WASHINGTON — As Representative Darin LaHood, Republican of Illinois, prepared to campaign with Mike Pence, the former vice president, in his district last month, he braced for a backlash from his party’s right-wing base. Just days before, the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol had re-created in chilling detail how…
Republican voters in Maryland on Tuesday nominated for governor Dan Cox, a state legislator who was endorsed by former President Donald J. Trump and who wrote on Twitter during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol that Vice President Mike Pence was a “traitor.” The Associated Press called the race late Tuesday. Mr. Cox…
BOSTON — Before dawn on a January morning in 1995, the phone rang in the home of Michael A. Cox Sr., a Boston police officer. His wife answered, still groggy. He had been hurt. As two of his fellow officers rushed her to the emergency room, she asked what had happened. Their answer: He slipped…
LOS ANGELES — The colors are fading, but the photograph of the Carnegie Deli from 2008 still calls up a world of heaping pastrami sandwiches, pungent smells of brine and smoke, and tourists lined out the door onto Seventh Avenue in New York. A few steps away, a kosher carving knife, a pushcart, a pickle…
Many colleges pride themselves on providing a range of sexual and reproductive health services for their students, including birth control, screenings for sexually transmitted diseases and even insurance coverage to terminate a pregnancy. What they do not tend to provide is abortion, either by pill or through a procedure. For that, they refer students to…
Matthew Pottinger, who was deputy national security adviser under President Donald J. Trump and the highest-ranking White House official to resign on Jan. 6, 2021, is expected to testify about that day at the House select committee’s prime-time hearing on Thursday, people familiar with the planning said. Mr. Pottinger, who was in the White House…
As she and other faith leaders sat last month with Vice President Kamala Harris to discuss the implications of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, the Rev. Najuma Smith-Pollard, a pastor at a Black church in Los Angeles, reflected on the complex feelings in her community about abortion. While Black voters remain overwhelmingly allied…
Once inside, as he loaded his rifle, he happened across a student. “You better get out of here,” he warned him. “Something bad is about to happen.” Then he began to shoot. His rampage, which lasted just under six minutes, took the lives of 14 students and three faculty members. Killed in the shooting were…
CHICAGO — Covid-19 is surging around the United States again in what experts consider the most transmissible variant of the pandemic yet. But something is different this time: The public health authorities are holding back. In Chicago, where the county’s Covid warning level was raised to “high” last week, the city’s top doctor said there…
Three people were killed at a mall in Greenwood, Ind., in a shooting that ended when an armed man fatally shot the gunman, city authorities said. Two additional people were hospitalized in the shooting, which began when a man with a rifle and several magazines of ammunition entered the mall’s food court and started firing,…