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We spoke to them about why they feel like their votes, while important, don't seem to translate into the type of change they want to see in their daily lives. […]

The demonstration, while spirited, appeared to be far smaller than organizers had expected. Some suggested that the attempted assassination of Donald J. Trump may have affected the turnout and mood. [...]

Larry White was thrown a little off-kilter by the soupy, 93-degree temperature in Chicago on Monday morning. It's only mid-June, he said with annoyance, and until this week he barely [...]

For Judith Raanan and her teenage daughter, Natalie, the voyage to Israel that began in September was abundant with meaning, a trip to celebrate the Jewish holidays and the 85th [...]

The globe's warmest months on record redefined summer for many Americans. It felt like the opening minutes of a disaster movie. This summer, Trevor O'Donnell, 64, had been reading the [...]

The buses packed with Venezuelan migrants are now arriving in downtown Chicago day and night, doubling in number in recent weeks. City officials are struggling to open more shelters, while [...]

Chicago residents were warned to stay indoors or wear masks, and the popular paths along Lake Michigan were quiet. Chicago and much of the Upper Midwest were blanketed with a [...]

More than 1.1 million Americans have died of Covid. An official end to the health emergency has landed in complicated ways for those affected most acutely. Shannon Cummings, 53, has [...]

Residents and friends of the victim were searching for answers as the 84-year-old homeowner surrendered to the authorities on two felony charges. KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- On Tuesday morning, hundreds [...]

EAST LANSING, Mich. -- Until a gunman shot and killed three Michigan State University students this week, the campus was a whirl of activity where 50,000 students came and went [...]

With cameras nearly everywhere, and residents wary, the authorities are moving faster and speaking critically when officers are accused of beatings. CHICAGO -- It took 13 months and an order [...]

Jason Seaman, a seventh-grade science teacher in Noblesville, Ind., was helping a student with a test when a classmate returned from the bathroom, drew a handgun from his pocket and [...]

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 [...]

The potent opioid increasingly is afflicting people of color in American cities. ''I've seen a lot of terrible drugs,'' said a veteran drug counselor. ''This is the worst.'' MILWAUKEE -- [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

In Wisconsin, Michigan and other states, abortion bans that were long considered dormant could determine if access to the procedure survives the overturning of Roe. Abortion has become or will [...]

Around the country, a patchwork of laws was taking hold amid protest and celebration. A new and rapidly shifting reality took hold across America on Saturday as abortion, a basic [...]

Nearly one million people have died from Covid in the United States. Many of the loved ones they left behind are grieving in a nation that wants to move on. [...]

Crime rates on trains and buses are up in some of the nation's biggest cities, one more barrier for downtowns trying to rebound. CHICAGO -- For months, Anna Balla, 47, [...]

CHICAGO -- More than 2,600 Americans are dying from Covid-19 each day, an alarming rate that has climbed by 30 percent in the past two weeks. Across the United States, [...]

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 [...]

Four Lives Lost: Inside America's Homicide Surge A hot dog vendor walking out of a downtown ballpark, where gunfire pierced the night after the home team won a game. A [...]

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 [...]

CHICAGO -- As alarm mounted over the coronavirus ripping through the country, Mayor Lori Lightfoot of Chicago was barraged with warnings: Lollapalooza was looking increasingly risky. The annual four-day music [...]

One segment of people who have avoided shots is vehemently opposed to the idea. But there is a second group, surveys suggest, that is still deciding. As coronavirus cases rise [...]

The 18-month drop, the steepest decline since World War II, was fueled by the coronavirus pandemic. New federal data draws one of the starkest illustrations to date of how the [...]

Hospitals are stretched thin in a few hot spots, but the vaccines are working and the national outlook remains far better than during previous surges. KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The [...]

Most city leaders, eager to rejuvenate downtown economies, have lifted coronavirus restrictions. But rising violent crime has kept both residents and tourists at home. CHICAGO -- Mayors of American cities [...]

More than half of mass shootings in recent years involve a perpetrator who killed an intimate partner or family member, including the gunman who killed six people in Colorado Springs. [...]

Cases and deaths have dipped, and vaccinations make scientists hopeful, even as variants mean the coronavirus is here to stay. After weeks of coronavirus patients flooding emergency rooms in Michigan, [...]

U.S. experts weigh the risks for younger women and cases of a rare blood-clotting disorder, and lift the pause in giving the one-shot vaccine. Use of the one-shot Johnson & [...]

The U.S. has entered a disconcerting phase: Vaccines are rolling out quickly, but upticks in cases raise the prospect of a new surge. DETROIT -- In a rural stretch of [...]

One in three Americans has lost someone to the coronavirus. The have coped with sudden pain and immeasurable sorrow. We spoke to the people the pandemic left behind. One in [...]

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 [...]

CHICAGO -- A nation numbed by misery and loss is confronting a number that still has the power to shock: 500,000. Roughly one year since the first known death by [...]

New daily cases are starting to slow in what some health experts see as a turning point. But they warn of a bumpy vaccination rollout amid the emergence of more [...]

While districts around it opened, a small Wisconsin city chose to start the school year remotely. Public pressure forced a return, just as virus cases were surging. The anger over [...]

As the coronavirus cut a devastating path around the country, Laura Liffiton, 32, found herself racing along behind. She arrived in New York City in April, on one of the [...]

The president had immediate access to first-class treatment as well as doctors who have honed their understanding of the disease over several months of the pandemic. CHICAGO -- When Chanon [...]

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 [...]

The president, touring the city that is the latest focal point of anger over police shootings of Black Americans, called attention instead to the street violence that he blamed on [...]

As right-wing groups increasingly move to confront unrest in cities, clashes are breaking out between demonstrators with starkly different views on how to keep cities safe. PORTLAND, Ore. -- For [...]

The auto plant closed in 1988, turning the Wisconsin city upside down. Now it's facing an even deeper existential crisis. KENOSHA, Wis. -- Anguished residents wondered if their city would [...]

Flint, Mich., had not yet recovered from the water catastrophe that began six years ago. Then came the coronavirus. It was a fresh trauma layered on top of those from [...]

The city briefly raised most of the bridges to the main shopping and business district. Mayor Lori Lightfoot condemned the crowd's actions as ''abject criminal behavior.'' CHICAGO -- All summer, [...]

States like Missouri, Illinois and Wisconsin are riding a frustrating seesaw during the pandemic, with new coronavirus cases rising again after apparent progress. CHICAGO -- First, the Pacific Northwest and [...]

The coronavirus pandemic has left ordinary people debating case counts, positivity rates and hospitalization numbers in hopes of understanding the virus's path. CHICAGO -- The latest count of new coronavirus [...]

People in their 20s, 30s and 40s account for a growing proportion of the cases in many places, raising fears that asymptomatic young people are helping to fuel the virus's [...]

Beijing and Seoul have had a recent surge in coronavirus cases, and businesses are recoiling in America as infections sharply increase in Southern and Western states. CHICAGO -- The world [...]