A powerful winter storm tore across the Gulf Coast on Tuesday, bring record snowfall to parts of Louisiana and Texas.
James Cauthen was killed on Sunday as he and the driver he was assisting came under fire while seeking help in Stroud, Ala., the authorities said. A man was charged with murder.
Snow and cold temperatures hitting a broad swath of the region also disrupted travel via rails and roadways.
Many roadways were impassable, classes were canceled in local schools and many businesses could not open as a winter storm essentially brought New Orleans to a standstill.
As Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida noted, “We’re not necessarily used to walking in a winter wonderland here.”
As the system moves around the coast, it should bring a wintry mix of snow, sleet and freezing rain to the Florida Panhandle.
“So many of you have never seen an event like this,” Louisiana’s state climatologist warned, with New Orleans facing possibly the most snow it has ever seen.
The Florida governor used the wording in issuing a state of emergency over a cold snap expected in his state.
The measure, which increases deportations for undocumented migrants charged with crimes, is likely to be the first bill to reach President Trump’s desk. It must pass one more House vote to clear Congress.
Los tiempos difíciles en los que muchos de nosotros en Estados Unidos nos sentimos inmersos hacen que su mensaje cobre una especial vigencia.
Closures of schools, airports and businesses were taking effect in areas from southern Texas to Florida and South Carolina. Snow and ice could bring major travel disruptions and power outages.
Binyamin Appelbaum argues that immigration is America’s rocket fuel.
“Somewhere Toward Freedom” tells the story of Sherman’s March to the Sea from the perspective of the formerly enslaved.
The troubled times many of us feel we are in make his message especially relevant.
Her high harmonies put an emotional charge into her work with George Jones and others. She also had solo hits, including “No Charge,” a country No. 1.
In Louisa, Ky., an unbearable social crisis has become the main source of economic opportunity.
President Biden reflected on the “faith and friendship” he found in South Carolina during several critical moments in his life and career.
People nervous about the return of a Trump presidency demonstrated in Washington, D.C., New York and other cities to show support for women’s rights, racial justice and other causes.
Exactly why the sculpture was attacked by University of Georgia students may always be a mystery. But 70 years later, restored, it rides again.
The defense argued that David Zandstra, 84, had been coerced by investigators into confessing to the killing of Gretchen Harrington.
A Black man died after a beating by the police in 2019. The assault “demonstrated serious failures,” the Justice Department said, including improper supervision.
The New York mayor, who has expressed interest in a pardon to resolve federal corruption charges, met with President-elect Donald J. Trump and his son Eric on Friday.
Sweetgreen and other spots are using automation in some Manhattan restaurants. Humans still slice the vegetables, but they don’t put the food in bowls.
Weakened by cancer and nagged by his conscience, a former Georgia prosecutor wants the courts to reverse the sentence he demanded for a man who didn’t physically harm anyone in his crimes.
A new 3-on-3 league offers a condensed format, some of the best W.N.B.A. players and a made-for-TV approach that aims to bring viewers close to the action.
As a cookbook author, TV personality and mentor, she sought to burst the chicken-fried stereotype of the South. Sometimes her life was as messy as her kitchen.
The police said that Brenton Clarke, 36, of Long Island, N.Y., used a metal rod and a wooden stick to attack four homeless people in what they said was an unprovoked assault.
The pilot, David Paul Allsop, was taken off a flight to Chicago at the airport in Savannah, Ga., on Wednesday, officials said.
La republicana Ashley Moody ocuparía el puesto del senador Marco Rubio una vez que sea confirmado como secretario de Estado del presidente electo Donald Trump.
They’re trying to overturn a fair election. Gee, who gave them that idea?
Ashley Moody, a Republican, would take the seat of Senator Marco Rubio once he is confirmed as President-elect Donald J. Trump’s secretary of state.
Blue Origin lanzó con éxito el cohete después de cancelar un intento esta semana. El vuelo es una prueba crucial de la capacidad de la empresa para competir con SpaceX de Elon Musk.
After leaving prison and regaining custody of her children, a single mother looked for a house where she could chart a brighter future.
An agreement allowed the former mayor of New York City to keep his apartments and other valuables in return for an undisclosed payment to two election workers he defamed after the 2020 vote.
With the Super Bowl and Mardi Gras coming, Gov. Jeff Landry is using the emergency order from the New Year’s attack on Bourbon Street to remove the homeless from downtown.
Stabbings, sexual assaults and drug use are rampant in the Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center because of staff shortages and security failures, a Justice Department investigation found.
The New Georgia Project, whose leaders also included Raphael Warnock, now a senator, admitted violating campaign finance laws. It agreed to a $300,000 penalty.
The former Florida prosecutor is qualified to be the U.S. attorney general. But will she stand up to Trump when it counts?
A Greek Revival house in Milan, a condo in Philadelphia and a shotgun-style home in New Orleans.
A lack of statewide standards leaves many Mississippi police and sheriff’s departments on their own to decide protocols for stun guns. The reporters Brian Howey and Nate Rosenfield explain their investigation for The New York Times and Mississippi...
A lack of state standards leaves Mississippi police and sheriff’s departments on their own to decide when to use stun guns, and many give officers a free hand.
The president-elect is set to arrive in the Washington area on Saturday and begin a series of events that includes a party at Trump National Golf Club and a rally at Capital One Arena.
As state legislatures convene, they face the same political polarization seen in Congress. Some are in near-deadlock.
Azara Ballet in Florida is a place where performers can just be themselves.
Plains, Ga., joins a collection of other small towns known for their part in presidential history. That can provide a steady source of tourism.
Sid Edwards was a high school football coach who had never run for office. Now, he’s the mayor of Baton Rouge, Louisiana’s second-largest city.
In 1961, he and 12 other civil rights activists were nearly killed for trying to integrate interstate bus terminals across the South.
The largest of the blazes expanded east on Friday, even as wind speeds, which fueled the initial blaze, fell to normal levels.
Lower courts ruled that a task force that determines which treatments must be covered at no cost had not been validly appointed.
In November, Rudy Giuliani repeated accusations against the women at least four times, after Donald J. Trump won the 2024 presidential election.
An incumbent Democrat narrowly won re-election to the state’s highest court. But the Republican-controlled court is considering an unusual protest from her challenger that could flip the result.
Las iniciativas de la exreina de belleza en contra de los derechos de las personas homosexuales prácticamente acabaron con su carrera como cantante.
A Tennessee woman’s plan to update her supersize skeletons for various holidays ran afoul of local law, but she has no plans to take them down.
A winter storm swept across a wide swath of the South on Friday. Atlanta’s airport had issued a ground stop after a plane was evacuated onto a snowy runway.
Fixing America’s broken immigration system starts with acknowledging that the United States needs more people.
The former beauty queen and spokeswoman for Florida orange juice was an all-American entertainer before she began crusading against L.G.B.T.Q. rights.
Edgar Maddison Welch, 36, of Salisbury, N.C., who was sentenced to four years in prison for the 2016 shooting at a Washington restaurant, was fatally shot after he pointed a gun at an officer during a traffic stop, the police said.
At his modest ranch home, the 39th president was surrounded by a close knit circle of support of friends and family.
Chuck Leavell, keyboardist for the pioneering Southern rock band, said its members saw their fellow Georgian as an honest, inspiring figure.
Parts of Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas began to see snowfall on Thursday as Southern states stretching to the Carolinas brace for the storm to reach them on Friday.
The terrorist attack in New Orleans serves as a grim reminder that the group is still able to transform personal crises into public tragedy.
In a filing late Wednesday, Fani Willis petitioned the Georgia Supreme Court to allow her to keep prosecuting Donald J. Trump over efforts to overturn his 2020 election defeat.
The winter storm on Monday knocked out power at the city’s water plant, leaving thousands under a boil water advisory for days.
It was a once-in-a-lifetime chance to pay their respects to a president. They were not going to miss it, even if meant waking up in the middle of the night.
The United Automobile Workers union asked a federal labor regulator to conduct an election at a factory Ford jointly owns with a South Korean battery company.
The former congressman was the focus of a House Ethics panel report accusing him of “regularly” paying for sex and using drugs, which helped doom his short-lived nomination for attorney general.
A Pueblo-style house in Miami, an 1890 townhouse in Hudson and a midcentury-modern-style home in North Bethesda.
Former President Jimmy Carter’s body was moved on Tuesday from his home state of Georgia to Washington, where it will lie in state in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol until Thursday.
Prosecutors said that Theodore Farnsworth, who ran the parent company of MoviePass, had misled investors about its popular subscription plan.
The party held onto two key seats in Loudoun County that will allow them to maintain control of the state’s legislature.
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Un hombre intentó entrar en la sede diplomática con un arma y luego abrió fuego frente a la entrada del edificio, dijeron las autoridades.
Three counts show an incumbent Democrat won election to the State Supreme Court. But an unusual protest by the G.O.P. challenger could be headed to that same Republican-controlled court.
A routine post-flight inspection revealed two bodies in the landing gear compartment of a JetBlue plane after a flight from New York on Monday, the airline said.
Voters are going to the polls on Tuesday in three special elections for the legislature that will serve as barometers of political energy for both parties.
President Biden and the first lady joined a city already exhausted by disaster to remember the victims of a Jan. 1 terror attack on Bourbon Street.
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A gunman tried to enter the consulate with a weapon, and then opened fire outside the entrance to the building, officials said.
The deceased was over 65 and had other medical conditions, state officials said.
We explore the main reasons for ISIS’s resurgence.
The ban affects the entire Eastern Seaboard, the Pacific Coast along California, Oregon and Washington, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and the Northern Bering Sea.
The president-elect spent the weekend at his golf club and estate, continuing to push the debunked idea that his loss in the 2020 election could have been legally overturned.
Mr. Biden’s trip to New Orleans, his latest as “consoler in chief,” joins a lengthy history of presidential visits to a city that has seen more than its share of tragedies and disasters.
While his home was always in the small Georgia town, Atlanta gave him the opportunities to cement a political and humanitarian legacy.
Shamsud-Din Jabbar visited New Orleans twice, and traveled to Egypt and Canada, before a burst of violence early on New Year’s Day that killed 14 people.
Donald Trump may not face a penalty for his conviction in the hush-money case, but he could still be the first felon to be president — and civil proceedings against him continue.
Bourbon Street is the lifeblood of the New Orleans tourist industry. But after an attack that killed 14, along with other recent violence, some people who work and live there wish for change.
Erin Strotman was charged in one case of child abuse, but detectives were also examining other episodes with similar injuries at a Virginia neonatal intensive care unit.
All highways in northeastern Kansas were closed on Sunday evening, bringing traffic to a standstill in some places.
Grabaciones y entrevistas detallan el creciente descontento de Shamsud-Din Jabbar con la sociedad estadounidense y su creciente aislamiento incluso dentro de su comunidad musulmana local.
A lawyer for Fred Kerley, a two-time Olympic medalist, described the police handling of the situation as “an unreasonable use of force.”
A motorcade carrying the remains of Jimmy Carter passed through the former president’s hometown and the Georgia State Capitol before ending at the Carter Center for a memorial service.
Days of honoring the 39th president began on Saturday with stops at his childhood farm, the Georgia State Capitol and the Carter Center.
The gestures of remembrance have all been selected to reflect the 39th president’s rural roots and political career in Georgia and Washington, and his legacy of global advocacy.
Recordings and interviews detail Shamsud-Din Jabbar’s growing discontent with American society and increasing isolation even within his local Muslim community.
Less than a year before his death, a former deputy with the Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office in Florida told detectives that he had fatally shot the clerk, a 25-year-old woman.
A man who pledged allegiance to the terrorist group carried out a deadly attack in New Orleans on New Year’s Day.
The deputies restrained the man after he was “uncooperative and combative” while being booked into the jail, officials said. He was hospitalized after a “medical emergency” and died days later.
Bomb-making materials were found at a short-term rental house, and the authorities said they had recovered a transmitter intended to set off explosives on the city’s famous Bourbon Street.
The president recognized five officers who responded to a 2023 school shooting at a private Christian school in Tennessee, and veterans of the Korean and Vietnam wars.
Those who died after a man drove a pickup through the French Quarter highlighted the diverse mix of people who are drawn to the city.
The facility in Fulton County, Georgia, has long had problems with assaults, drugs and pests.
Mr. Alexander’s brother, Oren Alexander, was granted a hearing extension by a judge in Miami. A third brother, Tal Alexander, was denied bail on related charges in December.
These are pages from a 2019 security assessment of the French Quarter in New Orleans. The report makes a number of recommendations regarding policing and physical security.
Scientists say the snail darter, whose endangered species status delayed the building of a dam in Tennessee in the 1970s, is a genetic match of a different fish.
The city was seeing glimmers of optimism for what the new year might bring before the horrendous attack on the French Quarter.
Esto es lo que hay que saber el viernes para estar al día.
What we know about the attack on New Year’s Day.
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With crowds, live music and a makeshift memorial to the victims who died in the New Year’s attack, the New Orleans street was bustling again.
They also said they did not see a “definitive link” between the attack and an explosion at a Trump hotel in Las Vegas, but cautioned that it’s too early to be sure.
Mientras continúan las investigaciones para determinar lo que ocasionó la explosión, las autoridades militares identificaron al conductor como un sargento mayor del ejército que estaba de permiso del servicio activo.
Turo, which investigators say was used to acquire the vehicles involved in the attack in New Orleans and explosion in Las Vegas, was emerging as an alternative car-rental service.
Un hombre condujo una camioneta contra una multitud que celebraba el Año Nuevo en la calle Bourbon el miércoles, matando al menos a 15 personas. El presidente Biden dijo que el atacante estaba “inspirado por ISIS”.
The F.B.I. says no connection has been found between the explosion outside a Trump Hotel and the truck attack that killed 14 people in New Orleans.
A manhunt was underway near the border between Mississippi and Alabama after three people were fatally shot during a gas station robbery, the authorities said.
Readers discuss for-profit health insurers and how to reform U.S. health care. Also: A police failure in New Orleans; making polluters pay.
El hombre identificado como sospechoso del atentado terrorista el Año Nuevo en Nueva Orleans sirvió en el ejército estadounidense, trabajó en Deloitte y se hizo cada vez más devoto al islam.
Street cleaning trucks were called in as law enforcement agencies appeared to have wrapped up most of their initial investigative work at the site of the attack.
Plus, a breathalyzer test for marijuana?
Renters of both vehicles had used Turo, a peer-to-peer app. Officials are investigating possible connections between the two cases.
The attack that left 15 dead and about three dozen injured followed a distressingly familiar pattern of assailants turning vehicles into weapons.
En un atentado el día de Año Nuevo en Nueva Orleans murieron al menos 15 personas. El suceso es el más reciente de una larga serie de ataques realizados con vehículos.
The president-elect said on social media that he was right about fearing criminals on the other side of the border. Officials later identified the suspect as a U.S.-born citizen and Army veteran.
Bollards that normally protect pedestrians from vehicles were to be replaced as part of the city’s preparations for the Super Bowl next month. The attacker drove his pickup around a police vehicle parked to block traffic from the street he struck.
At least 15 people were killed in the early hours of New Year’s Day when a man plowed a truck into crowds on Bourbon Street.
U.S. officials have warned that the conflict in Gaza and Lebanon could spill into the United States, most likely in the form of small radicalized groups acting on their own initiative or lone-wolf terrorists.
Possible homemade bombs were found in and near the pickup that smashed into crowds, and possibly elsewhere in the French Quarter. That has raised investigators’ suspicions that the attacker may have had accomplices.
The game, a playoff matchup between Notre Dame and Georgia, is now scheduled to be played on Thursday night.
The man identified as the suspect in the New Year’s Day terror attack in New Orleans served in the U.S. military, worked at Deloitte and grew increasingly devout.
A couple visiting from Mobile, Ala., saw the driver veer his pickup onto Bourbon Street and slam into New Year’s revelers.
An Islamic State terror group flag was found in the suspect’s vehicle, investigators said, as well as a bomb near the vehicle used in the attack.
A man drove a pickup truck into the crowds on Bourbon Street early Wednesday morning, killing at least 14 people.
The bollards that prevent traffic from entering some streets in the French Quarter, where a man drove a truck into crowds of people, were being replaced, according to a city website.
The boozy, bustling stretch of bars, restaurants and music spots is the hub of tourism in the historic French Quarter.
A man drove a pickup into crowds celebrating the New Year on Bourbon Street early Wednesday morning, killing at least 14 people. President Biden said he was “inspired by ISIS.”
At least 30 more were injured after a vehicle drove into a large crowd on Bourbon Street early Wednesday, the city said.
Other state laws going into effect in 2025 will boost wages, restrict social media for children and make insulin cheaper.
Investigators discovered more than 150 devices, mostly pipe bombs, on a property outside Norfolk, court papers say.
After Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter linked themselves to Habitat for Humanity, it grew and built homes for millions. Now, their cause is a national crisis.
Plains, Ga., had been bracing for the inevitable through the former president’s ailments and nearly two years of hospice care. Still, his death, at 100, “doesn’t seem real.”
He projected authenticity not just through his actions, but also with his uniform.
An oral history project, “Planting Seeds,” considers the history and impact of an American Dance Festival program to train dancers in China.
Crime was a talking point on the presidential campaign trail. But after a spike during the pandemic, murders have been dropping steadily, including in big cities like Chicago and San Francisco.