Even as Texas health officials grappled with the surge, the state’s attorney general, Ken Paxton, asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to overturn the Affordable Care Act, which has extended health insurance to more than 1.1 million Texans while protecting state residents who have pre-existing medical conditions. In legal briefs …...Read More

Mr. Harris and some of Wickham’s other descendants met for dinner in 2012, and when the statue came up as a topic of conversation, they decided to visit it together. “We all looked at each other and we said, ‘Well, what do we do with this?’” Mr. Harris recalled of …...Read More

‘There’s immediate impact’ Bail funds have been around in different forms for decades, used by civil-rights groups to prepare for arrests that follow protests and acts of civil disobedience. Some scholars trace their roots to black communities’ pooling money to buy the freedom of enslaved people. But the modern push …...Read More

“The election is a referendum on Trump,” said Kirk Adams, a Republican and former Arizona state House speaker. “That could change, but until then, down-ballot Republicans will have to decide if they will ride the Trump train to its final destination or if they need to establish some brand independence.” …...Read More

This summer I need to accompany my daughter on her move to California. There are states where I am not comfortable on the roads. I am always afraid that the police will stop me. I am afraid that I will be accused of doing something and the fact that I …...Read More

“I’m continuously frustrated that this is still a problem,” said Kelly Wroblewski, director of infectious diseases at the Association of Public Health Laboratories. “We should be at a place where getting a test isn’t as challenging as it used to be.” National testing capacity has expanded significantly since the start …...Read More

Dan Milberg is a retired Army helicopter pilot who voted for Donald J. Trump in 2016, and does not wish to vote for him again. But before he can consider pulling the lever for former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., he needs to know who his running mate will …...Read More

The first weekend in June, Cyré Olivia Coleman, 29, a student in Randolph, Mass., did something that even a month earlier would have felt like a far-fetched dream: took a family vacation. Since March Ms. Coleman hadn’t left her home, which she shares with her mother, brother, 4-month-old-daughter and the …...Read More

Over the next week, Michigan’s Covid-19 numbers exploded. By the end of March, the state was reporting 7,615 confirmed cases and 259 deaths. Both totals were far higher than those in any of its neighboring states. Michigan is the nation’s 10th-most-populous state, but it had the fourth-highest Covid-19 case and …...Read More

The precise number of women assaulted on college campuses is itself a subject of debate. Advocates point to federal surveys suggesting that one in five female students have experienced assault while in college, which amounts to about 400,000 students. Even accounting for a likely high rate of underreporting, however, the …...Read More