The man, a former software developer for Eaton Corporation, wrote malicious code that crashed servers on the company’s network in 2019, prosecutors said.
Gov. Gavin Newsom has announced an aggressive plan to retaliate against gerrymandering by Texas Republicans. Will it work?
The battle over redistricting is playing out in the country’s two largest states. Texas and California passed redistricting efforts this week that counter each other. David Goodman and Laurel Rosenhall explain how redistricting is playing out in both states and what the final outcome could look like.
On Thursday, lawmakers in Sacramento approved a sweeping plan to elect more Democrats by redrawing congressional districts. This would counter the gerrymandered map that Republicans in Texas passed earlier the same day.
Gov. Gavin Newsom and Democratic state lawmakers moved quickly to create new districts that could help their party flip five congressional seats. Their plan still requires voter approval.
Cindy Rodriguez Singh had fled the United States in 2023 shortly after the authorities questioned her about her 6-year-old’s disappearance.
The figure makes plain how a gerrymandering push that began in Texas but spread nationwide has energized the Democratic base.
Las autoridades de inmigración han detenido a unos 50 menores en el área metropolitana desde enero. Al menos 38 de ellos han sido deportados, incluida una niña de 6 años.
Lawmakers in the nation’s two most populous states were planning to vote Thursday on competing proposals as the battle over U.S. House maps intensified.
The Texas House passed a partisan congressional map on Wednesday after weeks of legislative combat.
La Administración de Alimentos y Medicamentos instó a los consumidores a desechar los paquetes de camarones congelados vendidos en 13 estados. Una experta en seguridad alimentaria dijo que el riesgo para el público era bajo.
A Texas Legislative Committee heard for the first time from the parents who demanded better flood warning systems, better training and equipment for camps near the river.
Immigration authorities have detained about 50 children younger than 18 in the New York City area since January. At least 38 of them have been deported.
The Food and Drug Administration urged consumers to discard packages of frozen shrimp sold in 13 states. A food safety expert said the risk to the public was low.
La ley indicaba que las escuelas públicas mostraran el decálogo en un lugar “notorio” de todas las aulas del estado antes del 1 de septiembre.
The state law had said public schools would have to display the Ten Commandments in a “conspicuous” location in every classroom in Texas by Sept. 1.
State representatives ripped up permission slips that Republican House leaders gave Democratic lawmakers trying to leave the Capitol building. One even spent the night sleeping inside the chambers.
The effort is intended to help the G.O.P. win five more U.S. House seats in the midterm elections. Other states, red and blue, are likely to redraw their own maps.
Heat waves are increasingly dangerous for those without water, shade and air-conditioning.
The release of a man who had been serving a five-year sentence for assault is the second time the jail has released someone prematurely this year.
Nicole Collier, a state representative, slept in the Capitol rather than agree to police surveillance imposed by Republicans after a Democratic walkout. “I am resisting,” she said.
Los demócratas siguen sin la capacidad de impedir que los republicanos aprueben un nuevo mapa de distritos del Congreso solicitado por el presidente Trump
Democratic lawmakers were expected to return to Texas after fleeing the state for two weeks. Republicans are ready to quickly pass a new congressional map called for by President Trump.
Thousands assembled around the country to demonstrate against a Republican effort to redraw congressional maps in their favor for 2026.
The state has handed big business a series of legislative wins as it races to woo corporations from Delaware, including a law that helped pave the way for Elon Musk’s big Tesla payday.
Republicans have a clear advantage over Democrats in the total number of states that could redraw their maps.
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Will the battle over Texas’ gerrymandering lead to a new era for the party?
Si se organiza más antes de tocar tierra, se convertiría en la tormenta tropical Fernand.
If this storm becomes more organized before it moves over land, it would become Tropical Storm Fernand.
A federal judge in Texas granted a request by the Trump administration, which said a Biden-era decision to safeguard the bird was flawed.
The leader of Democrats in the Texas House said the battle over redistricting, which could determine control of Congress, is likely to continue in the courts.
A Texas woman said in a lawsuit that a U.S. Marine got her pregnant and then, after she chose to keep the pregnancy, dissolved abortion pills in her hot chocolate.
The order comes after a series of legal setbacks for the families of Sandy Hook victims as they tried to collect money owed to them by the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.
Plus, a C.I.A. secret up for auction.
Leonardo Baez and his wife were among the first employers prosecuted for taking on undocumented immigrants at their bakery in Los Fresnos, Texas. They face up to 10 years in prison.
Texas’ attorney general, Ken Paxton, has now used his “election integrity unit” to indict 15 Latino Democrats under a 2021 statute that outlawed delivering ballots for other voters.
Not for the first time, a photographer was called to head (quickly) to the scene of a natural disaster.
The video, part of a trove of materials that authorities had refused to release, shows the minutes in which a commander tried to talk to a gunman barricaded in a room with dozens of children.
Democrats delivered millions to the Texarkana region. It didn’t matter a dime.
A new level of partisan one-upmanship should spur urgent demands for reform.
The police said the gunman was arrested after he shot and killed three people outside of a Target store in Austin, Texas, on Monday afternoon.
Police said a fourth person was injured. The gunman was caught after stealing a succession of cars, the police said.
A Parisian-born oil heiress, she collected art and supported major artists, designed costumes and moved in rarefied social and cultural circles.
Immigrant aid organizations in Central Texas worry that, amid an immigration crackdown, undocumented victims of the deadly floods are not receiving assistance.
After first landing in Williamsburg, a marketer found a one-bedroom apartment in a (somewhat) quieter part of Brooklyn, and has taken up surfing.
A Republican proposal to add five Republican congressional seats in Texas imperils Democrats’ midterm prospects.
The independent body that redraws the state’s political maps isn’t perfect, many Republicans say. But they prefer that to the gerrymander that Gov. Gavin Newsom seeks to offset one proposed in Texas.
Los gobiernos estadounidense y mexicano están explorando “todas las opciones” para luchar contra un parásito mortal que amenaza al ganado y a la fauna silvestre.
He helped build H. Ross Perot’s company Electronic Data Systems into a leading data processing firm. He later played a crucial role in Mr. Perot’s 1992 presidential campaign.
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The American and Mexican governments are exploring “all options” to battle a deadly parasite threatening cattle and wildlife.
Democratic lawmakers maintained their walkout to thwart a Republican gerrymander, prompting Ken Paxton to ask the state’s supreme court to remove 13 of them from their seats.
Democrats have left the state, the Republican governor and attorney general have vowed to remove them from office, and a senator has called in the F.B.I.
The drama has all the ingredients of a binge-watch: culture wars, murder and sex.
Las nuevas medidas han sido muy bien acogidas, pero han suscitado algunas críticas por motivos de privacidad.
Inside their Austin bungalow, a couple has created a vibrant, salon-like atmosphere.
Asher Watkins, a real estate executive from Texas, was tracking a Cape buffalo in South Africa when he was attacked, a safari company said.
The new measures have been widely embraced, but new age-verification methods have drawn some criticism because of privacy concerns.
These retired women in Texas have been through infertility, illness, layoffs, addiction and disappointing marriages. Now they are trying to create a utopia just for themselves.
The senator said the agency had agreed to help locate Democratic state legislators who departed to try to block a vote on congressional maps. Democrats said federal law enforcement was being misused.
State Representative Gene Wu represents a racially diverse corner of Houston when he’s not defending juveniles in court. The battle over redistricting has pushed him into the national spotlight.
The effort by President Trump and his allies is the latest example of them trying to rewrite the rules to squeeze out every possible political advantage.
The political and legal threats against Democrats who left Texas to protest a redrawn political map have gone further and faster than many anticipated.
Technology is making the old ways of teaching ineffective. A new way is starting to emerge.
Touches of the screenwriter's career are throughout the 4,500-square-foot home he and his wife, Kyle, had built in Austin, Texas.
It was unclear how the agency would respond. Democratic lawmakers left the state to stop Republicans from redrawing district maps to their advantage.
We take a look at the political fight over a redrawn map.
In order to flip five U.S. House seats, Republicans are gambling that they can retain President Trump’s 2024 gains with Latinos and that voters won’t mind their hardball tactics.
Al salir del estado, los demócratas podrían demorar varias semanas la votación sobre la reconfiguración del mapa. El gobernador amenazó con destituir a los legisladores que dejaron sus puestos si no regresaban antes del lunes.
President Trump seized a moment ripe for another redistricting war.
The legislators’ departure was a last-ditch effort to stop Republicans from adopting a redrawn congressional map that would flip five Democratic congressional districts to favor Republicans.
Here is why Democrats in the Texas House left the state, why Republicans in the Legislature want to redraw political maps and why other states are involved.
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Why dozens of Democratic politicians just fled their own state.
The Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee is pressing legislatures to counter Republicans’ redistricting efforts in Texas and elsewhere.
A moderate group that has tried to rally Democrats around school choice faces divisions over private-school vouchers.
After a fire, the artist’s office in the Texas town prepares for its reopening.
The revival takes a time jump to explore how Hank Hill and America have changed — though only to a point.
In a social media back-and-forth, Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York replied to Senator Ted Cruz of Texas that “anyone with basic decency” would respect the officer’s Muslim faith.
The walkout was a sharp escalation in the bitterly partisan clash over a congressional redistricting requested by President Trump.
Sarah Stogner, a Republican district attorney in Texas oil country, recorded herself smoking a joint that she bought legally in New Mexico.
The full Texas House will now vote next week on a map drawn to flip five House districts to the G.O.P., but Democrats might walk out to deny Republicans a quorum.
Republicans are pursuing every possible advantage, essentially trying to win elections long before people vote. In response, even some once-squeamish Democrats are talking about fighting ‘fire with fire.’
Mr. Holder, the attorney general in the Obama administration, has long fought to end gerrymandered legislative maps. But a Republican effort in Texas threatens democracy, he said in an interview.
Democrats’ chances would be hurt if the map were approved, but they would still be favored.
Fusing traditional Tejano sounds with blues, rock and country, he recorded with Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones and Ry Cooder.
The legislative hearing was part of a rapidly moving redistricting process, pushed by President Trump, that could see the map approved next week.
The asking price for the couple’s property is around $30 million, while other celebrities, like Adam Levine and Tony Parker, also have put their homes up for sale.
Casi un mes después de las inundaciones, muchos de los voluntarios se han marchado y los funcionarios han dejado de celebrar reuniones informativas para poner al día al público..
At a hearing in hard-hit Kerr County, an emergency management coordinator for the first time explained his whereabouts when the Guadalupe River burst its banks.
Texas state legislators will be in Kerrville on Thursday for a hearing on the July 4 floods. They may get an earful.
The Republican redistricting effort in Texas has emerged as a clear opportunity for Democrats to prove they have the stomach for a fight.
Texas Republicans unveiled a redrawn congressional map that they hope will result in a gain of five seats in the U.S. House after the 2026 midterm elections.
The proposed map would give Republicans a chance to gain five U.S. House seats, including in Houston, Dallas and along the U.S.-Mexican border.
En una escuela de Texas, los alumnos dedican solo dos horas diarias al estudio, dirigidos por herramientas de inteligencia artificial.
Democrats in three states are now considering moves to counter a push by Texas Republicans to redraw their state’s maps.
The study found that a combination of exercise, healthy diet and other behaviors led to cognitive benefits. How much intense guidance is required was unclear, experts said.
At President Trump’s urging, Texas is trying to squeeze up to five Democrats out of office to pad Republicans’ slim majority in the House.
The parasitic fly that attacks warm-blooded animals was eliminated from the United States in the 1960s, but it’s creeping toward the Texas-Mexico border.
At Austin’s Alpha School, students spend just two hours a day on academics, led by artificial intelligence tools. New Alpha schools are set to open in about a dozen cities this fall.
The pandemic supercharged interest. Now, a cultural and political emphasis on women staying at home is continuing to fuel growth.
Once a wonder of the world, the storied but moldering stadium has long been part of life in Houston. Is it worth saving?
Two groups of Democrats left Texas to confer with Govs. Gavin Newsom and JB Pritzker, who have suggested their Democratic-controlled states could counter a Texas Republican gerrymander.
Giving in to partisan manipulation would further erode the public’s trust in government.
Kai Lee Mykels often said her goal was to make straight men uneasy, but that was a gag. Her creator had a bigger goal in mind.
A partir de este mes, los viajeros de varios vuelos de Londres podrán saltarse los controles aduaneros estándar y llegar más rápidamente a sus puertas de conexión.
President Trump wants Texas Republicans to redraw the state’s House maps to nab as many as five seats now held by Democrats. But no new maps have been publicly proposed yet.
The attorney general of Texas, who is challenging Senator John Cornyn, could have secured favorable mortgage rates, and may have violated the law if he knowingly falsified loan documents.
A plan in Texas that could give Republicans at least five more House seats has Democrats fuming, and without many paths to fight it.
One in five voters who cast a ballot for Donald Trump in 2024 was a person of color. Why?
Experts worry that if vaccination rates do not improve, deadly outbreaks will become the new normal.
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.
The industry is pumping ever more oil and natural gas, but it is doing so with only about three-quarters as many workers as it employed a decade ago.
Officials are moving to increase enforcement and change laws in response to the rise in counterfeit or expired plates, which exploded during the pandemic.
Assessing the academic skills of elementary and middle school students matters more than ever.
The new contract would provide raises and better benefits, following similar deals at other big airlines.
Since the end of a pandemic-era policy that barred states from removing people from Medicaid, Texas has dropped over half a million people from the program, more than any other state.
La política que ha permitido la rápida expulsión de muchos inmigrantes en la frontera sur se levantará el jueves. Las autoridades se preparan para un nuevo aumento de la inmigración.
Title 42, the policy that has allowed the swift expulsion of many migrants at the southern border, will lift on Thursday. Officials are bracing for a new immigration surge.
Solar, wind, geothermal, battery and other alternative-energy businesses are adding workers from fossil fuel companies, where employment has fallen.
Plans to lift Title 42 have prompted dire predictions of chaos on the border. But there is already a migrant surge, because the pandemic policy was never an effective border-control tool.
Hay nuevas vacunas contra la COVID-19 que funcionan. Pero también hay menos puntos de vacunación, menos alcance y menos soluciones creativas para generar conciencia y aumentar el acceso a las inyecciones.
Getting shots into arms isn’t rocket science, or at least it shouldn’t be.
We visited 10 cities across the country to see how the pandemic and its aftershocks have reshaped the American downtown.
A signature-matching rule in North Carolina is rejected, mail ballots in Pennsylvania are in dispute, and more.
A signature-matching rule in North Carolina is rejected, mail ballots in Pennsylvania are in dispute, and more.
The death of at least 53 migrants in Texas, more than half of whom were from Mexico, is testing U.S. efforts to enlist Mexico in deterring migration.
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