Since taking office in January, President Trump has tried to reframe the country’s past involving racism and discrimination by de-emphasizing that history or at times denying that it happened.
Cora Masters Barry, a former first lady of the District of Columbia, and Melanie L. Campbell, chairwoman of the Power of the Ballot Action Fund, join hands in prayer outside the National Museum of African American History and Culture last month.
Most in a small group of patients receiving a stem cell-based infusion no longer needed insulin, but the drug may not suit those with more manageable type 1 diabetes.
A person’s conventional supplies for treating type 1 diabetes. A single infusion of a new treatment, called zimislecel, may have cured 10 out of 12 people with the most severe form of the disease.
A volley of court rulings has made the legal path unclear in a case challenging President Trump’s use of troops in Los Angeles. For now, the president has retained control of the state militia.
A late-1960s throwback to the days of clean-cut teen idols — he called himself “the missing link” — he rode his gymnastic vocal range to a string of hits.
The singer Lou Christie in 1972. He hit his stride as the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and other groups were starting to shatter the handsome-teen-crooner archetype he represented, but he held his own.
Among the most important promises from insurers would speed decision-making so a patient could leave a doctor’s office knowing if a procedure or test would be paid for.
Kari Lake, a senior adviser for the agency that oversees Voice of America, notified Congress earlier this month that her agency intended to eliminate most positions at the agency.
The Wisconsin Republican has toned down attacks on the measure in recent days, but a new report he released undermines party leaders’ claims that the legislation won’t add to federal deficits.
In a tangled decision, the justices ruled against a disabled firefighter who sued her former employer for refusing her health benefits after she had retired.
One section of the Americans With Disabilities Act specifies that it is illegal to discriminate in compensation because of a disability. The justices wrestled with whether the section included retirees.
Mr. Khalil, a Columbia graduate and legal permanent resident, had been held in Louisiana for over three months. The judge found reason to believe it was retaliation for his pro-Palestinian speech.
Moscow has hoped to mend relations with the United States while continuing to wage war in Ukraine, but Mr. Putin’s insistence on pushing his offensive has come at a diplomatic cost.
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory will make the study of stars and galaxies more like the big data-sorting exercises of contemporary genetics and particle physics.
William O’Mullane, the associate director of data production at the observatory. “We produce lots of data for everyone,” he said. “So this idea of coming to the telescope and making your observation doesn’t exist, right? Your observation was made already. You just have to find it.”
The war in Iran is exactly the kind of Middle East entanglement that President Trump’s anti-interventionist base believed he was bitterly opposed to, because he said he was.
Created under the 1970 Clean Air Act, the California waiver has for decades allowed the state, which has historically had the most polluted air in the nation, to enact tougher state-level clean air standards than those set by the federal government.
Republicans plan to terminate billions of dollars in clean energy tax credits. Experts say that will mean more greenhouse gas emissions and more dangerous heat.
Last year, the hottest on record, was the first calendar year where the global average temperature exceeded 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels.
Brendan Paul, who is testifying under an immunity deal, is the only Sean Combs aide known to have been arrested in connection with the federal investigation into the music mogul’s conduct.
Christopher J. Waller, a Federal Reserve governor, said he did not share the central bank’s assessment that tariffs and other headwinds could cause prices to rise and growth to slow.
To comply with a Trump executive order, Microsoft recently helped suspend the email account of an International Criminal Court prosecutor in the Netherlands who was investigating Israel for war crimes.
As President Trump decides whether to go to war in Iran, European nations are hoping to find a negotiated solution and de-escalate the conflict between Israel and Iran before it engulfs the region.
Israel’s air defense system intercepting missiles from Iran over Tel Aviv on Wednesday. The longer Israel waits for President Trump’s decision on an American attack on Iran, the greater the strain on Israel’s defenses.
Representative James E. Clyburn of South Carolina is endorsing former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo in the New York City mayor’s race as the June 24 primary nears.
Andrew Cuomo received Representative James Clyburn’s endorsement just days after Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont endorsed Mr. Cuomo’s main rival, Zohran Mamdani.
Schools say the Trump administration’s cuts to higher education are forcing them to consider extreme cost-cutting measures, even as more students than ever are heading to college this year.
Women are coerced into needless hysterectomies and girls are pushed into child marriages. After a court ruling and a Times investigation, things may be changing.
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