Representative Bennie G. Thompson, a Democrat from Mississippi who chairs the House Committee on Homeland Security, said on Thursday that he would hold a hearing next week to examine the D.H.S. response to the protests. “The administration’s actions are not only violent and clearly politically motivated, they are anathema to …...Read More

“It’s an emotional roller coaster,” she added. “It’s emotional whiplash.” If America is now experiencing a sense of national déjà vu, with coronavirus deaths rising and hospitalizations at a level similar to the spring peak, that feeling is perhaps nowhere more intense than in California. [Sign up for California Today, …...Read More

Dr. Carson has been a vocal opponent of the rule since his 2016 presidential bid. After he became housing secretary, the former neurosurgeon announced plans to suspend the program in January 2018, citing concerns raised by cities that struggled to comply with its requirements. He claimed that he would delay …...Read More

Outraged by President Trump’s commutation of the sentence of Roger J. Stone Jr., House Democrats pushed forward legislation on Thursday that would give lawmakers new authority to scrutinize uses of executive clemency involving presidential family members or crimes against Congress and explicitly outlaw presidents from pardoning themselves. The measure approved …...Read More

In an interview, Mr. Toussaint said that his father sent him to military school to help him avoid jail or worse, and that he has been pulled out of his car at gunpoint by police “because they are afraid of the color of my skin.” He hoped to awaken students …...Read More

“I started to explore feminine gender presentation publicly about two years ago on a rare occasion or two,” she said. This year, she started to think about coming out to the congregation after May, so as not to distract from the church’s centennial celebration that month. Then, in March, the …...Read More

To allocate the drug, Pittsburg doctors decided that the lottery would give preference to health care workers and emergency medical workers. The doctors also weighted the odds to favor people from economically disadvantaged areas, who tend to be mostly Black and Hispanic. People with other illnesses and limited life spans, …...Read More

Washington’s N.F.L. team will retire Redskins branding and adopt a placeholder team name until it can decide on a permanent name, the organization said Thursday, weeks after announcing it would yield to pressure from sponsors and activists and drop the name it has used for nearly 90 years. “For updated …...Read More

Despite Pentagon statements that it disbanded a once-covert program to investigate unidentified flying objects, the effort remains underway — renamed and tucked inside the Office of Naval Intelligence, where officials continue to study mystifying encounters between military pilots and unidentified aerial vehicles. Pentagon officials will not discuss the program, which …...Read More

Ms. Hickey graduated in 1998 with a Bachelor of Science degree in nursing from Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, and in 2009 she earned a Master of Science in nursing from Graceland University in Independence, Mo. She married Dusty Berg in 1994; they divorced in 2009, and she …...Read More