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At candlelight vigils and in Sunday church services, at fund-raisers for funerals and in quiet moments at home, another city began wrestling with a grief that has been inflicted on [...]

Byline: Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon, Sean Keenan, Richard Fausset, Amy Harmon and Rick Rojas At candlelight vigils and in Sunday church services, at fund-raisers for funerals and in quiet moments at [...]

Unlike in vitro fertilization, the procedure used by the Walzes does not involve lab-created embryos that may be discarded, so it has not been targeted by anti-abortion leaders. Follow the [...]

Byline: Amy Harmon Pope Francis, noted for his outreach to gay Catholics, has been described as using an offensive Italian expression for gay men twice in recent weeks. This was [...]

Pope Francis, noted for his outreach to gay Catholics, has been described as using an offensive Italian expression for gay men twice in recent weeks. This was the pope who [...]

In an election year, efforts to pass limits on transgender rights have slowed in Republican-led legislatures. State legislatures are ending their sessions this spring with only a handful of new [...]

In an election year, efforts to pass limits on transgender rights have slowed in Republican-led legislatures. State legislatures are ending their sessions this spring with only a handful of new [...]

Conservative state governments are forbidding school districts from doing what the Department of Education says they must, under new Title IX regulations on students' gender identity. New civil rights regulations [...]

Conservative state governments are forbidding school districts from doing what the Department of Education says they must, under new Title IX regulations on students’ gender identity. New civil rights regulations [...]

The News Wyoming will bar minors from receiving medical treatments for gender transition, after the state's Republican governor signed a bill on Friday that penalizes health care professionals who provide [...]

The law bans gender-affirming care for minors and prohibits transgender girls and women from playing on high school or college sports teams that match with their gender identity. Ohio lawmakers [...]

The law bans gender-affirming care for minors and prohibits transgender girls and women from playing on high school or college sports teams that match with their gender identity. Ohio lawmakers [...]

The News Just a week after vetoing a ban on gender-affirming care for minors, Gov. Mike DeWine of Ohio issued an executive order on Friday banning gender-transition surgeries for anyone [...]

The News Mike DeWine, the Republican governor of Ohio, vetoed a bill on Friday that would have barred transgender minors from receiving puberty blockers, hormone therapy and surgeries, a rare [...]

The News Mike DeWine, the Republican governor of Ohio, vetoed a bill on Friday that would have barred transgender minors from receiving puberty blockers, hormone therapy and surgeries, a rare [...]

Compartiendo la emoción de quienes tenía en frente, el reverendo James Martin dio su primera bendición a una pareja del mismo sexo esta semana. Por más de dos décadas, como [...]

Byline: Amy Harmon, Ruth Graham and Sarah Maslin Nir A day after the pope's announcement that Catholic priests may bless same-sex couples, one New York couple receives theirs. As a [...]

A day after the pope's announcement that Catholic priests may bless same-sex couples, one New York couple receives theirs. As a Jesuit priest for more than two decades, the Rev. [...]

Some conservatives registered disappointment, but gay Catholics hailed the new rule as a landmark moment for the church’s acceptance of L.G.B.T.Q. faithful. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/18/world/europe/pope-gay-lesbian-same-sex-blessing.html that he would allow priests to bless [...]

After faculty protests and a debate over racial equity, the state's public universities reconsider whether high school students can skip a foundational course. Since 2020, California has led a contentious [...]

After faculty protests and a debate over racial equity, the state's public universities reconsider whether high school students can skip a foundational course. Since 2020, California has led a contentious [...]

Black and Hispanic college graduates, whose lives were directly shaped by race-conscious college admissions, have complicated thoughts about the expected Supreme Court decision. As a top student at his Philadelphia [...]

The Republican Party has struggled to contend with abortion since the Supreme Court eliminated the constitutional right to the procedure last summer and sent abortion policy to the states. The [...]

Byline: Shawn Hubler and Amy Harmon The state is still reeling from back-to-back attacks that left at least 19 people dead. The killings have spurred lawmakers to call for more [...]

The state is still reeling from back-to-back attacks that left at least 19 people dead. The killings have spurred lawmakers to call for more regulations. SACRAMENTO -- California bans guns [...]

Al menos 69 personas han perdido la vida en las primeras semanas de 2023 en tiroteos por todo el país, entre ellos dos en California que sucedieron con días de [...]

In the first few weeks of 2023, at least 69 people have been killed in mass shootings across the country, including two shootings within days of each other in California. [...]

Byline: Amy Harmon Can Humans Find Common Ground? Sure. Just Start With Sea Slugs. What was it? A segmented worm? A sea slug? A centipede, colonized by a parasite? When [...]

Bitsy Cherry had been bracing for the question ever since most of the members of a board game group that had started meeting online during the pandemic began attending in-person [...]

Can Humans Find Common Ground? Sure. Just Start With Sea Slugs. What was it? A segmented worm? A sea slug? A centipede, colonized by a parasite? When Merav Vonshak wanted [...]

Byline: Jeremy White, Amy Harmon, Danielle Ivory, Lauren Leatherby, Albert Sun and Sarah Almukhtar The magnitude of the country's loss is nearly impossible to grasp. More Americans have died of [...]

The magnitude of the country's loss is nearly impossible to grasp. More Americans have died of Covid-19 than in two decades of car crashes or on battlefields in all of [...]

The C.D.C. now recommends that all adults get a booster. But only one in six Americans has received that shot, worrying health officials. SACRAMENTO -- Nine months ago, the lines [...]

The milestone came despite the wide availability of vaccines for most of 2021. Coronavirus deaths in the United States surpassed 800,000 on Wednesday, according to a New York Times database, [...]

Byline: Julie Bosman, Amy Harmon and Albert Sun They are among the most vaccinated groups, but people 65 and older make up about three-quarters of the nation's coronavirus death toll. [...]

They are among the most vaccinated groups, but people 65 and older make up about three-quarters of the nation's coronavirus death toll. As the coronavirus pandemic approaches the end of [...]

Byline: Amy Harmon For those pushing for changes in society on race and other issues, words matter. They can also muddle. In California, a Black college freshman from the South [...]

About 100,000 people have died of Covid in the United States since February, after vaccine distribution was well underway. There is much to celebrate about America's vaccine rollout. The government [...]

Byline: Amy Harmon and Josh Holder Much has been said about people opposed to or skeptical of coronavirus vaccines. But there's another group that has yet to get shots, and [...]

Much has been said about people opposed to or skeptical of coronavirus vaccines. But there's another group that has yet to get shots, and their reasons are more complex. It [...]

Byline: Audra D. S. Burch, Amy Harmon, Sabrina Tavernise and Emily Badger George Floyd had been dead only hours before the movement began. Driven by a terrifying video and word [...]