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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 [...]

After the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, protest organizers said their rally would proceed as expected. Law enforcement authorities said they were prepared. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/07/15/us/trump-rnc-news-biden A crowd of left-leaning demonstrators gathered [...]

His acquittal in the infamous trial involving Nicole Brown Simpson's death prompted powerful backlash that helped change the perception around domestic violence. In December 1994, investigators from the Los Angeles [...]

The clinic had suspended abortions during a legal battle over an 1849 law, which is ongoing. Planned Parenthood said on Thursday it would resume providing abortions in Wisconsin, where the [...]

CHICAGO -- Bulging suitcases lined the wall of windows facing the street at a North Side police station in Chicago one morning this week. Air mattresses, blankets and pillows covered [...]

With just weeks to go before the runoff for mayor, a choice between vastly different visions of policing. CHICAGO -- As Brandi Johnson left a restaurant recently in Bronzeville, long [...]

Republican candidates are focusing on crime and public safety, but their message is rooted not so much in data or policy as in voters' feelings of unease. Debra Kowalski, a [...]

Hurricane Ian inflicted its worst damage across several deeply Republican counties, where many voters express hostility toward President Biden and the federal government in general. FORT MYERS BEACH, Fla. -- [...]

The law passed despite dividing Republicans. Some of them said the measure was too restrictive; others objected to limited exceptions for rape and incest. INDIANAPOLIS -- Indiana lawmakers passed and [...]

Voters in the Detroit suburbs said issues including the economy and bodily autonomy were driving their ballot decisions. HAZEL PARK, Mich. -- Ashley Polansky, a 34-year-old retail manager, hurried inside [...]

An effort in Indiana to pass an abortion ban with exceptions has exposed rifts among conservatives on how to legislate in a post-Roe world. INDIANAPOLIS -- Abortion opponents, especially in [...]

UVALDE, Texas -- The gunman who killed 19 children and two teachers in a rural Texas elementary school on Tuesday entered the building despite being confronted by an armed school [...]

The country is reporting upward of 700,000 new cases a day, fewer than earlier this month, but still far more than in any prior surge. CHICAGO -- New coronavirus cases [...]

CHICAGO -- With infection rates mounting, the Omicron variant has ushered in a new and disorienting phase of the pandemic, leaving Americans frustrated and dismayed that the basic elements they [...]

The judge pushed back against comments from potential jurors who said they had read and talked too much about the shootings that took place during unrest in Kenosha County, Wis. [...]

Legal experts said the term ''victim'' could appear prejudicial during self-defense cases. Mr. Rittenhouse shot three men, killing two, during protests against police violence in Kenosha, Wis. A judge's decision [...]

All state residents 2 and older will need to wear masks inside. Students and staff at public schools already have to wear masks. CHICAGO -- Gov. J.B. Pritzker of Illinois [...]

New coronavirus mask guidelines from the C.D.C. have left Americans wondering whether they can trust one another. And it's been a challenging year for trust. CHICAGO -- When Tori Saylor, [...]

Even within political parties, governors were taking different approaches as they tried to balance public health guidance with residents' eagerness to get back to normal life. Despite President Biden's sharp [...]

As coronavirus cases fall, states are rescinding mask mandates and reopening businesses and schools, prompting people to emerge after months of isolation despite uncertainty about the pandemic's future. Texas said [...]

Supporters are donating to the legal defense of Kyle Rittenhouse, who prosecutors say killed two protesters of a police shooting in Kenosha, Wis. CHICAGO -- Kyle Rittenhouse, a 17-year-old accused [...]

The state, up for grabs in the presidential election, has become a coronavirus hot spot. ''It's too late'' to solve, one mayor says. OSHKOSH, Wis. -- Steve VanderLoop, 64, heard [...]

Masks became a political cause for some in the early months of the pandemic. A growing set of Republican leaders are suddenly pushing Americans to wear them. CHICAGO -- Protesters [...]

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 [...]

Some saw the anti-snowball ordinance in Wausau, Wis., as anti-fun, so city officials are reconsidering the 57-year-old ban. They also had a snowball fight. The law in the central Wisconsin [...]

All week, Veronica had distracted herself from a constant barrage of news about a series of coordinated immigration raids that the Trump administration planned to begin this weekend in cities [...]

The pair sat smiling in a picture posted to Instagram: the actress Jessica Biel, who became famous on the television series ''7th Heaven,'' next to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an [...]

AURORA, Ill. -- An angry worker who stormed through a suburban Chicago factory shooting his co-workers after being fired was barred from having the handgun he was carrying, the authorities [...]

Six weeks into a woman's pregnancy is the point at which doctors typically can detect the flicker of a fetal heartbeat on an ultrasound. It's also the point after which [...]

KANSAS CITY, Kan. -- Day after day, Kris W. Kobach, the secretary of state of Kansas, grilled people on the witness stand about voter fraud. From behind a courtroom lectern, [...]

MADISON, Wis. -- One by one, Confederate monuments are coming down from their perches in front of courthouses, in public squares, along city boulevards. Now opponents to the memorials are [...]

CHICAGO -- Illinois took a crucial step on Tuesday toward ending a budget impasse that has imperiled the state's fiscal future, but major questions remained even as a threat loomed [...]

The body-cam video suddenly turns shaky as an Ohio police officer fires his gun into a car, leaving an unarmed black motorist dead, shot in the head. In Wisconsin, slow-motion [...]

Gov. Sam Brownback's leadership of Kansas came to be synonymous with a single, unyielding philosophy: Cut taxes, cut the size of government, and the state will thrive. But this week, [...]

WHITECLAY, Neb. -- This town is a rural skid row, with only a dozen residents, a street strewn with debris, four ramshackle liquor stores and little else. It seems to [...]

The Kansas Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the state's spending on public education was unconstitutionally low, dealing a new blow to Gov. Sam Brownback, who is facing a rebellion [...]

WING, N.D. -- The Wagner family farmstead in central North Dakota could have been lifted from a Grant Wood painting: bales of hay rest on a gently sloping hill, cattle [...]

The Kansas Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the state Legislature had failed to equitably fund public schools, once again giving the state until June 30 to fix its financing [...]

The State Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the state Legislature had failed to equitably fund public schools, once again giving the state until June 30 to fix its financing [...]

The people of Palatine, Ill., a middle-class suburb of Chicago marked by generic strip malls and tidy cul-de-sacs, had not spent much time debating the thorny questions of transgender rights. [...]

A measure to amend the State Constitution to give legal protections to people who refuse service to same-sex couples because of ''sincere religious belief'' was defeated in a House committee [...]

A Wisconsin law barring unions from requiring workers in the private sector to pay the equivalent of union dues was struck down late Friday after a judge deemed it a [...]

An independent panel has concluded that disregard for the concerns of poor and minority people contributed to the government's slow response to complaints from residents of Flint, Mich., about the [...]

MERRILLVILLE, Ind. -- It is still illegal to buy alcohol at a liquor store on Sunday in Indiana, a red state holding fast to an old blue law. Grocery stores [...]

CHICAGO -- Asked to call a transgender boy by a male name he has chosen for himself, teachers and administrators around the country have leaned toward a simple response: Sure. [...]

CHICAGO -- Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin, who gave up his quest for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination last month, signed into law on Friday a measure that limits a [...]

CHICAGO -- Zachery Anderson, whose punishment for a teenage sexual encounter with a 14-year-old who lied about her age prompted a nationwide call to change sex offender registries, was granted [...]

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 [...]