The recent orders were all unsigned. In only two of them was it plain that the vote was 5 to 4. But it seemed clear that the court’s Republican appointees were in the majority in all of them. The cases often turned on a seemingly neutral question, one that election …...Read More

A string of recent deaths across Nicaragua — including mayors, judges, police officials, sports figures, university rectors and government bureaucrats — is pointing to the chilling reality that the coronavirus is devastating this Central American country, although the government is not publicly acknowledging it. To critics of the government, the …...Read More

PORTLAND, Ore. — The federal agents facing a growing backlash for their militarized approach to weeks of unrest in Portland were not specifically trained in riot control or mass demonstrations, an internal Department of Homeland Security memo warned this week. The message, dated Thursday, was prepared by the agency for …...Read More

In large part, the resurgence was fueled by Amazon. Canadians could save money on shipping and taxes by sending their orders to stores in the United States and picking them up later. Today, Blaine has dozens of businesses handling packages from online commerce. Other businesses followed — including the Starbucks …...Read More

Ground was broken on this cemetery in southern Iraq four months ago, and already there are more than 3,200 graves. The backhoes work every night to make new furrows in the sandy soil. The story of how the cemetery came into existence starts when the first coronavirus patients began to …...Read More

Early on Thursday morning, the police in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., found a cast iron and zinc statue torn down from its stone pedestal in Congress Park and scattered in pieces on the grass. The statue is one of dozens that have been torn down across the United States in recent …...Read More

You can’t teach a misbehaving black bear a lesson through a Zoom conference call. That takes boots on the pine needles or some firecrackers. But Steve Searles, one of the most well-known ursid wranglers, the “bear whisperer” of Mammoth Lakes, Calif., is out of the job, yet another of wildlife …...Read More

Almost daily, President Trump and leaders worldwide say they are racing to develop a coronavirus vaccine, in perhaps the most urgent mission in the history of medical science. But the repeated assurances of near-miraculous speed are exacerbating a problem that has largely been overlooked and one that public health experts …...Read More

Joan Murray had been home with Covid-19 for about a week when she ran into trouble. She had a fever of 103 degrees and chills that sent shivers up and down her spine. Her oxygen levels were dropping, and the tightness in her chest felt “as if somebody had bound …...Read More

The importance of the court and the role of Chief Justice Roberts have particular resonance in LaPorte County, a better place than most to assess the potential of the Trump campaign’s new justice-centered messaging. It is the county where the chief justice grew up, meaning for voters here, the Supreme …...Read More