Here Come a Trillion Cicadas. The Midwest Is Abuzz.
Illinois is the center of the cicada emergence that is on the way. Two groups of cicadas are expected at once, leaving some people queasy, others thrilled.
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Illinois is the center of the cicada emergence that is on the way. Two groups of cicadas are expected at once, leaving some people queasy, others thrilled.
By Julie Bosman and
Muenster, Texas, has hosted a German-heritage festival for nearly 50 years. But then some locals rebelled.
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The protests against Israel’s war in Gaza are merely the latest in a tradition of student-led, left-leaning activism dating back at least to the civil rights and anti-Vietnam War protests of the 1960s.
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Conservative state governments are forbidding school districts from doing what the Department of Education says they must, under new Title IX regulations on students’ gender identity.
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Ballot-Access Consultant for R.F.K. Jr. Was Arrested on Assault Charges
The consultant, Trent Pool, was arrested at a Manhattan hotel last weekend after a woman said he had assaulted her, according to the police.
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Why Yes-or-No Questions on Abortion Rights Could Be a Key to 2024
In states that will help decide control of the White House and Congress, Democrats are campaigning furiously alongside ballot measures to protect abortion rights, putting Republicans on their heels.
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Joe Biden, the Ultimate D.C. Veteran, Has Never Seen a Campaign Like This
In 30 years of Senate bids, Mr. Biden was such a formidable incumbent that he did not face a serious threat to his return to office. His last re-election is shaping up to be something different: a fight.
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Trump Praises Police Crackdowns on Campus Protests
The former president called protesters “raging lunatics” and suggested, without evidence, that they were hired to draw attention away from border crossings.
By Michael Gold and
Charlie Spies, a veteran election-law lawyer, had been under attack since soon after he joined the Republican National Committee in March.
By Maggie Haberman
Federal prosecutors say Representative Henry Cuellar tried to shape policy for Azerbaijan in exchange for bribes. The country has spent millions in the past decade lobbying Washington.
By Kenneth P. Vogel
A zebra named Sugar was captured on Friday after being on the loose in Washington State for nearly a week.
By Emmett Lindner
The speech by Donald J. Trump at a Republican National Committee fund-raising retreat came during his criminal trial in New York. He faces a total of 88 criminal charges across four indictments.
By Maggie Haberman and Shane Goldmacher
Several rivers north of Houston were forecast to reach or exceed their floods of record, the authorities said. Evacuation orders were in place for some areas.
By Emily Schmall
The comedian, long beloved for his apolitical riffs, has been wrestling with what it means to be Jewish amid the Israel-Hamas war. Not everyone is pleased.
By Matt Flegenheimer and Marc Tracy
Photos of the Kentucky Derby, which is marking its 150th running.
By Audra Melton and Melissa Hoppert
The protests against Israel’s war in Gaza are merely the latest in a tradition of student-led, left-leaning activism dating back at least to the civil rights and anti-Vietnam War protests of the 1960s.
By Richard Fausset
Police officers in riot gear cleared an encampment in Virginia, and protesters walked out of a commencement at Indiana University.
By Emily Cochrane, Ryan Patrick Hooper, Kevin Williams and Jackson Landers
Conservative state governments are forbidding school districts from doing what the Department of Education says they must, under new Title IX regulations on students’ gender identity.
By Amy Harmon
Democrats call Donald J. Trump dangerous. Republicans see him as revolutionary. For young Trump voters, he is just normal.
By Charles Homans
President Biden says lowering the cost of insulin for seniors is among his proudest domestic policy achievements. He now faces the challenge of selling it to Americans of all ages.
By Zolan Kanno-Youngs
Muenster, Texas, has hosted a German-heritage festival for nearly 50 years. But then some locals rebelled.
By J. David Goodman and Desiree Rios
Illinois is the center of the cicada emergence that is on the way. Two groups of cicadas are expected at once, leaving some people queasy, others thrilled.
By Julie Bosman and Jamie Kelter Davis
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After President Nemat Shafik called the police to arrest protesters on campus earlier this week, she asked the school community to “show empathy and compassion for one another.”
By Anna Betts
The president’s allies say the Justice Department’s chill take on marijuana has a political upside.
By Jess Bidgood
An American official said the United States had information undermining Russia’s claim that a device it is developing is for peaceful scientific research.
By Julian E. Barnes and David E. Sanger
The New York Times used videos filmed by journalists, witnesses and protesters to analyze hours of clashes — and a delayed police response — at a pro-Palestinian encampment on Tuesday.
By Neil Bedi, Bora Erden, Marco Hernandez, Ishaan Jhaveri, Arijeta Lajka, Natalie Reneau, Helmuth Rosales and Aric Toler
The president of the University of Chicago said on Friday that the pro-Palestinian encampment on his campus’s quad “cannot continue,” a position that was being closely watched in higher education because the university has long held itself up as a national model for free expression.
By Monica Davey and Claire Hogan
Republicans are attempting to seize an opportunity to gain votes within swing states from Hispanic evangelicals, who find more common ground socially and spiritually with the party.
By Jennifer Medina, Gabriel Blanco and Meg Felling
“I’m sure he underestimated me,” Ms. Noem writes of the North Korean leader in her forthcoming book. A spokesman said the error would be corrected.
By Chris Cameron
A video showing Annelise Orleck, 65, being taken to the ground intensified criticism of the decision by the college’s president to call in officers.
By Vimal Patel
The university said it would hold a celebration at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. More than 100 school-specific graduations and smaller receptions will also take place with tighter security.
By Jill Cowan and Jonathan Wolfe
State lawmakers failed to reach a compromise, dashing hopes of extending largely free health care to most low-income residents and supporting struggling rural hospitals.
By Rick Rojas
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The political arms of five organizations are coordinating their efforts to mobilize Hispanic Democrats, saying that defeating the former president is their top goal.
By Jazmine Ulloa
A dedicated cruciverbalist, she won the first American Crossword Puzzle Tournament in 1978. She went on to test and proofread puzzles for The New York Times.
By Richard Sandomir
Mr. Cuellar and his wife are accused of accepting bribes from a bank in Mexico City and an oil and gas company owned by Azerbaijan. He has maintained they are innocent.
By Glenn Thrush and Luke Broadwater
Several counties were under flood warnings in the Houston area and other parts of Southeast Texas on Friday.
By Christine Hauser
The university is home to the Chicago statement, a framework for free expression that has been embraced by other colleges.
By Mitch Smith and Robert Chiarito
Members of the upper chamber are regularly holding votes on amendments that, by design, have no chance whatsoever of passage.
By Carl Hulse
Backlash over the deal has echoes of the 1980s when Nippon Steel tried and failed to buy another American metal company.
By Alan Rappeport
Protesters had been camped out for days, demanding that their schools end financial ties with Israel.
By Maia Coleman, Olivia Bensimon and Bernard Mokam
Both states are reliably Republican and have abortion bans that are among the strictest in the nation.
By Kate Zernike
Since pulling out of an arms-limitation agreement with Russia in 2019, the U.S. has quickly developed new weapons that could be used to stop a Chinese invasion force.
By John Ismay
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As U.S.C. and U.C.L.A. pick up the pieces, the two universities present dueling case studies in crisis management.
By Shawn Hubler
Six months before the election, the president selected a list of awardees heavy with political allies like Nancy Pelosi, James E. Clyburn and John F. Kerry.
By Peter Baker
Thousands of immigrants in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program could obtain federal health coverage this year under a new rule.
By Hamed Aleaziz
With tensions escalating and Republicans pouncing, President Biden finally weighed in and sought to increase the distance between himself and some of the more radical activism on colleges.
By Lisa Lerer
The first big pro-Israel counter demonstration was on Sunday in Los Angeles, home to large Israeli and Jewish populations. More are planned in the coming days.
By Miriam Jordan
President Biden and Ukraine’s allies have invoked a sense of urgency over weapon deliveries. But there are logistical hurdles, and Ukraine has little time to lose.
By Lara Jakes, Eric Schmitt, Marc Santora and Julian E. Barnes
Traffic stopped on the highway as firefighters worked to extinguish the flames in Norwalk, Conn.
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The first lady commended the winner of the National Teacher of the Year award during an event evoking formal state dinners.
By Zach Montague
A union representing academic workers said it would file unfair labor charges against the University of California, Los Angeles, and potentially walk out over the handling of protests this week.
By Jill Cowan
At U.C.L.A., a few professors helped negotiate with the university. At Columbia, they guarded the encampment. But not all faculty members are on board.
By Anemona Hartocollis
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Three Iraqi men sued a Virginia contractor that supplied interrogators to the U.S. military after the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
By Mattathias Schwartz
Jerry Nehl Boylan was found guilty last year of “seaman’s manslaughter” for abandoning his commercial diving ship when it caught fire in 2019. The fire killed 33 passengers and one crew member.
By Jesus Jiménez
In a stop in Wilmington, N.C., the president announced $3 billion in new spending to upgrade water systems around the country.
By Peter Baker
As crews cleared the remnants of an encampment, students and faculty members wondered how the university could have handled protests over the war in Gaza so badly.
By Tim Arango, Soumya Karlamangla and Corina Knoll
Donald Trump’s lawyers played hardball, questioning Stormy Daniels’s lawyer’s history of profiting from celebrities in embarrassing situations.
By Jesse McKinley
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, Republican of Georgia, said the legislation could make it illegal to assert that Jews killed Jesus, punishing Christians for “believing the Gospel.”
By Annie Karni
Heather Pressdee, 41, admitted to trying to kill 19 patients by administering excessive amounts of insulin, prosecutors said. She pleaded guilty to three counts of murder and other charges.
By Remy Tumin
Some residents in the Houston area along the east bank of the San Jacinto River were urged to leave before nightfall. Crews had rescued people and animals from flooded areas.
By Johnny Diaz, Judson Jones and Orlando Mayorquín
A crackdown on demonstrators at Columbia University in New York spawned a wave of activism at universities across the country, with more than 2,300 arrests or detainments.
President Biden also referred to Russia and China, saying they “don’t want immigrants.” A spokesman said the president was trying to make a comment about America’s immigrant “DNA,” not insult other countries.
By Michael D. Shear
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She was an enthusiastic supporter of the counterculture. And when she suggested that her brothers rent Mr. Leary a mansion, she made psychedelic history.
By Penelope Green
President Biden defended the right to dissent but made clear that he believed too many of the demonstrations had gone beyond the bounds of free speech.
By Peter Baker
Pro-Palestinian protesters clashed with police officers who moved in to dismantle an encampment on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles.
By Jonathan Wolfe
Soldiers exposed to thousands of low-level blasts from firing weapons like mortars say that they wind up with debilitating symptoms of traumatic brain injury — but no diagnosis.
By Dave Philipps
Police officers dismantled a pro-Palestinian encampment and made arrests after a tense hourslong standoff overnight with demonstrators on the campus.
By Jonathan Wolfe and Isabella Kwai
The Bay Lights installation, spanning 1.8 miles on the region’s workhorse bridge, has been off since March 2023. A bigger version will take its place.
By Heather Knight
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