The fatal shooting that led to Ms. Lipp’s arrest began when a 25-year-old man was lured to her apartment in July 2018 on the promise he would get a kiss in exchange for $100, investigators say. The victim, Dustin Barham, was robbed and shot, bleeding to death, prosecutors say. Ms. …...Read More

PORTLAND, Ore. — Late on Saturday night, with protests in Portland continuing into their third month, one crowd of demonstrators gathered yet again in front of the city’s fortified federal courthouse while another group traveled miles east to a precinct used by local law enforcement. At the federal courthouse, the …...Read More

This obituary is part of a series about people who have died in the coronavirus pandemic. Read about others here. Patricia Negrón and Diane Larsen have been best friends since kindergarten, so Ms. Larsen was always ready to step in and help her pal with Eddie, that dancing husband of …...Read More

Across the country, deaths from the coronavirus continue to rise. The country was averaging about 500 per day at the start of July. Over the last week, it has averaged more than 1,000 daily, with many of those concentrated in Sun Belt states. On Wednesday, California, Florida and Texas reported …...Read More

Suburban districts like these have long been critical bases of Republican support, packed with affluent white voters who reliably chose Republicans to represent them in Congress. Democrats seized control of the House in 2018 by making inroads in communities like these, and Republicans have tied their hopes of reclaiming power …...Read More

“I asked two questions: One related to women, the other related to Black students,” he said in an interview with Columbia College Today, an alumni publication, in 2018. “I wondered why a school at the edge of Harlem had only one Black student per undergraduate class. And because my own …...Read More

The storm surge could reach four feet in parts of eastern Florida. Florida is preparing for winds as high as 75 miles per hour and dangerous coastal surf on Saturday as the season’s ninth named storm, Hurricane Isaias, makes its way north. The storm, a low-level Category 1 hurricane, raked …...Read More

Europe has a bad reputation with investors. For years, asset managers and bank strategists have characterized the region by its anemic growth rate and shaky political union. Now a crisis has turned into an unlikely investment opportunity, as the region appears to have handled the pandemic better than some other …...Read More

Senator Tammy Duckworth, like the man she might serve as vice president, prizes loyalty in her ranks and occasional mischief in her workplace. So when a top communications aide prepared to defect last year to the presidential campaign of Pete Buttigieg, Ms. Duckworth recognized an opportunity. She recorded a faux …...Read More

This geography is as fundamental to how the place operates as the invention of the microchip. Every day, throngs of clerks, landscapers and elder-care workers wake up on the eastern parts and travel to homes on the western parts or to the corporate campuses of tech companies to do subcontracting …...Read More