It’s a Monday evening in Minneapolis. Police respond to a call about a man who allegedly used a counterfeit $20 bill to buy cigarettes. Seventeen minutes later, the man they are there to investigate lies motionless on the ground, and is pronounced dead shortly after. The man was 46-year-old George …...Read More

As coronavirus cases surge across the country, hospitals, nursing homes and private medical practices are facing a problem many had hoped would be resolved by now: a dire shortage of respirator masks, isolation gowns and disposable gloves that protect front-line medical workers from infection. Unlike the crisis that caught a …...Read More

United Airlines said on Wednesday that it could furlough as many as 36,000 employees, or nearly 40 percent of its global work force, this fall if travel remained weak and more workers did not accept concessions like reduced hours or buyout and early retirement packages. The furloughs, detailed in a …...Read More

The American Council on Education, an industry group, said it planned to file a brief in support of the lawsuit, and some 25 higher education associations, including the American Association of Community Colleges, the Association of American Universities and the Association of Land Grant Universities, were expected to join. “We …...Read More

But he also boasted about a falling rate of southern border crossings. Mr. López Obrador has played an important role in Mr. Trump’s relentless campaign to restrict immigration by ordering more vigorous enforcement on Mexican territory. “We’ve been helped greatly by Mexico on creating record numbers, in a positive sense, …...Read More

The driver of a red Toyota first stopped, then unexpectedly accelerated into a crowd of dispersing demonstrators in Bloomington, Ind., on Monday night, injuring two of them in the latest of a disturbing rash of vehicular attacks targeting protesters. The demonstration, inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, had sent …...Read More

“The financial repercussions to institutions are potentially very traumatic,” said Daniel J. Hurley, chief executive of the Michigan Association of State Universities, which represents the state’s public universities. He cited studies showing that 33,236 international students contributed $1.2 billion to Michigan’s economy in 2018. Janet Napolitano, the president of the …...Read More

The battle lines in this year’s disputes are stark, with voting rights groups and Democrats aiming to ease restrictive regulations, and Republicans and conservatives playing defense, trying to preserve them. “Our goal is to protect the laws that are already on the books,” said Liz Harrington, the spokeswoman for the …...Read More

BETHEL, Alaska — When Rebecca Trimble was a little girl, she wore red, white and blue to Independence Day parades. In middle school, she was a flag-bearer for the Girl Scouts. During her teenage years, the Backstreet Boys blared from a boom box in her bedroom. It was on the …...Read More

John R. Bolton, the president’s former national security adviser who just released a scathing book about Mr. Trump, said on Sunday that the president’s inattention to detail made it possible that he did not notice the racist comments. “He doesn’t pay attention to a lot of things,” Mr. Bolton said …...Read More