The night skies across the United States lit up as fast-moving charged particles from the sun slammed into the Earth’s atmosphere.
A plan to sustainably manage the shrinking waterway could soon be up to the Trump administration — or eventually the Supreme Court.
Speaker Mike Johnson had refused to swear in Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva, a Democrat of Arizona, claiming he lacked the power to do so.
The judge instead adopted a map drawn by a centrist coalition. Democrats celebrated the ruling ahead of the 2026 midterms, but Republicans vowed to fight it.
Michelino Sunseri broke a speed record for running up and down the Wyoming peak, but was convicted of using a restricted path.
A delay in SNAP benefits mixed with a decline in foot traffic has many stores, restaurants and food producers concerned about sales.
Neros, a company founded in 2023 by former teenage drone racers, won a coveted Army contract and is gaining popularity in the defense sector.
Like many rural small towns, Tieton, Wash., is facing a confluence of circumstances that has made keeping its one-room library, a “civic symbol” for the town, untenable.
Some residents are receiving benefits, but the uncertainty over the past weeks has burdened many in the two states, where the cost of food is the highest in the nation.
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The body of a 65-year-old man, who fell 130 feet, was recovered on Thursday, officials said.
Tanya Marie Frazier, 14, never returned from summer school in 1994, and was found dead in a wooded area five days later. The police say a new DNA analysis links a felon to her death.
With her temporary block expiring, Judge Karin Immergut said the Trump administration had failed to prove that protesters were hampering President Trump’s policies.
Two city councilors won re-election on Tuesday, though their support for a pride flag at City Hall had sparked challenges from the right. Still, Idaho’s deep embrace of President Trump has the city worried.
A strong geomagnetic storm is expected to push the often-magical light display farther south than usual.
With its pristine jungles and small towns, this Hawaiian island retains the unmanicured charm of Old Polynesia with few modern intrusions.
Plus, a race to save artifacts from the ocean.
A Dutch Colonial Revival house in Grand Rapids, a midcentury modern home in Phoenix and a 19th-century brick house in Harpers Ferry.
The Utah-based interior designer looks for inspiration everywhere, including the side of the road in the desert.
The authorities, who were investigating the fire as a possible arson, said on Tuesday that it was “not a targeted act of violence.”
Data from Flightradar24 showed that a cargo plane bound for Honolulu reached an altitude of just 175 feet before swiftly descending.
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The city’s new leader will have to contend with preparing for deadly floods, rising electricity costs and the future of an ambitious energy efficiency program.
Fue secretario de Defensa y congresista, ocupó el puesto número 2 de EE. UU. en la presidencia de George W. Bush y fue artífice de políticas en una época de guerra y cambios económicos.
A former defense secretary and congressman, he held the nation’s No. 2 job under President George W. Bush and was an architect of policies in an era of war and economic change.
The remnants of Typhoon Halong scattered artifacts from an archaeological site along the shore of the Bering Sea.
Small towns and agricultural regions that have long been neglected are regenerating themselves through tourism.
At the Durango, Colo., police chief’s request, Colorado law enforcement will investigate whether a federal agent broke the law when he appeared to put a protester in a chokehold.
President Trump is imploring lawmakers to redraw their congressional maps to stave off Democratic control of the House. But the debate over redistricting has revealed fissures within both parties.
A judge in Oregon said she would issue a final ruling on the matter by Friday. But she suggested that she would ultimately make the block permanent.
She was her mother’s handmaiden and aide-de-camp. In 1993, her blockbuster biography told of the awful price she paid.
Puesto que algunos visitantes se interesan cada vez más por las realidades sociales y políticas de los lugares turísticos más importantes del mundo, algunos guías locales están adaptando sus ofertas.
As the economic engine for the region, coal offered solid work. But it has also used up water, polluted the air and raised health concerns.
The president’s ambiguity on nuclear testing is worrisome not only because America’s public can’t know what he means, but because America’s adversaries don’t.
Los personajes de la exitosa película de Netflix están entre los disfraces más codiciados de este año, y la escasez ha obligado a algunos a improvisar.
Did certain small tyrannosaur fossils belong to “teen rex” or another species? New analysis of a recent fossil appears to have settled the debate.
Jay Falk explored a fundamental question: How do genes give rise to different bodies? But without funding, “there’s not really a future here.”
Characters from the hit Netflix film are among the most coveted outfits this year, and scarcity has forced some to improvise.
After years of driving to a California home for vacations, two 'committed Pacific Northwesterners' wanted to be in a downtown area with shops and restaurants.
The brief deployment of troops hours after a judge forbid it marked the second time this week government lawyers had to come clean to courts considering President Trump’s designs on Portland.
In a scathing order, a judge in Washington State said the government’s real purpose was to intimidate providers into dropping or paring back transgender care.
The fish had been missing from the headwaters of the Klamath River for more than a century. Just a year after the removal of a final dam, they’ve returned.
State officials promise large-scale involuntary addiction and mental health treatment at Salt Lake City’s edge. Critics see “a prison, or a warehouse.”
With visitors increasingly interested in the social and political realities of global tourist hot spots, some local guides are adapting their offerings.
As political battles upend college campuses, we asked dozens of students what is on their minds as they plan for the future. Politics was only part of it.
El laboratorio donde Oppenheimer desarrolló la bomba atómica es el eje del esfuerzo de EE. UU. por modernizar sus armas nucleares. Pero el centro ha enfrentado incidentes de contaminación, interrupciones de obras e infraestructuras obsoletas.
Mike Johnson, the speaker, won’t swear in the Democratic representative-elect from Arizona.
By nationalizing a local election, Turning Point Action is trying to show it can carry on without its founder and recall a local Republican who endorsed Kamala Harris.
An unlikely twist in the investigation of a killing in 1983 that still haunts a small town in Oregon.
The lab where Oppenheimer developed the atomic bomb is the linchpin in the United States’ effort to modernize its nuclear weapons. Yet the site has contended with contamination incidents, work disruptions and old infrastructure.
The police said a fire that damaged cars and a carport at the home of City Councilor Candace Avalos was “suspicious in nature.” No arrests have been made.
See where the troops called upon by President Trump are working, what they are doing, and under whose authority.
Looking for a place they could enjoy their passion for fishing, a couple found much more: two cabins on 14 acres of land.
Gifted programs could be shutting out millions of high-performing Black and Latino children from low-income families. Can districts fix their advanced education problem?
The actor, who died this year at 95, led a quiet life in New Mexico. An auction of his belongings offers insights into his life and work.
Senior living operators are embracing private clubs, but the experiences raise questions about how they affect community dynamics.
The Interior Department also said it would allow a contentious road to be built through the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge in southwestern Alaska.
The players cheated with sophisticated technology, and those who lost faced the threat of violence and extortion.
A pair of Edmontosaurus specimens found in a Wyoming dig help researchers to understand the process that led them to be mummified.
A trove of specimens from New Mexico may help settle a long-running argument about the diversity of dinosaurs before their extinction.
Mayor Bruce Harrell of Seattle, 67, is facing a challenge from Katie Wilson, 43, who has a penchant for social media and a focus on cost of living, all reminiscent of Zohran Mamdani.
In a first, Colorado will cap the price of Enbrel, an arthritis drug. Using patent tactics, the drugmaker Amgen has aggressively blocked competition for it.
Este proyecto de prueba se diseñó para combinar granjas de alimentos y solares, una práctica denominada “agrivoltaica”, como modelo para otras comunidades que buscan seguridad energética y alimentaria.
Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva, Democrat of Arizona, along with the state’s attorney general, argued that the speaker had no authority to delay swearing her into office.
The rain is expected to begin in Washington by late Thursday before moving into Northern California.
A 19th-century farmhouse in Fayetteville, a Spanish-style house in SeaTac and a rowhouse in Washington.
Wyoming is one of many states that embraced a campaign to encourage more people to enroll in higher education. Some leaders and students wonder if it was a mistake.
Produce and power are both costly in the state. So researchers are testing ways to address both issues using the same land.
The admissions policy of Kamehameha Schools gives preference to Native Hawaiians. A new lawsuit calls it “blood-based discrimination.”
Plus, a drastic drop in peanut allergies.
Whether they’re on the Pacific Coast or in the Rockies, these short drives offer plenty to see and do — so much, in fact, that you might want to take it slow.
A judge in Utah said that statements from women indicated that Nicholas Rossi, 38, was a “serial abuser of women.” He faces sentencing in another rape case next month.
Deployment can move forward, for now, under a preliminary ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. But legal wrangling will likely continue.
Portland, Ore., is well known for its dense laws on land use. Now, under pressure from its liberal residents, the city is using those restrictions against immigrant detention.
“The troquita – the truck – it’s symbolic,” Senator Ruben Gallego tells David Leonhardt on “The Opinions.” “It really is a status symbol that you have succeeded in this country.”
Lessons from a Democrat who won in a Republican state.
At Arizona State University, residents pay about $500,000 in entrance fees to live on campus and take classes alongside undergraduates.
Their communities devastated from last weekend’s storm, many are in shelters in Anchorage and facing life in a completely different world.
Paintings, poems and science are on display at the Museum of the North in Fairbanks, illustrating the shared impact when carbon is released from the permafrost.
The bystanders were injured when a Denver police officer fired, while facing a crowd of people, at an armed man outside a bar in 2022.
A federal judge threw out their climate lawsuit against the president a few days ago. But legal experts say there was a silver lining in the judge’s opinion.
The 19th-century artist Camille Pissarro inspired others who became far more famous than he was, but many admirers say he was equally accomplished. An upcoming exhibition makes the case.
Durante medio siglo, ha llevado su singular talento al escenario y a la pantalla. Ahora, la actriz quiere volver a interpretar el papel que la convirtió en una estrella.
After the remnants of a typhoon devastated villages in western Alaska, Gov. Mike Dunleavy asked President Trump for federal help in the recovery process.
Un número creciente de hoteles construidos en lugares como antiguas prisiones, recintos de sectas, instalaciones militares extintas y cementerios apuestan por sus pasados dramáticos.
In Portland, as in other cities and towns across America, art institutions have sought revivals — or even recreations.
The two-hour slugfest produced some memorable one-liners, on subjects ranging from the candidates’ parents to imaginary sports championships.
The Illinois governor reported the winnings on his 2024 tax returns, which his campaign released this week. “I was incredibly lucky,” he said.
Algunos funcionarios locales del Partido Republicano que participaron de los chats han perdido sus puestos de trabajo, pero otros republicanos con cargos más altos han respondido con desdén.
A lawsuit in Washington State is one of several accusing the airline of failing to update equipment on a plane that crashed in South Korea last year, killing 179 people.
Federal investigators blamed experimental designs, undetected damage and construction flaws for the death of all five people aboard the submersible headed to the Titanic wreckage.
The group had challenged the president’s executive orders as unconstitutional. A judge “reluctantly” said the suit was too broad in scope.
Research in the U.S. Southwest could expand lifesaving efforts for hazards that follow wildfires across the globe.
Some G.O.P. officials who participated in a monthslong online chat are losing their jobs or being pressured to resign.
Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva appeared at the Capitol with other Arizona Democrats on Wednesday to criticize the Republican speaker for continuing to refuse to swear her in.
While the 1965 law was adopted in response to discriminatory practices in southern states, it has affected states and localities nationwide.
Astoria, Ore., the setting of the classic 1985 teen movie, invites fans to follow their inner adventurer and explore a scenic corner of the Northwest.
As U.S. institutions reimagine their programming, some are adopting a new approach: recruiting young people to organize their shows.
The remote village of Kipnuk planned to use the money to protect against flooding. On Sunday, it was inundated.
Travelers looking for a taste of dark drama can stay in accommodations built in former prisons, cult compounds and defunct military installations.
Emergency crews rescued dozens of people in western Alaska on Sunday, after flooding from Typhoon Halong swept away homes in two villages along the Bering Sea.
Plus, what happened to beheaded Columbus statues.
The guidelines, from California, Oregon, Washington and Hawaii, mirror those of major medical organizations. They were issued a day before an advisory panel was set to meet to review potential changes to federal recommendations.
Governors in California, Oregon and Washington said their states would work together on vaccine guidance in a time of turmoil at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
A Nevada business owner prepared and filed false tax returns to fraudulently obtain Covid relief money for her businesses and others, prosecutors said.
Una pandemia humana puede prevenirse, incluso ahora, dicen los científicos. Pero una serie de acontecimientos de las últimas semanas indica que la posibilidad ya no es remota.
A pandemic is not inevitable, scientists say. But the outbreak has passed worrisome milestones in recent weeks, including cattle that may have been reinfected.
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.
Jon and Carie Hallford pleaded guilty to corpse abuse after dozens of decaying bodies were found at their funeral home.
Experts worry the unusual move, driven by vaccine misinformation, could fuel further efforts to interfere with immunizations.
The state’s changing electorate and America’s polarized politics have turned Montana’s Senate race into the most consequential of the year.
Nearly a month into a union walkout, the aerospace giant withdrew its latest contract offer, and the two sides exchanged blame over the breakdown.
The justice talks about everything from his indictment of the regulatory state to the rights of Native Americans.
This documentary chronicles the reboot and reopening in Las Vegas of the acrobatic show “O,” which shutdown during the pandemic.
Over the past decade, many more schools started to offer free meals to all children, regardless of family income.
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.
Officials are moving to increase enforcement and change laws in response to the rise in counterfeit or expired plates, which exploded during the pandemic.
Originally charged after 190 decomposing bodies were found at their Colorado funeral home, the couple now face federal charges that they fraudulently obtained $880,000 in relief funds.
A surge of new residents into Rocky Mountain states drove up home prices. The result was property tax increases of 40 percent or more for some of those already there.
Chastened by a series of economic downturns that punished the hospitality industry, state leaders are working to broaden the economy.
Two of the most cautious states have bypassed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention by letting students and workers who have the virus but are asymptomatic avoid isolation.
Portland students have struggled with absenteeism since the pandemic,
Apoorva Mandavilli, a health and science reporter for The New York Times, traveled across the country to learn how educators are preparing for the next pandemic.
Gov. Josh Green of Hawaii sees lessons far beyond the islands in the disaster that has unfolded on Maui.
Gordon Hunter Petersen is accused of posing as a doctor and making at least $2 million selling a bogus Covid-19 cure.
Nevada has the highest unemployment rate in the country at 5.4 percent as officials insist the economy must move away from its focus on gambling.
When her husband was diagnosed with lung cancer, the author was haunted by a long-ago loss — one she’d already written about.
Rollbacks on child labor protections are happening amid a surge of child labor violations.
The fatalities, occurring disproportionately among Native American and Black women, were linked not just to medical complications but also to homicides and accidents.
Dr. Michael Kirk Moore and three of his associates were indicted this month in a scheme that federal prosecutors said lasted from May 2021 to September 2022.
What seemed like a transitory step to avoid infection has become a major force driving the future direction of urban America.
Driven by Covid chaos, online disinformation and a YouTube guru, two Americans went looking for solace on a sailboat in the middle of the ocean. They found a different fate.
A team of reporters and photographers profiled 10 city centers across the country, all in varying stages of economic recovery and transformation.
We visited 10 cities across the country to see how the pandemic and its aftershocks have reshaped the American downtown.
Employers have been burned by a labor shortage. Will that make them act differently if the economy slows down?
The pandemic may have left some gaps in the urban fabric, but a neighborhood-by-neighborhood rundown of new restaurants and art events reveals that recovery is well underway.
I have deep doubts about the intellectual and social value of schooling.
Ships are carrying fewer passengers than they did before the pandemic, but in port towns where the bulk of the economy depends on cruise travel, business owners say they are “grateful for what we have.”
Denver has regained its prepandemic vibrancy, with a plethora of new restaurants and hotels, and the return of some old favorites.
La suspensión de actividades humanas por la covid ha sido una oportunidad para entender mejor cómo afectamos a otras especies del planeta.
Covid precautions created a global slowdown in human activity — and an opportunity to learn more about the complex ways we affect other species.
Masks will become optional in Hawaii’s schools when the new academic year starts on Aug. 1, as the state tries for “a more normal classroom experience this fall,” a state health official said.
As counties report elevated levels of transmission, national parks are once again requiring masks in gift shops, on tour buses and other indoor spaces.
“Covid-19 hasn’t disappeared as much as our patience for precautions has,” said one public health expert.
The contract workers are resisting a plan to resume in-person work, citing health concerns and commuting costs.
People from around the world have been lingering on the border, awaiting the end of pandemic restrictions. Their fate remains one of the Biden administration’s biggest challenges on immigration.
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