Thomas Edwin Blanton Jr. was born on June 20, 1938, in Washington. News accounts said his father, known as Pops, was a notorious racist in Birmingham. The younger Mr. Blanton had a 10th-grade education and served as an aircraft mechanic in the Navy from 1956 to 1959, according to F.B.I. …...Read More

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court said on Friday that it would not require Texas to let all eligible voters vote by mail. The Texas Democratic Party and several voters had urged the court to reinstate a federal trial judge’s injunction requiring state officials to allow all voters, and not just …...Read More

Last weekend, Mary Jo Laupp was enjoying a quiet night at a birthday party for her granddaughter — until she picked up her phone and her world flipped upside down. A TikTok video she had made urging people to reserve tickets to President Trump’s June 20 rally in Tulsa, Okla. …...Read More

WASHINGTON — The House tried and failed on Friday to invalidate stringent rules imposed by the Trump administration on student loan forgiveness, falling short of overriding a veto by President Trump. The override effort, which would have revived bipartisan legislation to overturn regulations put in place last year by Education …...Read More

WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives voted nearly along party lines on Friday to grant statehood to Washington, D.C., the first time a chamber of Congress has approved establishing the nation’s capital as a state. The legislation, which is unlikely to advance in the Republican-led Senate, would establish a 51st …...Read More

Iraqi counterterrorism forces detained 14 members of the militia, including one man they said had been involved with previous rocket attacks and was believed to be planning another. The armed groups, which were formed as volunteer militias to help fight the Islamic State in 2014, became national heroes in that …...Read More

Some officials have theorized that the Russians may be seeking revenge on NATO forces for a 2018 battle in Syria in which the American military killed several hundred pro-Syrian forces, including numerous Russian mercenaries, as they advanced on an American outpost. Officials have also suggested that the Russians may have …...Read More

Kiss the elevator pitch goodbye — at least if it takes place in an elevator. Change is coming to the daily vertical commute, as workers begin to return to tall office buildings in New York and other cities. The elevator ride, a previously unremarkable 90 or so seconds, has become …...Read More

With many Americans just now learning about the Tulsa Race Massacre, there have been many questions about how to best memorialize victims of the attack while celebrating the accomplishments of Black Wall Street. How can art reckon with this knowledge gap? QURAYSH ALI LANSANA It’s important to know that there …...Read More

Jenna Mourey, a YouTube personality who became one of the platform’s first mainstream female stars as Jenna Marbles, said Thursday that she was going to stop her channel amid a backlash over old videos that she made in blackface and mocking Asian people. Ms. Mourey, whose channel has more than …...Read More