MIAMI — For Jacksonville, it wasn’t all that fun while it lasted. Over 43 long days, Florida’s largest city insisted it could play host to the Republican National Convention in the middle of a pandemic. Republicans bowed out of Charlotte, N.C., the previous host city, after the state’s Democratic governor …...Read More

In a second dissent, Justice Neil M. Gorsuch said the case was simple. “The world we inhabit today, with a pandemic upon us, poses unusual challenges,” he wrote. “But there is no world in which the Constitution permits Nevada to favor Caesars Palace over Calvary Chapel.” In his own dissent, …...Read More

Despite Mr. Trump’s characterization of ethanol as a partisan issue, Democrats from corn-producing states are “strong supporters of policies that favor ethanol,” Mr. Manuel said. For example, Senator Amy Klobuchar, Democrat of Minnesota, and Senator Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa, introduced a bill that would grant relief funding to …...Read More

“We have received complaints on less than 1 percent of the total PPE shipments to nursing homes,” the statement said. “We continue to engage with nursing homes to keep lines of communication and feedback open at all times.” FEMA subsequently acknowledged in an email that the contractor has been sending …...Read More

On the day of our micro staycation, six of us began walking along the Hudson River Greenway with our masks and strollers: Myself, my wife, our daughter, our friends and their 3-year-old son. We were thrilled to be going somewhere beyond the confines of our immediate surroundings, even though it …...Read More

The rule, first announced three weeks ago, was published in the Federal Register a month after the Supreme Court ruled that transgender people cannot be fired or otherwise discriminated against in the work force, because federal protections against sex discrimination apply to gay, bisexual and transgender people. The ruling in …...Read More

This year, after the Corps sent a preliminary version of the final impact statement to federal and state agencies and other groups, the critiques continued, according to documents obtained by opponents of the project. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service scientists, for example, wrote that the version failed to acknowledge that …...Read More

Statues of Christopher Columbus were taken down in two Chicago parks early on Friday, making the city the latest to remove a monument to the Italian explorer blamed for the genocide and exploitation of Indigenous people. In Grant Park, a crew using a large crane lifted the statue from its …...Read More

Trump saw his convention as a potential success story. Reality intervened. The announcement by President Trump that he was canceling the Republican National Convention in Jacksonville, Fla., next month was the most vivid evidence to date of how the Covid-19 pandemic and his mixed signals on the virus are upending …...Read More

“I have yet to see any data where there are appreciable numbers of people who say, ‘Yes, I want my kids back in school,’” Glen Bolger, a veteran Republican pollster, said in an interview. “They want their kids back in school, but not right now. I think safety is taking …...Read More