CORCORAN — Crisscrossing the dry flatlands of the San Joaquin Valley last week, I drove along a narrow country road just outside this small agricultural town known as the “Farming Capital of California,” tilled dirt fields on either side of me as far as the eye could see. And then, suddenly, water. A vast inland […]
As communities across the country on Sunday recovered from a powerful storm system that killed at least 27 people in seven states, they have only a couple of days before facing another round of severe weather. After destructive tornadoes and strong storms barreled through parts of the South, the Midwest and the East on Friday […]
CHICAGO — Paul Vallas took control of Chicago Public Schools when the district was among the country’s most troubled. He went to Philadelphia to head up a teetering education system that the state had taken over. And after Hurricane Katrina washed away much of the New Orleans school district, he helped rebuild it. Mr. Vallas […]
Heavy Traffic Dear Diary: I was riding my bike on Fifth Avenue south of 55th Street. Traffic was heavy. Suddenly, a cabdriver with four young male passengers cut across a lane and screamed at me in an unfriendly voice. “Hey, lady,” he yelled, “Why don’t you get yourself a horse?” I didn’t respond and instead […]
MINNEAPOLIS — The city of Minneapolis agreed on Friday to make sweeping changes in policing, including a pledge to rein in the use of force and discontinue the practice of using the smell of marijuana as a pretext to search people. The promised changes are part of a legal settlement between the city and the […]
Strong to potentially violent tornadoes are likely on Friday in the Mississippi Valley, as a complex and dangerous storm system is poised to hit the Upper Midwest and South and continue through the weekend, forecasters said. Damaging wind gusts and very large hail are expected in the region from the afternoon through the evening, the […]
A 20-year-old Washington State man was arrested Thursday on federal charges that he made more than 20 hoax calls to law enforcement agencies last year and falsely reported bombs, shootings and other threats that sometimes led police officers to enter victims’ homes and detain them, prosecutors said. The man, Ashton C. Garcia, of Bremerton, Wash., […]
The chaotic scene, captured by a police officer’s body-worn camera, lasts less than 30 seconds. The officer, arm extended and ready to fire, shoves a bystander out of the way and rounds a corner onto a darkened street as a half-dozen shots ring out. “Put the gun down,” the officer yells, moving toward an armed […]
He will be fingerprinted. He will be photographed. He may even be handcuffed. In the days ahead, Donald J. Trump is expected to walk through the routine steps of felony arrest processing in New York, now that a grand jury has voted to indict him in connection with his role in a hush-money payment to […]
The vote by a Manhattan grand jury to indict former President Donald J. Trump raises novel legal and political questions because he is running for the Republican nomination for president again. Any indictment or conviction would not bar Mr. Trump from running. A clean criminal record is not among the criteria the Constitution sets for […]