiversity matters.
Authorities were considering hate crime charges after a group of young men tore Pride flags at a rainbow crosswalk in Atlanta on Tuesday.
A brutally hot day across the Eastern United States left residents struggling to find relief.
Just before Jake Rosencranz, 29, of Denver, was struck while standing in ankle-deep water in New Smyrna Beach, two people were struck at a golf course in the area.
Plus, Florida’s new “Alligator Alcatraz” for migrants.
Freddie O’Connell, a policy and transit wonk, is under Republican scrutiny for his response to immigration enforcement in his left-leaning city.
Los consumidores estadounidenses no necesitan una revitalización de la marchita industria del tomate de Florida.
Las organizaciones de defensa dijeron que esta medida crea una nueva forma de detención fuera del alcance del gobierno federal.
Federal prosecutors say the money was used to fly on a private jet, buy real estate and help operate a brewery.
Immigrant advocates said the move creates a whole new form of detention outside the scope of the federal government.
The last-minute demonstrations drew hundreds of people in some cities, fewer in others. Many expressed displeasure with the Iranian leadership but were against any more U.S. involvement in another war.
Service members, veterans and their families expressed differing views on the airstrikes but shared concern over the safety of American troops.
Donald Trump’s presidency has turned this Florida island into the nightlife headquarters of MAGA, but the town’s old guard — much of it Republican — doesn’t love the new vibe.
A design for the state’s official “Monument to Unborn Children” was chosen in 2023. But it remains unbuilt as the debate over abortion grinds on.
The last thing American consumers need is a revitalization of Florida’s withering tomato industry.
From the new to the classic, from the affordable to the exorbitant, here are six getaways where you can find some peace and quiet.
The retailing giant is spending billions to attract workers to a new headquarters and woo shoppers with drone delivery and a broader range of items (like Louis Vuitton handbags).
The University of Florida student won an academic honor after he argued in a paper that the Constitution applies only to white people. From there, the situation spiraled.
Gay backers of Donald Trump say he is blind to sexuality. Not everyone agrees.
A Georgia couple hired a pathologist to do an autopsy after their first child died during childbirth. They accused him of posting images of the baby on Instagram without their consent.
The court unanimously ruled that the state cannot require schools and universities to display the Commandments.
Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill to help Indian Creek Village, home to the likes of Jeff Bezos and Jared Kushner, avoid paying a neighboring town millions to allow transport of its sewage under its streets.
One other person on board was killed in the June 3 crash in North Carolina and another passenger was severely injured.
The man, who was convicted in March, was armed when he was arrested during a church service in Haymarket, Va., in 2023.
The justices ruled that a Tennessee law did not violate equal protection principles, a bitter setback for transgender rights proponents.
The 25-year-old man told the police that he had gone to the home of Mayor Paul Young to confront him about crime. The police later found a stun gun, rope and duct tape in the man’s car, they said.
A Times examination shows how a landmark case about gender-affirming care for minors was built on flawed politics and uncertain science.
A series of barrier islands along North Carolina’s coast, the Outer Banks offer hang gliding, wild horse tours and fresh seafood.
Beginning on Juneteenth, a restored Virginia schoolhouse where enslaved and free Black students were taught to read is on view in Colonial Williamsburg.
El periodista, Mario Guevara, es originario de El Salvador y lleva más de 20 años en Estados Unidos, según sus abogados.
As parents, we know better than state officials what our child needs.
The decision to uphold the Tennessee law will most likely mean a patchwork of laws throughout the country, a map that traces current political polarization.
Born and raised in Louisiana, he investigated unresolved civil-rights-era killings in the Deep South. His reporting on one of those cases made him a Pulitzer Prize finalist.
Mario Guevara, a Spanish-language reporter originally from El Salvador, was arrested while covering a “No Kings” protest outside Atlanta on Saturday, his lawyers said.
The Supreme Court upholds Tennessee’s ban on transgender care for minors.
After lawmakers required high schools to start no earlier than 8:30 a.m., school administrators complained that it was unworkable. Last month, Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a repeal.
A farmhouse in London, a bungalow in Seattle and a condo in a Queen Anne revival in Somerville.
The teenager, Ryan Hinton, was shot by a police officer responding to a stolen vehicle report on May 1. The youth’s father is accused of killing a sheriff’s deputy with his car.
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The company, xAI, has installed several dozen turbines in Memphis without proper permits, the group said, polluting a nearby community.
A federal judge held the attorney general, James Uthmeier, in civil contempt of court for violating an order blocking part of an immigration enforcement law.
A job in a prison kitchen apparently helped Grant Hardin, a former police chief serving time for murder and rape, plot his escape by fashioning a makeshift police uniform, Arkansas prison officials said.
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For years, legislators bent to the will of Gov. Ron DeSantis. Daniel Perez, the Republican speaker, said his goal this session was “to be a coequal branch of government.”
Two shows attempt to make sense of the gonzo journalist and Lincoln’s assassin, cultural figures forever intertwined with American history.
The authorities in at least three states were investigating threats against elected officials. President Trump and U.S. senators were identified as targets.
The Democratic candidate for governor, Abigail Spanberger, is raising far more cash than her Republican rival, Winsome Earle-Sears, in a state where federal work force cuts are being acutely felt.
Battery companies are slowing construction or reconsidering big investments in the United States because of tariffs on China and the proposed rollback of tax credits.
Garcia, a former principal at New York City Ballet and San Francisco Ballet, takes over as Miami City celebrates its 40th anniversary.
The sociologist Arlie Hochschild studies Trump country. She explains why a decade of chaos still hasn’t shaken his base.
The 469-mile route known as “America’s favorite drive” has mostly reopened nine months after Hurricane Helene, but there are still detours and closures to watch out for.
Water levels rose at Wheeling Creek in Wheeling, W.Va., where the fire department said search and dive operations took place.
Up to four inches of rain fell in a 30-minute period in Ohio County on Saturday night, destroying homes and submerging vehicles, an official said.
The opening of the first location in Mississippi drew the usual cultish enthusiasm for the chain of mega convenience stores.
Denying the Justice Department’s request to detain the deportee would be a significant rebuke of the Trump administration, which has repeatedly cast him as a dangerous criminal.
Indian Creek Village, the “Billionaire Bunker” near Miami, couldn’t get approval to discharge its waste into a neighboring town’s sewer lines. So the village quietly persuaded state lawmakers to come to the rescue.
Las manifestaciones no son solo en Los Ángeles. Han surgido en ciudades de todo el país.
The aviation accident, which occurred on Wednesday night, is under investigation, the 101st Airborne Division said.
He was a school dropout at 14 and homeless for a spell, but as a driven investor he became a billionaire. Later came another quest: to extend life through better nutrition.
Lower courts ruled in favor of agents who had used a battering ram and a flash-bang grenade in mistakenly raiding the home of a Georgia couple.
The federal holiday, celebrated on June 19, is embraced as a nationwide celebration of Black history. Here’s how and where to partake.
The request came as lawyers in Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia’s separate civil case were poised to ask a different judge to hold the Trump administration in contempt for sidestepping one of her orders.
The Army unveiled a list of seven installations that the Trump administration is reverting, sort of, to earlier names venerating Confederate heroes.
Groups announced plans for demonstrations across the country, indicating that the protests that began in Los Angeles will continue to spread.
A Venezuelan man’s criminal past made him a target of immigration agents. His family was determined to stay in touch.
The move would reverse a yearslong effort to remove names and symbols honoring the Confederacy from the military.
Billions have been invested in technologies to remove carbon dioxide from the sky in recent years. But Trump’s policies have clouded the outlook.
Anger at PJM, which manages the electrical grid in all or parts of 13 states and the District of Columbia, has been boiling over in some state capitals.
Pharmacy benefit managers have used anti-competitive practices to dominate the prescription drug market.
For our writer, a weeknight tradition is the perfect way to cook with his sons.
Before Saturday, the last time a president made use of Guard troops to deal with civil unrest without being asked to do so by the state’s governor was in 1965.
The Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office, which had been searching for the animal for nearly a week, said that it was found on Sunday and returned to its owner.
A Tullahoma, Tenn., official said the crash resulted in four serious injuries. Some of those on board were airlifted to hospitals, the Tennessee Highway Patrol said.
A TV forecaster said he was not confident he could predict the paths of storms this year, touching a nerve amid concerns about how federal cuts could affect hurricane season.
In “Charlottesville: An American Story,” Deborah Baker retraces the events leading up to the violent Unite the Right rally in 2017 and its political aftermath.
Clusters of thunderstorms could kick up damaging winds in northern Mississippi and northern Alabama on Saturday.
In Cedartown, Ga., a solar recycling company’s plan to hire 1,200 people could be upended by Republicans in Congress.
For the nearly three months before the Justice Department secured an indictment against the man, it had repeatedly flouted a series of court orders to “facilitate” his release from El Salvador.
Grant Hardin, who came to be known as the “Devil in the Ozarks,” was captured on Friday, nearly two weeks after his May 25 escape from a high-security prison.
Her story, fashioned into an Off Broadway play and television movies, was later questioned by an investigator in a 2021 book.
The zebra, which residents have named Ed, has gained a following, with memes and A.I.-generated images springing up as it continues to elude capture.
A video showing a charter fisherman attacking the shark included the caption “bud broke my rod.” The man was charged with animal cruelty.
A pet zebra has been on the loose for almost a week after it escaped from its home in Rutherford County, Tenn.
A federal investigation found a Kentucky nonprofit pushed hospital workers toward surgery despite signs of revival in patients.
Prosecutors accused Sheriff Marcos Lopez of Osceola County of protecting a gambling ring that made about $22 million across at least two Central Florida counties.
Sales to international buyers fell to 10 percent of transactions last year, a steep decline from 50 percent in 2018.
Despite signs that consumers are pulling back on some spending, businesses are cautiously hopeful about domestic tourism this summer season.
David Jolly argued that there was an opportunity for Democrats to capitalize on voter displeasure with the high cost of living and with Republican policies.
The community effort and attention around “Sinners,” a blockbuster horror movie, became an opportunity to talk about investing in the Delta town that built the blues.
Smoke from Canadian wildfires and desert dust from the Sahara are creating unhealthy air quality from New York City to Miami.
An farm in Rapidan, a 1780 stone and clapboard house in Palisades and a condo in Chicago
Santa Ono, the former president of the University of Michigan, was also criticized by conservatives for his handling of campus protests.
The president has been pressing Republicans in the Senate to move quickly to embrace sprawling legislation that carries his domestic agenda, including by savaging opponents online.
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.
Facebook Marketplace, a platform often used for furniture and electronics, is an increasingly popular place to buy and sell home-cooked meals.
The Mark Robinson story is yet another case of self-declared morality being at variance with actual behavior.
Readers react to articles about the rise in traffic deaths. Also: Neo-Nazis in Nashville; JD Vance and the rule of law; a ban on masks.
The woman, 29, was struck by her own vehicle after the suspects began driving away, the police said.
The government provided $69.5 billion in relief funds to help keep transit on track during Covid-19. But many rail and bus systems are now facing layoffs and cutbacks.
The footprint of gun violence in the U.S. has expanded, as shootings worsened in already suffering neighborhoods and killings spread to new places during the pandemic years.
Assessing the academic skills of elementary and middle school students matters more than ever.