The latest: The 2023-24 rankings are out. U.S. News & World Report finally released its annual rankings of top law and medical schools on Thursday, after boycotts by those institutions, disputes over methodology, and a delay of weeks. A few law schools shuffled positions, but the ones at the top of the new list were […]
The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a California law that sought to address cruelty to animals, saying the state could require pork sold there but produced elsewhere to come from breeding pigs housed in spaces that allow them to move around freely. The decision was badly fractured and featured competing rationales, but the basic vote […]
Paul Brown, an antiques collector from Lancaster, Pa., said that he typically collects 19th-century grocery store products, old gas station signs and advertising — pieces of Americana that he can haul away in the back of his Chevy pickup truck. But last fall, he decided to buy two large round windows that were covered in […]
The day after Representative George Santos was charged with wire fraud and money laundering as part of a 13-count federal indictment, he was free to go back to work as a freshman Republican congressman from Long Island. Mr. Santos, who pleaded not guilty, can still vote in the House, and he can still raise money […]
CIUDAD JUÁREZ, Mexico — Millions of people are leaving their homes across Latin America in numbers not seen in decades, many of them pressing toward the United States. While migration to the U.S. southern border has always fluctuated, the pandemic and the recession that followed hit Latin America harder than almost anywhere else in the […]
By all appearances, the summer of 2020 was a very good time for George Santos. He was pulling in a six-figure salary from a Florida-based investment firm, and he had won the Republican Party’s support as a first-time candidate contesting a Long Island House seat. Yet that June, Mr. Santos presented the State of New […]
A large portion of the Denver area was under a tornado watch on Wednesday afternoon, the National Weather Service said. The watch, which is in effect until 9 p.m. Mountain time, also included parts of northwest Kansas and southwest Nebraska. Parts of Denver were previously under a more severe tornado warning, which expired at 4:30 […]
More than a week after the killing of a mentally ill man on a city subway, Mayor Eric Adams gave his most forceful comments so far about the death, saying it “never should have happened,” in a speech in which he also called for renewed investment in mental health services. But Mr. Adams continued to […]
House Republicans have made rooting out unemployment fraud during the pandemic a legislative priority. Little did they know that one of the bill’s co-sponsors, Representative George Santos, would become a high-profile target. In a 13-count federal indictment unsealed on Wednesday, Mr. Santos, a Republican of New York, was accused of carrying out a scheme to […]
There’s usually a simple rule of thumb for thinking about outlying poll results: Toss it in the average, and don’t think too hard about it. After all, outlying poll results are inevitable, simply by chance. When they occur, it shouldn’t be any surprise. But sometimes, that guidance gets a little hard to follow. The most […]