WASHINGTON — Tianna Spears dreamed for years of becoming an American diplomat. She quit in January after two, and says she will never return to the State Department, given what she has described as its failure to protect her from racial discrimination — from the United States government — while …...Read More

Growing up, Mr. Kueng and his family made repeated trips to Haiti, helping at an orphanage. Mr. Kueng and his siblings took a break from school to volunteer there after the earthquake in 2010. Joni Kueng, 56, likes to say that the Kuengs are a family of doers, not talkers. …...Read More

A majority of American voters support the demonstrations against police brutality and racial injustice that have roiled the country over the past month, embracing ideas about bias within the criminal justice system and the persistence of systemic racism that are central tenets of the Black Lives Matter movement, according to …...Read More

This article was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. President Barack Obama vowed to close it, and failed. President Trump vowed to load it up with more “bad dudes,” and has not. Now Joseph R. Biden Jr. is saying that if elected president, he would support …...Read More

It is a big improvement from the last recession, he said, when he became uninsured for several years after losing his job and getting divorced. But for Mr. Exum, 53, the law is imperfect. His plan is cheap because it has a high deductible — $6,900 a year. Worse, if …...Read More

WASHINGTON — President Trump issued an executive order on Friday that instructed federal law enforcement authorities to prosecute people who damage federal monuments or statues and that threatened to withhold funding from local governments that fail to protect their own statues from vandals. The order, which Mr. Trump announced on …...Read More

Dr. Holt wondered about the popularity of face shields because, she said, despite the shield casting a minor glare, it is so comfortable that she sometimes forgets to take it off at the end of the day. John Anderson, who lives in Penn Valley, Calif., asked a similar question about …...Read More

Citing the severity of the coronavirus pandemic, a federal judge in Los Angeles on Friday ordered the release of migrant children held in the country’s three family detention centers. The order to release the children by July 17 came after plaintiffs in a long-running case reported that some of them …...Read More

WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Friday denied a request by President Trump’s friend Roger J. Stone Jr. for a two-month delay before he begins serving his prison term, despite the fact that his motion was unopposed by the Justice Department. Judge Amy Berman Jackson of the United States District …...Read More

Seven people were killed and three were seriously injured in a crash in El Paso, Texas, early Thursday morning after border patrol agents tried to stop the car they were in, the police said. Border patrol agents had responded to a report of suspicious activity near the border with Mexico, …...Read More