L. Clifford Davis, Who Fought to Desegregate Texas Schools, Dies at 100
As a civil rights lawyer who faced resistance and threats, he challenged school districts that tried to defy the Supreme Court’s 1954 ban on school segregation.
As a civil rights lawyer who faced resistance and threats, he challenged school districts that tried to defy the Supreme Court’s 1954 ban on school segregation.
American officials, including in the C.I.A., are concerned about mass closures hampering national security work. And China has overtaken the United States in global diplomatic footprint.
Mayor Eric Adams of New York City has taken few concrete steps to launch a serious re-election campaign, even as he faces a growing field of prominent challengers.
Bacterial vaginosis is most likely a sexually transmitted infection, according to a new study.
The government wants to drop the charges, a move that critics call a deal to secure the mayor’s help in deportations. A lawyer appointed by a judge is scheduled to weigh in.
After President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico spoke with President Trump about his 25 percent tariff on exports from her country, he announced he would delay it until April 2.
She was the only member of the court appointed by the president to vote against his emergency request to freeze foreign aid.
People say they are intimidated by online attacks from the president, concerned about harm to their businesses or worried about the safety of their families.
Without Congress, President Trump cannot dismantle the agency. No modern president has ever tried to unilaterally shut down a federal department.
Mehdi Yarrahi, a popular Iranian musician, was arrested in a 2023 crackdown after releasing a song that praised women who rejected the mandatory hijab rule.
The remarks by Gov. Gavin Newsom of California, a potential White House hopeful, were an extraordinary break from fellow Democrats and signaled a newly defensive position on the issue.
After issuing an executive order barring transgender athletes from participating in women’s sports last month, President Trump targeted the state for scrutiny.
Ten members of his party joined Republicans in voting to officially condemn the Texas Democrat after he was ejected from the president’s joint address to Congress on Tuesday. Mr. Green voted “present.”
President Trump’s stiff tariffs on Mexico and Canada could push those allies into recession. The impact for America could be messy.
He helped introduce a funkier strain of the music in the 1970s. He also had an impact on hip-hop: His “Everybody Loves the Sunshine” has been sampled nearly 200 times.
The largest department store chain in the United States, like many other retailers, have recently warned that shoppers may be more cautious in the months ahead.
The judge had ruled that the administration was not complying with his previous order requiring the government to keep disbursing money to states.
And the feeling isn’t good. Aaron Renn has gained a following by warning that the U.S. is currently a “negative world” for Christianity.
Vows by European leaders in increase borrowing to ramp up military spending has reshaped the fiscal picture that the central bank must confront.
As negotiators are holding discussions on multiple tracks, Palestinians and Israelis are in limbo.
The columnist shares his thoughts on Donald Trump’s second term.
The envoy, Phil Goff, questioned President Trump’s understanding of history at a public event about the war in Ukraine.
In a blistering social media post, the president told Hamas that if it continued to hold hostages, “you are DEAD!”
The Taiwanese chip giant TSMC’s plan to invest $100 billion in the United States has been met with anxiety and criticism in its home country.
A New York Times analysis of campaign finance data also revealed an influx of funding to Nigel Farage’s right-wing party from fossil fuel investors, climate skeptics, millionaires and billionaires.
We explore how the judiciary is stopping parts of the president’s agenda.
Plus, Dolly Parton’s love story.
Some newer employees have been summoned to an off-site location and asked to surrender their credentials.
President Trump has not made good on a promise to disclose who contributed to his transition effort.
Four writers talk about the ex-governor’s mayoral run and what it means that voters are now so willing to accept tarnished figures they previously rejected.