The number of pedestrians who were struck and killed by vehicles in 2022 was the highest it’s been since 1981, according to a report based on state government data. At least 7,508 people who were out walking were struck and killed in the United States last year, said the report, published on Friday by the […]
Daniel Piedra Garcia had been an Uber driver for three weeks when he picked up a rider on June 16 who was headed to the Speaking Rock Casino in El Paso. It was near the end of his work day, but Mr. Piedra had picked up the rider anyway, his family said. As they passed […]
This week the real trial begins for Robert Bowers, the man who killed 11 worshipers in a Pittsburgh synagogue on Oct. 27, 2018. That Mr. Bowers carried out the massacre has never been in question. His lawyers acknowledged this bluntly during the first phase of his federal trial, and on June 16, a jury convicted […]
It has been exactly a year since Bethany Bomberger gathered in an impromptu huddle outside a hotel ballroom with fellow anti-abortion activists, overcome with gratitude and optimism as news broke that the Supreme Court had overturned Roe v. Wade just hours before the Pro-Life Women’s Conference officially opened. “There will be life before Roe was […]
Perhaps it was Scooter’s resemblance to a glossy black jelly bean that earned him the title on Friday night as champion of the World’s Ugliest Dog Contest. Or maybe it was his shock-headed, mohawk-like hair — strands that stood high in defiance of gravity — that pleased the judges in Petaluma, Calif., at the Sonoma-Marin […]
When Melinda Katz ran for Queens district attorney in 2019, her principal opponent in the Democratic primary was a public defender and democratic socialist with a platform of ending cash bail and eventually abolishing the police. With endorsements from progressive prosecutors around the country — as well as from Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders […]
The News Mayor Eric Adams vetoed a package of New York City Council bills on Friday, arguing that they would worsen the city’s housing crisis. The veto, only the second by Mr. Adams in his first 18 months in office, set up a showdown with leaders of the City Council, who, like the mayor, are […]
The Supreme Court avoided a difficult First Amendment question on Friday, ruling that an unusual 1986 federal law that makes it a crime to “encourage” or “induce” unauthorized immigrants to come to or stay in the United States should be read narrowly to require complicity in a criminal conduct. A broader interpretation of the law […]
Good morning. It’s Friday. It’s the time of year when school principals often retire. We’ll meet one who is stepping down at age 91. We’ll also look at the latest move by the writer E. Jean Carroll to stop Donald Trump from talking about her. Michael Veve says he has spent more time talking about […]
A vast multinational search for five people who had descended to view the wreckage of the sunken R.M.S. Titanic ended on Thursday after pieces of the privately owned submersible vessel that had carried them were found on the ocean floor, evidence of a “catastrophic implosion” with no survivors, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. The […]