Will the conservative majority deliver on Trump’s promise to overturn Roe v. Wade?
These district attorneys should make jail the exception and eliminate cash bail.
Jacob Anderson, a former fraternity president accused of raping a fellow student, was given a fine and probation for unlawful restraint. Sexual assault charges were dropped.
When it comes to the death penalty, guilt or innocence shouldn’t really matter to Christians.
The United States’ five living presidents and about a dozen current and former heads of state will attend the services at the National Cathedral.
In retirement, the 41st and 43rd presidents could finally focus on the things that parents and children focus on when the parents grows older.
These upscale communities offer a continuum of care from independent living to failing health, allowing people to age in one place.
From Houston to Washington, the former president will be remembered in a series of memorial services this week. Here are The New York Times’s best photos.
The end for Mr. Bush was remarkably peaceful after a life that took him from the skies of the Pacific during World War II to the Oval Office at the end of the Cold War.
Items from family, friends, college and the White House that influenced the 41st president.
Amber R. Guyger said that she mistook Botham Jean’s apartment for her own, and opened fire. On Friday, she was indicted on a murder charge.
Baker is still sharp at 88, and Obama is a mere 57, but you couldn’t help feeling that the current climate had left them, and their audience of political moderates, out in the cold.
The search was primarily for records on the Rev. Manuel LaRosa-Lopez, who was arrested in September on four felony counts of indecency with a child.
Yazmin Juárez said her daughter, Mariee, was a healthy 18-month-old when they were detained by the immigration agency for three weeks. Two months later, she was dead.
Former President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State James A. Baker III call for bipartisanship in a partisan era.
Esequiel Hernandez Jr. was killed by a Marine on the border in 1997. His death has become a cautionary tale as troops once again deploy to the border.
In Marfa, Tex., officials have raised taxes on adobe homes, pinching upscale homeowners as well as lower-income families who have lived there for decades.
During his campaign against Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, Mr. O’Rourke said repeatedly he wouldn’t run for president in 2020. But on Monday, he said he had “made a decision not to rule anything out.”
Mr. McNair, who was awarded the franchise that became the Texans, gave to many charitable causes. More recently, he was criticized for remarks about national anthem protests.
The new educational standards also retained mentions of Hillary Clinton and Helen Keller, after there was talk of removing them. Critics say the changes don’t go far enough.
Colleagues and commanders alike found it audacious for the president to impugn the lifelong nonpartisan political position of William H. McRaven, a retired admiral and university chancellor.
President Trump has caused a stir with criticism of a retired Navy admiral, William H. McRaven. How did Mr. McRaven, the former Navy SEAL commander who oversaw the mission to kill Osama bin Laden, become a political target of the president? It all started with a speech about the media.
The two-term incumbent defeated his opponent, Gina Ortiz Jones, in one of the closest elections in Texas, called more than a week after Election Day.
Cross Coburn said he was targeted by voters in Grove, Tex., because of his sexuality. Now he’s challenging the validity of signatures on the petition that led to a recall election.
Caring for a mother who suffers from dementia was really hard. I wish I could do it again.
As he toured Houston, Jerome H. Powell, the Fed chairman, told residents that the Fed understands the economic recovery has been uneven and parts of the United States remain distressed.
What was once a Democratic pipe dream is now a real possibility.
An heiress to a Texas oil fortune, she protected her assets as her brothers went bust trying to corner silver, and she quietly built a real fortune.