The News Even as it continues to swelter, the South may get a break from steamy weather this week while the Northwest bakes in some of the highest temperatures people there will endure all summer. It isn’t unusual to get a day or two of 100-degree heat in places like Portland, Ore., but three days […]
Good morning. It’s Monday. Today we’ll look at food insecurity and college students — and a campus food pantry that’s open even during the summer. We’ll also meet the new chief of an often-secretive police unit. Hashina Suny has seen things from both sides of the counter at the Purple Apron. As an undergraduate at […]
A summer of ferocious weather across much of the United States reached the country’s most remote state on Wednesday, 2,500 miles off the West Coast, in Hawaii. What began at the start of the week as scattered brush fires on the state’s biggest islands, Hawaii and Maui, turned deadly by midweek. By Thursday, at least […]
Hackers stole more than $6 million from the New Haven, Conn., public school system, Justin Elicker, the city’s mayor, said on Thursday. A little more than half of that money, $3.6 million, has since been recovered, and an investigation into who was responsible for the theft is underway. For now, the city has stopped its […]
The 12 shots fired on Wednesday evening, killing an Ecuadorean presidential candidate as he exited a campaign event, marked a dramatic turning point for a nation that a few years ago seemed an island of security in a violent region. A video of the moments just before the killing of the candidate, Fernando Villavicencio, began […]
For several nights last week, New York City’s migrant crisis seemed to have passed a breaking point: As many as 300 newly arrived migrants were left to sleep on the sidewalk outside the main processing center in Midtown Manhattan. Mayor Eric Adams said the city had simply run out of room in its sprawling, ever-growing […]
Two prominent conservative law professors have concluded that Donald J. Trump is ineligible to be president under a provision of the Constitution that bars people who have engaged in an insurrection from holding government office. The professors are active members of the Federalist Society, the conservative legal group, and proponents of originalism, the method of […]
The fourth criminal case involving Donald J. Trump is likely to come to a head next week, with the district attorney in Atlanta expected to take the findings from her election interference investigation to a grand jury. The Georgia investigation may be the most expansive legal challenge yet to the efforts that Mr. Trump and […]
Surrounded by so much grim news as a reporter, I’m always in search of anything that feels hopeful, or that brings delight into my life. I often find it in the community that has formed around this newsletter, and the stories and perspectives that you share with us about your lives. Recently, you’ve been writing […]
A former senior F.B.I. official is in talks to resolve criminal charges in two separate indictments, including entering a possible guilty plea as early as next week in a case involving accusations that he worked for a Russian oligarch, according to a public filing and statements by his lawyer in court. Charles F. McGonigal, who […]