My childhood friend has joined America’s “deaths of despair.”
In a rare move, a group of lawmakers voted to give up their own redistricting power.
Distance and solitude can make us feel more isolated than ever — but these tales of far-off locales provide something of a distraction.
This city is well ahead of the rest of the nation in the cycle of denial, panic, action.
They were smaller than the creatures that savaged “Jurassic Park,” but may have had superior ability to stalk and take down prey.
State officials and voting rights advocates say the $400 million to safeguard elections in the coronavirus stimulus package is far less than what states will need to implement voting by mail.
Business owners, pastors and others are voluntarily closing their doors as the coronavirus spreads, seeking to fill a void when clarity from political leaders is lacking.
As many as 12 states may hold primaries on June 2, which now carries the biggest delegate haul since Super Tuesday. That could change how the rest of the Democratic race plays out.
Yellowstone, Grand Teton and the Great Smoky Mountains national parks cited concerns about social distancing.
As museums shutter and theaters go dark, cultural institutions are calling for the government’s help. But they recognize they’re not the first priority during a pandemic.
An Arizona man and his wife ingested a fish tank cleaning additive made with the same active ingredient as chloroquine phosphate, which President Trump has referred to as a “game changer.”
The state had executed just one person since reinstating the death penalty in the 1970s.
Mike Baker is the Seattle bureau chief for The Times. We asked him what it’s like reporting from the state with one of the deadliest caseloads in America.
In a state that until recently had seen more deaths from the coronavirus than any other, the stress has started to multiply. Jobs lost. Kids underfoot. Parents at risk. “It’s exhausting,” one woman said.
The company said the masks were offered for sale “in error” at some stores in Washington State, which has been a hot spot for the coronavirus pandemic.
With too many animals on public lands and too many on the public’s hands, the federal wild horse management program is short of money and palatable solutions.
A satellite that detects pollution linked to cars and trucks shows declines over major metropolitan areas, including Los Angeles, Seattle, and New York.
“Virus refugees” are still going to some vacation spots, but leaders there are asking them to reconsider.
Two-thirds of Life Care Center’s residents and 47 of its workers fell ill. Thirty-five people died. We investigated what went wrong.
The Sanders campaign appeared on the brink of a commanding lead in the Democratic race. But a series of fateful decisions and internal divisions have left him all but vanquished.
Health restrictions have led to cutbacks at hotels and golf courses. But the swimming pool remains open at a Florida resort, and a New York golf course offers “fresh air” without caddies.
Skijoring enthusiasts described the craziness and allure of their niche sport during its 72nd year in Leadville, Colo.
Reinvented menus, lowered prices, fire sales and the good old telephone are enlisted in the fight to survive the coronavirus crisis.
Cuando agentes de la Patrulla Fronteriza ordenaron a un anciano mostrar sus documentos se toparon con un personaje inesperado: Raúl H. Castro, un hombre nacido en México y ex gobernador de un estado que ha cambiado radicalmente su postura sobre los hispanos.
Officials announced measures to contain the spread of the virus and protect vulnerable mountain communities just as the ski season was ramping up.
The U.S. Geological Survey said the earthquake hit close to Magna, Utah, about 10 miles west of Salt Lake City. It was the strongest to hit the state since 1992, officials said.
Janitors are going into offices to battle the invisible germs that threaten public health, sometimes without adequate protection or information about what they are facing.
As more and more schools close because of the coronavirus, a reporter talks about covering one family’s experience adjusting to online instruction.
“We’re going to operate like a pizza takeout place,” one independent bookstore owner said.
Participating in a healthy democracy isn’t supposed to be at odds with staying healthy. Today it is.
With victories in two big, diverse states, Joseph R. Biden Jr. took a dominating lead over Bernie Sanders that could add to pressure on him to end his campaign.
With a broad coalition, Joseph R. Biden Jr. defeated Bernie Sanders in Florida, Illinois and Arizona, in a rout that could add to pressure on Mr. Sanders to end his campaign.
25 days rafting through the Grand Canyon meant no access to the news — and a new reality when the trip ended.
Most bets are off as worries over the coronavirus hover over voting in Tuesday’s Democratic primaries, but Joe Biden has led in surveys of all three states.
El virus respiratorio que se originó en China ha infectado a más de 100.000 personas y ha comenzado a propagarse en todo el mundo.
With ocean-going departures from American ports suspended until at least April 11, here’s what those interested in spring cruises can expect.
Florida, Illinois and Arizona pressed ahead with their presidential primary elections on Tuesday, but chaos and confusion in Illinois sent in-person turnout diving amid coronavirus fears.
Joe Biden captured an easy victory in Florida as Illinois and Arizona counted results.
Like emergency income support, for starters.
Arizona’s primary is on Tuesday, and Democrats there are holding onto the idea that they still have control over something: “I want to believe that voting takes away some of the fear.”
Border Patrol agents once ordered an elderly Hispanic man out of his vehicle and requested his identity papers, which showed that he was a Mexican-born immigrant named Raúl H. Castro. Turns out he was Arizona’s former governor.
“That’s what local papers are meant to do”: The journalists at The Seattle Times have been aggressively covering the coronavirus as it affects their neighbors and friends.
After the C.D.C. recommended gatherings of no more than 50 people, the N.F.L. followed other leagues in calling off live events with crowds.
After the C.D.C. recommended gatherings of no more than 50 people, the N.F.L. followed other leagues in calling off live events with crowds.
The hospitalizations sharpen fears that the nation’s front-line medical workers could be uniquely vulnerable, a health care organization said.
Its executives, with headquarters just a few miles from one of the country’s worst coronavirus outbreaks, were among the first to confront the impact.
Georgia and Louisiana have delayed their primary elections. Wyoming has suspended its in-person Democratic caucus voting. Here are the latest updates on changes to the 2020 presidential race.
Georgia and Louisiana delayed their primary elections, and Bernie Sanders questioned whether elections should be held right now. Here are the latest updates on changes to the 2020 presidential race.
A decade after the recession hit hard, Arizona’s economy is a magnet for technology companies and for workers seeking an affordable middle-class life.
Hospitals in hot spots like Seattle and New York are postponing elective surgeries, hoping to conserve resources as the outbreak escalates. More serious surgeries are also getting a second look.
A homeless person being tested for the coronavirus wandered out of a new isolation housing facility south of Seattle, prompting alarm from neighbors who wish their town hadn’t been chosen.
In the center of the U.S. outbreak, one medical center has begun screening workers for the new virus by setting up a mobile clinic in a parking lot where cars serve as isolated waiting rooms.
As competition with Europe heats up, astronomers pitch their dreams of giant telescopes astride the Earth.
Elections officials in Ohio, Florida, Illinois and Arizona, the next states on the primary calendar, are taking extra precautions but have expressed confidence that voting can be held safely.
Lawmakers have introduced a number of measures this year, from criminalizing those who prescribe hormone therapy to transgender youth to banning transgender athletes from sports teams.
It could be tried again if the city of Hilo comes under threat, although many object to such airstrikes.
Police departments are preparing to isolate their own officers, and courthouses have postponed trials. Some fear that the criminal justice system may not be ready for a major outbreak.
Better still: Lawmakers in so-called flyover states are leading the charge.
El gobierno federal perdió varias oportunidades de garantizar pruebas más generalizadas durante los primeros días del brote, cuando contener el virus habría sido más sencillo.
The strict new controls on events in the Northwest are an attempt to slow the spread of a virus that already has taken 24 lives in Washington State.
This crisis has an absence of authority. Let’s fill it.
A federal appeals court had found that the policy, which was put in place early last year, violated federal and international law.
A look inside the suburban hospital in Kirkland, Wash., where 15 coronavirus patients have died.
“Are we ready to respond to a pandemic? I fear the answer is no,” one senior U.S. health official said in 2018.
Joseph R. Biden Jr. widened his advantage over Bernie Sanders in the Democratic primary race, capturing Mississippi and Missouri as well as Michigan, with support from both black and white voters.
A series of missed chances by the federal government to ensure more widespread testing came during the early days of the outbreak, when containment would have been easier.
Employees had tracked the group, believed to be based in Russia, as it hijacked nine million computers around the world to send spam emails meant to defraud unsuspecting victims.
Facing the threat of the coronavirus, schools around the country are trying a new experiment in distance learning on a mass scale. We followed one family through the experience.
With the deaths of 18 residents in a single nursing home amid a coronavirus outbreak in Washington State, industry leaders recommend strict limits on visits at nursing homes across the country.
Follow along as our reporters provide real-time analysis of the results of presidential primaries in six states.
Lasana Bridges is on the front lines of the coronavirus epidemic. “There’s no magic pill to take care of it.”
Multimountain passes for 2020-21 are now on sale, and there are plenty of incentives to buying early.
Noé Álvarez’s debut memoir, “Spirit Run,” chronicles the 6,000-mile marathon he undertook to connect with his Indigenous heritage — and his American present.
The Washed Ashore nonprofit collects garbage on the Oregon coast and creates sculptures of animals whose health is endangered by the trash they are made of.
Washington State, a center of the virus outbreak, holds its primary on Tuesday. Officials — and the presidential candidates — know there could be much bigger challenges to come.
As the U.S. election approaches, feminism takes center stage at scores of art institutions across the country.
As a global refugee crisis sped up and spread out, curators at a New Mexico museum spent two years reshaping a show about people on the move.
As a federal team arrived to help, a spokesman for the Kirkland, Wash., center said 70 staff members were out with symptoms that resembled coronavirus.
“Seattle is freaking out,” one man said as he passed a Starbucks in downtown Seattle that was closed after an employee tested positive for the coronavirus.
His insistence that the danger was overseas and could be kept out led officials to downplay the disease’s spread and the need for tests.
The facilities reported coronavirus cases among their residents on Friday, capping a week that included 10 deaths linked to another nursing home in the region.
Long before solo adventure travel became a trend among women, Sutherland was a pioneer, traveling around the world in her inflatable kayak.
Residents of care facilities can be especially vulnerable to respiratory illnesses. Here’s what you can do to help.
The city has developed a thriving pizza scene, embracing the influence of outsiders who bring hometown ideas to a city without a pizza style of its own.
Museums, theaters and concert halls in the United States are steeling themselves for fearful patrons, lighter crowds and possible government shutdowns.
History teaches us that keeping children at home early in an outbreak can save lives.
County officials have urged people to telecommute. Streets were quieter than usual. Coffee sales dropped.
The crisis is forcing a tech boomtown to hit pause.
The deadly disease has arrived in some offices, and employers are figuring out how to adapt.
All eyes on Montana.
“It’s fear, it’s every bad emotion you could have.” One woman fights to help her mother on lockdown in a virus-affected nursing home.
After months of insisting he would not challenge the Republican incumbent, Mr. Bullock, the governor and ex-Democratic presidential candidate, has until Monday to file to run in Montana.
A Tudor Revival home near Milwaukee, an adobe house in Scottsdale and a condominium in a 19th-century Jacobean-style estate in Princeton.
A Tudor Revival home near Milwaukee; an adobe house in Scottsdale, Ariz.; and a condo in a 19th-century Jacobean-style estate in Princeton, N.J.
“They are prisoners with no information in there,” said a relative of a resident of the nursing center where dozens of patients remain, waiting in their rooms.
Companies that rely on people traveling around the globe for business and pleasure are struggling to predict exactly how the coronavirus will ultimately affect them.
As coronavirus spreads, churches, synagogues and mosques are taking precautions and adjusting their worship traditions.
A medida que aparecen nuevos casos fuera de China, algunas personas, como el presidente de Estados Unidos, lo comparan con la gripe estacional. Aquí abordamos las diferencias entre ambos.
Four residents of a nursing care facility in suburban Seattle have died, and the surrounding community is taking extraordinary steps to contain the virus.
More than 100 patients with the illness have been treated in 15 states, according to a Times database. Those numbers are growing quickly.
An Interior Department official has pressed scientists to include misleading climate language—including debunked claims that increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is beneficial—into their work.
Officials see growing indications that the coronavirus has been spreading undetected for weeks. A cluster of cases at one nursing home have made Kirkland, Wash., a focus of concern.
Two cases detected weeks apart in Washington State had genetic links, suggesting that many more people in the area may be infected.
As new cases appear on the West Coast, some — including the president — are comparing it to the seasonal flu. Here’s a close look at the differences.
Joe Biden is looking to win Saturday’s primary as some Democrats worry about Bernie Sanders’s momentum coming out of the Nevada caucuses.
Housecall Providers, an organization in Portland, Ore., provides end-of-life care for the city’s most vulnerable residents.
Housecall Providers, an organization in Portland, Ore., provides end-of-life care for the city’s most vulnerable residents.