The cities of Oakland and Portland, Oregon have sued the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Justice Department, alleging that the agencies are overstepping constitutional limits in their use of federal law enforcement officers to tamp down on protests. The lawsuit, filed late Wednesday in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, cites the deployment […]
Thousands of President Trump’s most ardent supporters gathered in Macon, Ga., on Friday evening for a rally at a regional airport. It was Mr. Trump’s second stop of the day, after Florida, to a battleground state he is desperate to win. The sea of Trump supporters overtook the area in the hours leading up to […]
Ruth Kluger, whose unforgiving memoir of growing up Jewish in Nazi-occupied Vienna and escaping death in a concentration camp unsentimentally redefined the conventional mythos of the heroic Holocaust survivor, died on Oct. 5 at her home in Irvine, Calif. She was 88. The cause was complications of bladder cancer, said her sons Daniel and Percy […]
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court announced on Friday that it would hear a case on whether the Trump administration can exclude undocumented immigrants from the calculations it will use in apportioning congressional seats. The court put the case on a fast track, saying it will hear arguments on Nov. 30. Judge Amy Coney Barrett, President […]
Halloween in America looks extra terrifying this year. By Jonathan Wolfe This is the Coronavirus Briefing, an informed guide to the pandemic. Sign up here to get this newsletter in your inbox. The U.S. topped 65,000 new cases on Thursday, the highest tally since July. Donald Trump and Joe Biden offered starkly different views of […]
This is the Coronavirus Schools Briefing, a guide to the seismic changes in U.S. education that are taking place during the pandemic. Sign up here to get this newsletter in your inbox. College enrollments are plunging In most economic downturns, enrollment goes up at community colleges, where most Black, Latino and low-income students enter the […]
Israel has stopped issuing visas to United Nations human rights workers in Palestine, forcing them to leave, while also banning a Palestinian pop star from returning home. Nine of 12 foreign staff from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) – including country director James Heenan – had to leave […]
Tapping on his cellphone with a sense of purpose, Kevin Mathewson, a former wedding photographer and onetime city alderman in Kenosha, Wis., did not slow down to fix his typos as he dashed off an online appeal to his neighbors. It was time, he wrote on Facebook in late August, to “take up arms to […]
[Want to get New York Today by email? Here’s the sign-up.] It’s Friday. Weather: Rain becomes heavy; the day starts in the 60s but cools quickly after midday. A mostly sunny weekend, with highs near 60. Alternate-side parking: In effect until Nov. 1 (All Saints Day). During the pandemic, business leaders in New York have […]
NEW YORK • President Donald Trump’s refusal to hold a virtual town hall debate with his Democratic rival Joe Biden after his hospitalisation for the coronavirus has created one of the stranger events of the 2020 campaign – two town halls, each featuring a candidate, before different audiences in different cities at the same time. […]