Search

The Secret Service, which has been under scrutiny since the assassination attempt against Donald J. Trump, says it has reviewed its security plan for the convention in August. Chicago is [...]

Cavalier Johnson, the Democratic mayor of Milwaukee, was one of the biggest cheerleaders for holding the Republican National Convention in the city. Mayor Cavalier Johnson was zipping in and out [...]

Brandon Johnson, a progressive Democrat, explains how he plans to manage the nation’s third-largest city in a complicated moment. It wasn’t long ago that https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/22/us/brandon-johnson-chicago-mayor-runoff-teachers.html, 47, was a county commissioner [...]

When the pandemic took hold, Chicago was awash in affectionate memes featuring Lori Lightfoot, the city's stern, no-nonsense new mayor. Since then, the joke has worn off. CHICAGO -- Mayor [...]

CHICAGO -- Mayor Lori Lightfoot met recently with two dozen Chicagoans at a campaign event in a plush apartment building in the city's affluent Lincoln Park neighborhood. Before long, she [...]

In Omaha, a Streetcar Named Undesirable by Warren Buffett We're exploring how America defines itself one place at a time. In Omaha, city leaders and the most famous local resident [...]

Just before Christmas, a combination of ice, snow and winds is paralyzing much of the U.S. I have rarely seen my fellow Chicagoans fuss much over a snowstorm. In this [...]

The University of North Dakota, the latest U.S. college to acknowledge keeping Indigenous bones and artifacts, pledged to work with tribal leaders on returning them. GRAND FORKS, N.D. -- The [...]

A Year After Unrest, a Scarred Kenosha Still Waits to Rebuild KENOSHA, Wis. -- Last August in Kenosha, on the second night of protests after the police shooting of Jacob [...]

By the time Doug Raysby's wife was allowed to enter his hospital room, it was too late to be sure whether he even knew she was there. After a feverish [...]

Byline: Sarah Mervosh and Julie Bosman The Northeast, devastated by the coronavirus in the spring and held up as a model of infection control by summer, is now seeing early [...]

Reports of new cases have declined nationally, and deaths have slowed. But reopening plans leave unanswered questions. CHICAGO -- The number of new coronavirus cases confirmed in the United States [...]

With Democratic governors and Republican legislatures, ending stay-at-home orders mixes health guidance and partisan politics. WAUKESHA, Wis. -- In Wisconsin, residents woke up to a state of confusion on Thursday [...]

The Chicago mayoral election in February was the most crowded in city history, with 14 candidates on the ballot, including respected local government leaders, a charismatic entrepreneur who routinely hands [...]

CHICAGO -- Two African-American women are headed for a runoff in the Chicago mayor's race, setting up an election that will make history. Lori Lightfoot, a former federal prosecutor and [...]

CHICAGO -- There are two standard, rage-inducing ways to reach O'Hare International Airport from downtown Chicago. You can ride the L, a sluggish crawl on a train that meanders through [...]

JANESVILLE, Wis. -- Not everybody in this quiet, blue-collar city cares much for Paul D. Ryan. But he is undoubtedly of this place, a product of Janesville schools, first elected [...]

CHICAGO -- Gus Sims, 67, has heard what might happen to his beloved, no-frills public golf course on Chicago's South Side, where, on a balmy spring morning here, he was [...]

The State of Michigan has agreed to spend $87 million in a proposed settlement to replace thousands of lead pipes throughout Flint over the next three years, the latest effort [...]

CHICAGO -- The filmmaker George Lucas has scrapped his plan to bring a museum of narrative art to Chicago's lakefront, stymied by a lawsuit from a small but determined local [...]

CHICAGO -- Mayor Rahm Emanuel has been publicly subdued in recent months, his caustic temperament largely under wraps as Chicago struggles through problems on all sides: a crime wave, financial [...]

CHICAGO -- The Chicago Teachers Union has voted overwhelmingly to authorize its leaders to call a strike, a move that clears the way for the union's second walkout in four [...]

More than four months after the Nebraska Legislature voted to abolish the death penalty, a petition drive by supporters of capital punishment in the state has succeeded in upending that [...]

Byline: JULIE BOSMAN and TAMAR LEWIN When Hillary Rodham Clinton unveiled her plan this past week to make higher education more affordable, Senator Marco Rubio of Florida promptly dismissed it [...]

CARLTON, Wis. -- Sprawled over 900 acres, the Kewaunee nuclear power plant in this corner of northeastern Wisconsin is an 18-story blue and white tangle of concrete buildings, metal pipes [...]

Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin said on Monday that he wanted to eliminate the state's Government Accountability Board, a nonpartisan agency that oversees elections, ethics, campaign finance and lobbying. In [...]

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- What began as scattered calls for removing the Confederate battle flag from a single state capitol intensified with striking speed and scope on Tuesday into an emotional, [...]

CHICAGO -- Maybe the Obamas will never return to live in Chicago after the presidency is over, their global celebrity pulling them toward New York or Los Angeles and away [...]

CHICAGO -- Chicago can breathe a sigh of relief: New York City will not be home to the Barack Obama Presidential Library and Museum. Mr. Obama's library will be in [...]

MADISON, Wis. -- Last Wednesday, in the grand Beaux-Arts Capitol here, throngs of lawmakers and tourists milled around upstairs. Matt Adamczyk, the newly elected state treasurer, however, was in his [...]

CHICAGO -- People who live in Chicago know a few things to be true about their city. Winters are brutal. The architecture is first-rate. The Cubs will lose. In the [...]

KINGDOM CITY, Mo. -- Missourians already have the constitutional right to religion, speech and guns. On Tuesday, they could make a novel addition to the State Constitution: the right to [...]

Bryan Cranston, the veteran actor and celebrated star of ''Breaking Bad,'' has agreed to write a memoir of his life and work, his publisher said on Thursday. The publisher, Scribner, [...]

Gary Shteyngart, the author of ''The Russian Debutante's Handbook'' and ''Super Sad True Love Story,'' is writing an ''international thriller'' for Random House, the publisher said on Tuesday. The new [...]

Anne Rice announced to her Facebook fans the publication of her next book, ''Prince Lestat,'' a novel that is set for release in October. ''It was such a relief and [...]

Stephin Merritt, the songwriter for the Magnetic Fields, has channeled his side passion for Scrabble into a book chronicling all the two-letter words allowed in the game. ''101 Two-Letter Words,'' [...]

Hilary Mantel, the author of the bestselling historical novels ''Wolf Hall'' and ''Bring Up the Bodies,'' has written a collection of short stories that will be released in September, her [...]

St. Martin's Press is making a very big bet that Americans are still hot and heavy for romance novels. The publisher has just agreed to pay an eye-popping eight-figure advance [...]

The parents of Trayvon Martin met with publishers this week to shop a book about their son, the unarmed black teenager who was shot and killed in Florida in 2012. [...]

Kelly Carlin, the only child of the comedian George Carlin, will write a memoir of her relationship with her father, her publisher said Thursday. St. Martin's Press, part of Macmillan, [...]

Derek Jeter, nearing the final act of a storied athletic career, is ready to talk about his life after baseball. He wants to be a book publisher. On Thursday, Jeter, [...]

Wendy Davis, the Texas state senator whose 11-hour legislative filibuster of an abortion bill gave her instant fame in the Democratic Party, is about to take the next logical step [...]

The television and radio host Tavis Smiley will write a book about the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Mr. Smiley's publisher said, exploring the attacks on Dr. King's ''character, [...]

A new memoir by Willie Nelson is to be released by Little, Brown and Company in 2015, the publisher said on Wednesday, describing the book as ''the unvarnished, complete and [...]

R.L. Stine, whose ''Goosebumps'' books are a children's publishing phenomenon, is reviving another beloved series: ''Fear Street,'' a best-selling line of young-adult horror books set in the fictional town of [...]