Family of Murdaugh Boat Crash Victim Reaches $15 Million Settlement
When jurors reached a verdict this year in the trial of Alex Murdaugh, a fourth-generation South Carolina lawyer, they found him guilty of murdering his...
Iowa Judge Temporarily Suspends New Abortion Ban
On Friday, Iowa’s Republican governor signed a strict new abortion ban into law. And for three days, most abortions in Iowa were illegal past six...
Georgia Supreme Court Rejects Trump Effort to Quash Investigation
ATLANTA — In a ruling on Monday, the Georgia Supreme Court rejected a long-shot attempt by former President Donald J. Trump’s legal team to scuttle...
DeSantis, Attacking Biden Policies, Seeks to Burnish Pro-Israel Credentials
Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida on Monday sharply criticized the Biden administration’s policies on Israel, calling them “disgraceful,” seeking to highlight his pro-Israel credentials as...
Blinken Calls Blockade of Diplomatic Nominees a National Security Risk
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken called on the Senate to quickly confirm more than three dozen State Department nominees, charging that delaying tactics employed...
Deaths of 4 Women in Oregon Are Linked, Police Say
The bodies of two women were discovered in wooded areas outside Portland, Ore. The body of another woman was found in a culvert. Another was...
Sinking Tugboat Spills Thousands of Gallons of Diesel in an Alabama River
A tugboat released thousands of gallons of diesel fuel as it sank into the Tennessee River in northwestern Alabama over the weekend, prompting a multiagency...
Miami Embraces Lionel Messi With Murals, Marketing and Milanesas
Miami’s Messi madness — over the arrival of the soccer superstar Lionel Messi, one of the most famous humans on the planet — reached a...
Wildfire Smoke Covers Parts of the United States and Canada
Wildfire Smoke Covers Parts of the United States and Canada...
Who Will Be at the First G.O.P. Presidential Debate?
Securing a spot could be a heavy lift for a group of long-shot candidates, for whom getting onstage or not will be a make-or-break moment....
Millions of Californians Are Expected to Lose Medi-Cal Coverage
A big change is underway for one of California’s most popular safety net programs. More than 15 million Californians, or 40 percent of the state’s...
Ramaswamy Looks to Supreme Court in Effort to Appeal to Conservatives
Vivek Ramsawamy, an entrepreneur running for the Republican presidential nomination, on Monday will release a list of potential choices for the U.S. Supreme Court, in...
Canada Wildfires Smoke Returns to Pollute U.S. Air
Air polluted by the Canadian wildfires is back in the United States this week. There are nearly 900 wildfires burning across Canada, but the smoke...
U.S. Heat Wave Shows No Signs of Abating
A relentless heat wave that has been sending temperatures into the triple digits and has put roughly a third of the United States under a...