A long and lawyerly debate is underway at the American Bar Association over a question that could have lasting consequences for diversity in legal education: Should taking the LSAT be mandatory for people applying to law school? Today, law schools accredited by the bar association must require applicants to take a “valid and reliable” admission […]
Gun violence continues in America on a daily basis. There have been 72 mass shootings so far this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive, and we’re only on Day 48. This week, three students were killed by a gunman at Michigan State University. Last month, shootings roiled California — in Goshen, in Monterey Park, […]
Sometimes Jerry Watkins would look at his giggling baby sister in 1985 and ask his mother, in a thrilled shriek, “Mommy, mommy, when is she going to walk?” He would share his candy with his months-old sibling, who crawled around their home in Terra Alta, W.Va., and wait for her first steps. “Unfortunately, that day […]
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — A farmworker accused of killing seven people last month at a pair of mushroom farms in Half Moon Bay, Calif., pleaded not guilty on Thursday in a San Mateo County courthouse. Dressed in an orange jumpsuit and standing behind a glass wall, the suspect, Zhao Chunli, 66, entered pleas through a […]
Dr. Margaret Heagarty was familiar enough with poverty and disease when she went to work in Harlem in 1978. She had grown up in the hardscrabble coal fields of West Virginia, where her father was a physician to miners and their families. She had also been separated from her parents, like many children in Harlem, […]
The overhead lights in the back of a public plaza in East Harlem, mounted on a rusty viaduct that supports the Metro-North Railroad, were not working. And Carey King was panicking. Ms. King, who runs the plaza as the director of Uptown Grand Central, a nonprofit group formed by local merchants, was getting ready to […]
WASHINGTON — The Senate on Wednesday unanimously passed a pair of resolutions condemning China for sending a surveillance balloon over the United States, joining the House in formally decrying an incident that has prompted a bipartisan chorus of demands for accountability on Capitol Hill. The first of the two measures, written by Senator Josh Hawley, […]
Severe storms that are expected to push across the Southern United States on Wednesday through Thursday night are likely to lead to damaging winds, hail and tornadoes, some of which will occur after dark, forecasters warned. The risk of severe weather stretches from Texas to Kentucky on Wednesday and from the Gulf Coast of Alabama […]
MEMPHIS — Video footage released on Friday night shows Memphis Police officers punching, kicking and using a baton to beat Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man whose death has rocked the city and led to murder charges against five Black officers. The Jan. 7 encounter begins with a traffic stop at an intersection, during which […]
A caricature of the suburban female voter looms large in American politics. But in battleground regions, many voters don’t fit the stereotype — and perhaps, never did. Credit… Supported by Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share. By Dana […]