In an American Alliance of Museums survey published Wednesday, 16 percent of American museum directors who responded to it said there was a high risk that their museums could close in the next 16 months if they do not find additional funding. Another 17 percent said they did not know …...Read More

How much, exactly, will greenhouse gases heat the planet? For more than 40 years, scientists have expressed the answer as a range of possible temperature increases, between 1.5 and 4.5 degrees Celsius, that will result from carbon dioxide levels doubling from preindustrial times. Now, a team of researchers has sharply …...Read More

While plenty of New Yorkers have formed families by gestational surrogacy, they almost certainly worked with carriers living elsewhere. Because until early April, paying a surrogate to carry a pregnancy was illegal in New York state. The change to the law, which happened quietly in the midst of the state’s …...Read More

“The rents are there, the labor’s there,” James Breeze told me recently. He’s the head of industrial and logistics research for the real estate data firm CBRE. “The Central Valley is going to be the distribution hub for Northern California, Oregon and inland states for the foreseeable future.” Fresno’s mayor, …...Read More

In recent years, cities like Chicago, Baltimore and New York have turned to Washington for help in combating gun violence and other crimes, arguing that only the federal government has the resources to tackle problems like guns being traded illegally across state borders. Now as President Trump has threatened to …...Read More

NOW PLAYING ‘They Pushed Portland Too Far’: How Trump’s Crackdown Strengthened Protests 1:02 Another Night of Unrest in Portland 0:58 ‘Occupy City Hall’ Encampment Is Taken Down 1:59 ‘It’s Terrifying’: Federal Agents Confront Portland Protesters 0:42 Dozens of Moms Join Protest in Portland 1:04 Trump Plans to Deploy More Law …...Read More

Mr. Muñoz, 64, worried about contracting the virus, but he had to keep showing up to his job as a cleaner at a cancer hospital. He planned to retire this summer. Then he got sick. Fever. Cough. Mr. Muñoz worsened and tried for days to get admitted to a hospital. …...Read More

The email, a copy of which was obtained by The New York Times, also said the department would not “be going back to business as usual.” The guiding principle going forward, Commander Gerlicher wrote, would be to “do no harm,” and he highlighted potential reforms, including, “Looking for reasonable and …...Read More

WASHINGTON — A State Department employee who reported witnessing misconduct by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo as well as hearing “numerous firsthand accounts” of such behavior was blocked from further addressing the issue by top department officials who were protecting Mr. Pompeo, according to a newly public copy of the …...Read More

Instead of getting an answer on Saturday, Mr. David, a 6-foot-2, 280-pound former Navy varsity wrestler, found himself being beaten with a baton by a federal officer dressed in camouflage fatigues as another doused him with pepper spray, according to video of the encounter. Mr. David was taken to a …...Read More